Poetry for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry, vol. 5

v. 1. The charge of the Light Brigade --
The creation --
The destruction of Sennacherib --
Do not go gentle into that good night --
Harlem --
An Irish airman foresees his death --
a --
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock --
Mirror --
Miss Rosie --
Musaee des beaux arts --
My last duchess --
Ode on a Grecian urn --
The raven --
The red wheelbarrow --
The sonnet-ballad --
Sonnet 130 --
The soul selects her own society --
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening --
Swing low sweet chariot --
This life --
Those winter Sundays. v. 3. Any human to another --
A piaed --
Auto wreck --
The bells --
Chicago --
The courage that my mother had --
Fern Hill --
High windows --
Hope is the thing with feathers --
Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers --
I hear America singing --
The man he killed --
Mother to son --
My papa'a waltz --
Nothing gold can stay --
Not waving but drowning --
Ode to a nightingale --
old age sticks --
[On his blindness] Sonnet 16 --
On the pulse of morning --
Sonnet 116 --
The unknown citizen. v. 5. Ars poetica --
Ballad of Birmingham --
Birch canoe --
Cargoes --
Casey at the bat --
Digging --
Easter 1916 --
Facing it --
The gold lily --
I heard a fly buzz --
when I died --
In Flanders fields --
Kubla Khan --
Lament for the Dorsets --
Leviathan --
Lost sister --
Mending wall --
Sonnet 55 --
A supermarket in California --
To his coy mistress. v. 6 Beware: do not read this poem --
Brazil, January 1, 1502 --
Come with me --
Cool tombs --
A far cry from Africa --
The heaven of animals --
Helen --
Lord Randal --
"More light! More light!" --
Onomatopoeia --
Piano --
The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket --
Queen-Ann's-lace --
Theme for English B --
There's a certain slant of light --
To my dear and loving husband --
We real cool --
The wood-pile. v. 4. Ah, are you digging on my grave? --
As I walked out one evening --
Concord hymn --
The death of the hired man --
Hawk roosting --
The highwayman --
Hunger in New York City --
Oysters --
Psalm 23 --
Richord Cory --
The rime of the ancient mariner --
Shine, perishing republic --
Sir Patrick Spens --
Sonnet 30 --
Strong men, riding horses --
Tears, idle tears --
This is my letter to the world --
Toads --
The tropics in New York --
When I was one-and-twenty. v. 2. Angle of geese --
The bean eaters --
Because I could not stop for death --
The death of the ball turret gunner --
Dover Beach --
Falling upon earth --
Fifteen --
Harlem hopscotch --
Holy Sonnet 10 --
In a station of the metro --
Midnight --
O captain! My captain! --
Ode to the west wind --
Paul Revere's ride --
The road not taken --
Sailing to Byzantium --
Sonnet 18 --
Sonnet 43 --
Tintern Abbey --
The tyger --
Ulysses --
When I have fears that I may cease to be. v. 7 American poetry / Louis Simpson --
Barbara Allan / Anonymous --
A blessing / James Wright --
Butcher shop / Charles Simic --
Fire and ice / Robert Frost --
For the union dead / Robert Lowell --
In the land of Shinar / Denise Levertov --
Inventors / Michael Blumenthal --
Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot --
A Martian sends a postcard home / Craig Raine --
Meeting the British / Paul Muldoon --
The moon glows the same / Matsuo Basho --
A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth --
The second coming / William Butler Yeats --
Siren song / Margaret Atwood --
Small town with one road / Gary Soto --
The soldier / Rupert Brooke --
To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman. v. 8 At the bomb testing site / William Stafford --
Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright --
Bedtime story / George MacBeth --
Beware of ruins / A.D. Hope --
The Constellation Orion / Ted Kooser --
A drink of water / Seamus Heaney --
Drought year / Judith Wright --
Ethics / Linda Pastan --
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Dylan Thomas --
Music lessons / Mary Oliver --
My life closed twice before its close / Emily Dickinson --
Names of horses / Donald Hall --
A red, red rose / Robert Burns --
The river-merchant's wife: A letter / Pound Ezra --
The seafarer / Anonymous --
Sonnet 29 / William Shakespeare --
Starlight / Philip Levine --
To a sad daughter / Michael Ondaatje --
Vancouver lights / Earle Birney --
Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara. v. 9 Anasazi / Gary Snyder --
Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe --
Barbie Doll / Marge Piercy --
Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art / John Keats --
Eating poetry / Mark Strand --
Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray --
The exhibit / Lisel Mueller --
For an Assyrian frieze / Peter Viereck --
Four mountain wolves / Leslie Marmon Silko --
In memory of radio / Amiri Baraka --
The missing / Thom Gunn --
Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes --
Psalm 8 --
Reactionary essary on applied science / Phyllis McGinley --
Sonnet 19 / William Shakespeare --
Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell --
"Trouble with math in a one-room country school" / Jane Kenyon --
War is kind / Stephen Crane. v. 10 Alabama / Naomi Long Madgett --
Ballad of Orange and Grape / Muriel Rukeyser --
A birthday / Christina Rossetti --
Black zodiac / Charles Wright --
Bustle in a house / Emily Dickinson --
Cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service --
Dear reader / James Tate --
Drifters / Bruce Dawe --
Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen --
A farewell to English / Michael Hartnett --
Funeral blues / W.H. Auden --
Hiding place / Jori Graham --
How we heard the name / Alan Dugan --
Landscape with tractor / Henry Taylor --
Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes --
Out, out / Robert Frost --
Phoenix / Howard Nemerov. v. 11 Beowulf / Richard Wilbur --
Chocolates / Louis Simpson --
The Eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Go down, Moses / Anonymous --
The hospital window / James Dickey --
Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios --
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll --
The Milkfish gatherers / James Fenton --
A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson --
Overture to a dance of locomotives / William Carlos Williams --
Paradoxes and oxymorons / John Ashbery --
To a child running with outstretched arms in Canyon de Chelly / N. Scott Momaday --
Tonight I can write / Pablo Neruda --
A valediction: Forbidding mourning / John Donne --
The war against the trees / Stanley Kunitz --
The weight of sweetness / Li-Young Lee. v. 12 Anorexic / Evan Boland --
The Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin --
The base stealer / Robert Francis --
The czar's last christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie --
Filling stations / Elizabeth Bishop --
Fro Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St. Castin / Alden Nowlan --
A grafted tongue / John Montague --
Having a coke with you / Frank O'Hara --
Hope is a tattered flag / Carl Sandburg --
The lamb / William Blake --
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / E.E. Cummings --
My mother pieced quilts / Teresa Palomo Acosta --
On freedom's ground / Richard Wilbur --
The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope --
A tall man executes a jig / Irving Layton --
Wilderness gothic / Al Purdy. v. 13 An African elegy --
Robert Duncan --
Birches --
Robert Frost --
Blood oranges --
Lisel Mueller --
Cavalry crossing a ford --
Walt Whitman --
The conquerors --
Phyllis McGinley --
Darwin in 1881 --
Gjertrud Schnackenberg --
Daylights --
Rosanna Warren --
For the White poets who would be Indian --
Wendy Rose --
I felt a funeral, in my brain --
Emily Dickinson --
i was sitting in mcsorley's --
e. e. cummings --
The idea of order at Key West --
Wallace Stevens --
Leda and the swan --
William Butler Yeats --
The song of the smoke --
W.E.B. Du Bois --
To his excellency General Washington --
Phillis Wheatley --
To the virgins, to make much of time --
Robert Herrick --
We live by what we see at night --
Martin Espada. v. 14 Bidwell ghost --
Louise Erdrich --
The Canterbury tales --
Geoffrey Chaucer --
Climbing --
Lucille Clifton --
Courage --
Anne Sexton --
Deep woods --
Howard Nemerov --
Elegy for my father, who is not dead --
Andrew Hudgins --
The fish --
Marianne Moore --
Incident in a rose garden --
Donald Justice --
In the suburbs --
Louis Simpson --
Kilroy --
Peter Viereck --
Last request --
Joel Brouwer --
The nymph's reply to the shepherd --
Sir Walter Raleigh --
Remember --
Christina Rossetti --
She walks in beauty --
Lord Byron --
Song of the Chattahoochee --
Sidney Lanier --
There will come soft rains --
Sara Teasdale. v. 15 Anniversary / Jo Harjo --
Astonishment / Wislawa Szymborska --
Blackberrying / Sylvia Plath --
Dream variations / Langston Hughes --
For a new citizen of these United States / Li-Young Lee --
Geometry / Rita Dove --
The horizons of rooms / W.S. Merwin --
The Lady of Shalott / Alfred Lord Tennyson --
The Lake Isle of Innisfree / Willima Butler Yeats --
The mystery / Louise Gluck --
Porphyria's lover / Robert Browning --
Rusted legacy / Adrienne Rich --
Smart and final Iris / James Tate --
