Table Of Contents:
Preface to the Shorter Fifth Edition xli
Editorial Procedures xliii
Acknowledgments xlv

Caedmon's Hymn 1(1)

John Pope

From Beowulf 2(9)

Seamus Heaney

Riddles 10(1)

Richard Hamer

(``I am a lonely being, scarred by swords'') 10(1)

(``My dress is silent when I tread the ground'') 10(1)

(``A moth ate words; a marvellous event'') 11(1)

The Seafarer 11(4)

Ezra Pound

Anonymous Lyrics of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 14(1)

Now Go'th Sun under Wood 14(1)

The Cuckoo Song 14(1)

Fowls in the Frith 15(1)

I Am of Ireland 15(1)

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343--1400) 15(50)

The Canterbury Tales 15(48)

The General Prologue 15(20)

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale 35(28)

Troilus and Criseide 63(1)

Cantus Troili 63(1)

Lyrics and Occasional Verse 64(1)

Complaint to His Purse 64(1)

To His Scribe Adam 65(1)

William Langland (ca. 1330--ca. 1400) 65(4)

Piers Plowman, lines 1--111 65(4)

Pearl, 1--5 (1375--1400) 69(7)

Anonymous Lyrics of the Fifteenth Century 72(1)

Adam Lay I-bounden 72(1)

I Sing of a Maiden 72(1)

I Have a Young Sister 73(1)

Timor Mortis 74(1)

The Corpus Christi Carol 75(1)

Western Wind 76(1)

The Sacrament of the Altar 76(1)

See! Here, My Heart 76(1)

William Dunbar (ca. 1460--ca. 1525) 76(5)

Lament for the Makaris 76(3)

Done Is a Battle 79(2)

John Skelton (1460--1529) 81(21)

Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale 81(1)

To Mistress Margaret Hussey 82(1)

Phillip Sparow 83(3)

Early Modern Ballads 86(1)

The Douglas Tragedy 86(3)

Lord Randal 89(1)

The Three Ravens 90(1)

Sir Patrick Spens 91(1)

The Unquiet Grave 92(1)

Bonny Barbara Allan 93(2)

Mary Hamilton 95(2)

The Bitter Withy 97(1)

Anonymous Elizabethan and Jacobean Poems 98(1)

Weep You No More, Sad Fountains 98(1)

There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind 99(1)

Tom o' Bedlam's Song 100(2)

Thomas Wyatt (1503--1542) 102(6)

The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor 102(1)

Whoso List to Hunt 103(1)

My Galley 103(1)

They Flee from Me 104(1)

Patience, Though I Have Not 104(1)

My Lute Awake! 105(1)

Forget Not Yet 106(1)

Lucks, My Fair Falcon 107(1)

Stand Whoso List 107(1)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (ca. 1517--1547) 108(2)

The Soote Season 108(1)

Love, That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought 108(1)

Wyatt Resteth Here 109(1)

Anne Askew (1521--1546) 110(1)

The Ballad Which Anne Askewe Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate 110(1)

Queen Elizabeth I (1533--1603) 111(2)

When I Was Fair and Young 111(1)

[The Doubt of Future Foes Exiles My Present Joy] 112(1)

[Ah Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid] 112(1)

George Gascoigne (ca. 1534--1577) 113(2)

And If I Did, What Then? 113(1)

Gascoigne's Lullaby 114(1)

Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567--1573) 115(5)

A Sweet Nosegay 115(5)

A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will 115(1)

From The Manner of Her Will, & What She Left to London, and to All Those in It, at Her Departing 116(4)

Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586) 120(1)

[My Prime of Youth Is but a Frost of Cares] 120(1)

Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552--1618) 120(5)

A Vision upon the Fairy Queen 120(1)

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd 121(1)

The Lie 122(2)

[Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love] 124(1)

Edmund Spenser (1552--1599) 125(28)

The Faerie Queene 125(14)

Book 1, Canto 1 125(14)

Amoretti 139(4)

Sonnet 15 (``Ye tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle'') 139(1)

Sonnet 23 (``Penelope for her Ulisses sake'') 140(1)

Sonnet 54 (``Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay'') 140(1)

Sonnet 67 (``Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace'') 141(1)

Sonnet 70 (``Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king'') 141(1)

Sonnet 71 (``I joy to see how in your drawen work'') 141(1)

Sonnet 75 (``One day I wrote her name upon the strand'') 142(1)

Sonnet 79 (``Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it'') 142(1)

Epithalamion 143(10)

John Lyly (1554--1606) 153(1)

Cupid and My Campaspe 153(1)

Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary 154(1)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586) 154(8)

Ye Goatherd Gods 154(3)

What Length of Verse? 157(1)

Astrophil and Stella 157(5)

1 (``Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'') 157(1)

21 (``Your words my friend [right healthful caustics] blame'') 158(1)

31 (``With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies'') 158(1)

48 (``Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me'') 159(1)

49 (``I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try'') 159(1)

52 (``A strife is grown between Virtue and Love'') 159(1)

63 (``O Grammer rules, o now your virtues show'') 160(1)

71 (``Who will in fairest book of Nature know'') 160(4)

Seventh Song (``Whose senses in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays'') 164

90 (``Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame'') 161(1)

Robert Southwell (ca. 1561--1595) 162(1)

The Burning Babe 162(1)

Mary Sidney (1561--1621) 162(2)

Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique 162(1)

Psalm 114: In Exitu Israel 163(1)

Samuel Daniel (1563--1619) 164(2)

Delia 164(2)

1 (``Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty'') 164(1)

2 (``Go wailing verse, the infants of my love'') 164(1)

6 (``Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair'') 165(1)

49 (``Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night'') 165(1)

50 (``Let others sing of knights and paladins'') 166(1)

Michael Drayton (1563--1631) 166(2)

Idea 166(2)

To the Reader of these Sonnets 166(1)

6 (``How many paltry, foolish, painted things'') 167(1)

14 (``If he from heaven that filched that living fire'') 167(1)

61 (``Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part'') 168(1)

Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593) 168(1)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 168(1)

William Shakespeare (1564--1616) 169(13)

Sonnets 169(10)

1 (``From fairest creatures we desire increase'') 169(1)

3 (``Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest'') 169(1)

12 (``When I do count the clock that tells the time'') 170(1)

15 (``When I consider everything that grows'') 170(1)

18 (``Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'') 171(1)

20 (``A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted'') 171(1)

29 (``When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes'') 171(1)

30 (``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought'') 172(1)

55 (``Not marble, nor the gilded monuments'') 172(1)

65 (``Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'') 173(1)

71 (``No longer mourn for me when I am dead'') 173(1)

73 (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'') 173(1)

87 (``Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing'') 174(1)

94 (``They that have power to hurt and will do none'') 174(1)

