The Norton anthology of modern poetry

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.