What belongs to us / Marie Howe --
Wild geese / Mary Oliver. v. 16 Business --
Victor Hernandez Cruz --
Colibri --
Martin Espada --
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley --
Ezra Pound --
I stop writing the poem --
Tess Gallagher --
Merlin enthralled --
Richard Wilbur --
Much madness is divinest sense --
Emily Dickinson --
My father's song --
Simon Ortiz --
Reunions with a ghost --
Ai --
Song of a citizen --
Czeslaw Milosz --
Sonnet XXIX --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
Southbound on the freeway --
May Swenson --
Story from bear country --
Leslie Marmon Silko --
Sunday morning --
Wallace Stevens --
Three times my life has opened --
Jane Hirshfield --
Ways to live --
William Stafford --
What my child learns of the sea --
Audre Lorde. v. 17 The arsenal at Springfield --
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
La belle dame sans merci --
John Keats --
The blue rim of memory --
Denise Levertov --
The cobweb --
Raymond Carver --
Driving to town late to mail a letter --
Robert Bly --
Early in the morning --
Li-Young Lee --
For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton --
Richard Hugo --
Having it out with melancholy --
Jane Kenyon --
I go back to May 1937 --
Sharon Olds --
Knoxville, Tennessee --
Nikki Giovanni --
Mind --
Jorie Graham --
On his having arrived at the age of twenty-three --
John Milton --
Poetry --
Marianne Moore --
The Rhodora --
Ralph Waldo Emerson --
The singer's house --
Seamus Heaney --
Wild swans --
Edna St. Vincent Millay. v. 18 60 --
Rabindranath Tagore --
Address to the angels --
Maxine Kumin --
The afterlife --
Billy Collins --
The continuous life --
Mark Strand --
The country without a post office --
Agha Shahid Ali --
The darkling thrush --
Thomas Hardy --
Duration --
Octavio Paz --
The garden shukkei-en --
Carolyn Forche --
The greatest grandeur --
Pattiann Rogers --
The last question --
Dorothy Parker --
Midnight verses --
Anna Akhmatova --
New rule --
Anne Carson --
Song of reasons --
Robert Pinsky --
Spring-watching pavilion --
Ho Xuan Huong --
Temple bells die out --
Matsuo Basho --
To an unknown poet --
Carolyn Kizer. v. 19 And what if I spoke of despair --
Ellen Bass --
The boy --
Marilyn Hacker --
Childhood --
Rainer Maria Rilke --
The cinnamon peeler --
Michael Ondaatje --
The city limits --
A.R. Ammons --
His speed and strength --
Alicia Ostriker --
Ithaka --
C.P. Cavafy --
Once again I prove the theory of relativity --
Sandra Cisneros --
On location in the Loire Valley --
Diane Ackerman --
Ordinary words --
Ruth Stone --
Perfect light --
Ted Hughes --
Proem --
Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Seven seeds --
Jill Bialosky --
Social life --
Tony Hoagland --
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond --
e.e. cummings --
True night --
Gary Snyder. v. 20 Air for Mercury by Brenda Hillman. --
The Alchemy of Day by Anne Hebert. ---
But Perhaps God needs the longing by Nelly Sachs. --
Drinking alone beneath the moon by Li Po. --
Gacela of the dark death by Federico Garcia Lorca. --
the God who loves you by Carl Dennis. --
Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho. --
In particular by Elena Karina Byme. --
Memoir by Mona Van Duyn. --
Moreover, the moon by Mina Loy. --
Ode to a drum by Yusef Komunyakaa. --
Paradiso by Kenneth Koch. --
A thirst against by Linda Gregg. --
Two poems for T. by Cesare Pavese. --
Vairations on nothing by Giuseppe Ungaretti. --
The waste land by T.S. Eliot. v. 21 Accounting --
Claribel Alegria --
Answer to Letters --
Tomas Transtromer --
Fading light --
Robert Creeley --
Ghazal --
Elizabeth Spires --
Hymn to beauty --
Charles Baudelaire --
Late and deep --
Paul Celan --
Maternity --
Anna Swir --
Memory --
Sarah Arvio --
Morning walk --
Claire Malroux --
Rapture --
Joelle Biele --
A rebirth --
Faroogh Farrokhzaad --
The reverse side --
Stephen Dunn --
Station --
Eamon Grennan --
Ten years after your deliberate drowning --
Robin Behn --
While I was gone a war began --
Ana Castillo --
Words for departure --
Louise Bogan. v. 22 Apple sauce for Eve --
Marge Piercy --
Death sentences --
Radmila Lazic --
The forest --
Susan Stewart --
If --
Rudyard Kipling --
It's a woman's world --
Eavan Boland --
Metamorphoses --
Ovid --
Omen --
Edward Hirsch --
On the threshold --
Eugenio Montale --
The passionate shepherd to his love --
Christopher Marlowe --
Pineapples and pomegranates --
Paul Muldoon --
t The satyr's heart --
Brigit Pegeen Kelly --
The Toni Morrison dreams --
Elizabeth Alexander --
Trompe l'Oeil --
Mary Jo Salter --
What I would ask my husband's dead father --
Sharon Hashimoto --
When I heard the learn'd astronomer --
