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Cædmon's hymn / (translated by John Pope) -- Beowulf / (translated by Seamus Heaney) -- Riddles / (translated by Richard Hamer) : ("I am a lonely being, scarred by swords") ; ("My dress is silent when I tread the ground") ; ("A moth ate words; a marvellous event") -- The wife's lament / (translated by Richard Hamer) -- The seafarer / (translated by Mary Jo Salter) -- Now go'th sun under wood ; Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt? ; Alison ; Fowls in the frith ; I am of Ireland ; Lent is come with love to town ; Sumer is icumen in -- The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer The general prologue ; The wife of Bath's prologue and tale -- Troilus and Criseide / Geoffrey Chaucer : Cantus Troili -- Lyrics / Geoffrey Chaucer : To Rosamond ; Truth ; Complaint to his purse ; To his scribe Adam -- The vision of Piers Plowman / William Langland Pearl -- Adam lay bound ; I sing of a maiden ; Out of your sleep arise and wake ; I have a young sister ; I have a gentle cock ; Timor mortis ; The Corpus Christi carol ; Western wind ; A carol of Agincourt ; The sacrament of the alter ; See! Here, my heart -- William Dunbar Lament for the makers ; Sweet rose of virtue -- John Skelton Mannerly Margery milk and ale ; To Mistress Margaret Hussey ; Colin Clout ; Philip Sparow -- The Douglas tragedy ; Lord Randal ; The three ravens ; The twa corbies ; Sir Patrick Spens ; The unquiet grave ; The wife of Usher's Well ; Bonny Barbara Allan ; Mary Hamilton ; Get up and bar the door ; The knight and shepherd's daughter -- Love me little, love me long ; Fine knacks for ladies ; To his love ; Weep you no more, sad fountains ; There is a lady sweet and kind ; The silver swan ; A song bewailing the time of Christmas, so much decayed in England ; Tom o'Bedlam's song --
Thomas Wyatt [The long love, that in my thought doth harbor] ; [Whoso list to hunt] ; My galley charged with forgetfulness] ; [They flee from me] ; [Patience, though I have not] ; My lute awake!] ; [Is it possible] ; [Forget not yet the tried intent] ; [Blame not my lute] ; [What should I say] ; Lucks, my fair falcon] ; Of his love, that pricked her finger with a needle ; [Stand whoso list upon the slipper top] ; [Mine own John Poins] -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey The soote season ; Love, that doth reign and life within my thought ; Wyatt resteth here ; So cruel prison -- The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate / Anne Askew Queen Elizabeth I [When I was fair and young] ; [The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy] ; [Ah silly pug, wert thou so sore afraid] -- George Gascoigne And if I did, what then? ; For that he looked not upon her ; Gascoigne's lullaby -- A sweet nosegay / Isabella Whitney A communication which the author had to London, before she made her will ; The manner of her will, & what she left to London, and to all those in it, at her departing -- [My prime of youth is but a frost of cares] / Chidiock Tichborne Sir Walter Raleigh A vision upon the Fairy Queen ; The nymph's reply to the shepherd ; The passionate man's pilgrimage ; The lie ; Nature, that washed her hands in milk ; [If Cynthia be a queen, a princess, and supreme] ; [Fortune hath taken thee away, my love] -- The shepheardes calender / Edmund Spenser Aprill -- The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser : Book 1, Canto 1 ; Book 1, Canto 2 -- Amoretti / Edmund Spenser : ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands") ; ("More then most faire, full of the living fire") ; ("Ye tradefull merchants that with weary toyle") ; ("Penelope for her Ulisses sake") ; ("Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay") ; ("Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace") ; ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day") ; ("Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king") ; ("I joy to see how in your drawen work") ; ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand") ; ("Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it") ; ("Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares") ; ("Lyke as the culver on the bared bough") -- Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser --
Caelica / Fulke Greville ("You little stars that live in skies") ; ("The nurse-life wheat within his green husk growing") -- Joh Lyly Cupid and my campaspe ; Oh, for a bowl of fat canary -- The old Arcadia / Sir Philip Sidney [Ye goatherd gods] ; Crown of Dizains : ("I joy in grief and do detest all joys") ; ("I think from me, not from my woes, to part") ; ("Nor of my fortune ought, but mischief crave") ; ("Enough to make a fertile mind lie waste") ; ("So close unto myself my wracks do lie") ; ("On rock, despair, the burial of my bliss") ; ("Vain is their pain who labour in despair") ; ("Thus, thus, alas, I had my loss in chase") ; ("But ah, her flight hath my dead relics spent") ; ("In earthly fetters feel a lasting hell") ; ("I joy in grief and do detest all joys") ; What lengh of verse? -- Certain sonnets / Sir Philip Sidney : ("The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth") ; ("Ring out your bells, let mourning shows be spread") -- Astrophil and Stella / Sir Philip Sidney : ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show") ; ("Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend") ; ("Your words my friend [right healthful caustics] blame") ; ("The wisest scholar of the wight most wise") ; ("With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies") ; ("Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace") ; ("What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?") ; ("I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try") ; ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love") ; ("O Grammar rules, o now your virtues show") ; ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know") ; ("Desire, though thou my old companion art") ; Fourth song ("Only joy, now here you are") ; Seventh song ("Whose senses in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays") ; ("Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame") ; ("Stella, since thou so right a princess art") -- George Peele His golden locks time hath to silver turned ; Hot sun, cool fire -- Rosalind's madrigal / Thomas Lodge Robert Southwell The burning babe ; The nativity of Christ -- Mary Sidney Psalm 58: Si vere utique ; Psalm 114: In exitu Israel ; To the thrice-sacred Queen Elizabeth --
Delia / Samuel Daniel ("Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty") ; ("Go wailing verse, the infants of my love") ; ("Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair") ; ("But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again") ; ("When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass") ; ("Unhappy pen and ill accepted papers") -- Ulysses and the Siren / Samuel Daniel -- Are they shadows / Samuel Daniel -- A roundelay between two shepherds / Michael Drayton Idea / Michael Drayton : To the reader of these sonnets ; ("How many paltry, foolish, painted things") ; ("If he from heaven that filched that living fire") ; ("Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part") -- Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander ; The passionate shepherd to his love --
