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 Clouds Go, Nevertheless, In Their Direction
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
Vladimir Holan
June, July, and August, 1945 [trans. C.G. Hanzlicek & Dana Habova]
        The Brave Fighter's Fine Shield Shines
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
        A Corpse's Hair
Anonymous
The Old Woman of Beare [c. 800; Irish Gaelic; trans. Brendan Kenneally]
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus
        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
        We Are Kind to Snails
Fleur Adcock
For a Five-Year-Old
William Carlos Williams
The Turtle
        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]
        O Daughter
Ai
Child Beater
Rita Dove
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before
     Bed
        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]
        The Truth of a Suffered Life
Anna Akhmatova
Requiem [trans. Stanley Kunitz & Max Hayward]
Eavan Boland
Anna Liffey
        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"
        Not a Speck of Death
Julia Alvarez
How I Learned to Sweep
Carolyn Kizer
The Intruder
        How I Learned to Sweep
Julia Alvarez
How I Learned to Sweep
Robert Thomas
Repairing the Hubble Telescope
        A Circle With No End
Yehuda Amichai
The Diameter of the Bomb [trans. Chana Bloch]
Wislawa Szymborska
The Terrorist, He Watches [trans. Adam Czerniawski]
        Talking to the Sun
A.R. Ammons
Ballad
Frank O'Hara
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
        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
        The Grating Roar of Pebbles
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
Tom Disch
XXX [from MCMLXXXIV]
        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
        Public Square
John Ashbery
The Instruction Manual
Ussin Kerim
Babahak [trans. William Matthews]
        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
Czeslaw Milosz
Mittelbergheim [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
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
Charles Simic
Psalm
        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
        And Turn In Time to Catch the Flash
W.H. Auden
Musee des Beaux Arts
Robert Francis
His Own
        To Undertake the Perilous Descent
W.H. Auden
Musee des Beaux Arts
Joseph Harrison
Air Larry
        Where 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
        Will You Come to My Room?
W.H. Auden
The Platonic Blow
C.K. Williams
Combat
        Report From the Besieged City
W.H. Auden
The Shield of Achilles
Zbigniew Herbert
Report from the Besieged City [trans. John Carpenter & Bogdana
        Carpenter]
        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
        When You Love, Or Speak Of It
Aphra Behn
When you Love, or speak of it
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The Lover: A Ballad
        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]
Czeslaw Milosz
Mittelbergheim [trans. Czeslaw Milosz]
        The Shape, the Label, the Labor, the Color
Stephen Berg
The Coat
Robert Pinsky
Shirt
        Jews Understand Coats
Stephen Berg
The Coat
Ira Sadoff
Nazis
        The Hat in the Sky
Stephen Berg
In a New Leaf
Al Zolynas
The Hat in the Sky
        I Had Grieved. He Lived.
Olga Berggolts
Infidelity [trans. Daniel Weissbort]
Carol Ann Duffy
Mrs Lazarus
        Wanting to Die
John Berryman
Henry's Understanding
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Carrion Comfort
Anne Sexton
Wanting To Die
        I Heard a Fly Buzz
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
Oksana Zabuzhko
Letter from the Summer House [trans. Douglas Smith]
        The Island Smelled of Goat and Guano
Elizabeth Bishop
Crusoe in England
Lorine Niedecker
Darwin [I-V]
        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
        Into That World Inverted
Elizabeth Bishop
Insomnia
John Hewitt
Substance and Shadow
        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
        Little Moons Fall Down Like Tears
Elizabeth Bishop
Sestina
Donald Justice
On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for
      the Insane
        Sestina for the House
Elizabeth Bishop
Sestina
Ronald Wallace
Sestina for the House
        Speaking of Poetry
John Peale Bishop
Speaking of Poetry
Heather McHugh
What He Thought
        Free From Love, From Me
Jorge Luis Borges
Anticipation of Love [trans. Robert Fitzgerald]
Galway Kinnell
Rapture
        Break of Day
Jorge Luis Borges
Break of Day [trans. Stephen Kessler]
Isaac Rosenberg
Break of Day in the Trenches
        You Must Change Your Life
Jorge Luis Borges
Emerson [trans. Mark Strand]
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
        The Ancient Night is Bottomless
Jorge Luis Borges
Manuscript Found in a Book of Joseph Conrad [trans. Alastair Reid]
Wallace Stevens
Of Mere Being
        Incised At Times By the Illusory
Jorge Luis Borges
Mirrors [trans. Alastair Reid]
Billy Collins
The Moment
        The Word That Is the World
Jorge Luis Borges
Parable of the Palace [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
David Ray
The Greatest Poem in the World
        I Abhor Him
Jorge Luis Borges
The Watcher [trans. Alastair Reid]
Tom Disch
The Doppelganger
        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
        Will There Also Be Singing?
Bertolt Brecht
Motto [trans. John Willett]
Tom Koontz
thousands killed in the attack
        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
        Everybody Must Get Stoned
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Musical Instrument
Bob Dylan
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
        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
        Swisser Swatter
Robert Olen Butler
Walter Raleigh, courtier and explorer, beheaded by King James I,
      1618
Charles North
Chaucer
        Conquered By His Conquest
George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Victor Hugo
Expiation [Part 1; trans. Louis Simpson]
        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
        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
        It Gets About the Size of a Watermelon Seed