97 (``How like a winter hath my absence been'') 175(1)

106 (``When in the chronicle of wasted time'') 175(1)

107 (``Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul'') 175(1)

116 (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'') 176(1)

126 (``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r'') 176(1)

129 (``Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame'') 177(1)

130 (``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'') 177(1)

138 (``When my love swears that she is made of truth'') 177(1)

144 (``Two loves have I of comfort and despair'') 178(1)

146 (``Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth'') 178(1)

The Phoenix and the Turtle 179(2)

Songs from the Plays 181(1)

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind 181(1)

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun 181(1)

Full Fathom Five 182(1)

Thomas Campion (1567--1620) 182(3)

My Sweetest Lesbia 182(1)

I Care Not for These Ladies 183(1)

Follow Thy Fair Sun 184(1)

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings 184(1)

Rose-cheeked Laura 185(1)

Thomas Nashe (1567--1601) 185(2)

Summer's Last Will 185(2)

[Spring, the Sweet Spring] 185(1)

[Adieu, Farewell, Earth's Bliss] 186(1)

Aemilia Lanyer (1569--1645) 187(4)

From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 187(4)

John Donne (1572--1631) 191(17)

The Good-Morrow 191(1)

Song (``Go and catch a falling star'') 192(1)

Woman's Constancy 192(1)

The Sun Rising 193(1)

The Canonization 194(1)

Song (``Sweetest love, I do not go'') 195(1)

The Anniversary 196(1)

A Valediction of Weeping 197(1)

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 198(1)

The Ecstasy 199(2)

The Funeral 201(1)

The Flea 202(1)

The Relic 202(1)

Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed 203(2)

Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward 205(1)

Holy Sonnets 206(2)

1 (``Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?'') 206(1)

5 (``I am a little world made cunningly'') 206(1)

7 (``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'') 207(1)

10 (``Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'') 207(1)

14 (``Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You'') 208(1)

Ben Jonson (1572--1637) 208(13)

To the Reader 208(1)

On My First Daughter 208(1)

On My First Son 209(1)

On Spies 209(1)

To John Donne 209(1)

Inviting a Friend to Supper 210(1)

On Gut 211(1)

To Penshurst 211(3)

Song: To Celia (I) 214(1)

Song: To Celia (II) 214(1)

A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme 215(1)

Still to Be Neat 216(1)

Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell 217(1)

To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare 217(2)

A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth 219(1)

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount 220(1)

Queen and Huntress 220(1)

Mary Wroth (1587--1651?) 221(4)

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 221(4)

1 (``When night's black mantle could most darkness prove'') 221(1)

3 (``Yet is there Hope: then Love but play thy part'') 221(1)

37 (``Night, welcome art thou to my mind distressed'') 222(1)

74 Song (``Love a child is ever crying'') 222(1)

A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love 223(1)

77 (``In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn'') 223(1)

78 (``Is to leave all and take the thread of Love'') 224(1)

82 (``He may our prophet, and our tutor prove'') 224(1)

Robert Herrick (1591--1674) 225(7)

The Argument of His Book 225(1)

The Vine 225(1)

Delight in Disorder 226(1)

Corinna's Going A-Maying 226(2)

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 228(1)

Upon Julia's Breasts 228(1)

Upon a Child That Died 229(1)

Upon Julia's Clothes 229(1)

An Ode for Him 229(1)

The Pillar of Fame 230(1)

To Find God 230(1)

The White Island, or Place of the Blest 231(1)

Henry King (1592--1669) 232(3)

An Exequy to His Matchless, Never-to-Be-Forgotten Friend 232(3)

George Herbert (1593--1633) 235(11)

The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations 235(11)

The Altar 235(1)

Redemption 235(1)

Easter Wings 236(1)

Sin (I) 237(1)

Affliction (I) 238(1)

Prayer (I) 239(1)

Jordan (I) 240(1)

Virtue 240(1)

Artillery 241(1)

The Collar 242(1)

The Pulley 243(1)

The Flower 243(2)

The Forerunners 245(1)

Love (III) 246(1)

Thomas Carew (ca. 1595--1640) 246(5)

A Song (``Ask me no more where Jove bestows'') 246(1)

Song. To My Inconstant Mistress 247(1)

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne 247(3)

The Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book (1640) 250(1)

Psalm 58 250(1)

Edmund Waller (1606--1687) 251(1)

Song (``Go, lovely rose!'') 251(1)

John Milton (1608--1674) 252(29)

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 252(8)

On Shakespeare 260(1)

L'Allegro 260(4)

Il Penseroso 264(4)

How Soon Hath Time 268(1)

Lycidas 269(5)

Comus 274(1)

Song (``Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen'') 274(1)

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent 274(1)

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 275(1)

Methought I Saw 275(1)

Paradise Lost 276(5)

The Verse 276(1)

Book I [The Invocation] 277(1)

From Book 4 [lines 1--113] 278(3)

Sir John Suckling (1609--1642) 281(1)

Song (``Why so pale and wan, fond lover?'') 281(1)

Sonnet II (``Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white'') 281(1)

Out upon It! 282(1)

Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612--1672) 282(6)

The Prologue 282(1)

Before the Birth of One of Her Children 283(2)

To My Dear and Loving Husband 285(1)

The Author to Her Book 285(1)

A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment 286(1)

Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666 287(1)

Richard Crashaw (1613--1649) 288(1)

The Tear 288(1)

Richard Lovelace (1618--1658) 289(3)

To Althea, from Prison 289(1)

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 290(1)

The Grasshopper 291(1)

Andrew Marvell (1621--1678) 292(6)

Bermudas 292(1)

To His Coy Mistress 293(1)

The Definition of Love 294(1)

The Mower against Gardens 295(1)

The Garden 296(2)

Henry Vaughan (1621--1695) 298(4)

The Retreat 298(1)

They Are All Gone into the World of Light! 299(2)

The Waterfall 301(1)

Margaret Cavendish (1623--1673) 302(1)

An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book 302(1)

Of Many Worlds in This World 302(1)

John Dryden (1631--1700) 303(9)

Mac Flecknoe 303(6)

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham 309(1)

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day 310(2)

Katherine Philips (1632--1664) 312(1)

Epitaph 312(1)

To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship 312(1)

Thomas Traherne (1637--1674) 313(2)

Wonder 313(2)

Edward Taylor (ca. 1642--1729) 315(3)

Meditation 8 (``I kenning through astronomy divine'') 315(1)

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly 316(2)

Aphra Behn (1640?--1689) 318(5)

Song (``Love Armed'') 318(1)

The Disappointment 318(4)

Song (``On Her Loving Two Equally'') 322(1)

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman 323(1)

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647--1680) 323(4)

The Disabled Debauchee 323(2)

The Imperfect Enjoyment 325(1)