Walt Whitman --
Why the classics --
Zbigniew Herbert. v. 23 Allegory --
Mary Jo Bang --
All it takes --
Carl Phillips --
The art of the novel --
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Aurora Leigh --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
The crime was in Granada --
Antonio Machado --
An elementary school classroom in a slum --
Stephen Spender --
Fiddler crab --
Josephine Jacobsen --
It's like this --
Stephen Dobyns --
Lake --
Rosanna Warren --
Lepidopterology --
Jesper Svenbro --
Lost in translation --
James Merrill --
The nerve --
Glyn Maxwell --
Pine --
Kimiko Hahn --
Practice --
Ellen Bryant Voigt --
September --
Joanne Kyger --
Song: to Celia --
Ben Jonson. v. 24 All I was doing was breathing --
Mirabai --
Always --
Guillaume Apollinaire --
At the cancer clinic --
Ted Kooser --
The Chambered Nautilus --
Oliver Wendell Holmes --
For the sake of strangers --
Dorianne Laux --
Kindness --
Naomi Shihab Nye --
The litany --
Dana Gioia --
Monologue for an onion --
Sue (Suji) Kwock Kim --
Not like a cypress --
Yehuda Amichai --
One is one --
Marie Ponsot --
Our side --
Carol Muske-Dukes --
A poison tree --
William Blake --
Portrait of a couple at century's end --
Sherod Santos --
The room --
Conrad Aiken --
Seeing you --
Jean Valentine --
Three to's and an oi --
Heather McHugh. v. 25 Art thou the thing I wanted --
Alice Fulton --
Bonnard's garden --
Rick Barot --
Chorale --
Kevin Young --
The cossacks --
Linda Pastan --
Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta --
Reetika Vazirani --
Hum --
Ann Lauterbach --
Knowledge --
Kim Addonizio --
The legend --
Garrett Hongo --
Originally --
Carol Ann Duffy --
Rent --
Jane Cooper --
The river mumma wants out --
Lorna Goodison --
Self-portrait --
Adam Zagajewski --
Supernatural love --
Gjertrud Schnackenberg --
View --
Marvin Bell --
Virtue --
George Herbert --
Whoso list to hunt --
Thomas Wyatt. v. 26 After Raphael --
Lucie Brock-Broido --
Another night in the ruins --
Galway Kinnell --
An anthem --
Sonia Sanchez --
The black heralds --
Cesar Vallejo --
Curse --
Frank Bidart --
I, I, I --
Hayden Carruth --
Mastectomy --
Alicia Ostriker --
One of the smallest --
Gerald Stern --
Pied beauty --
Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Russian letter --
John Yau --
Sentimental education --
Mary Ruefle --
Walk your body down --
J.T. Barbarese --
The war correspondent --
Ciaran Carson --
What the poets could have been --
Julianna Baggott --
Witness --
Liz Waldner. v. 27 Archaic torso of Apollo --
Rainer Maria Rilke --
Borges and I --
Jorge Luis Borges --
Conversation with a stone --
Wislawa Szymborska --
Dream song 29 --
John Berryman --
Goblin market --
Christina Rossetti --
Iola, Kansas --
Amy Clampitt --
The man-moth --
Elizabeth Bishop --
My grandmother's plot in the family cemetary --
Claudia Emerson --
Ozymandias --
Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Requiem --
Anna Akhmatova --
A satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general --
Jonathan Swift --
September 1, 1939 --
W.H. Auden --
Telephone conversation --
Wole Soyinka --
Waterfalls in a bank --
A.K. Ramanujan --
Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance --
Lyn Hejinian. v. 28 Blighters / Siegfried Sassoon --
The bronze horseman / Alexander Pushkin --
Christ climbed down / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
Daddy / Sylvia Plath --
The drunken boat / Arthur Rimbaud --
Ego-tripping / Nikki Giovanni --
The heights of Macchu Picchu / Pablo Neruda --
How I got that name / Marilyn Chin --
I died for beauty / Emily Dickinson --
Sea rose / H.D. --
Self-portrait in a convex mirror / John Ashbery --
The tragedy of the leaves / Charles Bukowski --
The wings / Mark Doty --
The women who loved Elvis all their lives / Fleda Brown. v. 29 America, America --
Saadi Youssef --
An attempt at jealousy --
Marina Tsvetaeva --
Babii Yar --
Yevgeny Yevtushenko --
Diving into the wreck --
Adrienne Rich --
From the rising of the sun --
Czeslaw Milosz --
Heart's needle --
W.D. Snodgrass --
Homage to my hips --
Lucille Clifton --
Howl --
Allen Ginsberg --
Love calls us to the things of this world --
Richard Wilbur --
Native guard --
Natasha Trethewey --
The night piece: to Julia --
Robert Herrick --
On being brought from Africa to America --
Phillis Wheatley --
Pantoun for Chinese women --
Shirley Geok-lin Lim --
Poem in which my legs are accepted --
Kathleen Fraser --
St. Roach --
Muriel Rukeyser --
When we two parted --
Lord George Gordon Byron. v. 30 Anyone lived in a pretty how town --
e. e. cummings --
The centaur --
May Swenson --
Follower --
Seamus Heaney --
