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The Giant Book of Poetry

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by William H. Roetzheim, Editor


  The Tiger

  63

  The Toys

  230

  The Tree

  414

  The Unmoving Cloud

  36

  The Vampire

  229

  The Vantage Point

  350

  The Walrus and the Carpenter

  264

  The Warden Said to Me the Other Day

  504

  The Waving of the Corn

  277

  The way I read a letter’s this

  242

  The Way of the Water-Hyacinth

  438

  The Way Through the Woods

  296

  The Wee Shop

  388

  The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery

  629

  The Windhover

  281

  The Wood-Pile

  350

  The young bloods come less often now

  33

  There came a wind like a bugle

  243

  There will come soft rains

  404

  There’s a certain slant of light

  244

  They say my Verse is Sad: No Wonder

  290

  Thirteen

  598

  Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

  393

  This Be the Verse

  466

  This Compost

  215

  This is Just to Say

  402

  This living hand, now warm and capable1

  138

  ‘Tis the Last Rose of Summer

  101

  Titanic

  522

  To A Louse

  66

  To A Mountain Daisy

  68

  To a Steam Roller

  418

  To a Waterfowl

  118

  To an Athlete Dying Young

  290

  To Know Silence Perfectly

  392

  To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars

  60

  To make a prairie it takes a clover

  245

  To Mark Anthony in Heaven

  401

  To Nannette Falk-Auerbach

  278

  To See a World in a Grain of Sand

  64

  To Sleep

  42

  To the Virgins

  55

  Tom Beatty

  306

  Tomatoes

  571

  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  49

  Tract

  402

  Transformatrix

  666

  Traveling Through the Dark

  453

  Travels by the Fireside

  165

  Trees

  416

  Trust

  169

  Twilight

  166

  Two fragments from Three Types of Loss, Part 3 …

  602

  Upon Julia’s Clothes

  56

  Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton′s Wife

  51

  Variations on the Word Sleep

  536

  Vergissmeinnicht

  458

  Vivien’s Song

  184

  Waiting for Lumber

  647

  Wan Chu’s Wife in Bed

  639

  War Poetry

  666

  We and They

  297

  We are Seven

  72

  We Grow Accustomed to the Dark

  245

  Weakness

  510

  Well I Remember

  100

  What He thought

  610

  What I Learned from My Mother

  664

  What Saves Us

  620

  What you should know to be a poet

  501

  Wheels

  658

  When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer

  217

  Widow

  476

  Wild nights! Wild nights!

  246

  Will, lost in a sea of trouble

  32

  Winter rain deepens

  306

  Wise I

  516

  With Mercy for the Greedy

  496

  Woolworth’s

  635

  Wreck in the Woods

  594

  Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

  285

  You Fit Into Me

  537

  Young and Old

  207

  Zimmer’s Head Thudding Against

  the Blackboard

  521

  Index by Subject

  Title

  Page

  Children

  Nursery

  Owl and the Pussy-cat, The

  205

  Walrus and the Carpenter, The

  264

  Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

  285

  Story

  Goblin Market

  246

  Pied Piper of Hamelin, The

  196

  Strange

  Fork

  530

  I like to see it lap the miles

  238

  Bagel, The

  448

  Stones, The

  515

  Choices

  Anger & Forgiveness

  Cubist Portrait

  396

  Forgiveness

  168

  In the Desert

  319

  Revenge of Hamish

  271

  This is Just to Say

  402

  Consequences

  Any movement kills something

  477

  Keeping Things Whole

  519

  Richard Cory

  312

  River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, The

  38

  Difficult Decisions

  Moment

  601

  Road Not Taken, The

  349

  Traveling Through the Dark

  453

  Faith

  Content

  42

  I am the Only Being Whose Doom

  206

  I had been hungry all the years

  236

  Integer Vitae

  50

  Sunt Leones

  436

  Patience

  Jake Addresses the World from

  the Garden

  573

  Peer Pressure

  Aner Clute

  303

  Injudicious Gardening

  417

  Snake

  407

  Prudence

  Song of Prudence

  211

  Temptation

  Authorship

  291

  Deed knocks first at thought, A

  231

  Drinking

  59

  First Fig

  429

  from Wanderings - Chapter Heading

  433

  Growth of “Lorraine”, The

  314

  Jar, The

  231

  Ruined Maid, The

  270

  Song in the Front Yard, A

  456

  Eternity

  A Passageway

  I felt a funeral in my brain

  236

  King Witlaf’s Drinking-Horn

  150

  Thanatopsis

  109

  Dust Unto Dust

  23 (XXIII)

  39

  Carrion, A

  218

  Because I could not stop for death

  234

  Five Lives

  281

  from Beginning and End - Knowledge

  432

  I Know a Man

  482

&nbs
p; I’ll Win

  482

  In a Disused Graveyard

  342

  Just Think!

