The Norton Anthology of Poetry

by Ferguson, Margaret; Salter, Mary Jo; Stallworthy, Jon

• ISBN13: 9780393969245
• ISBN10: 039396924X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. 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 Fourth Edition	xxxvii
Editorial Procedures	xxxviii
Acknowledgments	xli
Cædmon's Hymn	1	(1)
John Pope
From Beowulf	2	(6)
Edwin Morgan
Riddles	7	(1)
Richard Hamer
(``I am a lonely being, scarred by swords'')	7	(1)
(``My dress is silent when I tread the ground'')	8	(1)
(``A moth ate words; a marvellous event'')	8	(1)
The Seafarer	8	(5)
Richard Hamer
Anonymous Lyrics of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries	11	(1)
Now Go'th Sun Under Wood	11	(1)
The Cuckoo Song	11	(1)
Alison	12	(1)
Fowls in the Frith	13	(1)
I Am of Ireland	13	(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343--1400)	13	(37)
The Canterbury Tales	13	(36)
The General Prologue	13	(20)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	33	(1)
The Introduction	33	(2)
The Prologue	35	(2)
The Tale	37	(10)
The Epilogue	47	(1)
From Troilus and Criseide	48	(1)
Cantus Troili	48	(1)
Lyrics and Occasional Verse	49	(1)
Complaint to His Purse	49	(1)
To His Scribe Adam	50	(1)
Pearl, 1-5 (1375--1400)	50	(3)
William Langland (fl. 1375)	53	(8)
Piers Plowman, lines 1--111	53	(4)
Anonymous Lyrics of the Fifteenth Century	57	(4)
Adam Lay I-bounden	57	(1)
I Sing of a Maiden	57	(1)
I Have a Young Sister	58	(1)
Timor Mortis	59	(1)
The Corpus Christi Carol	60	(1)
Western Wind	60	(1)
The Sacrament of the Altar	61	(1)
See! here, my heart	61	(1)
William Dunbar (ca. 1460--ca. 1525)	61	(4)
Lament for the Makaris	61	(3)
In Prais of Wemen	64	(1)
John Skelton (1460--1529)	65	(24)
Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale	65	(1)
To Mistress Margaret Hussey	66	(1)
Phillip Sparow	67	(3)
Early Modern Ballads	70	(1)
The Douglas Tragedy	70	(2)
Lord Randal	72	(1)
The Three Ravens	73	(1)
Sir Patrick Spens	74	(2)
The Unquiet Grave	76	(1)
Bonny Barbara Allan	77	(1)
Mary Hamilton, Version A	78	(2)
Mary Hamilton, Version B	80	(3)
The Bitter Withy	83	(1)
Anonymous Elizabethan and Jacobean Poems	84	(1)
Love Me Little, Love Me Long	84	(1)
Fine Knacks for Ladies	85	(1)
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains	85	(1)
There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind	86	(1)
Tom o' Bedlam's Song	87	(2)
Thomas Wyatt (1503--1542)	89	(7)
The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor	89	(1)
Whoso List to Hunt	89	(1)
My Galley	90	(1)
Madam, Withouten Many Words	90	(1)
They Flee from Me	91	(1)
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed	91	(1)
Patience, Though I Have Not	92	(1)
My Lute Awake!	93	(1)
Is It Possible	94	(1)
Forget Not Yet	94	(1)
Of Such as Had Forsaken Him	95	(1)
Stand Whoso List	95	(1)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (ca. 1517--1547)	96	(2)
The Soote Season	96	(1)
Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought	96	(1)
Wyatt Resteth Here	97	(1)
Anne Askew (1521--1546)	98	(1)
The Ballad Which Anne Askewe Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate	98	(1)
Queen Elizabeth I (1533--1603)	99	(2)
[The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy]	99	(1)
When I Was Fair and Young	100	(1)
[Ah silly pugg wert thou so sore afraid]	100	(1)
George Gascoigne (ca. 1535--1577)	101	(2)
And If I Did What Then?	101	(1)
Gascoigne's Lullaby	102	(1)
Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567--1573)	103	(4)
From a Sweet Nosegay	103	(4)
A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will	103	(1)
From The Manner of Her Will, & What She Left to London, and to All Those in It, at Her Departing	104	(3)
Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586)	107	(1)
Tichborne's Elegy	107	(1)
Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552--1618)	108	(7)
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen	108	(1)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	109	(1)
The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage	109	(2)
The Lie	111	(2)
Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk	113	(1)
[Fortune hath taken thee away, my love]	114	(1)
Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552--1599)	115	(27)
The Faerie Queene	115	(14)
Book 1, Canto 1	116	(13)
Amoretti	129	(3)
(``Ye tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle'')	129	(1)
(``Penelope for her Ulisses sake'')	129	(1)
(``Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay'')	129	(1)
(``Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace'')	130	(1)
(``Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king'')	130	(1)
(``I joy to see how in your drawen work'')	130	(1)
(``One day I wrote her name upon the strand'')	131	(1)
(``Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it'')	131	(1)
Epithalamion	132	(10)
John Lyly (1554--1606)	142	(1)
Cupid and My Campaspe	142	(1)
Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary	142	(1)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586)	143	(7)
Ye Goatherd Gods	143	(2)
What Length of Verse?	145	(1)
Astrophil and Stella	146	(4)
(``Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'')	146	(1)
(``Your words my friend [right healthful caustics] blame'')	146	(1)
(``With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies'')	147	(1)
(``Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me'')	147	(1)
(``I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try'')	147	(1)
(``A strife is grown between Virtue and Love'')	148	(1)
(``O Grammer rules, o now your virtues show'')	148	(1)
(``Who will in fairest book of Nature know'')	148	(1)
Seventh Song (``Whose senses in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays'')	149	(1)
(``Stella, think not that I by verse seek frame'')	149	(1)
Mary Sidney (1568-1621)	150	(1)
Si Vere Utique	150	(1)
Robert Southwell (ca. 1561--1595)	151	(1)
The Burning Babe	151	(1)
Samuel Daniel (ca. 1562--1619)	151	(3)
Delia	151	(3)
(``Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty'')	151	(1)
(``Go wailing verse, the infants of my love'')	152	(1)
(``Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair'')	152	(1)
(``Look, Delia, how we' steem the half-blown rose'')	152	(1)
(``Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night'')	153	(1)
(``Let others sing of knights and paladins'')	153	(1)
Michael Drayton (1563--1631)	154	(1)
Idea	154	(1)
