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"Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology Of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. The Sixth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool" -- Cædmon's hymn / (translated by John Pope) -- from Beowulf / (translated by Seamus Heaney) -- Riddles / (translated by Richard Hamer) : 1 ("I am a lonely being, scarred by swords") 2 ("My dress is silent when I tread the ground") 3 ("A moth ate words a marvellous event") -- The wife's lament / (translated by Richard Hamer) -- The seafarer / (translated by Mary Jo Salter) -- Anonymous lyrics of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries : 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 (ca. 1343-1400) : 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 -- from The vision of Piers Plowman / William Langland (ca. 1330-ca. 1400) -- from Pearl -- Anonymous lyrics of the fifteenth century : 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 (ca. 1460-ca. 1525) : Lament for the makers Sweet rose of virtue -- John Skelton (1460-1529) : Mannerly Margery milk and ale To Mistress Margaret Hussey from Colin Clout from Philip Sparow -- Early modern ballads : 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 -- Anonymous Elizabethan and Jacobean poems : 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 (1503-1542) : [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 (ca. 1517-1547) : 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 (1521-1546) -- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) : [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 (ca. 1534-1577) : And if I did, what then? For that he looked not upon her Gascoigne's lullaby -- A sweet nosegay / Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567-1573) : A communication which the author had to London, before she made her will from 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 (1562?-1586) -- Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552-1618) : 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 (1552-1599) : Aprill -- The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser : Book 1, Canto 1 Book 1, Canto 2 -- Amoretti / Edmund Spenser : 1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands") 8 ("More then most faire, full of the living fire") 15 ("Ye tradefull merchants that with weary toyle") 23 ("Penelope for her Ulisses sake") 54 ("Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay") 67 ("Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace") 68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day") 70 ("Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king") 71 ("I joy to see how in your drawen work") 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand") 79 ("Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it") 81 ("Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares") 89 ("Lyke as the culver on the bared bough") -- Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser -- Caelica / Fulke Greville (1554-1628) : 4 ("You little stars that live in skies") 39 ("The nurse-life wheat within his green husk growing") -- Joh Lyly (1554-1606) : Cupid and my campaspe Oh, for a bowl of fat canary -- The old Arcadia / Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) : [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 : 1 ("The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth") 30 ("Ring out your bells, let mourning shows be spread") -- Astrophil and Stella / Sir Philip Sidney : 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show") 14 ("Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend") 21 ("Your words my friend [right healthful caustics] blame") 25 ("The wisest scholar of the wight most wise") 31 ("With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies") 39 ("Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace") 47 ("What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?") 48 ("Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me") 49 ("I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try") 52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love") 63 ("O Grammar rules, o now your virtues show") 71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know") 72 ("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") 90 ("Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame") 107 ("Stella, since thou so right a princess art") -- George Peele (1557-1596) : His golden locks time hath to silver turned Hot sun, cool fire -- Rosalind's madrigal / Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) -- Robert Southwell (ca. 1561-1595) : The burning babe The nativity of Christ -- Mary Sidney (1561-1621) : Psalm 58: Si vere utique Psalm 114: In exitu Israel To the thrice-sacred Queen Elizabeth -- Delia / Samuel Daniel (1563-1619) : 1 ("Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty") 2 ("Go wailing verse, the infants of my love") 6 ("Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair") 36 ("But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again") 37 ("When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass") 49 ("Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night") 53 ("Unhappy pen and ill accepted papers") -- Ulysses and the Siren / Samuel Daniel -- Are they shadows / Samuel Daniel -- A roundelay between two shepherds / Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- Idea / Michael Drayton : To the reader of these sonnets 6 ("How many paltry, foolish, painted things") 14 ("If he from heaven that filched that living fire") 61 ("Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part") -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) : Hero and Leander The passionate shepherd to his love -- Sonnets / William Shakespeare (1564-1616) : Dedication 1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase") 2 ("When forty winters shall besiege they brow") 3 ("Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest") 5 ("Those hours that with gentle work did frame") 12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time") 15 ("When I consider everyting that grows") 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") 20 ("A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted") 