The Norton anthology of poetry
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Cædmon's hymn / (translated by John Pope) --

from Beowulf / (translated by Seamus Heaney) --

Riddles / (translated by Richard Hamer) : 1 ("I am a lonely being, scarred by swords") ; 2 ("My dress is silent when I tread the ground") ; 3 ("A moth ate words; a marvellous event") --

The wife's lament / (translated by Richard Hamer) --

The seafarer / (translated by Mary Jo Salter) --

Anonymous lyrics of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries : Now go'th sun under wood ; Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt? ; Alison ; Fowls in the frith ; I am of Ireland ; Lent is come with love to town ; Sumer is icumen in --

The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400) : The general prologue ; The wife of Bath's prologue and tale --

Troilus and Criseide / Geoffrey Chaucer : Cantus Troili --

Lyrics / Geoffrey Chaucer : To Rosamond ; Truth ; Complaint to his purse ; To his scribe Adam --

from The vision of Piers Plowman / William Langland (ca. 1330-ca. 1400) --

from Pearl --

Anonymous lyrics of the fifteenth century : Adam lay bound ; I sing of a maiden ; Out of your sleep arise and wake ; I have a young sister ; I have a gentle cock ; Timor mortis ; The Corpus Christi carol ; Western wind ; A carol of Agincourt ; The sacrament of the alter ; See! Here, my heart --

William Dunbar (ca. 1460-ca. 1525) : Lament for the makers ; Sweet rose of virtue --

John Skelton (1460-1529) : Mannerly Margery milk and ale ; To Mistress Margaret Hussey ; from Colin Clout ; from Philip Sparow --

Early modern ballads : The Douglas tragedy ; Lord Randal ; The three ravens ; The twa corbies ; Sir Patrick Spens ; The unquiet grave ; The wife of Usher's Well ; Bonny Barbara Allan ; Mary Hamilton ; Get up and bar the door ; The knight and shepherd's daughter --

Anonymous Elizabethan and Jacobean poems : Love me little, love me long ; Fine knacks for ladies ; To his love ; Weep you no more, sad fountains ; There is a lady sweet and kind ; The silver swan ; A song bewailing the time of Christmas, so much decayed in England ; Tom o'Bedlam's song

Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) : [The long love, that in my thought doth harbor] ; [Whoso list to hunt] ; My galley charged with forgetfulness] ; [They flee from me] ; [Patience, though I have not] ; My lute awake!] ; [Is it possible] ; [Forget not yet the tried intent] ; [Blame not my lute] ; [What should I say] ; Lucks, my fair falcon] ; Of his love, that pricked her finger with a needle ; [Stand whoso list upon the slipper top] ; [Mine own John Poins] --

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (ca. 1517-1547) : The soote season ; Love, that doth reign and life within my thought ; Wyatt resteth here ; So cruel prison --

The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate / Anne Askew (1521-1546) --

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) : [When I was fair and young] ; [The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy] ; [Ah silly pug, wert thou so sore afraid] --

George Gascoigne (ca. 1534-1577) : And if I did, what then? ; For that he looked not upon her ; Gascoigne's lullaby --

A sweet nosegay / Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567-1573) : A communication which the author had to London, before she made her will ; from The manner of her will, & what she left to London, and to all those in it, at her departing --

[My prime of youth is but a frost of cares] / Chidiock Tichborne (1562?-1586) --

Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552-1618) : A vision upon the Fairy Queen ; The nymph's reply to the shepherd ; The passionate man's pilgrimage ; The lie ; Nature, that washed her hands in milk ; [If Cynthia be a queen, a princess, and supreme] ; [Fortune hath taken thee away, my love] --

The shepheardes calender / Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) : Aprill --

The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser : Book 1, Canto 1 ; Book 1, Canto 2 --

Amoretti / Edmund Spenser : 1 ("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands") ; 8 ("More then most faire, full of the living fire") ; 15 ("Ye tradefull merchants that with weary toyle") ; 23 ("Penelope for her Ulisses sake") ; 54 ("Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay") ; 67 ("Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace") ; 68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day") ; 70 ("Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king") ; 71 ("I joy to see how in your drawen work") ; 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand") ; 79 ("Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it") ; 81 ("Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares") ; 89 ("Lyke as the culver on the bared bough") --

Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser

Caelica / Fulke Greville (1554-1628) : 4 ("You little stars that live in skies") ; 39 ("The nurse-life wheat within his green husk growing") --

Joh Lyly (1554-1606) : Cupid and my campaspe ; Oh, for a bowl of fat canary --

The old Arcadia / Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) : [Ye goatherd gods] ; Crown of Dizains : ("I joy in grief and do detest all joys") ; ("I think from me, not from my woes, to part") ; ("Nor of my fortune ought, but mischief crave") ; ("Enough to make a fertile mind lie waste") ; ("So close unto myself my wracks do lie") ; ("On rock, despair, the burial of my bliss") ; ("Vain is their pain who labour in despair") ; ("Thus, thus, alas, I had my loss in chase") ; ("But ah, her flight hath my dead relics spent") ; ("In earthly fetters feel a lasting hell") ; ("I joy in grief and do detest all joys") ; What lengh of verse? --

Certain sonnets / Sir Philip Sidney : 1 ("The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth") ; 30 ("Ring out your bells, let mourning shows be spread") --

Astrophil and Stella / Sir Philip Sidney : 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show") ; 14 ("Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend") ; 21 ("Your words my friend [right healthful caustics] blame") ; 25 ("The wisest scholar of the wight most wise") ; 31 ("With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies") ; 39 ("Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace") ; 47 ("What, have I thus betrayed my liberty?") ; 48 ("Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me") ; 49 ("I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try") ; 52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love") ; 63 ("O Grammar rules, o now your virtues show") ; 71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know") ; 72 ("Desire, though thou my old companion art") ; Fourth song ("Only joy, now here you are") ; Seventh song ("Whose senses in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays") ; 90 ("Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame") ; 107 ("Stella, since thou so right a princess art") --

George Peele (1557-1596) : His golden locks time hath to silver turned ; Hot sun, cool fire --

Rosalind's madrigal / Thomas Lodge (1558-1625) --

Robert Southwell (ca. 1561-1595) : The burning babe ; The nativity of Christ --

Mary Sidney (1561-1621) : Psalm 58: Si vere utique ; Psalm 114: In exitu Israel ; To the thrice-sacred Queen Elizabeth

Delia / Samuel Daniel (1563-1619) : 1 ("Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty") ; 2 ("Go wailing verse, the infants of my love") ; 6 ("Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair") ; 36 ("But love whilst that thou mayst be loved again") ; 37 ("When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass") ; 49 ("Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night") ; 53 ("Unhappy pen and ill accepted papers") --

Ulysses and the Siren / Samuel Daniel --

Are they shadows / Samuel Daniel --

A roundelay between two shepherds / Michael Drayton (1563-1631) --

Idea / Michael Drayton : To the reader of these sonnets ; 6 ("How many paltry, foolish, painted things") ; 14 ("If he from heaven that filched that living fire") ; 61 ("Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part") --

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) : Hero and Leander ; The passionate shepherd to his love

Sonnets / William Shakespeare (1564-1616) : Dedication ; 1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase") ; 2 ("When forty winters shall besiege they brow") ; 3 ("Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest") ; 5 ("Those hours that with gentle work did frame") ; 12 ("When I do count the clock that tells the time") 15 ("When I consider everyting that grows") ; 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") ; 20 ("A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted") ; 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") ; 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought") ; 33 ("Full many a glorious morning have I seen") ; 35 ("No more be grieved at that which thou hast done") ; 55 ("Not marble, nor the gilded monuments") ; 60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore") ; 65 ("Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea") ; 71 ("No longer mourn for me when I am dead") ; 73 "(That time of year thou mayst in me behold") ; 76 ("Why is my verse so barren of new pride") ; 87 ("Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing") ; 94 ("They that have power to hurt and will do none") ; 97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been") ; 106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time") ; 107 ("Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul") ; 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") ; 126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r") ; 129 ("Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame") ; 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") ; 135 ("Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will") ; 136 ("If thy soul check thee that I come so near") ; 138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") ; 144 ("Two loves I have of comfort and despair") ; 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth") --

