The Norton Anthology of Poetry

by Ferguson,Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780393979213
• ISBN10: 0393979210
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-14
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Shorter Fifth Edition	xli
Editorial Procedures	xliii
Acknowledgments	xlv
Caedmon's Hymn	1	(1)
John Pope
From Beowulf	2	(9)
Seamus Heaney
Riddles	10	(1)
Richard Hamer
(``I am a lonely being, scarred by swords'')	10	(1)
(``My dress is silent when I tread the ground'')	10	(1)
(``A moth ate words; a marvellous event'')	11	(1)
The Seafarer	11	(4)
Ezra Pound
Anonymous Lyrics of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries	14	(1)
Now Go'th Sun under Wood	14	(1)
The Cuckoo Song	14	(1)
Fowls in the Frith	15	(1)
I Am of Ireland	15	(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343--1400)	15	(50)
The Canterbury Tales	15	(48)
The General Prologue	15	(20)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	35	(28)
Troilus and Criseide	63	(1)
Cantus Troili	63	(1)
Lyrics and Occasional Verse	64	(1)
Complaint to His Purse	64	(1)
To His Scribe Adam	65	(1)
William Langland (ca. 1330--ca. 1400)	65	(4)
Piers Plowman, lines 1--111	65	(4)
Pearl, 1--5 (1375--1400)	69	(7)
Anonymous Lyrics of the Fifteenth Century	72	(1)
Adam Lay I-bounden	72	(1)
I Sing of a Maiden	72	(1)
I Have a Young Sister	73	(1)
Timor Mortis	74	(1)
The Corpus Christi Carol	75	(1)
Western Wind	76	(1)
The Sacrament of the Altar	76	(1)
See! Here, My Heart	76	(1)
William Dunbar (ca. 1460--ca. 1525)	76	(5)
Lament for the Makaris	76	(3)
Done Is a Battle	79	(2)
John Skelton (1460--1529)	81	(21)
Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale	81	(1)
To Mistress Margaret Hussey	82	(1)
Phillip Sparow	83	(3)
Early Modern Ballads	86	(1)
The Douglas Tragedy	86	(3)
Lord Randal	89	(1)
The Three Ravens	90	(1)
Sir Patrick Spens	91	(1)
The Unquiet Grave	92	(1)
Bonny Barbara Allan	93	(2)
Mary Hamilton	95	(2)
The Bitter Withy	97	(1)
Anonymous Elizabethan and Jacobean Poems	98	(1)
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains	98	(1)
There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind	99	(1)
Tom o' Bedlam's Song	100	(2)
Thomas Wyatt (1503--1542)	102	(6)
The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor	102	(1)
Whoso List to Hunt	103	(1)
My Galley	103	(1)
They Flee from Me	104	(1)
Patience, Though I Have Not	104	(1)
My Lute Awake!	105	(1)
Forget Not Yet	106	(1)
Lucks, My Fair Falcon	107	(1)
Stand Whoso List	107	(1)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (ca. 1517--1547)	108	(2)
The Soote Season	108	(1)
Love, That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought	108	(1)
Wyatt Resteth Here	109	(1)
Anne Askew (1521--1546)	110	(1)
The Ballad Which Anne Askewe Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate	110	(1)
Queen Elizabeth I (1533--1603)	111	(2)
When I Was Fair and Young	111	(1)
[The Doubt of Future Foes Exiles My Present Joy]	112	(1)
[Ah Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid]	112	(1)
George Gascoigne (ca. 1534--1577)	113	(2)
And If I Did, What Then?	113	(1)
Gascoigne's Lullaby	114	(1)
Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567--1573)	115	(5)
A Sweet Nosegay	115	(5)
A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will	115	(1)
From The Manner of Her Will, & What She Left to London, and to All Those in It, at Her Departing	116	(4)
Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586)	120	(1)
[My Prime of Youth Is but a Frost of Cares]	120	(1)
Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552--1618)	120	(5)
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen	120	(1)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	121	(1)
The Lie	122	(2)
[Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love]	124	(1)
Edmund Spenser (1552--1599)	125	(28)
The Faerie Queene	125	(14)
Book 1, Canto 1	125	(14)
Amoretti	139	(4)
Sonnet 15 (``Ye tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle'')	139	(1)
Sonnet 23 (``Penelope for her Ulisses sake'')	140	(1)
Sonnet 54 (``Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay'')	140	(1)
Sonnet 67 (``Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace'')	141	(1)
Sonnet 70 (``Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king'')	141	(1)
Sonnet 71 (``I joy to see how in your drawen work'')	141	(1)
Sonnet 75 (``One day I wrote her name upon the strand'')	142	(1)
Sonnet 79 (``Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it'')	142	(1)
Epithalamion	143	(10)
John Lyly (1554--1606)	153	(1)
Cupid and My Campaspe	153	(1)
Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary	154	(1)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586)	154	(8)
Ye Goatherd Gods	154	(3)
What Length of Verse?	157	(1)
Astrophil and Stella	157	(5)
1 (``Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'')	157	(1)
21 (``Your words my friend [right healthful caustics] blame'')	158	(1)
31 (``With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies'')	158	(1)
48 (``Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me'')	159	(1)
49 (``I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try'')	159	(1)
52 (``A strife is grown between Virtue and Love'')	159	(1)
63 (``O Grammer rules, o now your virtues show'')	160	(1)
71 (``Who will in fairest book of Nature know'')	160	(4)
Seventh Song (``Whose senses in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays'')	164
90 (``Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame'')	161	(1)
Robert Southwell (ca. 1561--1595)	162	(1)
The Burning Babe	162	(1)
Mary Sidney (1561--1621)	162	(2)
Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique	162	(1)
Psalm 114: In Exitu Israel	163	(1)
Samuel Daniel (1563--1619)	164	(2)
Delia	164	(2)
1 (``Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty'')	164	(1)
2 (``Go wailing verse, the infants of my love'')	164	(1)
6 (``Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair'')	165	(1)
49 (``Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night'')	165	(1)
50 (``Let others sing of knights and paladins'')	166	(1)
Michael Drayton (1563--1631)	166	(2)
Idea	166	(2)
To the Reader of these Sonnets	166	(1)
6 (``How many paltry, foolish, painted things'')	167	(1)
14 (``If he from heaven that filched that living fire'')	167	(1)
61 (``Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part'')	168	(1)
Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593)	168	(1)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	168	(1)
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)	169	(13)
Sonnets	169	(10)
1 (``From fairest creatures we desire increase'')	169	(1)
3 (``Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest'')	169	(1)
12 (``When I do count the clock that tells the time'')	170	(1)
15 (``When I consider everything that grows'')	170	(1)
18 (``Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'')	171	(1)