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought") 33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen") 35 ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done") 55 ("Not marble, nor the gilded monuments") 60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore") 65 ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea") 71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead") 73 "(That time of year thou mayst in me behold") 76 ("Why is my verse so barren of new pride") 87 ("Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing") 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none") 97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been") 106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time") 107 ("Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul") 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") 126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r") 129 ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame") 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") 135 ("Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will") 136 ("If thy soul check thee that I come so near") 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") 144 ("Two loves I have of comfort and despair") 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth") -- The Phoenix and the Turtle / William Shakespeare -- Songs from the plays / 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 (1567-1620) : 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 (1567-1601) : [Spring, the sweet spring] [Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss] -- Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) : from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum The description of Cooke-ham -- John Donne (1572-1631) : The good-morrow Song ("Go and catch a falling star") Woman's constancy The sun rising The canonization Song ("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 : 1 ("Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise") 2 Annunciation 3 Nativity 4 Temple 5 Crucifying 6 Resurrection 7 Ascension -- Holy sonnets / John Donne : 1 ("Thou has made me, and shall thy work decay?") 5 ("I am a little world made cunningly") 7 ("At the round earth's imagined corners") 9 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree") 10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee") 14 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God") 18 ("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 (1572-1637) : 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 (1579-1625) : Take, oh, take those lips away [Come, sleep] -- [Death be not proud, thy hand gave not this blow] / Lucy Russell (1580-1627) -- Edward Herbert (1582-1648) : Sonnet of Black Beauty Another sonnet to black itself -- Pamphilia to amphilanthus / Mary Wroth (1587-1651?) : 1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove") 3 ("Yet is there hope: then Love but play thy part") 11 ("You endless torment that my rest oppress") 22 ("Like to the Indians, scorchèd with the sun") 25 ("Poor eyes be blind, the light behold no more") 37 ("Night, welcome art thou to my mind distressed") 74 song ("Love a child is ever crying") A crown of sonnets dedicated to love : 77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn") 78 ("Is to leave all and take the thread of Love") 79 (His flames are joyes, his bands true lovers' might) 82 ("He may our prophet, and our tutor prove") 85 ("But where they may return with honor's grace") 89 ("Free from all fogs but shining fair, and clear") 90 ("Except my heart which you bestow'd before") -- Urania / Mary Wroth : Song ("Love what art thou? A vain thought") -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) : 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 (1592-1669) : 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 (1593-1633) : 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 (ca. 1595-1640) : A song ("Ask me no more where Jove bestows") The spring Mediocrity in love rejected Song To my inconstant mistress An elegy upon the death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne -- Ajax / James Shirley (1596-1666) : Dirge -- The Massachusetts Bay psalm book (1640) : Psalm 58 Psalm 114 -- Edmund Waller (1606-1687) : Song ("Go, lovely rose!") Of the last verses in the book -- John Milton (1608-1674) : On the morning of Christ's nativity On Shakespeare. 1630 L'allegro Il Penseroso How soon hath time Lycidas -- Comus / John Milton : Song ("Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen") Song ("Sabrina fair") Song ("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] from Book 4 from Book 7 Book 9 from Book 12 -- from Samson Agonistes / John Milton -- Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) : Song ("Why so pale and wan, fond lover?") Sonnet II ("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 (ca. 1612-1672) : 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 (1613-1649) : On the baptized Ethiopian To the infant martyrs Upon the infant martyrs The tear -- The wish / Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- Anacreontics / Abraham Cowley : II Drinking -- Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) : 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 (1620-1681) : from Canto I -- Elegy 3: Another on the sunshine / Lucy Hutchinson -- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) : 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 (1621-1695) : Regeneration The retreat The world They are all gone into the world of light! The waterfall The night -- Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) : 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 (1631-1700) : Song from The Indian emperor Song from Troilus and Cressida from Absalom and Achitophel: a poem Mac Flecknoe To the memory of Mr. Oldham A song for St. Cecilia's Day -- Katherine Philips (1632-1664) : Epitaph To Mr. Henry Lawes To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship To Mrs. M. A. upon absence -- Thomas Traherne (1637-1674) : The salutation Wonder To the same purpose Shadows in the water -- Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) : Song ("Love armed") The disappointment On a juniper tree, cut down to make busks Song ("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 (ca. 1642-1729) : 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 (1647-1680) : The disabled debauchee The imperfect enjoyment The mock song A song of a young lady to her ancient lover -- Alexandreis / Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) -- Anne Finch (1661-1720) : 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 (1664-1721) : A fable To a lady: she refusing to continue a dispute with me, and leaving me in the argument An ode -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) : 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 (1674-1748) : The day of judgment A prospect of heaven makes death easy Our God, our help Psalm 58 Psalm 114 -- Songs from The beggar's opera / John Gay (1685-1732) : Act I, Air X "Thomas, I cannot" Act I, Air XI "A soldier and a sailor" Act I, Air XVI "Over the hills, and far away" Act II, Air IV "Cotillion" Act II, Air XXII "The lass of Patie's Mill" Act III, Air XXVII Green sleeves" -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) : An essay on criticism, Part II The rape of the lock Epistle to Miss Blount An essay on man, in four epistles: from Epistle 1 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Impromptu The Dunciad: from Book 4 -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) : 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 (1700-1748) : from Winter -- Hymns / Charles Wesley (1707-1788) : [My God! I know, I feel thee mine] [Come on, my partners in distress] -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) : Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick The vanity of human wishes On the death of Dr. Robert Levet -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) : 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 (1721-1759) : Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 Ode on the poetical character Ode to evening -- The flowers of the forest / Jean Elliot (1727-1805) -- Christopher Smart (1722-1771) : from Jubilate Agno from A song to David Psalm 58 Psalm 114 -- Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730-1774) : When lovely woman stoops to folly The deserted village -- Olney hymns / William Cowper (1731-1800) : Light shining out of darkness -- Epitaph on a hare / William Cowper -- The task / William Cowper : from Book IV: The winter evening from Book VI: The winter walk at noon -- William Cowper : The castaway Lines written during a period of insanity -- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) : The rights of woman To the poor Life -- Hannah More (1745-1833) : Inscription in a beautiful retreat called Fairy Bower from Slavery: a poem -- Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) : 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 from Beachy Head -- Philip Freneau (1752-1832) : The Indian burying ground To Sir Toby -- Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784) : 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 -- from The Parish Register / George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- The borough / George Crabbe : from Letter XXII, The poor of the borough: Peter Grimes -- William Blake (1757-1827) : To the evening star Song ("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 (1759-1796) : 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 (1762-1851) : A mother to her waking infant Song: Woo'd and married and A' -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) : Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey The ruined cottage The prelude from Book I ("Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up") [There was a boy] [Strange fits of passion I have known] Song ("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 (1772-1834) : 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 (1775-1864) : Past ruined Ilion Helen lives To Robert Browning Dying speech of an old philosopher Memory -- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) : 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 from 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 (1792-1822) : 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 (1793-1864) : [I found a ball of grass among the hay] The skylark [The badger] The Gipsy camp Song ("Love lives beyond") First love I am -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) : England's dead The landing of the Pilgrim fathers in New England Casabianca Indian woman's death-song -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) : To a waterfowl Thanatopsis -- John Keats (1795-1821) : 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 (1801-1886) : The blackbird Lwonesomeness Sister gone -- L.E.L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802-1838) : Songs The marriage vow -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) : Concord hymn The rhodora The snow-storm Ode (inscribed to W. H. Channing) Intellect Brahma Days Fate -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) : A crocodile The phantom-wooer Ballad of human life -- Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) : 1 ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung") 33 ("Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear") 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") -- Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barrett Browning : from Book 5 [Poets and the present age] -- A musical instrument / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) : from Evangeline The Jewish cemetary at Newport -- The song of Hiawatha / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : from III Hiawatha's childhood -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Snow-flakes The cross of snow -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) : Telling the bees from Snowbound: a winter idyl -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) : Sonnet--to science To Helen The city in the sea The raven Eldorado Annabel Lee -- Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr / Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) : Mariana The kraken The lady of Shalott The lotos-eaters Ulysses Break, break, break -- songs from The princess / Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Tears, idle tears Now sleeps the crimson petal -- In memoriam A. H. H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 