Sonnets / William Shakespeare Dedication ; ("From fairest creatures we desire increase") ; ("When forty winters shall besiege they brow") ; ("Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest") ; ("Those hours that with gentle work did frame") ; ("When I do count the clock that tells the time") ("When I consider everyting that grows") ; ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") ; ("A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted") ; ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") ; ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought") ; ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen") ; ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done") ; ("Not marble, nor the gilded monuments") ; ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore") ; ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea") ; ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead") ; "(That time of year thou mayst in me behold") ; ("Why is my verse so barren of new pride") ; ("Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing") ; ("They that have power to hurt and will do none") ; ("How like a winter hath my absence been") ; ("When in the chronicle of wasted time") ; ("Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul") ; ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") ; ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r") ; ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame") ; ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") ; ("Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will") ; ("If thy soul check thee that I come so near") ; ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") ; ("Two loves I have of comfort and despair") ; ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth") -- The Phoenix and the Turtle / William Shakespeare -- William Shakespeare : When daisies pied ; Under the greenwood tree ; Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; It was a lover and his lass ; Sigh no more ; Oh mistress mine ; Come away, come away, death ; When that I was and a little tiny boy ; Fear no more the heat o' the sun ; Full fathom five ; Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; Orpheus with his lute made trees --
Thomas Campion My sweetest Lesbia ; I care not for these ladies ; Follow thy fair sun ; When to her lute Corinna sings ; When thou must home ; Rose-cheeked Laura ; Now winter nights enlarge ; There is a garden in her face -- Summer's last will and testament / Thomas Nashe [Spring, the sweet spring] ; [Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss] -- Aemilia Lanyer Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ; The description of Cooke-ham -- John Donne The good-morrow ; ("Go and catch a falling star") ; Woman's constancy ; The sun rising ; The canonization ; ("Sweetest love, I do not go") ; The anniversary ; Love's growth ; A valediction of weeping ; Love's alchemy ; A nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, being the shortest day ; A valediction forbidding mourning ; The ecstasy ; The funeral ; The flea ; The relic ; Elegy VII ; Elegy XIX. To his mistress going to bed ; Satire III ; Good Friday, 1613. Riding westward -- La Corona / John Donne : ("Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise") ; Annunciation ; Nativity ; Temple ; Crucifying ; Resurrection ; Ascension -- Holy sonnets / John Donne : ("Thou has made me, and shall thy work decay?") ; ("I am a little world made cunningly") ; ("At the round earth's imagined corners") ; ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree") ; ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee") ; ("Batter my heart, three-personed God") ; ("Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear") -- John Donne : Elegy on Mistress Bulstrode ; A hymn to God the Father ; Hymn to God my God, in my sickness --
Ben Jonson To the reader ; On my first daughter ; On my first son ; On spies ; To fool or knave ; To Sir Henry Cary ; On playwright ; To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland ; On English monsieur ; To John Donne ; Inviting a friend to supper ; On gut ; To Penshurst ; Song: To Celia (I); Song: To Celia (II) ; On Lucy, Countess of Bedford ; Still to be neat ; A fit of rhyme against rhyme ; To the memory of my beloved, the author Mr. William Shakespeare ; A hymn to God the Father ; Her triumph ; An elegy ; An ode to himself ; To the immortal memory and friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison ; Though I am young and cannot tell ; A sonnet to the noble lady, the Lady Mary Wroth ; Slow, slow, fresh fount ; Queen and huntress -- John Fletcher Take, oh, take those lips away ; [Come, sleep] -- [Death be not proud, thy hand gave not this blow] / Lucy Russell Edward Herbert Sonnet of Black Beauty ; Another sonnet to black itself -- Pamphilia to amphilanthus / Mary Wroth ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove") ; ("Yet is there hope: then Love but play thy part") ; ("You endless torment that my rest oppress") ; ("Like to the Indians, scorchèd with the sun") ; ("Night, welcome art thou to my mind distressed") ; ("Love a child is ever crying") ; A crown of sonnets dedicated to love : ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn") ; ("Is to leave all and take the thread of Love") ; (His flames are joyes, his bands true lovers' might) ; ("He may our prophet, and our tutor prove") ; ("But where they may return with honor's grace") ; ("Free from all fogs but shining fair, and clear") ; ("Except my heart which you bestow'd before") -- Urania / Mary Wroth : ("Love what art thou? A vain thought") -- Robert Herrick The argument of his book ; The vine ; To the sour reader ; Delight in disorder ; Corinna's going a -Maying ; To the virgins, to make much of time ; Upon Julia's breasts ; Upon a child that died ; His prayer to Ben Jonson ; The night piece, to Julia ; Upon Julia's clothes ; Upon Prue, his maid ; Upon Ben Jonson ; An ode for him ; The pillar of fame ; Neutrality loathsome ; To his conscience ; To find God ; The white island, or place of the blest --
Henry King An exequy to his matchless, never-to-be-forgotten friend ; The boy's answer to the Blackmoor -- The temple: sacred poems and private ejaculations / George Herbert The altar ; Redemption ; Easter wings ; Sin (I) ; Affliction (I) ; Prayer (I) ; The temper (I) ; Jordan (I) ; The windows ; Denial ; Vanity (I) ; Virtue ; Man ; Life ; Artillery ; The collar ; The pulley ; The flower ; The forerunners ; Discipline ; The elixir ; Death ; Love (III) -- Thomas Carew ("Ask me no more where Jove bestows") ; The spring ; Mediocrity in love rejected ; To my inconstant mistress ; An elegy upon the death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne -- Ajax / James Shirley Dirge -- The Massachusetts Bay psalm book Psalm 58 ; Psalm 114 -- Edmund Waller ("Go, lovely rose!") ; Of the last verses in the book -- John Milton On the morning of Christ's nativity ; On Shakespeare. 1630 ; L'allegro ; Il Penseroso ; How soon hath time ; Lycidas -- Comus / John Milton : ("Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen") ; ("Sabrina fair") ; ("By the rushy-fringed bank") -- John Milton : To Mr. H. Lawes, on his airs ; I did but prompt the age ; To the Lord General Cromwell ; When I consider how my light is spent ; On the late massacre in Piedmont ; Methought I saw -- Paradise lost / John Milton : The verse ; Book 1 [The invocation] ; Book 3 [The invocation] ; Book 4 ; Book 7 ; Book 9 ; Book 12 -- Samson Agonistes / John Milton --