A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover 326(1)

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661--1720) 327(6)

The Spleen 327(4)

Adam Posed 331(1)

A Nocturnal Reverie 331(2)

Jonathan Swift (1667--1745) 333(20)

A Description of a City Shower 333(1)

Stella's Birthday 334(2)

The Lady's Dressing Room 336(3)

A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed 339(2)

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. 341(12)

Isaac Watts (1674--1748) 353(3)

Our God, Our Help 353(2)

Psalm 58 355(1)

John Gay (1685--1732) 356(1)

Songs from The Beggar's Opera 356(1)

Air X---``Thomas, I Cannot'' 356(1)

Air XI---``A Soldier and a Sailor'' 356(1)

Air XVI---``Over the Hills, and Far Away'' 356(1)

Air XXVII---``Green Sleeves'' 357(1)

Alexander Pope (1688--1744) 357(33)

The Rape of the Lock 357(18)

Epistle to Miss Blount 375(1)

An Essay on Man, in Four Epistles 376(3)

From Epistle 1 (lines 1--130) 376(3)

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 379(10)

The Dunciad 389(1)

[The Triumph of Dulness] 389(1)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689--1762) 390(4)

Saturday (The Smallpox) 390(2)

The Lover: A Ballad 392(1)

A Receipt to Cure the Vapors 393(1)

James Thomson (1700--1748) 394(3)

The Seasons 394(3)

From Winter (lines 223--358) 394(3)

Samuel Johnson (1709--1784) 397(10)

Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick 397(2)

The Vanity of Human Wishes 399(8)

Thomas Gray (1716--1771) 407(7)

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 407(2)

Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes) 409(1)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 410(4)

William Collins (1721--1759) 414(3)

Ode on the Poetical Character 414(2)

Ode to Evening 416(1)

Christopher Smart (1722--1771) 417(3)

Jubilate Agno, lines 697--770 (``For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry'') 417(2)

Psalm 58 419(1)

Jean Elliot (1727--1805) 420(1)

The Flowers of the Forest 420(1)

Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730--1774) 421(10)

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly 421(1)

The Deserted Village 422(9)

William Cowper (1731--1800) 431(3)

Olney Hymns 431(1)

Light Shining out of Darkness 431(1)

The Castaway 431(2)

Lines Written during a Period of Insanity 433(1)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743--1825) 434(2)

The Rights of Woman 434(1)

To the Poor 435(1)

Life 435(1)

Charlotte Smith (1749--1806) 436(2)

To the Shade of Burns 436(1)

Nepenthe 437(1)

From Beachy Head 437(1)

Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753--1784) 438(2)

On Being Brought from Africa to America 438(1)

To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 439(1)

William Blake (1757--1827) 440(11)

Poetical Sketches 440(1)

Song (``How sweet I roam'd from field to field'') 440(1)

To the Evening Star 440(1)

Songs of Innocence 441(3)

Introduction (``Piping down the valleys wild'') 441(1)

The Lamb 441(1)

Holy Thursday [I.] 442(1)

The Divine Image 442(1)

The Little Black Boy 443(1)

Songs of Experience 444(4)

Introduction (``Hear the voice of the Bard!'') 444(1)

A Divine Image 444(1)

Holy Thursday [II.] 445(1)

The Clod & the Pebble 445(1)

The Sick Rose 446(1)

A Poison Tree 446(1)

The Tyger 446(1)

Ah Sun-flower 447(1)

The Garden of Love 447(1)

London 448(1)

Songs and Ballads 448(2)

I Asked a Thief 448(1)

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau 449(1)

A Question Answered 449(1)

Milton 450(1)

And Did Those Feet 450(1)

Jerusalem 450(1)

England! Awake! Awake! Awake! 450(1)

Robert Burns (1759--1796) 451(5)

Green Grow the Rashes 451(1)

To a Mouse 452(1)

Holy Willie's Prayer 453(2)

John Anderson My Jo 455(1)

A Red Red Rose 456(1)

William Wordsworth (1770--1850) 456(30)

Expostulation and Reply 456(1)

The Tables Turned 457(1)

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey 458(4)

Anecdote for Fathers 462(2)

The Prelude 464(7)

Book I, lines 301--647 (``Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up'') 464(7)

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways 471(1)

Three Years She Grew 471(1)

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal 472(1)

Resolution and Independence 473(3)

It Is a Beauteous Evening 476(1)

London, 1802 477(1)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 477(1)

Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room 478(1)

My Heart Leaps Up 478(1)

Ode: Intimations of Immortality 478(5)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 483(1)

The World Is Too Much with Us 484(1)

The Solitary Reaper 484(1)

Surprised by Joy 485(1)

Mutability 485(1)

Scorn Not the Sonnet 486(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834) 486(23)

Kubla Khan 486(2)

Frost at Midnight 488(1)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 489(16)

Dejection: An Ode 505(4)

Walter Savage Landor (1775--1864) 509(1)

Rose Aylmer 509(1)

Dirce 509(1)

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher 509(1)

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824) 510(28)

Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 510(1)

She Walks in Beauty 510(1)

When We Two Parted 511(1)

So We'll Go No More A-Roving 512(1)

Don Juan 512(25)

Fragment on the Back of the Ms. of Canto I 512(1)

Canto the First. Stanzas 1--119 513(24)

On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year 537(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822) 538(26)

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 538(3)

Ozymandias 541(1)

Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples 541(1)

England in 1819 542(1)

Ode to the West Wind 543(2)

The Cloud 545(2)

To a Skylark 547(3)

Adonais 550(13)

Hellas 563(1)

The World's Great Age 563(1)

John Clare (1793--1864) 564(2)

Badger 564(1)

Farewell 565(1)

I Am 566(1)

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793--1835) 566(1)

Casabianca 566(1)

John Keats (1795--1821) 567(21)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 567(1)

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 568(1)

When I Have Fears 568(1)

To Homer 569(1)

The Eve of St. Agnes 569(10)

On the Sonnet 579(1)

La Belle Dame sans Merci 579(2)

Ode to Psyche 581(1)

Ode to a Nightingale 582(2)

Ode on Melancholy 584(1)

Ode on a Grecian Urn 585(2)

To Autumn 587(1)

Bright Star 588(1)

This Living Hand 588(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882) 588(5)

Concord Hymn 588(1)

The Rhodora 589(1)

The Snow-Storm 589(1)

Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing) 590(3)

Intellect 593(1)

Fate 593(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861) 593(4)

Sonnets from the Portuguese 593(1)

1 (``I thought once how Theocritus had sung'') 593(1)

43 (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'') 594(1)

Aurora Leigh 594(3)

From Book 5 [Poets and the Present Age] 594(3)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882) 597(3)

From Evangeline 597(1)

The Song of Hiawatha 597(2)

