Double Features: Poems to Read Together

Double Features:
Poems to Read Together

*In the Sweetness of Her Holy Loins*
Anonymous
	Inanna spoke [from The Cycle of Inanna: The Courtship of Inanna and Dumazi; c. 2000 B.C.; Akkadian; trans. DianeWolkstein & Samuel Noah Kramer]
John Crowe Ransom
	Judith of Bethulia

*The Day We Die*
Anonymous
	The Day We Die [c. 1800-1925; San; trans Arthur Markowitz]
Wallace Stevens
	The Death of a Soldier

*Death is Before Me Today*
Anonymous
	Death Is Before Me Today [c. 1900 B.C.; Egyptian; trans. W.S. Merwin]
Paulinaq
	Death Song for Aijuk, Dreamed by Paulinaq [trans. W.E. Calvert]

*Do You Remember?*
Anonymous
	Do You Remember That Night [c. 1800-1900; Irish Gaelic; trans. George Petrie]
Jean Garrigue
	Remember That Country

*In Praise of a Sword*
Anonymous
	Huntsong for a Small Son [c. ?; Welsh; a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]
Anonymous
	Winter [c. ?; Welsh; a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]
Colman mac Lenini
	In Praise of a Sword Given Him by His Prince [trans. Richard O’Connell]

*Written in Pencil*
Anonymous
	Little Friend [c. 1940-1945?]
Dan Pagis
	Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car [trans. Stephen Mitchell]

*And I In My Bed Again*
Anonymous
	Little Friend [c. 1940-1945?]
Anonymous
	Western Wind [c. 1400-1500]

*Magic Words*
Anonymous
	Magic Words [c. ?; Inuit, trans. Edward Field]
Bertolt Brecht
	Motto [trans. John Willett]

*Old Woman*
Anonymous
	The Old Woman of Beare [c. 800; Irish Gaelic; trans. Brendan Kenneally]
Grace Paley
	Here
William Butler Yeats
	Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

*All the Worlds There Are*
Anonymous
	The Words of the All-Wise [from The Elder Edda; c. 900-1000; Icelandic; trans. W.H. Auden & Paul Taylor]
Pablo Neruda
	Sidereal eagle, vine of mist [from Summits of Macchu Picchu, IX, trans. Kate Flores]

*Make Yourself Content*
Anonymous
	The Unquiet Grave [c. 1500]
Emily Bronte
	Remembrance
Christina Rossetti
	Remember

*Hold Nothing Back*
Anonymous
	The Words of the All-Wise [from The Elder Edda; c. 900-1000; Icelandic; trans. W.H. Auden & Paul Taylor]
Theocritus
	Idyll I [trans. William Carlos Williams]

A Kind of Faith Prevails
Fleur Adcock
	For a Five-Year-Old
Richard Wilbur
	The Writer

*Future Work*
Fleur Adcock
	Future Work
Billy Collins
	The Moment

*Weathering*
Fleur Adcock
	Weathering
Grace Paley
	Here

An Old-Time Sea Fight
Aeschylus
	The Battle of Salamis [from The Persians; trans. Peter Levi]
Walt Whitman
	Would you hear of an old-time sea fight? [Song of Myself, 35]

*Quarrel*
Conrad Aiken
	The Quarrel
Mitchell Goodman
	Man and Wife

*Soon I Will Know Who I Am*
Anna Akhmatova
	Alone [trans. Stephen Berg]
Jorge Luis Borges
	In Praise of Darkness [trans. Hoyt Rogers]

*For a Single Glance*
Anna Akhmatova
	Lot's Wife [trans. Richard Wilbur]
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes [trans. Franz Wright]

*Ways of Looking*
Rafael Alberti
	Blue [trans. Mark Strand]
Sherman Alexie
	Crow Testament
Pablo Neruda
	Sidereal eagle, vine of mist [from Summits of Macchu Picchu, IX, trans. Kate Flores]
Wallace Stevens
	Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

*Blue*
Rafael Alberti
	Blue [trans. Mark Strand]
Robert Francis
	Blue Winter

*Watching the Mayan Women*
Sherman Alexie
	Marilyn Monroe [from Tourists, Part 2]
Luisa Villani
	Watching the Mayan Women

*Woven Air*
Agha Shahid Ali
	The Dacca Gauzes
Ted Kooser
	A Jacquard Shawl

*Last Words*
Agha Shahid Ali
	Lenox Hill
Marilyn Krysl
	There Is No Such Thing as the Moment of Death
William Carlos Williams
	The Last Words of My English Grandmother

*Not Marble Nor Monuments*
Fergus Allen
	Elegy for Faustina
Archibald MacLeish
	"Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments"

*How I Learned to Sweep*
Julia Alvarez
	How I Learned to Sweep
Robert Thomas
	Repairing the Hubble Telescope

*Talking to the Sun*
A.R. Ammons
	Ballad
Frank O'Hara
	A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island

*I Went for a Walk*
A.R. Ammons
	Corsons Inlet
Joanie Mackowski
	Autumnal Equinox: Walking in the Dark

*In Nature There Are Few Sharp Lines*
A.R. Ammons
	Corsons Inlet
Theodore Roethke
	The Rose

*Among Unwelcoming Forms*
A.R. Ammons
	Gravelly Run
John Ciardi
	A Walk Down a Mountainside

*Nothing But a Hog*
A.R. Ammons
	Hardweed Path Going
David Lee
	For Jan, with Love

