Includes bibliographical references (p. 1743-1828) and index.

Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- When I heard at the close of the day / Walt Whitman -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Walt Whitman -- I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- By the Bivouac's fitful frame / Walt Whitman -- A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim / Walt Whitman -- Respondez / Walt Whitman -- To a locomotive in winter / Walt Whitman -- I never lost as much but twice / Emily Dickinson -- I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson -- Wild nights - wild nights / Emily Dickinson -- There's a certain slant of light / Emily Dickinson -- The soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson -- A bird came down the walk / Emily Dickinson -- After great pain, a formal feeling comes / Emily Dickinson -- Much madness is divinest sense / Emily Dickinson -- This is my letter to the world / Emily Dickinson -- I heard a fly buzz- when I died / Emily Dickinson -- The brain, within its groove / Emily Dickinson -- I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson -- The brain is wider than the sky / Emily Dickinson -- I dwell in possibility / Emily Dickinson -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Tell all the truth but tell it slant / Emily Dickinson -- In winter in my room / Emily Dickinson -- My life closed twice before its close / Emily Dickinson -- Will you walk a little faster / Lewis Carroll -- A long tale / Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- The white knight's song / Lewis Carroll -- Hap / Thomas Hardy -- Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy -- Drummer hodge / Thomas Hardy -- The subalterns / Thomas Hardy -- A broken appointment / Thomas Hardy -- The darlking thrush / Thomas Hardy -- The respectable burgher / Thomas Hardy -- Wintertime nighs / Thomas Hardy -- When the clouds swoln bosoms echo... / Thomas Hardy -- Bereft / Thomas Hardy -- Shut out that moon / Thomas Hardy -- At Casterbridge Fair / Thomas Hardy -- New Year's Eve / Thomas Hardy -- Channel firing / Thomas Hardy -- The convergence of the twain / Thomas Hardy -- I found her out there / Thomas Hardy -- The voice / Thomas Hardy -- A poet / Thomas Hardy -- In the moonlight / Thomas Hardy -- Near Lanivet / Thomas Hardy -- Lines to a movement in Mozart's e-flat symphony / Thomas Hardy -- The oxen / Thomas Hardy -- For life I had never cared greatly / Thomas Hardy -- In time of "The breaking of nations" / Thomas Hardy -- I looked up from my writing / Thomas Hardy -- Going and staying / Thomas Hardy -- The harbour bridge / Thomas Hardy -- He never expected much / Thomas Hardy -- Winter with the Gulf Stream / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Heaven-haven / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The habit of perfection / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The wreck of the Deutschland / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Binsey poplars / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Duns Scotus's Oxford / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The bugler's first communion / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Felix Randal / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Inversnaid / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Carrion comfort / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- No worst, there is none / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- I wake and feel the fell of dark / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Thou art indeed just, lord, if I contend / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- London snow / Robert Bridges -- On a dead child / Robert Bridges -- The snow lies sprinkled on the beach / Robert Bridges -- Low barometer / Robert Bridges -- Impression du Matin / Oscar Wilde -- The harlot's house / Oscar Wilde -- Symphony in yellow / Oscar Wilde -- The ballad of reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A. E. Housman -- When I was one-and-twenty / A. E. Housman -- To an athlete dying young / A. E. Housman -- Is my team ploughing / A. E. Housman -- Into my heart an air that kills / A. E. Housman -- With rue, my heart is laden / A. E. Housman -- Terence, this is stupid stuff / A. E. Housman -- The chestnut casts his flambeaux / A. E. Housman -- Eight o'clock / A. E. Housman -- Wake not for the world-heard thunder / A. E. Housman -- Hell gate / A. E. Housman -- Epitaph on an army of mercenaries / A. E. Housman -- Tell me not here, it needs not saying / A. E. Housman -- They say my verse is sad: no wonder / A. E. Housman --

The song of the happy shepherd / W. B. Yeats -- Down by the Salley Gardens / W. B. Yeats -- To the rose upon the rood of time / W. B. Yeats -- The lake Isle of Innisfree / W. B. Yeats -- The sorrow of love / W. B. Yeats -- When you are old / W. B. Yeats -- Who goes with Fergus / W. B. Yeats -- The man who dreamed of Faeryland / W. B. Yeats -- The lamentation of the old pensioner / W. B. Yeats -- To Ireland in the coming times / W. B. Yeats -- The hosting of the Sidhe / W. B. Yeats -- Michael Roberts bids his beloved be at peace / W. B. Yeats -- The cap and bells / W. B. Yeats -- Aedh thinks of those who have spoken evil of his beloved / W. B. Yeats -- Aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven / W. B. Yeats -- In the seven woods / W. B. Yeats -- Adam's curse / W. B. Yeats -- No second Troy / W. B. Yeats -- On hearing that the students of our new university have joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature / W. B. Yeats -- Friends / W. B. Yeats -- The cold heaven / W. B. Yeats -- September 1913 / W. B. Yeats -- Beggar to beggar cried / W. B. Yeats -- The magi / W. B. Yeats -- The dolls / W. B. Yeats -- A coat / W. B. Yeats -- The wild swans at Coole / W. B. Yeats -- The fisherman / W. B. Yeats -- An Irish airman foresees his death / W. B. Yeats -- Solomon and the witch / W. B. Yeats -- Easter 1916 / W. B. Yeats -- The second coming / W. B. Yeats -- A prayer for my daughter / W. B. Yeats -- To be carved on a stone at Thoor Ballylee / W. B. Yeats -- Leda and the swan / W. B. Yeats -- Sailing to Byzantium / W. B. Yeats -- The tower / W. B. Yeats -- Among School children / W. B. Yeats -- Mohini Chatterjee / W. B. Yeats -- In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz / W. B. Yeats -- A dialogue of self and soul / W. B. Yeats -- Coole Park and Ballylee / W. B. Yeats -- The choice / W. B. Yeats -- Byzantium / W. B. Yeats -- Vacillation / W. B. Yeats -- Fragments / W. B. Yeats -- Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop / W. B. Yeats -- Meru / W. B. Yeats -- The Gyres / W. B. Yeats -- Lapis Lazuli / W. B. Yeats -- An acre of grass / W. B. Yeats -- The statues / W. B. Yeats -- News for the Delphic oracle / W. B. Yeats -- Long-legged fly / W. B. Yeats -- The circus animals' desertion / W. B. Yeats -- Under Ben Bulben / W. B. Yeats -- Danny Deever / Rudyard Kipling -- The widow at Windsor / Rudyard Kipling -- Shillin a day / Rudyard Kipling -- Morning song in the jungle / Rudyard Kipling -- The derelict / Rudyard Kipling -- Recessional / Rudyard Kipling -- The prodigal son / Rudyard Kipling -- A song to Mithras / Rudyard Kipling -- A pict song / Rudyard Kipling -- The runes on Weland's sword / Rudyard Kipling -- The way through the woods / Rudyard Kipling -- The gods of the copy-book headings / Rudyard Kipling -- The nurses / Rudyard Kipling -- We and they / Rudyard Kipling -- The storm cone / Rudyard Kipling -- The hill / Edgar Lee Masters -- Amanda Barker / Edgar Lee Masters -- Fiddler Jones / Edgar Lee Masters -- Petit the poet / Edgar Lee Masters -- Elsa Wertman / Edgar Lee Masters -- Hamilton Greene / Edgar Lee Masters -- Anne Rutledge / Edgar Lee Masters -- Lucinda Matlock / Edgar Lee Masters -- Marx the sign painter / Edgar Lee Masters -- Unknown soldiers / Edgar Lee Masters -- Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Supremacy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Calverly's / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- How Annandale went out / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The companion / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- For a dead lady / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Flammonde / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Cassandra / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The mill / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The dark hills / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Tact / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Souvenir / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Firelight / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The new tenants / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The Sheaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Child, do not throw this book about / Hilaire Belloc -- The yak / Hilaire Belloc -- The bison / Hilaire Belloc -- The viper / Hilaire Belloc -- A stands for Archibald / Hilaire Belloc -- B stands for bear / Hilaire Belloc -- E stands for egg / Hilaire Belloc -- K is for klondyke / Hilaire Belloc -- R the reviewer / Hilaire Belloc -- Lord Finchley / Hilaire Belloc -- Lord Hippo / Hilaire Belloc -- Jim, who ran away from his nurse.. / Hilaire Belloc -- Charles Augustus Fortescue... / Hilaire Belloc -- Sarah Byng, who could not read... / Hilaire Belloc --

The listeners / Walter de la Mare -- The song of the mad prince / Walter de la Mare -- A portrait / Walter de la Mare -- Thomas Hardy / Walter de la Mare -- Scholars / Walter de la Mare -- Susie Asado / Gertrude Stein -- A valentine for Sherwood Anderson / Gertrude Stein -- George Hugnet / Gertrude Stein -- Mending Wall / Robert Frost -- After apple-picking / Robert Frost -- The wood-pile / Robert Frost -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- An old man's winter night / Robert Frost -- The oven bird / Robert Frost -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Putting in the seed / Robert Frost -- Range-finding / Robert Frost -- The sound of trees / Robert Frost -- The witch of Coös / Robert Frost -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- For once, then, something / Robert Frost -- To earthward / Robert Frost -- The need of being versed in country things / Robert Frost -- Spring pools / Robert Frost -- Tree at my window / Robert Frost -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- The bear / Robert Frost -- Two tramps in mud time / Robert Frost -- A drumlin woodchuck / Robert Frost -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- Neither out far nor in deep / Robert Frost -- Design / Robert Frost -- Provide, provide / Robert Frost -- The bearer of evil tidings / Robert Frost -- Never again would birds song be the same / Robert Frost -- The subverted flower / Robert Frost -- The gift outright / Robert Frost -- Directive / Robert Frost -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Cool Tombs / Carl Sandburg -- Gargoyle / Carl Sandburg -- Old timers / Carl Sandburg -- Losers / Carl Sandburg -- The owl / Edward Thomas -- When first / Edward Thomas -- October / Edward Thomas -- Some eyes condemn / Edward Thomas -- The green roads / Edward Thomas -- The gallows / Edward Thomas -- February afternoon / Edward Thomas -- The gypsy / Edward Thomas -- Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens -- Peter Quince at the Clavier / Wallace Stevens -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- The worms at heaven's gate / Wallace Stevens -- Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens -- Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- The snow man / Wallace Stevens -- Bantams in pine-woods / Wallace Stevens -- A high-toned old Christian woman / Wallace Stevens -- The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- Farewell to Florida / Wallace Stevens -- A postcard from the volcano / Wallace Stevens -- The man with the blue guitar / Wallace Stevens -- A rabbit as king of the ghosts / Wallace Stevens -- A quiet normal life / Wallace Stevens -- To an old philosopher in Rome / Wallace Stevens -- The plain sense of things / Wallace Stevens -- Reality is an activity of the most August imagination / Wallace Stevens -- The holy office / James Joyce -- Though I thy Mithridates were / James Joyce -- Ecce Puer / James Joyce -- Anna livia plurabelle / James Joyce; from Finnegan's Wake -- Tract / William Carlos Williams -- Queen-Ann's-Lace / William Carlos Williams -- The widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams -- The great figure / William Carlos Williams -- Spring and all / William Carlos Williams -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- At the ball game / William Carlos Williams -- Portrait of a lady / William Carlos Williams -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- Flowers by the sea / William Carlos Williams -- The yachts / William Carlos Williams -- The young housewife / William Carlos Williams -- Raleigh was right / William Carlos Williams -- The dance / William Carlos Williams -- Burning the Christmas greens / William Carlos Williams -- Preface / William Carlos Williams; from Paterson -- The delineaments of the giants / William Carlos Williams; from Paterson -- Sunday in the park / William Carlos Williams; from Paterson -- The Ivy crown / William Carlos Williams -- Edward/Paterson has grown older / William Carlos Williams; from Paterson -- Landscape with the Fall of Icarus / William Carlos Williams -- Haymaking / William Carlos Williams -- The wild common / D. H. Lawrence -- Love on the farm / D. H. Lawrence -- Aware / D. H. Lawrence -- Last lesson of the afternoon / D. H. Lawrence -- The bride / D. H. Lawrence -- The enkindled spring / D. H. Lawrence -- Gloire de Dijon / D. H. Lawrence -- A youth mowing / D. H. Lawrence -- Piano / D. H. Lawrence -- Medlars and Sorb-apples / D. H. Lawrence -- Sicilian cyclamens / D. H. Lawrence -- Snake / D. H. Lawrence -- Lui et Elle / D. H. Lawrence -- Humming-bird / D. H. Lawrence -- You / D. H. Lawrence -- Worm either way / D. H. Lawrence -- When I read Shakespeare / D. H. Lawrence -- The Argonauts / D. H. Lawrence -- Middle of the world / D. H. Lawrence -- Red geranium and godly mignonette / D. H. Lawrence -- Whales weep not / D. H. Lawrence -- Butterfly / D. H. Lawrence -- Bavarian gentians / D. H. Lawrence -- The ship of death / D. H. Lawrence -- Portrait d'une Femme / Ezra Pound -- The return / Ezra Pound -- The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound -- A pact / Ezra Pound -- The rest / Ezra Pound -- In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound -- The temperments / Ezra Pound -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly: Life and contacts / Ezra Pound -- Mauberly / Ezra Pound -- And then went down to the ship / Ezra Pound ; Canto I -- Hang it all, Robert Browning / Ezra Pound ; Canto II -- Eleanor she spoiled in a British climate / Ezra Pound ; Canto VII -- Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom / Ezra Pound ; Canto LXXXI -- Sea rose / H. D. -- Garden / H. D. -- Oread / H. D. -- Helen / H. D. -- Fragment sixty-eight / H. D. -- Every hour every moment / H. D. -- Ah you say, this is Holy Wisdom / H. D. -- To his dead body / Siegfried Sassoon -- Blighters / Siegfried Sassoon -- The rear-guard / Siegfried Sassoon -- Dreamer / Siegfried Sassoon -- The general / Siegfried Sassoon -- Repression of war experience / Siegfried Sassoon -- Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon -- On passing the New Menin Gate / Siegfried Sassoon -- Shine, perishing republic / Robinson Jeffers -- Fawn's foster-mother / Robinson Jeffers -- Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers -- Evening ebb / Robinson Jeffers -- Shane O'Neill's cairn / Robinson Jeffers -- New Mexican mountain / Robinson Jeffers -- Rock and hawk / Robinson Jeffers -- Ave Caesar / Robinson Jeffers -- Love the wold swan / Robinson Jeffers -- The purse-seine / Robinson Jeffers -- Shiva / Robinson Jeffers -- The eye / Robinson Jeffers -- Carmel point / Robinson Jeffers -- The deer lay dow their bones / Robinson Jeffers -- Vulture / Robinson Jeffers -- Ballad of Hector in Hades / Edwin Muir -- They mythical journey / Edwin Muir -- The refugees / Edwin Muir -- The wheel / Edwin Muir -- The three mirrors / Edwin Muir -- The absent / Edwin Muir -- One foot in Eden / Edwin Muir -- The horses / Edwin Muir --