To the Reader of these Sonnets	154	(1)
(``How many paltry, foolish, painted things'')	154	(1)
(``If he from heaven that filched that living fire'')	154	(1)
(``Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part'')	155	(1)
Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593)	155	(1)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	155	(1)
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)	156	(11)
Sonnets	156	(7)
(``From fairest creatures we desire increase'')	156	(1)
(``Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest'')	156	(1)
(``When I do count the clock that tells the time'')	157	(1)
(``Shall I compare three to a summer's day?'')	157	(1)
(``A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted'')	157	(1)
(``When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes'')	158	(1)
(``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought'')	158	(1)
(``Not marble, nor the gilded monuments'')	158	(1)
(``Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'')	159	(1)
(``No longer mourn for me when I am dead'')	159	(1)
(``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')	159	(1)
(``They that have power to hurt and will do none'')	160	(1)
(``When in the chronicle of wasted time'')	160	(1)
(``Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul'')	160	(1)
(``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')	161	(1)
(``Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame'')	161	(1)
(``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'')	161	(1)
(``When my love swears that she is made of truth'')	162	(1)
(``Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth'')	162	(1)
The Phoenix and the Turtle	163	(2)
Songs from the Plays	165	(2)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind	165	(1)
It Was a Lover and His Lass	165	(1)
Oh Mistress Mine	166	(1)
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun	166	(1)
Full Fathom Five	167	(1)
Thomas Campion (1567--1620)	167	(3)
My Sweetest Lesbia	167	(1)
I Care Not for These Ladies	168	(1)
Follow Thy Fair Sun	168	(1)
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings	169	(1)
Rose-cheeked Laura	169	(1)
Now Winter Nights Enlarge	170	(1)
Thomas Nashe (1567--1601)	170	(2)
From Summer's Last Will	170	(2)
Spring, the Sweet Spring	170	(1)
``Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss''	171	(1)
Aemilia Lanyer (1569--1645)	172	(4)
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum	172	(4)
John Donne (1572--1631)	176	(17)
The Good-Morrow	176	(1)
Song (``Go and catch a falling star'')	177	(1)
Woman's Constancy	177	(1)
The Sun Rising	178	(1)
The Canonization	179	(1)
Song (``Sweetest love, I do not go'')	180	(1)
The Anniversary	181	(1)
A Valediction of Weeping	182	(1)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	182	(2)
The Ecstasy	184	(1)
The Funeral	185	(1)
The Flea	186	(1)
The Relic	187	(1)
Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed	188	(1)
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward	189	(1)
Holy Sonnets	190	(3)
(``Thou hast made me, and shall they work decay?'')	190	(1)
(``I am a little world made cunningly'')	191	(1)
(``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'')	191	(1)
(``Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'')	192	(1)
(``Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You'')	192	(1)
Ben Jonson (1572--1637)	193	(12)
To the Reader	193	(1)
To Doctor Empirick	193	(1)
On My First Daughter	193	(1)
On My First Son	193	(1)
On Spies	194	(1)
To John Donne	194	(1)
Inviting a Friend to Supper	194	(2)
On Gut	196	(1)
To Penshurst	196	(2)
Song: To Celia (I)	198	(1)
Song: To Celia (II)	199	(1)
A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme	199	(2)
Still to Be Neat	201	(1)
Thought I Am Young and Cannot Tell	201	(1)
To the Memory of My Beloved, Mr. William Shakespeare	202	(2)
A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth	204	(1)
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount	204	(1)
Queen and Huntress	204	(1)
Mary Wroth (1587?--1651?)	205	(3)
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus	205	(2)
(``Night, welcome art thou to my mind destrest'')	205	(1)
Song (``Love a child is ever crying'')	206	(1)
From A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love	206	(1)
``In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn''	206	(1)
``Is to leave all and take the thread of Love''	207	(1)
``He may our prophet, and our tutor prove''	207	(1)
From Urania	207	(1)
Song (``Love what art thou? A vain thought'')	207	(1)
Robert Herrick (1591--1674)	208	(7)
The Argument of His Book	208	(1)
The Vine	209	(1)
Delight in Disorder	209	(1)
Corinna's Going A-Maying	210	(1)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	211	(1)
Upon Julia's Breasts	212	(1)
Upon a Child That Died	212	(1)
To Daffodils	212	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	213	(1)
The Pillar of Fame	213	(1)
An Ode for Him	213	(1)
To Find God	214	(1)
The White Island, or Place of the Blest	214	(1)
Henry King (1592--1669)	215	(3)
An Exequy to His Matchless, Never-to-Be-Forgotten Friend	215	(3)
George Herbert (1593--1633)	218	(10)
From The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations	218	(1)
The Altar	218	(1)
Redemption	218	(1)
Easter Wings	219	(1)
Sin (I)	220	(1)
Affliction (I)	220	(2)
Prayer (I)	222	(1)
Jordan (I)	222	(1)
Virtue	223	(1)
Artillery	223	(1)
The Collar	224	(1)
The Pulley	225	(1)
The Flower	226	(1)
Bitter-Sweet	227	(1)
Love (III)	227	(1)
Thomas Carew (1598?--1639?)	228	(3)
A Song (``Ask me no more where Jove bestows'')	228	(1)
Song. To My Inconstant Mistress	228	(1)
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne	229	(2)
Edmund Waller (1607--1687)	231	(1)
Song (``Go, lovely rose!'')	231	(1)
John Milton (1608--1674)	232	(24)
Lycidas	232	(5)
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	237	(6)
L'Allegro	243	(4)
Il Penseroso	247	(4)
On Shakespeare	251	(1)
How Soon Hath Time	251	(1)
From Comus	252	(1)
Song (``Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen'')	252	(1)
Song (``Sabrina fair'')	253	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	253	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	254	(1)
Methought I Saw	254	(1)
Paradise Lost	255	(1)
The Verse	255	(1)
Book 1 [The Invocation]	255	(1)
Sir John Suckling (1609--1642)	256	(2)
Song (``Why so pale and wan, fond lover?'')	256	(1)