Freeway 280 --
Lorna Dee Cervantes --
Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning --
Alice Walker --
I, too --
Langston Hughes --
A nocturnal reverie --
Anne Finch --
Oranges --
Gary Soto --
The peace of wild things --
Wendell Berry --
Slam, dunk, & hook --
Yusef Komunyakaa --
Sunstone --
Octavio Paz --
The taxi --
Amy Lowell --
Thanatopsis --
William Cullen Bryant --
The walrus and the carpenter --
Lewis Carroll --
Ye goatherd gods --
Sir Philip Sidney --
Young --
Anne Sexton. v. 31 An ancient gesture / by Edna St. Vincent Millay --
The black snake / by Mary Oliver --
The fish / by Elizabeth Bishop --
Fragment 2 / by Sappho --
The hippopotamus / by Ogden Nash --
Huswifery / by Edward Taylor --
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / by Federico Garcia Lorca --
Lineage / by Margaret Walker --
Losses / by Randall Jarrell --
A noiseless patient spider / by Walt Whitman --
Outside history / by Eavan Boland --
Runagate runagate / by Robert Hayden --
Some people like poetry / by Wislawa Szymborska --
Storm ending / by Jean Toomer --
A tree telling of Orpheus / by Denise Levertov --
The wreck of the Hesperus / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. v. 32 After apple picking / Robert Frost --
A Black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps --
Everything is plundered / Anna Akhmatova --
The explorer / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Grudnow / Linda Pastan --
Hanging fire / Audre Lorde --
The horses / Ted Hughes --
In response to Executive Order 9066 : all Americans of Japanese descent must report to relocation centers / Dwight Okita --
Jade flower palace / Tu Fu --
On the grasshopper and the cricket / John Keats --
Remember / Joy Harjo --
Sonnet 75 / Edmund Spenser --
Success is counted sweetest / Emily Dickinson --
To a sky-lark / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
To be of use / Marge Piercy --
To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace. v. 33 Classic ballroom dances / by Charles Simic --
Elena / by Pat Mora --
Fully empowered / by Pablo Neruda --
The hollow men / by T.S. Eliot --
I wandered lonely as a cloud / by William Wordsworth --
Jazz fantasia / by Carl Sandburg --
The lotus flowers / by Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Mushrooms / by Sylvia Plath --
The old stoic / by Emily Bronte --
On my first son / by Ben Jonson --
Shoulders / by Naomi Shihab Nye --
Sympathy / by Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Two eclipses / by Shmuel HaNagid --
Upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666 / by Anne Bradstreet --
What for / by Garrett Kaoru Hongo --
Woman work / by Maya Angelou. v. 34 Autobiographia literaria / by Frank O'Hara --
The bridegroom / by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin --
Conscientious objector / by Edna St. Vincent Millay --
The fly / by William Blake --
Grandmother / by Valzhyna Mort --
Midsummer, Tobago / by Derek Walcott --
My mother combs my hair / by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni --
Possibilities / by Wislawa Szymborska --
Since feeling is first / by E.E. Cummings --
The snow-storm / by Ralph Waldo Emerson --
The stolen child / by William Butler Yeats --
This is just to say / by William Carlos Williams --
To Althea, from prison / by Richard Lovelace --
Up-hill / by Christina Georgina Rossetti --
The waking / by Theodore Roethke --
Women / by Alice Walker. v. 35 Acquainted with the night / by Robert Frost --
Blackberry eating / by Galway Kinnell --
Childe Harold's pilgrimage / by Lord Byron --
The dead / by Susan Mitchell --
I'm nobody! Who are you? / by Emily Dickinson --
In music / by Czeslaw Milosz --
Miniver Cheevy / by Edwin Arlington Robinson --
Odysseus to Telemachus / by Joseph Brodsky --
Of modern poetry / by Wallace Stevens --
River of August / by Pak Tu-Jin --
Seven ages of man / by William Shakespeare --
Song / by John Donne --
Sonnet LXXXIX / by Pablo Neruda --
Uncoiling / by Pat Mora --
Winter / by Nikki Giovanni --
Words are the diminution of all things / by Charles Penzel Wright. v. 36 All shall be restored / by Kay Ryan --
Birdfoot's grampa / by Joseph Bruchac --
Hawthorne / by Robert Lowell --
An hymn to the evening / by Phillis Wheatley --
I am not one of those who left the land / by Anna Akhmatova --
I built my hut beside a traveled road / by T'ao Ch'ien --
The idea of ancestry / by Etheridge Knight --
Moon rondeau / by Carl Sandburg --
Prayer to the masks / by Leopold Sedar Senghor --
Prodigy / by Charles Simic --
Self in 1959 / by Anne Sexton --
Snow-bound / by John Greenleaf Whitier --
Song to the men of england / by Percy Bysshe Shelley --