*With Disorder in Her Hair*
Ammuvanar
	They Shout Out the Price of Salt [from The Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans. George L. Hart III]
Hafiz
	Ghazal: Half-Way Through the Night [trans. Geoffrey Squires]
Vikatanitamba
	When He Pressed His Lips [trans. Steve Kowit]

*1914*
Guillaume Apollinaire
	The Little Car [trans. Oliver Bernard]
John Berryman
	The Moon and the Night and the Men

*The Power of a Question*
Louis Aragon
	Pop Song
Gabriel Preil
	The Power of a Question [trans. Leon Wieseltier]

*Borrowing a Body*
Craig Arnold
	Incubus
C.K. Williams
	Combat

*A Darkling Plain*
Matthew Arnold
	Dover Beach
Thomas Hardy
	The Darkling Thrush
William Butler Yeats
	The Second Coming

*On the Shore of the Wide World*
Matthew Arnold
	Dover Beach
John Keats
	When I have fears that I may cease to be
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
	Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips

*The Revelers*
John Ashbery
	The Instruction Manual
Robert Francis
	The Revelers
Robert Herrick
	Corinna's Going A-Maying

*Ideas for Writing Filled His Mind*
John Ashbery
	The Instruction Manual
Kenneth Koch
	The Railway Stationery

*It Could Not Be Dangerous to Be Living in a Town Like This*
John Ashbery
	The Instruction Manual
Marianne Moore
	The Steeple-Jack
Fernando Pessoa
	The Tobacco Shop [trans. Richard Zenith]

*Into Mexico*
John Ashbery
	The Instruction Manual
Mona Van Duyn
	Into Mexico

*Some Have Courage, Others Don't*
Margaret Atwood
	Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture
W.H. Auden
	O What Is That Sound

*The Torture Chamber*
Margaret Atwood
	Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture
Lawrence Kearney
	After the Interrogation
Etheridge Knight
	Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital

*In Memory of Yeats*
W.H. Auden
	In Memory of W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats
	Under Ben Bulben

*While the Dogs Go On With Their Doggy Life*
W.H. Auden
	Musee des Beaux Arts
Archibald MacLeish
	The End of the World

*Falling Out of the Sky*
W.H. Auden
	Musee des Beaux Arts
Richard M. Mishler
	Ceremony

*O Tell Me the Truth*
W.H. Auden
	O Tell Me the Truth About Love
Tom Disch
	Zewhyexary

*Love Is the Crooked Thing*
W.H. Auden
	O Tell Me the Truth About Love
William Butler Yeats
	Brown Penny

*May I Feel*
W.H. Auden
	The Platonic Blow
e.e. cummings
	may i feel said he

*In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day*
W.H. Auden
	The Platonic Blow
X.J. Kennedy
	In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
	Casey at the Bat

*What Men or Gods Are These?*
W.H. Auden
	The Shield of Achilles
John Keats
	Ode on a Grecian Urn

*Killing Range*
John Balaban
	The Guard at the Binh Thuy Bridge
Yusef Komunyakaa
	Starlight Scope Myopia

*Prayer for My Daughter*
John Balaban
	Words for My Daughter
William Butler Yeats
	A Prayer for My Daughter

*Scent of Your Body*
Raffaello Baldini
	Hygiene [trans. Adria Bernardi]
Gyorgy Petri
	Gratitude [trans. Clive Wilmer & George Gomori]

*The Temple Bell*
Matsuo Basho
	The temple bell stops [trans. Robert Bly]
Richard Jones
	The Bell

*Nothing's Wasted*
Matsuo Basho
	The temple bell stops [trans. Robert Bly]
Tom Koontz
	thousands killed in the attack
Leonard Nathan
	Bladder Song

*The Sound Keeps Coming*
Matsuo Basho
	The temple bell stops [trans. Robert Bly]
William Carlos Williams
	This Is Just to Say

*My Home, My Father's and Grandfather's Home*
Joachim du Bellay
	Heureux Qui, Comme Ulysse, a Fait un Beau Voyage [trans. Anthony Hecht]
Constantine Cavafy
	Ithaka [trans. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard]

Antonio Machado
	To Jose Maria Palacio [trans. Angel Flores]

*The Shape, the Label, the Labor, the Color*
Stephen Berg
	The Coat
Robert Pinsky
	Shirt

*Wanting to Die*
John Berryman
	Henry's Understanding
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	Carrion Comfort
Anne Sexton
	Wanting To Die

*I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died*
John Betjeman
	The Cottage Hospital
Emily Dickinson
	I heard a Fly buzz–when I died

*It Will Not Matter That I Was a Woman*
Frank Bidart
	Ellen West
Eavan Boland
	Anna Liffey

*The Night Before My Love's Last Morning*
Frank Bidart
	If I Could Mourn Like a Mourning Dove
Tess Gallagher
	Laughter and Stars

*Where Go the Boats*
Bingxin
	Mother, if you see a tiny white paper boat in your sleep [trans. Kai-yu Hsu]
Robert Louis Stevenson
	Where Go the Boats

*A Cold Spring*
Elizabeth Bishop
	A Cold Spring
Elinor Wylie
	Wild Peaches

*Homesick*
Elizabeth Bishop
	Crusoe in England
Robert Thomas
	Repairing the Hubble Telescope

*First Death*
Elizabeth Bishop
	First Death in Nova Scotia
Seamus Heaney
	Mid-Term Break

*The Art of Losing*
Elizabeth Bishop
	One Art
Jorge Luis Borges
	In Praise of Darkness [trans. Hoyt Rogers]

*By Going Where I Have To Go*
Elizabeth Bishop
	One Art
Theodore Roethke
	The Waking