Sir John Suckling ("Why so pale and wan, fond lover?") ; ("Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white") ; Upon my Lady Carlisle's walking in Hampton Court Garden ; A ballad upon a wedding ; Out upon it! -- Anne Bradstreet In honor of that high and mighty princess, Queen Elizabeth, of most happy memory ; The prologue ; Before the birth of one of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; The author to her book ; A letter to her husband, absent upon public employment ; Here follows some verses upon the burning of our house July 10th, 1666 -- Richard Crashaw On the baptized Ethiopian ; To the infant martyrs ; Upon the infant martyrs ; The tear -- The wish / Abraham Cowley Anacreontics / Abraham Cowley : Drinking -- Richard Lovelace To Althea, from prison ; To Lucasta, going to the wars ; To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her hair ; The grasshopper -- Order and disorder / Lucy Hutchinson Canto I -- Elegy 3: Another on the sunshine / Lucy Hutchinson -- Andrew Marvell The coronet ; Bermudas ; A dialogue between the soul and body ; To his coy mistress ; The fair singer ; The definition of love ; The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers ; The mower against gardens ; The mower to the glowworms ; The garden ; An Horatian ode -- Henry Vaughan Regeneration ; The retreat ; The world ; They are all gone into the world of light! ; The waterfall ; The night -- Margaret Cavendish An apology for writing so much upon this book ; Of many worlds in this world ; The hunting of the hare ; Of a spider's web -- John Dryden The Indian emperor ; Troilus and Cressida ; Absalom and Achitophel: a poem ; Mac Flecknoe ; To the memory of Mr. Oldham ; A song for St. Cecilia's Day -- Katherine Philips Epitaph ; To Mr. Henry Lawes ; To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship ; To Mrs. M. A. upon absence --
Thomas Traherne The salutation ; Wonder ; To the same purpose ; Shadows in the water -- Aphra Behn ("Love armed") ; The disappointment ; On a juniper tree, cut down to make busks ; ("On her loving two equally") ; On the death of the late Earl of Rochester ; To the fair Clarinda, who made love to me, imagined more than woman ; A thousand martyrs -- Edward Taylor Meditation 8 ("I kenning through astronomy divine") ; Upon wedlock, and death of children ; Upon a spider catching a fly ; Housewifery -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The disabled debauchee ; The imperfect enjoyment ; The mock song ; A song of a young lady to her ancient lover -- Alexandreis / Anne Killigrew Anne Finch The introduction ; The spleen ; Adam posed ; To death ; Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia ; A nocturnal reverie ; The answer (to Pope's Impromptu) ; On myself -- Matthew Prior A fable ; To a lady: she refusing to continue a dispute with me, and leaving me in the argument ; An ode -- Jonathan Swift A description of the morning ; A description of a city shower ; Stella's birthday ; The lady's dressing room ; A beautiful young nymph going to bed ; Verses on the death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. -- Isaac Watts The day of judgment ; A prospect of heaven makes death easy ; Our God, our help ; Psalm 58 ; Psalm 114 -- The beggar's opera / John Gay "Thomas, I cannot" ; "A soldier and a sailor" ; "Over the hills, and far away" ; "Cotillion" ; "The lass of Patie's Mill" ; Green sleeves" -- Alexander Pope An essay on criticism, Part II ; The rape of the lock ; Epistle to Miss Blount ; An essay on man, in four epistles: Epistle 1 ; Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ; Impromptu ; The Dunciad: Book 4 --
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Saturday (The small-pox) ; A receipt to cure the vapors ; Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her husband ; The reasons that induced Dr. Swift to write a poem called the Lady's dressing room -- The seasons / James Thomson Winter -- Hymns / Charles Wesley [My God! I know, I feel thee mine] ; [Come on, my partners in distress] -- Samuel Johnson Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick ; The vanity of human wishes ; On the death of Dr. Robert Levet -- Thomas Gray Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; Ode (On the death of a favorite cat, drowned in a tub of goldfishes) ; Elegy written in a country churchyard ; Sonnet (On the death of Mr. Richard West) -- William Collins Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 ; Ode on the poetical character ; Ode to evening -- The flowers of the forest / Jean Elliot Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno ; A song to David ; Psalm 58 ; Psalm 114 -- Oliver Goldsmith When lovely woman stoops to folly ; The deserted village -- Olney hymns / William Cowper Light shining out of darkness -- Epitaph on a hare / William Cowper -- The task / William Cowper : Book IV: The winter evening ; Book VI: The winter walk at noon -- William Cowper : The castaway ; Lines written during a period of insanity -- Anna Laetitia Barbauld The rights of woman ; To the poor ; Life -- Hannah More Inscription in a beautiful retreat called Fairy Bower ; Slavery: a poem -- Charlotte Smith Written in the church yard at Middleton in Sussex ; To the shade of Burns ; Written near a port on a dark evening ; Written in October ; Nepenthe ; Stanzas ; Ode to death ; Beachy Head -- Philip Freneau The Indian burying ground ; To Sir Toby -- Phillis Wheatley A farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W. ; On being brought from Africa to America ; To S. M., a young African painter, on seeing his works ; On imagination -- The Parish Register / George Crabbe The borough / George Crabbe : Letter XXII, The poor of the borough: Peter Grimes --
William Blake To the evening star ; ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field") ; To the muses -- Songs of innocence / William Blake : Introduction ("Piping down the valleys wild") ; The lamb ; The little black boy ; The little boy lost ; The little boy found ; The divine image ; Holy Thursday -- Songs of experience / William Blake : Introduction ("Hear the voice of the Bard!") ; The clod & the pebble ; Holy Thursday ; The sick rose ; The tyger ; Ah! Sun-flower ; The garden of love ; London ; A poison tree ; A divine image -- William Blake : [I askèd a thief] ; [Mock on mock on Voltaire Rousseau] ; Eternity ; The question answerd ; Auguries of innocence -- Milton / William Blake : [And did those feet in ancient time] -- For the sexes: the gates of Paradise / William Blake : To the accuser who is the God of this world -- Robert Burns Coming through the rye ; Green grow the rases ; To a mouse ; Holy Willie's prayer ; To a louse ; Auld lang syne ; John Anderson my jo ; Tam o'Shanter ; The banks o'Doon ; A red red rose ; Oh wert thou in the cauld blast -- Joanna Baillie A mother to her waking infant ; Woo'd and married and A' -- William Wordsworth Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ; The ruined cottage ; The prelude ("Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up") ; [There was a boy] ; [Strange fits of passion I have known] ; ("She dwelt amont th' untrodden ways") ; [A slumber did my spirit seal] ; [Three years she grew in sun and shower] ; Resolution and independence ; It is a beauteous evening ; London, 1802 ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 ; The banished Negroes ; Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; My heart leaps up ; Ode: intimations of immortality ; I wandered lonely as a cloud ; She was a phantom of delight ; The world is too much with us ; Surprised by joy ; Scorn not the sonnet --