From Part III: Hiawatha's Childhood 597(2)

The Cross of Snow 599(1)

Edward Fitzgerald (1809--1883) 600(13)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur 600(13)

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809--1894) 613(1)

The Chambered Nautilus 613(1)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) 614(5)

Sonnet---To Science 614(1)

To Helen 615(1)

The Raven 615(3)

Annabel Lee 618(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892) 619(23)

Mariana 619(2)

The Lady of Shalott 621(4)

The Lotos-Eaters 625(4)

Ulysses 629(2)

Break, Break, Break 631(1)

Songs from The Princess 631(2)

Tears, Idle Tears 631(1)

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 632(1)

In Memoriam A.H.H. 633(6)

1 (``I held it truth, with him who sings'') 633(1)

2 (``Old Yew, which graspest at the stones'') 633(1)

7 (``Dark house, by which once more I stand'') 634(1)

11 (``Calm is the morn without a sound'') 634(1)

19 (``The Danube to the Severn gave'') 634(1)

50 (``Be near me when my light is low'') 635(1)

67 (``When on my bed the moonlight falls'') 635(1)

88 (``Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet'') 636(1)

95 (``By night we lingered on the lawn'') 636(2)

119 (``Doors, where my heart was used to beat'') 638(1)

121 (``Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun'') 638(1)

130 (``Thy voice is on the rolling air'') 639(1)

The Eagle 639(1)

Tithonus 639(2)

Crossing the Bar 641(1)

Robert Browning (1812--1889) 642(24)

Porphyria's Lover 642(1)

My Last Duchess 643(1)

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 644(3)

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 647(1)

A Toccata of Galuppi's 648(2)

``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'' 650(6)

Fra Lippo Lippi 656(8)

Two in the Campagna 664(2)

Edward Lear (1812--1888) 666(2)

There Was an Old Man with a Beard 666(1)

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 666(1)

How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear 667(1)

Emily Bronte (1818--1848) 668(3)

Remembrance 668(1)

The Prisoner. A Fragment 669(2)

No Coward Soul Is Mine 671(1)

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819--1861) 671(2)

The Latest Decalogue 671(1)

Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth 672(1)

Julia Ward Howe (1819--1910) 673(1)

Battle-Hymn of the Republic 673(1)

Herman Melville (1819--1891) 673(6)

The Portent 673(1)

Shiloh 674(1)

The Maldive Shark 674(1)

The Berg 675(1)

Monody 676(1)

Spirituals 676(1)

Go Down, Moses 676(1)

Ezekiel Saw the Wheel 677(2)

Walt Whitman (1819--1892) 679(25)

Song of Myself 679(5)

1 (``I celebrate myself, and sing myself'') 679(1)

5 (``I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you'') 679(1)

6 (``A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands'') 680(1)

11 (``Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore'') 681(1)

24 (``Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son'') 682(1)

52 (``The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me'') 683(1)

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 684(5)

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 689(1)

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night 689(1)

Beat! Beat! Drums! 690(1)

Cavalry Crossing a Ford 691(1)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 691(5)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 696(6)

A Noiseless Patient Spider 702(1)

To a Locomotive in Winter 703(1)

Matthew Arnold (1822--1888) 704(8)

Shakespeare 704(1)

To Marguerite 704(1)

The Scholar-Gypsy 705(6)

Dover Beach 711(1)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--1882) 712(4)

The Blessed Damozel 712(3)

The House of Life 715(1)

A Sonnet 715(1)

George Meredith (1828--1909) 716(3)

Modern Love 716(2)

1 (``By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'') 716(1)

17 (``At dinner, she is hostess, I am host'') 716(1)

30 (``What are we first? First, animals; and next'') 717(1)

48 (``Their sense is with their senses all mixed in'') 717(1)

49 (``He found her by the ocean's moaning verge'') 717(1)

50 (``Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'') 718(1)

Lucifer in Starlight 718(1)

Emily Dickinson (1830--1886) 719(14)

39 (49) (``I never lost as much but twice -'') 719(1)

68 (89) (Some things that fly there be -'') 719(1)

112 (67) (``Success is counted sweetest'') 719(1)

124 (216) (``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -'') (1859) 720(1)

124 (216) (``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -'') (1862) 720(1)

145 (59) (``A little East of Jordan'') 721(1)

202 (185) (`` `Faith' is a fine invention'') 721(1)

260 (288) (``I'm nobody! Who are you?'') 722(1)

269 (249) (``Wild nights - Wild nights!'') 722(1)

314 (254) (`` `Hope' is the thing with feathers -'') 722(1)

320 (258) (``There's a certain Slant of light'') 723(1)

339 (241) (``I like a look of Agony'') 723(1)

340 (280) (``I felt a Funeral, in my Brain'') 723(1)

359 (328) (``A Bird, came down the Walk -'') 724(1)

372 (341) (``After great pain, a formal feeling comes -'') 725(1)

409 (303) (``The Soul selects her own Society -'') 725(1)

445 (613) (``They shut me up in Prose -'') 725(1)

479 (712) (``Because I could not stop for Death -'') 726(1)

533 (569) (``I reckon - When I count at all -'') 727(1)

591 (465) (``I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -'') 727(1)

620 (435) (``Much Madness is divinest Sense -'') 728(1)

740 (789) (``On a Columnar Self -'') 728(1)

764 (754) (``My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -'') 728(1)

782 (745) (``Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue -'') 729(1)

788 (709) (``Publication - is the Auction'') 730(1)

905 (861) (``Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music -'') 730(1)

1096 (986) (``A narrow Fellow in the Grass'') 730(1)

1108 (1078) (``The Bustle in a House'') 731(1)

1263 (1129) (``Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -'') 731(1)

1489 (1463) (``A Route of Evanescence'') 732(1)

1793 (1732) (``My life closed twice before it's close'') 732(1)

1788 (1763) (``Fame is a bee'') 732(1)

Christina Rossetti (1830--1894) 733(3)

Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'') 733(1)

Remember 733(1)

Echo 733(1)

In an Artist's Studio 734(1)

Up-Hill 734(1)

Passing Away, Saith the World, Passing Away 735(1)

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832--1898) 736(2)

Jabberwocky 736(1)

[Humpty Dumpty's Explication of Jabberwocky] 737(1)

W. S. Gilbert (1836--1911) 738(2)

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General 738(2)

Titwillow 740(1)

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837--1909) 740(4)

Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon 740(2)

When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces 740(2)

A Forsaken Garden 742(2)

Thomas Hardy (1840--1928) 744(8)

Hap 744(1)

I Look into My Glass 744(1)

Drummer Hodge 745(1)

A Broken Appointment 745(1)

The Darkling Thrush 746(1)

The Ruined Maid 747(1)

The Convergence of the Twain 748(1)

Channel Firing 749(1)