1 ("I held it truth, with him who sings") 2 ("Old yew, which graspest at the stones") 7 ("Dark house, by which once more I stand") 11 ("Calm is the morn without a sound") 19 ("The Danube to the Severn gave") 50 ("Be near me when my light is low") 54 ("Oh yet we trust that somehow good") 55 ("The wish, that of the living whole") 56 ("'So careful of the type?' but no") 67 ("When on my bed the moonlight falls") 88 ("Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet") 119 ("Doors, where my heart was used to beat") 121 ("Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun") 130 ("Thy voice is on the rolling air") -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson : The eagle The charge of the Light Brigade Tithonus Crossing the bar -- Robert Browning (1812-1889) : 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 (1812-1888) : 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 (1817-1862) : I am a parcel of vain strivings tied Smoke -- Emily Brontë (1818-1848) : [Long neglect has worn away] Hope Remembrance The prisoner The visionary [No coward soul is mine] Stanzas ("Often rebuked, yet always back returning") -- Amours de voyage / Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) : from 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 (1819-1910) -- Song of myself / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) : 1 ("I celebrate myself, and sing myself") 5 ("I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you") 6 ("A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands") 11 ("Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore") 13 ("The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses ...") 24 ("Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son") 52 ("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 (1819-1891) : The portent Shiloh The Maldive shark The berg Monody -- Sonnets, third series / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) : IV ("Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed") V ("How well do I recall that walk in state") VI ("I looked across the rollers of the deep") -- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) : Shakespeare To Marguerite The scholar-gypsy Philomela Dover Beach -- Modern love / George Meredith (1828-1909) : 1 ("By this he knew she wept with waking eyes") 6 ("It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool") 17 ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host") 30 ("What are we first? First, animals and next") 34 ("Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes") 48 ("Their sense is with their senses all mixed in") 49 ("He found her by the ocean's moaning verge") 50 ("Thus piteously love closed what he begat") -- George Meredith : When I would image Lucifer in starlight -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) : The blessed damozel Sudden light The woodspurge -- The house of life / Dante Gabriel Rossetti : A sonnet 19 Silent noon 70 The hill summit -- Nuptial sleep / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) : Song ("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 (1830-1886) : 39 ("I never lost as much but twice -") 68 ("Some things that fly there be -") 112 (Success is counted sweetest") 124 ("Safe in their alabaster chambers -") (1859) 124 ("Safe in their alabaster chambers -") (1862) 145 ("A little east of Jordan") 202 ("'Faith' is a fine invention") 259 ("A clock stopped -") 260 ("I'm Nobody! Who are you?") 269 ("Wild nights - wild nights!") 314 ("'Hope' is the thing with feathers -") 320 ("There's a certain slant of light") 339 ("I like a look of agony:) 340 ("I felt a funeral, in my brain") 348 ("I would not paint - a picture -") 359 ("A bird, came down the walk -") 372 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes -") 383 ("I like to see it lap the miles -") 409 ("The soul selects her own society -") 411 ("Mine - by the right of the white election!") 445 ("They shut me up in prose -") 479 ("Because I could not stop for Death -") 533 ("I reckon - When I count at all -") 588 ("The heart asks pleasure - first -") 591 ("I heard a fly buzz - when I died -") 620 ("Much madness is divinest sense -") 740 ("On a columnar self -") 764 ("My life had stood - a loaded gun -") 781 ("Remorse - is memory - awake -") 782 ("Renunciation - is a piercing virtue -") 788 ("Publication - is the auction") 895 ("Further in summer than the birds -") 905 ("Split the lark - and you'll find the music -") 935 ("As imperceptibly as grief") 1096 "A narrow fellow in the grass") 1108 ("The bustle in a house") 1263 ("Tell all the truth but tell it slant -") 1489 ("A route of evanescence") 1577 ("The Bible is an antique volume -") 1773 ("My life closed twice before it's close") 1788 ("Fame is a bee") -- Alice's adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898) : 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 (1834-1896) : An apology -- William Morris : A garden by the sea Pomona -- W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) : I am the very model of a modern Major-General Titwillow -- Atalanta in Calydon / Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) : [When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces] -- Algernon Charles Swinburne : The garden of Proserpine A forsaken garden -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : 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 (1844-1889) : 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 (1846-1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913)] : La gioconda [Sometimes I do despatch my heart] Cyclamens The mummy invokes his soul -- The new Colossus / Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) -- A Shropshire lad / A. E. Housman (1859-1936) : II ("Loveliest of trees, the cherry now") XII ("When I watch the living meet") XIX To an athlete dying young XXVII ("'Is my team ploughing'") XXXI ("On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble") XL ("Into my heart an air that kills") LXII ["Terence, this is stupid stuff"] -- Last poems / A. E. Housman : XII ("The laws of God, the laws of man") XVII Astronomy XXXVII 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 (1865-1945) : Prologue ("My life is like a music-hall") Stella Maris White heliotrope -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) : 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 (1865-1936) : Tommy Danny Deever Recessional Sestina of the Tramp-Royal If--- The way through the woods from Epitaphs of the war Gethsemane We and they -- Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) : Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae -- Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) : The farmer's bride Fame Madeleine in church The cenotaph -- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) : Richard Cory Reuben Bright Miniver Cheevy The mill Mr. Flood's party -- The black riders and other lines / Stephen Crane (1871-1900) : I ("BLACK RIDERS CAME FROM THE SEA") III ("IN THE DESERT") XXV ("BEHOLD, THE GRAVE OF A WICKED MAN") LVI ("A MAN FEARED THAT HE MIGHT FIND AN ASSASSIN") -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) : A summer's night We wear the mask Little brown baby Sympathy -- In Flanders Fields / John McCrae (1872-1918) -- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) : The listeners Fare well -- Susie Asado / Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- Stanzas in meditation / Gertrude Stein : Part I, stanza XIII ("She may count three little daisies very well") Part V, stanza XXXVIII ("Which I wish to say is this") Part V, stanza LXIII ("I wish that I had spoken only of it all.") -- Amy Lowell (1874-1925) : Patterns The weather-cock points south -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) : 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 (1878-1967) : Chicago Grass -- Edward Thomas (1878-1917) : Old man Adlestrop The owl In memoriam [Easter 1915] Rain [As the team's head-brass] -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) : 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 from An ordinary evening in New Haven: XXX Table talk A room on a garden Of mere being -- Mina Loy (1882-1966) : Human cylinders Moreover, the moon---- -- E. J. Pratt (1883-1964) : Come not the seasons here From stone to steel -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) : 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 (1885-1928) : Full moon Doomsday -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) : Love on the farm Piano Snake Bavarian gentians The ship of death -- Ezra Pound (1885-1972) : 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 : I ("And then went down to the ship") XLV ("With Usura") -- Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) : Christ and the soldier "They" Base details The general Glory of women Everyone sang : On passing the New Menin Gate -- H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961) : Sea rose Sea violet Helen Wine bowl -- The walls do not fall / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] : [1] ("An incident her and there") -- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) : Shine, perishing Republic Hurt hawks The purse-Seine Birds and fishes -- Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) : Sonnet from The old vicarage, Grantchester The soldier -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) : 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 (1888-1974) : Bells for John Whiteside's daughter Piazza piece Blue girls Parting, without a sequel Lady lost -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) : 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 (1890-1918) : Break of day in the trenches Dead man's dump [Through these pale cold days] -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) : 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 (1892-1982) : Ars poetica You, Andrew Marvell The snowflake which is now and hence forever -- Hugh MacDiarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve] (1892-1978) : The watergaw The innumerable Christ Another epitaph on an army of mercenaries from In memoriam James Joyce -- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) : Anthem for doomed youth Dulce et decorum est Insensibility Strange meeting Miners Futility -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) : Unfortunate coincidence Résumé One perfect rose -- E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) : [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 (1894-1981) : Interior General order Home mail New diggings in the orchard the road to Corbie -- Cane / Jean Toomer (1894-1967) : Reapers Face Georgia dusk Portrait in Georgia Harvest song -- Robert Graves (1895-1985) : Love without hope Welsh incident In broken images Recalling war To Juan at the winter solstice The white goddess -- Louise Bogan (1897-1970) : Medusa Juan's song Man alone Roman fountain Night -- Hart Crane (1899-1932) : 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 (1899-1979) : Ode to the Confederate dead The swimmers -- from Briggflatts / Basil Bunting (1900-1985) -- Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) : Slim in Atlanta Chillen get shoes Bitter fruit of the tree Conjured -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) : 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 -- American song : Go down, Moses Swing low, sweet chariot (what did I do to be so) Black and blue / Andy Razaf (1895-1973) Night and day / Cole Porter (1891-1964) Take my hand, precious Lord / Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993) It ain't necessarily so / Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) Strange fruit / Abel Meeropol (1903-1986) Fine and mellow / Billie Holiday (1915-1959) Boots of Spanish leather / Bob Dylan (b. 1941) The times they are a changin' / Bob Dylan Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall (1914-2000) from Alexander Hamilton / Lin-Manuel Miranda (b. 1980) -- Ogden Nash (1902-1971) : The cow Reflections on ice-breaking Requiem Columbus The turtle -- Stevie Smith (1902-1971) : 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 (1903-1946) Heritage Incident Yet do I marvel -- two songs / C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) : ("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 (1904-1967) : Sanctity from The great hunger Epic Canal Bank walk -- Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) : Bearded oaks Masts at dawn Evening hawk -- Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) : He Robin