*Speaking of Poetry*
John Peale Bishop
	Speaking of Poetry
Heather McHugh
	What He Thought

*The Very Good*
Todd Boss
	The Hush of the Very Good
Tom Koontz
	So It Happens/As It Happens

*Vulture*
David Bottoms
	Under the Vulture-Tree
Robinson Jeffers
	Vulture

*Boy, You Don't Belong Here*
Kevin Bowen
	Incoming
Bruce Weigl
	Girl at the Chu Lai Laundry

*To Serve Therewith My Maker*
Anne Bradstreet
	Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper
John Milton
	When I consider how my light is spent
Edward Taylor
	Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children

*Concerning the Infanticide*
Bertolt Brecht
	Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar [trans. H.R. Hays]
Gwendolyn Brooks
	the mother

*Ballad of Ladies*
Bertolt Brecht
	Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar [trans. H.R. Hays]
Marilyn Hacker
	Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found

*In the Dark Times*
Bertolt Brecht
	Motto [trans. John Willett]
Gary Snyder
	For the Children

*What Is Poetry Which Does Not Save Nations or People?*
Bertolt Brecht
	To Those Born Later [trans. John Willett, Ralph Manheim & Erich Fried]
Czeslaw Milosz
	Dedication [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]

*How Much More Fortunate They Are Than We Are*
Gwendolyn Brooks
	Beverly Hills, Chicago
Leona Gom
	November

*In a Chainlink Pen*
Gwendolyn Brooks
	A Song in the Front Yard
Barry Lopez
	Desert Reservation

*Be Ornery*
LoVerne Brown
	Meeting of Mavericks
Gunter Eich
	Dreams [trans. Michael Hofmann]

Be Careful
LoVerne Brown
	Meeting of Mavericks
Yuan Mei
	Last Poem: Goodbye to My Garden [trans. J.P. Seaton]

*Master and Man*
Sterling A. Brown
	Master and Man
Thomas Alan Orr
	Soybeans

*The Time of the Apocalypse*
Edith Bruck
	Equality, Father [trans. Ruth Feldman]
Charles Reznikoff
	Entertainment [from Holocaust, IX]

*The Perfect Whole*
William Cullen Bryant
	Thanatopsis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
	Each and All

*Like a Wolf on the Fold*
George Gordon, Lord Byron
	The Destruction of Sennacherib
Ogden Nash
	Very Like a Whale

*She Found His Destruction Easy*
George Gordon, Lord Byron
	The Destruction of Sennacherib
John Crowe Ransom
	Judith of Bethulia

*Ecology*
Ernesto Cardenal
	Ecology [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
Tony Hoagland
	Ecology

*The Revolution Is Also One of Lakes, Rivers, Trees, Animals*
Ernesto Cardenal
	Ecology [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
Barry Lopez
	Desert Reservation

*In the Service of Barbarous Kings*
Ernesto Cardenal
	Ecology [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
Derek Mahon
	The Snow Party

*A Drive to Lone Ranger*
Ernesto Cardenal
	Mosquito Kingdom [trans. Donald D. Walsh]
James Fenton
	Dead Soldiers
Ray A. Young Bear
	A Drive to Lone Ranger

*But There Were 47 Who Died*
Ernesto Cardenal
	The Parrots [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
Tristan Corbiere
	Letter from Mexico [trans. William Meredith]

*Not Even the Rain Has Such Small Hands*
Hayden Carruth
	The Cows at Night
e.e. cummings
	somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond

*Traveling Through the Dark*
Hayden Carruth
	The Cows at Night
William Stafford
	Traveling Through the Dark

*Happiness*
Raymond Carver
	Happiness
Walt Whitman
	When I Heard at the Close of the Day

*Farewell*
Catullus
	By Strangers’ Coasts and Waters [trans. Robert Fitzgerald]
Tu Fu
	Dreaming of Li Po [trans. David Hinton]
Cesar Vallejo
	To My Brother Miguel in Memoriam [trans. James Wright]

*Internal Exile*
Richard Cecil
	Internal Exile
David Chin
	A Seven-Day Diary

*Meditation on a Bone*
Mike Chasar
	Conches on Christmas
Alfred Corn
	A Walrus Tusk from Alaska
A.D. Hope
	Meditation on a Bone

*In This Case, Plastic Forks Paper Plates and Cups Will Do*
David Chin
	A Seven-Day Diary
Nora Dauenhauer
	How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River

*Now It's Tomorrow, As Usual*
David Chin
	A Seven-Day Diary
James Schuyler
	Dining Out with Doug and Frank

*Dismissed From Military Service*
Dinos Christianopoulos
	Dismissed from Military Service [trans. Kimon Friar]
Alan Dugan
	Portrait From the Infantry
Perry Oldham
	Noon

*No Process Whatsoever Can Invent the Equal*
Amy Clampitt
	Marine Surface Low Overcast
Pablo Neruda
	Sidereal eagle, vine of mist [from Summits of Macchu Picchu, IX, trans. Kate Flores]

*The Goat God*
John Clare
	Badger
Cesare Pavese
	The Goat God [trans. William Arrowsmith]
Ruth Stone
	Cocks and Mares

*Goodbye While Saying Hello*
Henri Cole
	The Prince Enters the Forest
Alan Dugan
	Variation on a Theme by Stevens

*It Is Him, My Leader, My Love*
Billy Collins
	Dharma
Thom Gunn
	Yoko

*Pardon the Egg Salad Stains, But I'm in Love*
Billy Collins
	Marginalia
Tony Hoagland
	Grammar

