Sentence / Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) 5 --
Mansion / A. R. Ammons (B. 1926) 6 --
Will, lost in a sea of trouble / Archilochos (Seventh Century B.C.E.) 8 --
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) 9 --
Improvement / John Ashbery (B. 1927) 11 --
Variation on the Word Sleep / Margaret Atwood (B. 1939) 12
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) 14 --
In Memory of W. B. Yeats --
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (B. 1934) 18
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) 19 --
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle / Black Elk (1863-1950) 23
William Blake (1757-1827) 24 --
Emigrant Irish / Eavan Boland (B. 1944) 27
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) 28 --
Before the Birth of one of her Children --
To my Dear and loving Husband --
Soldier / Rupert Brooke (1886-1915) 30
Gwendolyn Brooks (B. 1917) 31 --
Sonnet 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) 33 --
My Last Duchess / Robert Browning (1812-1889) 34 --
Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress / Julia De Burgos (1914-1953) 36 --
Address to a Haggis / Robert Burns (1759-1796) 38 --
She Walks in Beauty from Manfred / George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 40 --
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) 44 --
Grandmither, Think Not I Forget / Willa Cather (1876-1947) 46 --
31 / Catullus (84-54 B.C.E.) 48 --
City / C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) 49 --
from Zeitgehoft / Paul Celan (1920-1970) 50 --
from The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer (CA. 1342-1400) 51 --
You Called Me Corazon / Sandra Cisneros (B. 1954) 52 --
Lost Baby Poem / Lucille Clifton (B. 1936) 53 --
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 54
Hart Crane (1899-1933) 58 --
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge --
Robert Creeley (B. 1926) 61 --
Yet Do I Marvel / Countee Cullen (1903-1946) 63 --
I sing of Olaf glad and big / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) 64 --
Last Poem / Robert Desnos (1900-1945) 66 --
Bee / James Dickey (1923-1997) 67
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 70 --
I'm Nobody! Who are you? (288) --
I never saw a Moor--(1052) --
A little Madness in the Spring (1333) --
"Hope" is the thing with Feathers--(254) --
A Bird came down the Walk
John Donne (1572-1631) 74 --
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning --
Embrace / Mark Doty (B. 1953) 77 --
Daystar / Rita Dove (B. 1952) 78 --
Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part (10) / Michael Drayton (1563-1631) 80 --
Love Song: I And Thou / Alan Dugan (B. 1923) 81 --
We Wear the Mask / Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906) 82 --
A Lyric in Exile / Hussein Elhami (Twentieth Century) 83
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) 84 --
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock --
Rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 91
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 92 --
Acquainted with the Night --
Terms in Which I Think of Reality / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) 99 --
Queen of Carthage / Louise Gluck (B. 1943) 101 --
Baby Song / Thom Gunn (B. 1929) 102 --
Names of Horses / Donald Hall (B. 1928) 103 --
Darkling Thrush / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 105 --
Meditation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass (B. 1941) 107
Robert Hayden (1913-1980) 109 --
Mid-Term Break / Seamus Heaney (B. 1939) 112 --
Invictus / William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) 114
George Herbert (1593 1633) 116 --
Pebble / Zbigniew Herbert (B. 1924) 118 --
Things I Didn't Know I Loved / Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) 119 --
Do you see the town? / Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) 123 --
from the Iliad (Book Six, lines 439-79) / Homer (Mid Ninth Century B.C.E) 124
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) 126 --
Diffugere Nives / A. E. Housman (1859-1936) 129
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 131 --
Driving Montana / Richard Hugo (1923-1982) 134
Randall Jarrell (1914 1965) 136 --
Purse-Seine / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) 140 --
Creation / James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) 142
Ben Jonson (1573-1637) 146 --
Ecce Puer / James Joyce (1882-1941) 148
John Keats (1795-1821) 149 --
Sonnet VII (O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell) --
Otherwise / Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) 153 --
St. Francis and the Sow / Galway Kinnell (B. 1927) 154 --
Facing It / Yusef Komunyakaa (B. 1947) 156 --
Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation / Stanley Kunitz (B. 1905) 157 --
from Tao te Ching / Lao Tzu (Ca. Fourth to Third Centuries B.C.E) 159 --
Snake / D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 160 --
New Colossus / Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) 163 --
Come into Animal Presence / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) 164 --
