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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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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