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by William H. Roetzheim, Editor


  503

  Warden Said To Me The Other Day, The

  504

  Komunyakaa, Yusef

  Blackberries

  607

  Camouflaging The Chimera

  608

  Facing It

  609

  Ode To The Maggot

  610

  Kooser, Ted

  At The Office Early

  540

  Selecting A Reader

  541

  Kopland, Rutger

  Natzweiler

  517

  Landor, Walter Savage

  On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

  100

  Well I Remember

  100

  Lanier, Sidney

  Revenge Of Hamish

  271

  To Nannette Falk-Auerbach

  278

  Waving Of The Corn, The

  277

  Larkin, Philip

  An Arundel Tomb

  464

  Talking In Bed

  465

  This Be The Verse

  466

  Lawrence, D.H.

  From The Ship Of Death

  405

  New Year’s Eve

  405

  Snake

  407

  Lax, Robert

  Alley Violinist

  454

  Lear, Edward

  Owl And The Pussy-Cat, The

  205

  Lee, Li-Young

  Eating Together

  660

  Persimmons

  661

  Levertov, Denise

  Consulting The Oracle

  472

  From A Plane

  472

  Levine, Philip

  Belle Isle, 1949

  492

  Sweet Will

  493

  Levis, Larry

  Poem You Asked For, The

  603

  Lindsay, Vachel

  Horrid Voice Of Science, The

  392

  Locklin, Gerald

  Late Registration

  573

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Beleaguered City, The

  152

  Fire Of Drift-Wood, The

  153

  Jugurtha

  148

  Killed At The Ford

  148

  King Witlaf’s Drinking-Horn

  150

  Landlord’s Tale, The

  155

  Nameless Grave, A

  147

  Nature

  151

  Phantom Ship, The

  159

  Potter’s Wheel, The

  161

  Rainy Day, The

  164

  Three Silences Of Molinos, The

  164

  Travels By The Fireside

  165

  Twilight

  166

  Lovelace, Richard

  To Lucasta, On Going To The Wars

  60

  Lowell, Amy

  Decade, A

  351

  New Heavens For Old

  352

  Patterns

  353

  Lowell, Robert

  Reading Myself

  458

  MacLeish, Archibald

  Ars Poetica

  427

  Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments

  428

  Masters, Edgar Lee

  Alexander Throckmorton

  303

  Aner Clute

  303

  Conrad Siever

  303

  Fiddler Jones

  304

  Silas Dement

  305

  Tom Beatty

  306

  Matthews, William

  Onions

  584

  Poetry Reading At West Point, A

  583

  Mazur, Gail

  In Houston

  525

  McHugh, Heather

  What He Thought

  610

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent

  First Fig

  429

  Milton, John

  On His Blindness

  58

  Mitchell, Adrian

  Puppy Called Puberty, A

  507

  Moore, Marianne

  I May, I Might, I Must

  417

  Injudicious Gardening

  417

  Poetry

  417

  To A Steam Roller

  418

  Moore, Thomas

  An Argument

  101

  Tis The Last Rose Of Summer

  101

  Moritake,

  One Fallen Flower

  40

  Mueller, Lisel

  Imaginary Paintings

  473

  Reader

  474

  Silence And Dancing

  475

  Story, The

  476

  Widow

  476

  Myers, Jack

  Jake Addresses The World From

  The Garden

  573

  Naylor, James B

  Authorship

  291

  Nemerov, Howard

  Gyroscope

  459

  Money

  460

  Snowflakes

  462

  Nordbrandt, William Butler

  Dream Of Death, A

  298

  Nowlan, Alden

  An Exchange Of Gifts

  508

  It’s Good To Be Here

  510

  Weakness

  510

  O’Brien, Sean

  Rain

  632

  Olds, Sharon

  I Go Back To May 1937

  586

  Once

  587

  Pope’s Penis, The

  590

  Promise, The

  590

  Quake Theory

  587

  Satan Says

  588

  Space Heater, The

  591

  Owen, Wilfred

  Dulce Et Decorum Est

  430

  Padilla, Heberto

  Landscapes

  508

  Pagis, Dan

  Conversation

  499

  Patmore, Coventry

  Toys, The

  230

  Patten, Brian

  Party Piece

  604

  Pettit, Michael

  Driving Lesson

  627

  Phillips, Robert

  Instrument Of Choice

  529

  Pinsky, Robert

  Shirt

  560

  Po, Li

  River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, The

  38

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Annabel Lee

  170

  For Annie

  172

  Raven, The

  175

  Pound, Ezra

  Eyes, The

  412

  Francesca

  410

  Garden, The

  413

  In A Station Of The Metro

  410

  Lustra - Introduction

  411

  Pact, A

  410

  Plunge, The

  413

  Salutation

  412

  Tame Cat

  411

  Tree, The

  414

  Robinson, Edwin Arlington

  Amaryllis

  307

  An Old Story

  307

  Dead Village, The

  314

  The Growth of “Lorraine”

