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The Norton anthology of modern poetry
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From the Book - 1st ed.
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
To a stranger
Cavalry crossing a Ford
By the Bivouac's fitful flame
A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim
Long, too long America
Respondez!
Whispers of heavenly death
To a locomotive in Winter
The dismantled ship/ Walt Whitman
I shall know why-when time is over
There's a certain slant of light
I breathed enough to take the trick
The soul selects her own society
The difference between despair
There came a day at Summer's full
I read my sentence-steadily
Much madness is divinest sense
This is my letter to the world
I heard a fly buzz- when I died
The brain, within it's groove
The brain-is wider than the sky
Me from myself-to banish
I dwell in possibility
Because I could not stop for death
Tell all the truth but tell it slant
There came a wind like a bugle
The pedigree of honey
In Winter in my room
My life closed twice before its close / Emily Dickinson
Hap
Neutral tones
Drummer hodge
"I said to love"
The subalterns
A broken appointment
The darkling thrush
The respectable burgher
In tenebris: II
The house of hospitalities
Bereft
Shut out that moon
1967
Let me enjoy
At Casterbridge fair II. former beauties
New Year's Eve
A young man's epigram on existence
Channel firing
The convergence of the Twain
"I found her out there"
The voice
A poet
In the moonlight
Near Lanivet, 1872
The oxen
In time of "the breaking of nations"
The blinded bird
Transformations
"For life I had never cared greatly"
Going and staying
Proud songsters
He never expected much/ Thomas Hard
The Summer malison
Winter and the gulf stream
Heaven-haven
The habit of perfection
The wreck of the Deutschland
God's grandeur
Spring
The windhover
Pied beauty
Binsey Poplars
Duns Scotus's oxford
The bugler's First Communion
Felix Randal
Inversnaid
[Carrion comfort]
[No worst, there is none, pitched past pitch of grief]
[I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day]
[Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend]/ Gerard Manley Hopkins
London snow
On a dead child
The growth of love, I ("they that in play can do the thing they would")
XXXIX ("a man that sees by chance his picture, made")
[The snow lies sprinkled on the beach]
Low barometer/ Robert Bridges
Thirty Bob a week/ John Davidson
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
When I was one-and-twenty
To an athlete dying young
Is my team ploughing
Into my heart and air that kills
With rue my heart is laden
Terence, this is stupid stuff
The chesnut casts his flambeaux
Eight O'Clock
The fairies break their dances
Wake not for the world-heard thunder
Hell gate
Epitaph on an army of mercenaries
They say my verse is sad: no wonder
The rainy pleiads wester
From the wash the laundress sends
The olive / A.E. Housman.
The song of the happy shepherd
Down by the Salley Gardens
To the rose upon the rood of time
The lake isle of innisfree
The sorrow of love
When you are old
Who goes with Fergus?
The man who dreamed of Faeryland
The lamentation of the old pensioner
To Ireland in the coming times
The hosting of the Sidhe
Michael Robartes bids his beloved be at peace
The cap and bells
Aedh thinks of those who have spoken evil of his beloved
Aedh wishes for the cloths of Heaven
In the seven woods
Adam's curse
No second Troy
On hearing that the students of our New University have joined the agitiation against immoral literature
Friends
The cold heaven
September 1913
Beggar to beggar cried
The Magi
The dolls
A coat
The wild swans at Coole
The fisherman
An Irish airman forsees his death
Solomon and the witch
Easter
The second coming
A prayer for my daughter
To be carved on stone at Thoor Ballylee
Leda and the swan
Sailing to Byzantium
The tower
Among school children
Mohini chatterjee
In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
A dialogue of self and soul
Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
The choice
Byzantium
Vacillation
Fragments
Crazy Jane talks with the bishop
Meru
The gyres
Lapis lazuli
Anacre of grass
The statues
News for the delphic oracle
Long-legged fly
The circus animals' desertion
Under Ben Bulben/ William Butler Yeats.