Sonnet II (``Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white'')	257	(1)
Out upon It!	257	(1)
Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612--1672)	258	(5)
The Prologue	258	(1)
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	259	(1)
To My Dear and Loving Husband	260	(1)
The Author to Her Book	260	(1)
A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment	261	(1)
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666	262	(1)
Richard Crashaw (1613--1649)	263	(4)
A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Saint Teresa	263	(4)
Richard Lovelace (1618--1658)	267	(3)
To Althea, from Prison	267	(1)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	268	(1)
The Grasshopper	268	(2)
Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)	270	(6)
Bermudas	270	(1)
To His Coy Mistress	271	(1)
The Definition of Love	272	(1)
The Mower Against Gardens	273	(1)
The Garden	274	(2)
Henry Vaughan (1622--1695)	276	(3)
The Retreat	276	(1)
They Are All Gone into the World of Light!	277	(1)
The Waterfall	278	(1)
Margaret Cavendish (1623--1673)	279	(1)
An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book	279	(1)
Of Many Worlds in This World	279	(1)
John Dryden (1631--1700)	280	(9)
Mac Flecknoe	280	(6)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	286	(1)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day	287	(2)
Katherine Philips (1632--1664)	289	(1)
Epitaph	289	(1)
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship	289	(1)
Thomas Traherne (1637--1674)	290	(2)
Wonder	290	(2)
The Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book, 1640	292	(1)
Psalm 58	292	(1)
Edward Taylor (ca. 1642--1729)	293	(3)
Meditation 8 (``I kenning through astronomy divine'')	293	(1)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly	294	(2)
Aphra Behn (1640?--1689)	296	(5)
Song (``Love Armed'')	296	(1)
The Disappointment	296	(4)
To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman	300	(1)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647--1680)	301	(6)
A Satire against Reason and Mankind	301	(4)
The Disabled Debauchee	305	(2)
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover	307	(1)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661--1720)	307	(6)
Adam Posed	307	(1)
The Spleen	308	(3)
A Nocturnal Reverie	311	(2)
Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)	313	(6)
A Description of a City Shower	313	(1)
Stella's Birthday	314	(2)
The Lady's Dressing Room	316	(3)
Isaac Watts (1674--1748)	319	(2)
Our God, Our Help	319	(2)
John Gay (1685--1732)	321	(2)
Songs from The Beggar's Opera	321	(2)
``Thomas, I Cannot''	321	(1)
``A Soldier and a Sailor''	321	(1)
``Over the Hills, and Far Away''	321	(1)
``Cotillion''	322	(1)
``The Lass of Patie's Mill''	322	(1)
``Green Sleeves''	322	(1)
Alexander Pope (1688--1744)	323	(27)
The Rape of the Lock	323	(17)
Epistle to Miss Blount	340	(1)
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot	341	(9)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689--1762)	350	(2)
The Lover: A Ballad	350	(2)
A Receipt to Cure the Vapors	352	(1)
James Thomson (1700--1748)	352	(3)
The Seasons	352	(3)
Winter (lines 223--358)	352	(3)
Samuel Johnson (1709--1784)	355	(10)
Prologue Spoken	355	(2)
Garrick
The Vanity of Human Wishes	357	(8)
Thomas Gray (1716--1771)	365	(4)
Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes)	365	(1)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	366	(3)
William Collins (1721--1759)	369	(2)
Ode on the Poetical Character	369	(2)
Mary Leapor (1722--1746)	371	(3)
Mira's Will	371	(1)
The Epistle of Deborah Dough	372	(2)
Jean Elliot (1727--1805)	374	(1)
The Flowers of the Forest	374	(1)
Christopher Smart (1722--1771)	375	(3)
Psalm 58	375	(1)
Jubilate Agno, lines 697--770 (``For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry'')	376	(2)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730--1774)	378	(3)
When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly	378	(1)
The Deserted Village (lines 1--96)	378	(3)
William Cowper (1731--1800)	381	(3)
Olney Hymns	381	(1)
Light Shining out of Darkness	381	(1)
The Castaway	381	(2)
Lines Written During a Period of Insanity	383	(1)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743--1825)	384	(1)
The Rights of Woman	384	(1)
Life	385	(1)
Charlotte Smith (1749--1806)	385	(2)
To the shade of Burns	385	(1)
Nepenthe	386	(1)
From Beachy Head	386	(1)
Phillis Wheatley (1753--1784)	387	(2)
On Being Brought from Africa to America	387	(1)
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	388	(1)
William Blake (1757--1827)	389	(9)
From Poetical Sketches	389	(1)
Song (``How sweet I roam'd from field to field'')	389	(1)
To the Evening Star	389	(1)
From Songs of Innocence	390	(2)
Introduction (``Piping down the valleys wild'')	390	(1)
The Lamb	390	(1)
Holy Thursday [I.]	391	(1)
The Divine Image	391	(1)
The Little Black Boy	391	(1)
From Songs of Experience	392	(4)
Introduction (``Hear the voice of the Bard!'')	392	(1)
A Divine Image	393	(1)
Holy Thursday [II.]	393	(1)
The Clod & the Pebble	394	(1)
The Sick Rose	394	(1)
A Poison Tree	394	(1)
The Tyger	395	(1)
Ah Sun-flower	395	(1)
The Garden of Love	395	(1)
London	396	(1)
From Songs and Ballads	396	(1)
I Asked a Thief	396	(1)
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau	397	(1)
A Question Answered	397	(1)
From Milton	397	(1)
And Did Those Feet	397	(1)
From Jerusalem	398	(1)
England! Awake! Awake! Awake!	398	(1)
Robert Burns (1759--1796)	398	(6)
To a Mouse	398	(1)
Holy Willie's Prayer	399	(3)
Green Grow the Rashes	402	(1)
John Anderson, My Jo	403	(1)
A Red, Red Rose	403	(1)
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)	404	(22)
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey	404	(3)
The Prelude	407	(4)
Book I, lines 301--475 (``Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up'')	407	(4)
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways	411	(1)
Three Years She Grew	411	(1)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	412	(1)
Resolution and Independence	412	(4)
It Is a Beauteous Evening	416	(1)
London, 1802	416	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	416	(1)
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room	417	(1)
My Heart Leaps Up	417	(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	417	(5)
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud	422	(1)
Elegiac Stanzas	422	(2)
The World Is Too Much with Us	424	(1)