You Can Have It / Philip Levine (B. 1928) 166 --
A Psalm of Life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 168
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) 171 --
Song of the Barren Orange Tree --
Patterns / Amy Lowell (1874-1925) 173 --
First Snow-Fall / James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) 177 --
Waking in the Blue / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) 179 --
Big Momma / Haki R. Madhubuti (B. 1942) 181 --
To His Coy Mistress / Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) 183 --
Art / Herman Melville (1819-1891) 185 --
Strawberries / W. S. Merwin (B. 1927) 186
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) 187 --
Sonnet XXIV (When you, that at this moment are to me) --
Happiness / A. A. Milne (1882-1956) 189 --
On Pilgrimage / Czeslaw Milosz (B. 1911) 190 --
Lycidas / John Milton (1608-1674) 191 --
Harmonics / William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910) 196
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) 197 --
I May, I Might, I Must --
Time I've Lost in Wooing / Thomas Moore (1779-1852) 199 --
Ode to My Socks / Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) 200 --
Quiet Until the Thaw / Jacob Nibenegenasabe (1900-1977) 203 --
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) 204 --
Summer Day / Mary Oliver (B. 1953) 207 --
Dulce et Decorum Est / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) 208 --
To Return to the Urges Unconscious of Their Beginnings / Pham Tien Duat (B. 1941) 210 --
Luncheon on the Grass / Carl Phillips (B. 1959) 211
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) 213 --
Cancer and Nova / Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962) 219 --
from Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope (1688-1744) 220 --
River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) 222 --
I loved you / Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) 224 --
Love Constant Beyond Death / Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) 225 --
Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) 226 --
Naming of Parts / Henry Reed (1914-1986) 227
Adrienne Rich (B. 1929) 229 --
Prospective Immigrants Please Note --
Entrance / Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) 231 --
Romance / Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) 232 --
Our Land / Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) 234
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) 235 --
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) 239 --
Who Says Words with My Mouth / Jalal Al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) 243 --
Chicago / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) 244 --
Equal to the gods / Sappho (612 B.C.E.) 246 --
An Old Man on the River Bank / George Seferis (1900-1971) 247
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 249 --
Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) --
Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) --
Sonnet 138 (When my love swears that she is made of truth) --
Not Waving But Drowning / Stevie Smith (1902-1971) 252 --
Scars / William Stafford (B. 1914) 253
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) 254 --
Idea of Order at Key West --
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon --
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) 259 --
Home No More Home to Me, Whither Must I Wander? --
Pot Roast / Mark Strand (B. 1934) 261 --
Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition / Wislawa Szymborska (B. 1923) 263 --
Gift / Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) 265 --
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 267 --
Casey at the Bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940) 270
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) 273 --
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night --
In My Craft or Sullen Art --
Tichborne's Elegy / Chidiock Tichborne (CA. 1558-1586) 277 --
A Far Cry from Africa / Derek Walcott (B. 1930) 278 --
Arizona Midnight / Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) 280
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 281 --
An Old Man's Thought of School --
from Song of the Open Road (1, 4, & 8) --
To a Certain Cantatrice --
from Song of Myself (46 & 52) --
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World / Richard Wilbur (B. 1921) 287 --
My Fly / C. K. Williams (B. 1936) 289
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) 291 --
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 295 --
from The Prelude (Book IV, lines 354-70) --
On a Bank As I Sat Fishing / Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) 301 --
A Blessing / James Wright (1927-1980) 302 --
Forget Not Yet / Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) 303
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) 304 --
Lower leaves of the trees / Sone No Yoshitada (Late Tenth Century) 307 --
To Go to Lvov / Adam Zagajewski (B. 1945) 308 --
Way of the Water-Hyacinth / Zawgee (1907-1990) 311.