20 (``A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted'')	171	(1)
29 (``When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes'')	171	(1)
30 (``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought'')	172	(1)
55 (``Not marble, nor the gilded monuments'')	172	(1)
65 (``Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'')	173	(1)
71 (``No longer mourn for me when I am dead'')	173	(1)
73 (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')	173	(1)
87 (``Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing'')	174	(1)
94 (``They that have power to hurt and will do none'')	174	(1)
97 (``How like a winter hath my absence been'')	175	(1)
106 (``When in the chronicle of wasted time'')	175	(1)
107 (``Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul'')	175	(1)
116 (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')	176	(1)
126 (``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r'')	176	(1)
129 (``Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame'')	177	(1)
130 (``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'')	177	(1)
138 (``When my love swears that she is made of truth'')	177	(1)
144 (``Two loves have I of comfort and despair'')	178	(1)
146 (``Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth'')	178	(1)
The Phoenix and the Turtle	179	(2)
Songs from the Plays	181	(1)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind	181	(1)
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun	181	(1)
Full Fathom Five	182	(1)
Thomas Campion (1567--1620)	182	(3)
My Sweetest Lesbia	182	(1)
I Care Not for These Ladies	183	(1)
Follow Thy Fair Sun	184	(1)
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings	184	(1)
Rose-cheeked Laura	185	(1)
Thomas Nashe (1567--1601)	185	(2)
Summer's Last Will	185	(2)
[Spring, the Sweet Spring]	185	(1)
[Adieu, Farewell, Earth's Bliss]	186	(1)
Aemilia Lanyer (1569--1645)	187	(4)
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum	187	(4)
John Donne (1572--1631)	191	(17)
The Good-Morrow	191	(1)
Song (``Go and catch a falling star'')	192	(1)
Woman's Constancy	192	(1)
The Sun Rising	193	(1)
The Canonization	194	(1)
Song (``Sweetest love, I do not go'')	195	(1)
The Anniversary	196	(1)
A Valediction of Weeping	197	(1)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	198	(1)
The Ecstasy	199	(2)
The Funeral	201	(1)
The Flea	202	(1)
The Relic	202	(1)
Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed	203	(2)
Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward	205	(1)
Holy Sonnets	206	(2)
1 (``Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?'')	206	(1)
5 (``I am a little world made cunningly'')	206	(1)
7 (``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'')	207	(1)
10 (``Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'')	207	(1)
14 (``Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You'')	208	(1)
Ben Jonson (1572--1637)	208	(13)
To the Reader	208	(1)
On My First Daughter	208	(1)
On My First Son	209	(1)
On Spies	209	(1)
To John Donne	209	(1)
Inviting a Friend to Supper	210	(1)
On Gut	211	(1)
To Penshurst	211	(3)
Song: To Celia (I)	214	(1)
Song: To Celia (II)	214	(1)
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme	215	(1)
Still to Be Neat	216	(1)
Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell	217	(1)
To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare	217	(2)
A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth	219	(1)
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount	220	(1)
Queen and Huntress	220	(1)
Mary Wroth (1587--1651?)	221	(4)
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus	221	(4)
1 (``When night's black mantle could most darkness prove'')	221	(1)
3 (``Yet is there Hope: then Love but play thy part'')	221	(1)
37 (``Night, welcome art thou to my mind distressed'')	222	(1)
74 Song (``Love a child is ever crying'')	222	(1)
A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love	223	(1)
77 (``In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn'')	223	(1)
78 (``Is to leave all and take the thread of Love'')	224	(1)
82 (``He may our prophet, and our tutor prove'')	224	(1)
Robert Herrick (1591--1674)	225	(7)
The Argument of His Book	225	(1)
The Vine	225	(1)
Delight in Disorder	226	(1)
Corinna's Going A-Maying	226	(2)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	228	(1)
Upon Julia's Breasts	228	(1)
Upon a Child That Died	229	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	229	(1)
An Ode for Him	229	(1)
The Pillar of Fame	230	(1)
To Find God	230	(1)
The White Island, or Place of the Blest	231	(1)
Henry King (1592--1669)	232	(3)
An Exequy to His Matchless, Never-to-Be-Forgotten Friend	232	(3)
George Herbert (1593--1633)	235	(11)
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations	235	(11)
The Altar	235	(1)
Redemption	235	(1)
Easter Wings	236	(1)
Sin (I)	237	(1)
Affliction (I)	238	(1)
Prayer (I)	239	(1)
Jordan (I)	240	(1)
Virtue	240	(1)
Artillery	241	(1)
The Collar	242	(1)
The Pulley	243	(1)
The Flower	243	(2)
The Forerunners	245	(1)
Love (III)	246	(1)
Thomas Carew (ca. 1595--1640)	246	(5)
A Song (``Ask me no more where Jove bestows'')	246	(1)
Song. To My Inconstant Mistress	247	(1)
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne	247	(3)
The Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book (1640)	250	(1)
Psalm 58	250	(1)
Edmund Waller (1606--1687)	251	(1)
Song (``Go, lovely rose!'')	251	(1)
John Milton (1608--1674)	252	(29)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	252	(8)
On Shakespeare	260	(1)
L'Allegro	260	(4)
Il Penseroso	264	(4)
How Soon Hath Time	268	(1)
Lycidas	269	(5)
Comus	274	(1)
Song (``Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen'')	274	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	274	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	275	(1)
Methought I Saw	275	(1)
Paradise Lost	276	(5)
The Verse	276	(1)
Book I [The Invocation]	277	(1)
From Book 4 [lines 1--113]	278	(3)
Sir John Suckling (1609--1642)	281	(1)
Song (``Why so pale and wan, fond lover?'')	281	(1)
Sonnet II (``Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white'')	281	(1)
Out upon It!	282	(1)
Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612--1672)	282	(6)
The Prologue	282	(1)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	283	(2)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	285	(1)
The Author to Her Book	285	(1)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment	286	(1)
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666	287	(1)
Richard Crashaw (1613--1649)	288	(1)
The Tear	288	(1)
Richard Lovelace (1618--1658)	289	(3)
To Althea, from Prison	289	(1)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	290	(1)
The Grasshopper	291	(1)
Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)	292	(6)
Bermudas	292	(1)
To His Coy Mistress	293	(1)