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Aeolian harp ; This lime-tree bower my prison ; Kubla Khan ; Frost at midnight ; France: an ode ; The rime of the ancient mariner ; Dejection: an ode -- Walter Savage Landor Past ruined Ilion Helen lives ; To Robert Browning ; Dying speech of an old philosopher ; Memory -- George Gordon, Lord Byron She walks in beauty ; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte ; The destruction of Sennacherib ; When we two parted ; So we'll go no more a-roving -- Don Juan / George Gordon, Lord Byron : Fragment on the back of the Ms. of Canto I ; Canto the first. Stanzas 1-119 -- George Gordon, Lord Byron : Stanzas (When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home) ; On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year -- Percy Bysshe Shelley To Wordsworth ; Mutability ; Hymn to intellectual beauty ; Mont Blanc ; Ozymandias ; The mask of anarchy ; Ode to the west wind ; To a skylark ; Adonais -- John Clare [I found a ball of grass among the hay] ; The skylark ; [The badger] ; The Gipsy camp ; ("Love lives beyond") ; First love ; I am -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans England's dead ; The landing of the Pilgrim fathers in New England ; Casabianca ; Indian woman's death-song -- William Cullen Bryant To a waterfowl ; Thanatopsis -- John Keats On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; [Happy is England! I could be content] ; On sitting down to read King Lear once again ; When I have fears ; To Homer ; The eve of St. Agnes ; On the sonnet ; La belle dame sans merci ; Ode to Psyche ; Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on melancholy ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; To autumn ; Bright star ; This living hand -- William Barnes The blackbird ; Lwonesomeness ; Sister gone -- L.E.L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] Songs ; The marriage vow --
Ralph Waldo Emerson Concord hymn ; The rhodora ; The snow-storm ; Ode (inscribed to W. H. Channing) ; Intellect ; Brahma ; Days ; Fate -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes A crocodile ; The phantom-wooer ; Ballad of human life -- Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung") ; ("Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear") ; ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") -- Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barrett Browning : Book 5 [Poets and the present age] -- A musical instrument / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline ; The Jewish cemetery at Newport -- The song of Hiawatha / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Hiawatha's childhood -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Snow-flakes ; The cross of snow -- John Greenleaf Whittier Telling the bees ; Snowbound: a winter idyl -- Edgar Allan Poe Sonnet--to science ; To Helen ; The city in the sea ; The raven ; Eldorado ; Annabel Lee -- Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr / Edward Fitzgerald Alfred, Lord Tennyson Mariana ; The kraken ; The lady of Shalott ; The lotos-eaters ; Ulysses ; Break, break, break -- The princess / Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Tears, idle tears ; Now sleeps the crimson petal -- In memoriam A. H. H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson : ("I held it truth, with him who sings") ; ("Old yew, which graspest at the stones") ; ("Dark house, by which once more I stand") ; ("Calm is the morn without a sound") ; ("The Danube to the Severn gave") ; ("Be near me when my light is low") ; ("Oh yet we trust that somehow good") ; ("The wish, that of the living whole") ; ("'So careful of the type?' but no") ; ("When on my bed the moonlight falls") ; ("Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet") ; ("Doors, where my heart was used to beat") ; ("Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun") ; ("Thy voice is on the rolling air") -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson : The eagle ; The charge of the Light Brigade ; Tithonus ; Crossing the bar --
Robert Browning Porphyria's lover ; Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister ; My last duchess ; The lost leader ; "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix" ; The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's Church ; Home-thoughts, from abroad ; Memorabilia ; "Childe Roland to the dark tower came" ; Fra Lippo Lippi ; One word more -- Edward Lear There was an old man who supposed ; The owl and the pussy-cat ; The dong with a luminous nose ; How pleasant to know Mr. Lear -- Henry David Thoreau I am a parcel of vain strivings tied ; Smoke -- Emily Brontë [Long neglect has worn away] ; Hope ; Remembrance ; The prisoner ; The visionary ; [No coward soul is mine] ; ("Often rebuked, yet always back returning") -- Amours de voyage / Arthur Hugh Clough Canto I -- Arthur Hugh Clough : The latest decalogue ; Say not the struggle nought availeth -- Dipsychus / Arthur Hugh Clough : ["There is no God, the wicked saith] ; [As I sat at the café, I said to myself] -- Battle-hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe Song of myself / Walt Whitman ("I celebrate myself, and sing myself") ; ("I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you") ; ("A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands") ; ("Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore") ; ("The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses ...") ; ("Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son") ; ("The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me ...") -- Walt Whitman : Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; The dalliance of the eagles ; Beat! Beat! Drums! ; Cavalry crossing a ford ; Vigil strange I kept on the field one night ; Reconciliation ; When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; A noiseless patient spider ; To a locomotive in winter --
Herman Melville The portent ; Shiloh ; The Maldive shark ; The berg ; Monody -- Sonnets, third series / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman ("Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed") ; ("How well do I recall that walk in state") ; ("I looked across the rollers of the deep") -- Matthew Arnold Shakespeare ; To Marguerite ; The scholar-gypsy ; Philomela ; Dover Beach -- Modern love / George Meredith ("By this he knew she wept with waking eyes") ; ("It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool") ; ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host") ; ("What are we first? First, animals; and next") ; ("Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes") ; ("Their sense is with their senses all mixed in") ; ("He found her by the ocean's moaning verge") ; ("Thus piteously love closed what he begat") -- George Meredith : When I would image ; Lucifer in starlight -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti The blessed damozel ; Sudden light ; The woodspurge -- The house of life / Dante Gabriel Rossetti : A sonnet ; Silent noon ; The hill summit -- Nuptial sleep / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Christina Rossetti ("When I am dead, my dearest") ; Remember ; In an artist's studio ; Goblin Market ; Passing away, saith the world, passing away ; Amor mundi ; A Christmas carol --