The Phoenix and the Turtle / William Shakespeare --

Songs from the plays / William Shakespeare : When daisies pied ; Under the greenwood tree ; Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; It was a lover and his lass ; Sigh no more ; Oh mistress mine ; Come away, come away, death ; When that I was and a little tiny boy ; Fear no more the heat o' the sun ; Full fathom five ; Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; Orpheus with his lute made trees

Thomas Campion (1567-1620) : My sweetest Lesbia ; I care not for these ladies ; Follow thy fair sun ; When to her lute Corinna sings ; When thou must home ; Rose-cheeked Laura ; Now winter nights enlarge ; There is a garden in her face --

Summer's last will and testament / Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) : [Spring, the sweet spring] ; [Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss] --

Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) : from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ; The description of Cooke-ham --

John Donne (1572-1631) : The good-morrow ; Song ("Go and catch a falling star") ; Woman's constancy ; The sun rising ; The canonization ; Song ("Sweetest love, I do not go") ; The anniversary ; Love's growth ; A valediction of weeping ; Love's alchemy ; A nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, being the shortest day ; A valediction forbidding mourning ; The ecstasy ; The funeral ; The flea ; The relic ; Elegy VII ; Elegy XIX. To his mistress going to bed ; Satire III ; Good Friday, 1613. Riding westward --

La Corona / John Donne : 1 ("Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise") ; 2 Annunciation ; 3 Nativity ; 4 Temple ; 5 Crucifying ; 6 Resurrection ; 7 Ascension --

Holy sonnets / John Donne : 1 ("Thou has made me, and shall thy work decay?") ; 5 ("I am a little world made cunningly") ; 7 ("At the round earth's imagined corners") ; 9 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree") ; 10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called thee") ; 14 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God") ; 18 ("Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear") --

John Donne : Elegy on Mistress Bulstrode ; A hymn to God the Father ; Hymn to God my God, in my sickness

Ben Jonson (1572-1637) : To the reader ; On my first daughter ; On my first son ; On spies ; To fool or knave ; To Sir Henry Cary ; On playwright ; To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland ; On English monsieur ; To John Donne ; Inviting a friend to supper ; On gut ; To Penshurst ; Song: To Celia (I); Song: To Celia (II) ; On Lucy, Countess of Bedford ; Still to be neat ; A fit of rhyme against rhyme ; To the memory of my beloved, the author Mr. William Shakespeare ; A hymn to God the Father ; Her triumph ; An elegy ; An ode to himself ; To the immortal memory and friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison ; Though I am young and cannot tell ; A sonnet to the noble lady, the Lady Mary Wroth ; Slow, slow, fresh fount ; Queen and huntress --

John Fletcher (1579-1625) : Take, oh, take those lips away ; [Come, sleep] --

[Death be not proud, thy hand gave not this blow] / Lucy Russell (1580-1627) --

Edward Herbert (1582-1648) : Sonnet of Black Beauty ; Another sonnet to black itself --

Pamphilia to amphilanthus / Mary Wroth (1587-1651?) : 1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove") ; 3 ("Yet is there hope: then Love but play thy part") ; 11 ("You endless torment that my rest oppress") ; 22 ("Like to the Indians, scorchèd with the sun") ; 25 ("Poor eyes be blind, the light behold no more") ; 37 ("Night, welcome art thou to my mind distressed") ; 74 song ("Love a child is ever crying") ; A crown of sonnets dedicated to love : 77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn") ; 78 ("Is to leave all and take the thread of Love") ; 79 (His flames are joyes, his bands true lovers' might) ; 82 ("He may our prophet, and our tutor prove") ; 85 ("But where they may return with honor's grace") ; 89 ("Free from all fogs but shining fair, and clear") ; 90 ("Except my heart which you bestow'd before") --

Urania / Mary Wroth : Song ("Love what art thou? A vain thought") --

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) : The argument of his book ; The vine ; To the sour reader ; Delight in disorder ; Corinna's going a -Maying ; To the virgins, to make much of time ; Upon Julia's breasts ; Upon a child that died ; His prayer to Ben Jonson ; The night piece, to Julia ; Upon Julia's clothes ; Upon Prue, his maid ; Upon Ben Jonson ; An ode for him ; The pillar of fame ; Neutrality loathsome ; To his conscience ; To find God ; The white island, or place of the blest

Henry King (1592-1669) : An exequy to his matchless, never-to-be-forgotten friend ; The boy's answer to the Blackmoor --

The temple: sacred poems and private ejaculations / George Herbert (1593-1633) : The altar ; Redemption ; Easter wings ; Sin (I) ; Affliction (I) ; Prayer (I) ; The temper (I) ; Jordan (I) ; The windows ; Denial ; Vanity (I) ; Virtue ; Man ; Life ; Artillery ; The collar ; The pulley ; The flower ; The forerunners ; Discipline ; The elixir ; Death ; Love (III) --

Thomas Carew (ca. 1595-1640) : A song ("Ask me no more where Jove bestows") ; The spring ; Mediocrity in love rejected ; Song To my inconstant mistress ; An elegy upon the death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne --

Ajax / James Shirley (1596-1666) : Dirge --

The Massachusetts Bay psalm book (1640) : Psalm 58 ; Psalm 114 --

Edmund Waller (1606-1687) : Song ("Go, lovely rose!") ; Of the last verses in the book --

John Milton (1608-1674) : On the morning of Christ's nativity ; On Shakespeare. 1630 ; L'allegro ; Il Penseroso ; How soon hath time ; Lycidas --

Comus / John Milton : Song ("Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen") ; Song ("Sabrina fair") ; Song ("By the rushy-fringed bank") --

John Milton : To Mr. H. Lawes, on his airs ; I did but prompt the age ; To the Lord General Cromwell ; When I consider how my light is spent ; On the late massacre in Piedmont ; Methought I saw --

Paradise lost / John Milton : The verse ; Book 1 [The invocation] ; Book 3 [The invocation] ; from Book 4 ; from Book 7 ; Book 9 ; from Book 12 --

from Samson Agonistes / John Milton

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) : Song ("Why so pale and wan, fond lover?") ; Sonnet II ("Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white") ; Upon my Lady Carlisle's walking in Hampton Court Garden ; A ballad upon a wedding ; Out upon it! --

Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672) : In honor of that high and mighty princess, Queen Elizabeth, of most happy memory ; The prologue ; Before the birth of one of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; The author to her book ; A letter to her husband, absent upon public employment ; Here follows some verses upon the burning of our house July 10th, 1666 --

Richard Crashaw (1613-1649) : On the baptized Ethiopian ; To the infant martyrs ; Upon the infant martyrs ; The tear --

The wish / Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) --

Anacreontics / Abraham Cowley : II Drinking --

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) : To Althea, from prison ; To Lucasta, going to the wars ; To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her hair ; The grasshopper --

Order and disorder / Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681) : from Canto I --

Elegy 3: Another on the sunshine / Lucy Hutchinson --

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) : The coronet ; Bermudas ; A dialogue between the soul and body ; To his coy mistress ; The fair singer ; The definition of love ; The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of flowers ; The mower against gardens ; The mower to the glowworms ; The garden ; An Horatian ode --

Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) : Regeneration ; The retreat ; The world ; They are all gone into the world of light! ; The waterfall ; The night --

Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) : An apology for writing so much upon this book ; Of many worlds in this world ; The hunting of the hare ; Of a spider's web --

John Dryden (1631-1700) : Song from The Indian emperor ; Song from Troilus and Cressida ; from Absalom and Achitophel: a poem ; Mac Flecknoe ; To the memory of Mr. Oldham ; A song for St. Cecilia's Day --

Katherine Philips (1632-1664) : Epitaph ; To Mr. Henry Lawes ; To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship ; To Mrs. M.A. upon absence

Thomas Traherne (1637-1674) : The salutation ; Wonder ; To the same purpose ; Shadows in the water --

Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) : Song ("Love armed") ; The disappointment ; On a juniper tree, cut down to make busks ; Song ("On her loving two equally") ; On the death of the late Earl of Rochester ; To the fair Clarinda, who made love to me, imagined more than woman ; A thousand martyrs --

Edward Taylor (ca. 1642-1729) : Meditation 8 ("I kenning through astronomy divine") ; Upon wedlock, and death of children ; Upon a spider catching a fly ; Housewifery --

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) : The disabled debauchee ; The imperfect enjoyment ; The mock song ; A song of a young lady to her ancient lover --

Alexandreis / Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) --

Anne Finch (1661-1720) : The introduction ; The spleen ; Adam posed ; To death ; Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia ; A nocturnal reverie ; The answer (to Pope's Impromptu) ; On myself --

Matthew Prior (1664-1721) : A fable ; To a lady: she refusing to continue a dispute with me, and leaving me in the argument ; An ode --

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) : A description of the morning ; A description of a city shower ; Stella's birthday ; The lady's dressing room ; A beautiful young nymph going to bed ; Verses on the death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. --

Isaac Watts (1674-1748) : The day of judgment ; A prospect of heaven makes death easy ; Our God, our help ; Psalm 58 ; Psalm 114 --

Songs from The beggar's opera / John Gay (1685-1732) : Act I, Air X "Thomas, I cannot" ; Act I, Air XI "A soldier and a sailor" ; Act I, Air XVI "Over the hills, and far away" ; Act II, Air IV "Cotillion" ; Act II, Air XXII "The lass of Patie's Mill" ; Act III, Air XXVII Green sleeves" --

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) : An essay on criticism, Part II ; The rape of the lock ; Epistle to Miss Blount ; An essay on man, in four epistles: from Epistle 1 ; Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ; Impromptu ; The Dunciad: from Book 4

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) : Saturday (The small-pox) ; A receipt to cure the vapors ; Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to her husband ; The reasons that induced Dr. Swift to write a poem called the Lady's dressing room --

The seasons / James Thomson (1700-1748) : from Winter --

Hymns / Charles Wesley (1707-1788) : [My God! I know, I feel thee mine] ; [Come on, my partners in distress] --

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) : Prologue spoken by Mr. Garrick ; The vanity of human wishes ; On the death of Dr. Robert Levet --

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) : Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ; Ode (On the death of a favorite cat, drowned in a tub of goldfishes) ; Elegy written in a country churchyard ; Sonnet (On the death of Mr. Richard West) --

William Collins (1721-1759) : Ode written in the beginning of the year 1746 ; Ode on the poetical character ; Ode to evening --

The flowers of the forest / Jean Elliot (1727-1805) --

Christopher Smart (1722-1771) : from Jubilate Agno ; from A song to David ; Psalm 58 ; Psalm 114 --

Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730-1774) : When lovely woman stoops to folly ; The deserted village --

Olney hymns / William Cowper (1731-1800) : Light shining out of darkness --

Epitaph on a hare / William Cowper --

The task / William Cowper : from Book IV: The winter evening ; from Book VI: The winter walk at noon --

William Cowper : The castaway ; Lines written during a period of insanity --

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) : The rights of woman ; To the poor ; Life --

Hannah More (1745-1833) : Inscription in a beautiful retreat called Fairy Bower ; from Slavery: a poem --

Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) : Written in the church yard at Middleton in Sussex ; To the shade of Burns ; Written near a port on a dark evening ; Written in October ; Nepenthe ; Stanzas ; Ode to death ; from Beachy Head --

Philip Freneau (1752-1832) : The Indian burying ground ; To Sir Toby --

Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784) : A farewell to America. To Mrs. S.W. ; On being brought from Africa to America ; To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works ; On imagination --

from The Parish Register / George Crabbe (1754-1832) --

The borough / George Crabbe : from Letter XXII, The poor of the borough: Peter Grimes

William Blake (1757-1827) : To the evening star ; Song ("How sweet I roam'd from field to field") ; To the muses --

Songs of innocence / William Blake : Introduction ("Piping down the valleys wild") ; The lamb ; The little black boy ; The little boy lost ; The little boy found ; The divine image ; Holy Thursday --

Songs of experience / William Blake : Introduction ("Hear the voice of the Bard!") ; The clod & the pebble ; Holy Thursday ; The sick rose ; The tyger ; Ah! Sun-flower ; The garden of love ; London ; A poison tree ; A divine image --

William Blake : [I askèd a thief] ; [Mock on mock on Voltaire Rousseau] ; Eternity ; The question answerd ; Auguries of innocence --

Milton / William Blake : [And did those feet in ancient time] --

For the sexes: the gates of Paradise / William Blake : To the accuser who is the God of this world --

Robert Burns (1759-1796) : Coming through the rye ; Green grow the rases ; To a mouse ; Holy Willie's prayer ; To a louse ; Auld lang syne ; John Anderson my jo ; Tam o'Shanter ; The banks o'Doon ; A red red rose ; Oh wert thou in the cauld blast --

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) : A mother to her waking infant ; Song: Woo'd and married and A' --

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) : Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey ; The ruined cottage ; The prelude from Book I ("Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up") ; [There was a boy] ; [Strange fits of passion I have known] ; Song ("She dwelt amont th' untrodden ways") ; [A slumber did my spirit seal] ; [Three years she grew in sun and shower] ; Resolution and independence ; It is a beauteous evening ; London, 1802 ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 ; The banished Negroes ; Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; My heart leaps up ; Ode: intimations of immortality ; I wandered lonely as a cloud ; She was a phantom of delight ; The world is too much with us ; Surprised by joy ; Scorn not the sonnet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) : The Aeolian harp ; This lime-tree bower my prison ; Kubla Khan ; Frost at midnight ; France: an ode ; The rime of the ancient mariner ; Dejection: an ode --

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) : Past ruined Ilion Helen lives ; To Robert Browning ; Dying speech of an old philosopher ; Memory --

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) : She walks in beauty ; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte ; The destruction of Sennacherib ; When we two parted ; So we'll go no more a-roving --

Don Juan / George Gordon, Lord Byron : Fragment on the back of the Ms. of Canto I ; from Canto the first. Stanzas 1-119 --

George Gordon, Lord Byron : Stanzas (When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home) ; On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year --

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) : To Wordsworth ; Mutability ; Hymn to intellectual beauty ; Mont Blanc ; Ozymandias ; The mask of anarchy ; Ode to the west wind ; To a skylark ; Adonais --

John Clare (1793-1864) : [I found a ball of grass among the hay] ; The skylark ; [The badger] ; The Gipsy camp ; Song ("Love lives beyond") ; First love ; I am --

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) : England's dead ; The landing of the Pilgrim fathers in New England ; Casabianca ; Indian woman's death-song --

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) : To a waterfowl ; Thanatopsis --

John Keats (1795-1821) : On first looking into Chapman's Homer ; [Happy is England! I could be content] ; On sitting down to read King Lear once again ; When I have fears ; To Homer ; The eve of St. Agnes ; On the sonnet ; La belle dame sans merci ; Ode to Psyche ; Ode to a nightingale ; Ode on melancholy ; Ode on a Grecian urn ; To autumn ; Bright star ; This living hand --