The Definition of Love	294	(1)
The Mower against Gardens	295	(1)
The Garden	296	(2)
Henry Vaughan (1621--1695)	298	(4)
The Retreat	298	(1)
They Are All Gone into the World of Light!	299	(2)
The Waterfall	301	(1)
Margaret Cavendish (1623--1673)	302	(1)
An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book	302	(1)
Of Many Worlds in This World	302	(1)
John Dryden (1631--1700)	303	(9)
Mac Flecknoe	303	(6)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	309	(1)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day	310	(2)
Katherine Philips (1632--1664)	312	(1)
Epitaph	312	(1)
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship	312	(1)
Thomas Traherne (1637--1674)	313	(2)
Wonder	313	(2)
Edward Taylor (ca. 1642--1729)	315	(3)
Meditation 8 (``I kenning through astronomy divine'')	315	(1)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly	316	(2)
Aphra Behn (1640?--1689)	318	(5)
Song (``Love Armed'')	318	(1)
The Disappointment	318	(4)
Song (``On Her Loving Two Equally'')	322	(1)
To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman	323	(1)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647--1680)	323	(4)
The Disabled Debauchee	323	(2)
The Imperfect Enjoyment	325	(1)
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover	326	(1)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661--1720)	327	(6)
The Spleen	327	(4)
Adam Posed	331	(1)
A Nocturnal Reverie	331	(2)
Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)	333	(20)
A Description of a City Shower	333	(1)
Stella's Birthday	334	(2)
The Lady's Dressing Room	336	(3)
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed	339	(2)
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.	341	(12)
Isaac Watts (1674--1748)	353	(3)
Our God, Our Help	353	(2)
Psalm 58	355	(1)
John Gay (1685--1732)	356	(1)
Songs from The Beggar's Opera	356	(1)
Air X---``Thomas, I Cannot''	356	(1)
Air XI---``A Soldier and a Sailor''	356	(1)
Air XVI---``Over the Hills, and Far Away''	356	(1)
Air XXVII---``Green Sleeves''	357	(1)
Alexander Pope (1688--1744)	357	(33)
The Rape of the Lock	357	(18)
Epistle to Miss Blount	375	(1)
An Essay on Man, in Four Epistles	376	(3)
From Epistle 1 (lines 1--130)	376	(3)
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot	379	(10)
The Dunciad	389	(1)
[The Triumph of Dulness]	389	(1)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689--1762)	390	(4)
Saturday (The Smallpox)	390	(2)
The Lover: A Ballad	392	(1)
A Receipt to Cure the Vapors	393	(1)
James Thomson (1700--1748)	394	(3)
The Seasons	394	(3)
From Winter (lines 223--358)	394	(3)
Samuel Johnson (1709--1784)	397	(10)
Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick	397	(2)
The Vanity of Human Wishes	399	(8)
Thomas Gray (1716--1771)	407	(7)
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College	407	(2)
Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes)	409	(1)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	410	(4)
William Collins (1721--1759)	414	(3)
Ode on the Poetical Character	414	(2)
Ode to Evening	416	(1)
Christopher Smart (1722--1771)	417	(3)
Jubilate Agno, lines 697--770 (``For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry'')	417	(2)
Psalm 58	419	(1)
Jean Elliot (1727--1805)	420	(1)
The Flowers of the Forest	420	(1)
Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730--1774)	421	(10)
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly	421	(1)
The Deserted Village	422	(9)
William Cowper (1731--1800)	431	(3)
Olney Hymns	431	(1)
Light Shining out of Darkness	431	(1)
The Castaway	431	(2)
Lines Written during a Period of Insanity	433	(1)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743--1825)	434	(2)
The Rights of Woman	434	(1)
To the Poor	435	(1)
Life	435	(1)
Charlotte Smith (1749--1806)	436	(2)
To the Shade of Burns	436	(1)
Nepenthe	437	(1)
From Beachy Head	437	(1)
Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753--1784)	438	(2)
On Being Brought from Africa to America	438	(1)
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	439	(1)
William Blake (1757--1827)	440	(11)
Poetical Sketches	440	(1)
Song (``How sweet I roam'd from field to field'')	440	(1)
To the Evening Star	440	(1)
Songs of Innocence	441	(3)
Introduction (``Piping down the valleys wild'')	441	(1)
The Lamb	441	(1)
Holy Thursday [I.]	442	(1)
The Divine Image	442	(1)
The Little Black Boy	443	(1)
Songs of Experience	444	(4)
Introduction (``Hear the voice of the Bard!'')	444	(1)
A Divine Image	444	(1)
Holy Thursday [II.]	445	(1)
The Clod & the Pebble	445	(1)
The Sick Rose	446	(1)
A Poison Tree	446	(1)
The Tyger	446	(1)
Ah Sun-flower	447	(1)
The Garden of Love	447	(1)
London	448	(1)
Songs and Ballads	448	(2)
I Asked a Thief	448	(1)
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau	449	(1)
A Question Answered	449	(1)
Milton	450	(1)
And Did Those Feet	450	(1)
Jerusalem	450	(1)
England! Awake! Awake! Awake!	450	(1)
Robert Burns (1759--1796)	451	(5)
Green Grow the Rashes	451	(1)
To a Mouse	452	(1)
Holy Willie's Prayer	453	(2)
John Anderson My Jo	455	(1)
A Red Red Rose	456	(1)
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)	456	(30)
Expostulation and Reply	456	(1)
The Tables Turned	457	(1)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	458	(4)
Anecdote for Fathers	462	(2)
The Prelude	464	(7)
Book I, lines 301--647 (``Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up'')	464	(7)
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways	471	(1)
Three Years She Grew	471	(1)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	472	(1)
Resolution and Independence	473	(3)
It Is a Beauteous Evening	476	(1)
London, 1802	477	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	477	(1)
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room	478	(1)
My Heart Leaps Up	478	(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	478	(5)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	483	(1)
The World Is Too Much with Us	484	(1)
The Solitary Reaper	484	(1)
Surprised by Joy	485	(1)
Mutability	485	(1)
Scorn Not the Sonnet	486	(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)	486	(23)
Kubla Khan	486	(2)
Frost at Midnight	488	(1)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	489	(16)
Dejection: An Ode	505	(4)
Walter Savage Landor (1775--1864)	509	(1)
Rose Aylmer	509	(1)
Dirce	509	(1)
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher	509	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824)	510	(28)
Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos	510	(1)
She Walks in Beauty	510	(1)
When We Two Parted	511	(1)
So We'll Go No More A-Roving	512	(1)
Don Juan	512	(25)
Fragment on the Back of the Ms. of Canto I	512	(1)
Canto the First. Stanzas 1--119	513	(24)
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year	537	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)	538	(26)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty	538	(3)