Emily Dickinson ("I never lost as much but twice -") ; ("Some things that fly there be -") ; (Success is counted sweetest") ; ("Safe in their alabaster chambers -") ("Safe in their alabaster chambers -") ("A little east of Jordan") ; ("'Faith' is a fine invention") ; ("A clock stopped -") ; ("I'm Nobody! Who are you?") ; ("Wild nights - wild nights!") ; ("'Hope' is the thing with feathers -") ; ("There's a certain slant of light") ; ("I like a look of agony:) ; ("I felt a funeral, in my brain") ; ("I would not paint - a picture -") ; ("A bird, came down the walk -") ; ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes -") ; ("I like to see it lap the miles -") ; ("The soul selects her own society -") ; ("Mine - by the right of the white election!") ; ("They shut me up in prose -") ; ("Because I could not stop for Death -") ; ("I reckon - When I count at all -") ; ("The heart asks pleasure - first -") ; ("I heard a fly buzz - when I died -") ; ("Much madness is divinest sense -") ; ("On a columnar self -") ; ("My life had stood - a loaded gun -") ; ("Remorse - is memory - awake -") ; ("Renunciation - is a piercing virtue -") ; ("Publication - is the auction") ; ("Further in summer than the birds -") ; ("Split the lark - and you'll find the music -") ; ("As imperceptibly as grief") ; "A narrow fellow in the grass") ; ("The bustle in a house") ; ("Tell all the truth but tell it slant -") ; ("A route of evanescence") ; ("The Bible is an antique volume -") ; ("My life closed twice before it's close") ; ("Fame is a bee") --
Alice's adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] You are old, Father William -- Through the looking-glass / Lewis Carroll : Jabberwocky ; The walrus and the carpenter ; [I'll tell thee everything I can] -- The hunting of the snark / Lewis Carroll : Fit the first -- The Earthly paradise / William Morris An apology -- William Morris : A garden by the sea ; Pomona -- W. S. Gilbert I am the very model of a modern Major-General ; Titwillow -- Atalanta in Calydon / Algernon Charles Swinburne [When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces] -- Algernon Charles Swinburne : The garden of Proserpine ; A forsaken garden -- Thomas Hardy Neutral tones ; "I look into my glass" ; The self-unseeing ; Drummer Hodge ; A broken appointment ; The darkling thrush ; The ruined maid ; The convergence of the twain ; Channel firing ; Under the waterfall ; The going ; The voice ; During wind and rain ; In time of "The breaking of nations" ; Afterwards -- Gerard Manley Hopkins God's grandeur ; The windhover ; Pied beauty ; [As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame] ; Felix Randal ; Spring and fall ; [Carrion comfort] ; [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief] ; [I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day] ; [My own heart let me more have pity on] ; That nature is a Heraclitean fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection ; [Thou art indeed just, Lord] -- Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley Edith Emma Cooper La gioconda ; [Sometimes I do despatch my heart] ; Cyclamens ; The mummy invokes his soul -- The new Colossus / Emma Lazarus A Shropshire lad / A. E. Housman ("Loveliest of trees, the cherry now") ; ("When I watch the living meet") ; To an athlete dying young ; ("'Is my team ploughing'") ; ("On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble") ; ("Into my heart an air that kills") ; ["Terence, this is stupid stuff"] -- Last poems / A. E. Housman : ("The laws of God, the laws of man") ; Astronomy ; Epitaph on an army of mercenaries -- A. E. Housman : [Ho, everyone that thirsteth] ; [Crossing alone the nighted ferry] ; [Here dead lie we because we did not choose] ; [Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?] -- Arthur Symons Prologue ("My life is like a music-hall") ; Stella Maris ; White heliotrope --
William Butler Yeats The lake isle of Innisfree ; When you are old ; He wishes for the cloths of heaven ; Adam's curse ; No second Troy ; The cold heaven ; The wild swans at Coole ; An Irish airman foresees his death ; Easter 1916 ; The second coming ; A prayer for my daughter ; Leda and the swan ; Among school children ; Sailing to Byzantium ; Byzantium ; Crazy Jane talks with the bishop ; Lapis lazuli ; The circus animals' desertion ; Under Ben Bulben ; Cuchulain comforted -- Rudyard Kipling Tommy ; Danny Deever ; Recessional ; Sestina of the Tramp-Royal ; If--- ; The way through the woods ; Epitaphs of the war ; Gethsemane ; We and they -- Ernest Dowson Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam ; Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae -- Charlotte Mew The farmer's bride ; Fame ; Madeleine in church ; The cenotaph -- Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory ; Reuben Bright ; Miniver Cheevy ; The mill ; Mr. Flood's party -- The black riders and other lines / Stephen Crane ("BLACK RIDERS CAME FROM THE SEA") ; ("IN THE DESERT") ; ("BEHOLD, THE GRAVE OF A WICKED MAN") ; ("A MAN FEARED THAT HE MIGHT FIND AN ASSASSIN") -- Paul Laurence Dunbar A summer's night ; We wear the mask ; Little brown baby ; Sympathy -- In Flanders Fields / John McCrae Walter de la Mare The listeners ; Fare well -- Susie Asado / Gertrude Stein Stanzas in meditation / Gertrude Stein : ("She may count three little daisies very well") ; ("Which I wish to say is this") ; ("I wish that I had spoken only of it all.") -- Amy Lowell Patterns ; The weather-cock points south --
Robert Frost Mending wall ; The death of the hired man ; Home burial ; After apple-picking ; The wood-pile ; The road not taken ; The oven bird ; Birches ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; The need of being versed in country things ; Acquainted with the night ; Neither out far nor in deep ; Design ; Provide, provide ; Come in ; Never again would birds' song be the same ; The gift outright ; Directive -- Carl Sandburg Chicago ; Grass -- Edward Thomas Old man ; Adlestrop ; The owl ; In memoriam [Easter 1915] ; Rain ; [As the team's head-brass] -- Wallace Stevens The snow man ; The emperor of ice-cream ; Sunday morning ; Anecdote of the jar ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; Peter Quince at the Clavier ; The idea of order at Key West ; Waving adieu, adieu, adieu ; The poems of our climate ; The house was quiet and the world was calm ; An ordinary evening in New Haven: XXX ; Table talk ; A room on a garden ; Of mere being -- Mina Loy Human cylinders ; Moreover, the moon---- -- E. J. Pratt Come not the seasons here ; From stone to steel -- William Carlos Williams Danse Russe ; Portrait of a lady ; Queen-Anne's-lace ; The red wheelbarrow ; This is just to say ; Poem ; The Yachts ; A sort of a song ; Asphodel, that greeny flower, Book I -- Pictures from Brueghel / William Carlos Williams : Landscape with the fall of Icarus -- Elinor Wylie Full moon ; Doomsday -- D. H. Lawrence Love on the farm ; Piano ; Snake ; Bavarian gentians ; The ship of death -- Ezra Pound Portrait d'une femme ; The garden ; A pact ; Ts'ai Chi'h ; In a station of the metro ; The river-merchant's wife: a letter ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: life and contacts ; Medallion -- The cantos / Ezra Pound : ("And then went down to the ship") ; ("With Usura") --
