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| Preface | xi | ||
| Questions That Give You Full Access to Each Poem | xiii | ||
| Possible Annotations for Study, Discussion, and Writing | xv | ||
| Robert Frost, "The Gift Outright" | xvii | ||
| David Madden, Exploding Parallels | xix | ||
| Robert Frost, "The Gift Outright" Annotated Version | xxi | ||
| David Madden, "Exploding Parallels" Annotated Version | xxiii | ||
| About the Editor | xxvi | ||
| Sherman Alexie, "Indian Boy Love Song (#I)" | 1 | (1) | |
| W.H. Auden, "As I Walked Out One Evening" | 2 | (3) | |
| W.H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen" | 5 | (2) | |
| Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Green Chile" | 7 | (2) | |
| Elizabeth Bishop, "Sestina" | 9 | (2) | |
| William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper" | 11 | (2) | |
| William Blake, "London" | 13 | (1) | |
| Louise Bogan, "Medus" | 14 | (2) | |
| Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book" | 16 | (2) | |
| Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Mother" | 18 | (2) | |
| Gwendolyn Brooks, "Sadie and Maud" | 20 | (1) | |
| Robert Browning, "Meeting at Night" | 21 | (1) | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight" | 22 | (3) | |
| Billy Collins, "The Names" | 25 | (3) | |
| Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel" | 28 | (1) | |
| e.e. cummings, "anyone lived in a pretty how town" | 29 | (2) | |
| e.e. cummings, "next to of course god america I" | 31 | (1) | |
| e.e. cummings, "somewhere i have never travelled gladly beyond" | 32 | (2) | |
| Walter de la Mare, "The Listeners" | 34 | (2) | |
| Emily Dickinson, "After great pain, a formal feeling comes-" | 36 | (1) | |
| Emily Dickinson, "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" | 37 | (2) | |
| Emily Dickinson, "A narrow Fellow in the Grass" | 39 | (2) | |
| Emily Dickinson, "There's a certain Slant of light" | 41 | (1) | |
| Emily Dickinson, "Wild Nights-Wild Nights!" | 42 | (1) | |
| John Donne, "The Flea" | 43 | (2) | |
| John Donne, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" | 45 | (2) | |
| H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Helen" | 47 | (1) | |
| Paul Lawrence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask" | 48 | (1) | |
| Richard Eberhart, "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment" | 49 | (1) | |
| Richard Eberhart, "The Groundhog" | 50 | (2) | |
| T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" | 52 | (4) | |
| Louise Erdrich, "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways" | 56 | (2) | |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Sometime During Eternity" | 58 | (3) | |
| Edward Field, "Icarus" | 61 | (2) | |
| Robert Francis, "Catch" | 63 | (1) | |
| Robert Francis, "Pitcher" | 64 | (1) | |
| Robert Frost, "After Apple-Picking" | 65 | (2) | |
| Robert Frost, "Birches" | 67 | (3) | |
| Robert Frost, "Design" | 70 | (1) | |
| Jack Gilbert, "The Abnormal Is Not Courage" | 71 | (1) | |
| Allen Ginsberg, "America" | 72 | (4) | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" | 76 | (2) | |
| Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" | 78 | (6) | |
| Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed" | 84 | (2) | |
| Robert Hass, "Meditation at Lagunitas" | 86 | (2) | |
| Anthony Hecht, "The End of the Weekend" | 88 | (2) | |
| George Herbert, "The Pulley" | 90 | (1) | |
| Robert Herrick, "Delight in Disorder" | 91 | (1) | |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Carrion Comfort" | 92 | (1) | |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring and Fall" | 93 | (1) | |
| A.E. Housman, "Terence, This Is Stupid stuff..." | 94 | (3) | |
| Langston Hughes, "Harlem" | 97 | (1) | |
| Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" | 98 | (1) | |
| Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B" | 99 | (2) | |
| Robinson Jeffers, "The Bloody Sire" | 101 | (1) | |
| Robinson Jeffers, "Cassandra" | 102 | (1) | |