Ozymandias	541	(1)
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples	541	(1)
England in 1819	542	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	543	(2)
The Cloud	545	(2)
To a Skylark	547	(3)
Adonais	550	(13)
Hellas	563	(1)
The World's Great Age	563	(1)
John Clare (1793--1864)	564	(2)
Badger	564	(1)
Farewell	565	(1)
I Am	566	(1)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793--1835)	566	(1)
Casabianca	566	(1)
John Keats (1795--1821)	567	(21)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	567	(1)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again	568	(1)
When I Have Fears	568	(1)
To Homer	569	(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes	569	(10)
On the Sonnet	579	(1)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	579	(2)
Ode to Psyche	581	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	582	(2)
Ode on Melancholy	584	(1)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	585	(2)
To Autumn	587	(1)
Bright Star	588	(1)
This Living Hand	588	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)	588	(5)
Concord Hymn	588	(1)
The Rhodora	589	(1)
The Snow-Storm	589	(1)
Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing)	590	(3)
Intellect	593	(1)
Fate	593	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861)	593	(4)
Sonnets from the Portuguese	593	(1)
1 (``I thought once how Theocritus had sung'')	593	(1)
43 (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'')	594	(1)
Aurora Leigh	594	(3)
From Book 5 [Poets and the Present Age]	594	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)	597	(3)
From Evangeline	597	(1)
The Song of Hiawatha	597	(2)
From Part III: Hiawatha's Childhood	597	(2)
The Cross of Snow	599	(1)
Edward Fitzgerald (1809--1883)	600	(13)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur	600	(13)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809--1894)	613	(1)
The Chambered Nautilus	613	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)	614	(5)
Sonnet---To Science	614	(1)
To Helen	615	(1)
The Raven	615	(3)
Annabel Lee	618	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)	619	(23)
Mariana	619	(2)
The Lady of Shalott	621	(4)
The Lotos-Eaters	625	(4)
Ulysses	629	(2)
Break, Break, Break	631	(1)
Songs from The Princess	631	(2)
Tears, Idle Tears	631	(1)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal	632	(1)
In Memoriam A.H.H.	633	(6)
1 (``I held it truth, with him who sings'')	633	(1)
2 (``Old Yew, which graspest at the stones'')	633	(1)
7 (``Dark house, by which once more I stand'')	634	(1)
11 (``Calm is the morn without a sound'')	634	(1)
19 (``The Danube to the Severn gave'')	634	(1)
50 (``Be near me when my light is low'')	635	(1)
67 (``When on my bed the moonlight falls'')	635	(1)
88 (``Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet'')	636	(1)
95 (``By night we lingered on the lawn'')	636	(2)
119 (``Doors, where my heart was used to beat'')	638	(1)
121 (``Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun'')	638	(1)
130 (``Thy voice is on the rolling air'')	639	(1)
The Eagle	639	(1)
Tithonus	639	(2)
Crossing the Bar	641	(1)
Robert Browning (1812--1889)	642	(24)
Porphyria's Lover	642	(1)
My Last Duchess	643	(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	644	(3)
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad	647	(1)
A Toccata of Galuppi's	648	(2)
``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''	650	(6)
Fra Lippo Lippi	656	(8)
Two in the Campagna	664	(2)
Edward Lear (1812--1888)	666	(2)
There Was an Old Man with a Beard	666	(1)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	666	(1)
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear	667	(1)
Emily Bronte (1818--1848)	668	(3)
Remembrance	668	(1)
The Prisoner. A Fragment	669	(2)
No Coward Soul Is Mine	671	(1)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819--1861)	671	(2)
The Latest Decalogue	671	(1)
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth	672	(1)
Julia Ward Howe (1819--1910)	673	(1)
Battle-Hymn of the Republic	673	(1)
Herman Melville (1819--1891)	673	(6)
The Portent	673	(1)
Shiloh	674	(1)
The Maldive Shark	674	(1)
The Berg	675	(1)
Monody	676	(1)
Spirituals	676	(1)
Go Down, Moses	676	(1)
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel	677	(2)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)	679	(25)
Song of Myself	679	(5)
1 (``I celebrate myself, and sing myself'')	679	(1)
5 (``I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you'')	679	(1)
6 (``A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands'')	680	(1)
11 (``Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore'')	681	(1)
24 (``Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son'')	682	(1)
52 (``The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me'')	683	(1)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	684	(5)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	689	(1)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	689	(1)
Beat! Beat! Drums!	690	(1)
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	691	(1)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	691	(5)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	696	(6)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	702	(1)
To a Locomotive in Winter	703	(1)
Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)	704	(8)
Shakespeare	704	(1)
To Marguerite	704	(1)
The Scholar-Gypsy	705	(6)
Dover Beach	711	(1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--1882)	712	(4)
The Blessed Damozel	712	(3)
The House of Life	715	(1)
A Sonnet	715	(1)
George Meredith (1828--1909)	716	(3)
Modern Love	716	(2)
1 (``By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'')	716	(1)
17 (``At dinner, she is hostess, I am host'')	716	(1)
30 (``What are we first? First, animals; and next'')	717	(1)
48 (``Their sense is with their senses all mixed in'')	717	(1)
49 (``He found her by the ocean's moaning verge'')	717	(1)
50 (``Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'')	718	(1)
Lucifer in Starlight	718	(1)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)	719	(14)
39 (49) (``I never lost as much but twice -'')	719	(1)
68 (89) (Some things that fly there be -'')	719	(1)
112 (67) (``Success is counted sweetest'')	719	(1)
124 (216) (``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -'') (1859)	720	(1)
124 (216) (``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -'') (1862)	720	(1)
145 (59) (``A little East of Jordan'')	721	(1)
202 (185) (`` `Faith' is a fine invention'')	721	(1)
260 (288) (``I'm nobody! Who are you?'')	722	(1)
269 (249) (``Wild nights - Wild nights!'')	722	(1)
314 (254) (`` `Hope' is the thing with feathers -'')	722	(1)
320 (258) (``There's a certain Slant of light'')	723	(1)
339 (241) (``I like a look of Agony'')	723	(1)
340 (280) (``I felt a Funeral, in my Brain'')	723	(1)
359 (328) (``A Bird, came down the Walk -'')	724	(1)