*Why Do Your Poems Give Me a Headache?*
Billy Collins
	Marginalia
William Matthews
	A Poetry Reading at West Point

*The Wasp Knows Only What It Knows*
Billy Collins
	The Moment
Robert Francis
	The Wasp
May Swenson
	Unconscious Came a Beauty

Keeping the Company of Time and Eternity
Billy Collins
	The Moment
Howard Nemerov
	A Singular Metamorphosis
Charles Simic
	Mirrors at 4 A.M.
Reed Whittemore
	Still Life

*A Sense of Place*
Billy Collins
	A Sense of Place
Jules Supervielle
	The House Surrounded [trans. Patricia Terry]

*Traveling Alone*
Billy Collins
	Traveling Alone
Leonard Nathan
	Toast

*Death Is Indifferent to What Hide He Tans*
Tristan Corbiere
	Letter from Mexico [trans. William Meredith]
Keith Douglas
	Vergissmeinnicht

*Izle, Xyster, and Thalassacon*
Alfred Corn
	A Walrus Tusk from Alaska
Galway Kinnell
	Why Regret?
Sharon Olds
	Toth Farry

*One Train May Hide Another*
Gregory Corso
	Marriage
Kenneth Koch
	One Train May Hide Another

*O Love, Where Are You Leading Me Now?*
Robert Creeley
	Kore
Louise Gluck
	Mock Orange

*Group Photo*
Jeremy Cronin
	Group Photo from Pretoria Local on the Occasion of a Fourth Anniversary (Never Taken)
Reed Whittemore
	On Looking Through a Photo Album (of Viet Cong Prisoners)

*A Person Is a Person Because of Other People*
Jeremy Cronin
	Motho Ke Motho Ka Batho Babang (A Person Is a Person Because of Other People)
Etheridge Knight
	Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital

*Jim Crow*
Countee Cullen
	Incident
Langston Hughes
	Merry-Go-Round

*Incident*
Countee Cullen
	Incident
Dana Gioia
	Summer Storm

*A Bird Came Down the Walk*
e.e. cummings
	a man who had fallen among thieves
Emily Dickinson
	A bird came down the walk

*Abandon All Hope*
Dante Alighieri
	Inferno, Canto III [from The Divine Comedy; trans. Armand Schwerner]
W.S. Merwin
	Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen

*Salmon*
Nora Dauenhauer
	How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River
David Wagoner
	Salmon Boy

*The Snail Will Get to Easter Just as Soon*
Eustache Deschamps
	Ballade 1 [trans. David Curzon & Jeffrey Fiskin]
Donald Finkel
	Hunting Song

*Unfaithful*
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
	The Unfaithful Wife [trans. Paul Muldoon]
Paul Durcan
	The Haulier's Wife Meets Jesus on the Road Near Moone
Donald Hall
	When the Young Husband

*The Heaven of Animals*
James Dickey
	The Heaven of Animals
Yusef Komunyakaa
	Eclogue at Twilight

*Because I Could Not Stop For Death*
Emily Dickinson
	Because I could not stop for Death
Robert Frost
	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
W.S. Merwin
	Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen

*I'm Expecting You*
Emily Dickinson
	Bee! I'm expecting you
William Carlos Williams
	The Turtle

*Strange Meeting*
Emily Dickinson
	I died for Beauty–but was scarce
Wilfrid Owen
	Strange Meeting

*And Covered Up Our Names*
Emily Dickinson
	I died for Beauty–but was scarce
Christina Rossetti
	Song

Buzz
Emily Dickinson
	I heard a Fly buzz–when I died
Ted Hughes
	Buzz in the Window [from Orts, 17]

*That Bears the Human Soul*
Emily Dickinson
	There is no Frigate like a Book
Robert Frost
	Unharvested

*God the Eater*
Keith Douglas
	Time Eating
Stevie Smith
	God the Eater

*Dance*
Rita Dove
	Fox Trot Fridays
Theodore Roethke
	My Papa's Waltz
William Carlos Williams
	Danse Russe

*Grandfathers*
Norman Dubie
	A Grandfather’s Last Letter
Howard Kogan
	Bailey at the Museum
William Carlos Williams
	The Turtle

*Trapped By the God's Foot*
Carol Ann Duffy
	Mrs Lazarus
	Mrs Midas
Yannis Ritsos
	Marpessa’s Choice [trans. Edmund Keeley]
	Penelope's Despair [trans. Edmund Keeley]

*Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements*
Alan Dugan
	Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka
Aaron Fogel
	The Printer’s Error

*You Can't Teach Disbelief to a Child*
Stephen Dunn
	At the Smithville Methodist Church
Ronald Wallace
	The Facts of Life

*Talking In Bed*
Stephen Dunn
	Little Essay on Communication
Philip Larkin
	Talking in Bed

*Inferno*
Paul Durcan
	We resided in a Loreto convent in the centre of Dublin city [from Six Nuns Die in Convent Inferno, I]
Robert Pinsky
	Shirt

*For Mistresses I Want None*
Bob Dylan
	Boots of Spanish Leather
Robert Henryson
	Robin and Makyn

*The Beginning and the End*
T.S. Eliot
	Little Gidding
Walt Whitman
	I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end [Song of Myself, 3]

*The Unpromoted Flower*
Ralph Waldo Emerson
	The Rhodora
Robert Francis
	Stellaria

*Pre-revolution Americans*
Louise Erdrich
	Captivity
Susan Howe
	The Falls Fight [from Articulation of Sound Forms in Time]

*Penelope*
Padraic Fallon
	Kiltarten Legend
Yannis Ritsos
	Penelope's Despair [trans. Edmund Keeley]

*Gold*
Robert Francis
	Gold
Robert Frost
	Nothing Gold Can Stay

*Something Understood*
Robert Francis
	Pitcher
George Herbert
	Prayer

*To Stop Without a Farmhouse Near*
Robert Francis
	The Stile
Robert Frost
	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

*While She Sleeps*
Robert Francis
	While I Slept
Seamus Heaney
	In Memoriam M.K.H. (1911-1984) [from Clearances, 3]

*It Is the Movement That Creates the Form*
Robert Francis
	Catch
	Pitcher
Richard Howard
	Like Most Revelations

*He is a Beauty Mark*
Robert Francis
	He died at eighty. Out in the fields that summer [Four Men, IV]
Tom Koontz
	A Face of Winter

*Blue Jays*
Robert Francis
	Bluejays
Paul Lake
	Blue Jay
Pattiann Rogers
	The Next Story

*Endurance*
Robert Francis
	Monadnock
Mona Van Duyn
	A View

*Design*
Robert Frost
	Design
James Wright
	The Journey

*Lament*
Tess Gallagher
	Laughter and Stars
Thom Gunn
	Lament
Donald Hall
	Last Days

*The Nothing That Is*
Eamon Grennan
	Totem
Wallace Stevens
	The Snow Man

*Perfection*
Eamon Grennan
	Totem
William Carlos Williams
	Perfection

*Uncle Dog*
Thom Gunn
	Yoko
Carolyn Kizer
	Bitch
Robert Sward
	Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9

*She Could Bind the World's Winds*
Marilyn Hacker
	Rune of the Finland Woman
Llywarch Hen
	The Head of Urien [a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]

*Leaving Home*
Rachel Hadas
	The Red Hat
Linda Pastan
	To a Daughter Leaving Home

*Power*
Corrine Hales
	Power
John Milton
	When I consider how my light is spent

*Get the Cement Truck Into the Poem*
Donald Hall
	Ox Cart Man
Tony Hoagland
	Cement Truck

*Prophecy*
Donald Hall
	Prophecy
Richard Wilbur
	Advice to a Prophet

*Afterwards*
Thomas Hardy
	Afterwards
John Masefield
	There, on the Darkened Deathbed

*Autumn*
Thomas Hardy
	Shortening Days at the Homestead
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Autumn Day [trans. John Felstiner]

*Pilot Oh Pilot*
Robert Hayden
	Middle Passage [Part I]
Susan Howe
	The Falls Fight [from Articulation of Sound Forms in Time]

*A Coal Fire in Winter*
Robert Hayden
	Those Winter Sundays
Thomas McGrath
	A Coal Fire in Winter

*My Father*
Robert Hayden
	Those Winter Sundays
Alden Nowlan
	Weakness
Theodore Roethke
	My Papa's Waltz

*Bog Queen*
Seamus Heaney
	Bog Queen
David Wagoner
	Leaving Something Behind

*Fighting for Ireland*
Seamus Heaney
	Casualty
Paul Muldoon
	Anseo

*Funeral Rites*
Seamus Heaney
	Funeral Rites
William Carlos Williams
	Tract

*Ars Poetica*
Seamus Heaney
	Personal Helicon
Czeslaw Milosz
	Ars Poetica? [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Lillian Vallee]

*Her Kind*
Seamus Heaney
	Punishment
A.D. Hope
	Advice to Young Ladies
Anne Sexton
	Her Kind

*A Hill*
Anthony Hecht
	A Hill
Mona Van Duyn
	A View

*Childermas*
Anthony Hecht
	"It Out-Herods Herod, Pray You Avoid It"
Richard Wilbur
	The Writer

*All Lords to My Lord*
Llywarch Hen
	The Head of Urien [a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]
Colman mac Lenini
	In Praise of a Sword Given Him by His Prince [trans. Richard O’Connell]
Itaikkunrurkilar
	His Legs Strong and Lithe [from the Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans. George L. Hart III]

*Prayer*
George Herbert
	Prayer
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	The Habit of Perfection

*Mother Tongue*
Zbigniew Herbert
	Mr. Cogito–The Return [trans. John & Bogdana Carpenter]
Czeslaw Milosz
	My Faithful Mother Tongue [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Robert Hass]

*To His Coy Mistress*
Robert Herrick
	Corinna's Going A-Maying
Andrew Marvell
	To His Coy Mistress

*Cellblock*
Nazim Hikmet
	About Mount Uludag [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
Etheridge Knight
	The Idea of Ancestry

*A Walk*
Nazim Hikmet
	The Evening Walk [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
Giacomo Leopardi
	Saturday Night in the Village [trans. Robert Lowell]
Frank O'Hara
	A Step Away from Them
Gary Snyder
	A Walk

*Elephants*
Tony Hoagland
	Cement Truck
Marianne Moore
	Elephants

*Swans*
John Hollander
	Swan and Shadow
Mary Oliver
	The Swan
William Butler Yeats
	The Wild Swans at Coole

*Unconscious Came a Beauty*
John Hollander
	Swan and Shadow
May Swenson
	Unconscious Came a Beauty

*Thousands Have Died Since Dawn*
Miroslav Holub
	The fly [trans. George Theiner]
Derek Mahon
	The Snow Party

*A Sensible Emptiness*
A.D. Hope
	Australia
Richard Wilbur
	"A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness"

*The Train*
A.D. Hope
	Observation Car
Philip Larkin
	The Whitsun Weddings

*Sickness Broke Him*
Gerard Manley Hopkins
	Felix Randal
W.D. Snodgrass
	A Flat One

*War Prayer*
Julia Ward Howe
	The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mark Twain
	The War Prayer

*What Were They Like?*
Langston Hughes
	Harlem
Denise Levertov
	What Were They Like?

