My father / Yehuda Amichai --
Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop --
The game / Eavan Boland --
Dreamtigers / Jorge Luis Borges --
To my dear children / Anne Bradstreet --
Boy breaking glass / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Frost at midnight / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
My grandmother's love letters / Hart Crane --
Story for Margarita / Ruben Dario --
Little brown baby / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Once by the pacific / Robert Frost --
At the railway station, upway / Thomas Hardy --
The self-unseeing / Thomas Hardy --
Follower / Seamus Heaney --
Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney --
Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Ode 1.9/to Thaliarchus / Horace --
Dreams / Langston Hughes --
A flower given to my daughter / James Joyce --
You were wearing / Kenneth Koch --
Venus's-flytraps / Yusef Komunyakaa --
The catch / Stanley Kunitz --
The piano / D. H. Lawrence --
My childhood-home I see again / Abraham Lincoln --
Silence / Marianne Moore --
August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Carol Muske --
Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash --
Autobiographia literaria / Frank O'Hara --
Alicante lullaby / Sylvia Plath --
The lice seekers / Arthur Rimbaud --
Child on top of a greenhouse / Theodore Roethke --
The land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson --
There was a child went forth / Walt Whitman --
On the beach at night / Walt Whitman --
The turtle / William Carlos Williams --
Night light / Ann Winters --
The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats.
Just walking around / John Ashbery --
To my mother / George Barker --
The shampoo / Elizabeth Bishop --
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand (sonnets from the Portuguese 6) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion --
The bandaged shoulder / C. P. Cavafy --
Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond / E. E. Cummings --
If you were coming in the fall / Emily Dickinson --
Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee (Idea 30) / Michael Drayton --
The love I gave you once / Faiz Ahmed Faiz --
To earthward / Robert Frost --
Dust of snow / Robert Frost --
A broken appointment / Thomas Hardy --
Misery and splendor / Robert Hass --
Love (III) / George Herbert --
To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick --
Oh, when I was in love with you (A Shropshire Lad 28) / A. E. Housman --
Life is fine / Langston Hughes --
His excuse for loving / Ben Jonson --
My picture left in Scotland / Ben Jonson --
Love song / Denise Levertov --
The definition of love / Andrew Marvell --
Ballad / Gabriela Mistral --
From the journals of the Frog Prince / Susan Mitchell --
Tonight I can write / Pablo Neruda --
Love letter / Sylvia Plath --
To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe --
"No, thank you, John" / Christina Rossetti --
Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnets 116) / William Shakespeare --
My true love hath my heart and I have his / Sir Philip Sidney --
Love after love / Derek Walcott --
Natural history / E. B. White --
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman --
Still life / C. K. Williams --
The act / William Carlos Williams --
He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats.
Thoughts of death / Sterling A. Brown --
I have of sorwe so grete woon / Geoffrey Chaucer --
The watch / Frances Cornford --
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee (Holy Sonnets 10) / John Donne --
The poet goes about her business / Linda Gregg --
You that seek what life is in death (Caelica 82) / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke --
Death / George Herbert --
To daffodils / Robert Herrick --
To an athlete dying young / A. E. Housman --
The death of a ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell --
A contemplation upon flowers / Henry King --
The bolt / Mary Kinzie --
On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia / Walter Savage Landor --
Janet waking / John Crowe Ransom --
Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke --
Fear no more the heat o' the sun / William Shakespeare --
Question / May Swenson --
And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas --
The death of a toad / Richard Wilbur --
The last words of my English grandmother / William Carlos Williams.
Mad Tom's song / Anonymous --
As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden --
Nurse's song (from Songs of Innocence) / William Blake --
Nurse's song (from Songs of Experience) / William Blake --
The grey monk / William Blake --
First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string... / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Bitter fruit of the tree / Sterling A. Brown --
Waiting for barbarians / C. P. Cavafy --
Incident / Countee Cullen --
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Belinda's Petition / Rita Dove --
Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost --
The red poppy / Louise Gluck --
Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden --
Binsey poplars / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
90 North / Randall Jarrell --
King of the river / Stanley Kunitz --
1910 / Federico Garcia Lorca --
For the union dead / Robert Lowell --
Not to be spattered by his blood / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Raesumae / Dorothy Parker --
Storm warnings / Adrienne Rich --
Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
Her kind / Anne Sexton --
(1) Like this / Stevie Smith --
(2) Like This / Stevie Smith --
The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens --
By the road to the contagious hospital / William Carlos Williams.
Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop --
At last we killed the roaches / Lucille Clifton --
Pear tree / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) --
An ox looks at man / Carlos Drummond de Andrade --
Plague of dead sharks / Alan Dugan --
Preludes / T. S. Eliot --
Departmental / Robert Frost --
In back of the real / Allen Ginsberg --
Considering the snail / Thom Gunn --
The man pulling radishes / Issa --
To autumn / John Keats --
Let evening come / Jane Kenyon --
First sight / Philip Larkin --
In Houston / Gail Mazur --
Bring me the sunflower / Eugenio Montale --
Those various scalpels, / Marianne Moore --
The village of reason / Michael Palmer --
Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Spring / Charles Simic --
Augusto Jandolo: on excavating an Etruscan tomb / Tom Sleigh --
Five dogs / Mark Strand --
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Dylan Thomas --
The yonder tree / Joshua Weiner --
Aboard at a ship's helm / Walt Whitman.
The path to the white moon / John Ashbery --
Dream song 14 / John Berryman --
The smile / William Blake --
To see a world in a grain of sand / William Blake --
"Do not be afraid of no" / Gwendolyn Brooks --
How we heard the name / Alan Dugan --
Gascoigne's lullaby / George Gascoigne --
from Faust, part 2 / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --
When all this all doth pass from age to age (Caelica 69) / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke --
The seventh / Attila Jozsef --
On my own / Philip Levine --
Years of solitude / Dionisio Martinez --
Pretty blue apron / James McMichael --
A field of light / Theodore Roethke --
Quietness / Jamal al-din Rumi --
Proverbs from purgatory / Lloyd Schwartz --
Old joke / Alan Shapiro --
The pleasures of merely circulating / Wallace Stevens --
Of mere being / Wallace Stevens --
A contribution to statistics / Wislawa Szymborska --
from Gitanjali (35 & 39) / Rabindranath Tagore --
Personals / C. D. Wright.
from Requiem / Anna Akhmatova --
Lament for the makers / Frank Bidart --
Ars poetica / Jorge Luis Borges --
To John Keats, poet, at spring time / Countee Cullen --
There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson --
A word is dead / Emily Dickinson --
A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg --
Get it again / Mark Halliday --
Theme for English b / Langston Hughes --
The secret / Denise Levertov --
What he thought / Heather McHugh --
Incantation / Czeslaw Milosz --
A step away from them / Frank O'Hara --
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens --
Eating poetry / Mark Strand --
A coat / William Butler Yeats.
