To Whistler, American / Ezra Pound -- XOPIKOE / Richard Aldington -- General William Booth enters into heaven / Nicholas Vachel Lindsay -- Epigram / H.D. -- from Contemporania: Tenzone -- In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound -- Proof of immortality / William Carlos Williams -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- from Lustra: I, III / Ezra Pound -- from Irradiations: I, II, VI, X, XI / John Gould Fletcher -- Illicit / D.H. Lawrence -- Code -- Heroics / Robert Frost -- from Chicago poems: Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Magi / William Butler Yeats -- To KAANON / Ezra Pound -- Coming of war: Actaeon / Ezra Pound -- from Nineteen-fourteen: Peace -- Soldier / Rupert Brooke -- Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- from Discordants: IV / Conrad Aiken -- Answer / Sara Teasdale -- Beethoven / John Hall Wheelock -- Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens. Scholars / William Butler Yeats -- In memory of Bryan Lathrop / Edgar Lee Masters -- Lake isle / Ezra Pound -- from Epigrams / Rabindranath Tagore -- from Observations: La figlia che piange -- Mr. Apollinax -- Morning at the window / T.S. Eliot -- Wave symphony / Arthur Davison Ficke -- Marriage / William Carlos Williams -- From Trench poems: Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg -- from My people: In tall grass / Carl Sandburg -- Evening song / Sherwood Anderson -- Reciprocity / John Drinkwater -- from Figs from thistles: First fig -- Second fig -- Thursday / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Medicin Malgre Lui / William Carlos Williams -- Nostalgia / D.H. Lawrence -- from Propertius: IV / Ezra Pound -- Walt Whitman / Emanuel Carnevali -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- End of the comedy / Louis Untermeyer -- Horrid voice of science / Vachel Lindsay -- Song / Sara Teasdale -- from Pecksniffiana: Fabliau of Florida -- Weeping burgher -- Indigo glass in the grass -- Anecdote of the jar -- Curtains in the house of the metaphysician -- Paltry nude starts on a spring voyage / Wallace Stevens -- Danny / Malcolm Cowley -- To W.C.W.M.D. / Alfred Kreymborg -- Atavism / Elinor Wylie -- Cubist portrait / Marjorie Allen Seiffert. Golden fleece / Oscar Williams -- Poet at night-fall / Glenway Wescott -- from Sur ma guzzla gracile: Snow man -- Tea at the palaz of Hoon -- Another weeping woman -- Of the manner of addressing clouds -- Of heaven considered as a tomb / Wallace Stevens -- Witch of Coos / Robert Frost -- Wild orchard / William Carlos Williams -- In high places / Harriet Monroe -- from Beginning and end: Knowledge / Louise Bogan -- Monody to the sound of zithers / Kay Boyle -- from Wanderings: Champs d'honneur -- Chapter heading / Ernest M. Hemingway -- Pastoral / Marion Strobel -- Static autumn / Yvor Winters -- Flower-boat / Robert Frost -- Chicago / Lola Ridge -- From Three songs: Thessalian / Winifred Bryher -- from Contributions: For instance / Robert McAlmon -- from Body's head: Head itself / Laura Riding Gottschalk -- Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish -- Crimson tent / John Dos Passos -- At Melville's tomb / Hart Crane -- from Blue Juniata: Streets of air / Malcolm Cowley -- To a seaman dead on land / Kay Boyle -- In the beginning was a word / Robert Graves -- Contemporary / Hortense Flexner -- O Carib isle! / Hart Crane -- from Things known: Under the hill / Richard Eberhart -- Hoar frost / Morton Dauwen Zabel. Birds in snow / H.D. -- from Published correspondence: Epistle to the Rapalloan / Archibald MacLeish -- Marching song / George Dillon -- Sonnet [Women have loved before ...] / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- from Words on the wind: Fruit of loneliness / May Sarton -- Kansas City west bottoms / Edward Dahlberg -- Hypocrite swift / Louise Bogan -- Sailor / Langston Hughes -- from Sonnets of the blood I, II, IV, VII, IX / Allen Tate -- Kansas boy / Ruth Lechlitner -- Extract / Paul Frederic Bowles -- Winter night / Cecil Day Lewis -- Fearful symmetry / Basil Bunting -- Watershed / Robert Penn Warren -- from Part of a novel, part of a poem, part of a play: Steeplejack -- Hero / Marianne Moore -- from Urn: Reliquary -- Purgatorio -- Sad Indian -- Reply -- Enrich my resignation / Hart Crane -- Winter sketches / Charles Reznikoff -- from Magnetic mountain: Condemned / Cecil Day Lewis -- from "That's the American style": 4th of July / William Carlos Williams -- Empty dwelling places / Kenneth Patchen -- from Local habitation: On inhabiting an orange / Josephine Miller -- At Woodward's gardens / Robert Frost -- Night-music / Muriel Rukeyser -- "Long live the weeds" / Theodore Roethke -- Farewell / Harriet Monroe.
Journey to Iceland / W.H. Auden -- We lying by seasand / Dylan Thomas -- Poem [You, my photographer] / Delmore Schwartz -- My love was light / Thomas Lanier Williams -- from Two mornings and two evenings: Paris, 7 A.M. -- Miracle for breakfast -- From the country to the city -- Song / Elizabeth Bishop -- Past midnight / Edmund Wilson -- Bearded oaks / Robert Penn Warren -- At Carmel highlands / Janet Lewis -- [In the naked bed, in Plaot's cave / Delmore Schwartz -- Four poems / Dylan Thomas -- Marginal field / Stephen Spender -- Sense of the sleight-of-hand man / Wallace Stevens -- Sonnet [The crumbled rock of London] / Roy Fuller -- from Stanzas in meditation I, IV, V, VI / Gertrude Stein -- Perdita / Louis MacNeice -- Raleigh was right / William Carlos Williams -- [anyone lived in a pretty how town] / E.E. Cummings -- Things / Walter de la Mare -- Antiques / Walter de la Mare -- University / Edwin Muir -- Bloody sire / Robinson Jeffers -- Memory / Babette Deutsch -- Immanent / Walter de la Mare -- from Conscript: III / Peter De Vries -- To Violet / Basil bunting -- Henry James at Newport / Weldon Kees -- Upon the heavenly scarp / A.M. Klein -- Dark morning / Thomas James Merton -- Springboard / Louis MacNeice -- [what if a much of a which of a wind] / E.E. Cummings. Sigmund Freud / Howard Nemerov -- Emancipators / Randall Jarrell -- Tennis trophy / John Frederick Nims -- Dolor / Theodore Roethke -- Fable of the ant and the word / Mary Barnard -- First snow on an airfield / John Ciardi -- Losses / Randall Jarrell -- Poem in October / Dylan Thomas -- Journal / John Ciardi -- Part for the whole / Robert Francis -- Higher empiricism / Francis C. Golffing -- Poem for my twentieth birthday / Kenneth Koch -- from "Theory of vision" -- The green eye / James Merrill -- Return / Theodore Roethke -- Ghost / Robert Lowell -- Night of battle / Yvor Winters -- Motive / Muriel Rukeyser -- Broken bowl / James Merrill -- Love poem / John Frederick Nims -- Niagara Falls / Alan Dugan -- Schoolyard in April / Kenneth Koch -- "Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious" / Paul Goodman -- Dirty word / Karl Shapiro -- Fat man in the mirror / Robert Lowell -- [if (touched by love's own secret) we, like homing] / E.E. Cummings -- Party / Margaret Avison -- Ultimate poem is abstract / Wallace Stevens -- Small prayer / Weldon Kees -- Return of the goddess Artemis / Robert Graves -- Death of a toad / Richard Wilbur -- from The metaphor -- Terror and love as fugitives / Henry Rago -- Traveler / John Berryman -- Lear / William Carlos Williams -- Sleeping beauty: variation of the prince / Randall Jarrell -- Children of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks -- from Things of August: 1, 3, 8 / Wallace Stevens. Cage / John Berryman -- Self unsatisfied runs everywhere / Delmore Schwartz -- Poem / Babette Deutsch -- Little ode / Paul Goodman -- "World without objects is a sensible emptiness" / Richard Wilbur -- Alceste in the wilderness / Anthony Hecht -- Beauty of things / Robinson Jeffers -- To an anthologist / Theodore Roethke -- Hotel de L'Univers et Portugal / James Merrill -- Foreboding / Robert Graves -- Instrument / Kathleen Raine -- Nijinsky / Parker