Aubade / Edith Sitwell -- Country dance / Edith Sitwell -- Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell -- The poet laments the coming of old age / Edith Sitwell -- The fish / Marianne Moore -- Poetry / Marianne Moore -- Critics and connoisseurs / Marianne Moore -- A grave / Marianne Moore -- The steeple-jack / Marianne Moore -- The Pangolin / Marianne Moore -- What are years / Marianne Moore -- He "digesteth harde yron" / Marianne Moore -- Spenser's Ireland / Marianne Moore -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom -- Here lies a lady / John Crowe Ransom -- Judith of Bethulia / John Crowe Ransom -- Philomela / John Crowe Ransom -- Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom -- Piazza Piece / John Crowe Ransom -- Blue girls / John Crowe Ransom -- Janet waking / John Crowe Ransom -- Dead boy / John Crowe Ransom -- The equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom -- Painted head / John Crowe Ransom -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot -- Whispers of immortality / T. S. Eliot -- Sweeney among the nightingales / T. S. Eliot -- Gerontion / T. S. Eliot -- The waste land / T. S. Eliot -- New Hampshire / T. S. Eliot -- Cape Ann / T. S. Eliot -- Little Gidding / T. S. Eliot -- When trout swim down Great Ormond Street / Conrad Aiken ; from Priapus and the pool -- Two coffees in the Español, the last / Conrad Aiken ; from Preludes for Memnon -- Rimbaud and Verlaine, precious pair of poets / Conrad Aiken ; from Preludes for Memnon -- Dear Uncle Stranger / Conrad Aiken -- Summer / Conrad Aiken -- Herman Melville / Conrad Aiken -- The tropics in New York / Claude McKay -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- America / Claude McKay -- The harlem dancer / Claude McKay -- The white city / Claude McKay -- The mirror / Isaac Rosenberg -- Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg -- Louse hunting / Isaac Rosenberg -- Returning, we hear the larks / Isaac Rosenberg -- Dead man's dump / Isaac Rosenberg -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Grown-up / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Hearing your words and not a word among them / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Oh, sleep forever in the Latmian cave / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The return / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- To a Calvinist in ball / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The end of the world / Archibald MacLeish -- You, Andrew Marvell / Archibald MacLeish -- Conquistador / Archibald MacLeish -- You also, Gaius Valerius Catullus / Archibald MacLeish -- The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch / Hugh MacDiarmid -- In the pantry / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Cloudburst and soaring moon / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Parley of beasts / Hugh MacDiarmid -- O wha's the bride / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Another epitaph on an army of mercenaries / Hugh MacDiarmid -- British leftish poetry / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- Strange meeting / Wilfred Owen -- Futility / Wilfred Owen -- Greater love / Wilfred Owen -- Mental cases / Wilfred Owen -- Disabled / Wilfred Owen -- Exposure / Wilfred Owen -- All in green went my love riding / E. E. Cummings -- O sweet spontaneous / E. E. Cummings -- The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls / E. E. Cummings -- I was siting in mesorley's / E. E. Cummings -- A man who had fallen among thieves / E. E. Cummings -- Cone, gave with me upon this dome / E. E. Cummings -- I sing of Olaf glad and big / E. E. Cummings -- Space being (don't forget to remember) Curved / E. E. Cummings -- little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn't know where / E. E. Cummings -- you shall above all things be glad and young / E. E. Cummings -- the way to hump a cow is not / E. E. Cummings -- my father moved through dooms of love / E. E. Cummings -- a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse / E. E. Cummings -- plato told / E. E. Cummings -- maggie and milly and molly and may / E. E. Cummings -- all nearness puases, while a star can grow / E. E. Cummings -- now comes the good rain farmers pray for / E. E. Cummings -- right here the other night something / E. E. Cummings -- out of midsummer's blazing most not night / E. E. Cummings -- Reapers / Jean Toomer -- November cotton flower / Jean Toomer -- Georgia dusk / Jean Toomer -- Her lips are copper wire / Jean Toomer -- Rocky acres / Robert Graves -- The pier-glass / Robert Graves -- The cool web / Robert Graves -- Lost acres / Robert Graves -- Ogres and Pygmies / Robert Graves -- Ulysses / Robert Graves -- Down, wanton, down / Robert Graves -- The devil's advice to story-tellers / Robert Graves -- Recalling war / Robert Graves -- To Juan at the winter solstice / Robert Graves -- The Persian version / Robert Graves -- The blue-fly / Robert Graves -- My name and I / Robert Graves -- King Pellam's Launde / David Jones ; from In parenthesis -- The five unmistakable marks / David Jones ; from In parenthesis -- Angle-land / David Jones ; from The Anathéma -- The young woman of Beare / Austin Clarke -- Medusa / Louise Bogan -- Women / Louise Bogan -- Didactic piece / Louise Bogan -- M., singing / Louise Bogan -- The dream / Louise Bogan -- The meeting / Louise Bogan -- Black tambourine / Hart Crane -- My grandmother's love letters / Louise Bogan -- Praise for an urn / Louise Bogan -- Chaplinesque / Louise Bogan -- The wine menagerie / Louise Bogan -- For the marriage of Faustus and Helen / Louise Bogan -- At Melville's tomb / Louise Bogan -- Voyages / Louise Bogan -- Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge / Louise Bogan -- Ave Maria / Louise Bogan -- Powhatan's daughter / Louise Bogan -- O Carib Isle / Louise Bogan -- Royal palm / Louise Bogan -- To Emily dickinson / Louise Bogan -- To the broken tower / Louise Bogan -- Mr. Pope / Allen Tate -- Ode to the confederate deadTo the Lacedemonians / Allen Tate -- Aeneas at Washington / Allen Tate -- The swimmers / Allen Tate -- The Orotava Road / Basil Bunting -- On the fly-leaf of Pound's Cantos / Basil Bunting -- Briggflatts / Basil Bunting -- The slow Pacific swell / Yvor Winters -- On teaching the young / Yvor Winters -- John Sutter / Yvor Winters -- Sir Gawaine and the green knight / Yvor Winters -- Time and the garden / Yvor Winters -- The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- The weary blues / Langston Hughes -- Brass spittoons / Langston Hughes -- Sylvester's dying bed / Langston Hughes -- Morning after / Langston Hughes -- 50-50 / Langston Hughes -- Madam's past history / Langston Hughes -- Catch / Langston Hughes -- Theme for English B / Langston Hughes -- Sunt Leones / Stevie Smith -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Great unaffected vampires and the moon / Stevie Smith -- Was he married / Stevie Smith -- Admire Cranmer / Stevie Smith -- Thoughts about the person from Porlock / Stevie Smith -- Exeat / Stevie Smith -- To carry the child / Stevie Smith -- Pretty / Stevie Smith --

Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- Heritage / Countee Cullen -- The groundhog / Richard Eberhart -- The fury of Aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart -- The hard structure of the world / Richard Eberhart -- The spider / Richard Eberhart -- A New England bachelor / Richard Eberhart -- Do not expect again / C. Day Lewis -- Two songs / C. Day Lewis -- Almost human / C. Day Lewis -- Sheepdog trials in Hyde Park / C. Day Lewis -- Tinker's wife / Patrick Kavanagh -- Inniskeen road: July evening / Patrick Kavanagh -- Clay is the word and clay is the flesh / Patrick Kavanagh ; from The great hunger -- Canal bank walk / Patrick Kavanagh -- Come dance with Kitty Stobling / Patrick Kavanagh -- In memory of my mother / Patrick Kavanagh -- I had a future / Patrick Kavanagh -- Bushed / Earl Birney -- The bear on the Delhi Road / Earl Birney -- The gray woods exploding / Earl Birney -- Revelation / Robert Penn Warren -- Bearded oaks / Robert Penn Warren -- The mango on the mango tree / Robert Penn Warren -- Founding fathers, nineteenth-century style / Robert Penn Warren -- Wet hair; if now his mother should come / Robert Penn Warren -- Riddle in the garden / Robert Penn Warren -- Flaubert in Egypt / Robert Penn Warren -- There's a grandfather's clock in the hall / Robert Penn Warren -- The war against the trees / Stanley Kunitz -- River road / Stanley Kunitz -- The wellfleet whale / Stanley Kunitz -- Vitamins and roughage / Kenneth Rexroth -- The bad old days / Kenneth Rexroth -- Prousts's Madeleine / Kenneth Rexroth -- The wheel revolves / Kenneth Rexroth -- The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel / John Betjeman -- Slough / John Betjeman -- An incident in the early life of Ebenezer Jones / John Betjeman -- In Westminster Abbey / John Betjeman -- A subaltern's love-song / John Betjeman -- The cottage hospital / John Betjeman -- False security / John Betjeman -- Enueg II / Samuel Beckett -- Echo's bones / Samuel Beckett -- The vulture / Samuel Beckett -- Ooftish / Samuel Beckett -- What would I do without this world faceless / Samuel Beckett -- Age is when to a man / Samuel Beckett -- To an old lady / William Empson -- Villanelle / William Empson -- Legal fiction / William Empson -- This last pain / William Empson -- Ignorance of death / William Empson -- Missing dates / William Empson -- The letter / W. H. Auden -- O where are you going / W. H. Auden -- The wanderer / W. H. Auden -- Adolescence / W. H. Auden -- Our hunting fathers / W. H. Auden -- Who's who / W. H. Auden -- As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden -- Lullaby / W. H. Auden -- Musées des Beaux arts / W. H. Auden -- Epitaph on a tyrant / W. H. Auden -- Far from a cultural centre / W. H. Auden -- In memory of W. B. Yeats / W. H. Auden -- In memory of Sigmund Freud / W. H. Auden -- Leap before you look / W. H. Auden -- Mundus et Infans / W. H. Auden -- Miranda: my dear one is mine / W. H. Auden -- In praise of limestone / W. H. Auden -- Their lonely betters / W. H. Auden -- The shield of Achilles / W. H. Auden -- A lullaby / W. H. Auden -- Australia / A. D. Hope -- The bed / A. D. Hope -- Observation car / A. D. Hope -- The Lingam and the Yoni / A. D. Hope -- Imperial Adam / A. D. Hope -- Meditation on a bone / A. D. Hope -- Advice to young ladies / A. D. Hope -- Hay fever / A. D. Hope -- Beware of ruins / A. D. Hope -- Wolves / Louis MacNeice -- Snow / Louis MacNeice -- Nature Morte / Louis MacNeice -- An eclogue for Christmas / Louis MacNeice -- Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice -- Carrickfergus / Louis MacNeice -- Brother fire / Louis MacNeice -- The Libertine / Louis MacNeice -- Variation on Heraclitus / Louis MacNeice -- Bad dream / Louis MacNeice -- This is the life / Louis MacNeice -- Open house / Theodore Roethke -- Long live the weeds / Theodore Roethke -- Cuttings / Theodore Roethke -- Cuttings later / Theodore Roethke -- My Papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- Dolor / Theodore Roethke -- The minimal / Theodore Roethke -- Four for Sir John Davies / Theodore Roethke -- The waking / Theodore Roethke -- Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartz / Theodore Roethke -- I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke -- Wish for a young wife / Theodore Roethke -- The far field / Theodore Roethke -- In a dark time / Theodore Roethke -- The funeral / Stephen Spender -- What I expected / Stephen Spender -- The express / Stephen Spender -- The landscape near an aerodrome / Stephen Spender -- The pylons / Stephen Spender -- Not palaces / Stephen Spender -- Polar exploration / Stephen Spender -- One more new botched beginning / Stephen Spender -- Delos / Bernard Spencer -- Yachts on the Nile / Bernard Spencer -- Olive trees / Bernard Spencer -- Egyptian dancer at Shubra / Bernard Spencer -- Blue arm / Bernard Spencer -- Autobiographical / A. M. Klein -- Winter night: Mount Royal / A. M. Klein -- Portrait of the poet as landscape / A. M. Klein -- I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you / Charles Olson -- Maximus, to Gloucester Letter 2 / Charles Olson -- Colored pictures / Charles Olson -- All / Charles Olson -- A newly discovered Homeric hymn / Charles Olson -- The man-moth / Elizabeth Bishop -- The unbeliever / Elizabeth Bishop -- The monument / Elizabeth Bishop -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- Over 2000 illustrations and a complete concordance / Elizabeth Bishop -- Brazil, January 1, 1502 / Elizabeth Bishop -- The armadillo / Elizabeth Bishop -- Some dreams they forgot / Elizabeth Bishop -- In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop -- About the size of an old-style dollar bill / Elizabeth Bishop -- One art / Elizabeth Bishop -- On inhabiting an orange / Josephine Miles -- Made shine / Josephine Miles -- Preliminary to classroom lecture / Josephine Miles -- So graven / Josephine Miles -- Forecast / Josephine Miles -- Bounty / Josephine Miles -- Belief / Josephine Miles -- Reason / Josephine Miles -- Tally / Josephine Miles -- The entrepreneur chicken shed his tail feathers, surplus / Josephine Miles -- As difference blends into identity / Josephine Miles -- Fields of learning / Josephine Miles --

Death / Roy Fuller -- Crustaceans / Roy Fuller -- Autobiography of a lungworm / Roy Fuller -- The birth of tragedy / Irving Layton -- The fertile muck / Irving Layton -- Butterfly on rock / Irving Layton -- A tall man executes a jig / Irving Layton -- Year's end / William Everson -- The raid / William Everson -- The poet is dead / William Everson -- Daughter of earth and child of the wave / William Everson -- The man-fate / William Everson -- Runoff / William Everson -- The dome of Sunday / Karl Shapiro -- The fly / Karl Shapiro -- Poet / Karl Shapiro -- The alphabet / Karl Shapiro -- Lower the standard: that's my motto / Karl Shapiro -- Manhole covers / Karl Shapiro -- The piano tuner's wife / Karl Shapiro -- The ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield / Robert Hayden -- Witch doctor / Robert Hayden -- Mourning poem for the Queen of Sunday / Robert Hayden -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Perseus / Robert Hayden -- Mystery boy looks for kin in Nashville / Robert Hayden -- A plague of Starlings / Robert Hayden -- For a young artist / Robert Hayden -- A letter from Phillis Wheatley / Robert Hayden -- The tattooed man / Robert Hayden -- Double feature / Robert Hayden -- Bone-flower elegy / Robert Hayden -- In the naked bed, in Plato's cave / Delmore Schwartz -- Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers / Delmore Schwartz -- The heavy bear who goes with me / Delmore Schwartz -- The winter twilight, glowing black and gold / Delmore Schwartz -- The mind is an ancient and famous capital / Delmore Schwartz -- Alloy / Muriel Rukeyser -- Boy with his hair cut short / Muriel Rukeyser -- Seventh advenue / Muriel Rukeyser -- Paper anniversary / Muriel Rukeyser -- Woman as market / Muriel Rukeyser -- Ballad of orange and grape / Muriel Rukeyser -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- Booker T. and W.E.B. / Dudley Randall -- Old Witherington / Dudley Randall -- George / Dudley Randall -- Bag woman / Dudley