  356

  Long Feud

  414

  Ozymandias

  106

  Potter’s Wheel, The

  161

  Sad Shepherd, The

  301

  Smoking Frog, The

  384

  To A Mountain Daisy

  68

  Tom Beatty

  306

  Heaven, Hell, Purgatory

  Bus to Veracruz, The

  511

  Heaven of Animals, The

  467

  Living Apart

  605

  Immortality

  Conrad Siever

  303

  My Legacy

  210

  Ode on a Grecian Urn

  139

  Reading Myself

  458

  Sonnet 017 (XVII)

  45

  This living hand, now warm and capable

  138

  To an Athlete Dying Young

  290

  To Nannette Falk-Auerbach

  278

  Toccata of Galuppi’s, A

  185

  Well I Remember

  100

  Priorities

  Fiddler Jones

  304

  Heaven

  481

  Leisure

  319

  Life

  55

  Salutation

  412

  Supremacy

  313

  Titanic

  522

  To A Louse

  66

  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  49

  The End of the World

  Ark

  660

  Fire And Ice

  336

  The March of Time

  Apparently with no surprise

  233

  Autumn Thoughts

  167

  Days

  141

  Hamatreya

  141

  Lustra - Introduction

  411

  Mutability

  104

  Mutation

  108

  Fire of Drift-Wood, The

  153

  Need of Being Versed

  in Country Things, The

  347

  Ghosts, Evil, Superstition

  Death

  Annabel Lee

  170

  Ballad of Pious Pete, The

  365

  Cremation of Sam McGee, The

  377

  Dream of Death, A

  298

  For Annie

  172

  Never the Time and the Place

  190

  Ghosts

  Beleaguered City, The

  152

  Flask, The

  224

  For Once, Then, Something

  336

  Ghostly Visitant, The

  226

  La Belle Dame Sans Merci

  135

  Phantom Ship, The

  159

  Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The

  75

  Strange Lady, The

  115

  Way Through the Woods, The

  296

  Ghouls

  Her Kind

  495

  Metamorphoses of the Vampire

  222

  Spleen

  223

  Haunted Buildings

  Haunted House

  308

  Dead Village, The

  314

  Mill, The

  316

  Tavern, The

  318

  Murder

  Isabella

  120

  Karma

  309

  Porphyria’s Lover

  191

  Murdered Traveler, The

  112

  Murderer’s Wine, The

  226

  Supernatural

  Ballad of Father Gilligan,The

  299

  Ballad of the Black Fox Skin, The

  370

  Lost

  357

  Presentiment, A

  107

  Raven, The

  175

  Growing Up and Growing Old

  Aging

  Ah! I intended

  61

  All the World’s a Stage

  44

  Amaryllis

  307

  An Old Man’s Winter Night

  329

  Death

  53

  Fading into Background

  653

  Gyroscope

  459

  Miss July Grows Older

  534

  Northern Exposure

  530

  Old Days

  483

  Silence and Dancing

  475

  So, we’ll go no more a-roving

  103

  Song from Charles the First

  105

  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  345

  Thanksgiving’s Done

  484

  Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The

  421

  Three Graces, The

  400

  Tis the last rose of summer

  101

  Wreck in the Woods

  594

  Young and Old

  207

  Generations

  28 (XXVIII)

  39

  Axe Handles

  500

  Driving Lesson

  627

  In Simili Materia

  631

  Living in the La Brea Tar Pits

  575

  Idea of Ancestry, The

  503

  This Be the Verse

  466

  Looking Back

  Alexander Throckmorton

  303

  Birches

  329

  Forgetfulness

  562

  Get It Again

  614

  I look into my glass

  269

  Dance, The

  524

  Persimmons

  661

  New Heavens for Old

  352

  Young bloods come less

  often now, The

  33

  Middle-age

  Act, The

  398

  Living in the Body

  619

  Next Day

  450

  Mortal Illness

  Junk Man, The

  391

  Last Words of My English

  Grandmother, The

  399

  Scholar, The

  99

  Puberty

  Puppy Called Puberty, A

  507

  Thirteen

  598

 

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