Tyler -- Shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden -- After the Persian / Louise Bogan -- Then the ermine: / Marianne Moore -- from Paterson, Book V -- The river of heaven / William Carlos Williams -- Sestina in time of winter / Patrick Anderson -- From the embassy / Robert Graves -- Illiterate / William Meredith -- Prison song / Alan Dugan -- World of water / E.L. Mayo -- Marginalia / Richard Wilbur -- Alphabet / Karl Shapiro -- Horatian ode / Joseph Warren Beach -- Aging / Randall Jarrell -- Chez Jane / Frank O'Hara -- Island in the evening / Fairfield Porter -- High fidelity / Thom Gunn -- Landed: a valentine / Richard Howard -- Radio / Frank O'Hara -- Bachelor / William Meredith -- from Cycle of six lyrics -- O pearl and breasted world / George Barker -- Permanently / Kenneth Koch -- Birth of Venus / Constance Urdang -- Metamorphosis / Sylvia Plath -- from Inscriptions on Chinese paintings / Witter Bynner. Metaphysical / Robert Fitzgerald -- Approach to Theves / Stanley Kunitz -- Unsettles motorcyclist's vision of his death / Thom Gunn -- from King Midas -- The King's speech / Howard Moss -- Wreaths / Geoffrey Hill -- Mark of resistance / Adrienne Rich -- Morning letter / Robert Duncan -- Holding the mirror up to nature / Howard Nemerov -- In time of gold / H.D. -- Shepherd / William Stafford -- Mirror / James Merrill -- Demands of the muse / Vernon Watkins -- To the snake / Denise Levertov -- Skykomish River running / Richard F. Hugo -- Close-up / A.R. Ammons -- Fire at Alexandria / T. Weiss -- Death of myth-making / Sylvia Plath -- from The bean eaters -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Spider / Richard Eberhart -- Returning to roots of first feeling / Robert Duncan -- Nude descending a staircase / X.J. Kennedy -- Song / Robert Creeley -- In favor of one's time / Frank O'Hara -- Population / George Oppen -- Gravelly run / A.R. Ammons -- Inside the river / James Dickey -- [how many moments must (amazing each] / E.E. Cummings -- Illustration -- a footnote / Denise Levertov -- Blessing / James Wright -- For the passing of Groucho's pursuer / John Hollander -- Notes for a history of poetry / David Daiches -- Astronomers of Mont Blanc / Edgar Bowers -- Stars over the Dordogne / Sylvia Plath -- Black art / Anne Sexton. from Four dream songs: [The high ones die, die] / John Berryman -- Death's the classic look / John Ciardi -- From Heraclitus / Alan Dugan -- For his father / William Meredith -- Mad scene / James Merrill -- If the birds knew / John Ashbery -- Fever 103 [degrees] / Sylvia Plath -- from Nine dream songs: Snow line / John Berryman -- After Lorca / Ted Hughes -- Words / David Wagoner -- Seeing Auden off / Philip Booth -- Here lies ... / Stevie Smith -- Like Rousseau / Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) -- About my poems / Donald Justice -- Metaphysic of snow / Donald Finkel -- Things we dreamt we died for / Marvin Bell -- from Through the smoke hole / Gary Snyder -- "Wish to be believed" / Mona Van Duyn -- Correspondence-school instructor says goodbye to his poetry students / Galway Kinnell -- Swan and shadow / John Hollander -- Beast in the space / W.S. Graham -- Uses of poetry / Winfield Townley Scott -- Slowly, slowly wisdom gathers / Mark Van Doren -- Swmrhydyceirw elegiacs / Vernon Watkins -- Implosions / Adrienne Rich -- Cows at night / Hayden Carruth -- Demonstration Hugh Seidman -- King's men / William Heyen -- Fire Island / May Swenson -- Invocation / Denise Levertov -- Game / Stanley Kunitz -- Handbook of versification / Gilbert Sorrentino -- Counterparts / Stephen Dobyns -- Messenger / Thom Gunn -- Homosexuality / Frank O'Hara -- Hope / F.D. Reeve -- Black maps / Mark Strand. Nightletter / Charles Wright -- Play / A.R. Ammons -- Magi / Louise Gluck -- Climbing you / Erica Jong -- Lost / David Wagoner -- Life beside this one / John N. Morris -- Crematorium / John Betjeman -- Poetry / Greg Kuzma -- Vowels of another language / Tom Disch -- Dido: swarming / Kathleen Spivack -- Negatives / Charles Wright -- To D --, dead by her own hand / Howard Nemerov -- Poet's farewell to his teeth / William Dickey -- Parabola / A.D. Hope -- On hearing a new escalation / Richard Hugo -- May, 1972 / James Schuyler -- Desire of water / Mark Jarman -- Death & Empedocles 444 B.C. / Horace Gregory -- Verse translator / John Frederick Nims -- Last days / Richard Hugo -- from The way down: They return / Jay Macpherson -- Elegy for yards, pounds, and gallons / David Wagoner -- from Songs of the transformed: Siren song / Margaret Atwood -- Ode to pornography / Jack Anderson -- Signs / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Pleasure of ruins / J.D. McClatchy -- Astronomer's journal / Jane Shore -- from Essay of psychiatrists XIV. Their speech, compared with wisdom and poetry / Robert Pinsky -- Younger poet / Peter Schjeldahl -- Waiting rooms / Howard Nemerov -- "Can I tempt you to a pond walk?" / James Schuyler -- Translation / Rika Lesser -- Fragmenti / Ezra Pound -- Ice-cream wars / John Ashbery.
Ash / Jayanta Mahapatra -- Poem [Green things are flowers] / Frank O'Hara -- On the pier / Brenda Hillman -- Hog heaven / Robert Siegel -- Ring / Diane Wakoski -- Antigua / Gary Soto -- Photographs of old New York / Alfred Corn -- Valentine for Matthew Arnold / William Logan -- from Three notes toward definitions: Of faith / Timothy Steele -- Elegy / Sandra M. Gilbert -- After the solstice / Daryl Hine -- Muse of satire / Mary Kutzie -- Man and boy / John N. Morris -- Love and how it becomes important in our day to day lives / Miller Williams -- from The Venetian vespers: III / Anthony Hecht -- Guild / Sharon Olds -- Strolls / A.R. Ammons -- One page in The American heritage dictionary / Carole Oles -- Poems / Tom Disch -- X ray / Dannie Abse -- Rest / Lawrence Raab -- Poem beginning with a life of Wittgenstein / Donald Hall -- For an early retirement -- Easter morning / A.R. Ammons -- Late echo / John Ashbery -- Waving goodbye / Gerald Stern -- After minor surgery / Linda Pastan -- Static / Barton Sutter -- Shape for it / Michael Ryan -- Closer / Albert Goldbarth -- June fourth / Gerald Stern -- Dying / Robert Pinsky -- Poetry bug / Barry Spacks -- Poet of our climate / Katha Pollitt -- Survivor, walking / Stephen Sandy -- Cloud creates / David Ignatow. On coming to nothing / Richard Moore -- Schedule of benefits / John N. Morris -- History of photography / Baron Wormser -- Diogenes tries to forget / Mary Karr -- Flesh tones / Richmond Lattimore -- from Images of China : Torture -- Chinese courtesy / Paul Engle -- Death / Thomas P. Lynch -- I am learning to abandon the world / Linda Pastan -- Dusting / Rita Dove -- What is left to say / Lisel Mueller -- Failing in the presence of ants / Gary Soto -- Edgewater Hospital / Albert Goldbarth -- Wings and seeds: for my birth mother / Sandra McPherson -- How to regain your soul / William Stafford -- Corners / Stephen Dunn -- Flirtation / Rita Dove -- Anthem / Anthony Hecht -- Sapphics / Daryl Hine -- Their bodies / David Wagoner -- Origin of order / Pattiann Rogers -- Boy shepherds' simile / David Bottoms -- Inverse proportions / Jack Matthews -- Doing the evolution shuffle / Alice Fulton -- from Chronometrics IV. Hourglass / Robert B. Shaw -- Chanson philosophique / Timothy Steele -- Narcissus and Echo / Fred Chappell -- My confessional sestina / Dana Gioia -- Bitch / Carolyn Kizer -- Poor angels / Edward Hirsch -- Dodona: asked of the oracle / Amy Clampitt -- Big cars / Wesley McNair -- Rearview mirror / Robert Morgan -- Disappointments of childhood / Michael Blumenthal -- Janus / Laurence Perrine -- Limerick. Cloud painter / Jane Flanders -- Reading the writing / John N. Morris -- Preparing to live among the old / Stephen Corey -- Flight / B.H. Fairchild -- Poet at eighteen / Dick Allen -- Happiness / Raymond Carver -- Sweet Will / Philip Levine -- Athene / Amy Clampitt -- Fierce girl