The Voice 750(1)

During Wind and Rain 751(1)

In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations'' 751(1)

Sidney Lanier (1842--1881) 752(3)

The Marshes of Glynn 752(3)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889) 755(5)

God's Grandeur 755(1)

The Windhover 755(1)

Pied Beauty 756(1)

[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame] 756(1)

Felix Randal 757(1)

Spring and Fall 757(1)

[Carrion Comfort] 758(1)

[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief] 758(1)

[My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On] 759(1)

[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord . . .] 759(1)

A. E. Housman (1859--1936) 760(5)

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now 760(1)

To an Athlete Dying Young 760(1)

Is My Team Ploughing 761(1)

With Rue My Heart Is Laden 762(1)

``Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . .'' 762(2)

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 764(1)

Crossing Alone the Nighted Ferry 764(1)

Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose 765(1)

Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936) 765(2)

Tommy 765(1)

Recessional 766(1)

William Butler Yeats (1865--1939) 767(20)

The Stolen Child 767(1)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree 768(1)

When You Are Old 769(1)

Adam's Curse 769(1)

No Second Troy 770(1)

The Wild Swans at Coole 771(1)

Easter 1916 772(2)

The Second Coming 774(1)

Sailing to Byzantium 774(2)

Leda and the Swan 776(1)

Among School Children 776(2)

Byzantium 778(2)

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop 780(1)

Lapis Lazuli 780(2)

Long-Legged Fly 782(1)

The Circus Animals' Desertion 782(2)

Under Ben Bulben 784(3)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935) 787(3)

Richard Cory 787(1)

George Crabbe 787(1)

Reuben Bright 788(1)

Miniver Cheevy 788(1)

Mr. Flood's Party 789(1)

Charlotte Mew (1869--1928) 790(2)

The Farmer's Bride 790(2)

Stephen Crane (1871--1900) 792(2)

From The Black Riders and Other Lines 792(1)

I (``Black Riders Came from the Sea'') 792(1)

III (``In the Desert'') 792(1)

XXV (``Behold, the Grave of a Wicked Man'') 792(1)

LVI (``A Man Feared That He Might Find an Assassin'') 793(1)

From War is Kind 793(1)

[A Man Adrift on a Slim Spar] 793(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906) 794(1)

A Summer's Night 794(1)

Sympathy 795(1)

Robert Frost (1874--1963) 795(15)

Mending Wall 795(1)

Home Burial 796(3)

After Apple-Picking 799(1)

The Wood-Pile 800(1)

The Road Not Taken 801(1)

The Oven Bird 801(1)

Birches 802(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 803(1)

Acquainted with the Night 804(1)

Neither Out Far Nor In Deep 804(1)

Design 805(1)

Provide, Provide 805(1)

The Silken Tent 806(1)

Come In 806(1)

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same 807(1)

The Most of It 807(1)

The Gift Outright 808(1)

Directive 808(2)

Amy Lowell (1874--1925) 810(3)

Patterns 810(2)

The Weather-Cock Points South 812(1)

Gertrude Stein (1874--1946) 813(1)

Stanzas in Meditation 813(1)

Part I, Stanza XIII (``She may count three little daisies very well'') 813(1)

Part III, Stanza II (``I think very well of Susan but I do not know her name'') 813(1)

Part III, Stanza V (``It is not a range of a mountain'') 814(1)

Part V, Stanza XXXVIII (``Which I wish to say is this'') 814(1)

Part V, Stanza LXIII (``I wish that I had spoken only of it all.'') 814(1)

Edward Thomas (1878--1917) 814(2)

In Memoriam [Easter 1915] 814(1)

As the team's head brass 815(1)

Wallace Stevens (1879--1955) 816(11)

The Snow Man 816(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream 816(1)

Sunday Morning 817(3)

Anecdote of the Jar 820(1)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 820(2)

Peter Quince at the Clavier 822(2)

The Idea of Order at Key West 824(1)

Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu 825(1)

Of Mere Being 826(1)

E. J. Pratt (1883--1964) 827(1)

Come Not the Seasons Here 827(1)

From Stone to Steel 827(1)

William Carlos Williams (1883--1963) 828(10)

Danse Russe 828(1)

Portrait of a Lady 829(1)

The Red Wheelbarrow 829(1)

This Is Just to Say 830(1)

Poem 830(1)

A Sort of a Song 831(1)

Asphodel, That Greeny Flower 831(7)

Book I 831(7)

Pictures from Brueghel 838(1)

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 838(1)

D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930) 838(6)

Love on the Farm 838(2)

Piano 840(1)

Snake 840(3)

The English Are So Nice! 843(1)

Bavarian Gentians 843(1)

Ezra Pound (1885--1972) 844(7)

Portrait d'une Femme 844(1)

The Garden 845(1)

A Pact 845(1)

Ts'ai Chi'h 846(1)

In a Station of the Metro 846(1)

The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter 846(1)

The Cantos 847(4)

I (``And then went down to the ship'') 847(2)

XLV (``With Usura'') 849(2)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886--1961) 851(2)

Helen 851(1)

The Walls Do Not Fall 851(2)

[1] (``An incident here and there'') 851(2)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967) 853(1)

``They'' 853(1)

Everyone Sang 853(1)

Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962) 854(1)

Shine, Perishing Republic 854(1)

Birds and Fishes 854(1)

Marianne Moore (1887--1972) 855(7)

The Fish 855(1)

Poetry 856(1)

The Steeple-Jack 857(2)

What Are Years? 859(1)

Nevertheless 860(1)

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing 861(1)

T. S. Eliot (1888--1965) 862(19)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 862(4)

The Waste Land 866(13)

The Hollow Men 879(2)

John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974) 881(2)

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter 881(1)

Piazza Piece 882(1)

Parting, without a Sequel 882(1)

Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918) 883(1)

Break of Day in the Trenches 883(1)

Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) (1892--1978) 884(1)

Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries 884(1)

From In Memoriam James Joyce 884(1)

Archibald MacLeish (1892--1982) 885(2)

Ars Poetica 885(1)

The Snowflake Which Is Now and Hence Forever 886(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950) 887(2)

First Fig 887(1)

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare 887(1)

[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed] 887(1)

The Buck in the Snow 888(1)

I Dreamed I Moved among the Elysian Fields 888(1)

Armenonville 889(1)

Wilfred Owen (1893--1918) 889(3)

Anthem for Doomed Youth 889(1)

Dulce Et Decorum Est 890(1)

Strange Meeting 891(1)

Futility 892(1)

E. E. Cummings (1894--1962) 892(6)

All in green went my love riding 892(1)

Spring is like a perhaps hand 893(1)

``next to of course god america i 894(1)

since feeling is first 894(1)

somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond 895(1)

may I feel said he 895(1)

anyone lived in a pretty how town 896(1)

who are you, little I 897(1)