The Solitary Reaper	424	(1)
Surprised by Joy	425	(1)
Mutability	425	(1)
Scorn Not the Sonnet	426	(1)
Mary Tighe (1772--1810)	426	(2)
From Psyche	426	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)	428	(22)
Kubla Khan	428	(1)
Frost at Midnight	429	(2)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	431	(15)
Dejection: An Ode	446	(4)
Walter Savage Landor (1775--1864)	450	(1)
Rose Aylmer	450	(1)
Past Ruined Ilion Helen Lives	450	(1)
Dirce	450	(1)
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher	451	(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824)	451	(16)
Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos	451	(1)
She Walks in Beauty	451	(1)
When We Two Parted	452	(1)
So We'll Go No More A-Roving	453	(1)
From Don Juan	453	(13)
Fragment on the Back of the Ms. of Canto I	453	(1)
Canto the First. Stanzas 1--117	453	(13)
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year	466	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)	467	(25)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty	467	(2)
Ozymandias	469	(1)
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples	469	(2)
England in 1819	471	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	471	(2)
The Cloud	473	(2)
To a Skylark	475	(3)
Adonais	478	(12)
From Hellas: Two Choruses	490	(2)
Worlds on Worlds	490	(1)
The World's Great Age	491	(1)
John Clare (1793--1864)	492	(2)
Badger	492	(1)
Farewell	493	(1)
I Am	493	(1)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793--1835)	494	(1)
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England	494	(1)
John Keats (1795--1821)	495	(20)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	495	(1)
On the Sea	496	(1)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again	496	(1)
When I Have Fears	496	(1)
To Homer	497	(1)
The Eve of St. Agnes	497	(9)
On the Sonnet	506	(1)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	506	(2)
Ode to Psyche	508	(1)
Ode to a Nightingale	509	(2)
Ode on Melancholy	511	(1)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	512	(1)
To Autumn	513	(1)
Bright Star	514	(1)
This Living Hand	514	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)	515	(5)
Concord Hymn	515	(1)
The Rhodora	515	(1)
The Snow-Storm	516	(1)
Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing)	516	(3)
Intellect	519	(1)
Days	519	(1)
Fate	519	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861)	520	(4)
Sonnets from the Portuguese	520	(1)
(``I thought once how Theocritus had sung'')	520	(1)
(``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'')	520	(1)
Aurora Leigh	521	(2)
From Book 5 [Poets and the Present Age]	521	(2)
A Musical Instrument	523	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)	524	(3)
From Evangeline	524	(1)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	524	(2)
The Cross of Snow	526	(1)
Edward Fitzgerald (1809--1883)	527	(3)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur Stanzas 1--24; 100--01	527	(3)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809--1894)	530	(1)
The Chambered Nautilus	530	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)	531	(4)
Sonnet--To Science	531	(1)
To Helen	531	(1)
The Raven	532	(3)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)	535	(22)
Mariana	535	(2)
The Lady of Shalott	537	(3)
The Lotos-Eaters	540	(4)
Break, Break, Break	544	(1)
Ulysses	545	(1)
Songs from The Princess	546	(2)
The Splendor Falls	546	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	547	(1)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal	547	(1)
In Memoriam A.H.H.	548	(6)
(``I held it truth, with him who sings'')	548	(1)
(``Old Yew, which graspest at the stones'')	548	(1)
(``Dark house, by which once more I stand'')	549	(1)
(``Calm is the morn without a sound'')	549	(1)
(``The Danube to the Severn gave'')	550	(1)
(``Be near me when my light is low'')	550	(1)
(``When on my bed the moonlight falls'')	550	(1)
(``Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet'')	551	(1)
(``By night we lingered on the lawn'')	551	(2)
(``Doors, where my heart was used to beat'')	553	(1)
(``Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun'')	553	(1)
(``Thy voice is on the rolling air'')	554	(1)
The Eagle	554	(1)
Tithonus	554	(2)
Crossing the Bar	556	(1)
Robert Browning (1812--1889)	557	(21)
My Last Duchess	557	(1)
Home-Thoughts, From Abroad	558	(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	559	(2)
Fra Lippo Lippi	561	(9)
A Toccata of Galuppi's	570	(1)
``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''	571	(6)
Two in the Campagna	577	(1)
Jones Very (1813--1880)	578	(1)
The Dead	579	(1)
The Lost	579	(1)
Edward Lear (1812--1888)	579	(2)
There Was an Old Man with a Beard	579	(1)
There Was an Old Man in a Tree	579	(1)
There Was an Old Man Who Supposed	579	(1)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	580	(1)
How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear	580	(1)
Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)	581	(1)
I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied	581	(1)
Emily Bronte (1818--1848)	582	(2)
Remembrance	582	(1)
The Prisoner	583	(1)
No Coward Soul Is Mine	584	(1)
Arthur High Clough (1819--1861)	584	(1)
[Say not the struggle nought availeth]	584	(1)
The Latest Decalogue	585	(1)
Julia Ward Howe (1819--1910)	585	(1)
Battle-Hymn of the Republic	585	(1)
Herman Melville (1819--1891)	586	(5)
The Portent	586	(1)
Shiloh	587	(1)
The Maldive Shark	587	(1)
The Berg	588	(1)
Monody	588	(1)
Greek Architecture	589	(1)
Spirituals	589	(1)
Go Down, Moses	589	(1)
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel	590	(1)
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)	591	(22)
Song of Myself	591	(5)
(``I celebrate myself, and sing myself'')	591	(1)
(``A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands'')	592	(1)
(``Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore'')	593	(1)
(``Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son'')	593	(2)
(``The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me'')	595	(1)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	596	(4)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	600	(1)
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	600	(1)
Beat! Beat! Drums!	601	(1)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	602	(4)
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	606	(6)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	612	(1)