The hill
Cassius Hueffer
Amanda Barker
Frank Drummer
Fiddler Jones
Petit, the poet
Elsa Wertman
Hamilton Greene
Editor Whedon
Anne Rutlege
Lucinda Matlock
Marx the sign painter
Rhoda Pitkin
Unknown soldiers/ Edgar Lee Masters
Luke Havergal
Supremecy
Calverly's
How Annandale went out
Miniver Cheevy
The companion
For a dead lady
Flammonde
Cassandra
John Gorham
Eros Turannos
Veteran Sirens
The mill
The dark hills
Tact
Souvenir
Firelight
The new tenants
Mr. Flood's party
The sheaves
Karma
As it looked then
Reunion/ Edwin Arlington Robinson
The listeners
The song of the mad prince
A portrait
Thomas Hardy
Scholars/ Walter De La Mare
Mending wall
After apple-picking
The wood-pile
The road not taken
An old man's winter night
The oven bird
Birches
Putting in the seed
Range-finding
The hill wife V. the impulse
The sound of trees
The witch of Coos
Fire and ice
Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening
For once, then, something
To earthward
The need of being versed in country things
Spring pools
Tree at my window
Acquainted with the night
The bear
Two tramps in mud time
A drumlin woodchuck
Desert places
Neither out far nor in deep
Design
Provide, provide
The bearer of evil tidings
Never again would bird's song be the same
The subverted flower
The gift outright
Directive/ Robert Frost
Chicago
Grass
Cool Tombs
Gargoyle
Old timers
Losers
Aprons of silence
The people, yes
("The people will live on")/ Carl Sandburg
The owl
The path
When first
October
Some eyes condemn
The green roads
The gallows
February afternoon
The gypsy/ Edward Thomas.
A consecration
The everlasting mercy
The lemmings
The wild geese/ John Masefiled
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
A high-toned old Christian woman
The emperor of ice cream
Anecdote of the jar
Thriteen ways of looking at a blackbird
The idea of order at Key West
The man with the blue guitar, I ("the man bent over his guitar")
Of modern poetry
To an old philosopher in Rome/ Wallace Stevens
General William Booth enters into heaven
Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight
The congo/ Vachel Lindsay
What Tomas said in a pub
Psychometrist
The rivals
Deirdre
The paps of Dana
A glass of beer Egan o Rahilly
Sarasvati/ James Stephens
The holy office
[Through I thy mithridates were]
[All day I hear the noise of waters]
[I hear an army charging upon the land]
Nightpiece
A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight
Bahnhofstrasse
Ecce Puer/ James Joyce
At the carnival
The wife-woman/ Ann Spencer
The ritual
The prize cat
The truant/ E.J. Pratt
Tract
Queen-Anne's-lace
The widow's lament in springtime
The great figure
Spring and all
The eyeglasses
The red whellbarrow
At the ball game
Portrait of a lady
Flowers by the sea
The yachts
An elegy for D.H. Lawrence
The young housewife
These
Raleigh was right
The dance
Burning the Christmas greens
To Ford Madox in heaven
Paterson, Preface
Book I, the delineaments of the giants, I. ("Paterson lies in the valley ...")
II. ("They begin!")
III. ("Thought clambers up")
Fish/ William Carlos Williams.
The bride
The enkindled Spring
Gloire de Dijon
A youth mowing
The song of a man who has come through
Piano
Tortoise gallantry
Tortoise shout
Snake
How beastly the bourgeois is
When I went to the circus
Things men have made
Don'ts
The elephant is slow to mate
Red-herring
When I read Shakespeare
Salt of the Earth
Andraitx-pomegranate flowers
The deepest sensuality
Bavarian Gentians
The ship of death/ D.H. Lawrence
Ballad of the goodly fere
Portrait d'une femme
A virginal
The return
The river-merchant's wife: a letter
A pact
The rest
In a station of the metro
The temperaments
Homage to sextus propertius, I. ("shades of callimachus, Coan ghosts of Philetas")