372 (341) (``After great pain, a formal feeling comes -'')	725	(1)
409 (303) (``The Soul selects her own Society -'')	725	(1)
445 (613) (``They shut me up in Prose -'')	725	(1)
479 (712) (``Because I could not stop for Death -'')	726	(1)
533 (569) (``I reckon - When I count at all -'')	727	(1)
591 (465) (``I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -'')	727	(1)
620 (435) (``Much Madness is divinest Sense -'')	728	(1)
740 (789) (``On a Columnar Self -'')	728	(1)
764 (754) (``My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -'')	728	(1)
782 (745) (``Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue -'')	729	(1)
788 (709) (``Publication - is the Auction'')	730	(1)
905 (861) (``Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music -'')	730	(1)
1096 (986) (``A narrow Fellow in the Grass'')	730	(1)
1108 (1078) (``The Bustle in a House'')	731	(1)
1263 (1129) (``Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -'')	731	(1)
1489 (1463) (``A Route of Evanescence'')	732	(1)
1793 (1732) (``My life closed twice before it's close'')	732	(1)
1788 (1763) (``Fame is a bee'')	732	(1)
Christina Rossetti (1830--1894)	733	(3)
Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'')	733	(1)
Remember	733	(1)
Echo	733	(1)
In an Artist's Studio	734	(1)
Up-Hill	734	(1)
Passing Away, Saith the World, Passing Away	735	(1)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832--1898)	736	(2)
Jabberwocky	736	(1)
[Humpty Dumpty's Explication of Jabberwocky]	737	(1)
W. S. Gilbert (1836--1911)	738	(2)
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General	738	(2)
Titwillow	740	(1)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837--1909)	740	(4)
Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon	740	(2)
When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces	740	(2)
A Forsaken Garden	742	(2)
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)	744	(8)
Hap	744	(1)
I Look into My Glass	744	(1)
Drummer Hodge	745	(1)
A Broken Appointment	745	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	746	(1)
The Ruined Maid	747	(1)
The Convergence of the Twain	748	(1)
Channel Firing	749	(1)
The Voice	750	(1)
During Wind and Rain	751	(1)
In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations''	751	(1)
Sidney Lanier (1842--1881)	752	(3)
The Marshes of Glynn	752	(3)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)	755	(5)
God's Grandeur	755	(1)
The Windhover	755	(1)
Pied Beauty	756	(1)
[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame]	756	(1)
Felix Randal	757	(1)
Spring and Fall	757	(1)
[Carrion Comfort]	758	(1)
[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief]	758	(1)
[My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On]	759	(1)
[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord . . .]	759	(1)
A. E. Housman (1859--1936)	760	(5)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	760	(1)
To an Athlete Dying Young	760	(1)
Is My Team Ploughing	761	(1)
With Rue My Heart Is Laden	762	(1)
``Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . .''	762	(2)
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries	764	(1)
Crossing Alone the Nighted Ferry	764	(1)
Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose	765	(1)
Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936)	765	(2)
Tommy	765	(1)
Recessional	766	(1)
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)	767	(20)
The Stolen Child	767	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	768	(1)
When You Are Old	769	(1)
Adam's Curse	769	(1)
No Second Troy	770	(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole	771	(1)
Easter 1916	772	(2)
The Second Coming	774	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	774	(2)
Leda and the Swan	776	(1)
Among School Children	776	(2)
Byzantium	778	(2)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	780	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	780	(2)
Long-Legged Fly	782	(1)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	782	(2)
Under Ben Bulben	784	(3)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)	787	(3)
Richard Cory	787	(1)
George Crabbe	787	(1)
Reuben Bright	788	(1)
Miniver Cheevy	788	(1)
Mr. Flood's Party	789	(1)
Charlotte Mew (1869--1928)	790	(2)
The Farmer's Bride	790	(2)
Stephen Crane (1871--1900)	792	(2)
From The Black Riders and Other Lines	792	(1)
I (``Black Riders Came from the Sea'')	792	(1)
III (``In the Desert'')	792	(1)
XXV (``Behold, the Grave of a Wicked Man'')	792	(1)
LVI (``A Man Feared That He Might Find an Assassin'')	793	(1)
From War is Kind	793	(1)
[A Man Adrift on a Slim Spar]	793	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)	794	(1)
A Summer's Night	794	(1)
Sympathy	795	(1)
Robert Frost (1874--1963)	795	(15)
Mending Wall	795	(1)
Home Burial	796	(3)
After Apple-Picking	799	(1)
The Wood-Pile	800	(1)
The Road Not Taken	801	(1)
The Oven Bird	801	(1)
Birches	802	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	803	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	804	(1)
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep	804	(1)
Design	805	(1)
Provide, Provide	805	(1)
The Silken Tent	806	(1)
Come In	806	(1)
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same	807	(1)
The Most of It	807	(1)
The Gift Outright	808	(1)
Directive	808	(2)
Amy Lowell (1874--1925)	810	(3)
Patterns	810	(2)
The Weather-Cock Points South	812	(1)
Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)	813	(1)
Stanzas in Meditation	813	(1)
Part I, Stanza XIII (``She may count three little daisies very well'')	813	(1)
Part III, Stanza II (``I think very well of Susan but I do not know her name'')	813	(1)
Part III, Stanza V (``It is not a range of a mountain'')	814	(1)
Part V, Stanza XXXVIII (``Which I wish to say is this'')	814	(1)
Part V, Stanza LXIII (``I wish that I had spoken only of it all.'')	814	(1)
Edward Thomas (1878--1917)	814	(2)
In Memoriam [Easter 1915]	814	(1)
As the team's head brass	815	(1)
Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)	816	(11)
The Snow Man	816	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	816	(1)
Sunday Morning	817	(3)
Anecdote of the Jar	820	(1)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	820	(2)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	822	(2)
The Idea of Order at Key West	824	(1)
Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu	825	(1)
Of Mere Being	826	(1)
E. J. Pratt (1883--1964)	827	(1)
Come Not the Seasons Here	827	(1)
From Stone to Steel	827	(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)	828	(10)
Danse Russe	828	(1)
Portrait of a Lady	829	(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow	829	(1)
This Is Just to Say	830	(1)
Poem	830	(1)
A Sort of a Song	831	(1)
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower	831	(7)
Book I	831	(7)
