from "Discordants" (1) / Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) -- The sentence / Anna Akhmatov (1899-1966) -- The great Canzon / Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) -- Inside the apple / Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) -- In memoriam Mae Noblitt / A.R. Ammons (1926-2001) -- A blessing in disguise ; This room / John Ashbery (b. 1927) -- It is dangerous to read newspapers / Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) -- Lullaby ; The more loving one / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- L'Invitation au voyage / Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) -- Enueg 1 ; Enueg 2 / Samuel Becket (1906-1989) -- from "Eleven addresses to Our Lord" / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- At the fishhouses ; A cold spring ; Some dreams they forgot / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- The chimney sweeper (from Songs of innocence) ; The garden of love (from Songs of experience) / William Blake (1757-1827) -- The crows ; Dark summer / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- The blossom / Eavan Boland (b. 1944) -- We real cool ; When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Strong men / Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) -- Two in the Campagna / Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Ay, ay, ay de la Grifa Negra / Julia de Burgos (1914-1953).
Is there for honest poverty ; John Anderson my jo / Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Deathfugue / Paul Celan (1920-1970) -- The Negro's complaint / William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Sunday morning apples / Hart Crane (1899-1933) -- For a poet ; Song in spite of myself / Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- I carry your heart with me ... / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Ample make this bed ; The grass so little has to do ; I'm nobody! Who are you? ; One need not be a chamber, to be haunted ; Surgeons must be very careful ; To fight aloud, is very brave / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- An epithalamion ; The good-morrow / John Donne (1572-1631) -- The elephant / Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987) -- With no experience in such matters / Stephen Dunn (b. 1939) -- Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Seen through a window / David Ferry (b. 1924) -- After apple-picking ; Directive ; An old man's winter night ; "Out, out" ; The oven bird ; The pasture / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Transcription of organ music / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- The school children / Louise Glück (b. 1943) -- The holy longing / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1842) -- Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Thomas Gray (1916-1771) -- The idea of trust / Thom Gunn (b. 1929) -- Woolworth's / Donald Hall (b. 1928) -- Population / Mark Halliday (b. 1949) -- Afterwards ; The man he killed / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Privilege of being / Robert Hass (b. 1941).
The night-blooming cereus / Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- from "Clearances" / Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) -- Prospects / Anthony Hecht (b. 1923) -- The collar / George Herbert (1593-1633) -- The envoy of Mr. Cogito / Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) -- Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- Carrion comfort ; God's grandeur ; To seem the stranger lies my lot ... / Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -- When I was one-and-twenty (A Shropshire lad 13) / A.E. Housman (1859-1936) -- The dream keeper ; Minstrel man ; Motto / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Degrees of gray in Philipsburg / Richard Hugo (1923-1982) -- My real dwelling / Ikkyu (1394-1481) -- The islands ; The woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- The eye / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- The song of the Banana Man / Evan Jones (b. 1927) -- Inviting a friend to supper ; Lovel's song / Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Men at forty / Donald Justice (b. 1925) -- from Endymion ; On a Leander which Miss Reynolds, my kind friend, gave me ; To sleep / John Keats (1795-1821) -- Finding a long gray hair / Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) -- The boiling water / Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) -- Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) -- Thinking of death and dogfood / Maxine Kumin (b. 1925) -- Hornworm : autumn lamentation ; The layers / Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905) -- An Arundel tomb ; The explosion / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) -- Caedmon / Denise Levertov (1923-1997).
They feed they lion ; What work is / Philip Levine (b. 1928) -- The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) -- Still night thoughts / Li Po (701-762) -- River-snow / Liu Zongyuan (773-819) -- A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) -- Memories of West Street and Lepke ; The old flame / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Portrait / Antonio Machado (1875-1939) -- Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) -- Language lesson / Heather McHugh (b. 1948) -- The mad scene / James Merrill (1926-1995) -- The shore / W.S. Merwin (b. 1927) -- On hearing a symphony of Beethoven ; Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- You who wronged / Czeslaw Milosz (b. 1911) -- When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton (1608-1674) -- Piececitos / Gabriela Mistral (1889-1857) -- A jellyfish ; What are years? / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- The meeting of the waters / Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The snow globe / Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) -- Absence of Joaquín / Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) -- He lived, childhood summers / Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970) -- The day Lady died ; Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) ; Poem (And tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock in Springfield, Massachusetts) / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- The forms of love ; Psalm / George Oppen (1908-1984) -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- At the New Year / Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972).
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