VI. ("When, when, and whenever death closes our eyelids")
XII. ("Who, who will be the next man to trust his girl to a friend?")
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: life and contacts
Mauberley
The cantos, I. ("and then went down to the ship")
II. ("Hang it all, Robert Browning")
VII. ("Eleanor (she spoiled in a Bristish climate)")
LXXXI. ("Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom")/ Ezra Pound
Sea rose
Heat
Oread
Stars wheel in purple
The walls do not fall, 1. ("An incident here and there")
4. ("There is a spell, for instance")
5. ("When in the company of the gods")
6. ("In me (the worm) clearly")
8. ("So we reveal our status")/ H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
To his dead body
"Blighters"
The rear-guard
Dreamers
The fathers
The investiture
Repression of war experience
In the national gallery
At max gate/ Siegfried Sassoon.
Phenomena
Shine, persishing republic
Fawn's foster-mother
Hurt hawks
Evening ebb
Shane O'Neill's cairn
New Mexican mountain
A little scraping
Rock and hawk
Ave Caesar
Gray Weather
The purse-seine
O lovely rock
Shiva
Watch the lights fade
But I am growing old and indolent/ Robinson Jeffers
Ballad of Hector in Hades
Variations on a time theme, III. ("a child in Adam's field I dreamed away")
IV. ("Now at the road's quick turn")
VII ("Ransomed from darkness and released in time")
The mythical journey
The refugees
The wheel
The three mirrors
The labyrinth
The absent
One foot in Eden
The horses/ Edwin Muir
Aubade
Country dance
Four in the morning
Still falls in the rain
The poet laments the coming of old age
The canticle of the rose/
Edith Sitwell
The fish
Poetry
The monkeys
Critics and connoisseurs
A grave
The steeple-Jack
The pangolin
What are years?
He 'digesteth harde yron'
Spenser's Ireland/ Marianne Moore
Bells for John Whiteside's daughter
Here lies a lady
Judith of Bethulia
Philomela
Captain Carpenter
Piazza piece
Blue girls
Janet waking
Dead boy
The equilibrists
Painted head
Master's in the garden again/ John Crowe Ransom
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Whispers of immortality
Sweeney among the nightingales
Gerontion
The waste land
Ash Wednesday, III ("at the first turning of the second stair")
Little gidding/ T.S. Elliot
Senlin: a biography, part II: 2. ("it is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning")
Priapus and the pool, III. ("When trout swim down great Ormond Street")
Preludes for memnon, II. ("two coffees in the Espanol, the last")
LVI ("Rimbaud and Verlaine, precious pair of poets")
Hatteras calling
Dear uncle stranger
Summer
Herman Melville
Morning dialogue/ Conrad Aiken.
The tropics in New York
If we must die
America
The harlem dancer
The white city/ Claude McKay
First fig
Recuerdo
Grown-up
Dirge without music
The plum gatherer
[Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink]
[Hearing your words, and not a word among them]
[Oh, sleep forever in the Latmian cave]
The return
To a Calvinist in Bali/ Edna St. Vincent Millay
L'An Trentiesme de Mon Eage
The end of the world
Memorial Rain
You, Andrew Marvell
Seafarer
Conquistador
Prologue
You also, Gaius Valerius Catullus/ Archibald MacLeish
The sauchs in the reuch heuch hauch
I heard Christ sing Crowdieknowe
In the pantry
Cloudburst and soaring moon
Parley of beasts
O wha's the bride?
Harry Semen
Another epitaph on an army of mercenaries
British leftish poetry, 1930-40/ Hugh MacDiarmid
Strange meeting
Greater love
Anthem for doomed youth
Exposure
The show
Dulce et decorum est
Futility
Disabled
Mental cases/ Wilfred Owen
The execution of Cornelius Vane
The well of life/ Herbert Read
[All in green went my love riding]
[O sweet spontaneous]
[The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls]
[I was sitting in mcsorley's]
[A man who had fallen among thieves]
[(Ponder, darling, these busted statues]
[Come, gaze with me upon this dome]
[It is so long since my heart has been with yours]
[I sing of olaf glad and big]
[Space being (don't forget to remember) curved]
[Little Joe Gould has lost his teeth and doesn't know where]
[You shall above all things be glad and young]
[The way to hump a cow is not]
[My father moved through dooms of love]
[A salesman is an it that stinks excuse]
[Plato told]
[For prodigal read generous]
[Why from this her and him]
[But]/ E.E. Cummings.