  314

  Haunted House

  308

  John Evereldown

  308

  Karma

  309

  Mill, The

  316


  Mr. Flood’s Party

  310

  Pity Of The Leaves, The

  317

  Reuben Bright

  312

  Richard Cory

  312

  Sheaves, The

  318

  Souvenir

  313

  Supremacy

  313

  Tavern, The

  318

  Roetzheim, William

  Fading Into Background

  653

  Opera Season

  654

  Response To Emily Dickinson’s

  “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”

  652

  Shadow Friends

  655

  Stretch Marks

  653

  Roka,

  Winter Rain Deepens

  306

  Rossetti, Christina Georgina

  First Day, The

  264

  Goblin Market

  246

  Remember

  262

  Song

  263

  Russell, Timothy

  In Simili Materia

  631

  Ryusui,

  Lost Child Crying, A

  61

  Sandburg, Carl

  Junk Man, The

  391

  Last Answers

  391

  To Know Silence Perfectly

  392

  Sarajlic, Izet

  Luck In Sarajevo

  499

  Schultz, Philip

  Answering Machine, The

  596

  Schwartz, Ruth

  Swan At Edgewater Park, The

  665

  Seiffert, Marjorie Allen

  Cubist Portrait

  396

  Service, Robert

  Ballad Of Pious Pete, The

  365

  Ballad Of The Black Fox Skin, The

  370

  Cremation Of Sam Mcgee, The

  377

  Just Think!

  356

  Lost

  357

  My Madonna

  362

  On The Wire

  362

  Shooting Of Dan Mcgrew, The

  380

  Smoking Frog, The

  384

  Soldier Of Fortune, The

  385

  Wee Shop, The

  388

  Sexton, Anne

  Her Kind

  495

  How We Danced

  495

  With Mercy For The Greedy

  496

  Shakespeare, William

  All The World’s A Stage

  44

  Sonnet XVII

  45

  Sonnet XVIII

  45

  Sonnet XXXII

  46

  Sonnet LV

  46

  Sonnet CXXX

  47

  Sonnet CXXXVIII

  47

  Sonnet CXLIII

  48

  Sonnet CXLVII

  49

  Tomorrow, And Tomorrow,

  And Tomorrow

  49

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe

  Music

  103

  Mutability

  104

  Ozymandias

  106

  Song From Charles The First

  105

  Shelton, Richard

  Bus To Veracruz, The

  511

  Stones, The

  515

  Sheng, Mei

  Beautiful Toilet, The

  33

  Shiki, (Masaoka Tsunenori)

  By That Fallen House

  302

  Shuntaro, Tanikawa

  From With Silence My Companion

  505

  From: My Father’s Death

  506

  Naif, The

  506

  Rudimentary Explanation

  Of An Ideal Poem, A

  504

  Sidney, Sir Philip

  Be Your Words Made, Good Sir

  Of Indian Ware

  40

  Ditty, A

  41

  Loving In Truth

  41

  To Sleep

  42

  Sill, Edward Rowland

  Five Lives

  281

  Simic, Charles

  Country Fair

  529

  Fork

  530

  Northern Exposure

  530

  Old World, The

  532

  Prodigy

  531

  Slavitt, David

  Titanic

  522

  Smith, Dave

  Pulling A Pig’s Tail

  593

  Wreck In The Woods

  594

  Smith, Stevie

  Not Waving But Drowning

  435

  Sunt Leones

  436

  Snyder, Gary

  Axe Handles

  500

  What You Should Know To Be A Poet

  501

  Southey, Robert

  After Blenheim

  96

  Scholar, The

  99

  Stafford, William

  Traveling Through The Dark

  453

  Stanton, Maura

  Living Apart

  605

  Stein, Gertrude

  From Idem The Same, A Valentine

  To Sherwood Anderson, A Very Valentine

  390

  Stetson, Charles Perkins

  An Obstacle

  292

  Stevens, Wallace

  Snow Man, The

  393

  Thirteen Ways Of Looking At

  A Blackbird

  393

  Stevenson, Robert Louis

  Requiem

  286

  Stoddard, Richard Henry

  Jar, The

  231

  Strand, Mark

 

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