Pictures from Brueghel	838	(1)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus	838	(1)
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)	838	(6)
Love on the Farm	838	(2)
Piano	840	(1)
Snake	840	(3)
The English Are So Nice!	843	(1)
Bavarian Gentians	843	(1)
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)	844	(7)
Portrait d'une Femme	844	(1)
The Garden	845	(1)
A Pact	845	(1)
Ts'ai Chi'h	846	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	846	(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter	846	(1)
The Cantos	847	(4)
I (``And then went down to the ship'')	847	(2)
XLV (``With Usura'')	849	(2)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886--1961)	851	(2)
Helen	851	(1)
The Walls Do Not Fall	851	(2)
[1] (``An incident here and there'')	851	(2)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)	853	(1)
``They''	853	(1)
Everyone Sang	853	(1)
Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)	854	(1)
Shine, Perishing Republic	854	(1)
Birds and Fishes	854	(1)
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)	855	(7)
The Fish	855	(1)
Poetry	856	(1)
The Steeple-Jack	857	(2)
What Are Years?	859	(1)
Nevertheless	860	(1)
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing	861	(1)
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)	862	(19)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	862	(4)
The Waste Land	866	(13)
The Hollow Men	879	(2)
John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974)	881	(2)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	881	(1)
Piazza Piece	882	(1)
Parting, without a Sequel	882	(1)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918)	883	(1)
Break of Day in the Trenches	883	(1)
Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) (1892--1978)	884	(1)
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries	884	(1)
From In Memoriam James Joyce	884	(1)
Archibald MacLeish (1892--1982)	885	(2)
Ars Poetica	885	(1)
The Snowflake Which Is Now and Hence Forever	886	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)	887	(2)
First Fig	887	(1)
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare	887	(1)
[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed]	887	(1)
The Buck in the Snow	888	(1)
I Dreamed I Moved among the Elysian Fields	888	(1)
Armenonville	889	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)	889	(3)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	889	(1)
Dulce Et Decorum Est	890	(1)
Strange Meeting	891	(1)
Futility	892	(1)
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)	892	(6)
All in green went my love riding	892	(1)
Spring is like a perhaps hand	893	(1)
``next to of course god america i	894	(1)
since feeling is first	894	(1)
somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond	895	(1)
may I feel said he	895	(1)
anyone lived in a pretty how town	896	(1)
who are you, little I	897	(1)
Jean Toomer (1894--1967)	898	(1)
Cane	898	(1)
Reapers	898	(1)
Harvest Song	898	(1)
Robert Graves (1895--1985)	899	(2)
Love Without Hope	899	(1)
Warning to Children	899	(1)
The White Goddess	900	(1)
Louise Bogan (1897--1970)	901	(2)
Juan's Song	901	(1)
Man Alone	901	(1)
Song for the Last Act	902	(1)
Night	903	(1)
Hart Crane (1899--1932)	903	(6)
Voyages	903	(4)
The Bridge	907	(1)
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge	907	(1)
To Emily Dickinson	908	(1)
Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901--1991)	909	(1)
The Wind Suffers	909	(1)
Ding-Donging	910	(1)
Sterling A. Brown (1901--1989)	910	(2)
Slim in Atlanta	910	(2)
Bitter Fruit of the Tree	912	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)	912	(5)
The Weary Blues	912	(1)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	913	(1)
Dream Variations	914	(1)
Cross	914	(1)
Song for a Dark Girl	914	(1)
Harlem	915	(1)
Theme for English B	915	(1)
Dinner Guest: Me	916	(1)
Roy Campbell (1902--1957)	917	(1)
The Zulu Girl	917	(1)
The Sisters	918	(1)
Stevie Smith (1902--1971)	918	(2)
No Categories!	918	(1)
Mr. Over	919	(1)
Not Waving but Drowning	920	(1)
Countee Cullen (1903--1946)	920	(4)
Heritage	920	(3)
Incident	923	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	923	(1)
Earle Birney (1904--1991)	924	(2)
Bushed	924	(1)
The Bear on the Delhi Road	925	(1)
C. Day Lewis (1904--1972)	926	(1)
Two Songs	926	(1)
(``I've heard them lilting at loom and belting'')	926	(1)
(``Come, live with me and be my love'')	926	(1)
Where are the War Poets?	927	(1)
Patrick Kavanagh (1904--1967)	927	(3)
From The Great Hunger	927	(2)
Epic	929	(1)
Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)	930	(1)
Robin Redbreast	930	(1)
Touch Me	931	(1)
Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)	931	(3)
Bearded Oaks	931	(2)
Masts at Dawn	933	(1)
Evening Hawk	934	(1)
William Empson (1906--1984)	934	(2)
Legal Fiction	934	(1)
Missing Dates	935	(1)
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)	936	(12)
Lullaby [Lay your sleeping head love]	936	(1)
As I Walked Out One Evening	937	(1)
Twelve Songs	938	(1)
IX [Funeral Blues]	938	(1)
Musee des Beaux Arts	939	(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	939	(2)
September 1, 1939	941	(3)
In Praise of Limestone	944	(2)
The Shield of Achilles	946	(2)
A. D. Hope (1907--2000)	948	(1)
Australia	948	(1)
Inscription for a War	949	(1)
Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)	949	(6)
The Sunlight on the Garden	949	(1)
Bagpipe Music	950	(1)
From Autumn Journal (``September has come and I wake'')	951	(1)
London Rain	952	(2)
Star-gazer	954	(1)
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)	955	(3)
My Papa's Waltz	955	(1)
Elegy for Jane	955	(1)
The Waking	956	(1)
I Knew a Woman	956	(1)
Wish for a Young Wife	957	(1)
Richard Wright (1908--1960)	958	(1)
Haiku: This Other World	958	(1)
21 (``On winter mornings'')	958	(1)
31 (``In the falling snow'')	958	(1)
210 (``Crying and crying'')	958	(1)
490 (``Waking from a nap'')	958	(1)
762 (``Droning autumn rain'')	958	(1)
783 (``I cannot find it'')	958	(1)
Malcolm Lowry (1909--1957)	959	(1)
Delirium in Vera Cruz	959	(1)
Eye-Opener	959	(1)
Strange Type	959	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)	960	(7)
Casabianca	960	(1)
The Fish	960	(2)
Filling Station	962	(1)
Sestina	963	(1)
In the Waiting Room	964	(2)
One Art	966	(1)
Irving Layton (b. 1912)	967	(1)
The Birth of Tragedy	967	(1)
Berry Picking	968	(1)
Robert Hayden (1913--1980)	968	(3)
Those Winter Sundays	968	(1)
Night, Death, Mississippi	969	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar	970	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980)	971	(1)
Boy with His Hair Cut Short	971	(1)
Night Feeding	971	(1)
Rondel	972	(1)
May Swenson (1913--1989)	972	(2)
Cardinal Ideograms	972	(1)
Goodbye, Goldeneye	973	(1)
R. S. Thomas (1913--2000)	974	(1)
Welsh Landscape	974	(1)
The View from the Window	975	(1)
John Berryman (1914--1972)	975	(5)
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet	975	(2)