Reapers
November cotton flower
Georgia dusk
Her lips are copper wire/ Jean Toomer
Rocky acres
The pier-glass
Children of darkness
The cool web
Lost acres
The legs
Ogres and Pygmies
Ulysses
Down, Wanton, down!
Sick love
The devil's advice to story-tellers
Recalling war
To Juan at the Winter solstice
The Persian version
The blue-fly
My name and I
The second-fated/ Robert Graves
Part 4. King Pellam's launde (lines 1-33)
Part 7. the five unmistakeable marks (lines 283-413)
The anathemata, part III. angle-land/ David Jones
The young woman of Beare
Night and morning
Penal law/ Austin Clarke
Legend
Black tambourine
My grandmother's love letters
Praise for an urn
Chaplinesque
Repose of rivers
Passage
The wine menagerie
For the marriage of Faustus and Helen
At Melville's tomb
Voyages
The bridge
Proem: to Brookyle bridge
Ave Maria
The river
O Carib Isle!
Royal palm
To Emily Dickinson
The broken tower/ Hart Crane
Mr. Pope
Ode to the confederate dead
The subway
The oath
The wolves
Last days of Alice
Aeneas at Washington
Sonnets at Christmas/ Allen Tate
[Darling of Gods and men, beneath the gliding stars]
The oratava road
On the fly-leaf of Pound's cantos
Briggflatts, IV ("grass caught in willow ...")/ Basil Bunting
The rows of cold trees
The castel of thorns
The slow pacific swell
The grave
On teaching the young
John Sutter
Sir Gawain and the green night
Time and the garden/ Yvor Winters
The map of places
Opening of eyes
With the face
Auspice of jewels
Because of clothes
The foregiven past/ Laura Riding
The negro speaks of rivers
The weary blues
Brass spittoons
Fire
Sylvester's dying bed
Morning after
50-50
Madam's past history
Late last night
Catch
Theme for English B/ Langston Hughes.
Not waving but drowning
Was he married?
Was it not curious?
Admire cranmer!
Exeat
To carry the child/ Stevie Smith
Yet so I marvel
Incident
Heritage/ Countee Cullen
The scorpian
The widow's plot: or, she got what was coming to her
Father and son: 1939
In the snake park/ William Plomer
[Tall and singularly dark you pass among the breakers]
[Ask of the sun]
[In Arizona]
[For you I have emptied the meaning]
Catullus viii
Light, 2 ("a house where every")
4 ("These are not my sentiments")/ Louis Zukofsky
The groundhog
"Mysticism has not the patience to wait for God's revelation"
The fury of aerial bombardment
Analogue of untiy in multeity
Kaire
A New England bachelor/ Richard Eberhart
Do not expect again
Two songs
Reconciliation
The double vision
Almost human
Sheepdog trials in Hyde Park/ Cecil Day Lewis
Tinker's wife
Inniskeen Road: July evening
The great hunger, I ("clay is the word and clay is the flesh")
Canal bank walk
Come dance with Kitty Stobling
In memory of my mother
Prelude
I had a future
Lecture hall/ Patrick Kavanagh
History
revelation
Bearded oaks
Mexico is a foreign country: four studies in naturalism, IV. the mango on the mango tree
Promises, VIII. founding fathers, nineteenth-century style, southeast U.S.A
Notes on a life to be lived, II. small white house
III. Blow, west wind
X. Ways of day, penological study: southern exposure, 3. wet hair: if now his mother should come/ Robert Penn Warren
Father and son
The last picnic
The war against the trees
A spark of Laurel
River road/ Stanley Kunitz.