Redbreast Touch me -- John Betjeman (1906-1984) : Death in Leamington The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel In Westminster Abbey -- William Empson (1906-1984) : Legal fiction Missing dates Chinese ballad -- W. H. Auden (1907-1973) : 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 (1907-2000) : Australia Imperial Adam The return of Persephone Advice to young ladies Inscription for a war -- Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) : Snow The sunlight on the garden Bagpipe music Meeting point London rain Soap suds The taxis Star-gazer -- George Oppen (1908-1984) : From disaster Myself I sing O Western wind A theological definition -- Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) : 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 (1908-2003) : The primer Bush Hourglass -- Haiku: this other world / Richard Wright (1908-1960) : 21 ("On winter mornings") 31 ("In the falling snow") 120 ("Crying and crying") 490 ("Waking from a nap") 762 ("Droning autumn rain") 783 ("I cannot find it") -- Stephen Spender (1909-1995) : I think continually of those who were truly great Ultima ratio regum Seascape -- Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) : Summer farm The unlikely as usual Kingfisher -- Charles Olson (1910-1970) : Merce of Egypt Variations done for Gerald Van De Wiele -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) : Casabianca The fish Filling station Sandpiper The armadillo Questions of travel Sestina In the waiting room The moose One art -- Allen Curnow (1911-2001) : House and land Landfall in unknown seas Continuum -- Irving Layton (1912-2006) : The cold green element Berry picking -- R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) : Welsh landscape The view from the window On the farm Lore A marriage -- May Swenson (1913-1989) : Motherhood Cardinal ideograms Waterbird Goodbye, goldeneye -- Robert Hayden (1913-1980) : 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 (1913-1980) : Boy with his hair cut short Night feeding Rondel Ballad of orange and grape -- Lessons of the war / Henry Reed (1914-1986) : 1. Naming of parts 2. Judging distances -- Weldon Kees (1914-1955) : What the spider heard For H. V. (1901-1927) When the lease is up Robinson -- Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) : 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 (1914-1972) : Homage to Mistress Bradstreet 17-21 A sympathy, a welcome -- The dream songs / John Berryman : 1 ("Huffy Henry hid the day") 4 ("Filling her compact & delicious body") 14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") 29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart") 40 ("I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son") 145 ("Also I love him: me he's done no wrong") 324 An elegy for W.C.W., the lovely man 382 ("At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well") -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) : 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 (1915-2000) : Woman to man Eli, Eli Train journey Egrets Eve to her daughters Naked girl and mirror -- Alun Lewis (1915-1944) : Raiders' dawn All day it has rained Song (On seeing dead bodies floating off the Cape) Goodbye -- Margaret Walker (1915-1998) : Since 1619 Childhood -- Ern Malley [Harold Stewart (1916-1995) and James McAuley (1917-1976)] : Dürer, Innsbruck, 1495 Night piece Petit testament -- P. K. Page (1916-2010) : Stories of snow Deaf-mute in the pear tree -- Robert Lowell (1917-1977) : 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 (1917-2000) : 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 (1918-1986) : A note to the difficult one The stepping stones Dear Bryan Wynter -- William Meredith (1919-2007) : The illiterate Rhode Island -- Sometime during eternity . . . / Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) -- Keith Douglas (1920-1944) : Simplify me when I'm dead The sea bird Cairo jag Words Vergissmeinnicht -- Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) : 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 (1920-2010) : Strawberries Opening the cage The computer's first Christmas card -- From the video box / Edwin Morgan : 25 ("If you ask what my favourite programme is") -- Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) : Alter ego "Thought is surrounded by a halo" Mother who gave me life -- Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) : Beach glass Beethoven, opus 111 The sun underfoot among the sundews The cormorant in its element The horned rampion -- Barbara Guest (1920-2006) : Roses Twilight polka dots -- Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) : 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 (1921-2004) : Letters from a father Falling in love at sixty-five -- Donald Davie (1922-1995) : Remembering the Thirties The fountain Time passing, beloved -- Howard Moss (1922-1987) : The persistence of song Tourists -- Philip Larkin (1922-1985) : 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 (1923-2004) : A hill The Dover bitch The ghost in the martini Sill life The book of Yolek Death the painter -- James Dickey (1923-1997) : The lifeguard Buckdancer's choice Sled burial, dream ceremony -- Peter Kane Dufault (1923-2013) : A letter for all-hallows (1949) A first night Burden -- Denise Levertov (1923-1997) : Scenes from the life of the Peppertrees Tenebrae Caedmon -- James Schuyler (1923-1991) : Freely espousing Shimmer -- Richard Hugo (1923-1982) : The way a ghost dissolves The lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir -- Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) : Permanently You were wearing Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams Energy in Sweden To my twenties -- Donald Justice (1925-2004) : Counting the mad Men at forty Nostalgia of the lakefronts Pantoum of the Great Depression -- The erotic philosophers / Carolyn Kizer (1925-2014) : Part five of "Pro femina" -- Heart's needle / W. D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) : 2 ("Late April and you are three today") 3 ("The child between them on the street") 7 (Here in the scuffled dust") 10 ("The vicious winter finally yields") -- Mementos, 1 / W. D. Snodgrass -- A. R. Ammons (1926-2001) : Corsons Inlet The city limits The arc inside and out Pet