To a Locomotive in Winter	612	(1)
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821--1873)	613	(1)
From Sonnets, First Series	613	(1)
(``An upper chamber in a darkened house'')	613	(1)
(``Not the round natural world, not the deep mind'')	613	(1)
From Sonnets, Second Series	614	(1)
(``His heart was in his garden; but his brain'')	614	(1)
Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)	614	(8)
Shakespeare	614	(1)
To Marguerite	615	(1)
The Scholar-Gypsy	615	(6)
Dover Beach	621	(1)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--1882)	622	(4)
The Blessed Damozel	622	(3)
From The House of Life	625	(1)
A Sonnet	625	(1)
George Meredith (1828--1909)	626	(3)
From Modern Love	626	(2)
(``By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'')	626	(1)
(``At dinner, she is hostess, I am host'')	626	(1)
(``What are we first? First, animals; and next'')	627	(1)
(``Their sense is with their senses all mixed in'')	627	(1)
(``He found her by the ocean's moaning verge'')	627	(1)
(``Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'')	628	(1)
Lucifer in Starlight	628	(1)
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)	629	(12)
(``I never lost as much but twice'')	629	(1)
(``A little East of Jordan'')	629	(1)
(``Success is counted sweetest'')	629	(1)
(`` `Faith' is a fine invention'')	630	(1)
(``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--'') (1859)	630	(1)
(``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--'') (1861)	630	(1)
(``I like a look of Agony'')	631	(1)
(``Wild Nights--Wild Nights!'')	631	(1)
(`` `Hope' is the thing with feathers--'')	631	(1)
(``There's a certain Slant of light'')	632	(1)
(``I felt a Funeral, in my Brain'')	632	(1)
(``The Soul selects her own Society--'')	633	(1)
(``A Bird came down the Walk--'')	633	(1)
(``After great pain, a formal feeling comes--'')	634	(1)
(``Much Madness is divinest Sense--'')	634	(1)
(``I heard a Fly buzz-when I died--'')	634	(1)
(``I would not paint-a picture--'')	635	(1)
(``I reckon--when I count at all--'')	635	(1)
(``They shut me up in Prose--'')	636	(1)
(``Publication-is the Auction'')	636	(1)
(``Because I could not stop for Death--'')	636	(1)
(``Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue--'')	637	(1)
(``My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun--'')	637	(1)
(``On a Columnar Self--'')	638	(1)
(``Split the Lark-and you'll find the Music--'')	638	(1)
(``A narrow Fellow in the Grass'')	639	(1)
(``The Bustle in a House'')	639	(1)
(``Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--'')	640	(1)
(``A Route of Evanescence'')	640	(1)
(``As imperceptibly as Grief'')	640	(1)
(``The Bible is an antique Volume--'')	641	(1)
(``Fame is a bee'')	641	(1)
Christina Rossetti (1830--1894)	641	(3)
Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'')	641	(1)
Remember	642	(1)
Echo	642	(1)
In an Artist's Studio	642	(1)
Up-Hill	643	(1)
Passing Away, Saith the World, Passing Away	643	(1)
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832--1898)	644	(2)
Jabberwocky	644	(2)
W. S. Gilbert (1836--1911)	646	(2)
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General	646	(2)
Titwillow	648	(1)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837--1909)	648	(4)
Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon	648	(2)
When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces	648	(2)
A Forsaken Garden	650	(2)
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)	652	(7)
Hap	652	(1)
Thoughts of Phena	652	(1)
I Look into My Glass	653	(1)
Drummer Hodge	653	(1)
A Broken Appointment	654	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	654	(1)
The Ruined Maid	655	(1)
The Convergence of the Twain	656	(1)
Channel Firing	657	(1)
The Voice	658	(1)
During Wind and Rain	658	(1)
In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations''	659	(1)
Sidney Lanier (1842--1881)	659	(3)
The Marshes of Glynn	659	(3)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)	662	(4)
God's Grandeur	662	(1)
The Windhover	662	(1)
Pied Beauty	663	(1)
Felix Randal	663	(1)
Spring and Fall	664	(1)
[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame]	664	(1)
[Carrion Comfort]	665	(1)
[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief]	665	(1)
[My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On]	665	(1)
[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord...]	666	(1)
A. E. Housman (1859--1936)	666	(5)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	666	(1)
To an Athlete Dying Young	667	(1)
Is My Team Ploughing	668	(1)
With Rue My Heart Is Laden	668	(1)
``Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff...''	669	(1)
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries	670	(1)
Crossing Alone the Nighted Ferry	671	(1)
Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose	671	(1)
Charles G. D. Roberts (1860--1943)	671	(1)
Marsyas	671	(1)
Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936)	672	(2)
Tommy	672	(1)
Recessional	673	(1)
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)	674	(18)
The Stolen Child	674	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	675	(1)
When You Are Old	676	(1)
Adam's Curse	676	(1)
The Wild Swans at Coole	677	(1)
Easter 1916	678	(2)
The Second Coming	680	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	681	(1)
Leda and the Swan	682	(1)
Among School Children	682	(2)
Byzantium	684	(1)
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	685	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	686	(1)
Long-Legged Fly	687	(1)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	688	(1)
Under Ben Bulben	689	(3)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)	692	(3)
Richard Cory	692	(1)
Reuben Bright	693	(1)
Miniver Cheevy	693	(1)
Mr. Flood's Party	694	(1)
Charlotte Mew (1869--1928)	695	(2)
The Farmer's Bride	695	(2)
Stephen Crane (1871--1900)	697	(1)
From The Black Riders and Other Lines	697	(1)
Black Riders Came From the Sea	697	(1)
Behold, the Grave of a Wicked Man	697	(1)
A Man Feared That He Might Find An Assassin	697	(1)
From War is Kind	697	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)	698	(1)
Little Brown Baby	698	(1)
Sympathy	699	(1)
Robert Frost (1874--1963)	699	(12)
Mending Wall	699	(1)
The Wood-Pile	700	(1)
The Road Not Taken	701	(1)
The Oven Bird	702	(1)
Birches	702	(1)