Vitamins and roughage
Lyell's hypothesis again
The great canzon
The bad old days
Proust's Madeleine
The wheel revolves/ Kenneth Rexroth
The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
An incident in the early life of Ebenezer Jones, poet 1828
On a portrait of a deaf man/ John Betjeman
Whoroscope
Enueg II
What would I do without this world faceless incurious/ Samuel Beckett
Ballad of the three coins
Waterfalls
A true picture restored/ Vernon Watkins
To an old lady
Villanelle
Legal fiction
This last pain
Bacchus
Ignorance of death
Missing dates/ William Empson
The letter
Prologue
The wanderer
Our hunting fathers
Who's who
[Fish in the unruffled lakes]
Lullaby
Mus'ee des beaux arts]
Our bias
In memory of W.B. Yeats
New Year letter (lines 1651-84)
In praise of limestone/ W.H. Auden
Fall in
Foresight
Vaudeville
Das Schloss
Bath/ Lincoln Kirstein
Open house
"Long live the weeds"
Epidermal macabre
Cuttings
Cuttings (later)
My papa's waltz
Dolor
The minimal
Four for Sir John Davies
The waking
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
Words for the wind
I knew a woman
The exorcism
The young girl
Wish for a young wife
The chums
Heard in a violent ward
In a dark time/ Theodore Roethke
The bed
Observation car
The lingam and the yoni
Imperial Adam/ A.D. Hope
Wolves
Snow
Nature morte
An eclogue for Christmas
Bagpipe music
Carrickfergus
The sunlight on the garden
Brother fire
The libertine
Mahabalipuram
Variation on Heraclitus
Bad dream
This is the life/ Louis MacNeice
I have seen the black hands
Between the world and me
Four haiku/ Richard Wright
The funeral
Icarus
Rough
What I expected
The express
The landscape near an aerodrome
The pylons
Not palaces
Perhaps
Hoelderlin's old age
The coward
Polar exploration
One more new botched beginning/ Stephen Spender.
The swan
Christ walking on the water
Armagh/ W.R. Rodgers
The maximus poems, I. Maximus of Gloucester, to you
Maximus, to Gloucester (letter 2)
The songs of Maximus, 1. ("colored pictures")
2. ("all")
A newly discovered 'homeric' hymn
Variations done for Gerald Van De Wiele/ Charles Olson
The man-moth
The unbeliever
The monument
The fish
Over 2000 illustrations and a complete cononcordance
Brazil, January 1, 1502
The armadillo
Some dreams they forgot/ Elizabeth Bishop
On inhabiting an orange
Made shine
Preliminary to classroom lecture
So graven
Gypsy
Forecast
Bounty
Belief
Reason
Tally
[The entrepreneur chicken shed his tail feathers, surplus]
[As difference blends into identity]/ Josephine Miles
The phoenix
The chase
To the reader
Elegy for a cricket
For a college yearbook
The aged lover discourses in the flat style
To what strangers, what welcome , I ("I drive westward. tumble and loco weed")/ J.V. Cunningham
Death
The barber
The giraffes
Shore leave lorry
Crustaceans
Autobiography of a lungworm/ Roy Fuller
Year's end
The raid
What birds were there/ Brother Antoninus
The dome of Sunday
The fly
Poet
V-letter
The alphabet
Lower the standard: that's my motto/ Karl Shapiro
The ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield
Witch doctor
Those winter Sundays
Middle passage
"Mystery boy' looks for kin in nashville"/ Robert Hayden
In the naked bed, in Plato's cave
Far rockaway
For the one who would take man's life in his hands
Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers
The heavy bear who goes with me
The winter twilight, glowing black and gold
The mind is an ancient and famous capital/ Delmore Schwartz.
Roses and revolutions
A different image
Ballad of Birmingham
Booker T. and W.E.B.