panther -- Strip / A. R. Ammons : 43 ("sometimes I get the feeling I've never") -- James Merrill (1926-1995) : The broken home The mad scene The victor dog Lost in translation -- The book of Ephraim / James Merrill : C. ("Correct but cautious, that first night, we asked") -- James Merrill : Arabian night b o d y -- Robert Creeley (1926-2005) : Heroes I know a man The world Bresson's movies -- Howl / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) : I ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness") -- Allen Ginsberg : A supermarket in California To Aunt Rose -- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) : The day Lady died How to get there Ave Maria Why I am not a painter -- James K. Baxter (1926-1972) : Wild bees Rocket show East coast journey New Zealand The fear of change The ikons -- Robert Bly (b. 1926) : Waking from sleep Johnson's cabinet watched by ants -- Charles Tomlinson (1927-2015) : Farewell to Van Gogh The door Ararat -- Galway Kinnell (1927-2014) : First song The correspondence school instructor says goodbye to his poetry students After making love we hear footsteps -- John Ashbery (1927-2017) : The painter Soonest mended Ode to Bill Paradoxes and oxymorons Brute image The dong with the luminous nose -- W. S. Merwin (b.1927) : The drunk in the furnace Odysseus Separation Whoever you are -- James Wright (1927-1980) : 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 (1928-1976) : IV. Path. Report V. Outbound -- A deathplace / L. E. Sissman -- Philip Levine (1928-2015) : They feed they lion You can have it -- Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928) : Another September Ancestor Tear -- Exile / Donald Hall (b. 1928) -- The one day / Donald Hall : Prophecy -- Independence Day letter / Donald Hall -- Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) : The sofas, fogs, and cinemas The sash window Farewell to Kurdistan -- Anne Sexton (1928-1974) : The truth the dead know And one for my dame -- An exequy / Peter Porter (1929-2010) -- John Montague (1929-2016) : Like Dolmens round my childhood, the old people The trout All legendary obstacles -- A. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) : Breaded fish Self-portrait Snakes and ladders Foundlings in the Yukon -- Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) : Aunt Jennifer's tigers Snapshots of a daughter-in-law Orion A valediction forbidding mourning Diving into the wreck -- Eastern war time / Adrienne Rich : 1 ("Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943") 8 ("A woman wired in memories") -- Modotti / Adrienne Rich -- Thom Gunn (1929-2004) : 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 (b. 1929) -- John Hollander (1929-2013) : Swan and shadow Adam's task An old-fashioned song -- Derek Walcott (1930-2017) : A far cry from Africa Nights in the gardens of Port of Spain The gulf from The schooner flight Midsummer -- Omeros / Derek Walcott : Chapter XXXVIII, III ("Who decrees a great epoch?") -- The bounty / Derek Walcott : 22 ("I am considering a syntax the color of slate") -- The prodigal / Derek Walcott : from 9 ("I lay on the bed near the balcony in Guadalajara") -- White egrets / Derek Walcott : 54 ("This page is a cloud between whose fraying edges") -- Gary Snyder (b. 1930) : Above Pate Valley Four poems for Robin Gnarly -- The arrivants: a new world trilogy / Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) : New world a-comin': 1 ("Helpless like this") 2 ("It will be a long long time before we see") -- Ancestors / Kamau Brathwaite : 1 ("Every Friday morning my grandfather") 2 ("All that I can remember of his wife") 3 ("Come-a look") -- Naima / Kamau Brathwaite -- Roy Fisher (1930-2017) : The entertainment of war Of the empirical self and for me Hypnopaedia -- Ted Hughes (1930-1998) : The thought-fox Wind Hawk roosting Pike Theology The black beast Birth of rainbow Daffodils Platform one -- Jay MacPherson (1931-2012) : The swan A lost soul The well -- Irani restaurant Bombay / Arun Kolatkar (1931-2004) -- Jejuri / Arun Kolatkar : The bus -- Biograph / Arun Kolatkar -- John Updike (1932-2009) : V. B. Nimble, V. B. Quick I missed his book, but I read his name -- Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) : Genesis September song -- Mercian hymns / Geoffrey Hill : VI ("The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall") VII ("Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools") VIII ("The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour") -- Lachrimae / Geoffrey Hill : 1. Lachrimae verae -- An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England / Geoffrey Hill : 9. The laurel axe -- Geoffrey Hill : from The mystery of the charity of Charles Péguy Pisgah from The triumph of love The jumping boy Nachwort -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) : The Colossus Morning song Lady Lazarus Tulips Elm Ariel Daddy The Munich mannequins -- Anne Stevenson (b. 1933) : Temporarily in Oxford Willow song Arioso Dolente -- Fleur Adcock (b. 1934) : The ex-queen among the astronomers Poem ended by a death The Soho Hospital for Women -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) : Coal From the house of Yemanjá Echoes -- N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) : Headwaters The eagle-feather fan -- The gift Two figures -- Mark Strand (1934-2014) : Keeping things whole The prediction Always -- Dark Harbor / Mark Strand : XVI ("It is true, as someone has said, that in") XX ("Is it you standing among the olive trees") -- Two de chiricos / Mark Strand : 2. The disquieting muses -- Mark Strand : The mysterious arrival of an unusual letter Nocturne of the poet who loved the moon -- Amiri Baraka [Leroi Jones] (1934-2014) : In memory of radio An agony. As now. -- Charles Wright (b. 1935) : Homage to Claude Lorraine Chinese journal As our bodies rise, our names turn into light Quotations Lullaby -- Edward Baugh (b.1936) : Sometimes in the middle of the story You ever notice how -- Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) : jasper texas 1998 mulberry fields -- C. K. Williams (1936-2015) : Repression Snow: II The coffin store -- Tony Harrison (b. 1937) : On not being Milton Classics Society A kumquat for John Keats -- Eleanor Wilner (b. 1937) : Reading the Bible backwards High noon at