| Donald Justice, "Counting the Mad" | 103 | (1) | |
| John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad" | 104 | (3) | |
| John Keats, "When I Have Fears" | 107 | (1) | |
| X.J. Kennedy, "Nude Descending a Staircase" | 108 | (1) | |
| Galway Kinnell, "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" | 109 | (2) | |
| Etheridge Knight, "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane" | 111 | (2) | |
| Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It" | 113 | (2) | |
| Sidney Lanier, "A Ballad of Trees and the Master" | 115 | (1) | |
| Philip Larkin, "Aubade" | 116 | (2) | |
| Li-Young Lee, "Persimmons" | 118 | (4) | |
| Robert Lovelace, "To Lucasta Going to the Wars" | 122 | (1) | |
| Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead" | 123 | (3) | |
| Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke" | 126 | (3) | |
| Claude McKay, "America" | 129 | (1) | |
| George Meredith, "Lucifer in Starlight" | 130 | (1) | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Recuerdo" | 131 | (1) | |
| Ogden Nash, "The Trouble with Women Is Men" | 132 | (2) | |
| Marge Piercy, "Barbie Doll" | 134 | (2) | |
| Robert Pinsky, "ABC" | 136 | (1) | |
| Sylvia Plath, "Mirror" | 137 | (1) | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee" | 138 | (2) | |
| Sir Walter Ralegh, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" | 140 | (2) | |
| Alberto Alvaro Rios, "Nani" | 142 | (2) | |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy" | 144 | (2) | |
| Theodore Roethke, "Elegy for Jane" | 146 | (2) | |
| Theodore Roethke, "The Waking" | 148 | (1) | |
| Isaac Rosenberg, "Dead Man's Dump" | 149 | (4) | |
| Carl Sandburg, "Chicago" | 153 | (2) | |
| Carl Sandburg, "Fog" | 155 | (1) | |
| William Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" | 156 | (1) | |
| William Shakespeare, "That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold" | 157 | (1) | |
| William Shakespeare, "When Daisies Pied" | 158 | (2) | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" | 160 | (4) | |
| Charles Simic, "Fork" | 164 | (1) | |
| Louis Simpson, "My Father in the Night Commanding No" | 165 | (3) | |
| Christopher Smart, "From Jubilate Agno" | 168 | (4) | |
| Robert Southwell, "The Burning Babe" | 172 | (1) | |
| Stephen Spender, "I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great" | 173 | (2) | |
| Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar" | 175 | (1) | |
| Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West" | 176 | (3) | |
| Allen Tate, "Ode to the Confederate Dead" | 179 | (4) | |
| Sara Teasdale, "I Shall Not Care" | 183 | (1) | |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle" | 184 | (1) | |
| Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill" | 185 | (3) | |
| Robert Penn Warren, "Bearded Oaks" | 188 | (2) | |
| James Welch, "Plea to Those Who Matter" | 190 | (1) | |
| Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" | 191 | (1) | |
| Walt Whitman, "from 'Song of Myself'" | 192 | (3) | |
| Walt Whitman, "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" | 195 | (2) | |
| Richard Wilbur, "Museum Piece" | 197 | (1) | |
| William Carlos Williams, "Spring and All" | 198 | (2) | |
| William Carlos Williams, "This Is Just to Say" | 200 | (1) | |
| William Wordsworth, "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" | 201 | (1) | |
| William Wordsworth, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798" | 202 | (6) | |
| William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper" | 208 | (2) | |
| James Wright, "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio" | 210 | (1) | |
| James Wright, "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" | 211 | (1) | |
| Elinor Wylie, "The Eagle and the Mole" | 212 | (2) | |
| Elinor Wylie, "Escape" | 214 | (1) | |
| William Butler Yeats, "Byzantium" | 215 | (2) | |
| William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" | 217 | (2) | |
| Credits | 219 |
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