To autumn / by John Keats --
What I expected / by Stephen spender --
When in rome / by Mari Evans. v. 37 Anthem for doomed youth / by Wilfred Owen --
Camouflaging the chimera / by Yusef Komunyakaa --
A description of the morning / by Jonathan Swift --
Fear / by Gabriela Mistral --
The gift / by Li-Young Lee --
Grape serbet / by Rita Dove --
The latin deli: an ars poetica / by Judith Ortiz Cofer --
The lorelei / by Heinrich Heine --
Lucinda matlock / by Edgar Lee Masters --
Most satisfied by snow / by Diana Chang --
Mushrooms / by Margaret Atwood --
The new colosus / by Emma Lazarus --
A simile / by N. Scott Momaday --
Two people I want to be like / by Eve Merriam --
When I consider (sonnet XIX) / by John Milton --
The world as will and representation / by Robert Hass. V. 38 400 meter freestyle / by Maxine Kumin --
All / by Bei Dao --
Table for when there's no way out / by May Swenson --
Fragment 16 / by Sappho --
The guitar / by Frederico Garcia Lorca --
Invitation to the voyage / by Charles Baudelaire --
Letter to my wife / by Nazim Hikmet --
Marriage / by Marianne Moore --
Poem (lana turner has collapsed) / by Frank O'Hara --
Pride/ by Dahlia Ravikovitch --
Stanza LXXXIII / by Gertrude Stein --
Still I rise / by Maya Angelou --
A storm in the mountains / by Alexander Solzhenitsyn --
Two bodies / by Octavio Paz --
The weary blues / by Langston Hughes --
The world is too much with us / by William Wadsworth. v. 39 Corinna's going a-maying / by Robert Herrick --
Domestic violence / by Eavan Boland --
Exile / by Julia Alvarez --
flounder / by Natasha Trethewey --
Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
Ghost of a chance / by Adrienne Rich --
Let evening come / by Jane Kenyon --
The listeners / by Walter de la Mare --
Miracles / by Walt Whitman --
The powwow at the end of the world / by Sherman Alexie --
Sea canes / by Derek Walcott --
Seven laments for the war-dead / by Yehuda Amichai --
Song for the last act / by Louise Bogan --
Syrinx / by Amy Clampitt --
Thoughts of hanoi / by Nguyen Thi Vinh --
The tide, rises, the tide, falls / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. v. 40 Another feeling / by Ruth Stone --
Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka --
Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia --
for the young who want to / by Marge Piercy --
I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan --
In just / by E.E. Cummings --
The journey / by Mary Oliver --
Legal alien / by Pat Mora --
London / by William Blake --
Loveliest of the trees, the cherry now / by Alfred Edward Housman --
The moon at the fortified pass / by Li Po --
The mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks --
Night Journey / by Theorore Roethke --
Spring and fall: to a young girl / by Gerard Manley Hopkins --
We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Who understands me, but me / by Jimmy Santiago Baca. v. 41 Anecdote of the jar / by Wallace Stevens --
The canonization / by John Donne --
Cinderella / by Anne Sexton --
Constantly risking absurdity / by Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
The cucumber / by Nazim Hikmet --
A display of mackerel / by Mark Doty --
The end and the beginning / by Wislawa Szymborska --
The floral apron / by Marilyn Chin --
The forge / by Seamus Heaney --
Home burial / by Robert Frost --
I, being born a woman and distressed (sonnet XVIII) / by Edna St. Vincent Millay --
In the inner city / by Lucille Clifton --
Love among the ruins / by Robert Browning --
New world / by N. Scott Momanday --
United fruit co. / by Pablo Neruda --
What are friends for / by Rosellen Brown. v. 42 All things considered / by Naomi Shihab Nye --
Aubade / by Philip Larking --
The author or her book / by Anne Bradstreet --
The convergence of the twain / by Thomas Hardy --
A dream within a dream / by Edgar Allan Poe --
The history teacher / by Billy Collins --
Incident / by Countee Cullen --
Lilacs / by Amy Lowell --
Phenomenal woman / by Maya Angelou --
Recessional / by Rudyard Kipling --
Serene words / by Gabriela Mistral --
Rime 140 / by Francesco Petrarch --
Tell all the truth but tell it slant / by Emily Dickinson --
What were they like? / by Denise Levertov --
The wild swans at coole / by William Butler Yeats --
The world is not a pleasant place to be / by Nikki Giovanni. v. 43 And your soul shall dance / by Garrett Hongo --
The colonel / by Carolyn Forche --
Easter wings / by George Herbert --
The great figure / by William Carlos Williams --
Hope / by Ariel Dorfman --
Indian boarding school: the runaways / by Louise Erdich --
Inside out / by Diane Wakoski --