17--21	975	(2)
A Sympathy, A Welcome	977	(1)
The Dream Songs	977	(3)
1 (``Huffy Henry hid the day'')	977	(1)
14 (``Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so'')	978	(1)
29 (``There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart'')	978	(1)
145 (``Also I love him: me he's done no wrong'')	979	(1)
324. An Elegy for W.C.W., The Lovely Man	979	(1)
382 (``At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well:'')	980	(1)
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)	980	(4)
90 North	980	(1)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	981	(1)
Eighth Air Force	981	(1)
Next Day	982	(2)
Weldon Kees (1914--1955)	984	(1)
For H. V. (1901--1927)	984	(1)
When the Lease Is Up	984	(1)
Robinson	984	(1)
Henry Reed (1914--1986)	985	(1)
Lessons of the War	985	(1)
1. Naming of Parts	985	(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)	986	(6)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	986	(1)
The Hand That Signed the Paper	987	(1)
After the Funeral	987	(1)
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	988	(1)
Fern Hill	989	(1)
In My Craft or Sullen Art	990	(1)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	991	(1)
Judith Wright (1915--2000)	992	(2)
Woman to Man	992	(1)
Eve to Her Daughters	992	(2)
David Gascoyne (1916--2001)	994	(2)
Ecce Homo	994	(2)
P. K. Page (b. 1916)	996	(2)
Stories of Snow	996	(1)
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree	997	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000)	998	(3)
kitchenette building	998	(1)
the birth in a narrow room	998	(1)
the rites for Cousin Vit	999	(1)
We Real Cool	999	(1)
Medgar Evers	1000	(1)
Boy Breaking Glass	1000	(1)
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)	1001	(9)
Mr. Edwards and the Spider	1001	(2)
My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow	1003	(3)
Water	1006	(1)
For the Union Dead	1007	(2)
Epilogue	1009	(1)
Amy Clampitt (1920--1994)	1010	(2)
Beach Glass	1010	(1)
The Cormorant in Its Element	1011	(1)
Syrinx	1011	(1)
Keith Douglas (1920--1944)	1012	(2)
Vergissmeinnicht	1012	(1)
Aristocrats	1013	(1)
Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)	1014	(3)
The Goose Fish	1014	(1)
A Primer of the Daily Round	1015	(1)
The Blue Swallows	1015	(1)
Boy with Book of Knowledge	1016	(1)
Strange Metamorphosis of Poets	1017	(1)
Mona Van Duyn (b. 1921)	1017	(3)
Letters from a Father	1017	(3)
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)	1020	(6)
First Snow in Alsace	1020	(1)
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	1021	(1)
Advice to a Prophet	1022	(1)
Junk	1023	(1)
Cottage Street, 1953	1024	(1)
Zea	1025	(1)
Philip Larkin (1922--1985)	1026	(8)
For Sidney Bechet	1026	(1)
Born Yesterday	1027	(1)
Church Going	1027	(2)
An Arundel Tomb	1029	(1)
MCMXIV	1030	(1)
Talking in Bed	1031	(1)
The Trees	1031	(1)
Sad Steps	1032	(1)
The Explosion	1032	(1)
This Be The Verse	1033	(1)
James Dickey (1923--1997)	1034	(2)
The Lifeguard	1034	(1)
Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony	1035	(1)
Anthony Hecht (1923--2004)	1036	(7)
A Hill	1036	(1)
The Dover Bitch	1037	(1)
The Ghost in the Martini	1038	(3)
Still Life	1041	(1)
The Book of Yolek	1042	(1)
Death the Painter	1043	(1)
Denise Levertov (1923--1997)	1043	(3)
O Taste and See	1043	(1)
Tenebrae	1044	(1)
Caedmon	1045	(1)
Donald Justice (1925--2004)	1046	(2)
Counting the Mad	1046	(1)
Men at Forty	1046	(1)
Pantoum of the Great Depression	1047	(1)
Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)	1048	(4)
The Erotic Philosophers (Part Five of ``Pro Femina'')	1048	(4)
Kenneth Koch (1925--2002)	1052	(2)
You Were Wearing	1052	(1)
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams	1053	(1)
To My Twenties	1053	(1)
A. R. Ammons (1926--2001)	1054	(4)
Corsons Inlet	1054	(3)
Pet Panther	1057	(1)
All's All	1058	(1)
James K. Baxter (1926--1972)	1058	(1)
New Zealand	1058	(1)
Robert Creeley (b. 1926)	1059	(2)
Heroes	1059	(1)
I Know a Man	1060	(1)
Bresson's Movies	1060	(1)
Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)	1061	(7)
Howl	1061	(6)
Part I	1061	(6)
A Supermarket in California	1067	(1)
James Merrill (1926--1995)	1068	(7)
The Broken Home	1068	(3)
The Victor Dog	1071	(1)
The Book of Ephraim	1072	(2)
C. (``Correct but cautious, that first night, we asked'')	1072	(2)
Arabian Night	1074	(1)
Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)	1075	(2)
The Day Lady Died	1075	(1)
Why I Am Not a Painter	1076	(1)
W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)	1077	(3)
Heart's Needle	1077	(2)
2 (``Late April and you are three; today'')	1077	(1)
3 (``The child between them on the street'')	1077	(1)
7 (``Here in the scuffled dust'')	1078	(1)
10 (``The vicious winter finally yields'')	1078	(1)
Mementos, 1	1079	(1)
John Ashbery (b. 1927)	1080	(4)
The Painter	1080	(1)
Soonest Mended	1081	(2)
Ode to Bill	1083	(1)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons	1083	(1)
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)	1084	(2)
The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students	1084	(1)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	1085	(1)
W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)	1086	(2)
The Drunk in the Furnace	1086	(1)
Separation	1086	(1)
Losing a Language	1087	(1)
Whoever You Are	1088	(1)
Charles Tomlinson (b. 1927)	1088	(1)
Farewell to Van Gogh	1088	(1)
James Wright (1927--1980)	1089	(2)
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack	1089	(1)
Speak	1090	(1)
Donald Hall (b. 1928)	1091	(3)
The One Day	1091	(3)
Prophecy	1091	(3)
Independence Day Letter	1094	(1)
Philip Levine (b. 1928)	1094	(2)
You Can Have It	1094	(2)
The Simple Truth	1096	(1)
Anne Sexton (1928--1974)	1096	(3)
The Truth the Dead Know	1096	(1)
And One for My Dame	1097	(2)
L. E. Sissman (1928--1976)	1099	(1)
Dying: An Introduction	1099	(1)
IV. Path. Report	1099	(1)
V. Outbound	1099	(1)
Thom Gunn (1929--2004)	1100	(4)
On the Move	1100	(1)
A Map of the City	1101	(1)
From the Wave	1102	(1)
The Missing	1103	(1)
John Hollander (b. 1929)	1104	(1)
Swan and Shadow	1104	(1)
An Old-Fashioned Song	1105	(1)
Richard Howard (b. 1929)	1105	(6)
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565	1105	(6)
Peter Porter (b. 1929)	1111	(3)
A Consumer's Report	1111	(1)
An Exequy	1112	(2)
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)	1114	(8)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	1114	(1)
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law	1115	(4)
Diving into the Wreck	1119	(2)
Modotti	1121	(1)
Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930)	1122	(2)
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy	1122	(2)
Ancestors	1122	(1)
1 (``Every Friday morning my grandfather'')	1122	(1)
2 (``All I can remember of his wife'')	1123	(1)
3 (``Come-a look'')	1123	(1)
Ted Hughes (1930--1998)	1124	(5)
The Thought-Fox	1124	(1)
Pike	1125	(1)
Examination at the Womb-Door	1126	(1)