Randall -- Vacant lot / Dudley Randall -- A poet is not a jukebox / Dudley Randall -- Traveling through the dark / Dudley Randall -- At the bomb testing site / Dudley Randall -- Monuments for a friendly girl at a tenth grade party / Dudley Randall -- Christianite / Dudley Randall -- Humanities lecture / Dudley Randall -- Report to Crazy Horse / Dudley Randall -- Visions / Dudley Randall -- After arguing against the contention that art must come from discontent / Dudley Randall -- Tourist country / Dudley Randall -- The Indian cave Jerry Ramsey found / Dudley Randall -- 90 North / Randall Jarrell -- The death of the Ball Turret Gunner / Randall Jarrell -- Eighth Air Force / Randall Jarrell -- A girl in a Library / Randall Jarrell -- A game at Salzburg / Randall Jarrell -- Next day / Randall Jarrell -- Thinking of the Lost World / Randall Jarrell -- The ball poem / John Berryman -- Life, friends is boring, we must not say so / John Berryman -- Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls / John Berryman -- Turning it over, considering, like a madman / John Berryman -- Henry's Confession / John Berryman -- This world is gradually becoming a place / John Berryman -- I have moved to Dublin to have it out with you / John Berryman -- Sonnet 25 / John Berryman -- Of suicide / John Berryman -- Henry's understanding / John Berryman -- And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas -- The hand that signed the paper / Dylan Thomas -- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Dylan Thomas -- When all my five and country senses see / Dylan Thomas -- Twenty-four years / Dylan Thomas -- The hunchback in the park / Dylan Thomas -- Poem in October / Dylan Thomas -- A refusal to mourn the death by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- In my craft or sullen art / Dylan Thomas -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Bora Ring / Jundith Wright -- Remittance man / Jundith Wright -- Drought year / Jundith Wright -- Flood year / Jundith Wright -- Ishtar / Jundith Wright -- Request to a year / Jundith Wright -- Dove-love / Jundith Wright -- The beanstalk, meditated later / Jundith Wright -- Australia / Jundith Wright -- Short time / Gavin Ewart -- Ella mi fu rapita / Gavin Ewart -- The Larkin automatic car wash / Gavin Ewart -- William Wordsworth / Gavin Ewart -- An old husband suspects adultery / Gavin Ewart -- Robert Graves / Gavin Ewart -- The stenographers / P. K. Page -- Images of angels / P. K. Page -- T-Bar / P. K. Page -- Photos of a saltmine / P. K. Page -- War lord in the early evening / P. K. Page -- Suffering / P. K. Page -- Deaf-mute in the pear tree / P. K. Page -- Kaleidoscope / P. K. Page -- The fire at Alexandria / Theodore Weiss -- Clothes maketh the man / Theodore Weiss -- The ultimate antientropy / Theodore Weiss -- Ten little Rembrandts / Theodore Weiss -- A pair of shoes / Theodore Weiss --

The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell -- After the suprising conversions / Robert Lowell -- Memories of West Street and Lepke / Robert Lowell -- To speak of woe that is in marriage / Robert Lowell -- Skunk hour / Robert Lowell -- For the Union dead / Robert Lowell -- The old flame / Robert Lowell -- T. S. Eliot / Robert Lowell -- Ezra Pound / Robert Lowell -- Robert Frost / Robert Lowell -- Violence / Robert Lowell -- AFter the convention / Robert Lowell -- It did / Robert Lowell -- Dolphin / Robert Lowell -- Notice / Robert Lowell -- Epilogue / Robert Lowell -- A song in the front yard / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sadie and Maud / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetary / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The vacant lot / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The lovers of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A penitent considers another coming of Mary / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Of Robert Frost / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Boy breaking glass / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Blackstone Rangers / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The life of Lincoln West / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Young Africans / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The boy died in my alley / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Winter walking / Al Purdy -- The madwoman on the train / Al Purdy -- Lament for the Dorsets / Al Purdy -- Spinning / Al Purdy -- An African elegy / Robert Duncan -- Poetry, a natural thing / Robert Duncan -- Passage over water / Robert Duncan -- What I saw / Robert Duncan -- Childhood's retreat / Robert Duncan -- Something is taking place / Robert Duncan -- A little language / Robert Duncan -- To the thoughtful reader / William Meredith -- On falling asleep by firelight / William Meredith -- Bachelor / William Meredith -- Last things / William Meredith -- Crossing over / William Meredith -- Dying away / William Meredith -- In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Sometime during eternity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- People getting divorced / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Tete-a-tete / Edwin Honig -- Now, my usefulness over / Edwin Honig -- November through a giant copper beech / Edwin Honig -- Bodega, goodbye / Edwin Honig -- Sometimes while I sleep / Edwin Honig -- Aristocrats / Keith Douglas -- Vergissmeinnicht / Keith Douglas -- Soissons / Keith Douglas -- The knife / Keith Douglas -- Simplify me when I'm dead / Keith Douglas -- Gallantry / Keith Douglas -- The brief journey west / Howard Nemerov -- I only am escaped alone to tell thee / Howard Nemerov -- The goose fish / Howard Nemerov -- The icehouse in summer / Howard Nemerov -- Style / Howard Nemerov -- Wolves in the zoo / Howard Nemerov -- Gyroscope / Howard Nemerov -- The author to his body on their fifteenth birthday / Howard Nemerov -- Reading pornography in old age / Howard Nemerov -- More joy in heaven / Howard Nemerov -- Beach glass / Amy Clampitt -- A hairline fracture / Amy Clampitt -- Dancers exercising / Amy Clampitt -- Gooseberry fool / Amy Clampitt -- A cure at Porlock / Amy Clampitt -- The pardon / Richard Wilbur -- Grasse: the olive trees / Richard Wilbur -- Still, citizen sparrow / Richard Wilbur -- The death of a toad / Richard Wilbur -- Ceremony / Richard Wilbur -- A world without objects is a sensible emptiness / Richard Wilbur -- Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- Pangloss's song / Richard Wilbur -- Playboy / Richard Wilbur -- The writer / Richard Wilbur -- Teresa / Richard Wilbur -- The mind-reader / Richard Wilbur -- A dream of fair women / Kingsley Amis -- Against Romanticism / Kingsley Amis -- An ever-fixed mark / Kingsley Amis -- Aberdarcy: The main square / Kingsley Amis -- Sight unseen / Kingsley Amis -- Science fiction / Kingsley Amis -- New approach needed / Kingsley Amis -- With the grain / Donald Davie -- Across the bay / Donald Davie -- In California / Donald Davie -- Barnsley and district / Donald Davie -- Devil on ice / Donald Davie -- So through that unripe day you bore your head / Philip Larkin -- Church going / Philip Larkin -- Myxomatosis / Philip Larkin -- Toads / Philip Larkin -- Faith healing / Philip Larkin -- The Whitsun weddings / Philip Larkin -- MCMXIV / Philip Larkin -- Sunny Prestatyn / Philip Larkin -- Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair / Philip Larkin -- The trees / Philip Larkin -- Forget what did / Philip Larkin -- High windows / Philip Larkin -- Going, going / Philip Larkin -- Dublinesque / Philip Larkin -- Homage to a government / Philip Larkin -- This be the verse / Philip Larkin -- Sad steps / Philip Larkin -- Cut grass / Philip Larkin -- The explosion / Philip Larkin -- Birdwatchers of America / Anthony Hecht -- More Light! More light! / Anthony Hecht -- It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it / Anthony Hecht -- Sestina d'Inverno / Anthony Hecht -- The feast of Stephen / Anthony Hecht -- The deodand / Anthony Hecht -- An old malediction / Anthony Hecht -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- The heaven of animals / James Dickey -- Buckdancer's choice / James Dickey -- The sheep child / James Dickey -- Falling / James Dickey --