Jean Toomer (1894--1967) 898(1)

Cane 898(1)

Reapers 898(1)

Harvest Song 898(1)

Robert Graves (1895--1985) 899(2)

Love Without Hope 899(1)

Warning to Children 899(1)

The White Goddess 900(1)

Louise Bogan (1897--1970) 901(2)

Juan's Song 901(1)

Man Alone 901(1)

Song for the Last Act 902(1)

Night 903(1)

Hart Crane (1899--1932) 903(6)

Voyages 903(4)

The Bridge 907(1)

Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge 907(1)

To Emily Dickinson 908(1)

Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901--1991) 909(1)

The Wind Suffers 909(1)

Ding-Donging 910(1)

Sterling A. Brown (1901--1989) 910(2)

Slim in Atlanta 910(2)

Bitter Fruit of the Tree 912(1)

Langston Hughes (1902--1967) 912(5)

The Weary Blues 912(1)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers 913(1)

Dream Variations 914(1)

Cross 914(1)

Song for a Dark Girl 914(1)

Harlem 915(1)

Theme for English B 915(1)

Dinner Guest: Me 916(1)

Roy Campbell (1902--1957) 917(1)

The Zulu Girl 917(1)

The Sisters 918(1)

Stevie Smith (1902--1971) 918(2)

No Categories! 918(1)

Mr. Over 919(1)

Not Waving but Drowning 920(1)

Countee Cullen (1903--1946) 920(4)

Heritage 920(3)

Incident 923(1)

Yet Do I Marvel 923(1)

Earle Birney (1904--1991) 924(2)

Bushed 924(1)

The Bear on the Delhi Road 925(1)

C. Day Lewis (1904--1972) 926(1)

Two Songs 926(1)

(``I've heard them lilting at loom and belting'') 926(1)

(``Come, live with me and be my love'') 926(1)

Where are the War Poets? 927(1)

Patrick Kavanagh (1904--1967) 927(3)

From The Great Hunger 927(2)

Epic 929(1)

Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905) 930(1)

Robin Redbreast 930(1)

Touch Me 931(1)

Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989) 931(3)

Bearded Oaks 931(2)

Masts at Dawn 933(1)

Evening Hawk 934(1)

William Empson (1906--1984) 934(2)

Legal Fiction 934(1)

Missing Dates 935(1)

W. H. Auden (1907--1973) 936(12)

Lullaby [Lay your sleeping head love] 936(1)

As I Walked Out One Evening 937(1)

Twelve Songs 938(1)

IX [Funeral Blues] 938(1)

Musee des Beaux Arts 939(1)

In Memory of W. B. Yeats 939(2)

September 1, 1939 941(3)

In Praise of Limestone 944(2)

The Shield of Achilles 946(2)

A. D. Hope (1907--2000) 948(1)

Australia 948(1)

Inscription for a War 949(1)

Louis MacNeice (1907--1963) 949(6)

The Sunlight on the Garden 949(1)

Bagpipe Music 950(1)

From Autumn Journal (``September has come and I wake'') 951(1)

London Rain 952(2)

Star-gazer 954(1)

Theodore Roethke (1908--1963) 955(3)

My Papa's Waltz 955(1)

Elegy for Jane 955(1)

The Waking 956(1)

I Knew a Woman 956(1)

Wish for a Young Wife 957(1)

Richard Wright (1908--1960) 958(1)

Haiku: This Other World 958(1)

21 (``On winter mornings'') 958(1)

31 (``In the falling snow'') 958(1)

210 (``Crying and crying'') 958(1)

490 (``Waking from a nap'') 958(1)

762 (``Droning autumn rain'') 958(1)

783 (``I cannot find it'') 958(1)

Malcolm Lowry (1909--1957) 959(1)

Delirium in Vera Cruz 959(1)

Eye-Opener 959(1)

Strange Type 959(1)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979) 960(7)

Casabianca 960(1)

The Fish 960(2)

Filling Station 962(1)

Sestina 963(1)

In the Waiting Room 964(2)

One Art 966(1)

Irving Layton (b. 1912) 967(1)

The Birth of Tragedy 967(1)

Berry Picking 968(1)

Robert Hayden (1913--1980) 968(3)

Those Winter Sundays 968(1)

Night, Death, Mississippi 969(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar 970(1)

Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980) 971(1)

Boy with His Hair Cut Short 971(1)

Night Feeding 971(1)

Rondel 972(1)

May Swenson (1913--1989) 972(2)

Cardinal Ideograms 972(1)

Goodbye, Goldeneye 973(1)

R. S. Thomas (1913--2000) 974(1)

Welsh Landscape 974(1)

The View from the Window 975(1)

John Berryman (1914--1972) 975(5)

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet 975(2)

17--21 975(2)

A Sympathy, A Welcome 977(1)

The Dream Songs 977(3)

1 (``Huffy Henry hid the day'') 977(1)

14 (``Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so'') 978(1)

29 (``There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart'') 978(1)

145 (``Also I love him: me he's done no wrong'') 979(1)

324. An Elegy for W.C.W., The Lovely Man 979(1)

382 (``At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well:'') 980(1)

Randall Jarrell (1914--1965) 980(4)

90 North 980(1)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 981(1)

Eighth Air Force 981(1)

Next Day 982(2)

Weldon Kees (1914--1955) 984(1)

For H. V. (1901--1927) 984(1)

When the Lease Is Up 984(1)

Robinson 984(1)

Henry Reed (1914--1986) 985(1)

Lessons of the War 985(1)

1. Naming of Parts 985(1)

Dylan Thomas (1914--1953) 986(6)

The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower 986(1)

The Hand That Signed the Paper 987(1)

After the Funeral 987(1)

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London 988(1)

Fern Hill 989(1)

In My Craft or Sullen Art 990(1)

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 991(1)

Judith Wright (1915--2000) 992(2)

Woman to Man 992(1)

Eve to Her Daughters 992(2)

David Gascoyne (1916--2001) 994(2)

Ecce Homo 994(2)

P. K. Page (b. 1916) 996(2)

Stories of Snow 996(1)

Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree 997(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000) 998(3)

kitchenette building 998(1)

the birth in a narrow room 998(1)

the rites for Cousin Vit 999(1)

We Real Cool 999(1)

Medgar Evers 1000(1)

Boy Breaking Glass 1000(1)

Robert Lowell (1917--1977) 1001(9)

Mr. Edwards and the Spider 1001(2)

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow 1003(3)

Water 1006(1)

For the Union Dead 1007(2)

Epilogue 1009(1)

Amy Clampitt (1920--1994) 1010(2)

Beach Glass 1010(1)

The Cormorant in Its Element 1011(1)