Siegfried Sassoon Christ and the soldier ; "They" ; Base details ; The general ; Glory of women ; Everyone sang : On passing the New Menin Gate -- H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] Sea rose ; Sea violet ; Helen ; Wine bowl -- The walls do not fall / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] : ("An incident her and there") -- Robinson Jeffers Shine, perishing Republic ; Hurt hawks ; The purse-Seine ; Birds and fishes -- Rupert Brooke Sonnet ; The old vicarage, Grantchester ; The soldier -- Marianne Moore To a steam roller ; To a chameleon ; The fish ; Poetry ; A grave ; The steeple-jack ; No swan so fine ; What are years? ; Nevertheless ; The mind is an enchanting thing -- John Crowe Ransom Bells for John Whiteside's daughter ; Piazza piece ; Blue girls ; Parting, without a sequel ; Lady lost -- T. S. Eliot The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The waste land ; The hollow men ; Journey of the magi -- Four quartets / T. S. Eliot : Little Gidding -- Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) : Pain ; To his love ; The silent one ; Sea-marge -- Isaac Rosenberg Break of day in the trenches ; Dead man's dump ; [Through these pale cold days] -- Edna St. Vincent Millay First fig ; Second fig ; Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare ; Spring ; [I, being born a woman and distressed] ; The buck in the snow ; I dreamed I moved among the Elysian Fields ; Ragged island ; Armenonville -- Archibald MacLeish Ars poetica ; You, Andrew Marvell ; The snowflake which is now and hence forever -- Hugh MacDiarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve] The watergaw ; The innumerable Christ ; Another epitaph on an army of mercenaries ; In memoriam James Joyce -- Wilfred Owen Anthem for doomed youth ; Dulce et decorum est ; Insensibility ; Strange meeting ; Miners ; Futility -- Dorothy Parker Unfortunate coincidence ; Résumé ; One perfect rose --
E. E. Cummings [All in green went my love riding] ; [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] ; [Spring is like a perhaps hand] ; ["next to of course god america i] ; [since feeling is first] ; [somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond] ; [may I feel said he] ; [anyone lived in a pretty how town] ; [who are you, little I] -- John Allan Wyeth Interior ; General order ; Home mail ; New diggings in the orchard ; the road to Corbie -- Cane / Jean Toomer Reapers ; Face ; Georgia dusk ; Portrait in Georgia ; Harvest song -- Robert Graves Love without hope ; Welsh incident ; In broken images ; Recalling war ; To Juan at the winter solstice ; The white goddess -- Louise Bogan Medusa ; Juan's song ; Man alone ; Roman fountain ; Night -- Hart Crane My grandmother's love letters ' At Melville's tomb ; Voyages -- The bridge / Hart Crane : Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge -- To Emily Dickinson / Hart Crane -- Allen Tate Ode to the Confederate dead ; The swimmers -- Briggflatts / Basil Bunting Sterling A. Brown Slim in Atlanta ; Chillen get shoes ; Bitter fruit of the tree ; Conjured -- Langston Hughes The weary blues ; The negro speaks of rivers ; Dream variations ; Cross ; Song for a dark girl ; Harlem sweeties ; Harlem ; Theme for English B ; Dinner guest: me --
Go down, Moses ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; (what did I do to be so) Black and blue / Andy Razaf Night and day / Cole Porter Take my hand, precious Lord / Thomas A. Dorsey It ain't necessarily so / Ira Gershwin Strange fruit / Abel Meeropol Fine and mellow / Billie Holiday Boots of Spanish leather / Bob Dylan The times they are a changin' / Bob Dylan ; Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall Alexander Hamilton / Lin-Manuel Miranda Ogden Nash The cow ; Reflections on ice-breaking ; Requiem ; Columbus ; The turtle -- Stevie Smith Correspondence between Mr. Harrison in Newcastle and Mr. Sholto Peach Harrison in Hull ; Infelice ; The river god ; No categories! ; The death sentence ; Not waving but drowning ; Thoughts about the person from Porlock ; The galloping cat -- Countee Cullen Heritage ; Incident ; Yet do I marvel -- C. Day Lewis ("I've heard them lilting at loom and belting") ; ("Come, live with me and be my love") -- Where are the war poets? / C. Day Lewis -- Patrick Kavanagh Sanctity ; The great hunger ; Epic ; Canal Bank walk -- Robert Penn Warren Bearded oaks ; Masts at dawn ; Evening hawk -- Stanley Kunitz He ; Robin Redbreast ; Touch me -- John Betjeman Death in Leamington ; The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel ; In Westminster Abbey -- William Empson Legal fiction ; Missing dates ; Chinese ballad --
W. H. Auden O what is that sound ; Lullaby ; As I walked out one evening ; Funeral blues ; Tell me the truth about love ; Musée des Beaux Arts ; In memory of W. B. Yeats ; Refugee blues ; Epitaph on a tyrant ; September 1, 1939 ; In praise of limestone ; Their lonely betters ; The shield of Achilles -- A. D. Hope Australia ; Imperial Adam ; The return of Persephone ; Advice to young ladies ; Inscription for a war -- Louis MacNeice Snow ; The sunlight on the garden ; Bagpipe music ; Meeting point ; London rain ; Soap suds ; The taxis ; Star-gazer -- George Oppen From disaster ; Myself I sing ; O Western wind ; A theological definition -- Theodore Roethke Root cellar ; Child on top of a greenhouse ; My papa's waltz ; The lost son ; Elegy for Jane ; The waking ; I knew a woman ; Wish for a young wife -- Josephine Jacobsen The primer ; Bush ; Hourglass -- Haiku: this other world / Richard Wright ("On winter mornings") ; ("In the falling snow") ; ("Crying and crying") ; ("Waking from a nap") ; ("Droning autumn rain") ; ("I cannot find it") -- Stephen Spender I think continually of those who were truly great ; Ultima ratio regum ; Seascape -- Norman MacCaig Summer farm ; The unlikely as usual ; Kingfisher -- Charles Olson Merce of Egypt ; Variations done for Gerald Van De Wiele -- Elizabeth Bishop Casabianca ; The fish ; Filling station ; Sandpiper ; The armadillo ; Questions of travel ; Sestina ; In the waiting room ; The moose ; One art -- Allen Curnow House and land ; Landfall in unknown seas ; Continuum -- Irving Layton The cold green element ; Berry picking --
R. S. Thomas Welsh landscape ; The view from the window ; On the farm ; Lore ; A marriage -- May Swenson Motherhood ; Cardinal ideograms ; Waterbird ; Goodbye, goldeneye -- Robert Hayden Those winter Sundays ; Mourning poem for the Queen of Sunday ; Night, death, Mississippi ; "'Mystery Boy' looks for kin in Nashville" ; Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Muriel Rukeyser Boy with his hair cut short ; Night feeding ; Rondel ; Ballad of orange and grape -- Lessons of the war / Henry Reed Naming of parts ; Judging distances -- Weldon Kees What the spider heard ; For H. V. (1901-1927) ; When the lease is up ; Robinson -- Randall Jarrell 90 north ; The death of the ball turret gunner ; Eighth Air Force ; A front ; In those days ; Next day ; A man meets a woman in the street -- John Berryman Homage to Mistress Bradstreet A sympathy, a welcome -- The dream songs / John Berryman : ("Huffy Henry hid the day") ; ("Filling her compact & delicious body") ; ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") ; ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart") ; ("I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son") ; ("Also I love him: me he's done no wrong") ; An elegy for W.C.W., the lovely man ; ("At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well") -- Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ; And death shall have no dominion ; The hand that signed the paper ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London ; Fern Hill ; In my craft or sullen art ; Poem in October ; Do not go gentle into that good night -- Judith Wright Woman to man ; Eli, Eli ; Train journey ; Egrets ; Eve to her daughters ; Naked girl and mirror -- Alun Lewis Raiders' dawn ; All day it has rained ; Song (On seeing dead bodies floating off the Cape) ; Goodbye -- Margaret Walker Since 1619 ; Childhood -- Ern Malley [Harold Stewart James McAuley Dürer, Innsbruck, 1495 ; Night piece ; Petit testament -- P. K. Page Stories of snow ; Deaf-mute in the pear tree --