Invictus / by William Ernest Henley --
Morning song / by Sylvia Plath --
My father as a guitar / by Martin Espada --
Reapers / by Jean Toomer --
Remembrance / by Emily Bronte --
Sonnet 106 ("when in the chronicle of wasted time") / by William Shakespeare --
Vicarious love / by Juana Ines de la Cruz --
The youngest daughter / by Cathy Song. v. 44 Crossing the bar / by Alfred Lord Tennyson --
Dry your tears, Africa! / by Bernard Dadie' --Fragment 34 / by Sappho --
Grace / by Joy Harjo --
How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth (Sonnet 7) / by John Milton --
Nocturne / by Tomas Transtromer --One art / by Elizabeth Bishop --
Perceval, the story of the Grail / by Chretien de Troyes --Poem about people / by Robert Pinsky --
Salutation / by Ezra Pound --The slave mother / by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --
Try to praise the mutilated world / by Adam Zagejewski --Voronezh / by Anna Akhamatova --Welcome to Hiroshima / by Mary Jo Salter --
The white city / by Claude McKay --
Woman's work / by Julia Alvarez. v. 45 Against love poetry / by Eavan Boland --
Balndeur / Kay Ryan --
Defending walt whitman / by Sherman Alexie --
The esquimos have no word for "war" / by Mary Oliver --
Half-hanged mary / by Margaret Atwood --
In the orchard / by Henrik Ibsen --
Let america be america again / by Langston Hughes --
Meeting at night / by Robert Browning --
Midcentury love letter / by Phyllis McGinley --
Peace / by Rupert Brooke --
Question / by May Swenson --
Sounds and sense / by Alexander Pope --
A story / by Li-Young Lee --
To the ladies / by Mary Chudleigh --
What lips my lips have kissed / by Edna St. Vincent Millay --
The whipping / by Robert Hayden. v. 46 Against love / by Katherine Philips --
Ah mah / by Shirley Geok-lin Lim --
The boy / by Marie Howe --
If I could tell you / by W.H. Auden --
If thou must love me / by Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
My father in the navy / by Judith Ortiz Cofer --
Nurture / by Maxine Kumin --
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / by Walt Whitman --
Primer for blacks / by Gwendolyn Brooks --
Problems with hurricanes / by Victor Hernandez Cruz --
Snowmen / by Agha Shahid Ali --
Song (why so pale and wan?) / by Sir John Suckling --
Speaking / by Simon J. Ortiz --
The street / by Octavio Paz --
To a daughter leaving home / by Linda Pastan --
Voyages I / by Hart Crane. v. 47 Africa / by Maya Angelou --
The ball poem / by John Berryman --
Curiosity / by Alastair Reid --
Daily / by Naomi Shihab Nye --
The emigrant Irish / by Eavan Boland --
Hatred / by Wislawa Szymborska --
Her kind / by Anne Sexton --
I taste a liquor never brewed / by Emily Dickinson --
Maestro / by Pat Mora --
Ode to my socks / by Pablo Neruda --
Once by the Pacific / by Robert Frost --
The sick rose / by William Blake --
Silence / by Marianne Moore --
The sun rising / by John Donne --
To a mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough, November, 1785 / Robert Burns --
Who are you, little I / E.E. Cummings. v. 48 Back when all was continuous chuckles / by Colette Inez --
A beautiful girl combs her hair / Li Ho --
City of dreams / by Diane Ackerman --
Counting the mad / by Donald Justice --
Earth tremors felt in Missouri / by Mona Van Duyn --
The erlking / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --
Guide to the other gallery / by Dana Gioia --
The guitarist tunes up / by Frances Cornford --
Jamaica 1980 / Lorna Goodison --
The panther / by Rainer Maria Rilke --
Silver / by A.R. Ammons --
Snapshots of a daughter-in-law / by Adrienne Rich --
Song / by H.D. --
To my brother Miguel / Cesar Vallejo --
Where mountain lion lay down with deer / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Yet do I marvel / by Countee Cullen. v. 49 Adlestrop / by Edward Thomas --
Annunciation overheard from the kitchen / by Mary Szybist --
Carmel point / by Robinson Jeffers --
Coal / by Audre Lorde --
The emperor of ice-cream / by Wallace Stevens --
Fable / by Octavio Paz --
A felicitous life / by Czeslaw Milosz --
A golden day / by Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Ground swell / by Mark Jarman --
Lady Lazarus / by Sylvia Plath --
Nighttime fires / Regina Barreca --
On passing thru Morgantown, PA. / by Sonia Sanchez --
Recuerdo / by Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Snakes / by A.K. Ramanujan --
Solitude / by Ella Wheeler Wilcox --
You and I / by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi. v. 50 Alone in the woods / by Stevie Smith --
America / by Gertrude Stein --
Bocas : a daughter's geography / by Ntozake Shange --
Catch / by Robert Francis --