Old Witherington
George
Pacific epitaphs, New Georgia
Palawan
Espiritu Santu
Bougainville
Vella vella
Borneo/ Dudley Randall
Midnight
Robinson
River song
Round
A distance from the sea/ Weldon Kees
90 north
The death of the ball turret gunner
Eighth air force
A girl in a library
A game at Salzburg
Next day
Woman
Thinking of the lost world/ Randall Jarrell
The ball poem
Homage to mistress Bradstreet (lines 1-32, 137-176)
A professor's song
The dream songs, 14 ("Life, friends is boring. we must not say so")
16 ("Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls")
75 ("Turning it over, considering, like a madman")
76 Henry's confession
149 ("The world is gradually becoming a place")
312 ("I have moved to Dublin to have it out with you")
Sonnet 25
Of suicide
Henry's understanding/ John Berryman
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
The hand that signed the paper
And death shall have no dominion
Altarwise by owl-light, I. ("altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house")
II. ("Death is all metaphors, shape in one history")
V. ("And from the windy west came two- gunned Gabriel")
VIII. ("This was the crucifixion on the mountain")
IX. ("From the oracular archives and the parchment")
X. ("Let the tale's sailor from a Christian voyage")
When all my five and country senses see
'If my head hurt a hair's foot'
Twenty-four years
A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London
In my craft or sullen art
Fern hill
Do not go gentle into that good night/ Dylan Thomas.
Hotel Paradiso e commerciale
Roethke plain
John without heaven/ John Malcolm Brinnin
This narrow stage
The fire at Alexandria
The web
Clothes maketh the man
The ultimate antientropy
A sow's ear/ Theodore Weiss
Colloquy in black rock
The quaker graveyard in Nantucket
As a plane tree by the water
After the suprising conversions
Falling asleep over the aeneid
To Delmore Schwartz
Sailing home from Rapallo
"To speak of woe that is in marriage"
Skunk hour
For the union dead
The old flame
Alfred Corning Clark
T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Robert Frost
The picture/ Robert Lowell
A song in the front yard
Sadie and Maud
Of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetary
The vacant lot
The lovers of the poor
A penitent considers another coming of Mary
Of Robert Frost
Boy breaking glass
The blackstone rangers/ Gwendolyn Brooks
The rokeby Venus
By rail through Istria
Near the death of Ovid
Art and civilization/ Robert Conquest
Tennis
The two selves
For tinkers who travel on foot/ Margaret Avison
Girl
Dead seal/ A.W. Purdy
An African elegy
The ballad of Mrs. Noah
Poetry, a natural thing
At Christmas
Persephone
Passage over water
What I saw/ Robert Duncan
To the thoughtful reader
Traveling boy
On falling asleep by firelight
Bachelor
Battle problem
The couple overhead
Consequences
Last things/ William Meredith
[In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see]
[Sometime during eternity]
[In golden gate park that day]
[Frightened]/ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
As a great prince
Tete-a-tete
Now, my usefeullness over
November through a giant copper beech
Some knots/ Edwin Honig
An invocation to the goddness
Monologue of a deaf man
Kleomedes
Grasmere sonnets/ David Wright
The brief journey west
The scales of the eyes, XII ("in the water cave, below the root")
I only am escaped alone to tell thee
The goose fish
The sparrow in the zoo
Brainstorm
The icehouse in summer
Make love not war
Style
The May day dancing/ Howard Nemerov.
Cigales
The pardon
Epistemology
Grasse: the olive trees
Still, citizen sparrow
The death of a toad
Ceremony
"A world without objects is a sensible emptiness
Love calls us to things of this world
Pangloss's song
A hole in the floor
Playboy/ Richard Wilbur
A dream of fair women
Against Romanticism
An ever-fixed mark/ Kingsley Amis
[So through that unripe day you bore your head]
Church going
Myxomatosis
Toads
Faith healing
The whitsun weddings
Sunny prestatyn
Dockery and sun
[Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair]/ Philip Larkin
La condition botanique
Birdwatchers of America
"More light! more light!"