Robert Lowell The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket ; Mr. Edwards and the spider ; My last afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow ; Skunk hour ; Water ; For the Union dead ; Harriet ; Epilogue -- Gwendolyn Brooks kitchenette building ; my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell ; the birth in a narrow room ; the rites for Cousin Vit ; The bean eaters ; We real cool ; Medgar Evers ; Boy breaking glass -- W. S. Graham A note to the difficult one ; The stepping stones ; Dear Bryan Wynter -- William Meredith The illiterate ; Rhode Island -- Sometime during eternity . . . / Lawrence Ferlinghetti Keith Douglas Simplify me when I'm dead ; The sea bird ; Cairo jag ; Words ; Vergissmeinnicht -- Howard Nemerov The goose fish ; A primer of the daily round ; The blue swallows ; Boy with book of knowledge ; Strange metamorphosis of poets ; Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry -- Edwin Morgan Strawberries ; Opening the cage ; The computer's first Christmas card -- From the video box / Edwin Morgan : ("If you ask what my favourite programme is") -- Gwen Harwood Alter ego ; "Thought is surrounded by a halo" ; Mother who gave me life -- Amy Clampitt Beach glass ; Beethoven, opus 111 ; The sun underfoot among the sundews ; The cormorant in its element ; The horned rampion -- Barbara Guest Roses ; Twilight polka dots --
Richard Wilbur First snow in Alsace ; Love calls us to the things of this world ; Piazza di Spagna, early morning ; A plain song for comadre ; A Baroque wall-fountain in the Villa Sciarra ; Advice to a prophet ; Junk ; Cottage Street, 1953 ; Zea ; The house -- Mona Van Duyn Letters from a father ; Falling in love at sixty-five -- Donald Davie Remembering the Thirties ; The fountain ; Time passing, beloved -- Howard Moss The persistence of song ; Tourists -- Philip Larkin Toads ; Church going ; An Arundel tomb ; The Whitsun weddings ; MCMXIV ; Talking in bed ; High windows ; The trees ; Sad steps ; The explosion ; This be the verse ; Aubade -- Anthony Hecht A hill ; The Dover bitch ; The ghost in the martini ; Sill life ; The book of Yolek ; Death the painter -- James Dickey The lifeguard ; Buckdancer's choice ; Sled burial, dream ceremony -- Peter Kane Dufault A letter for all-hallows (1949) ; A first night ; Burden -- Denise Levertov Scenes from the life of the Peppertrees ; Tenebrae ; Caedmon -- James Schuyler Freely espousing ; Shimmer -- Richard Hugo The way a ghost dissolves ; The lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir -- Kenneth Koch Permanently ; You were wearing ; Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams ; Energy in Sweden ; To my twenties -- Donald Justice Counting the mad ; Men at forty ; Nostalgia of the lakefronts ; Pantoum of the Great Depression -- The erotic philosophers / Carolyn Kizer "Pro femina" -- Heart's needle / W. D. Snodgrass ("Late April and you are three; today") ; ("The child between them on the street") ; (Here in the scuffled dust") ; ("The vicious winter finally yields") -- Mementos, 1 / W. D. Snodgrass --
A. R. Ammons Corsons Inlet ; The city limits ; The arc inside and out ; Pet panther -- Strip / A. R. Ammons : ("sometimes I get the feeling I've never") -- James Merrill The broken home ; The mad scene ; The victor dog ; Lost in translation -- The book of Ephraim / James Merrill : ("Correct but cautious, that first night, we asked") -- James Merrill : Arabian night ; b o d y -- Robert Creeley Heroes ; I know a man ; The world ; Bresson's movies -- Howl / Allen Ginsberg ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness") -- Allen Ginsberg : A supermarket in California ; To Aunt Rose -- Frank O'Hara The day Lady died ; How to get there ; Ave Maria ; Why I am not a painter -- James K. Baxter Wild bees ; Rocket show ; East coast journey ; New Zealand ; The fear of change ; The ikons -- Robert Bly Waking from sleep ; Johnson's cabinet watched by ants -- Charles Tomlinson Farewell to Van Gogh ; The door ; Ararat -- Galway Kinnell First song ; The correspondence school instructor says goodbye to his poetry students ; After making love we hear footsteps -- John Ashbery The painter ; Soonest mended ; Ode to Bill ; Paradoxes and oxymorons ; Brute image ; The dong with the luminous nose -- W. S. Merwin The drunk in the furnace ; Odysseus ; Separation ; Whoever you are -- James Wright A note left in Jimmy Leonard's shack ; Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; A blessing ; Speak -- Dying: an introduction / L. E. Sissman Path. Report ; Outbound -- A deathplace / L. E. Sissman --
Philip Levine They feed they lion ; You can have it -- Thomas Kinsella Another September ; Ancestor ; Tear -- Exile / Donald Hall The one day / Donald Hall : Prophecy -- Independence Day letter / Donald Hall -- Rosemary Tonks The sofas, fogs, and cinemas ; The sash window ; Farewell to Kurdistan -- Anne Sexton The truth the dead know ; And one for my dame -- An exequy / Peter Porter John Montague Like Dolmens round my childhood, the old people ; The trout ; All legendary obstacles -- A. K. Ramanujan Breaded fish ; Self-portrait ; Snakes and ladders ; Foundlings in the Yukon -- Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer's tigers ; Snapshots of a daughter-in-law ; Orion ; A valediction forbidding mourning ; Diving into the wreck -- Eastern war time / Adrienne Rich : ("Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943") ; ("A woman wired in memories") -- Modotti / Adrienne Rich -- Thom Gunn On the move ; a map of the city ; My sad captains ; From the wave ; "All do not all things well" ; The missing ; The gas-poker -- Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565 / Richard Howard John Hollander Swan and shadow ; Adam's task ; An old-fashioned song -- Derek Walcott A far cry from Africa ; Nights in the gardens of Port of Spain ; The gulf ; The schooner flight ; Midsummer -- Omeros / Derek Walcott : ("Who decrees a great epoch?") -- The bounty / Derek Walcott : ("I am considering a syntax the color of slate") -- The prodigal / Derek Walcott : ("I lay on the bed near the balcony in Guadalajara") -- White egrets / Derek Walcott : ("This page is a cloud between whose fraying edges") -- Gary Snyder Above Pate Valley ; Four poems for Robin ; Gnarly -- The arrivants: a new world trilogy / Kamau Brathwaite New world a-comin': ("Helpless like this") ; ("It will be a long long time before we see") -- Ancestors / Kamau Brathwaite : ("Every Friday morning my grandfather") ; ("All that I can remember of his wife") ; ("Come-a look") -- Naima / Kamau Brathwaite -- Roy Fisher The entertainment of war ; Of the empirical self and for me ; Hypnopaedia --