Fred Chappell
Fast Ball
Robert Francis
Pitcher
        Speak, Speak
Fred Chappell
Heath at Two: Learning to Talk
Rhina P. Espaillat
Evan, Breathing
        And Set His Loving Free
Fred Chappell
Heath at Two: Learning to Talk
Robert Wrigley
Do You Love Me?
        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
        I Was That Lonely
Chu Shu-chen
Morning [trans. Kenneth Rexroth]
Theodore Roethke
The Geranium
        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
Li Kuang-t'ien
A Dead Turk [trans. Kai-yu Hsu]
        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
        Her Hair Held Earth
Robert Creeley
Kore
Bruce Hunter
Manta Ray
        Be For Me, Like Rain
Robert Creeley
The Rain
e.e. cummings
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
        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
        Lord Let Me Suffer Much
Bernard Dadie
I Thank You God [trans. John O. Reed & Clive Wake]
Francis Jammes
A Prayer to Go to Heaven with the Donkeys [trans. Richard Wilbur]
Anna Kamienska
A Prayer That Will Be Answered [trans. Thomas P. Krzeszowski &
       Desmond Graham]
        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
        A Rough Plain Hearse
Tom Disch
In Defense of Forest Lawn
Bruce Hunter
The Funeral
William Carlos Williams
Tract
        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]
        Decimate Us!
Alan Dugan
The Decimation Before Phraata
William Butler Yeats
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
        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
        I'm Damn Sick of Ape
Russell Edson
Ape
Moishe Leib Halpern
Man, That Ape [trans. John Hollander]
        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]
        And There Stood Death
Rhina P. Espaillat
Trick or Treat [from Three for the Bones]
Donald Justice
Incident in a Rose Garden (2)
        Black and White and Black
Rhina P. Espaillat
Two Nuns at the Mall
Tom Koontz
A Face of Winter
        How Rain Translates the Sky
Rhina P. Espaillat
On the Impossibility of Translation
Howard Nemerov
Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry
        Nobody Praises Pigeons
Rhina P. Espaillat
A Eulogy, Maybe
Alastair Reid
Pigeons
        Bent With Fruit
Rhina P. Espaillat
This Is To Tell You
William Carlos Williams
This Is Just to Say
        I Shall Live On
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
The Love I Gave You Once [trans. Mahbub-ul-Haq]
Pablo Neruda
Dead Woman [trans.Brian Cole]
        Penelope
Padraic Fallon
Kiltarten Legend
Yannis Ritsos
Penelope's Despair [trans. Edmund Keeley]
        Thousands Have Died Since Dawn
Franco Fortini
Far Away, Far Away . . . [trans. Geoffrey Brock]
Miroslav Holub
The fly [trans. George Theiner]
Derek Mahon
The Snow Party
        Gold
Robert Francis
Gold
Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay
        Going Where I Have To Go
Robert Francis
Old Man's Confession of Faith
Theodore Roethke
The Waking
        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]
        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
Pattiann Rogers
The Next Story
        Endurance
Robert Francis
Monadnock
Mona Van Duyn
A View
        Design
Robert Frost
Design
James Wright
The Journey
        I Eat Men Like Air
Alice Fulton
Fictions of the Feminine: Quasi-Carnal Creatures from the Cloud
      Decks of Venus
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus
        Lament
Tess Gallagher
Laughter and Stars
Thom Gunn
Lament
Donald Hall
Last Days
        Summer Storm
Dana Gioia
Summer Storm
Louis Simpson
Summer Storm
        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
Tom Koontz
Currrr
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
        No Light
Anthony Hecht
"More Light, More Light!"
Siamanto
The Dance [trans. Peter Balakian & Nevart Yaghlian]
        Kingly and Grand
Llywarch Hen
The Head of Urien [a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court'
      aka Lewis Turco]
Al-Khansa
On Her Brother Sakhr [trans. Willis Barnstone]
        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
        Something Understood
George Herbert
Prayer
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I will put Chaos into fourteen lines
        Mother Tongue
Zbigniew Herbert
Mr. Cogito–The Return [trans. John Carpenter & 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
        Love in the Classroom
Tony Hoagland
Grammar
Al Zolynas
Love in the Classroom
        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
        A Sensible Emptiness
A.D. Hope
Australia
Richard Wilbur
"A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness"
        Observation Car
A.D. Hope
Observation Car
Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings
        Sickness Broke Him
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Felix Randal
W.D. Snodgrass
A Flat One
        Life Death Does End
Gerard Manley Hopkins
No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief
William Shakespeare
Fear no more the heat o' the sun [Cymbeline: IV, ii, 258-281]
        War Prayer
Julia Ward Howe
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mark Twain
The War Prayer
        In a Naked Room
Langston Hughes
Desire
Edith Wharton
Terminus
        What Were They Like?
Langston Hughes
Harlem
Denise Levertov
What Were They Like?
        Life Is Fine!
Langston Hughes
Life Is Fine
Galway Kinnell
Why Regret?
Denise Levertov
Living
        What Would You Tell Your Child?
Ted Hughes
Ravens
William Stafford
With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach
        Wilfred Owen's Photographs
Ted Hughes
Wilfred Owen's Photographs
Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est
        They've Come From All Parts of the World
Bruce Hunter
What My Students Teach Me
Al Zolynas
Love in the Classroom
        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]
        A Clever Servant, Insufferable Master
Robinson Jeffers
Shine, Perishing Republic
Elinor Wylie
The Eagle and the Mole
        The Bones of His Dwindling Father
Richard Jones
Sky Funeral
Li-Young Lee
Persimmons
Michael Longley
Laertes [from Homeric Poems]
        The River-Merchant's Wife