*What Would You Tell Your Child?*
Ted Hughes
	Ravens
William Stafford
	With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach

*Therefore I Decided to Live a Long Time*
Ibaragi Noriko
	When I Was Prettiest in My Life [trans. Naoshi Koriyama & Edward Lueders]
Yuan Mei
	Last Poem: Goodbye to My Garden [trans. J.P. Seaton]

*Like a Tiger Living In a Cramped Cave*
Itaikkunrurkilar
	His Legs Strong and Lithe [from the Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans. George L. Hart III]
William Shakespeare
	Now is the winter of our discontent [Richard III: I, i, 1-41]

*A Prayer to Go to Heaven*
Francis Jammes
	A Prayer to Go to Heaven with the Donkeys [trans. Richard Wilbur]
Mary Ruefle
	Kiss of the Sun

*The Peaceful Animals, Close to God*
Francis Jammes
	A Prayer to Go to Heaven with the Donkeys [trans. Richard Wilbur]
Umberto Saba
	To My Wife [trans. Felix Stefanile]

*Boats in a Fog*
Robinson Jeffers
	Boats in a Fog
Robert Penn Warren
	Masts at Dawn

*The Bone Shop of the Heart*
Robinson Jeffers
	The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
William Butler Yeats
	The Circus Animals' Desertion

*Drink From Her Breasts*
Robinson Jeffers
	Fawn's Foster-Mother
Elena Shvarts
	Remembrance of Strange Hospitality [trans. Michael Molnar]

*Perishing Republic*
Robinson Jeffers
	Shine, Perishing Republic
Louis Simpson
	The Inner Part

*Never May the Anarchic Man Find Rest at My Hearth*
Robinson Jeffers
	Shine, Perishing Republic
Sophocles
	Numberless are the world’s wonders [Chorus from Antigone; trans Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald]

*The Bones of His Dwindling Father*
Richard Jones
	Sky Funeral
Li-Young Lee
	Persimmons
Michael Longley
	Laertes [from Homeric Poems]

*Lying Here Quietly*
Richard Jones
	The Loft
Kenneth Rexroth
	Quietly

*A Contribution to Statistics*
Attila Jozsef
	The Seventh [trans. John Batki]
Wislawa Szymborska
	A Contribution to Statistics [trans. Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh]

*Life Draws a Tree*
Roberto Juarroz
	Life draws a tree [trans. W.S. Merwin]
Wallace Stevens
	Of Mere Being

*Posters*
Donald Justice
	Mule Team and Poster
Philip Larkin
	Sunny Prestatyn
Heberto Padilla
	Landscapes [trans. Alastair Reid & Andrew Hurley]

*Battlefield*
Kakkaipirtiniyar Naccellaiyar
	Many Said [from the Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans. George L. Hart III]
Walt Whitman
	Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

*To Find an Argument in a Straw*
Patrick Kavanagh
	Epic
William Shakespeare
	How all occasions do inform against me [Hamlet: IV, iv, 32-66]

*Fears That I May Cease To Be*
John Keats
	When I have fears that I may cease to be
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
	Mezzo Cammin
John Masefield
	There, on the Darkened Deathbed

*When I . . .*
John Keats
	When I have fears that I may cease to be
John Milton
	When I consider how my light is spent
Walt Whitman
	When I Heard at the Close of the Day

*Two Toadstools for Tits and a Face Full of Weeds*
X.J. Kennedy
	In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
John Crowe Ransom
	Captain Carpenter

*After Making Love We Hear Footsteps*
Galway Kinnell
	After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Ronald Wallace
	The Facts of Life

*Conversation*
Galway Kinnell
	Conversation
Theocritus
	Idyll I [trans. William Carlos Williams]

*Time Is the Mercy of Eternity*
Galway Kinnell
	Last Gods
Kenneth Rexroth
	Time Is the Mercy of Eternity

*What a Beautiful Couple We Were!*
Anonymous
	With candour I confess my love [trans. Ezra Pound & Noel Stock]
Carolyn Kizer
	Summer Near the River
Nguyen Gia Thieu
	Sorrows of an Abandoned Queen [trans. Nguyen Ngoc Bich]
Kenneth Rexroth
	The Love Poems of Marichiko [IV, VII, IX, XXV, XXVII, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV]

*The Oldest Element in Her Universe*
Howard Kogan
	Bailey at the Museum
William Stafford
	With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach

*Vietnam Memorial*
Yusef Komunyakaa
	Facing It
Ray A. Young Bear
	Wadasa Nakamoon, Vietnam Memorial

*Two Neat Geometries Drawn in the Weather*
Tom Koontz
	A Face of Winter
Norman MacCaig
	So many summers

*My 18-Year-Old Son Took Off for the East*
Maxine Kumin
	The Bangkok Gong
Marcia Southwick
	A Portrait of Larry with Trogons

*Images*
Valery Larbaud
	Images [trans. William Jay Smith]
Philip Levine
	Salami

*Wanderer's Bouquet*
Valery Larbaud
	Images [trans. William Jay Smith]
So Chongju
	Wanderer’s Bouquet [trans. David R. McCann]

*Aubade*
Philip Larkin
	Aubade
Irving Layton
	An Aubade

*My Train Pulled Out*
Philip Larkin
	The Whitsun Weddings
Louis MacNeice
	To Wales once more, though not on holiday now [from Autumn Sequel, Canto XX]