"It out-herods herod. pray you avoid it"/ Anthony Hecht
The performance
The heaven of animals
Chenille
Buckdancer's choice
The sheep child/ James Dickey
Love song: I and thou
Poem ("the person who can do")
Funeral oration for a mouse
How we heard the name
Tribute to Kafka for someone taken
For masturbation
Fabrication of ancestors
Plague of dead sharks
Let heroes account to love
Elegy for a Puritan conscience
On rape unattempted
A trial/ Alan Dugan
The man who married Magdalene
The green shepherd
In California
The morning light
A story about chicken soup
The troika
My father in the night commanding no
American poetry
After midnight/ Louis Simpson
Portrait of a marriage
The second coming
The victim of aulis
Duality/ Dannie Abse.
Everything that is acts is actual
The third dimension
Pleasures
February evening in New York
The dog of art
Illustrious ancestors
Matins
Song for Ishtar
Losing track
The ache of marriage
Shalom
The novel/ Denise Levertov
December
Sorting, wrapping, packing, stuffing
A head
Quick, Henry, the flit!/ James Schuyler
Mending sump
Geography
Fresh air
You were wearing
Sleeping with women/ Kenneth Kock
The campus on the hill
These trees stand ...
April inventory
Heart's needle, 8 ("I thunped on you the best I could")
Planting a Magnolia/ W.D. Snodgrass
So I said I am Ezra
Coon song
Corsons inlet
He held radical light
Working with tools
Conserving the magnitude of uselessness
Plunder
The city limits
The arc inside and out/ A.R. Ammons
A timepiece
About the phoenix
Another angel
The broken home
The mad scene
Part of the vigil/ James Merrill
The innocence
The whip
Naughty boy
A wicker basket
If you
Somewhere
The door
The hill
For fear
The window
"I keep to myself such measures ..."
The world/ Robert Creeley
Howl, I. ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness ...")
America
The night-apple
My alba
On Burroughs' work
My sad self
Death news
Last night in Calcutta/ Allen Ginsberg
Poem ("the eager note on my door said 'call me')
Poem ("at night chinamen jump")
To the film industry in crisis
Chez Jane
The day lady died
Rhapsody
Why I am not a painter
Les luths
Should we legalize abortion?/ Frank O'Hara
Plaza real with palmtrees
Clickety-clack
Good morning love!
Sunflower rock/ Paul Blackburn
Waking from sleep
Poem against the rich
The clear air of October
Johnson's cabinet watched by ants
Romans angry about the inner world
Come with me
The great society
Asian peace offers rejected without publication
Evolution from the fish
When the dumb speak / Robert Bly.
Fiascherino
On the hall at stowey
Mr. Brodsky
At Barstow
Two views of two ghost towns
Swimming Chenango Lake/ Charles Tomlinson
The instruction manual
The tennis court oath
"How much longer will I be able to inhabit the divine sepulchre ..."
Rivers and mountains/ John Ashbery
Dictum: for a masque of deluge
Leviathan
Plea for a captive
The drunk in the furnace
Home for Thanksgiving
The last one
The child
Footprints on the glacier/ W.S. Merwin
Two poems about President Harding
A blessing
The Minneapolis poem
Three sentences for a dead swan/ James Wright
To a child trapped in a barber shop
The midget
Animals are passing from our lives
They feed they lion/ Philip Levine
Chrysalides
First light
Westland row
Je t'adore
Mirror in February/ Thomas Kinsella
"Portrait de femme"
The no-light
The pripet marshes/ Irving Feldman
Unknown girl in the maternity ward
Lullaby
The truth the dead know
All my pretty ones
The starry night
Woman with girdle
Crossing the Atlantic
Wanting to die/ Anne Sexton
Oystering
1915
Lapsus linguae/ Richard Howard
From Gloucetser out
Eugene Delacroix says
A morning to remember or, E Pluribus Unum
Gunslinger, book I (lines 1-105)/ Edward Dorn
Ideal landscape
Necessities of life
Orion
Leaflets
Planetarium
I dream i'm the death of Orpheus
A valediction forbidding mourning
Diving into the wreck/ Adrienne Rich.