playing hopscotch / Alice Fulton -- Why fortune is the empress of the world / Turner Cassity -- Cruising with the Beach Boys / Dana Gioia -- Fossil fuel / John Dickson -- According to Ovid / Bin Ramke -- Hawk Hill / Reynolds Price -- Illinois: at night, Black Hawk's statue broods / J.W. Rivers -- Calling / Maxine Kumin -- Oh keep the poet hence / Thomas Carper -- Written in my dream by W.C. Williams / Allen Ginsberg -- Cold quilt / Michael McFee -- In bed with a book / Mona Van Duyn -- Postscript to an elegy / Gibbons Ruark -- My two lives / Ernest Sandeen -- Elegy for John, my student dead of AIDS / Robert Cording -- And the grass did grow / Ralph Angel -- Pole vaulting / Maura Stanton -- Coming into history / Jeanne Murray Walker -- Morning jitter / John Ashbery -- Available now: archaic torsos of both sexes / Gregory Orr -- Refuge / Randy Blasing -- To my mother / Wendell Berry -- Prayer for my father / Robert Bly -- Armored hearts / David Bottoms -- Inverse square law of the propagation of light / Christopher Buckley -- Bearer / Hayden Carruth -- Against poetry / Sandra M. Gilbert. Coordinating conjunction / John Hollander -- Witness / David Ignatow -- Nurture / Maxine Kumin -- My ambition / James Laughlin -- After the alphabets / W.S. Merwin -- When I am asked / Lisel Mueller -- Waiting on Elvis, 1956 / Joyce Carol Oates -- Dreamwood / Adrienne Rich -- To his pulse / Robert B. Shaw -- Trolling for blues / Richard Wilbur -- We are listening / Diane Ackerman -- Reading the facts about Frost in The Norton anthology / George Starbuck -- Other-directed / Turner Cassity -- Lace makers / Stanley Moss -- Faberge's egg / Elizabeth Spires -- Breathing, the endless news / Rita Dove -- First reader / Billy Collins -- Sun king sulking / Peter Porter -- Heading out / Philip Booth -- For the Calvinists / Ben Howard -- Inspiration / Stephen Stepanchev -- Peasants waiting for rain / G.S. Sharat Chandra -- Summer at North Farm / Stephen Kuusisto -- Utopian melodies / Stephen Dobyns -- For the bullies of West Morris High / Steven Carmer -- from The six-cornered snowflake / John Frederick Nims -- Written in blood / Sue Owen -- Reading Lao Tzu again in the new year / Charles Wright -- Brieves from The book of Kells / R.T. Smith -- Forgetfulness / Billy Collins -- from An essay on friendship:VII / J.D. McClatchy -- Little essay on communication / Stephen Dunn -- Mrs. Adam / Kathleen Norris. Dead Cartesian / Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- Death of Antinous / Mark Doty -- Correspondence / Henri Coulette -- Evening walk / Charles Simic -- Tenth-year elegy / Neal Bowers -- As a child, sleepless / W.D. Snodgrass -- Defining time / Carl Dennis -- Not responsible / Caroline Finkelstein -- Quotations for a winter evening / David Jauss -- Take a hike / Jim Simmerman -- Out of our hands / Cathy Song -- Things of the world / Robert Sargent -- Chicamauga / Charles Wright -- We have not long to love / Tennessee Williams -- Few last lines of laundry / Eamon Grennan -- Tree of life / Margaret Holley -- Dead man interview / Neal Bowers -- Cave of AIDS / Mark Scott -- To a young diver / Marilyn Taylor -- Winged torso of Eros / Daniel Hall -- Final notations / Adrienne Rich -- Mingus at The Showplace / William Matthews -- Meaner than a junkyard dog: or, Turner's evil twin / Turner Cassity -- Search party / W.S. Merwin -- Apollo / Elizabeth Alexander -- Digs in Escondido Canyon / Walter McDonald -- You are right / Cathryn Essinger -- Adirondack moosehead / Jeffrey Harrison -- Having it out with melancholy / Jane Kenyon -- Last words / William Matthews -- Telegram from the muse -- Anniversary / William Greenway -- Soul / alan Shaprio -- Parents they whould be / Joe-Anne McLaughln-Carruth -- Resurrection of the body / Eric Pankey -- Balkan / Gabriel Spera -- not so good night in the San Pedro of the world / Charles Bukowski -- Music of the spheres / Robert Morgan.
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