The Sentence / Anna Akhmatova -- Mansion / A.R. Ammons -- Will, lost in a sea of trouble / Archilochos -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- The Improvement / John Ashbery -- Variation on the Word Sleep / Margaret Atwood -- In Memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden -- Refugee Blues / W.H. Auden -- Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note / Amiri Baraka -- One Art / Elizabeth Bishop -- At the Fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop -- Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle / Black Elk -- Eternity / William Blake -- The Ecchoing Green / William Blake -- The Little Black Boy / William Blake -- The Emigrant Irish / Eavan Boland -- Before the Birth of one of her Children / Anne Bradstreet -- To My Dear and loving Husband / Anne Bradstreet -- The Soldier / Rupert Brooke -- We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Bean Eaters / Gwendolyn 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 / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- from Manfred / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Grandmither, Think Not I Forget / Willa Cather -- 31 / Catullus -- The City / C.P. Cavafy -- from Zeitgehoft / Paul Celan -- from The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane -- Voyages (III) / Hart Crane -- The Rain / Robert Creeley -- 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 -- The Bee / James Dickey -- I'm Nobody! Who are you? / Emily Dickinson --- I never saw a Moor, / Emily Dickinson -- A little Madness in the Spring / Emily Dickinson -- "Hope" is the thing with Feathers, / Emily Dickinson -- A Bird came down the Walk / Emily Dickinson -- The Flea / John Donne -- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning / John Donne -- The 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 -- A Lyric in Exile / Hussein Elhami -- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- Dry Salvages / T.S. Eliot -- The Rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Road Not Taken / Robert Frost -- Acquainted with the Night / Robert Frost -- Immigrants / Robert Frost -- Birches / Robert Frost -- A Hillside Thaw / Robert Frost -- "Out, Out," / Robert Frost -- The Terms in Which I Think of Reality / Allen Ginsberg -- The Queen of Carthage / Louise Gluck -- Baby Song / Thom Gunn -- Names of Horses / Donald Hall -- The Darkling Thrush / Thomas Hardy -- Meditation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass -- Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Monet's "Waterlilies" / Robert Hayden -- Mid-Term Break / Seamus Heaney -- Invictus / William Ernest Henley -- Church-musick / George Herbert -- Vertue / George Herbert -- The 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 / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Pied Beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The Windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Diffugere Nives / A.E. Housman -- Minstrel Man / Langston Hughes -- Merry-Go-Round / Langston Hughes -- Mother to Son / Langston Hughes -- Driving Montana / Richard Hugo -- Next Day / Randall Jarrell -- Losses / Randall Jarrell -- The Purse-Seine / Robinson Jeffers -- The Creation / James Weldon Johnson -- Song to Celia / Ben Jonson -- On My First Son / Ben Jonson -- Ecce Puer / James Joyce --
Ode to a Nightingale / John Keats -- Sonnet VII (O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell) / John Keats -- 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 -- The New Colossus / Emma Lazarua -- Come into Animal Presence / Denise Levertov -- You Can Have It / Philip Levine -- A Psalm of Life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Moon Sails Out / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Song of the Barren Orange Tree / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Patterns / Amy Lowell -- The 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) / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Dirge Without Music / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Happiness / A.A. Milne -- On Pilgrimage / Czeslaw Milosz -- Lycidas / John Milton -- Harmonics / William Vaughn Moody -- Poetry / Marianne Moore -- I May, I Might, I Must / Marianne Moore -- The Time I've Lost in Wooing / Thomas Moore -- Ode to My Socks / Pablo Neruda -- Quiet Until the Thaw / Jacob Nibenegenasabe -- A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island / Frank O'Hara -- The 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 -- The Night Dances / Sylvia Plath -- Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath -- Polly's Tree / Sylvia Plath -- Cancer and Nova / Hyam Plutzik -- from Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope -- The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter / Ezra Pound -- I loved you / Alexander Pushkin -- Love Constant Beyond Death / Francisco De Quevedo -- The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Naming of Parts / Henry Reed -- To the Days / Adrienne Rich -- Prospective Immigrants Please Note / Adrienne Rich -- Entrance / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Romance / Arthur Rimbaud -- Our Land / Yannis Ritsos -- Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Mr. Flood's Party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- My Papa's Waltz / Theodore Roethke -- Night Journey / Theodore Roethke -- The Waking / Theodore Roethke -- Who Says Words with My Mouth / Jalal Al-Din Rumi -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- Equal to the gods / Sappho -- An Old Man on the River Bank / George Seferis -- Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) / William Shakespeare -- Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) / William Shakespeare -- Sonnet 138 (When my love swears that she is made of truth) / William Shakespeare -- Not Waving But Drowning / Stevie Smith -- Scars / William Stafford -- The Idea of Order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- The Snow Man / Wallace Stevens -- Tea at the Palaz of Hoon / Wallace Stevens -- Girl in a Nightgown / Wallace Stevens -- Block City / Robert Louis Stevenson -- 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 / Dylan Thomas -- In My Craft or Sullen Art / Dylan Thomas -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- Tichborne's Elegy / Chidiock Tichborne -- A Far Cry from Africa / Derek Walcott -- Arizona Midnight / Robert Penn Warren -- An Old Man's Thought of School / Walt Whitman -- from Song of the Open Road (1, 4, & 8) / Walt Whitman -- To a Certain Cantatrice / Walt Whitman -- 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 / William Carlos Williams -- Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams -- from The Prelude (Book IV, lines 354-70) / William Wordsworth -- Lines (Tintern Abbey) / William Wordsworth -- On a Bank As I Sat Fishing / Sir Henry Wotton -- A Blessing / James Wright -- Forget Not Yet / Thomas Wyatt -- Politics / William Butler Yeats -- When You Are Old / William Butler Yeats -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- The lower leaves of the trees / Sone No Yoshitada -- To Go to Lvov / Adam Zagajewski -- The Way of the Water-Hyacinth / Zawgee.
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