Daffodils	1127	(1)
Platform One	1128	(1)
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)	1129	(3)
Above Pate Valley	1129	(1)
Four Poems for Robin	1130	(2)
Instructions	1132	(1)
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)	1132	(6)
A Far Cry from Africa	1132	(1)
From The Schooner Flight	1133	(2)
Midsummer	1135	(1)
Omeros	1136	(2)
Chapter XXXVIII	1136	(2)
Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931)	1138	(1)
Common Sense	1138	(1)
Jay MacPherson (b. 1931)	1139	(1)
The Swan	1139	(1)
A Lost Soul	1139	(1)
Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)	1140	(3)
The Guardians	1140	(1)
Mercian Hymns	1141	(1)
VI (``The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall'')	1141	(1)
VII (``Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools'')	1141	(1)
VIII (``The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour'')	1142	(1)
Lachrimae	1142	(1)
1. Lachrimae Verae	1142	(1)
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England	1143	(1)
9. The Laurel Axe	1143	(1)
Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)	1143	(8)
Tulips	1143	(2)
Daddy	1145	(2)
Ariel	1147	(1)
Lady Lazarus	1148	(3)
Anne Stevenson (b. 1933)	1151	(3)
Arioso Dolente	1151	(1)
Popular Ballads of the Twentieth Century	1152	(1)
Pete Seeger (b. 1919) Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	1152	(1)
Bob Dylan (b. 1941) Boots of Spanish Leather	1153	(1)
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (b. 1934)	1154	(2)
In Memory of Radio	1154	(1)
An Agony. As Now.	1155	(1)
Audre Lorde (1934--1992)	1156	(2)
Coal	1156	(1)
From the House of Yemanja	1157	(1)
N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)	1158	(1)
Headwaters	1158	(1)
The Eagle-Feather Fan	1158	(1)
The Gift	1159	(1)
Two Figures	1159	(1)
Wole Soyinka (b. 1934)	1159	(1)
Telephone Conversation	1159	(1)
Mark Strand (b. 1934)	1160	(2)
The Prediction	1160	(1)
Always	1160	(1)
Dark Harbor	1161	(1)
XVI (``It is true, as someone has said, that in'')	1161	(1)
Charles Wright (b. 1935)	1162	(3)
Chinese Journal	1162	(1)
As Our Bodies Rise, Our Names Turn into Light	1163	(1)
Quotations	1164	(1)
Daryl Hine (b. 1936)	1165	(1)
Letting Go	1165	(1)
Riddle	1165	(1)
C. K. Williams (b. 1936)	1166	(2)
Snow: II	1166	(1)
The Question	1166	(2)
Tony Harrison (b. 1937)	1168	(3)
On Not Being Milton	1168	(1)
A Kumquat for John Keats	1168	(3)
Les Murray (b. 1938)	1171	(3)
Noonday Axeman	1171	(3)
Morse	1174	(1)
Charles Simic (b. 1938)	1174	(2)
Prodigy	1174	(1)
A Book Full of Pictures	1175	(1)
Cameo Appearance	1176	(1)
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)	1176	(3)
At the Tourist Center in Boston	1176	(2)
Flowers	1178	(1)
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)	1179	(8)
Digging	1179	(1)
Punishment	1180	(2)
The Skunk	1182	(1)
A Dream of Jealousy	1182	(1)
From Station Island	1183	(2)
From Clearances	1185	(1)
Casting and Gathering	1186	(1)
Fom Squarings	1187	(1)
Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)	1187	(3)
A Long Branch Song	1187	(1)
The Street	1188	(1)
ABC	1189	(1)
Billy Collins (b. 1941)	1190	(2)
Japan	1190	(1)
Litany	1191	(1)
Robert Hass (b. 1941)	1192	(2)
Meditation at Lagunitas	1192	(1)
Tahoe in August	1193	(1)
Derek Mahon (b. 1941)	1194	(2)
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford	1194	(2)
The Window	1196	(1)
Eric Ormsby (b. 1941)	1196	(2)
Starfish	1196	(1)
Skunk Cabbage	1197	(1)
Origins	1197	(1)
Alfred Corn (b. 1943)	1198	(1)
Navidad, St. Nicholas Ave.	1198	(1)
A Conch from Sicily	1199	(1)
Louise Gluck (b. 1943)	1199	(2)
The Garden	1199	(1)
Vita Nova	1200	(1)
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943)	1201	(3)
Letters & Other Worlds	1201	(2)
House on a Red Cliff	1203	(1)
Michael Palmer (b. 1943)	1204	(2)
Of this cloth doll which	1204	(1)
I Do Not	1205	(1)
Eavan Boland (b. 1944)	1206	(1)
That the Science of Cartography Is Limited	1206	(1)
Craig Raine (b. 1944)	1207	(2)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	1207	(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)	1209	(2)
Facing It	1209	(1)
Banking Potatoes	1209	(1)
Sunday Afternoons	1210	(1)
Robyn Sarah (b. 1949)	1211	(2)
Courtney, Mentioned in Passing, Years After	1211	(1)
Relics	1212	(1)
Agha Shahid Ali (1949--2001)	1213	(1)
Lenox Hill	1213	(1)
James Fenton (b. 1949)	1214	(3)
Dead Soldiers	1214	(2)
In Paris with You	1216	(1)
Charles Bernstein (b. 1950)	1217	(2)
Of Time and the Line	1217	(1)
why we ask you not to touch	1218	(1)
this poem intentionally left blank	1219	(1)
Anne Carson (b. 1950)	1219	(3)
New Rule	1219	(1)
Sumptuous Destitution	1219	(1)
The Beauty of the Husband	1220	(2)
IV. He She we They You	1220	(2)
Dana Gioia (b. 1950)	1222	(1)
Prayer	1222	(1)
The Next Poem	1222	(1)
Jorie Graham (b. 1951)	1223	(3)
At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body	1223	(3)
The Surface	1226	(1)
Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)	1226	(5)
Milkweed and Monarch	1226	(1)
Third Epistle to Timothy	1227	(4)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)	1231	(3)
Parsley	1231	(2)
Dusting	1233	(1)
Daniel Hall (b. 1952)	1234	(2)
Love-Letter-Burning	1234	(1)
Mangosteens	1235	(1)
Vikram Seth (b. 1952)	1236	(2)
From The Golden Gate	1236	(2)
Gary Soto (b. 1952)	1238	(2)
The Soup	1238	(1)
Not Knowing	1239	(1)
Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. 1953)	1240	(1)
Supernatural Love	1240	(1)
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)	1241	(1)
I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move	1241	(1)
Birth	1242	(1)
Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955)	1242	(1)
Warming Her Pearls	1242	(1)
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)	1243	(3)
Persimmons	1243	(2)
Out of Hiding	1245	(1)
Cynthia Zarin (b. 1959)	1246	(1)
The Ant Hill	1246	(1)
Song	1247	(1)
Simon Armitage (b. 1963)	1247	(2)
From Killing Time	1247	(2)
Greg Williamson (b. 1964)	1249	(2)
Double Exposures	1249	(1)
III. Visiting Couple Kissing and Halved Onion	1249	(1)
XXV. Group Photo with Winter Trees	1249	(1)
New Year's: A Short Pantoum	1250	(1)
Versification	1251	(26)
Rhythm	1252	(1)
Meter	1253	(7)
Rhyme	1260	(3)
Forms	1263	(12)
Basic Forms	1263	(7)
Composite Forms	1270	(2)
Irregular Forms	1272	(1)
Open Forms or Free Verse	1272	(2)
Other Forms of Poetry	1274	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	1275	(2)
Poetic Syntax	1277	(22)
What Is Syntax?	1277	(2)
Parts of Syntax	1279	(5)
Sentences and Words	1279	(1)
Clauses	1280	(4)
Moves in the Game	1284	(5)
Nominal Syntax	1284	(1)
Double Syntax	1285	(1)
Word Order Inversions	1286	(3)
The Game of Interpretation	1289	(7)
Emily Dickinson	1289	(2)
John Keats	1291	(1)
Thomas Gray	1291	(1)
John Dryden	1292	(1)
William Blake	1293	(3)
Scorn Not Syntax	1296	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	1297	(2)
Biographical Sketches	1299	(51)
Permissions Acknowledgments	1350	(7)
Index	1357