List of contents arranged alphabetically by title of poem. May be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
TITLE -- AUTHOR | PAGE |
“A” – Louis Zukofsky | 1 |
Adonais – Percy Bysshe Shelley | 6 |
Advice to a Prophet— Richard Wilbur | 10 |
Advice to King Lear—Turner Cassity | 13 |
Aeneas at Washington—Allen Tate | 16 |
Affliction (IV)— George Herbert | 19 |
After Apple-Picking – Robert Frost | 23 |
After Someone’s Death – Tomas Transtromer | 26 |
After the Surprising Conversation – Robert Lowell | 29 |
Afternoon of a Faun, The – Stephane Mallarme | 32 |
Age, The – Osip Mandelstam | 36 |
Ajanta – Muriel Rukeyser | 39 |
All Bread – Margaret Atwood | 44 |
All My Pretty Ones – Anne Sexton | 47 |
Allegro, L’ – John Milton | 50 |
Altarwise by Owl-Light – Dylan Thomas | 53 |
Amazing Grace in the Back Country – Robert Penn Warren | 56 |
Ambassador Diaries of Jean de Bosschere and Edgar Poe, The – Norman Dubie |
59 |
America: A Prophecy – William Blake | 62 |
Among School Children – William Butler Yeats | 65 |
And Death Shall Have No Dominion – Dylan Thomas | 68 |
Andrea del Sarto – Robert Browning | 71 |
Angel – James Merrill | 75 |
Angels, The – Rainer Maria Rilke | 79 |
Angle of Geese – N. Scott Momaday | 82 |
Animula – T. S. Eliot | 85 |
Annabel Lee – Edgar Allan Poe | 88 |
anyone lived in a pretty how town – E. E. Cummings | 91 |
Apollo and Marsyas – Zbigniew Herbert | 94 |
Archaic Torso of Apollo – Rainer Maria Rilke | 98 |
Archer in the Marrow – Peter Viereck | 101 |
Ariel – Sylvia Plath | 106 |
Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel, The – John Betjeman | 109 |
Art of Poetry, The – Charles Tomlinson | 112 |
Art of Poetry, The – Paul Verlaine | 115 |
As the Dead Prey Upon Us – Charles Olson | 119 |
Ash, The – William Heyen | 123 |
Ashes – Philip Levine | 126 |
Astrophil and Stella – Sir Philip Sidney | 129 |
At Melville’s Tomb – Hart Crane | 135 |
At the Ball Game – William Carlos Williams | 138 |
Aubade – William Empson | 141 |
Audubon: A Vision – Robert Penn Warren | 145 |
Auguries of Innocence – William Blake | 150 |
August Moon – Robert Penn Warren | 153 |
Auroras of Autumn, The – Wallace Stevens | 156 |
Auspice of Jewels – Laura Riding | 159 |
Auto Wreck – Karl Shapiro | 162 |
Autopsy, The – Odysseus Elytis | 166 |
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio – James Wright | 169 |
Autumn Day – Rainer Maria Rilke | 172 |
Autumn Leaves – Jacques Prevert | 175 |
Autumn Song – Paul Verlaine | 178 |
Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World, The – Galway Kinnell |
181 |
Azure, The – Stephane Mallarme |
185 |
TITLE -- AUTHOR | PAGE |
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Babii Yar – Yevgeny Yevtushenko | 188 |
Badger – John Clare | 191 |
Balakirev’s Dream – Tomas Transtromer | 194 |
Ballad of Reading Gaol, The – Oscar Wilde | 198 |
Banquet, The – George Herbert | 202 |
Batter my heart, three-person’d God – John Donne | 205 |
Bavarian Gentians – D. H. Lawrence | 208 |
Beacons, The – Charles Baudelaire | 211 |
Bearded Oaks – Robert Penn Warren | 215 |
Because I could not stop for Death – Emily Dickinson | 219 |
Belle Dame sans Merci, La – John Keats | 222 |
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter – John Crowe Ransom | 225 |
Benediction – Charles Baudelaire | 228 |
Beyond the Alps – Robert Lowell | 231 |
Birches – Robert Frost | 234 |
Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church, The – Robert Browning | 237 |
Black Angel, The – Henri Coulette | 240 |
Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980 – Linda Hogan | 243 |
Black Tambourine – Hart Crane | 246 |
Black Women – Leopold Senghor | 249 |
Blackberry Eating – Galway Kinnell | 253 |
Blackcurrant River – Arthur Rimbaud | 256 |
Blessed Damozel, The – Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 260 |
Bobo’s Metamorphosis – Czeslaw Milosz | 263 |
Body of Summer – Odysseus Elytis | 267 |
Book of Thel, The – William Blake | 270 |
Brahma – Ralph Waldo Emerson | 273 |
Bread and Wine – Friedrich Holderlin | 276 |
Bridge, The – Hart Crane | 280 |
Brief Journey West, The – Howard Nemerov | 285 |
Brief Pause in the Organ Recital – Tomas Transtromer | 288 |
Broken Boat – Tu Fu | 292 |
Broken Home, The – James Merrill | 295 |
Broken Tower, The – Hart Crane | 298 |
Buckdancer’s Choice – James Dickey | 301 |
Buddha in Glory – Rainer Maria Rilke | 304 |
Building, The – Philip Larkin | 307 |
Buried Life, The – Matthew Arnold | 310 |
Burning a Book – William Stafford | 313 |
Burning Babe, The – Robert Southwell | 316 |
Burning the Tomato Worms – Carolyn Forche | 319 |
But so as by Fire – George Oppen | 322 |
Butterfly – Nelly Sachs | 325 |
Bypassing Rue Descartes – Czeslaw Milosz | 328 |
Byzantium – William Butler Yeats | 331 |
TITLE -- AUTHOR | PAGE |
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California Swimming Pool – Sharon Olds | 334 |
Canonization, The – John Donne | 337 |
Canto 1 – Ezra Pound | 340 |
Canto 49 – Ezra Pound | 343 |
Canto 74 – Ezra Pound | 347 |
Casualty – Seamus Heaney | 351 |
Cats – Charles Baudelaire | 354 |
Cemetery by the Sea, The – Paul Valery | 357 |
Changing Light at Sandover, The – James Merrill | 360 |
Channel Firing – Thomas Hardy | 365 |
Chicago – Carl Sandberg | 368 |
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” – Robert Browning | 371 |
Chimney Sweeper, The – William Blake | 374 |
Christabel – Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 377 |
Church Going – Philip Larkin | 380 |
Circus Animal’s Desertion, The – William Butler Yeats | 383 |
Cistern, The – George Seferis | 386 |
City in the Sea, The – Edgar Allan Poe | 389 |
Clarel – Herman Melville | 392 |
Clear Night – Octavio Paz | 397 |
Collar, The – George Herbert | 401 |
Colossus, The – Sylvia Plath | 404 |
Company, The – Robert Creeley | 407 |
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 – William Wordsworth | 410 |
Concerning Exaggeration, or How, Properly, to Heap Up – Charles Olson | 414 |
Concerning Necessity – Hayden Carruth | 417 |
Connoisseur of Chaos – Wallace Stevens | 420 |
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