*This Close*
Dorianne Laux
	This Close
Sharon Olds
	Last Night
Kenneth Rexroth
	The Love Poems of Marichiko [IV, VII, IX, XXV, XXVII, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV]
Vikatanitamba
	When He Pressed His Lips [trans. Steve Kowit]

*Moriturus*
D.H. Lawrence
	The Ship of Death
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Moriturus

*Ship of Death*
D.H. Lawrence
	The Ship of Death
Paulinaq
	Death Song for Aijuk, Dreamed by Paulinaq [trans. W.E. Calvert]

*Snake*
D.H. Lawrence
	Snake
Mary Oliver
	The Black Snake

*O Wha's the Bride?*
D.H. Lawrence
	A Youth Mowing
Hugh MacDiarmid
	O Wha’s the Bride?

*Benediction*
David Lee
	Benediction
Edwin Arlington Robinson
	Mr. Flood’s Party

*How We Go On*
Li-Young Lee
	The Hammock
Gary Snyder
	Axe Handles

*To His Lady*
Giacomo Leopardi
	To His Lady [trans. Jonathan Galassi]
Umberto Saba
	To My Wife [trans. Felix Stefanile]
Ramon Lopez Velarde
	Because of this Modest Style [trans. Michael Schmidt]

*Each Minute the Last Minute*
Denise Levertov
	Living
May Swenson
	Question

*The People of Vietnam*
Denise Levertov
	What Were They Like?
Richard M. Mishler
	Ceremony
Reed Whittemore
	On Looking Through a Photo Album (of Viet Cong Prisoners)

*You Can Have It*
Philip Levine
	You Can Have It
James Wright
	The Flying Eagles of Troop 52

*Such Skill in Distribution to Every Pocket of Life*
Laurence Lieberman
	The Coral Reef
William H. Matchett
	Water Ouzel

*Coral Reef*
Laurence Lieberman
	The Coral Reef
Marianne Moore
	The Fish

*At Fourteen I Married My Lord You*
Li Po
	The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter [trans. Ezra Pound]
Mayumi Tanaka
	A Sneeze [trans. Naoshi Koriyama & Edward Lueders]
Yosano Akiko
	What shall I wear to sleep in alone? [from The Channel Boat; trans. Janine Beichman]

*They Do Not Break Up Their Lines to Weep*
Li Po
	The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter [trans. Ezra Pound]
William Butler Yeats
	Lapis Lazuli

*The Word of the Sweetest Song and All Songs*
Robert Lowell
	Mr. Edwards and the Spider
Walt Whitman
	Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

*The Line Between Prose and Poetry*
Archibald MacLeish
	Ars Poetica
Howard Nemerov
	Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry

*As Vasserot Was Lighting a Match Between His First and* *Second Toe*
Archibald MacLeish
	The End of the World
Charles Simic
	Country Fair

*All Swords to My Sword*
Colman mac Lenini
	In Praise of a Sword Given Him by His Prince [trans. Richard O’Connell]
Chidiock Tichborne
	Tichborne’s Elegy

*No One Here But Was a Friend of Gwilym's*
Louis MacNeice
	To Wales once more, though not on holiday now [from Autumn Sequel, Canto XX]
James Schuyler
	Dining Out with Doug and Frank

*Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes Are Gay*
Derek Mahon
	The Snow Party
William Butler Yeats
	Lapis Lazuli

*Speech Against Stone*
Charles Martin
	Speech Against Stone
Richard Wilbur
	A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra

*A Green Thought In a Green Shade*
Andrew Marvell
	Thoughts in a Garden
Wallace Stevens
	Of Mere Being

*A Night at the Opera*
William Matthews
	A Night at the Opera
A.E. Stallings
	The Song Rehearsal

*The Band Played On*
William Matthews
	Mingus At The Showplace
Bill Zavatsky
	Live at the Village Vanguard

*Suck It Up*
William Matthews
	A Poetry Reading at West Point
Paul Zimmer
	Suck It Up

*Ballad*
W.S. Merwin
	Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
Ezra Pound
	Ballad of the Goodly Fere

*Come With No Company to the Far Side*
W.S. Merwin
	Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes [trans. Franz Wright]

*I, Being Born a Woman*
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	I, being born a woman and distressed
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
	The Lover: A Ballad
Laura Riding
	Summary for Alastor
May Swenson
	A Couple

*Signifying Nothing*
Edna St. Vincent Millay
	Spring
William Shakespeare
	To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow [Macbeth: V, v, 19-28]

*Quiet Consummation Have*
Czeslaw Milosz
	Dedication [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
William Shakespeare
	Fear no more the heat o' the sun [Cymbeline: IV, ii, 258-281]

*There Will Be No Other End of the World*
Czeslaw Milosz
	A Song on the End of the World [trans Tony Milosz]
Jules Supervielle
	Prophecy [trans. Patricia Terry]

*Don't Waken When the Next Dictator Crows*
Czeslaw Milosz
	Dedication [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
Adam Zagajewski
	Electric Elegy [trans. Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry & C.K. Williams]

*Blind*
John Milton
	When I consider how my light is spent
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Going Blind [trans Walter Arndt]

*Prisoner*
Nguyen Chi Thien
	A Jungle Night [trans. Huyng Sanh Thong]
Irina Ratushinskaya
	But only not to think [trans. David McDuff]

*Mare*
Alden Nowlan
	Weakness
Belle Waring
	Before Penicillin

*Maternity*
Sharon Olds
	First Birth
Anna Swir
	Maternity [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Leonard Nathan]