Love song: I and Thou / Alan Dugan -- How we heard the name / Alan Dugan -- Fabrication of ancestors / Alan Dugan -- Plague of dead sharks / Alan Dugan -- On trees / Alan Dugan -- Against a sickness: to the female double principle god / Alan Dugan -- Let heroes account to love / Alan Dugan -- Prayer / Alan Dugan -- On being a householder / Alan Dugan -- Internal migration: on being on tour / Alan Dugan -- Glad at the cold / Alan Dugan -- Last statement for a last oracle / Alan Dugan -- The man who married Magdalene / Louis Simpson -- My father in the night commanding no / Louis Simpson -- American poetry / Louis Simpson -- After midnight / Louis Simpson -- Sway / Louis Simpson -- White oxen / Louis Simpson -- Pathology of colours / Dannie Abse -- Not Adlestrop / Dannie Abse -- A new diary / Dannie Abse -- In the theatre / Dannie Abse -- A winter visit / Dannie Abse -- Snake / Dannie Abse -- Everything that acts is actual / Denise Levertov -- Pleasures / Denise Levertov -- February evening in New York / Denise Levertov -- The dog of art / Denise Levertov -- Matins / Denise Levertov -- Song for Ishtar / Denise Levertov -- The ache of marriage / Denise Levertov -- A time past / Denise Levertov -- Goodbye to tolerance / Denise Levertov -- Prisoners / Denise Levertov -- Last night's dream / Denise Levertov -- Caedmon / Denise Levertov -- The way a ghost dissolves / Richard Hugo -- The Milltown union bar / Richard Hugo -- The lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir / Richard Hugo -- Degrees of gray in Philipsburg / Richard Hugo -- The freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Richard Hugo -- White center / Richard Hugo -- Ferniehirst Castle / Richard Hugo -- Salt water story / Richard Hugo -- Mending Sump / Kenneth Koch -- Geography / Kenneth Koch -- Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams / Kenneth Koch -- To Marina / Kenneth Koch -- The stones of time / Kenneth Koch -- Days and nights / Kenneth Koch -- Seeing the bones / Maxine Kumin -- How it is / Maxine Kumin -- Spree / Maxine Kumin -- In the absence of bliss / Maxine Kumin -- Video cuisine / Maxine Kumin -- On a painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the insane / Maxine Kumin -- Ode to a dressmaker's dummy / Maxine Kumin -- The tourist from Syracuse / Maxine Kumin -- Men at forty / Maxine Kumin -- Variations on a text by Vallejo / Maxine Kumin -- In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn / Maxine Kumin -- Nostalgia and complaint of the grandparents / Maxine Kumin -- The campus on the hill / W. D. Snodgrass -- April inventory / W. D. Snodgrass -- I thumped on you the best I could / W. D. Snodgrass -- Albert Speer / W. D. Snodgrass -- So I said I am Ezra / A. R. Ammons -- Corsons inlet / A. R. Ammons -- Gravelly run / A. R. Ammons -- Conserving the magnitude of uselessness / A. R. Ammons -- Laser / A. R. Ammons -- Small song / A. R. Ammons -- The city limits / A. R. Ammons -- There is a faculty or knack / A. R. Ammons -- i was pulling Veronica out of the lawn... / A. R. Ammons -- Easter morning / A. R. Ammons -- Parting / A. R. Ammons -- Singling & Doubling together / A. R. Ammons -- Motions holdings / A. R. Ammons -- About the Phoenix / James Merrill -- The broken home / James Merrill -- The Victor dog / James Merrill -- Lost in translation / James Merrill -- The book of Ephraim / James Merrill -- B / James Merrill -- It starts in the small hours / James Merrill -- 7 more to go, did those first visitors to the sickroom / James Merrill -- The ballroom at Sandover / James Merrill -- Naughty boy / Robert Creeley -- A wicker basket / Robert Creeley -- Somewhere / Robert Creeley -- The door / Robert Creeley -- The window / Robert Creeley -- I keep to myself such measures / Robert Creeley -- Self-portrait / Robert Creeley -- The faces / Robert Creeley -- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness / Allen Ginsberg -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- America / Allen Ginsberg -- To Aunt Rose / Allen Ginsberg -- Last night in Calcutta / Allen Ginsberg -- Mugging / Allen Ginsberg -- Homework / Allen Ginsberg -- Advice to the orchestra / David Wagoner -- The man of the house / David Wagoner -- A Victorian idyll / David Wagoner -- The singing lesson / David Wagoner -- Elegy for a forest clear-cut by the Weyerhaeuser Company / David Wagoner -- The best slow dancer / David Wagoner -- To a farmer who hung five hawks on his barbed wire / David Wagoner -- Poem about breath / David Wagoner -- A young girl with a pitcher full of water / David Wagoner -- The eager note on my door said "Call me" / Frank O'Hara -- At night Chinamen jump / Frank O'Hara -- Chez jane / Frank O'Hara -- The day lady died / Frank O'Hara -- Rhapsody / Frank O'Hara -- Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara -- Les Luths / Frank O'Hara -- Johnson's cabinet watched by ants / Robert Bly -- Come with me / Robert Bly -- The great society / Robert Bly -- Evolution from the fish / Robert Bly -- My father's wedding / Robert Bly -- Kneeling down to look into a culvert / Robert Bly -- Fiasherino / Charles Tomlinson -- Mr. Brodsky / Charles Tomlinson -- At Barstow / Charles Tomlinson -- Two views of two ghost towns / Charles Tomlinson -- Swimming Chenango Lake / Charles Tomlinson -- Snow signs / Charles Tomlinson -- On a pig's head / Charles Tomlinson -- For William Carlos Williams / Glaway Kinnell -- Flower herding on Mount Monadnock / Glaway Kinnell -- The correspondence school instructor says goodbye to his poetry students / Glaway Kinnell -- After making love we hear footsteps / Glaway Kinnell -- The angel / Glaway Kinnell -- On the Oregon Coast / Glaway Kinnell -- The Seekonk Woods / Glaway Kinnell -- The instruction manual / John Ashbery -- The tennis court oath / John Ashbery -- Rivers and mountains / John Ashbery -- Forties flick / John Ashbery -- The one thing that can save America / John Ashbery -- Syringa / John Ashbery -- Statuary / John Ashbery -- Knocking around / John Ashbery -- Paradoxes and Oxymorons / John Ashbery -- Hard times / John Ashbery -- Leviathan / W. S. Merwin -- Plea for a captive / W. S. Merwin -- The drunk in the furnace / W. S. Merwin -- Home for Thanksgiving / W. S. Merwin -- The last one / W. S. Merwin -- Footprints on the glacier / W. S. Merwin -- The burnt child / W. S. Merwin -- Hearing / W. S. Merwin -- Sappho / James Wright -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright -- A blessing / James Wright -- The Minneapolis poem / James Wright -- In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been condemned / James Wright -- A mad fight song for William S. Carpenter / James Wright -- Small frogs killed on the highway / James Wright -- A secret gratitude / James Wright -- You and I saw hawks exchanging the prey / James Wright -- The journey / James Wright -- Snowfall: a poem about spring / James Wright --