The annihilation of nothing
Innocence
The Byrnies
Elegy on the dust
In the tank
Moly/ Thom Gunn
The great bear
The altarpiece finished
Hobbes
Helicon/ John Hollander
A far cry from Africa
Pocomania
Crusoe's Island
Codicil
Moon/ Derek Walcott
The vestal lady on brattle
You, whose mother's lover was grass
Vision of Rotterdam
The last warmth of Arnold
The mad yak
Poets hitchhiking on the highway
Marriage
Dream of a baseball star
Dear girl/ Gregory Corso
The Elwha river
A walk
A heifer clambers up
Four poems for Robin
The snow on Saddle Mountain
Meeting the mountians/ Gary Snyder
The horses
The thought-fox
An otter
Thistles
Ludwig's death mask
Second glance at a Jaguar
Wino
Stations
Theology
Gnat-Psalm
Wodwo
Crow's first lesson/ Ted Hughes
Death of a son
Furnished lives
The shirt
Light
Respectabilities
Lilies of the valley
Reclaimed area/ Jon SIlkin
Bedtime story
The suicides
Bats
Marshall/ George MacBeth
In memory of Jane Fraser
Requiem for the plantagenet kings
Picture of a nativity
Ovid in the third reich
The imaginative life/ Geoffrey Hill
The colossus
Lady Lazarus
Elm
Poppies in October
Ariel
Daddy
Fever 103
Blackberrying/ Sylvia Plath
Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane
Haiku
2 poems for black relocation centers/ Etheridge Knight
Eating poetry
The marriage
Keeping things whole
The door
Letter
"The dreadful has already happened"/ Mark Strand.
Gift
The only tourist in Havana turns his thoughts homeward
For E.J.P.
Queen Victoria and me
You do not have to love me/ Leonard Cohen
For Hettie
Balboa, the entertainer
Political poem
A poem for speculative hipsters
Three modes of history and culture
Legacy
The new world
Incident
Evil nigger waits for speculative hipsters
Three modes of history and culture
Legacy
The new world
Incident
Evil nigger waits for lightnin'
Babylon revisited/ Imamu Amiri Baraka
Real life
The sonnets, LXXXII ("my dream a drink with Lonnie Johnson we discuss the code of the west")
Living with Chris
Things to do in New York (City)/ Ted Berrigen
Goose
Niagara
Domestic-duties/ Richard Emil Braun
Here and there
Letter to a friend
A true confession
A poem about poems about Vietnam
A letter from Berlin/ Jon Stallworthy
Page from a diary
The father
Professor Kelleher and the Charles River
[A mad male-hearted woman in a prouder age]
The poet loves from afar/ Desmond O'Grady
Bluebeard's wife
An English elegy
Untitled/ Daryl Hine
Construction #13
Dr. Potatohead talks to mothers
Eat' em up Smith tells all in South Africa
What Maisie know she don't want no/ anger game at Shinkolobwe/ Judith Johnson Sherwin
Sestina from the home gardener
The father of my country
Greed, part 4, the turtle
You, letting the trees stand as my betrayer/ Diane Wakoski
Goodbat nightman
40-love
The newly pressed suit
P.C. plod versus the Dale St. dog strangler/ Roger McGough
Sketch for a job application blank
Fair/ boy Christian takes a break
Trader
Ghazals, XXI ("he sings from the bottom of a well ...")
XLIX ("after the 'invitaion' by the preacher she collapsed ...")/ Jim Harrison
Pretending not to sleep
The recruits
Complaint
Now and then/ Ian Hamilton.
Santa Claus
John Nobody
Letter to my mother/ Dom Moraes
Waterfall
Docker
Gravities
In small townlands
The outlaw/ Seamus Heaney
Gwendolyn Brooks
But he was cool or: he even stopped for green lights
A poem to complement other poems
Man thinking about woman/ Don L. Lee
Nikki-Rosa
Woman poem
Kidnap poem
Ego trippping/ Nikki Giovanni
The square at dawn
Pity ascending with the fog
Stray animals
The blue booby
It's not the heat so much as the humidity
Little yellow leaf
$tThe wheelchair butterfly /$rJames Tate.
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