Richard Jones
Wan Chu's Wife in Bed
Li Po
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter [trans. Ezra Pound]
        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
        Life Draws a Bird
Roberto Juarroz
Life draws a tree [trans. W.S. Merwin]
Sylvia Plath
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Wallace Stevens
No Possum, No Sop, No Taters
        The Nival Heaven of the Himalayas
Donald Justice
Here in Katmandu
William Matthews
Scenic View
        A Great Transverse Tear
Donald Justice
Mule Team and Poster
Philip Larkin
Sunny Prestatyn
Heberto Padilla
Landscapes [trans. Alastair Reid & Andrew Hurley]
        I'll Drown My Book
Donald Justice
Last Days of Prospero
William Shakespeare
Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves [The Tempest:
        V, i, 33-57]
        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
        And Refused To Go
Anne Killigrew
On Death
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Moriturus
        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]
        Lieutenant! This Corpse Will Not Stop Burning!
Galway Kinnell
The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible
Bruce Weigl
Burning Shit at An Khe
        Time Is the Mercy of Eternity
Galway Kinnell
Last Gods
Kenneth Rexroth
Time Is the Mercy of Eternity
        It Is Better to Say 'I Am Suffering' Than to Say 'This
             Landscape is Ugly'
Carolyn Kizer
The Intruder
Howard Kogan
Winter Wren
Heather McHugh
The Matter Over
        What a Beautiful Couple We Were!
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]
        Two Neat Geometries Drawn in the Weather
Hester Knibbe
Last Night [trans. Jacquelyn Pope]
Tom Koontz
A Face of Winter
Norman MacCaig
So many summers
May Swenson
The Wave and the Dune
        The Oldest Element in Her Universe
Howard Kogan
Bailey at the Museum
David Ray
In the Gallery Room
William Stafford
With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach
        Vietnam Memorial
Yusef Komunyakaa
Facing It
Ray A. Young Bear
Wadasa Nakamoon, Vietnam Memorial
        When Every Boulevard Led to the End of the World
Tom Koontz
from a letter, Sarajevo...
Marko Vesovic
Immortal Instant [trans. Chris Agee]
        A Green Thought
Tom Koontz
The Gift
Andrew Marvell
Thoughts in a Garden
        The Very House Itself Is Ringing Like a Skull
Tom Koontz
Poetry Is the Life of the Soul
David Ray
The Greatest Poem in the World
        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]
        Build Your 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?
        Strangers Would Have Shut the Doors
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 Old Medallions to the Thumb
Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Sonnet is a moment's monument [from The House of Life]
        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
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
        Bystanders
William Matthews
Bystanders
Siamanto
The Dance [trans. Peter Balakian & Nevart Yaghlian]
        Almost Inconsolably
William Matthews
Loyal
John Updike
Dog’s Death
        The Band Played On
William Matthews
Mingus At The Showplace
Bill Zavatsky
Live at the Village Vanguard
        A Night at the Opera
William Matthews
A Night at the Opera
A.E. Stallings
The Song Rehearsal
        Taught Me Something About Difficulty
William Matthews
A Poetry Reading at West Point
Heather McHugh
What He Thought
        Eager for Wise, Insightful Instruction
William Matthews
A Poetry Reading at West Point
Paul Zimmer
Suck It Up
        No Day Is Right For the Apocalypse
William Matthews
The Waste Carpet
W.S. Merwin
The Last One
        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
        I Shall Bolt My Door
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Moriturus
Elinor Wylie
Prophecy
        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]
        Let Me See You
Mira Bai
Let me see you [trans. Willis Barnstone & Usha Nilsson]
Frank O'Hara
To the Harbormaster
        Like Snow Fallen On Clear Water
Roger Mitchell
Homage to Beatrix Potter
Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man
        Her Mother Has Just Said Goodbye
Roger Mitchell
The Story of the White Cup
Dan Pagis
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car [trans. Stephen Mitchell]
        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]
        That Night of Love
Sharon Olds
Last Night
Anna Swir
The First Madrigal [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
        The Backside of a Hundred Acre Run
Thomas Alan Orr
Soybeans
Carter Revard
In Kansas
Gary Snyder
Hay for the Horses
        Pro Patria
Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Heberto Padilla
Landscapes [trans. Alastair Reid & Andrew Hurley]
        Before My Helpless Sight
Wilfred 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]
        The Room Is a Conch Shell
Gyorgy Petri
Gratitude [trans. Clive Wilmer & George Gomori]
Marge Piercy
Salt in the Afternoon
        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
        How Will I Go Out Onto the Balcony Without My Youth?
Adelia Prado
Serenade [trans. Ellen Dore Watson]
William Shakespeare
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? [Romeo and Juliet:
       II, ii, 2-135]
        Casey Has Struck Out
A.K. Ramanujan
At Forty,
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat
        Where the Waves Show Their Teeth
David Ray
The Waves
William Stafford
With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach
        The Public Boughs
Alastair Reid
Pigeons
Richard Wilbur
After the Last Bulletins
        These Old Tears
Adrienne Rich
Peeling Onions
Gary Snyder
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
        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
        How Can I Dig Out My Eyes?
Isaac Rosenberg
Dead Man's Dump
Siamanto
The Dance [trans. Peter Balakian & Nevart Yaghlian]
        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
Feature Presentations
(click on a subject phrase to read related poems)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N
O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