William Barnes (1801-1886) : The blackbird ; Lwonesomeness ; Sister gone --

L.E.L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802-1838) : Songs ; The marriage vow

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) : Concord hymn ; The rhodora ; The snow-storm ; Ode (inscribed to W.H. Channing) ; Intellect ; Brahma ; Days ; Fate --

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) : A crocodile ; The phantom-wooer ; Ballad of human life --

Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) : 1 ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung") ; 33 ("Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear") ; 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") --

Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barrett Browning : from Book 5 [Poets and the present age] --

A musical instrument / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) : from Evangeline ; The Jewish cemetary at Newport --

The song of Hiawatha / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : from III Hiawatha's childhood --

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Snow-flakes ; The cross of snow --

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) : Telling the bees ; from Snowbound: a winter idyl --

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) : Sonnet

to science ;

To Helen ; The city in the sea ; The raven ; Eldorado ; Annabel Lee --

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr / Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883) --

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) : Mariana ; The kraken ; The lady of Shalott ; The lotos-eaters ; Ulysses ; Break, break, break --

songs from The princess / Alfred, Lord Tennyson : Tears, idle tears ; Now sleeps the crimson petal --

In memoriam A.H.H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson : 1 ("I held it truth, with him who sings") ; 2 ("Old yew, which graspest at the stones") ; 7 ("Dark house, by which once more I stand") ; 11 ("Calm is the morn without a sound") ; 19 ("The Danube to the Severn gave") ; 50 ("Be near me when my light is low") ; 54 ("Oh yet we trust that somehow good") ; 55 ("The wish, that of the living whole") ; 56 ("'So careful of the type?' but no") ; 67 ("When on my bed the moonlight falls") ; 88 ("Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet") ; 119 ("Doors, where my heart was used to beat") ; 121 ("Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun") ; 130 ("Thy voice is on the rolling air") --

Alfred, Lord Tennyson : The eagle ; The charge of the Light Brigade ; Tithonus ; Crossing the bar

Robert Browning (1812-1889) : Porphyria's lover ; Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister ; My last duchess ; The lost leader ; "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix" ; The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's Church ; Home-thoughts, from abroad ; Memorabilia ; "Childe Roland to the dark tower came" ; Fra Lippo Lippi ; One word more --

Edward Lear (1812-1888) : There was an old man who supposed ; The owl and the pussy-cat ; The dong with a luminous nose ; How pleasant to know Mr. Lear --

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) : I am a parcel of vain strivings tied ; Smoke --

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) : [Long neglect has worn away] ; Hope ; Remembrance ; The prisoner ; The visionary ; [No coward soul is mine] ; Stanzas ("Often rebuked, yet always back returning") --

Amours de voyage / Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) : from Canto I --

Arthur Hugh Clough : The latest decalogue ; Say not the struggle nought availeth --

Dipsychus / Arthur Hugh Clough : ["There is no God, the wicked saith] ; [As I sat at the café, I said to myself] --

Battle-hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) --

Song of myself / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) : 1 ("I celebrate myself, and sing myself") ; 5 ("I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you") ; 6 ("A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands") ; 11 ("Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore") ; 13 ("The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses ... ") ; 24 ("Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son") ; 52 ("The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me ... ") --

Walt Whitman : Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; The dalliance of the eagles ; Beat! Beat! Drums! ; Cavalry crossing a ford ; Vigil strange I kept on the field one night ; Reconciliation ; When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; A noiseless patient spider ; To a locomotive in winter

Herman Melville (1819-1891) : The portent ; Shiloh ; The Maldive shark ; The berg ; Monody --

Sonnets, third series / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) : IV ("Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed") ; V ("How well do I recall that walk in state") ; VI ("I looked across the rollers of the deep") --

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) : Shakespeare ; To Marguerite ; The scholar-gypsy ; Philomela ; Dover Beach --

Modern love / George Meredith (1828-1909) : 1 ("By this he knew she wept with waking eyes") ; 6 ("It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool") ; 17 ("At dinner, she is hostess, I am host") ; 30 ("What are we first? First, animals; and next") ; 34 ("Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes") ; 48 ("Their sense is with their senses all mixed in") ; 49 ("He found her by the ocean's moaning verge") ; 50 ("Thus piteously love closed what he begat") --

George Meredith : When I would image ; Lucifer in starlight --

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) : The blessed damozel ; Sudden light ; The woodspurge --

The house of life / Dante Gabriel Rossetti : A sonnet ; 19 Silent noon ; 70 The hill summit --

Nuptial sleep / Dante Gabriel Rossetti --

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) : Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") ; Remember ; In an artist's studio ; Goblin Market ; Passing away, saith the world, passing away ; Amor mundi ; A Christmas carol

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) : 39 ("I never lost as much but twice -") ; 68 ("Some things that fly there be -") ; 112 (Success is counted sweetest") ; 124 ("Safe in their alabaster chambers -") (1859) ; 124 ("Safe in their alabaster chambers -") (1862) ; 145 ("A little east of Jordan") ; 202 ("'Faith' is a fine invention") ; 259 ("A clock stopped -") ; 260 ("I'm Nobody! Who are you?") ; 269 ("Wild nights

wild nights!") ;

314 ("'Hope' is the thing with feathers -") ; 320 ("There's a certain slant of light") ; 339 ("I like a look of agony:) ; 340 ("I felt a funeral, in my brain") ; 348 ("I would not paint

a picture -") ;

359 ("A bird, came down the walk -") ; 372 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes -") ; 383 ("I like to see it lap the miles -") ; 409 ("The soul selects her own society -") ; 411 ("Mine

by the right of the white election!") ;

445 ("They shut me up in prose -") ; 479 ("Because I could not stop for Death -") ; 533 ("I reckon

When I count at all -") ;

588 ("The heart asks pleasure

first -") ;

591 ("I heard a fly buzz

when I died -") ;

620 ("Much madness is divinest sense -") ; 740 ("On a columnar self -") ; 764 ("My life had stood

a loaded gun -") ;

781 ("Remorse

is memory

awake -") ;

782 ("Renunciation

is a piercing virtue -") ;

788 ("Publication

is the auction") ;

895 ("Further in summer than the birds -") ; 905 ("Split the lark

and you'll find the music -") ;

935 ("As imperceptibly as grief") ; 1096 "A narrow fellow in the grass") ; 1108 ("The bustle in a house") ; 1263 ("Tell all the truth but tell it slant -") ; 1489 ("A route of evanescence") ; 1577 ("The Bible is an antique volume -") ; 1773 ("My life closed twice before it's close") ; 1788 ("Fame is a bee")

Alice's adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898) : You are old, Father William --

Through the looking-glass / Lewis Carroll : Jabberwocky ; The walrus and the carpenter ; [I'll tell thee everything I can] --

The hunting of the snark / Lewis Carroll : Fit the first --

The Earthly paradise / William Morris (1834-1896) : An apology --

William Morris : A garden by the sea ; Pomona --

W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) : I am the very model of a modern Major-General ; Titwillow --

Atalanta in Calydon / Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) : [When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces] --

Algernon Charles Swinburne : The garden of Proserpine ; A forsaken garden --

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : Neutral tones ; "I look into my glass" ; The self-unseeing ; Drummer Hodge ; A broken appointment ; The darkling thrush ; The ruined maid ; The convergence of the twain ; Channel firing ; Under the waterfall ; The going ; The voice ; During wind and rain ; In time of "The breaking of nations" ; Afterwards --

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) : God's grandeur ; The windhover ; Pied beauty ; [As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame] ; Felix Randal ; Spring and fall ; [Carrion comfort] ; [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief] ; [I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day] ; [My own heart let me more have pity on] ; That nature is a Heraclitean fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection ; [Thou art indeed just, Lord] --

Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913)] : La gioconda ; [Sometimes I do despatch my heart] ; Cyclamens ; The mummy invokes his soul --

The new Colossus / Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) --

A Shropshire lad / A.E. Housman (1859-1936) : II ("Loveliest of trees, the cherry now") ; XII ("When I watch the living meet") ; XIX To an athlete dying young ; XXVII ("'Is my team ploughing'") ; XXXI ("On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble") ; XL ("Into my heart an air that kills") ; LXII ["Terence, this is stupid stuff"] --

Last poems / A.E. Housman : XII ("The laws of God, the laws of man") ; XVII Astronomy ; XXXVII Epitaph on an army of mercenaries --

A.E. Housman : [Ho, everyone that thirsteth] ; [Crossing alone the nighted ferry] ; [Here dead lie we because we did not choose] ; [Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?] --

Arthur Symons (1865-1945) : Prologue ("My life is like a music-hall") ; Stella Maris ; White heliotrope

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) : The lake isle of Innisfree ; When you are old ; He wishes for the cloths of heaven ; Adam's curse ; No second Troy ; The cold heaven ; The wild swans at Coole ; An Irish airman foresees his death ; Easter 1916 ; The second coming ; A prayer for my daughter ; Leda and the swan ; Among school children ; Sailing to Byzantium ; Byzantium ; Crazy Jane talks with the bishop ; Lapis lazuli ; The circus animals' desertion ; Under Ben Bulben ; Cuchulain comforted --

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) : Tommy ; Danny Deever ; Recessional ; Sestina of the Tramp-Royal ; If

- ;

The way through the woods ; from Epitaphs of the war ; Gethsemane ; We and they --

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) : Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam ; Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae --

Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) : The farmer's bride ; Fame ; Madeleine in church ; The cenotaph --

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) : Richard Cory ; Reuben Bright ; Miniver Cheevy ; The mill ; Mr. Flood's party --

The black riders and other lines / Stephen Crane (1871-1900) : I ("BLACK RIDERS CAME FROM THE SEA") ; III ("IN THE DESERT") ; XXV ("BEHOLD, THE GRAVE OF A WICKED MAN") ; LVI ("A MAN FEARED THAT HE MIGHT FIND AN ASSASSIN") --

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) : A summer's night ; We wear the mask ; Little brown baby ; Sympathy --

In Flanders Fields / John McCrae (1872-1918) --

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) : The listeners ; Fare well --

Susie Asado / Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) --

Stanzas in meditation / Gertrude Stein : Part I, stanza XIII ("She may count three little daisies very well") ; Part V, stanza XXXVIII ("Which I wish to say is this") ; Part V, stanza LXIII ("I wish that I had spoken only of it all.") --

Amy Lowell (1874-1925) : Patterns ; The weather-cock points south

Robert Frost (1874-1963) : Mending wall ; The death of the hired man ; Home burial ; After apple-picking ; The wood-pile ; The road not taken ; The oven bird ; Birches ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; The need of being versed in country things ; Acquainted with the night ; Neither out far nor in deep ; Design ; Provide, provide ; Come in ; Never again would birds' song be the same ; The gift outright ; Directive --

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) : Chicago ; Grass --

Edward Thomas (1878-1917) : Old man ; Adlestrop ; The owl ; In memoriam [Easter 1915] ; Rain ; [As the team's head-brass] --

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) : The snow man ; The emperor of ice-cream ; Sunday morning ; Anecdote of the jar ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; Peter Quince at the Clavier ; The idea of order at Key West ; Waving adieu, adieu, adieu ; The poems of our climate ; The house was quiet and the world was calm ; from An ordinary evening in New Haven: XXX ; Table talk ; A room on a garden ; Of mere being --

Mina Loy (1882-1966) : Human cylinders ; Moreover, the moon---- --

E.J. Pratt (1883-1964) : Come not the seasons here ; From stone to steel --

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) : Danse Russe ; Portrait of a lady ; Queen-Anne's-lace ; The red wheelbarrow ; This is just to say ; Poem ; The Yachts ; A sort of a song ; Asphodel, that greeny flower, Book I --

Pictures from Brueghel / William Carlos Williams : Landscape with the fall of Icarus --

Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) : Full moon ; Doomsday --

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) : Love on the farm ; Piano ; Snake ; Bavarian gentians ; The ship of death --

Ezra Pound (1885-1972) : Portrait d'une femme ; The garden ; A pact ; Ts'ai Chi'h ; In a station of the metro ; The river-merchant's wife: a letter ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: life and contacts ; Medallion --

The cantos / Ezra Pound : I ("And then went down to the ship") ; XLV ("With Usura")

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) : Christ and the soldier ; "They" ; Base details ; The general ; Glory of women ; Everyone sang : On passing the New Menin Gate --

H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961) : Sea rose ; Sea violet ; Helen ; Wine bowl --

The walls do not fall / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] : [1] ("An incident her and there") --

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) : Shine, perishing Republic ; Hurt hawks ; The purse-Seine ; Birds and fishes --

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) : Sonnet ; from The old vicarage, Grantchester ; The soldier --

Marianne Moore (1887-1972) : To a steam roller ; To a chameleon ; The fish ; Poetry ; A grave ; The steeple-jack ; No swan so fine ; What are years? ; Nevertheless ; The mind is an enchanting thing --

John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) : Bells for John Whiteside's daughter ; Piazza piece ; Blue girls ; Parting, without a sequel ; Lady lost --

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) : The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The waste land ; The hollow men ; Journey of the magi --

Four quartets / T.S. Eliot : Little Gidding --

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) : Pain ; To his love ; The silent one ; Sea-marge --

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) : Break of day in the trenches ; Dead man's dump ; [Through these pale cold days] --

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) : First fig ; Second fig ; Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare ; Spring ; [I, being born a woman and distressed] ; The buck in the snow ; I dreamed I moved among the Elysian Fields ; Ragged island ; Armenonville --

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) : Ars poetica ; You, Andrew Marvell ; The snowflake which is now and hence forever --

Hugh MacDiarmid [Christopher Murray Grieve] (1892-1978) : The watergaw ; The innumerable Christ ; Another epitaph on an army of mercenaries ; from In memoriam James Joyce --

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) : Anthem for doomed youth ; Dulce et decorum est ; Insensibility ; Strange meeting ; Miners ; Futility --

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) : Unfortunate coincidence ; Résumé ; One perfect rose

E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) : [All in green went my love riding] ; [the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls] ; [Spring is like a perhaps hand] ; ["next to of course god america i] ; [since feeling is first] ; [somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond] ; [may I feel said he] ; [anyone lived in a pretty how town] ; [who are you, little I] --

John Allan Wyeth (1894-1981) : Interior ; General order ; Home mail ; New diggings in the orchard ; the road to Corbie --

Cane / Jean Toomer (1894-1967) : Reapers ; Face ; Georgia dusk ; Portrait in Georgia ; Harvest song --

Robert Graves (1895-1985) : Love without hope ; Welsh incident ; In broken images ; Recalling war ; To Juan at the winter solstice ; The white goddess --

Louise Bogan (1897-1970) : Medusa ; Juan's song ; Man alone ; Roman fountain ; Night --

Hart Crane (1899-1932) : My grandmother's love letters ' At Melville's tomb ; Voyages --

The bridge / Hart Crane : Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge --

To Emily Dickinson / Hart Crane --

Allen Tate (1899-1979) : Ode to the Confederate dead ; The swimmers --

from Briggflatts / Basil Bunting (1900-1985) --

Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) : Slim in Atlanta ; Chillen get shoes ; Bitter fruit of the tree ; Conjured --

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) : The weary blues ; The negro speaks of rivers ; Dream variations ; Cross ; Song for a dark girl ; Harlem sweeties ; Harlem ; Theme for English B ; Dinner guest: me

