--excerpt from The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- I sing of a maiden -- Adam lay I-bowndyn -- Who wot nowe that ys here -- Sumer is icumen in -- I have a yong suster -- Sir Patrick Spens -- Thomas the rhymer -- Edward, Edward -- The lover showeth how he is forsaken of such as he sometime enjoyed / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Out of sight, out of mind / Barnabe Googe -- To his son / Sir Walter Ralegh -- Epithalamion / Edmund Spenser -- With how sad steps / Sir Philip Sidney -- Tichborne's elegy / Chidiock Tichborne -- Gently dip / George Peele -- A sonnet / George Peele -- The burning babe / Robert Southwell -- Care-charmer sleep / Samuel Daniel -- Since there's no help / Michael Drayton -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- As you came from the Holy Land of Walsingham -- Crabbed age and youth -- Under the greenwood tree / William Shakespeare -- Blow, blow, thou winter wind / William Shakespeare -- It was a lover / William Shakespeare -- O mistress mine / William Shakespeare -- Take, o take / William Shakespeare -- Fear no more / William Shakespeare -- Full fathom five / William Shakespeare --When I do count the clock that tells the time / William Shakespeare --Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / William Shakespeare --When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / William Shakespeare --Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea / William Shakespeare --Tired with all these, for restful death I cry / William Shakespeare --That time of year thou mayst in me behold / William Shakespeare --Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing / William Shakespeare --They that have power to hurt, and will do none / William Shakespeare --Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare --Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame / William Shakespeare --My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare -- Art thou poor / Thomas Dekker -- The good-morrow / John Donne -- Go and catch a fallling star / John Donne -- The bait / John Donne -- A valediction forbidding mourning / John Donne -- The ecstasy / John Donne -- Elegie 9, the autumnal / John Donne --At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow / John Donne --What if this present were the world's last night / John Donne --Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you / John Donne -- Clerimont's song / Ben Jonson -- The triumph of Charis / Ben Jonson -- That women are but men's shadows / Ben Jonson -- Cornelia's song / John Webster -- Hark, now everything is still / John Webster -- Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick -- To the Virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- To daffodils / Robert Herrick -- Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick -- Grace for a child / Robert Herrick -- The altar / George Herbert -- Redemption / George Herbert -- Easter wings / George Herbert -- Prayer (1) / George Herbert -- Artillery / George Herbert -- The collar / George Herbert -- The pulley / George Herbert -- Ask me no more where Jove bestows / Thomas Carew -- How soon hath time / John Milton -- Lycidas / John Milton -- On his blindness / John Milton -- Why so pale and wan, fond lover / Sir John Suckling -- To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace -- To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- The definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- The garden / Andrew Marvell -- An horatian ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland / Andrew Marvell -- Tfhe retreat / Henry Vaughan -- They are all gone into the world of light / Henry Vaughan -- To the memory of Mr. Oldham / John Dryden -- A song for St. Cecilia's day / John Dryden -- All, all of a piece / John Dryden -- A description of the morning / Jonathan Swift -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope -- A short song of congratulation / Samuel Johnson -- On the death of Dr.