Syrinx 1011(1)

Keith Douglas (1920--1944) 1012(2)

Vergissmeinnicht 1012(1)

Aristocrats 1013(1)

Howard Nemerov (1920--1991) 1014(3)

The Goose Fish 1014(1)

A Primer of the Daily Round 1015(1)

The Blue Swallows 1015(1)

Boy with Book of Knowledge 1016(1)

Strange Metamorphosis of Poets 1017(1)

Mona Van Duyn (b. 1921) 1017(3)

Letters from a Father 1017(3)

Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) 1020(6)

First Snow in Alsace 1020(1)

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World 1021(1)

Advice to a Prophet 1022(1)

Junk 1023(1)

Cottage Street, 1953 1024(1)

Zea 1025(1)

Philip Larkin (1922--1985) 1026(8)

For Sidney Bechet 1026(1)

Born Yesterday 1027(1)

Church Going 1027(2)

An Arundel Tomb 1029(1)

MCMXIV 1030(1)

Talking in Bed 1031(1)

The Trees 1031(1)

Sad Steps 1032(1)

The Explosion 1032(1)

This Be The Verse 1033(1)

James Dickey (1923--1997) 1034(2)

The Lifeguard 1034(1)

Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony 1035(1)

Anthony Hecht (1923--2004) 1036(7)

A Hill 1036(1)

The Dover Bitch 1037(1)

The Ghost in the Martini 1038(3)

Still Life 1041(1)

The Book of Yolek 1042(1)

Death the Painter 1043(1)

Denise Levertov (1923--1997) 1043(3)

O Taste and See 1043(1)

Tenebrae 1044(1)

Caedmon 1045(1)

Donald Justice (1925--2004) 1046(2)

Counting the Mad 1046(1)

Men at Forty 1046(1)

Pantoum of the Great Depression 1047(1)

Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925) 1048(4)

The Erotic Philosophers (Part Five of ``Pro Femina'') 1048(4)

Kenneth Koch (1925--2002) 1052(2)

You Were Wearing 1052(1)

Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams 1053(1)

To My Twenties 1053(1)

A. R. Ammons (1926--2001) 1054(4)

Corsons Inlet 1054(3)

Pet Panther 1057(1)

All's All 1058(1)

James K. Baxter (1926--1972) 1058(1)

New Zealand 1058(1)

Robert Creeley (b. 1926) 1059(2)

Heroes 1059(1)

I Know a Man 1060(1)

Bresson's Movies 1060(1)

Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997) 1061(7)

Howl 1061(6)

Part I 1061(6)

A Supermarket in California 1067(1)

James Merrill (1926--1995) 1068(7)

The Broken Home 1068(3)

The Victor Dog 1071(1)

The Book of Ephraim 1072(2)

C. (``Correct but cautious, that first night, we asked'') 1072(2)

Arabian Night 1074(1)

Frank O'Hara (1926--1966) 1075(2)

The Day Lady Died 1075(1)

Why I Am Not a Painter 1076(1)

W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926) 1077(3)

Heart's Needle 1077(2)

2 (``Late April and you are three; today'') 1077(1)

3 (``The child between them on the street'') 1077(1)

7 (``Here in the scuffled dust'') 1078(1)

10 (``The vicious winter finally yields'') 1078(1)

Mementos, 1 1079(1)

John Ashbery (b. 1927) 1080(4)

The Painter 1080(1)

Soonest Mended 1081(2)

Ode to Bill 1083(1)

Paradoxes and Oxymorons 1083(1)

Galway Kinnell (b. 1927) 1084(2)

The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students 1084(1)

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps 1085(1)

W. S. Merwin (b. 1927) 1086(2)

The Drunk in the Furnace 1086(1)

Separation 1086(1)

Losing a Language 1087(1)

Whoever You Are 1088(1)

Charles Tomlinson (b. 1927) 1088(1)

Farewell to Van Gogh 1088(1)

James Wright (1927--1980) 1089(2)

A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack 1089(1)

Speak 1090(1)

Donald Hall (b. 1928) 1091(3)

The One Day 1091(3)

Prophecy 1091(3)

Independence Day Letter 1094(1)

Philip Levine (b. 1928) 1094(2)

You Can Have It 1094(2)

The Simple Truth 1096(1)

Anne Sexton (1928--1974) 1096(3)

The Truth the Dead Know 1096(1)

And One for My Dame 1097(2)

L. E. Sissman (1928--1976) 1099(1)

Dying: An Introduction 1099(1)

IV. Path. Report 1099(1)

V. Outbound 1099(1)

Thom Gunn (1929--2004) 1100(4)

On the Move 1100(1)

A Map of the City 1101(1)

From the Wave 1102(1)

The Missing 1103(1)

John Hollander (b. 1929) 1104(1)

Swan and Shadow 1104(1)

An Old-Fashioned Song 1105(1)

Richard Howard (b. 1929) 1105(6)

Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565 1105(6)

Peter Porter (b. 1929) 1111(3)

A Consumer's Report 1111(1)

An Exequy 1112(2)

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) 1114(8)

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers 1114(1)

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law 1115(4)

Diving into the Wreck 1119(2)

Modotti 1121(1)

Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930) 1122(2)

The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy 1122(2)

Ancestors 1122(1)

1 (``Every Friday morning my grandfather'') 1122(1)

2 (``All I can remember of his wife'') 1123(1)

3 (``Come-a look'') 1123(1)

Ted Hughes (1930--1998) 1124(5)

The Thought-Fox 1124(1)

Pike 1125(1)

Examination at the Womb-Door 1126(1)

Daffodils 1127(1)

Platform One 1128(1)

Gary Snyder (b. 1930) 1129(3)

Above Pate Valley 1129(1)

Four Poems for Robin 1130(2)

Instructions 1132(1)

Derek Walcott (b. 1930) 1132(6)

A Far Cry from Africa 1132(1)

From The Schooner Flight 1133(2)

Midsummer 1135(1)

Omeros 1136(2)

Chapter XXXVIII 1136(2)

Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931) 1138(1)

Common Sense 1138(1)

Jay MacPherson (b. 1931) 1139(1)

The Swan 1139(1)

A Lost Soul 1139(1)

Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) 1140(3)

The Guardians 1140(1)

Mercian Hymns 1141(1)

VI (``The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall'') 1141(1)

VII (``Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools'') 1141(1)

VIII (``The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour'') 1142(1)

Lachrimae 1142(1)

1. Lachrimae Verae 1142(1)

An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England 1143(1)

9. The Laurel Axe 1143(1)

Sylvia Plath (1932--1963) 1143(8)

Tulips 1143(2)

Daddy 1145(2)

Ariel 1147(1)

Lady Lazarus 1148(3)

Anne Stevenson (b. 1933) 1151(3)

Arioso Dolente 1151(1)