Ted Hughes The thought-fox ; Wind ; Hawk roosting ; Pike ; Theology ; The black beast ; Birth of rainbow ; Daffodils ; Platform one -- Jay MacPherson The swan ; A lost soul ; The well -- Irani restaurant Bombay / Arun Kolatkar Jejuri / Arun Kolatkar : The bus -- Biograph / Arun Kolatkar -- John Updike V. B. Nimble, V. B. Quick ; I missed his book, but I read his name -- Geoffrey Hill Genesis ; September song -- Mercian hymns / Geoffrey Hill : ("The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall") ; ("Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools") ; ("The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour") -- Lachrimae / Geoffrey Hill : Lachrimae verae -- An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England / Geoffrey Hill : The laurel axe -- Geoffrey Hill : The mystery of the charity of Charles Péguy ; Pisgah ; The triumph of love ; The jumping boy ; Nachwort -- Sylvia Plath The Colossus ; Morning song ; Lady Lazarus ; Tulips ; Elm ; Ariel ; Daddy ; The Munich mannequins -- Anne Stevenson Temporarily in Oxford ; Willow song ; Arioso Dolente -- Fleur Adcock The ex-queen among the astronomers ; Poem ended by a death ; The Soho Hospital for Women -- Audre Lorde Coal ; From the house of Yemanjá ; Echoes -- N. Scott Momaday Headwaters ; The eagle-feather fan -- The gift ; Two figures -- Mark Strand Keeping things whole ; The prediction ; Always -- Dark Harbor / Mark Strand : ("It is true, as someone has said, that in") ; ("Is it you standing among the olive trees") -- Two de chiricos / Mark Strand : The disquieting muses -- Mark Strand : The mysterious arrival of an unusual letter ; Nocturne of the poet who loved the moon --
Amiri Baraka [Leroi Jones] In memory of radio ; An agony. As now. -- Charles Wright Homage to Claude Lorraine ; Chinese journal ; As our bodies rise, our names turn into light ; Quotations ; Lullaby -- Edward Baugh Sometimes in the middle of the story ; You ever notice how -- Lucille Clifton jasper texas 1998 ; mulberry fields -- C. K. Williams Repression ; Snow: II ; The coffin store -- Tony Harrison On not being Milton ; Classics Society ; A kumquat for John Keats -- Eleanor Wilner Reading the Bible backwards ; High noon at Lost Alamos -- Charles Simic Watch repair ; Prodigy ; A book full of pictures ; Cameo appearance ; Preachers warn -- Dom Moraes Kanheri Caves ; Snow on a mountain -- Two from Israel / Dom Moraes : Rendezvous -- Les Murray Noonday axeman ; Once in a lifetime, snow ; The quality of sprawl ; Morse ; The conversations -- R. F. Langley Cakes and ale ; Skrymir's glove -- Seamus Heaney Digging ; Bogland ; Toome ; Punishment -- Singing school / Seamus Heaney : Exposure -- The skunk / Seamus Heaney -- Glanmore sonnets / Seamus Heaney : ("Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea") ; ("I dreamt we slept in a moss in Donegal") -- The harvest bow / Seamus Heaney -- Clearances / Seamus Heaney : ("She taught me what her uncle once taught her") ; ("When all the others were away at Mass") ; ("I thought of walking round and round a space") -- Fosterling / Seamus Heaney -- Squarings / Seamus Heaney : Lightenings VIII ("The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise") -- Seamus Heaney : Two lorries ; In a field ; Banks of a canal -- Michael Longley Swans mating ; Wreaths ; The linen industry ; Gorse fires ; Ghetto ; The stairwell --
Margaret Atwood This is a photograph of me ; At the tourist center in Boston ; You begin ; Up ; My mother dwindles ... ; Questioning the dead -- Robert Pinsky A long branch song ; The street ; Instrument -- Robert Hass Meditation at Lagunitas ; Tahoe in August ; Winged and acid dark -- Billy Collins Japan ; Litany -- Eric Ormsby Starfish ; Skunk cabbage ; Origins -- Derek Mahon Leaves ; The snow party ; A disused shed in Co. Wexford ; Courtyards in Delft -- Douglas Dunn A removal from Terry Street ; Thirteen steps and the thirteenth of March -- Arthur Nortje Soliloquy: South Africa ; Reflections in a passing mirror ; Sonnet two -- From certain footprints found at Laetoli / Charles Martin Louise Glück Gretel in darkness ; The garden ; Vita Nova ; The past -- John Tranter The revolutionaries ; The germ ; Notes from the late Tang -- Sonnets to be written from prison / Robert Adamson ("We will take it seriously as we open our morning paper") -- Addiction / Robert Adamson -- Alfred Corn Navidad, St. Nicholas Ave. ; A conch from Sicily -- Michael Ondaatje Letters & other worlds ; Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province we see hints of the circus ; House on a red cliff -- Eavan Boland That the science of cartography is limited ; The Dolls Museum in Dublin ; The pomegranate -- Craig Raine The onion, memory ; A Martian sends a postcard home -- Wendy Cope Bloody men ; Flowers ; Valentine -- Kay Ryan Half a loaf ; Intention ; Cloud ; Spiderweb -- Bill Manhire My sunshine ; An inspector calls ; Kevin -- High holy days / Jane Shore Yusef Komunyakaa Facing it ; Banking potatoes ; The smokehouse ; Sunday afternoons -- Lorna Goodison Where the flora of our village came from ; Change if you must just change slow ; The cruel room -- Richard Kenney Air sublime ; Final exam ; Honor guard -- Heather McHugh Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun ; Sun grounded in sky pool ; Webcam the world -- Agha Shahid Ali The Dacca gauzes ; Lenox Hill -- James Fenton Dead soldiers ; A German requiem ; God, a poem -- Julia Alvarez New clothes ; Weeping willow ; Jorie Graham The geese ; At Luca Signorelli's resurrection of the body ; Cagnes sur mer -- Anne Carson New rule ; Sumptuous destitution ; Lines ; Some afternoons she does not pick up the phone -- Linda Gregerson "Halfe a yard of rede sea" ; Prodigal -- Dana Gioia Prayer ; The next poem -- Nicholas Christopher The palm reader ; Far from home -- Paul Muldoon Lunch with Pancho Villa ; Cuba ; Why Brownlee left ; Immram ; Trance ; A trifle ; The fox ; Milkweed and Monarch -- Gary Soto The soup ; Not knowing -- Rita Dove Parsley ; Dusting ; The bistro Styx -- Alberto Ríos Teodoro Luna confesses after years to his brother, Anselmo the Priest, who is required to understand, but who understands anyway, more than people think ; When there were ghosts -- Andrew Motion Great expectations ; Are you there? --
Daniel Hall Mangosteens ; Memento ; Neoclassical -- Rosanna Warren Moment ; Forgiveness ; Hydrangea -- Gjertrud Schnackenberg Darwin in 1881 ; Supernatural love -- The throne of Labdacus / Gjertrud Schnackenberg : The shepherd speaks -- Vijay Seshadri Imaginary number ; This morning ; Script meeting -- Louise Erdrich The butcher's wife ; I was sleeping where the black oaks move ; Birth -- Carol Ann Duffy Warming her pearls ; Prayer ; Richard -- Claudia Emerson Metatastasis: worry-moth ; Chain chain chain ; MRI -- Li-Young Lee Persimmons ; Station -- Cynthia Zarin The ant hill ; Song -- Kathleen Jamie Lepidoptery ; The wishing tree -- Lavinia Greenlaw Skin full ; A world where news travelled slowly -- Peter McDonald Travellers ; Standstill ; Fifties ; Glyn Maxwell Stargazing ; The snow village -- Simon Armitage A glory ; The shout -- John Kinsella Drowning in wheat ; The fable of the great sow -- Don Paterson The ferryman's arms ; Rain -- Double Exposures / Greg Williamson Visiting couple kissing and halved onion ; Group photo with winter trees -- Greg Williamson : New Year's: a short pantoum ; Line ; Internet -- Alice Oswald Pruning in frost ; Moon hymn ; A short story of falling -- Natasha Trethewey Flounder ; Graveyard blues ; Elegy -- Karen Solie Mole ; The road in is not the same road out ; Life is a carnival -- Eunoia / Christian Bök ("Awkward grammar appals a craftsman.") ; ("Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech.") ; ("Writing is inhibiting.") ; ("Monks who vow to do God's work ...") ; ("Kultur spurns Ubu ...") -- A. E. Stallings The dollhouse ; Clean break ; Persephone to Psyche -- The golden shovel / Terrance Hayes Tracy K. Smith The museum of obsolescence ; The Universe: original motion picture soundtrack.
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