She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Very valentine / Gertrude Stein --
I do not love thee / Hon. Caroline Norton --
From Hero and Leander / Charistopher Marlowe --
Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Having a Coke with you / Frank O'Hara --
Sympyom recital / Dorothy Parker --
To Aphrodite of the flowers, at Knossos / Sappho --
Come to the orchard in spring / Rumi --
Little clown, my heart / Sandra Cisneros --
Don't try to rush things =from Poem 41 / Antonio Machado --
From Jne to December / Wendy Cope --
Wild Nights-Wild Nights! / Emily Dickinson --
May I feel said he / e.e. cummings --
When he pressed his lips / Steve Kowit --
Corinna's going a-Maying / Robert Herrick --
Weather-cock points south / Amy Lowell --
To his mistress going to bed / John Donne --
Song of Solomen 2:1-17, 3:1-5 --
Final soliloquy of the interior paramour / Wallace Stevens --
Variation on the word sleep / Margaret Atwood --
After making love we hear footsteps / Galway Kinnell --
It is marvellous... / Elizabeth Bishop --
White heliotrope / Arthur Symons --
Youth / Osip Mandelstam, translated by W.S. Merwin.
Lilacs / Katherine Garrison Chapin --
Unfortunate coincidence / Dorothy Parker --
Philosopher / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
From summer with Monika / Roger McGough --
I'm going to Georgia / Folk Song --
Type of loss / Ingeborg Bachmann --
On monsieur's departure / Queen Elizabeth I --
Eaten heart-from the Knight of Curtesy --
My life closed twice before it closed- / Emily Dickinson --
When we two parted / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Well, I have lost you / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
What my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
"No, thank you, John" / Christina Rossetti --
When you have forgotten Sunday: the love story / Gwendolyn Brooks --
End / Elizabeth Alexander --
Passionate sheperd to his love / Christopher Marlowe --
Marriage / Gregory Corso --
From the Countess of Pembroke's arcadia / Sir Phillip Sidney --
I carry your heart with me (i carry it in) / e.e. cummings --
To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet --
To Margo / Gavin Ewart --
Word to husbands / Ogden Nash --
To the ladies / Lady Mary Chudleigh --
Female of the species / Rudyard Kipling --
From Paradise Lost / John Milton --
Good wife / Proverbs 31:10-31 --
My last duchass / Robert Browning --
To speak of woe that is in marriage / Robert Lowell --
From a survivor / Adrienne Rich --
Letter from my wife / Nazim Hikmet --
To Paula in late spring / W.S. Merwin --
Farmer's calendar / Vietnamese Folf Poem.
Birthday / Christina Rossetti --
June Light / Richard Wilbur --
Protocols / Vikram Seth --
From proverbs and song verse / Antonio Machado --
Sonnet XLIII: How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you / Pablo Neruda --
Code poem for the french resistance / Leo Marks --
Smaller orchard / Amy Clampitt --
Sonnet 116 / William Shakespeare --
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing / Rumi --
Emperor / Matthew Rohrer --
Late Fragment / Raymond Carver --
From the first morning of the second world / Delmore Schwartz --
Weaponed woman / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Night waitress / Lynda Hull --
In an iridescent time / Ruth Stone --
Madam and her madam / Langston Hughes --
Letters from storyville / Natasha Trethewey --
Lineage / Margaret Walker --
I want you women up north to know / Tillie Olsen --
PS education / Ellen Hagan --
At the cafe / Patricia Kirkpatrick --
Worked late on a Tues. night / Deborah Garrison --
Age of great vocations / Allen Rollings --
Defining worlds / G.Y. Baxter --
What's that smell in the kitchen? / Marge Piercy --
Father Grumble / Folk Song --
Anthony and Cleopatra, II ii, 191-232 / William Shakespeare --
What do women want? / Kim Addonizio --
Catch / Richard Wilbur --
Cosmetics do no good / Steve Kowit --
Face lift / Sylvia Plath --
Fatique / Hilaire Belloc --
Great lover / Rupert Brooke --
Crocheted bag / Rosemary Catacalos --
Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick --
Rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Roses Only / Marianne Moore --
Cradle song / W.B. Yeats --
Notes from the delivery room / Linda Pastan --
High school senior / Sharon Olds --
Nobody knows but mother / Mary Morrison --
from "Clearances", in memoriam M. K. H. (1911-1984) / Seamus Heaney --
Woman's work / Julia Alvarez --
If there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have / e. e. cummings --
Somebody's mother / Mary Dow Brine --
Dream that I told my mother-in-law / Elizabeth Alexander --
Mother's closet / Maxine Scates --
Ode / Elizabeth Alexander --
Vietnam / Wislawa Szymborska --
Blessing the boats / Lucille Clifton --
I'm happiest when most away / Emily Bronte --
Keeping things whole / Mark Strand --
We all know it / Marianne Moore --
As much as you can / Constantine P. Cavafy --
Heart of a woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
Sense of something coming / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Death, etc. / Maxine Kumin --
From When one has lived a long time alone / Galway Kinnell --
Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain / Li Po --
Poems of our climate / Wallace Stevens.
You begin / Margaret Atwood --
Grown-up / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Bra shopping / Parneshia Jones --
Hairwashing / Julia Alvarez --
Summer day / Mary Oliver --
Living / Denise Levertov --
I stepped from plank to plank / Emily Dickinson --
To my last period / Lucille Clifton --
Lumpectomy eve / Lucille Clifton --
Older, younger, both / Joyce Sutphen --
Survivor / Roger McGough --
You can't have it all / Barbara Ras --
Greatest love / Anna Swir --
Time / Mary Ursula Bethell --
Going blind / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Old woman / Elizabeth Jennings --
Let it be forgotten / Sara Teasdale --
We know this much / Sappho --
Bustle in a house / Emily Dickinson --
Never more will the wind / H. D. --
Grief / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
Widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams --
Companion / Jo McDougall --
Remember / Christina Rossetti --
From To W. P. / George Santayana --
To Death / Oliver St. John Gogarty --
That it is a road / Ariwara no Narihara --
From In memoriam A. H. H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Reconciliation / Walt Whitman.
Poem of friendship / Nikki Giovanni --
Letter to N. Y. / Elizabeth Bishop --
On gifts for Grace / Bernadette Mayer --
To Hayley / William Blake --
Poison tree / William Blake --
Summer at the beach / Louise Gluck --
Girlfriends / Ellen Dore Watson --
Woman friend / Julia Alvarez --
My friend's divorce / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Magnificat / Michele Roberts --
Secret lives / Barbara Ras --
To Flush, my dog / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
From a letter to his daughter / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
To be of use / Marge Piercy --
Leap before you look / W. H. Auden --
Try to praise the mutilated world / Adam Zagajewski --
Leisure / W. H. Davies --
Waking / Theodore Roethke --
September, 1918 / Amy Lowell --
6 a.m. thoughts / Dick Davis --
Minor bird / Robert Frost --
May today there be peace within / St. Teresa of Avila --
Bacchae chorus / Euripides --
All things pass / Lao-Tzu --
Simple gifts / Anonymous (Shaker hymn) --
24th September 1945 / Nazim Hikmet --
Ithaka / Constantine P. Cavafy --
Colder the air / Elizabeth Bishop.
