The Giant Book of Poetry
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Waiting for Death
From The Ship of Death
405
I heard a fly buzz when I died
237
Misgiving
344
Mr. Flood’s Party
310
Nature
151
On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
100
Place (“There’s a Way out”)
483
Souvenir
313
Still Life
498
Pity of the Leaves, The
317
Woolworth’s
635
Human Condition
Confession
From With Silence My Companion
505
George Washington and the Loss of His Teeth
527
How We Danced
495
I Go Back to May 1937
586
On the Disinclination to Scream
650
Once
587
Quake Theory
587
Satan Says
588
Space Heater, The
591
With Mercy for the Greedy
496
Friendship
Bell, The
638
Belle Isle, 1949
492
Walk Along the Old Tracks, A
640
Parents
Certain People
636
Dry Tortugas, The
651
Place for Everything, A
583
What I Learned from My Mother
664
Self
In the Waiting Room
440
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s
Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
486
Sex and Relationships
Instrument of Choice
529
Party Piece
604
Response to Emily Dickinson’s
“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”
652
Sheep Child, The
468
Swan at Edgewater Park, The
665
Tomatoes
571
Society
Answering Machine, The
596
Country Fair
529
Defense of the Meek
602
Intrigue
649
Marginalia (Extracts)
437
Punishment
538
Suicide
Suicide’s Note
435
Unexpected or Inner Beauty
Danse Russe
396
Nightclub
564
Onions
584
Inspiration and Faith
Eastern Religion
Consulting the Oracle
472
I will not crush the world’s corolla of wonders
431
Life of a Day, The
581
Lost child crying, A
61
Three Goals, The
542
To See a World in a Grain of Sand
64
Inspiration
Darest Thou Now O Soul
208
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
453
Epitaph on William Muir
65
Hope is the thing with feathers
235
I May, I Might, I Must
417
If
295
I’m nobody! Who are you?
240
Invictus
283
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
345
Solitude
286
Sun and Shadow
169
Props Assist the House, The
242
Way of the Water-Hyacinth, The
438
Will, lost in a sea of trouble
32
Pagan
Everything the Power of the World
Does is done in a circle
294
I taste a liQuor never brewed
239
Indian upon God, The
301
Old World, The
532
Questioning Religion
Carrion Comfort
279
From Fuses I - On God
221
On His Blindness
58
Oxen, The
269
Tiger, The
63
White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery, The
629
Western Religion
By their Works
168
God Says Yes to Me
606
Questions About Angels
568
Snowflakes
462
Anvil-God’s Word, The
434
Rhodora, The
143
Three Silences of Molinos, The
164
Toys, The
230
To a Waterfowl
118
Trust
169
We are Seven
72
Loss and Sorrow
Coping
After great pain a formal feeling comes
233
Spring and Fall
280
Porcelain Couple, The
491
We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
245
Depression
Not Waving but Drowning
435
Pit, The
228
Rainy Day, The
164
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
418
Sestina
444
Shadow Friends
655
There’s a certain slant of light
244
Unmoving Cloud, The
36
Disbelief and Visits
Beyond Recall
595
My Fly
523
Dream, The
487
Reassurance, The
498
Final Instructions
Remember
262
Requiem
286
Song
263
Tract
402
Loss of a Child
Home Burial
338
Leaving Town after the Funeral
637
Little Boy Blue
284
Room, The
649
Loss of a Friend
An Old Story
307
My life closed twice before its close
241
O Captain! My Captain
210
Loss of a Parent
Eating Together
660
From My Father’s Death
506
My mother said
488
Last Night, The
241
Loss of a Spouse
One Art
443
Opera Season
654
Reuben Bright
312
Twilight
166
Upon the Death of Sir Albert
Morton’s Wife
51
Widow
476
Winter rain deepens
306
Lust, betrayal and lost love
Battle of the Sexes
Community
51
Curse, The
54
Dichtung and Wahrheit - Part XXXIII
437
Evil
435
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From Fuses I - On Love
220
Geese
656
Manet’s Olympia
533
Maybe
435
You Fit Into Me
537
Betrayal
Confessional, The
193
False though she be to me and love
61
Heautontimoroumenos
221
My Last Duchess
188
Sonnet 147 (CXLVII)
49
Failed Relationships
Beautiful Toilet, The
33
Dream Pang, A
321
Epitaph on a Henpecked SQuire
65
Population
616
Rain
632
Talking In Bed
465
Shooting of Dan McGrew, The
380
Sick Rose, The
63
Story, The
476
Vampire, The
229
Lust
Garden of Love, The
62
Hysteria
426
In Bertram’s Garden
478
John Evereldown
308
O Blush Not So
137
Salmon
625
Tame Cat
411
Wan Chu’s Wife in Bed
639
Wild nights! Wild nights!
246
Moving On
Bitch
479
Free
669
Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
56
Love after Love
502
Song: Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
58
They say my Verse is Sad: No Wonder
290
Philandering
An Argument
101
Confined Love
52
Dream of Jealousy, A
537
Epitaph for James Smith
64
Garden, The
413
Inconstancy in love
65
To the Virgins
55
Vivien’s Song
184
Make a Statement
Abortion
It’s Good To Be Here
510
Change
Boy Died in my Alley, The
456
Silas Dement
305
To a Steam Roller
418
Corporate Greed
Holes Commence Falling
582
Human Rights
Ashes, The
480
Dacca Gauzes, The
613
Documentary
621
Electric Elegy
600
House that Fear Built:
Warsaw, 1943, The
670
Natzweiler
517
Prodigy
531
ReQuiem - Instead of a Preface
426
Motorcycle Helmets
Wheels
658
Oppression and Discrimination
An Obstacle
292
Blackberries
607
Dream Deferred: Harlem
434
Money
460
Pickwork
644
Warden Said to Me the Other Day, The
504
We and They
297
Wise I
516
Physical Abuse
Style
657
Poverty
Brass Knuckles
577
Landscapes
508
Maroon
579
Religion
Cardinal Detoxes: A Play in One Act, The
543
Pope’s Penis, The
590
Nature
Animals
Bats
449
Badger
106
Blessing, A
485
Fawn’s Foster-Mother
416
Listen
502
Little Citizen, Little Survivor
462
Names of Horses
489
Narrow fellow in the grass, A
232
St. Francis and the Sow
484
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
393
Weakness
510
Windhover, The
281
Earth
Brook in the City, A
321
Horrid Voice of Science, The
392
Onset, The
348
Snow Man, The
393
This Compost
215
Insects
Couple, A
448
Ode to the Maggot
610
Only One of My Deaths
655
Landscape
Beginning
486
Daydreaming on the Trail
431
Dead Water
433
From a Plane
472
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
70
Sheaves, The
318
Solitary Reaper, The
71
To make a prairie it takes a clover
245
Vantage Point, The
350
Sky
Conversation
499
Tree, The
414
Trees
Binsey Poplars
278
Good-by and Keep Cold
337
Into My Own
342
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
287
One fallen flower
40
Trees
416
When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer
217
Wind and Storms
Aim was Song, The
347
Hurricane, The
111
Jobsite Wind
643
Snow-Storm, The
144
Storm Fear
346
There came a wind like a bugle