Dog's death / by John Updike --
Dreams / by Langston Hughes --
Fog / by Carl Sandburg --
I am / by John Clare --
If we must die / by Claude McKay --
Introduction to poetry / by Billy Collins --
Japanese-American farmhouse, California, 1942 / by Sharon Olds --
My heart is heavy / by Sara Teasdale --
Romance Sonambulo / by Federico Garcia Lorca --
Snapping beans / by Lisa Parker --
Taking leave of a friend / by Li Po --
The tall figures of Giacometti / by May Swenson. v. 51 The bluebird / by Charles Bukowski --
A chinese banquet / by Kitty Tsui --
The cord / by Leanne O'Sullivan --
Defeat / by Kahlil Gibran --
Dejection : an ode / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
First thought / by Lorna Dee Cervantes --
Hattie McDaniel arrives at the Coconut Grove / by Rita Dove --
He wishes for the cloths of heaven / by William Butler Yeats --
A jewish cemetery in Germany / by Yehuda Amichai --
Let me die a youman's death / by Roger McGough --
Love and friendship / by Emily Bronte --
The night game / by Robert A. Pinsky --
Numbers / by Mary Cornish --
The summer I was sixteen / by Geraldine Connolly --
What are big girls made of? / by Marge Piercy --
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / by Walt Whitman. v. 52 The answer / by Bei Dao --
The children's hour / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Enlightenment / by Natasha Trethewey --
Heaven / by Cathy Song --
He seems to be a god / by Sappho --
Identity card / by Mahmoud Darwish --
Loose woman / by Sandra Cisneros --
Mid-term break / by Seamus Heaney --
Nebraska / by Jack Kerouac --
Poem / by Muriel Rukeyser --
Reading aloud to my father / by Jane Kenyon --
Saturday at the canal / by Gary Soto --
Sonnet 60 / by William Shakespeare --
So, we'll go no more a roving / by Lord Byron --
They called them "blue" / by Katia Kapovich --
To the sun / by Ingeborg Bachmann. v. 53 Alive together / by Lisel Mueller --
Alone / by Maya Angelou --
Axe handles / by Gary Snyder --
The changing light / by Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
The delight song of Tsoai-Talee / by N. Scott Momaday --
En route to Bangladesh, another crisis of faith / by Tarfia Faizullah --
I like to see it lap the miles / by Emily Dickinson --
I'm alive, I believe in everything / by Lesley Choyce --
Love's growth / by John Donne --
Please fire me / by Deborah Garrison --
The pomegranate and the big crowd / by Alberto Rios --
Punishment in kindergarten / by Kamala Das --
Sadie and Maud / by Gwendolyn Brooks --
Speeches for Dr Frankenstein / by Margaret Atwood --
Urban renewal : XVIII / by Major Jackson --
Yesterday / by W.S. Merwin. v. 54 Be nobody's darling / by Alice Walker --
Democracy / by Langston Hughes --
The female seer will burn upon this pyre / by Elizabeth Alexander --
Fundamentalism / by Naomi Shihab Nye --
Good times / by Lucille Clifton --
I am offering this poem / by Jimmy Santiago Baca --
If you forget me / by Pablo Neruda --
In my craft or sullen art / by Dylan Thomas --
Lift every voice and sing / by James Weldon Johnson --
Lunar baedeker / by Mina Loy --
Matriot acts, act I [history of mankind] / by Anne Waldman --
O the chimneys / by Nelly Sachs --
Postcard from Kashmir / by Agha Shahid Ali --
Song / by Christina Rossetti --
The tables turned / by William Wordsworth --
Whispers of immortality / by T.S. Eliot. v. 55 Alone / by Edgar Allan Poe --
At the San Francisco airport / by Yvor Winters --
Blackberries / by Yusef Komunyakaa --
Bury me in a free land / by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --
The fence / by Saadi Youssef --
I am not I / by Juan Ramon Jimenez --
Incident / by Amiri Baraka --
In the bazaars of Hyderabad / by Sarojini Naidu --
Love song / by Dorothy Parker --
Southern cop / by Sterling Brown --
Sure you can ask me a personal question / by Diane Burns --
Unbidden / by Rae Armantrout --
Valentine / by Carol Ann Duffy --
The walk / by Thomas Hardy --
When I was growing up / by Nellie Wong --
Yellow light / by Garrett Hongo. v. 56 Alzheimer's / by Kelly Cherry --
Blonde white women / by Paticia Smith --
The broken tower / by Hart Crane --
The concrete river / by Luis J. Rodriguez --
Eagle poem / by Joy Harjo --
For a daughter who leaves / Janice Mirikitani --
Indigo / by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni --
Inner tube / by Michael Ondaatje --
Patterns / by Amy Lowell --
Persimmons / by Li-Young Lee --
Rite of passage / by Sharon Olds --
The ruined maid / by Thomas Hardy --
They flee from me / by Thomas Wyatt --
A total sranger one black day / by E.E. Cummings --
To the lady / by Mitsuye Yamada --
Woodchucks / by Maxine Kumin.