Lost Alamos -- Charles Simic (b. 1938) : Watch repair Prodigy A book full of pictures Cameo appearance Preachers warn -- Dom Moraes (1938-2004) : Kanheri Caves Snow on a mountain -- Two from Israel / Dom Moraes : Rendezvous -- Les Murray (b. 1938) : Noonday axeman Once in a lifetime, snow The quality of sprawl Morse The conversations -- R. F. Langley (1938-2011) : Cakes and ale Skrymir's glove -- Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) : Digging Bogland Toome Punishment -- Singing school / Seamus Heaney : 6 Exposure -- The skunk / Seamus Heaney -- Glanmore sonnets / Seamus Heaney : VII ("Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea") X ("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") III ("When all the others were away at Mass") VIII ("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 (b. 1939) : Swans mating Wreaths The linen industry Gorse fires Ghetto The stairwell -- Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) : This is a photograph of me At the tourist center in Boston You begin Up My mother dwindles ... Questioning the dead -- Robert Pinsky (b. 1940) : A long branch song The street Instrument -- Robert Hass (b. 1941) : Meditation at Lagunitas Tahoe in August Winged and acid dark -- Billy Collins (b. 1941) : Japan Litany -- Eric Ormsby (b. 1941) : Starfish Skunk cabbage Origins -- Derek Mahon (b. 1941) : Leaves The snow party A disused shed in Co. Wexford Courtyards in Delft -- Douglas Dunn (b. 1942) : A removal from Terry Street Thirteen steps and the thirteenth of March -- Arthur Nortje (1942-1970) : Soliloquy: South Africa Reflections in a passing mirror Sonnet two -- From certain footprints found at Laetoli / Charles Martin (b. 1942) -- Louise Glück (b. 1943) : Gretel in darkness The garden Vita Nova The past -- John Tranter (b. 1943) : The revolutionaries The germ Notes from the late Tang -- Sonnets to be written from prison / Robert Adamson (b. 1943) : 6 ("We will take it seriously as we open our morning paper") -- Addiction / Robert Adamson -- Alfred Corn (b. 1943) : Navidad, St. Nicholas Ave. A conch from Sicily -- Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) : Letters & other worlds Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province we see hints of the circus House on a red cliff -- Eavan Boland (b. 1944) : That the science of cartography is limited The Dolls Museum in Dublin The pomegranate -- Craig Raine (b. 1944) : The onion, memory A Martian sends a postcard home -- Wendy Cope (b. 1945) : Bloody men Flowers Valentine -- Kay Ryan (b. 1945) : Half a loaf Intention Cloud Spiderweb -- Bill Manhire (b. 1946) : My sunshine An inspector calls Kevin -- High holy days / Jane Shore (b. 1947) -- Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) : Facing it Banking potatoes The smokehouse Sunday afternoons -- Lorna Goodison (b. 1947) : Where the flora of our village came from Change if you must just change slow The cruel room -- Richard Kenney (b. 1948) : Air sublime Final exam Honor guard -- Heather McHugh (b. 1948) : Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Sun grounded in sky pool Webcam the world -- Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) : The Dacca gauzes Lenox Hill -- James Fenton (b. 1949) : Dead soldiers A German requiem God, a poem -- Julia Alvarez (b. 1950) : New clothes Weeping willow Jorie Graham (b. 1950) : The geese At Luca Signorelli's resurrection of the body Cagnes sur mer -- Anne Carson (b. 1950) : New rule Sumptuous destitution Lines Some afternoons she does not pick up the phone -- Linda Gregerson (b. 1950) : "Halfe a yard of rede sea" Prodigal -- Dana Gioia (b. 1950) : Prayer The next poem -- Nicholas Christopher (b. 1951) : The palm reader Far from home -- Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) : Lunch with Pancho Villa Cuba Why Brownlee left from Immram Trance A trifle The fox Milkweed and Monarch -- Gary Soto (b. 1952) : The soup Not knowing -- Rita Dove (b. 1952) : Parsley Dusting The bistro Styx -- Alberto Ríos (b. 1952) : 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 (b. 1952) : Great expectations Are you there? -- Daniel Hall (b. 1952) : Mangosteens Memento Neoclassical -- Rosanna Warren (b. 1953) : Moment Forgiveness Hydrangea -- Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. 1953) : Darwin in 1881 Supernatural love -- The throne of Labdacus / Gjertrud Schnackenberg : 4. The shepherd speaks -- Vijay Seshadri (b. 1954) : Imaginary number This morning Script meeting -- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) : The butcher's wife I was sleeping where the black oaks move Birth -- Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) : Warming her pearls Prayer Richard -- Claudia Emerson (1957-2014) : Metatastasis: worry-moth Chain chain chain MRI -- Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) : Persimmons Station -- Cynthia Zarin (b. 1959) : The ant hill Song -- Kathleen Jamie (b. 1962) : Lepidoptery The wishing tree -- Lavinia Greenlaw (b. 1962) : Skin full A world where news travelled slowly -- Peter McDonald (b. 1962) : Travellers Standstill Fifties Glyn Maxwell (b. 1962) : Stargazing The snow village -- Simon Armitage (b. 1963) : A glory The shout -- John Kinsella (b. 1963) : Drowning in wheat The fable of the great sow -- Don Paterson (b. 1963) : The ferryman's arms Rain -- Double Exposures / Greg Williamson (b. 1964) : III. Visiting couple kissing and halved onion XXV. Group photo with winter trees -- Greg Williamson : New Year's: a short pantoum Line Internet -- Alice Oswald (b. 1966) : Pruning in frost Moon hymn A short story of falling -- Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) : Flounder Graveyard blues Elegy -- Karen Solie (b. 1966) : Mole The road in is not the same road out Life is a carnival -- Eunoia / Christian Bök (b. 1966) : Chapter A ("Awkward grammar appals a craftsman.") Chapter E ("Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech.") Chapter I ("Writing is inhibiting.") Chapter O ("Monks who vow to do God's work ...") Chapter U ("Kultur spurns Ubu ...") -- A. E. Stallings (b. 1968) : The dollhouse Clean break Persephone to Psyche -- The golden shovel / Terrance Hayes (b. 1971) -- Tracy K. Smith (b. 1972) : The museum of obsolescence The Universe: original motion picture soundtrack.