HOME
A
Abandon All Hope
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Afterwards
All Lords to My Lord
All Swords to My Sword
All the Worlds There Are
Almost Inconsolably

Among Unwelcoming Forms
The Ancient Night is Bottomless

And Covered Up Our Names
And I In My Bed Again
And Refused To Go
And Set His Loving Free

And There Stood Death
And Turn In Time to Catch the Flash
Ars Poetica
The Art of Losing
As Old Medallions to the Thumb
As Vasserot Was Lighting a Match
At Fourteen I Married My Lord You
Aubade
Autumn
B
The Backside of a Hundred Acre Run
Ballad
The Band Played On
Battlefield
Be Careful
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Before My Helpless Sight
Be For Me, Like Rain
The Beginning and the End
Bent With Fruit

Be Ornery
A Bird Came Down the Walk
Black and White and Black

Blind
Blue
Blue Jays
Boats in a Fog
Bog Queen
The Bone Shop of the Heart
The Bones of His Dwindling Father
Borrowing a Body
Boy, You Don't Belong Here
The Brave Fighter's Fine Shield Shines

Break of Day
Build Your Ship of Death
But There Were 47 Who Died
Buzz
By Going Where I Have To Go
Bystanders

C
Casey Has Struck Out
Cellblock
Childermas
A Circle With No End

A Clever Servant, Insufferable Master
The Clouds Go, Nevertheless, In Their Direction
A Coal Fire in Winter
A Cold Spring
Come With No Company to the Far Side
Conquered By His Conquest

Concerning the Infanticide
A Contribution to Statistics
Conversation
Coral Reef
A Corpse's Hair

D
Dance
A Darkling Plain
Death Is Before Me Today
Death Is Indifferent to What Hide He Tans
Decimate Us!