*The Whipcrack of the Mortgage*
Mary Oliver
	The Black Walnut Tree
Thomas Alan Orr
	Soybeans

*He Came to the Road*
Mary Oliver
	The Black Snake
William Stafford
	Traveling Through the Dark

*Procession*
Mary Oliver
	The Swan
Walt Whitman
	Dirge for Two Veterans

*Farmers*
Thomas Alan Orr
	Soybeans
Carter Revard
	In Kansas
Gary Snyder
	Hay for the Horses

*Pro Patria*
Wilfrid Owen
	Dulce Et Decorum Est
Heberto Padilla
	Landscapes [trans. Alastair Reid & Andrew Hurley]

*Before My Helpless Sight*
Wilfrid Owen
	Dulce Et Decorum Est
Walt Whitman
	Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

*Some Crude Letters*
Heberto Padilla
	Landscapes [trans. Alastair Reid & Andrew Hurley]
Dan Pagis
	Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car [trans. Stephen Mitchell]

*Old Man*
Cesare Pavese
	Instinct [trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni]
Po Chu-i
	On Being Sixty [trans. Arthur Waley]

*Black Rook*
Sylvia Plath
	Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Wallace Stevens
	No Possum, No Sop, No Taters

*You My Townspeople*
Ezra Pound
	Cino
William Carlos Williams
	Tract

*How a Brave Man Dies on the Tree*
Ezra Pound
	Ballad of the Goodly Fere
John Crowe Ransom
	Captain Carpenter

*Casey Has Struck Out*
A.K. Ramanujan
	At Forty,
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
	Casey at the Bat

*The Public Boughs*
Alastair Reid
	Pigeons
Richard Wilbur
	After the Last Bulletins

*You Must Change Your Life*
Rainer Maria Rilke
	Archaic Torso of Apollo [trans.Stephen Mitchell; Vernon Watkins]
Gary Snyder
	Why Log Truck Drivers Rise Earlier Than Students of Zen
James Wright
	Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

*Neither Father Nor Lover*
Theodore Roethke
	Elegy for Jane
Miller Williams
	A Poem for Emily

*Elegy*
Theodore Roethke
	Elegy for Jane
James Wright
	To the Muse

*The Far Field*
Theodore Roethke
	The Far Field
Edward Thomas
	Tall Nettles

*A House of Mercy*
Theodore Roethke
	Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
Stevie Smith
	A House of Mercy

*How Love Fled*
Pierre de Ronsard
	When you are old and grey and full of sleep [from Sonnets to Helen; trans . William Butler Yeats]
William Butler Yeats
	The Song of Wandering Aengus

*The Mixed Hoofs*
Isaac Rosenberg
	Dead Man's Dump
Edward Thomas
	As the team’s head brass

*Pretending That Women Are Fowl*
Umberto Saba
	To My Wife [trans. Felix Stefanile]
Ruth Stone
	Cocks and Mares

*The Morning Air Is All Awash With Angels*
Anne Sexton
	Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
Richard Wilbur
	Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

*I Sang In My Chains Like the Sea*
Anne Sexton
	The Room of My Life
Dylan Thomas
	Fern Hill

*The Top Bard: Reality & Fantasy*
William Shakespeare
	All the world’s a stage [As You Like It, II, vii, 139-166]
	O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you [Romeo and Juliet: I, iv, 53-94]

*My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun*
William Shakespeare
	My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun [Sonnet 130]
Charles Simic
	My Beloved

*What Rough Beast*
Harvey Shapiro
	National Cold Storage Company
William Butler Yeats
	The Second Coming

*The Old World*
Charles Simic
	The Old World
James Wright
	The Journey

*The Slopes of Statistics*
Gary Snyder
	For the Children
Wislawa Szymborska
	A Contribution to Statistics [trans. Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh]

*That's Just What I've Gone and Done*
Gary Snyder
	Hay for the Horses
William Carlos Williams
	The Last Words of My English Grandmother

*They Were Delicious*
Gary Snyder
	Soy Sauce
William Carlos Williams
	This Is Just to Say

*Is a Child Coming to Receive It?*
So Chongju
	Wanderer’s Bouquet [trans. David R. McCann]
Robert Louis Stevenson
	Where Go the Boats

*Numberless Are the World's Wonders*
Sophocles
	Numberless are the world’s wonders [Chorus from Antigone; trans Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald]
Walt Whitman
	The pure contralto sings in the organ loft [Song of Myself, 15]

*Once Out of Nature*
Wallace Stevens
	Of Mere Being
William Butler Yeats
	Sailing to Byzantium

*The Snow Man*
Wallace Stevens
	The Snow Man
Richard Wilbur
	Boy at the Window

*Now He Was Salmon Boy*
May Swenson
	The Centaur
David Wagoner
	Salmon Boy

*Floating in God's Brain*
May Swenson
	First Walk on the Moon
Robert Thomas
	Repairing the Hubble Telescope

*On the Marginal Way*
May Swenson
	Morning at Point Dume
Richard Wilbur
	On the Marginal Way

*We Have Just Begun Our Part of the Fighting*
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
	Casey at the Bat
Walt Whitman
	Would you hear of an old-time sea fight? [Song of Myself, 35]

*Wonderful Were the Long Secret Nights*
Edith Wharton
	Terminus
Walt Whitman
	When I Heard at the Close of the Day

*Spider*
E.B. White
	Natural History
Walt Whitman
	A Noiseless Patient Spider
James Wright
	The Journey