American song : Go down, Moses ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; (what did I do to be so) Black and blue / Andy Razaf (1895-1973) ; Night and day / Cole Porter (1891-1964) ; Take my hand, precious Lord / Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993) ; It ain't necessarily so / Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) ; Strange fruit / Abel Meeropol (1903-1986) ; Fine and mellow / Billie Holiday (1915-1959) ; Boots of Spanish leather / Bob Dylan (b. 1941) ; The times they are a changin' / Bob Dylan ; Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall (1914-2000) ; from Alexander Hamilton / Lin-Manuel Miranda (b. 1980) --

Ogden Nash (1902-1971) : The cow ; Reflections on ice-breaking ; Requiem ; Columbus ; The turtle --

Stevie Smith (1902-1971) : Correspondence between Mr. Harrison in Newcastle and Mr. Sholto Peach Harrison in Hull ; Infelice ; The river god ; No categories! ; The death sentence ; Not waving but drowning ; Thoughts about the person from Porlock ; The galloping cat --

Countee Cullen (1903-1946) ; Heritage ; Incident ; Yet do I marvel --

two songs / C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) : ("I've heard them lilting at loom and belting") ; ("Come, live with me and be my love") --

Where are the war poets? / C. Day Lewis --

Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) : Sanctity ; from The great hunger ; Epic ; Canal Bank walk --

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) : Bearded oaks ; Masts at dawn ; Evening hawk --

Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) : He ; Robin Redbreast ; Touch me --

John Betjeman (1906-1984) : Death in Leamington ; The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel ; In Westminster Abbey --

William Empson (1906-1984) : Legal fiction ; Missing dates ; Chinese ballad

W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : O what is that sound ; Lullaby ; As I walked out one evening ; Funeral blues ; Tell me the truth about love ; Musée des Beaux Arts ; In memory of W.B. Yeats ; Refugee blues ; Epitaph on a tyrant ; September 1, 1939 ; In praise of limestone ; Their lonely betters ; The shield of Achilles --

A.D. Hope (1907-2000) : Australia ; Imperial Adam ; The return of Persephone ; Advice to young ladies ; Inscription for a war --

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) : Snow ; The sunlight on the garden ; Bagpipe music ; Meeting point ; London rain ; Soap suds ; The taxis ; Star-gazer --

George Oppen (1908-1984) : From disaster ; Myself I sing ; O Western wind ; A theological definition --

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) : Root cellar ; Child on top of a greenhouse ; My papa's waltz ; The lost son ; Elegy for Jane ; The waking ; I knew a woman ; Wish for a young wife --

Josephine Jacobsen (1908-2003) : The primer ; Bush ; Hourglass --

Haiku: this other world / Richard Wright (1908-1960) : 21 ("On winter mornings") ; 31 ("In the falling snow") ; 120 ("Crying and crying") ; 490 ("Waking from a nap") ; 762 ("Droning autumn rain") ; 783 ("I cannot find it") --

Stephen Spender (1909-1995) : I think continually of those who were truly great ; Ultima ratio regum ; Seascape --

Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) : Summer farm ; The unlikely as usual ; Kingfisher --

Charles Olson (1910-1970) : Merce of Egypt ; Variations done for Gerald Van De Wiele --

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) : Casabianca ; The fish ; Filling station ; Sandpiper ; The armadillo ; Questions of travel ; Sestina ; In the waiting room ; The moose ; One art --

Allen Curnow (1911-2001) : House and land ; Landfall in unknown seas ; Continuum --

Irving Layton (1912-2006) : The cold green element ; Berry picking

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) : Welsh landscape ; The view from the window ; On the farm ; Lore ; A marriage --

May Swenson (1913-1989) : Motherhood ; Cardinal ideograms ; Waterbird ; Goodbye, goldeneye --

Robert Hayden (1913-1980) : Those winter Sundays ; Mourning poem for the Queen of Sunday ; Night, death, Mississippi ; "'Mystery Boy' looks for kin in Nashville" ; Paul Laurence Dunbar --

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) : Boy with his hair cut short ; Night feeding ; Rondel ; Ballad of orange and grape --

Lessons of the war / Henry Reed (1914-1986) : 1. Naming of parts ; 2. Judging distances --

Weldon Kees (1914-1955) : What the spider heard ; For H.V. (1901-1927) ; When the lease is up ; Robinson --

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) : 90 north ; The death of the ball turret gunner ; Eighth Air Force ; A front ; In those days ; Next day ; A man meets a woman in the street --

John Berryman (1914-1972) : Homage to Mistress Bradstreet 17-21 ; A sympathy, a welcome --

The dream songs / John Berryman : 1 ("Huffy Henry hid the day") ; 4 ("Filling her compact & delicious body") ; 14 ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") ; 29 ("There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart") ; 40 ("I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son") ; 145 ("Also I love him: me he's done no wrong") ; 324 An elegy for W.C.W., the lovely man ; 382 ("At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well") --

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) : The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ; And death shall have no dominion ; The hand that signed the paper ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London ; Fern Hill ; In my craft or sullen art ; Poem in October ; Do not go gentle into that good night --

Judith Wright (1915-2000) : Woman to man ; Eli, Eli ; Train journey ; Egrets ; Eve to her daughters ; Naked girl and mirror --

Alun Lewis (1915-1944) : Raiders' dawn ; All day it has rained ; Song (On seeing dead bodies floating off the Cape) ; Goodbye --

Margaret Walker (1915-1998) : Since 1619 ; Childhood --

Ern Malley [Harold Stewart (1916-1995) and James McAuley (1917-1976)] : Dürer, Innsbruck, 1495 ; Night piece ; Petit testament --

P.K. Page (1916-2010) : Stories of snow ; Deaf-mute in the pear tree

Robert Lowell (1917-1977) : The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket ; Mr. Edwards and the spider ; My last afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow ; Skunk hour ; Water ; For the Union dead ; Harriet ; Epilogue --

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) : kitchenette building ; my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell ; the birth in a narrow room ; the rites for Cousin Vit ; The bean eaters ; We real cool ; Medgar Evers ; Boy breaking glass --

W.S. Graham (1918-1986) : A note to the difficult one ; The stepping stones ; Dear Bryan Wynter --

William Meredith (1919-2007) : The illiterate ; Rhode Island --

Sometime during eternity ... / Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) --

Keith Douglas (1920-1944) : Simplify me when I'm dead ; The sea bird ; Cairo jag ; Words ; Vergissmeinnicht --

Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) : The goose fish ; A primer of the daily round ; The blue swallows ; Boy with book of knowledge ; Strange metamorphosis of poets ; Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry --

Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) : Strawberries ; Opening the cage ; The computer's first Christmas card --

From the video box / Edwin Morgan : 25 ("If you ask what my favourite programme is") --

Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) : Alter ego ; "Thought is surrounded by a halo" ; Mother who gave me life --

Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) : Beach glass ; Beethoven, opus 111 ; The sun underfoot among the sundews ; The cormorant in its element ; The horned rampion --

Barbara Guest (1920-2006) : Roses ; Twilight polka dots

Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) : First snow in Alsace ; Love calls us to the things of this world ; Piazza di Spagna, early morning ; A plain song for comadre ; A Baroque wall-fountain in the Villa Sciarra ; Advice to a prophet ; Junk ; Cottage Street, 1953 ; Zea ; The house --

Mona Van Duyn (1921-2004) : Letters from a father ; Falling in love at sixty-five --

Donald Davie (1922-1995) : Remembering the Thirties ; The fountain ; Time passing, beloved --

Howard Moss (1922-1987) : The persistence of song ; Tourists --

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) : Toads ; Church going ; An Arundel tomb ; The Whitsun weddings ; MCMXIV ; Talking in bed ; High windows ; The trees ; Sad steps ; The explosion ; This be the verse ; Aubade --