Design
Dismissed From Military Service
Don't Waken When the Next Dictator Crows
Do You Remember?
Drink From Her Breasts
A Drive to Lone Ranger
E
Each Minute the Last Minute
Eager for Wise, Insightful Instruction

Elegy
Elephants
Endurance
Everybody Must Get Stoned

F
Falling Out of the Sky
Farewell
The Far Field
Fears That I May Cease To Be
Fighting for Ireland
First Death
Floating in God's Brain
For a Single Glance
For Mistresses I Want None
Free From Love, From Me

Funeral Rites
Future Work
G
Get the Cement Truck Into the Poem
The Goat God
God the Eater
Going Where I Have To Go
Gold
The Grating Roar of Pebbles

A Great Transverse Tear
A Green Thought

Goodbye While Saying Hello
Grandfathers
A Green Thought In a Green Shade
Group Photo
H
Happiness
The Hat in the Sky

The Heaven of Animals
He Came to the Road
He is a Beauty Mark
Her Hair Held Earth

Her Kind
Her Mother Has Just Said Goodbye

A Hill
Hold Nothing Back
Homesick
A House of Mercy
How a Brave Man Dies on the Tree
How Can I Dig Out My Eyes?

How I Learned to Sweep
How Love Fled
How Much More Fortunate They Are Than We Are
How Rain Translates the Sky

How We Go On
How Will I Go Out Onto the Balcony Without My Youth?
I
I Abhor Him
I, Being Born a Woman
Ideas for Writing Filled His Mind
I Eat Men Like Air

I Had Grieved. He Lived.
I Heard a Fly Buzz
I'll Drown My Book

Images
I'm Damn Sick of Ape
I'm Expecting You
In a Chainlink Pen
In a Naked Room

In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
Incident
Incised At Times By the Illusory

Inferno
In Memory of Yeats
In Nature There Are Few Sharp Lines
Internal Exile
In the Dark Times
In the Service of Barbarous Kings
In the Sweetness of Her Holy Loins
In This Case, Plastic Forks Paper Plates and Cups Will Do
Into Mexico
Into That World Inverted

Is a Child Coming to Receive It?
I Sang In My Chains Like the Sea
I Shall Bolt My Door
I Shall Live On
The Island Smelled of Goat and Guano
It Could Not Be Dangerous to Be Living in a Town Like This
It Gets About the Size of a Watermelon Seed

It Is Better to Say 'I Am Suffering' Than to Say 'This Landscape Is Ugly'
It Will Not Matter That I Was a Woman
It Is Him, My Leader, My Love
I Was That Lonely

Izle, Xyster, and Thalassacon
J
Jews Understand Coats
K
Keeping the Company of Time and Eternity
Killing Range
A Kind of Faith Prevails
Kingly and Grand

L
Lament
Last Words
Leaving Home

Let Me See You
Lieutenant! This Corpse Will Not Stop Burning!

Life Death Does End
Life Draws a Bird
Life Draws a Tree
Life Is Fine!

Like a Tiger Living In a Cramped Cave
Like a Wolf on the Fold
Like Snow Fallen on Clear Water

The Line Between Prose and Poetry
Little Moons Fall Down Like Tears
Lord Let Me Suffer Much
Love in the Classroom
Love Is the Crooked Thing
Lying Here Quietly
M
Magic Words
Make Yourself Content
Mare
Master and Man
Maternity
Meditation on a Bone
The Mixed Hoofs
The Morning Air Is All Awash With Angels
Mother Tongue
My 18-Year-Old Son Took Off
My Father
My Home, My Father's and Grandfather's Home
My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
My Train Pulled Out
N
Neither Father Nor Lover
Never May the Anarchic Man Find Rest at My Hearth
A Night at the Opera
The Night Before My Love's Last Morning
1914
The Nival Heaven of the Himalayas

