The Ruined Maid
Sidney Lanier (1842 – 1881)
The Revenge of Hamish
The Waving of the Corn
To Nannette Falk-Auerbach
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889)
Binsey Poplars
Carrion Comfort
Spring and Fall
The Windhover
Edward Rowland Sill (1847 – 1881)
Five Lives
William Ernest Henley (1849 – 1903)
Invictus
Eugene Field (1850 – 1895)
Little Boy Blue
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)
Requiem
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 – 1919)
Solitude
A.E. Housman (1859 – 1936)
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Terence, This is Stupid Stuff
They say my Verse is Sad: No Wonder
To an Athlete Dying Young
James B Naylor (1860 – 1902)
Authorship
Charles Perkins Stetson (1860 – 1935)
An Obstacle
Black Elk (1863 – 1950)
Everything the Power of the World Does is done in a circle
Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1930)
If
The Way Through the Woods
We and They
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)
A Dream of Death
Politics
The Ballad of Father Gilligan
The Indian upon God
The Sad Shepherd
Shiki (Masaoka Tseunenori) (1867 – 1902)
By that fallen house
Edgar Lee Masters (1868 – 1950)
Alexander Throckmorton
Aner Clute
Conrad Siever
Fiddler Jones
Silas Dement
Tom Beatty
Roka (1868 – 1927)
Winter rain deepens
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 – 1935)
Amaryllis
An Old Story
Haunted House
John Evereldown
Karma
Mr. Flood’s Party
Reuben Bright
Richard Cory
Souvenir
Supremacy
The Dead Village
The Growth of “Lorraine”
The Mill
The Pity of the Leaves
The Sheaves
The Tavern
Stephen Crane (1871 – 1900)
In the desert
W.H. Davies (1871 – 1940)
Leisure
Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)
“Out, Out—”
A Brook in the City
A Dream Pang
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books
A Late Walk
After Apple-Picking
An Old Man’s Winter Night
Birches
Death of the Hired Man
Fire and Ice
For Once, Then, Something
Good-by and Keep Cold
Home Burial
In a Disused Graveyard
Into My Own
Mending Wall
Misgiving
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Storm Fear
The Aim was Song
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
The Onset
The Road Not Taken
The Vantage Point
The Wood-Pile
Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925)
A Decade
New Heavens for Old
Patterns
Robert Service (1874 – 1958)
Just Think!
Lost
My Madonna
On the Wire
The Ballad of Pious Pete
The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
The Smoking Frog
The Soldier of Fortune
The Wee Shop
Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946)
from Idem the Same, A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson, A Very Valentine
Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967)
Last Answers
The Junk Man
To Know Silence Perfectly
Vachel Lindsay (1879 – 1931)
The Horrid Voice of Science
Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955)
The Snow Man
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1881 – 1968)
Cubist Portrait
William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963)
Danse Russe
The Act
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Three Graces
To Mark Anthony in Heaven
This is Just to Say
Tract
Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933)
There will come soft rains
D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)
From The Ship of Death
New Year’s Eve
Snake
Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972)
A Pact
Francesca
In a Station of the Metro
Lustra (from the Introduction)
Tame Cat
Salutation
The Eyes
The Garden
The Plunge
The Tree
Louis Untermeyer (1885 – 1972)
Long Feud
Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915)
The Soldier
Robinson Jeffers (1887 – 1962)
Fawn’s Foster-Mother
Joyce Kilmer (1887 – 1918)
Trees
Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972)
I May, I Might, I Must
Injudicious Gardening
Poetry
To a Steam Roller
T.S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Hysteria
Anna Akhmatova (1889 – 1966)
Requiem – Instead of a Preface
Archibald MacLeish (1892 – 1982)
Ars Poetica
Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950)
First Fig
Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est
Lucian Blaga (1895 – 1961)
I will not crush the world’s corolla of wonders
Miyazawa Kenji (1896 – 1933)
Daydreaming on the Trail
Louise Bogan (1897 – 1970)
from Beginning and End—Knowledge
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1960)
from Wanderings — Chapter Heading
Wen I-to (1899 – 1946)
Dead Water
Anonymous
The Anvil—God’s Word
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967)
Dream Deferred: Harlem
Evil
Maybe
Suicide’s Note
Stevie Smith (1902 – 1983)
Not Waving but Drowning
Sunt Leones
W.H. Auden (1907 – 1973)
Dichtung and Wahrheit
From Selected Shorts
Marginalia (Extracts)
Zawgee (1907 – 1973)
The Way of the Water-Hyacinth
Elizabeth Bishop (1911 – 1979)
Filling Station
In the Waiting Room
One Art
Sestina
The Armadillo
May Swenson (1913 – 1989)
A Couple
David Ignatow (1914 – 1997)
The Bagel
Randall Jarrell (1914 – 1965)
Bats
Next Day
&
nbsp; The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
William Stafford (1914 – 1993)
Traveling Through the Dark
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953)
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Robert Lax (1915 – 2000)
Alley Violinist
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000)
A Song in the Front Yard
The Boy Died in my Alley
Robert Lowell (1917 – 1977)
Reading Myself
Keith Douglas (1920 – 1944)
Vergissmeinnicht
Howard Nemerov (1920 – 1991)
Gyroscope
Money
Snowflakes
Hayden Carruth (b. 1921)
Little Citizen, Little Survivor
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
A Summer Morning
Philip Larkin (1922 – 1985)
An Arundel Tomb
Talking In Bed
This Be the Verse
James Dickey (1923 – 1997)
The Heaven of Animals
The Sheep Child
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003)
How We Heard the Name
Love Song: I and Thou
Denise Levertov (1923 – 1997)
Consulting the Oracle
From a Plane
Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)
Imaginary Paintings
Reader
Silence and Dancing
The Story
Widow
Roberto Juarroz (1925 – 1995)
Any movement kills something
Donald Justice (1925 – 2004)
American Sketches
In Bertram’s Garden
Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)
Bitch
The Ashes
Robert Creeley (1926 – 2005)
Heaven
I Know a Man
I’ll Win
Old Days
Place (“There’s a Way out”)
Thanksgiving’s Done
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)
St. Francis and the Sow
James Wright (1927 – 1980)
A Blessing
Beginning
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
Irving Feldman (b. 1928)
The Dream
Donald Hall (b. 1928)
My mother said
Names of Horses
The Porcelain Couple
Philip Levine (b. 1928)
Belle Isle, 1949
Sweet Will
Anne Sexton (1928 – 1974)
Her Kind
from The Death of the Fathers: 2.How We Danced
With Mercy for the Greedy
Thom Gunn (1929 – 2004)
Still Life
The Reassurance
Dan Pagis (1930 – 1986)
Conversation
Izet Sarajlic (b. 1930)
Luck in Sarajevo
Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
Axe Handles
What you should know to be a poet
Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
Love after Love
Miller Williams (b. 1930)
Listen
Etheridge Knight (1931 – 1991)
The Idea of Ancestry
The Warden Said to Me the Other Day
Tanikawa Shuntaro (b. 1931)
A Rudimentary Explanation of an Ideal Poem
from With Silence My Companion
From My Father’s Death
The Naif
Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932)
A Puppy Called Puberty
Heberto Padilla (1932 – 2000)
Landscapes
Alden Nowlan (1933 – 1983)
An Exchange of Gifts
It’s Good To Be Here
Weakness
Richard Shelton (b. 1933)
The Bus to Veracruz
The Stones
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934)
“Wise I”
Rutger Kopland (b. 1934)
Natzweiler
Mark Strand (b. 1934)
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