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) : A hill ; The Dover bitch ; The ghost in the martini ; Sill life ; The book of Yolek ; Death the painter --

James Dickey (1923-1997) : The lifeguard ; Buckdancer's choice ; Sled burial, dream ceremony --

Peter Kane Dufault (1923-2013) : A letter for all-hallows (1949) ; A first night ; Burden --

Denise Levertov (1923-1997) : Scenes from the life of the Peppertrees ; Tenebrae ; Caedmon --

James Schuyler (1923-1991) : Freely espousing ; Shimmer --

Richard Hugo (1923-1982) : The way a ghost dissolves ; The lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir --

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) : Permanently ; You were wearing ; Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams ; Energy in Sweden ; To my twenties --

Donald Justice (1925-2004) : Counting the mad ; Men at forty ; Nostalgia of the lakefronts ; Pantoum of the Great Depression --

The erotic philosophers / Carolyn Kizer (1925-2014) : Part five of "Pro femina" --

Heart's needle / W.D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) : 2 ("Late April and you are three; today") ; 3 ("The child between them on the street") ; 7 (Here in the scuffled dust") ; 10 ("The vicious winter finally yields") --

Mementos, 1 / W.D. Snodgrass

A.R. Ammons (1926-2001) : Corsons Inlet ; The city limits ; The arc inside and out ; Pet panther --

Strip / A.R. Ammons : 43 ("sometimes I get the feeling I've never") --

James Merrill (1926-1995) : The broken home ; The mad scene ; The victor dog ; Lost in translation --

The book of Ephraim / James Merrill : C. ("Correct but cautious, that first night, we asked") --

James Merrill : Arabian night ; b o d y --

Robert Creeley (1926-2005) : Heroes ; I know a man ; The world ; Bresson's movies --

Howl / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) : I ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness") --

Allen Ginsberg : A supermarket in California ; To Aunt Rose --

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) : The day Lady died ; How to get there ; Ave Maria ; Why I am not a painter --

James K. Baxter (1926-1972) : Wild bees ; Rocket show ; East coast journey ; New Zealand ; The fear of change ; The ikons --

Robert Bly (b. 1926) : Waking from sleep ; Johnson's cabinet watched by ants --

Charles Tomlinson (1927-2015) : Farewell to Van Gogh ; The door ; Ararat --

Galway Kinnell (1927-2014) : First song ; The correspondence school instructor says goodbye to his poetry students ; After making love we hear footsteps --

John Ashbery (1927-2017) : The painter ; Soonest mended ; Ode to Bill ; Paradoxes and oxymorons ; Brute image ; The dong with the luminous nose --

W.S. Merwin (b.1927) : The drunk in the furnace ; Odysseus ; Separation ; Whoever you are --

James Wright (1927-1980) : A note left in Jimmy Leonard's shack ; Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; A blessing ; Speak --

Dying: an introduction / L.E. Sissman (1928-1976) : IV. Path. Report ; V. Outbound --

A deathplace / L.E. Sissman

Philip Levine (1928-2015) : They feed they lion ; You can have it --

Thomas Kinsella (b. 1928) : Another September ; Ancestor ; Tear --

Exile / Donald Hall (b. 1928) --

The one day / Donald Hall : Prophecy --

Independence Day letter / Donald Hall --

Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) : The sofas, fogs, and cinemas ; The sash window ; Farewell to Kurdistan --

Anne Sexton (1928-1974) : The truth the dead know ; And one for my dame --

An exequy / Peter Porter (1929-2010) --

John Montague (1929-2016) : Like Dolmens round my childhood, the old people ; The trout ; All legendary obstacles --

A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) : Breaded fish ; Self-portrait ; Snakes and ladders ; Foundlings in the Yukon --

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) : Aunt Jennifer's tigers ; Snapshots of a daughter-in-law ; Orion ; A valediction forbidding mourning ; Diving into the wreck --

Eastern war time / Adrienne Rich : 1 ("Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943") ; 8 ("A woman wired in memories") --

Modotti / Adrienne Rich --

Thom Gunn (1929-2004) : On the move ; a map of the city ; My sad captains ; From the wave ; "All do not all things well" ; The missing ; The gas-poker --

Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565 / Richard Howard (b. 1929) --

John Hollander (1929-2013) : Swan and shadow ; Adam's task ; An old-fashioned song --

Derek Walcott (1930-2017) : A far cry from Africa ; Nights in the gardens of Port of Spain ; The gulf ; from The schooner flight ; Midsummer --

Omeros / Derek Walcott : Chapter XXXVIII, III ("Who decrees a great epoch?") --

The bounty / Derek Walcott : 22 ("I am considering a syntax the color of slate") --

The prodigal / Derek Walcott : from 9 ("I lay on the bed near the balcony in Guadalajara") --

White egrets / Derek Walcott : 54 ("This page is a cloud between whose fraying edges") --

Gary Snyder (b. 1930) : Above Pate Valley ; Four poems for Robin ; Gnarly --

The arrivants: a new world trilogy / Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) : New world a-comin': 1 ("Helpless like this") ; 2 ("It will be a long long time before we see") --

Ancestors / Kamau Brathwaite : 1 ("Every Friday morning my grandfather") ; 2 ("All that I can remember of his wife") ; 3 ("Come-a look") --

Naima / Kamau Brathwaite --

Roy Fisher (1930-2017) : The entertainment of war ; Of the empirical self and for me ; Hypnopaedia

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) : The thought-fox ; Wind ; Hawk roosting ; Pike ; Theology ; The black beast ; Birth of rainbow ; Daffodils ; Platform one --

Jay MacPherson (1931-2012) : The swan ; A lost soul ; The well --

Irani restaurant Bombay / Arun Kolatkar (1931-2004) --

Jejuri / Arun Kolatkar : The bus --

Biograph / Arun Kolatkar --

John Updike (1932-2009) : V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick ; I missed his book, but I read his name --

Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) : Genesis ; September song --

Mercian hymns / Geoffrey Hill : VI ("The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall") ; VII ("Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools") ; VIII ("The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour") --

Lachrimae / Geoffrey Hill : 1. Lachrimae verae --

An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England / Geoffrey Hill : 9. The laurel axe --

Geoffrey Hill : from The mystery of the charity of Charles Péguy ; Pisgah ; from The triumph of love ; The jumping boy ; Nachwort --

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) : The Colossus ; Morning song ; Lady Lazarus ; Tulips ; Elm ; Ariel ; Daddy ; The Munich mannequins --

Anne Stevenson (b. 1933) : Temporarily in Oxford ; Willow song ; Arioso Dolente --

Fleur Adcock (b. 1934) : The ex-queen among the astronomers ; Poem ended by a death ; The Soho Hospital for Women --

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) : Coal ; From the house of Yemanjá ; Echoes --

N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) : Headwaters ; The eagle-feather fan --

The gift ; Two figures --

Mark Strand (1934-2014) : Keeping things whole ; The prediction ; Always --

Dark Harbor / Mark Strand : XVI ("It is true, as someone has said, that in") ; XX ("Is it you standing among the olive trees") --

Two de chiricos / Mark Strand : 2. The disquieting muses --

Mark Strand : The mysterious arrival of an unusual letter ; Nocturne of the poet who loved the moon

Amiri Baraka [Leroi Jones] (1934-2014) : In memory of radio ; An agony. As now. --

Charles Wright (b. 1935) : Homage to Claude Lorraine ; Chinese journal ; As our bodies rise, our names turn into light ; Quotations ; Lullaby --

Edward Baugh (b.1936) : Sometimes in the middle of the story ; You ever notice how --

Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) : jasper texas 1998 ; mulberry fields --