Nobody Praises Pigeons
No Day Is Right For the Apocalypse
No Light

No One Here But Was a Friend
No Process Whatsoever Can Invent the Equal
Not a Speck of Death

Not Even the Rain Has Such Small Hands
Nothing But a Hog
Nothing's Wasted
The Nothing That Is
Not Marble Nor Monuments
Now He Was Salmon Boy
Now It's Tomorrow, As Usual
Numberless Are the World's Wonders
O
Observation Car
O Daughter
The Oldest Element in Her Universe
Old Man
An Old-Time Sea Fight
Old Woman
The Old World
O Love, Where Are You Leading Me?
Once Out of Nature
On the Shore of the Wide World
O Tell Me the Truth
One Train May Hide Another
On the Marginal Way
O Wha's the Bride?
P
Pardon the Egg Salad Stains
The Peaceful Animals, Close to God
Penelope
The People of Vietnam
Perfection
The Perfect Whole
Perishing Republic
A Person Is a Person Because of Other People
Pilot Oh Pilot
Power
The Power of a Question
Prayer
Prayer for My Daughter
A Prayer to Go to Heaven
Pre-revolution Americans
Pretending That Women Are Fowl
Prisoner
Procession
Pro Patria
Prophecy
The Public Boughs
Public Square

Q
Quarrel
Quiet Consummation Have
R
Report From the Besieged City
The Revolution Is Also One of Lakes
The River-Merchant's Wife

The Room Is a Conch Shell
A Rough Plain Hearse
S
Salmon
Scent of Your Body
A Sense of Place
A Sensible Emptiness
Sestina for the House

The Shape, the Label, the Labor, the Color
She Could Bind the World's Winds
She Found His Destruction Easy
Sickness Broke Him
Signifying Nothing
The Slopes of Statistics
The Snail Will Get to Easter Just as Soon
Snake
The Snow Man
Some Crude Letters
Some Have Courage, Others Don't
Something Understood

The Sound Keeps Coming
Speaking of Poetry
Speak, Speak

Speech Against Stone
Spider
Strange Meeting
Strangers Would Have Shut the Doors
Such Skill in Distribution
Summer Storm

Swans
Swisser Swatter

T
Talking In Bed
Talking to the Sun
Taught Me Something About Difficulty

The Temple Bell
That Bears the Human Soul
That Night of Love

That's Just What I've Gone and Done
Their Ancient, Glittering Eyes Are Gay
Therefore I Decided to Live a Long Time
There Will Be No Other End of the World
These Old Tears

They've Come From All Parts of the World
They Were Delicious
They Do Not Break Up Their Lines to Weep
This Close
Thousands Have Died Since Dawn
Time Is the Mercy of Eternity
The Time of the Apocalypse
To His Coy Mistress
To His Lady
To Find an Argument in a Straw
The Top Bard
The Torture Chamber
To Serve Therewith My Maker
To Stop Without a Farmhouse Near
To Undertake the Perilous Descent

Trapped By the God's Foot
Traveling Alone
Traveling Through the Dark
The Truth of a Suffered Life

Two Neat Geometries Drawn in the Weather
Two Toadstools for Tits and a Face Full of Weeds
U
Uncle Dog
Unconscious Came a Beauty
Unfaithful
The Unpromoted Flower
V
The Very Good
The Very House Itself Is Ringing Like a Skull

Vietnam Memorial
Vulture
W
A Walk
Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements
Wanderer's Bouquet
Wanting to Die
War Prayer
The Wasp Knows Only What It Knows
Watching the Mayan Women
Ways of Looking
We Are Kind to Snails

We Have Just Begun Our Part of the Fight
What a Beautiful Couple We Were!
What Is Poetry Which Does Not Save Nations or People?
What Men or Gods Are These?
What Rough Beast
What Were They Like?
What Would You Tell Your Child?
When Every Boulevard Led to the End of the World

When I . . .
When You Love, Or Speak Of It

Where Go the Boats
Where the Dogs Go On With Their Doggy Life
Where the Waves Show Their Teeth

While She Sleeps
The Whipcrack of the Mortgage
Why Do Your Poems Give Me a Headache?
Wilfred Owen's Photographs

Will There Also Be Singing?
Will You Come to My Room?
With Disorder in Her Hair
The Word of the Sweetest Song
The Word That Is the World

Woven Air
Written in Pencil
X
Y
You Can Have It
You Can't Teach Disbelief to a Child
You Must Change Your Life
You My Townspeople
Z


HOME