The Hill Wife	703	(2)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	705	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	706	(1)
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep	706	(1)
Design	706	(1)
Provide, Provide	707	(1)
The Silken Tent	707	(1)
Come In	708	(1)
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same	708	(1)
The Most of It	709	(1)
The Gift Outright	709	(1)
Directive	710	(1)
Amy Lowell (1874--1925)	711	(3)
Patterns	711	(2)
The Weather-Cock Points South	713	(1)
Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)	714	(1)
From Stanzas in Meditation	714	(1)
Stanza XIII (``She may count three little daisies very well'')	714	(1)
Stanza II (``I think very well of Susan but I do not know her name'')	714	(1)
Stanza V (``It is not a range of a mountain'')	715	(1)
Stanza XXXVIII (``Which I wish to say is this'')	715	(1)
Stanza LXIII (``I wish that I had spoken only of it all.'')	715	(1)
Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)	715	(2)
Chicago	715	(1)
Grass	716	(1)
Edward Thomas (1878--1917)	717	(1)
In Memoriam [Easter 1915]	717	(1)
As the team's head brass	717	(1)
Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)	718	(9)
The Snow Man	718	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	718	(1)
Sunday Morning	719	(2)
Anecdote of the Jar	721	(1)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	722	(1)
Peter Quince at the Clavier	723	(2)
The Idea of Order at Key West	725	(1)
Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu	726	(1)
Of Mere Being	727	(1)
E. J. Pratt (1883--1964)	727	(1)
From Stone to Steel	727	(1)
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)	728	(10)
Danse Russe	728	(1)
The Red Wheelbarrow	729	(1)
This Is Just to Say	729	(1)
Poem	729	(1)
The Yachts	730	(1)
A Sort of a Song	730	(1)
The Dance	731	(1)
From Asphodel, That Greeny Flower	731	(1)
Book I	731	(7)
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)	738	(8)
Love on the Farm	738	(1)
Piano	739	(1)
Snake	740	(2)
The English Are So Nice!	742	(1)
Bavarian Gentians	742	(1)
The Ship of Death	743	(3)
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)	746	(10)
Portrait d'une Femme	746	(1)
The Seafarer	747	(2)
The Garden	749	(1)
Ts'ai Chi'h	749	(1)
In a Station of the Metro	750	(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter	750	(1)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Life and Contacts 1--5	751	(3)
The Cantos	754	(2)
I (``And then went down to the ship'')	754	(2)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886--1961)	756	(2)
Helen	756	(1)
From The Walls Do Not Fall: 1	756	(2)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)	758	(1)
``They''	758	(1)
Everyone Sang	758	(1)
Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)	759	(1)
Shine, Perishing Republic	759	(1)
Carmel Point	759	(1)
Birds and Fishes	760	(1)
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)	760	(7)
Poetry	760	(1)
The Steeple-Jack	761	(2)
The Fish	763	(1)
What Are Years?	764	(1)
Nevertheless	765	(1)
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing	766	(1)
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)	767	(24)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	767	(3)
Preludes	770	(2)
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	772	(1)
The Waste Land	773	(12)
From Four Quartets	785	(6)
The Dry Salvages	785	(6)
John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974)	791	(2)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	791	(1)
Piazza Piece	792	(1)
Dead Boy	792	(1)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918)	793	(1)
Break of Day in the Trenches	793	(1)
Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) (1892--1978)	793	(2)
Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries	793	(1)
From In Memoriam James Joyce	794	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)	795	(1)
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare	795	(1)
I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed	795	(1)
The Buck in the Snow	795	(1)
Armenonville	796	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)	796	(3)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	796	(1)
Dulce Et Decorum Est	797	(1)
Strange Meeting	798	(1)
Futility	799	(1)
Dorothy Parker (1893--1967)	799	(1)
Resume	799	(1)
One Perfect Rose	799	(1)
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)	800	(6)
All in green went my love riding	800	(1)
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls	801	(1)
Spring is like a perhaps hand	801	(1)
``next to of course god america i	802	(1)
since feeling is first	802	(1)
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond	802	(1)
anyone lived in a pretty how town	803	(1)
my father moved through dooms of love	804	(2)
Jean Toomer (1894--1967)	806	(1)
From Cane	806	(1)
Reapers	806	(1)
Harvest Song	806	(1)
Robert Graves (1895--1985)	807	(3)
Love Without Hope	807	(1)
Warning to Children	807	(1)
To Juan at the Winter Solstice	808	(1)
The White Goddess	809	(1)
Louise Bogan (1897--1970)	810	(3)
Medusa	810	(1)
Juan's Song	811	(1)
Man Alone	811	(1)
Song for the Last Act	811	(1)
Night	812	(1)
Hart Crane (1899--1932)	813	(5)
Voyages	813	(3)
From The Bridge	816	(2)
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge	816	(2)
To Emily Dickinson	818	(1)
Allen Tate (1899--1979)	818	(2)
Ode to the Confederate Dead	818	(2)
Sterling A. Brown (1901--1989)	820	(2)
Slim in Atlanta	820	(2)
Bitter Fruit of the Tree	822	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)	822	(4)
The Weary Blues	822	(1)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	823	(1)
Dream Variations	823	(1)
Cross	824	(1)
Song for a Dark Girl	824	(1)
Harlem	824	(1)
Theme for English B	825	(1)
Roy Campbell (1902--1957)	826	(1)
The Sisters	826	(1)
Ogden Nash (1902--1971)	826	(2)
Reflections on Ice-breaking	826	(1)
Columbus	827	(1)
Stevie Smith (1902--1971)	828	(2)
No Categories!	828	(1)
Mr. Over	828	(1)
Not Waving but Drowning	829	(1)
Pretty	829	(1)
Countee Cullen (1903--1946)	830	(3)
Heritage	830	(3)
Incident	833	(1)
Earle Birney (1904--1991)	833	(2)
Slug in Woods	833	(1)
Bushed	834	(1)
C. Day Lewis (1904--1972)	835	(1)
Two Songs	835	(1)
(``I've heard them lilting at loom and belting'')	835	(1)
(``Come, live with me and be my love'')	835	(1)
Where are the War Poets?	836	(1)
Patrick Kavanagh (1905--1967)	836	(3)
From The Great Hunger	836	(3)
Epic	839	(1)
Stanley Kunitz (1905--)	839	(1)
Robin Redbreast	839	(1)
Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)	840	(2)
Bearded Oaks	840	(1)
Masts at Dawn	841	(1)
Evening Hawk	842	(1)
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)	842	(10)
As I Walked Out One Evening	842	(2)
From Twelve Songs	844	(1)
IX [Funeral Blues]	844	(1)
Lullaby [Lay your sleeping head, my love]	844	(1)
Musee des Beaux Arts	845	(1)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats	846	(2)
In Praise of Limestone	848	(2)
The Shield of Achilles	850	(2)
A. D. Hope (1907--)	852	(2)
Australia	852	(1)
Imperial Adam	852	(2)
Inscription for a War	854	(1)
Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)	854	(5)
The Sunlight on the Garden	854	(1)
Bagpipe Music	855	(1)
From Autumn Journal (``September has come and I wake'')	856	(1)
London Rain	857	(2)
Star-gazer	859	(1)
Josephine Jacobsen (1908--)	859	(1)
Hourglass	859	(1)
Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)	860	(7)
My Papa's Waltz	860	(1)
The Lost Son	861	(4)
Elegy for Jane	865	(1)
The Waking	866	(1)
I Knew a Woman	866	(1)
Malcolm Lowry (1909--1957)	867	(1)
Delirium in Vera Cruz	867	(1)
Eye-Opener	867	(1)
Strange Type	868	(1)
Charles Olson (1910--1970)	868	(1)
Merce of Egypt	868	(1)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)	869	(7)
The Fish	869	(2)
Sestina	871	(1)
The Moose	872	(4)
One Art	876	(1)
Irving Layton (1912--)	876	(2)
The Birth of Tragedy	876	(1)
Berry Picking	877	(1)
Robert Hayden (1913--1980)	878	(1)
Those Winter Sundays	878	(1)
Night, Death, Mississippi	878	(1)
Muriel Ruckeyser (1913--1980)	879	(2)
Night Feeding	879	(1)
Ballad of Orange and Grape	880	(1)
May Swenson (1913--1989)	881	(2)
Cardinal Ideograms	881	(1)
Goodbye, Goldeneye	882	(1)
R. S. Thomas (1913--)	883	(1)
Welsh Landscape	883	(1)
The View from the Window	884	(1)
John Berryman (1914--1972)	884	(5)
From Homage to Mistress Bradstreet: 17--21	884	(1)
A Sympathy, A Welcome	885	(1)
The Dream Songs	886	(3)
(``Huffy Henry hid the day'')	886	(1)
(``Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so'')	886	(1)
(``There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart'')	887	(1)
(``Also I love him: me he's done no wrong'')	887	(1)
An Elegy for W.C.W., The Lovely Man	888	(1)
(``At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well:'')	888	(1)
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)	889	(4)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	889	(1)
Next Day	889	(1)
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	890	(3)
Henry Reed (1914--1986)	893	(1)
Lessons of the War	893	(1)
Naming of Parts	893	(1)
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)	894	(5)
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	894	(1)
The Hand That Signed the Paper	894	(1)
After the Funeral	895	(1)
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	896	(1)
Fern Hill	896	(2)
In My Craft or Sullen Art	898	(1)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	898	(1)
Judith Wright (1915--)	899	(2)
Woman to Man	899	(1)
Eve to her Daughters	899	(2)
David Gascoyne (1916--)	901	(1)
Ecce Homo	901	(1)
P. K. Page (1916--)	902	(2)
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree	902	(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--)	904	(2)
kitchenette building	904	(1)
the birth in a narrow room	904	(1)
the rites for Cousin Vit	904	(1)
We Real Cool	905	(1)
Boy Breaking Glass	905	(1)
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)	906	(8)
Mr. Edwards and the Spider	906	(1)
My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow	907	(4)
For the Union Dead	911	(2)
Harriet	913	(1)
Epilogue	913	(1)
William Meredith (1919--)	914	(1)
Rhode Island	914	(1)
Amy Clampitt (1920--1994)	915	(3)
Beethoven, Opus III	915	(2)
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews	917	(1)
Barbara Guest (1920--)	918	(1)
Twilight Polka Dots	918	(1)
Keith Douglas (1920--1944)	919	(2)
Vergissmeinnicht	919	(1)
Aristocrats	920	(1)
Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)	921	(3)
The Goose Fish	921	(1)
A Primer of the Daily Round	922	(1)
The Blue Swallows	922	(1)
Boy with Book of Knowledge	923	(1)
Mona Van Duyn (1921--)	924	(2)
Letters from a Father	924	(2)
Richard Wilbur (1921--)	926	(5)
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	926	(1)
Piazza di Spagna, Early Morning	927	(1)
Advice to a Prophet	928	(1)
Junk	929	(1)
Seed Leaves	930	(1)
Philip Larkin (1922--1985)	931	(6)
Church Going	931	(1)
For Sidney Bechet	932	(1)
An Arundel Tomb	933	(1)
MCMXIV	934	(1)
Talking in Bed	935	(1)
The Trees	935	(1)
Sad Steps	936	(1)
The Explosion	936	(1)
Howard Moss (1922--1987)	937	(2)
The Persistence of Song	937	(1)
Tourists	938	(1)
James Dickey (1923--1997)	939	(1)
Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony	939	(1)
Peter Kane Dufault (1923--)	940	(1)
A First Night	940	(1)
Anthony Hecht (1923--)	940	(5)
``More Light! More Light!''	940	(1)
The Ghost in the Martini	941	(3)
The Book of Yolek	944	(1)
Denise Levertov (1923--1997)	945	(3)
Triple Feature	945	(1)
O Taste and See	946	(1)
Tenebrae	946	(1)
Caedmon	947	(1)
John Ormond (1923--1990)	948	(1)
Cathedral Builders	948	(1)
Donald Justice (1925--)	949	(1)
Counting the Mad	949	(1)
Men at Forty	949	(1)
Mrs. Snow	950	(1)
Kenneth Koch (1925--)	950	(1)
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams	950	(1)
Energy in Sweden	951	(1)
A. R. Ammons (1926--)	951	(5)
Silver	951	(2)
Corsons Inlet	953	(2)
Pet Panther	955	(1)
James K. Baxter (1926--1972)	956	(1)
New Zealand	956	(1)
Robert Creeley (1926--)	957	(1)
Heroes	957	(1)
Bresson's Movies	957	(1)
Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)	958	(5)
Howl	958	(5)
Part I	958	(5)
James Merrill (1926--1995)	963	(6)
The Broken Home	963	(3)
The Victor Dog	966	(1)
From The Book of Ephraim	967	(2)
C. (``Correct but cautious, that first night, we asked'')	967	(2)
Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)	969	(2)
The Day Lady Died	969	(1)
Why I Am Not A Painter	970	(1)
W. D. Snodgrass (1926--)	971	(3)
From Heart's Needle	971	(2)
(``Late April and you are three; today'')	971	(1)
(``The child between them on the street'')	972	(1)
(``Here in the scuffled dust'')	972	(1)
(``The vicious winter finally yields'')	973	(1)
Mementos, I	973	(1)
Elizabeth Jennings (1926--)	974	(1)
My Grandmother	974	(1)
One Flesh	975	(1)
John Ashbery (1927--)	975	(3)
The Painter	975	(1)
Melodic Trains	976	(2)
Brute Image	978	(1)
Galway Kinnell (1927--)	978	(2)