To a child trapped in a barbershop / Philip Levine -- Red dust / Philip levine -- They feed they lion / Philip Levine -- The life ahead / Philip Levine -- Genius / Philip Levine -- Baggot Street deserta / Thomas Kinsella -- Thinking of Mr. D. / Thomas Kinsella -- Je t'adore / Thomas Kinsella -- Mirror in February / Thomas Kinsella -- At the crossroads / Thomas Kinsella -- A character, indistinct, entered / Thomas Kinsella -- Unknown girl in the maternity ward / Anne Sexton -- The truth the dead know / Anne Sexton -- All my pretty ones / Anne Sexton -- The starry night / Anne Sexton -- Crossing the Atlantic / Anne Sexton -- Wanting to die / Anne Sexton -- Sydney Cove / Peter Porter -- Happening at Sordid Creek / Peter Porter -- The king of the cats is dead / Peter Porter -- An exequy / Peter Porter -- The cost of seriousness / Peter Porter -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers / Adrienne Rich -- Snapshots of a daughter-in-law / Adrienne Rich -- Face to face / Adrienne Rich -- Orion / Adrienne Rich -- Planetarium / Adrienne Rich -- A valediction forbidding mourning / Adrienne Rich -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming / Adrienne Rich -- Every peak is a crater / Adrienne Rich -- The floating poem / Adrienne Rich -- That conversation we were always on the edge / Adrienne Rich -- The dark lintels, the blue and foreign stones / Adrienne Rich -- Grandmothers / Adrienne Rich -- Yom Kippur / Adrienne Rich -- The Byrnies / Thom Gunn -- My sad Captains / Thom Gunn -- Elegy on the dust / Thom Gunn -- In the tank / Thom Gunn -- Moly / Thom Gunn -- Autobiography / Thom Gunn -- Yoko / Thom Gunn -- Donahue's sister / Thom Gunn -- Oystering / Richard Howard -- Wildflowers / Richard Howard -- The great bear / John Hollander -- A lion named passion / John Hollander -- The lady of the castle / John Hollander -- Some walks with you / John Hollander -- Back to town / John Hollander -- A far cry from Africa / Derek Walcott -- Codicil / Derek Walcott -- Frederiksted, dusk / Derek Walcott -- Winding up / Derek Walcott -- The man who loved islands / Derek Walcott -- Port of Spain / Derek Walcott -- The fortunate traveller / Derek Walcott -- Gaugin / Derek Walcott -- The Oak Inns creak in their joints as light declines / Derek Walcott -- Dogs in the morning light / Bruce Dawe -- Happiness is the art of being broken / Bruce Dawe -- First Corinthians at the crossroads / Bruce Dawe -- Drifters / Bruce Dawe -- A Victorian hangman tells his love / Bruce Dawe -- Gorilla gorilla / Bruce Dawe -- Riprap / Gary Snyder -- The Elwha River / Gary Snyder -- Four poems for Robin / Gary Snyder -- The snow on Saddle Mountain / Gary Snyder -- Meeting the mountains / Gary Snyder -- How do you shape an axe handle / Gary Snyder -- Axe handles / Gary Snyder -- Getting in the wood / Gary Snyder -- Geese Gone beyond / Gary Snyder -- The grand entry / Gary Snyder -- Old woman nature / Gary Snyder -- The horses / Ted Hughes -- The thought-fox / Ted Hughes -- An otter / Ted Hughes -- Thistles / Ted Hughes -- Second glance at a jaguar / Ted Hughes -- Stations / Ted Hughes -- Theology / Ted Hughes -- Wodwo / Ted Hughes -- Crow's first lesson / Ted Hughes -- Roe deer / Ted Hughes -- Orf / Ted Hughes -- Old age gets up / Ted Hughes -- Orts / Ted Hughes -- In memory of Jane Fraser / Geoffrey Hill -- Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings / Geoffrey Hill -- Picture of a nativity / Geoffrey Hill -- Ovid in the Third Reich / Geoffrey Hill -- September song / Geoffrey Hill -- My little son, when you could command marvels / Geoffrey Hill -- Not as we are but as we must appear / Geoffrey Hill -- The imaginative life / Geoffrey Hill -- The namic of Offa / Geoffrey Hill -- The crowing of Offa / Geoffrey Hill -- The childhood of Offa / Geoffrey Hill -- The Kingdom of Offa / Geoffrey Hill -- Offa's laws / Geoffrey Hill -- Offa's coins / Geoffrey Hill -- Offa's sword / Geoffrey Hill -- The death of Offa / Geoffrey Hill -- Lachrimae Verae / Geoffrey Hill -- The masque of blackness / Geoffrey Hill -- An apology for the revival of Christian Architecture in England / Geoffrey Hill -- A Pre-Raphealite notebook / Geoffrey Hill -- The colossus / Sylvia Plath -- Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath -- Elm / Sylvia Plath -- Poppies in October / Sylvia Plath -- Ariel / Sylvia Plath -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath -- Fever 103 /̕ Sylvia Plath -- Blackberrying / Sylvia Plath -- Father, Son, and Holy Ghost / Audre Lorde -- Coal / Audre Lorde -- Love poem / Audre Lorde -- From the House of Yemanjá / Audre Lorde -- The women of Dan dance with swords in their hands to marke the time when they were warriors / Audre Lorde -- Hanging fire / Audre Lorde -- Power / Audre Lorde -- A question of climate / Audre Lorde -- Beams / Audre Lorde -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand -- The marriage / Mark Strand -- Letter / Mark Strand -- The dreadful has already happened / Mark Strand -- My life / Mark Strand -- In celebration / Mark Strand -- The garden / Mark Strand -- Balboa, the entertainer / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Political poem / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- A poem for speculative hipsters / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Legacy / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- The new world / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Incident / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Babylon revisited / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- A new reality is better than a new movie / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Goose / Richard Emil Braun -- The lilies / Richard Emil Braun -- Seaking an explanation / Richard Emil Braun -- Letter to a friend / Jon Stallworthy -- A poem about poems about Vietnam / Jon Stallworthy -- A letter from Berlin / Jon Stallworthy -- Pour commencer / Jon Stallworthy -- The almond tree / Jon Stallworthy -- Mother tongue / Jon Stallworthy -- Last scene in the first act / Marge Piercy -- Postcard from the garden / Marge Piercy -- The cyclist / Marge Piercy -- Learning experience / Marge Piercy -- The cast off / Marge Piercy -- The moon is always female / Marge Piercy -- Nobody riding the roads today / June Jordan -- Onesided dialog / June Jordan -- You came with shells / June Jordan -- Notes on the peanut / June Jordan -- Poem about my rights / June Jordan -- Second poem from Nicaragua Libre: war zone / June Jordan -- July 4, 1984 For Buck / June Jordan -- DeLiza spend the day in the city / June Jordan --

Durham / Tony Harrison -- The school of eloquence / Tony Harrison -- Heredity / Tony Harrison -- On not being Milton / Tony Harrison -- Me Tarzan / Tony Harrison -- Book ends / Tony Harrison -- Turns / Tony Harrison -- Marked with D / Tony Harrison -- Timer / Tony Harrison -- Self justification / Tony Harrison -- History classes / Tony Harrison -- Lines to my grandfather / Tony Harrison -- The call of nature / Tony Harrison -- Belly dancer / Diane Wakoski -- The father of my country / Diane Wakoski -- Thanking my mother for piano lessons / Diane Wakoski -- A valentine for Ben Franklin who drives a truck in California / Diane Wakoski -- The hitchhikers / Diane Wakoski -- American history / Michael Harper -- Clan meeting: birhts and nations: a blood song / Michael Harper -- Jazz station / Michael Harper -- Sandra: at the beaver trap / Michael Harper -- Debridement / Michael Harper -- Double elegy / Michael Harper -- Golden State / Frank Bidart -- Death of a naturalist / Seamus Heaney -- Requiem for the croppies / Seamus Heaney -- Bogland / Seamus Heaney -- Limbo / Seamus Heaney -- Sunlight / Seamus Heaney -- Bog queen / Seamus Heaney -- Punishment / Seamus Heaney -- The strand at Lough Beg / Seamus Heaney -- The otter / Seamus Heaney -- The harvest bow / Seamus Heaney -- In memoriam Francis Ledwidge / Seamus Heaney -- A hazel stick for Catherine Ann / Seamus Heaney -- Station Island / Seamus Heaney -- Black water, white waves / Seamus Heaney -- Like a convalescent, I took the hand / Seamus Heaney -- Sweeney Redivivus / Seamus Heaney -- Alphabets / Seamus Heaney -- The haw lantern / Seamus Heaney -- Memorial Day / Michael Anania -- Adrift on an oil-drum raft / Michael Anania -- As Meriwether Lewis / Michael Anania -- Among the provisions they carried / Michael Anania -- The edge of autumn / Michael Anania -- Lakes / David Donnell -- Sandwiches / David Donnell -- This is a photograph of me / Margaret Atwood -- The animals in that country / Margaret Atwood -- Daguerreotype taken in old age / Margaret Atwood -- You fit into me / Margaret Atwood -- They eat out / Margaret Atwood -- Men with the heads of eagles / Margaret Atwood -- Footnote to the amnesty report on torture / Margaret Atwood -- The puppet of the wolf / Margaret Atwood -- Postcard / Margaret Atwood -- Variations on the word love / Margaret Atwood -- Spelling / Margaret Atwood -- Doctor Frolic / Robert Pinsky -- Invocation / Robert Pinsky ; from Essay on Psychiatrists -- Proposition / Robert Pinsky ; from Essay on Psychiatrists -- Their seriousness, with further comparisons / Robert Pinsky ; from Essay on Psychiatrists -- Their Philistinism considered / Robert Pinsky ; from Essay on Psychiatrists -- Their speech, compared with wisdom and poetry / Robert Pinsky ; from Essay on Psychiatrists -- Their patients / Robert Pinsky ; from Essay on Psychiatrists -- The mad / Robert Pinsky ; from Essay on Psychiatrists -- Peroration, concerning genius / Robert Pinsky ; from Essay on Psychiatrists -- The figured wheel / Robert Pinsky -- The living / Robert Pinsky -- The questions / Robert Pinsky -- Magic fox / James Welch -- Arizona highways / James Welch -- Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat / James Welch -- The man from Washington / James Welch -- Day after chasing porcupines / James Welch -- Grandma's man / James Welch -- Never give a bum an event break / James Welch -- Feeling and forum / Marilyn Hacker -- Rondeau after a Transatlantic telephone call / Marilyn Hacker -- Canzone / Marilyn Hacker -- No better lost than any other woman / Marilyn Hacker -- Almost Aubade / Marilyn Hacker -- Runaways Café II / Marilyn Hacker -- Mythology / Marilyn Hacker -- Did you love well what very soon you left / Marilyn Hacker -- Pink slip at Tool & Dye / Dave Smith -- Hole, where once in passion we swam / Dave Smith -- The roundhouse voices / Dave Smith -- Cleaning a fish / Dave Smith -- Snapshot of a crab-picker among barrels... / Dave Smith -- Bats / Dave Smith -- Labor Day / Louise Glück -- The wound / Louise Glück -- Gretel in darkness / Louise Glück -- mock orange / Louise Glück -- Mythic fragment / Louise Glück -- Hyacinth / Louise Glück -- The mountain / Louise Glück -- Elms / Louise Glück -- Mark / John Tranter -- They burn the radio and listen to the blues / John Tranter -- Giving up women is worse than animal laxatives / John Tranter -- The Chicago 'Manual of style' is really neat / John Tranter -- Sweat is a style of the body / John Tranter -- The great artist reconsiders the Homeric simile / John Tranter -- The spire / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Blue ridge / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Year's end / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- At the movie: Virginia / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Biography / Michael Ondaatje -- Elizabeth / Michael Ondaatje -- Notes for the legend of salad woman / Michael Ondaatje -- Letters & other worlds / Michael Ondaatje -- Burning hills / Michael Ondaatje -- Inner tube / Michael Ondaatje -- To a sad daughter / Michael Ondaatje -- Stray animals / James Tate -- The blue booby / James Tate -- The wheelchair butterfly / James Tate -- The lost pilot / James Tate -- Intimidations of an authobiography / James Tate -- The motorcyclist / James Tate -- Poem to some of my recent poems / James Tate -- The chaste stranger / James Tate -- A vagabond / James Tate -- A wedding / James Tate -- Nature study / Craig Raine -- The onion, memory / Craig Raine -- A Martian sends a postcard home / Craig Raine -- Dandelions / Craig Raine -- In modern dress / Craig Raine -- City gent / Craig Raine -- An attempt at jealousy / Craig Raine -- The obscure / Norman Dubie -- The Czar's last Christmas letter: a barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear / Norman Dubie -- At midsummer / Norman Dubie -- Elegy for Wright & Hugo / Norman Dubie -- The funeral / Norman Dubie -- Lamentations / Norman Dubie -- Twenty-year marriage / AI -- Woman to man / AI -- Kisregard / AI -- Killing floor / AI -- The kid / AI -- Salome / AI -- Star quilt / Roberta Hill Whiteman -- In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum / Roberta Hill Whiteman -- Horses in snow / Roberta Hill Whiteman -- For Heather, entering kindergarten / Roberta Hill Whiteman -- It was a long time before / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Long time ago / Leslie Marmon Silko -- In cold storm light / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Toe'osh: a Laguna coyote story / Leslie Marmon Silko --

Inventors / Michael Blumenthal -- Abandoning your car in a snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virginia / Michael Blumenthal -- The elephants dying / Michael Blumenthal -- Who will live in our houses when we die / Michael Blumenthal -- The litrajure of everyday life / Michael Blumenthal -- Back from the word-processing course... / Michael Blumenthal -- A German requiem / James Fenton -- Dead soldiers / James Fenton -- The Kingfisher's boxing gloves / James Fenton -- This octopus exploits women / James Fenton -- God. a poem / James Fenton -- Taking off my clothes / Carolyn Forché -- Kalaloch / Carolyn Forché -- The memory of Elena / Carolyn Forché -- As children together / Carolyn Forché -- Reunion / Carolyn Forché -- Salad days / Susan Musgrave -- Burial of the dog / Susan Musgrave -- I am not a conspiracy... / Susan Musgrave -- The glad eye / Paul Muldoon -- Hedgehog / Paul Muldoon -- The big house / Paul Muldoon -- The weepies / Paul Muldoon -- Making the move / Paul Muldoon -- The right arm / Paul Muldoon -- Brock / Paul Muldoon -- The Lass of Aughrim / Paul Muldoon -- Meeting the British / Paul Muldoon -- After tonight / Gary Soto -- The elements of San Joaquin wind / Gary Soto -- Rain / Gary Soto -- The map / Gary Soto -- The drought / Gary Soto -- Graciela / Gary Soto -- The tale of sunlight / Gary Soto -- Making money: drought year in Minkler, California / Gary Soto -- Chiapas / Gary Soto -- Oranges / Gary Soto -- The jungle café / Gary Soto -- How things work / Gary Soto -- Teach us to number our days / Rita Dove -- The secret garden / Rita Dove -- The house slave / Rita Dove -- Adolescence I / Rita Dove -- Adolescence II / Rita Dove -- Adolescence III / Rita Dove -- Beauty and the beast / Rita Dove -- Banneker / Rita Dove -- Parsley / Rita Dove -- The event / Rita Dove -- Weathering out / Rita Dove -- The great palaces of Versailles / Rita Dove -- At Kino Viejo, Mexico / Alberto Ríos -- The man who became old / Alberto Ríos -- Madre Sofía / Alberto Ríos -- A dream of husbands / Alberto Ríos -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Ríos -- A man then suddenly stops moving / Alberto Ríos -- I held his name / Alberto Ríos -- Funerary portraits / Rosanna Warren -- Daylights / Rosanna Warren -- Interior at Petworth: from Turner / Rosanna Warren -- Darwin in 1881 / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- When Clumsy harks the gladsome ting-a-lings / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Supernatural love / Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Family reunion / Louise Erdrich -- Indian boarding school: the runaways / Louise Erdrich -- Francine's room / Louise Erdrich -- Captivity / Louise Erdrich -- The king of owls / Louise Erdrich -- That pull from the left / Louise Erdrich -- Windigo / Louise Erdrich -- Uncle's first rabbit / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Cannery town in August / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Freeway / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Visions of Mexico while at a writing symposium in Port Townsend, Washington / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Como lo Siento / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Emplumada / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- The youngest daughter / Cathy S.ong -- Leaving / Cathy Song -- Beauty and sadness / Cathy Song -- Lost sister / Cathy Song -- The vegetable air / Cathy Song -- Waterwings / Cathy Song -- Heaven / Cathy Song --