C.K. Williams (1936-2015) : Repression ; Snow: II ; The coffin store --

Tony Harrison (b. 1937) : On not being Milton ; Classics Society ; A kumquat for John Keats --

Eleanor Wilner (b. 1937) : Reading the Bible backwards ; High noon at Lost Alamos --

Charles Simic (b. 1938) : Watch repair ; Prodigy ; A book full of pictures ; Cameo appearance ; Preachers warn --

Dom Moraes (1938-2004) : Kanheri Caves ; Snow on a mountain --

Two from Israel / Dom Moraes : Rendezvous --

Les Murray (b. 1938) : Noonday axeman ; Once in a lifetime, snow ; The quality of sprawl ; Morse ; The conversations --

R.F. Langley (1938-2011) : Cakes and ale ; Skrymir's glove --

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) : Digging ; Bogland ; Toome ; Punishment --

Singing school / Seamus Heaney : 6 Exposure --

The skunk / Seamus Heaney --

Glanmore sonnets / Seamus Heaney : VII ("Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea") ; X ("I dreamt we slept in a moss in Donegal") --

The harvest bow / Seamus Heaney --

Clearances / Seamus Heaney : ("She taught me what her uncle once taught her") ; III ("When all the others were away at Mass") ; VIII ("I thought of walking round and round a space") --

Fosterling / Seamus Heaney --

Squarings / Seamus Heaney : Lightenings VIII ("The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise") --

Seamus Heaney : Two lorries ; In a field ; Banks of a canal --

Michael Longley (b. 1939) : Swans mating ; Wreaths ; The linen industry ; Gorse fires ; Ghetto ; The stairwell

Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) : This is a photograph of me ; At the tourist center in Boston ; You begin ; Up ; My mother dwindles ... ; Questioning the dead --

Robert Pinsky (b. 1940) : A long branch song ; The street ; Instrument --

Robert Hass (b. 1941) : Meditation at Lagunitas ; Tahoe in August ; Winged and acid dark --

Billy Collins (b. 1941) : Japan ; Litany --

Eric Ormsby (b. 1941) : Starfish ; Skunk cabbage ; Origins --

Derek Mahon (b. 1941) : Leaves ; The snow party ; A disused shed in Co. Wexford ; Courtyards in Delft --

Douglas Dunn (b. 1942) : A removal from Terry Street ; Thirteen steps and the thirteenth of March --

Arthur Nortje (1942-1970) : Soliloquy: South Africa ; Reflections in a passing mirror ; Sonnet two --

From certain footprints found at Laetoli / Charles Martin (b. 1942) --

Louise Glück (b. 1943) : Gretel in darkness ; The garden ; Vita Nova ; The past --

John Tranter (b. 1943) : The revolutionaries ; The germ ; Notes from the late Tang --

Sonnets to be written from prison / Robert Adamson (b. 1943) : 6 ("We will take it seriously as we open our morning paper") --

Addiction / Robert Adamson --

Alfred Corn (b. 1943) : Navidad, St. Nicholas Ave. ; A conch from Sicily --

Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) : Letters & other worlds ; Driving with Dominic in the Southern Province we see hints of the circus ; House on a red cliff --

Eavan Boland (b. 1944) : That the science of cartography is limited ; The Dolls Museum in Dublin ; The pomegranate --

Craig Raine (b. 1944) : The onion, memory ; A Martian sends a postcard home --

Wendy Cope (b. 1945) : Bloody men ; Flowers ; Valentine --

Kay Ryan (b. 1945) : Half a loaf ; Intention ; Cloud ; Spiderweb --

Bill Manhire (b. 1946) : My sunshine ; An inspector calls ; Kevin --

High holy days / Jane Shore (b. 1947) --

Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) : Facing it ; Banking potatoes ; The smokehouse ; Sunday afternoons --

Lorna Goodison (b. 1947) : Where the flora of our village came from ; Change if you must just change slow ; The cruel room --

Richard Kenney (b. 1948) : Air sublime ; Final exam ; Honor guard --

Heather McHugh (b. 1948) : Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun ; Sun grounded in sky pool ; Webcam the world --

Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) : The Dacca gauzes ; Lenox Hill --

James Fenton (b. 1949) : Dead soldiers ; A German requiem ; God, a poem --

Julia Alvarez (b. 1950) : New clothes ; Weeping willow ; Jorie Graham (b. 1950) : The geese ; At Luca Signorelli's resurrection of the body ; Cagnes sur mer --

Anne Carson (b. 1950) : New rule ; Sumptuous destitution ; Lines ; Some afternoons she does not pick up the phone --

Linda Gregerson (b. 1950) : "Halfe a yard of rede sea" ; Prodigal --

Dana Gioia (b. 1950) : Prayer ; The next poem --

Nicholas Christopher (b. 1951) : The palm reader ; Far from home --

Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) : Lunch with Pancho Villa ; Cuba ; Why Brownlee left ; from Immram ; Trance ; A trifle ; The fox ; Milkweed and Monarch --

Gary Soto (b. 1952) : The soup ; Not knowing --

Rita Dove (b. 1952) : Parsley ; Dusting ; The bistro Styx --

Alberto Ríos (b. 1952) : Teodoro Luna confesses after years to his brother, Anselmo the Priest, who is required to understand, but who understands anyway, more than people think ; When there were ghosts --

Andrew Motion (b. 1952) : Great expectations ; Are you there?

Daniel Hall (b. 1952) : Mangosteens ; Memento ; Neoclassical --

Rosanna Warren (b. 1953) : Moment ; Forgiveness ; Hydrangea --

Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. 1953) : Darwin in 1881 ; Supernatural love --

The throne of Labdacus / Gjertrud Schnackenberg : 4. The shepherd speaks --

Vijay Seshadri (b. 1954) : Imaginary number ; This morning ; Script meeting --

Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) : The butcher's wife ; I was sleeping where the black oaks move ; Birth --

Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) : Warming her pearls ; Prayer ; Richard --

Claudia Emerson (1957-2014) : Metatastasis: worry-moth ; Chain chain chain ; MRI --

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) : Persimmons ; Station --

Cynthia Zarin (b. 1959) : The ant hill ; Song --

Kathleen Jamie (b. 1962) : Lepidoptery ; The wishing tree --

Lavinia Greenlaw (b. 1962) : Skin full ; A world where news travelled slowly --

Peter McDonald (b. 1962) : Travellers ; Standstill ; Fifties ; Glyn Maxwell (b. 1962) : Stargazing ; The snow village --

Simon Armitage (b. 1963) : A glory ; The shout --

John Kinsella (b. 1963) : Drowning in wheat ; The fable of the great sow --

Don Paterson (b. 1963) : The ferryman's arms ; Rain --

Double Exposures / Greg Williamson (b. 1964) : III. Visiting couple kissing and halved onion ; XXV. Group photo with winter trees --

Greg Williamson : New Year's: a short pantoum ; Line ; Internet --

Alice Oswald (b. 1966) : Pruning in frost ; Moon hymn ; A short story of falling --

Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) : Flounder ; Graveyard blues ; Elegy --

Karen Solie (b. 1966) : Mole ; The road in is not the same road out ; Life is a carnival --

Eunoia / Christian Bök (b. 1966) : Chapter A ("Awkward grammar appals a craftsman.") ; Chapter E ("Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech.") ; Chapter I ("Writing is inhibiting.") ; Chapter O ("Monks who vow to do God's work ... ") ; Chapter U ("Kultur spurns Ubu ... ") --

A.E. Stallings (b. 1968) : The dollhouse ; Clean break ; Persephone to Psyche --

The golden shovel / Terrance Hayes (b. 1971) --

Tracy K. Smith (b. 1972) : The museum of obsolescence ; The Universe: original motion picture soundtrack.