The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students	978	(1)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	979	(1)
W. S. Merwin (1927--)	980	(2)
The Drunk in the Furnace	980	(1)
Odysseus	981	(1)
Losing a Language	981	(1)
Charles Tomlinson (1927--)	982	(1)
Farewell to Van Gogh	982	(1)
James Wright (1927--1980)	983	(2)
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack	983	(1)
Speak	983	(2)
Donald Hall (1928--)	985	(3)
From The One Day	985	(3)
Prophecy	985	(3)
Anne Sexton (1928--1974)	988	(1)
The Truth the Dead Know	988	(1)
L. E. Sissman (1928--1976)	989	(1)
From Dying: An Introduction	989	(1)
Path. Report	989	(1)
Outbound	989	(1)
Thom Gunn (1929--)	990	(4)
On the Move	990	(1)
A Map of the City	991	(1)
From the Wave	992	(1)
The Missing	993	(1)
John Hollander (1929--)	994	(1)
Swan and Shadow	994	(1)
An Old-Fashioned Song	994	(1)
Richard Howard (1929--)	995	(5)
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565	995	(5)
Peter Porter (1929--)	1000	(4)
A Consumer's Report	1000	(1)
An Exequy	1001	(3)
Adrienne Rich (1929--)	1004	(5)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	1004	(1)
Living in Sin	1004	(1)
Orion	1005	(1)
Diving into the Wreck	1006	(2)
From Eastern War Time	1008	(1)
(``Memory lifts her smoky mirror: 1943'')	1008	(1)
(``A woman wired in memories'')	1008	(1)
Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930--)	1009	(2)
From The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy	1009	(2)
Ancestors	1009	(1)
(``Every Friday morning my grandfather'')	1009	(1)
(``All I can remember of his wife'')	1009	(1)
(``Come-a look'')	1010	(1)
Gregory Corso (1930--)	1011	(2)
Marriage	1011	(2)
Ted Hughes (1930--)	1013	(3)
The Thought-Fox	1013	(1)
Pike	1014	(1)
Theology	1015	(1)
Examination at the Womb-Door	1015	(1)
Harry Mathews (1930--)	1016	(2)
Histoire	1016	(2)
Gary Snyder (1930--)	1018	(2)
Above Pate Valley	1018	(1)
Four Poems for Robin	1018	(2)
Derek Walcott (1930--)	1020	(5)
A Far Cry from Africa	1020	(1)
From The Schooner Flight	1021	(2)
Midsummer	1023	(1)
From Omeros	1023	(2)
Chapter XXX	1023	(2)
Jay MacPherson (1931--)	1025	(1)
The Swan	1025	(1)
A Lost Soul	1025	(1)
Geoffrey Hill (1932--)	1026	(4)
The Guardians	1026	(1)
Mercian Hymns	1027	(2)
(``The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall'')	1027	(1)
(``Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, Marlpools'')	1027	(1)
(``The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour'')	1027	(1)
(``He adored the desk, its brown-oak inlaid with ebony,'')	1028	(1)
(``Clash of salutation. As keels thrust into shingle.'')	1028	(1)
(``And it seemed, while we waited, he began to walk to--'')	1029	(1)
Lachrimae	1029	(1)
Lachrimae Verae	1029	(1)
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England	1029	(1)
The Laurel Axe	1030	(1)
Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)	1030	(6)
Morning Song	1030	(1)
Daddy	1031	(2)
Ariel	1033	(1)
Lady Lazarus	1034	(2)
Fleur Adcock (1934--)	1036	(1)
The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers	1036	(1)
Popular Ballads of the Twentieth Century	1037	(2)
Pete Seeger (1919-- ) •Where Have All the Flowers Gone?	1037	(1)
Bob Dylan (1941-- ) •Boots of Spanish Leather	1038	(1)
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934--)	1039	(2)
In Memory of Radio	1039	(1)
An Agony. As Now.	1039	(2)
Audre Lorde (1934--1992)	1041	(1)
Coal	1041	(1)
Hanging Fire	1041	(1)
N. Scott Momaday (1934--)	1042	(1)
Headwaters	1042	(1)
The Eagle-Feather Fan	1042	(1)
The Gift	1043	(1)
Two Figures	1043	(1)
Wole Soyinka (1934--)	1043	(1)
Telephone Conversation	1043	(1)
Mark Strand (1934--)	1044	(2)
The Prediction	1044	(1)
Always	1044	(1)
From Dark Harbor	1045	(1)
(``It is true, as someone has said, that in'')	1045	(1)
C. K. Williams (1936--)	1046	(1)
Snow: II	1046	(1)
The Question	1046	(1)
Tony Harrison (1937--)	1047	(4)
On Not Being Milton	1047	(1)
A Kumquat for John Keats	1048	(3)
Eleanor Wilner (1937--)	1051	(2)
Reading the Bible Backwards	1051	(2)
Les Murray (1938--)	1053	(3)
Noonday Axeman	1055	(1)
Morse	1055	(1)
Margaret Atwood (1939--)	1056	(2)
At the Tourist Center in Boston	1056	(1)
Flowers	1057	(1)
Seamus Heaney (1939--)	1058	(6)
Digging	1058	(1)
Punishment	1059	(2)
The Skunk	1061	(1)
A Dream of Jealousy	1061	(1)
From Station Island	1062	(1)
Casting and Gathering	1063	(1)
Robert Pinsky (1940--)	1064	(2)
A Long Branch Song	1064	(1)
The Street	1064	(2)
Robert Hass (1941--)	1066	(1)
Tahoe in August	1066	(1)
Derek Mahon (1941--)	1067	(2)
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford	1067	(2)
Alfred Corn (1943--)	1069	(2)
Contemporary Culture and the Letter ``K''	1069	(2)
Louise Gluck (1943--)	1071	(1)
Gretel in Darkness	1071	(1)
The Garden	1072	(1)
Michael Ondaatje (1943--)	1072	(2)
From Rock Bottom	1072	(2)
(Ends of the Earth)	1072	(2)
Michael Palmer (1943--)	1074	(1)
Of this cloth doll which	1074	(1)
Fifth Prose	1074	(1)
Eavan Boland (1944--)	1075	(1)
That the Science of Cartography Is Limited	1075	(1)
Craig Raine (1944--)	1076	(1)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	1076	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947--)	1077	(2)
Banking Potatoes	1077	(1)
Sunday Afternoons	1078	(1)
Richard Kenney (1948--)	1079	(1)
Aubade	1079	(1)
Apples on Champlain	1079	(1)
James Fenton (1949--)	1080	(3)
Dead Soldiers	1080	(2)
In Paris with You	1082	(1)
Nicholas Christopher (1951--)	1083	(1)
The Palm Reader	1083	(1)
Jorie Graham (1951--)	1084	(1)
Opulence	1084	(1)
Paul Muldoon (1951--)	1085	(2)
Gathering Mushrooms	1085	(1)
Milkweed and Monarch	1086	(1)
Rita Dove (1952--)	1087	(2)
Parsley	1087	(2)
Daniel Hall (1952--)	1089	(2)
Mangosteens	1089	(2)
Gary Soto (1952--)	1091	(1)
Not Knowing	1091	(1)
Brad Leithauser (1953--)	1092	(1)
In Minako Wada's House	1092	(1)
Gjertrud Schnackenberg (1953--)	1093	(3)
Darwin in 1881	1093	(3)
Louise Erdrich (1954--)	1096	(1)
I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move	1096	(1)
Birth	1097	(1)
Carol Ann Duffy (1955--)	1097	(1)
Warming Her Pearls	1097	(1)
Li-Young Lee (1957--)	1098	(2)
Persimmons	1098	(2)
Cynthia Zarin (1959--)	1100	(3)
The Ant Hill	1100	(1)
Song	1101	(2)
Versification	1103	(20)
Rhythm	1104	(1)
Meter	1104	(7)
Rhyme	1111	(2)
Forms	1113	(9)
Basic Forms	1113	(5)
Composite Forms	1118	(1)
Irregular Forms	1119	(1)
Open Forms or Free Verse	1120	(2)
Further Reading	1122	(1)
Biographical Sketches	1123	(60)
Permissions Acknowledgments	1183	(14)
Index	1197