Sentence / Anna Akhmatova -- Mansion / A.R. Ammons -- Will, lost in a sea of trouble / Archilochos -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Improvement / John Ashbery -- Variation on the word sleep / Margaret Atwood -- In memory of W.B. Yeats ; Refugee blues / W.H. Auden -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones).
One art ; At the fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop -- Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle / Black Elk -- Eternity ; Ecchoing green ; Little Black boy / William Blake -- Emigrant Irish / Eavan Boland -- Before the birth of one of her children ; To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet.
Soldier / Rupert Brooke -- We real cool ; Bean eaters / Gwedolyn Brooks -- Sonnet 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- Ay, ay, ay of the kinky-haired Negress / Julia De Burgos -- Address to a haggis / Robert Burns -- She walks in beauty ; From "Manfred" / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll.
Grandmither, think not I forget / Willa Cather -- 31 / Catullus -- City / C.P. Cavafy -- From Zeitgehoft / Paul Celan -- From The general prologue to The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- You called me corazon / Sandra Cisneros -- Lost baby poem / Lucille Clifton -- From The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge ; Voyages (III) / Hart Crane.
Rain ; I know a man / Robert Creeley -- Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen -- I sing of Olaf glad and big / E.E. Cummings -- Last poem / Robert Desnos -- Bee / James Dickey -- I'm nobody! who are you? ; I never saw a Moor ; Little madness in the spring ; "Hope" is the thing with feathers ; Bird came down the walk / Emily Dickinson.
Flea ; Valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne -- Embrace / Mark Doty -- Daystar / Rita Dove -- Since ther's no helpe, come let us kisse and part / Michael Drayton -- Love song: I and thou / Alan Dugan -- We wear the mask / Paul Lawrence Dunbar -- Lyric in exile / Hussein Elhami -- Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Dry salvages (II) / T.S. Eliot.
Rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Road not taken ; Acquainted with the night ; Immigrants ; Birches ; Hillside thaw ; "Out, out-" / Robert Frost -- Terms in which I think of reality / Allen Ginsberg -- Queen of Carthage / Louise Gluck -- Baby song / Thom Gunn -- Names of horses / Donald Hall -- Darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy.
Meditation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass -- Those winter Sundays ; Monet's "Waterlilies" / Robert Hayden -- Mid-term break / Seamus Heaney -- Invictus / William Ernest Henley -- Church-musick ; Vertue / George Herbert -- Pebble / Zbigniew Herbert -- Things I didn't know I loved / Nazim Hikmet -- Do you see the town? / Hugo Von Hofmannsthal.
From the "Iliad" (Book Six, lines 439-79) / Homer -- God's Grandeur ; Pied Beauty ; Windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Diffugere Nives / A.E. Housman -- Minstrel man ; Merry-go-round ; Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- Driving Montana / Richard Hugo -- Next day ; Losses / Randall Jarrell -- Purse-Seine / Robinson Jeffers -- Creation / James Weldon Johnson.
Song to Celia ; On my first son / Ben Johnson -- Ecce puer / James Joyce -- Ode to a nightingale ; Sonnet VII (O solitude! if I must with thee dwell) ; This living hand / John Keats -- Otherwise / Jane Kenyon -- St. Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell -- Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Hornworm: autumn lamentation / Stanley Kunitz.
From "Tao te Ching" / Lao Tzu -- Snake / D.H. Lawrence -- New colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov -- You can have it / Philip Levine -- Psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Moon sails out ; Song of the barren orange tree / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Patterns / Amy Lowell.
First snow-fall / James Russell Lowell -- Waking in the blue / Robert Lowell -- Big Momma / Haki R. Madhubuti -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- Art / Herman Melville -- Strawberries / W.S. Merwin -- Sonnet XXIV (When you, that at this moment are to me) ; Dirge without music / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Happiness / A.A. Milne.
On pilgrimage / Czeslaw Milosz -- Lycidas / John Milton -- Harmonics / William Vaughn Moody -- Poetry ; I may, I might, I must / Marianne Moore -- Time I've lost in wooing / Thomas Moore -- Ode to my socks / Pablo Neruda -- Quiet until the thaw / Jacob Nibenegenasabe -- True account of talking to the sun at Fire Island / Frank O'Hara.
Summer day / Mary Oliver -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- To return to the urges unconscious of their beginnings / Pham Tien Duat -- Luncheon on the grass / Carl Phillips -- Night dances ; Lady Lazarus ; Polly's tree / Sylvia Plath -- Cancer and nova / Hyam Plutzik -- From "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" / Alexander Pope.
River-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound -- I loved you / Alexander Pushkin -- Love constant beyond death / Francisco De Quevedo -- Nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Naming of parts / Henry Reed -- To the days ; Prospective immigrants please note / Adrienne Rich -- Entrance / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Romance / Arthur Rimbaud.
Our land / Yannis Ritsos -- Eros Turannos ; Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- My papa's waltz ; Night journey ; Waking ; Theodore Roethke -- Who says words with my mouth / Jalal Al-Din Rumi -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- Equal to the gods / Sappho -- Old man on the river bank / George Seferis.
Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) ; Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) ; Sonnet 138 (When my love swears that she is made of truth) / William Shakespeare -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Scars / William Stafford -- Idea of order at Key West ; Snow man ; Tea at the Palaz of Hoon ; Girl in a nightgown / Wallace Stevens.
Block city ; Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Pot roast / Mark Strand -- Notes from a nonexistent Himalayan expedition / Wislawa Szymborska -- Gift / Rabindranath Tagore -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer.
Do not go gentle into that good night ; In my craft or sullen art ; Fern hill / Dylan Thomas -- Tichborne's elegy / Chidiock Tichborne -- Far cry form Africa / Derek Walcott -- Arizona Midnight / Robert Penn Warren -- Old man's thought of school ; From "Song of the open road" (1,4,& 8) ; To a certain cantatrice ; From "Song of myself" (46 & 52) / Walt Whitman.
Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- My fly / C.K. Williams -- To Elsie ; Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams -- From "The prelude (book IV, lines 354-70) ; Lines (Tintern Abbey) / William Wordsworth -- On a bank as I sat fishing / Sir Henry Wotton -- Blessing / James Wright -- Forget not yet / Thomas Wyatt.
Politics ; When you are old ; Sailing to Byzatium / William Butler Yeats -- Lower leaves of the trees / Sone No Yoshitada -- To go to Lvov / Adam Zagajewski -- Way of the water-hyacinth / Zawgee.
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