Popular Ballads of the Twentieth Century 1152(1)

Pete Seeger (b. 1919) Where Have All the Flowers Gone? 1152(1)

Bob Dylan (b. 1941) Boots of Spanish Leather 1153(1)

Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (b. 1934) 1154(2)

In Memory of Radio 1154(1)

An Agony. As Now. 1155(1)

Audre Lorde (1934--1992) 1156(2)

Coal 1156(1)

From the House of Yemanja 1157(1)

N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) 1158(1)

Headwaters 1158(1)

The Eagle-Feather Fan 1158(1)

The Gift 1159(1)

Two Figures 1159(1)

Wole Soyinka (b. 1934) 1159(1)

Telephone Conversation 1159(1)

Mark Strand (b. 1934) 1160(2)

The Prediction 1160(1)

Always 1160(1)

Dark Harbor 1161(1)

XVI (``It is true, as someone has said, that in'') 1161(1)

Charles Wright (b. 1935) 1162(3)

Chinese Journal 1162(1)

As Our Bodies Rise, Our Names Turn into Light 1163(1)

Quotations 1164(1)

Daryl Hine (b. 1936) 1165(1)

Letting Go 1165(1)

Riddle 1165(1)

C. K. Williams (b. 1936) 1166(2)

Snow: II 1166(1)

The Question 1166(2)

Tony Harrison (b. 1937) 1168(3)

On Not Being Milton 1168(1)

A Kumquat for John Keats 1168(3)

Les Murray (b. 1938) 1171(3)

Noonday Axeman 1171(3)

Morse 1174(1)

Charles Simic (b. 1938) 1174(2)

Prodigy 1174(1)

A Book Full of Pictures 1175(1)

Cameo Appearance 1176(1)

Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) 1176(3)

At the Tourist Center in Boston 1176(2)

Flowers 1178(1)

Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) 1179(8)

Digging 1179(1)

Punishment 1180(2)

The Skunk 1182(1)

A Dream of Jealousy 1182(1)

From Station Island 1183(2)

From Clearances 1185(1)

Casting and Gathering 1186(1)

Fom Squarings 1187(1)

Robert Pinsky (b. 1940) 1187(3)

A Long Branch Song 1187(1)

The Street 1188(1)

ABC 1189(1)

Billy Collins (b. 1941) 1190(2)

Japan 1190(1)

Litany 1191(1)

Robert Hass (b. 1941) 1192(2)

Meditation at Lagunitas 1192(1)

Tahoe in August 1193(1)

Derek Mahon (b. 1941) 1194(2)

A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford 1194(2)

The Window 1196(1)

Eric Ormsby (b. 1941) 1196(2)

Starfish 1196(1)

Skunk Cabbage 1197(1)

Origins 1197(1)

Alfred Corn (b. 1943) 1198(1)

Navidad, St. Nicholas Ave. 1198(1)

A Conch from Sicily 1199(1)

Louise Gluck (b. 1943) 1199(2)

The Garden 1199(1)

Vita Nova 1200(1)

Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943) 1201(3)

Letters & Other Worlds 1201(2)

House on a Red Cliff 1203(1)

Michael Palmer (b. 1943) 1204(2)

Of this cloth doll which 1204(1)

I Do Not 1205(1)

Eavan Boland (b. 1944) 1206(1)

That the Science of Cartography Is Limited 1206(1)

Craig Raine (b. 1944) 1207(2)

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 1207(2)

Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) 1209(2)

Facing It 1209(1)

Banking Potatoes 1209(1)

Sunday Afternoons 1210(1)

Robyn Sarah (b. 1949) 1211(2)

Courtney, Mentioned in Passing, Years After 1211(1)

Relics 1212(1)

Agha Shahid Ali (1949--2001) 1213(1)

Lenox Hill 1213(1)

James Fenton (b. 1949) 1214(3)

Dead Soldiers 1214(2)

In Paris with You 1216(1)

Charles Bernstein (b. 1950) 1217(2)

Of Time and the Line 1217(1)

why we ask you not to touch 1218(1)

this poem intentionally left blank 1219(1)

Anne Carson (b. 1950) 1219(3)

New Rule 1219(1)

Sumptuous Destitution 1219(1)

The Beauty of the Husband 1220(2)

IV. He She we They You 1220(2)

Dana Gioia (b. 1950) 1222(1)

Prayer 1222(1)

The Next Poem 1222(1)

Jorie Graham (b. 1951) 1223(3)

At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body 1223(3)

The Surface 1226(1)

Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) 1226(5)

Milkweed and Monarch 1226(1)

Third Epistle to Timothy 1227(4)

Rita Dove (b. 1952) 1231(3)

Parsley 1231(2)

Dusting 1233(1)

Daniel Hall (b. 1952) 1234(2)

Love-Letter-Burning 1234(1)

Mangosteens 1235(1)

Vikram Seth (b. 1952) 1236(2)

From The Golden Gate 1236(2)

Gary Soto (b. 1952) 1238(2)

The Soup 1238(1)

Not Knowing 1239(1)

Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. 1953) 1240(1)

Supernatural Love 1240(1)

Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) 1241(1)

I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move 1241(1)

Birth 1242(1)

Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) 1242(1)

Warming Her Pearls 1242(1)

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) 1243(3)

Persimmons 1243(2)

Out of Hiding 1245(1)

Cynthia Zarin (b. 1959) 1246(1)

The Ant Hill 1246(1)

Song 1247(1)

Simon Armitage (b. 1963) 1247(2)

From Killing Time 1247(2)

Greg Williamson (b. 1964) 1249(2)

Double Exposures 1249(1)

III. Visiting Couple Kissing and Halved Onion 1249(1)

XXV. Group Photo with Winter Trees 1249(1)

New Year's: A Short Pantoum 1250(1)

Versification 1251(26)

Rhythm 1252(1)

Meter 1253(7)

Rhyme 1260(3)

Forms 1263(12)

Basic Forms 1263(7)

Composite Forms 1270(2)

Irregular Forms 1272(1)

Open Forms or Free Verse 1272(2)

Other Forms of Poetry 1274(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading 1275(2)

Poetic Syntax 1277(22)

What Is Syntax? 1277(2)

Parts of Syntax 1279(5)

Sentences and Words 1279(1)

Clauses 1280(4)

Moves in the Game 1284(5)

Nominal Syntax 1284(1)

Double Syntax 1285(1)

Word Order Inversions 1286(3)

The Game of Interpretation 1289(7)

Emily Dickinson 1289(2)

John Keats 1291(1)

Thomas Gray 1291(1)

John Dryden 1292(1)

William Blake 1293(3)

Scorn Not Syntax 1296(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading 1297(2)
Biographical Sketches 1299(51)
Permissions Acknowledgments 1350(7)
Index 1357