Robert Levet / Samuel Johnson -- Elegy / Thomas Gray --excerpt from Jubilate Agno / Christopher Smart -- Introduction / William Blake Songs of Innocence -- The lamb / William Blake Songs of Innocence -- Holy Thursday / William Blake Songs of Innocence -- Introduction / William Blake Songs of Experience -- Earth's answer / William Blake Songs of Experience -- The clod and the pebble / William Blake Songs of Experience -- Holy Thursday / William Blake Songs of Experience -- The sick rose / William Blake Songs of Experience -- The tiger / William Blake Songs of Experience -- London / William Blake Songs of Experience -- Infant sorrow / William Blake Songs of Experience --excerpt from Milton: and did those feet in ancient time / William Blake -- Never seek to tell thy love / William Blake -- Holy Willie's prayer / Robert Burns -- To a mouse / Robert Burns -- O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad / Robert Burns -- O, my luve is like a red, red rose / Robert Burns -- Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth -- Resolution and independence / William Wordsworth -- The solitary reaper / William Wordsworth -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Colereidge -- The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Colereidge -- She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Prometheus / George Gordon, Lord Byron --excerpt from Childe Harold's pilgrimage, Canto III / George Gordon, Lord Byron --excerpt from Don Juan, Canto XI / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Song to the men of England / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Similes for two political characters of 1819 / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ode to the West Wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The badger / John Clare -- La belle dame sans merci / John Keats -- Ode to Psyche / John Keats -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- This living hand / John Keats -- Bright star / John Keats -- How do I love thee / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Mariana / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Frater ave atque vale / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- My last Duchess / Robert Browning -- Meeting at night / Robert Browning -- A likeness / Robert Browning -- De Gustibus -- / Robert Browning -- By way of preface / Edward Lear -- There was a child went forth / Walt Whitman --excerpt from Starting from Paumanok / Walt Whitman --excerpt from Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- A farm picture / Walt Whitman -- Beat, beat, drums / Walt Whitman -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- An army corps on the march / Walt Whitman --excerpt from Marches now the war is over / Walt Whitman -- The runner / Walt Whitman -- The world below the brine / Walt Whitman -- On the beach, at night / Walt Whitman -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Success is counted sweetest / Emily Dickinson -- I like a look of agony / Emily Dickinson -- The soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson -- After great pain, a formal feeling comes / Emily Dickinson -- There's been a death, in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson -- The shut me up in prose / Emily Dickinson -- The way I read a letter's- this / Emily Dickinson -- The name of it is Autumn / Emily Dickinson -- Ah, Teneriffe / Emily Dickinson -- A drunkard cannot meet a cork / Emily Dickinson -- The white knight's song / Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Drummer Hodge / Thomas Hardy -- The darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy -- The man he killed / Thomas Hardy -- When I set out for Lyonnesse / Thomas Hardy -- Ah, are you digging on my grave / Thomas Hardy -- Afterwards / Thomas Hardy -- The starlight night / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Binsey poplars / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Felix Randal / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Spring and fall: to a young child / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- No worst, there is none / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- My own heart let me more have pity on / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Thirty bob a week / John Davidson -- On forelands high in heaven /rA.E. Housman -- Danny Deever / Rudyard Kipling -- White heliotrope / Arthur Symons -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- Paudeen / William Butler Yeats -- Easter 1916 / William Butler Yeats -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- Meru / William Butler Yeats -- Lapis Lazuli / William Butler Yeats -- A crazed girl / William Butler Yeats -- Long-legged fly / William Butler Yeats -- Politics / William Butler Yeats -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- The code / Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Design / Robert Frost -- The gallows / Edward Thomas -- Aspens / Edward Thomas -- Hibiscus on the sleeping shores / Wallace Stevens -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- Bantams in Pine-Woods / Wallace Stevens -- Peter Quince at the Clavier / Wallace Stevens -- Study of two pears / Wallace Stevens -- Mrs. Alfred Uruguay / Wallace Stevens -- The plain sense of things / Wallace Stevens -- Song of fixed accord / Wallace Stevens -- Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams -- January morning / William Carlos Williams -- To Elsie / William Carlos Williams -- Poem / William Carlos Williams -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- Iris / William Carlos Williams -- The artist / William Carlos Williams -- The sparrow / William Carlos Williams --

The song of a man who has come through / D.H. Lawrence -- Humming-bird / D.H. Lawrence -- Kangaroo / D.H. Lawrence -- To women, as far as I'm concerned / D.H. Lawrence -- Energetic women / D.H. Lawrence -- Volcanic Venus / D.H. Lawrence -- It's no good / D.H. Lawrence -- Bavarian gentians / D.H. Lawrence -- The study in aesthetics / Ezra Pound --excerpt from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound --excerpt from Canto LXXXI / Ezra Pound -- New Mexican Mountain / Robinson Jeffers -- Love the wild swan / Robinson Jeffers -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- Preludes / T.S. Eliot -- Gerontion / T.S. Eliot -- The hollow men / T.S. Eliot -- Macavity: the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom -- Dog / John Crowe Ransom -- The bonnie broukit bairn / Hugh Mac Diarmid -- Crowdieknowe / Hugh Mac Diarmid --excerpt from The kind of poetry I want / Hugh Mac Diarmid -- Crystals like blood / Hugh Mac Diarmid -- Insensibility / Wilfred Owen -- The send-off / Wilfred Owen -- Exposure / Wilfred Owen -- Disabled / Wilfred Owen -- Portrait / E.E. Cummings -- Poem, or beauty hurts Mr. Vinal / E.E. Cummings -- My sweet old etcetera / E.E. Cummings -- Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond / E.E. Cummings -- A he as o / E.E. Cummings -- Old age sticks / E.E. Cummings -- The swimmers / Allen Tate -- For the marriage of Faustus and Helen / Hart Crane --excerpt from The bridge / Hart Crane --excerpt from To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane --excerpt from National Winter Garden / Hart Crane -- Children's rhymes / Langston Hughes -- Night funeral in Harlem / Langston Hughes -- Harlem / Langston Hughes -- Same in blues / Langston Hughes -- Americana IX / Carl Rakosi -- Americana XV: simplicity / Carl Rakosi -- Young couples strolling by / Carl Rakosi -- On this island / W.H. Auden -- Musee des beaux arts / W.H. Auden -- The fall of Rome / W.H. Auden -- Since / W.H. Auden -- Night journey / Theodore Roethke -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- Dolor / Theodore Roethke -- Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke -- The waking / Theodore Roethke -- The rose / Theodore Roethke -- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Dylan Thomas -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Blackberry sweet / Dudley Randall -- Naming of parts / Henry Reed -- Get the gasworks / David Ignatow --excerpt from Between the porch and the altar / Robert Lowell --excerpt from Between the porch and the altar: IV at the altar / Robert Lowell -- Mr. Edwards and the spider / Robert Lowell -- Memories of West street and Lepke / Robert Lowell -- For the Union dead / Robert Lowell -- Two presentations / Robert Duncan -- Vergissmeinicht / Keith Douglas -- The beautiful changes / Richard Wilbur -- Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- Piazza di spagna, early morning / Richard Wilbur -- Within the dream you said / Philip Larkin -- Night-music / Philip Larkin -- Mr. Bleaney / Philip Larkin -- Wild oats / Philip Larkin -- Listening to foxhounds / James Dickey -- Cherrylog road / James Dickey -- February evening in New York / Denise Levertov -- In mind / Denise Levertov -- Advent 1966 / Denise Levertov -- Frogs / Louis Simpson -- The inner part / Louis Simpson -- Simplicity / Louis Simpson -- Safari West / John A. Williams --excerpt from Howl / Allen Ginsberg -- After Lorca / Robert Creeley -- I know a man / Robert Creeley -- Kore / Robert Creeley -- Waking from sleep / Robert Bly -- Poem against the British / Robert Bly -- Summer, 1960, Minnesota / Robert Bly -- Love poem / Robert Bly -- Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota / James Wright -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright -- I try to waken and greet the world once again / James Wright -- An airstrip in Essex, 1960 / Donald Hall -- Gold / Donald Hall -- My sad captains / Thom Gunn -- Crow's first lesson / Ted Hughes -- In laughter / Ted Hughes -- Crow's last stand / Ted Hughes -- Truth kills everybody / Ted Hughes -- Marriage / Gregory Corso -- Milton by firelight / Gary Snyder -- Hay for the horses / Gary Snyder -- Nansen / Gary Snyder -- December / Gary Snyder -- Looking at pictures to be put away / Gary Snyder -- Morning song / Sylvia Plath -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath -- The bee meeting / Sylvia Plath -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / Leroi Jones -- The invention of New Jersey / Jack Anderson -- The 1st / Lucille Clifton -- Still / Lucille Clifton -- Good times / Lucille Clifton -- Willie B / Lucille Clifton -- Admonitions / Lucille Clifton -- The ice eagle / Diane Wakoski -- Ghazals / Jim Harrison -- A juju of my own / Lebert Bethune -- Clement Attlee / Michael Benedikt -- Schwiegermutterlieder / Tony Harrison -- Eleanor Rigby / John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- Desolation row / Bob Dylan -- Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni --