The Norton Anthology of Poetry

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Summary

Supplemental Materials

The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while improved and expanded editorial apparatus make it an even more useful teaching tool.

Preface to the Shorter Fifth Edition

xli

Editorial Procedures

xliii

Acknowledgments

xlv

Caedmon's Hymn

(1)

John Pope

From Beowulf

(9)

Seamus Heaney

Riddles

(1)

Richard Hamer

(``I am a lonely being, scarred by swords'')

(1)

(``My dress is silent when I tread the ground'')

(1)

(``A moth ate words; a marvellous event'')

(1)

The Seafarer

(4)

Ezra Pound

Anonymous Lyrics of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

(1)

Now Go'th Sun under Wood

(1)

The Cuckoo Song

(1)

Fowls in the Frith

(1)

I Am of Ireland

(1)

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343--1400)

(50)

The Canterbury Tales

(48)

The General Prologue

(20)

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

(28)

Troilus and Criseide

(1)

Cantus Troili

(1)

Lyrics and Occasional Verse

(1)

Complaint to His Purse

(1)

To His Scribe Adam

(1)

William Langland (ca. 1330--ca. 1400)

(4)

Piers Plowman, lines 1--111

(4)

Pearl, 1--5 (1375--1400)

(7)

Anonymous Lyrics of the Fifteenth Century

(1)

Adam Lay I-bounden

(1)

I Sing of a Maiden

(1)

I Have a Young Sister

(1)

Timor Mortis

(1)

The Corpus Christi Carol

(1)

Western Wind

(1)

The Sacrament of the Altar

(1)

See! Here, My Heart

(1)

William Dunbar (ca. 1460--ca. 1525)

(5)

Lament for the Makaris

(3)

Done Is a Battle

(2)

John Skelton (1460--1529)

(21)

Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale

(1)

To Mistress Margaret Hussey

(1)

Phillip Sparow

(3)

Early Modern Ballads

(1)

The Douglas Tragedy

(3)

Lord Randal

(1)

The Three Ravens

(1)

Sir Patrick Spens

(1)

The Unquiet Grave

(1)

Bonny Barbara Allan

(2)

Mary Hamilton

(2)

The Bitter Withy

(1)

Anonymous Elizabethan and Jacobean Poems

(1)

Weep You No More, Sad Fountains

(1)

There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind

(1)

Tom o' Bedlam's Song

100

(2)

Thomas Wyatt (1503--1542)

102

(6)

The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor

102

(1)

Whoso List to Hunt

103

(1)

My Galley

103

(1)

They Flee from Me

104

(1)

Patience, Though I Have Not

104

(1)

My Lute Awake!

105

(1)

Forget Not Yet

106

(1)

Lucks, My Fair Falcon

107

(1)

Stand Whoso List

107

(1)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (ca. 1517--1547)

108

(2)

The Soote Season

108

(1)

Love, That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought

108

(1)

Wyatt Resteth Here

109

(1)

Anne Askew (1521--1546)

110

(1)

The Ballad Which Anne Askewe Made and Sang When She Was in Newgate

110

(1)

Queen Elizabeth I (1533--1603)

111

(2)

When I Was Fair and Young

111

(1)

[The Doubt of Future Foes Exiles My Present Joy]

112

(1)

[Ah Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid]

112

(1)

George Gascoigne (ca. 1534--1577)

113

(2)

And If I Did, What Then?

113

(1)

Gascoigne's Lullaby

114

(1)

Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567--1573)

115

(5)

A Sweet Nosegay

115

(5)

A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will

115

(1)

From The Manner of Her Will, & What She Left to London, and to All Those in It, at Her Departing

116

(4)

Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586)

120

(1)

[My Prime of Youth Is but a Frost of Cares]

120

(1)

Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552--1618)

120

(5)

A Vision upon the Fairy Queen

120

(1)

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

121

(1)

The Lie

122

(2)

[Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love]

124

(1)

Edmund Spenser (1552--1599)

125

(28)

The Faerie Queene

125

(14)

Book 1, Canto 1

125

(14)

Amoretti

139

(4)

Sonnet 15 (``Ye tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle'')

139

(1)

Sonnet 23 (``Penelope for her Ulisses sake'')

140

(1)

Sonnet 54 (``Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay'')

140

(1)

Sonnet 67 (``Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace'')

141

(1)

Sonnet 70 (``Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king'')

141

(1)

Sonnet 71 (``I joy to see how in your drawen work'')

141

(1)

Sonnet 75 (``One day I wrote her name upon the strand'')

142

(1)

Sonnet 79 (``Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it'')

142

(1)

Epithalamion

143

(10)

John Lyly (1554--1606)

153

(1)

Cupid and My Campaspe

153

(1)

Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary

154

(1)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586)

154

(8)

Ye Goatherd Gods

154

(3)

What Length of Verse?

157

(1)

Astrophil and Stella

157

(5)

1 (``Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show'')

157

(1)

21 (``Your words my friend [right healthful caustics] blame'')

158

(1)

31 (``With how sad steps, Oh Moon, thou climb'st the skies'')

158

(1)

48 (``Soul's joy, bend not those morning stars from me'')

159

(1)

49 (``I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try'')

159

(1)

52 (``A strife is grown between Virtue and Love'')

159

(1)

63 (``O Grammer rules, o now your virtues show'')

160

(1)

71 (``Who will in fairest book of Nature know'')

160

(4)

Seventh Song (``Whose senses in so evil consort, their stepdame Nature lays'')

164

90 (``Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame'')

161

(1)

Robert Southwell (ca. 1561--1595)

162

(1)

The Burning Babe

162

(1)

Mary Sidney (1561--1621)

162

(2)

Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique

162

(1)

Psalm 114: In Exitu Israel

163

(1)

Samuel Daniel (1563--1619)

164

(2)

Delia

164

(2)

1 (``Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty'')

164

(1)

2 (``Go wailing verse, the infants of my love'')

164

(1)

6 (``Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair'')

165

(1)

49 (``Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night'')

165

(1)

50 (``Let others sing of knights and paladins'')

166

(1)

Michael Drayton (1563--1631)

166

(2)

Idea

166

(2)

To the Reader of these Sonnets

166

(1)

6 (``How many paltry, foolish, painted things'')

167

(1)

14 (``If he from heaven that filched that living fire'')

167

(1)

61 (``Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part'')

168

(1)

Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593)

168

(1)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

168

(1)

William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

169

(13)

Sonnets

169

(10)

1 (``From fairest creatures we desire increase'')

169

(1)

3 (``Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest'')

169

(1)

12 (``When I do count the clock that tells the time'')

170

(1)

15 (``When I consider everything that grows'')

170

(1)

18 (``Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'')

171

(1)

20 (``A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted'')

171

(1)

29 (``When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes'')

171

(1)

30 (``When to the sessions of sweet silent thought'')

172

(1)

55 (``Not marble, nor the gilded monuments'')

172

(1)

65 (``Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea'')

173

(1)

71 (``No longer mourn for me when I am dead'')

173

(1)

73 (``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')

173

(1)

87 (``Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing'')

174

(1)

94 (``They that have power to hurt and will do none'')

174

(1)

97 (``How like a winter hath my absence been'')

175

(1)

106 (``When in the chronicle of wasted time'')

175

(1)

107 (``Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul'')

175

(1)

116 (``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')

176

(1)

126 (``O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow'r'')

176

(1)

129 (``Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame'')

177

(1)

130 (``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'')

177

(1)

138 (``When my love swears that she is made of truth'')

177

(1)

144 (``Two loves have I of comfort and despair'')

178

(1)

146 (``Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth'')

178

(1)

The Phoenix and the Turtle

179

(2)

Songs from the Plays

181

(1)

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

181

(1)

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun

181

(1)

Full Fathom Five

182

(1)

Thomas Campion (1567--1620)

182

(3)

My Sweetest Lesbia

182

(1)

I Care Not for These Ladies

183

(1)

Follow Thy Fair Sun

184

(1)

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings

184

(1)

Rose-cheeked Laura

185

(1)

Thomas Nashe (1567--1601)

185

(2)

Summer's Last Will

185

(2)

[Spring, the Sweet Spring]

185

(1)

[Adieu, Farewell, Earth's Bliss]

186

(1)

Aemilia Lanyer (1569--1645)

187

(4)

From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

187

(4)

John Donne (1572--1631)

191

(17)

The Good-Morrow

191

(1)

Song (``Go and catch a falling star'')

192

(1)

Woman's Constancy

192

(1)

The Sun Rising

193

(1)

The Canonization

194

(1)

Song (``Sweetest love, I do not go'')

195

(1)

The Anniversary

196

(1)

A Valediction of Weeping

197

(1)

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

198

(1)

The Ecstasy

199

(2)

The Funeral

201

(1)

The Flea

202

(1)

The Relic

202

(1)

Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed

203

(2)

Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward

205

(1)

Holy Sonnets

206

(2)

1 (``Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?'')

206

(1)

5 (``I am a little world made cunningly'')

206

(1)

7 (``At the round earth's imagined corners, blow'')

207

(1)

10 (``Death, be not proud, though some have called thee'')

207

(1)

14 (``Batter my heart, three-personed God; for You'')

208

(1)

Ben Jonson (1572--1637)

208

(13)

To the Reader

208

(1)

On My First Daughter

208

(1)

On My First Son

209

(1)

On Spies

209

(1)

To John Donne

209

(1)

Inviting a Friend to Supper

210

(1)

On Gut

211

(1)

To Penshurst

211

(3)

Song: To Celia (I)

214

(1)

Song: To Celia (II)

214

(1)

A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme

215

(1)

Still to Be Neat

216

(1)

Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell

217

(1)

To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare

217

(2)

A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth

219

(1)

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount

220

(1)

Queen and Huntress

220

(1)

Mary Wroth (1587--1651?)

221

(4)

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

221

(4)

1 (``When night's black mantle could most darkness prove'')

221

(1)

3 (``Yet is there Hope: then Love but play thy part'')

221

(1)

37 (``Night, welcome art thou to my mind distressed'')

222

(1)

74 Song (``Love a child is ever crying'')

222

(1)

A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love

223

(1)

77 (``In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn'')

223

(1)

78 (``Is to leave all and take the thread of Love'')

224

(1)

82 (``He may our prophet, and our tutor prove'')

224

(1)

Robert Herrick (1591--1674)

225

(7)

The Argument of His Book

225

(1)

The Vine

225

(1)

Delight in Disorder

226

(1)

Corinna's Going A-Maying

226

(2)

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

228

(1)

Upon Julia's Breasts

228

(1)

Upon a Child That Died

229

(1)

Upon Julia's Clothes

229

(1)

An Ode for Him

229

(1)

The Pillar of Fame

230

(1)

To Find God

230

(1)

The White Island, or Place of the Blest

231

(1)

Henry King (1592--1669)

232

(3)

An Exequy to His Matchless, Never-to-Be-Forgotten Friend

232

(3)

George Herbert (1593--1633)

235

(11)

The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

235

(11)

The Altar

235

(1)

Redemption

235

(1)

Easter Wings

236

(1)

Sin (I)

237

(1)

Affliction (I)

238

(1)

Prayer (I)

239

(1)

Jordan (I)

240

(1)

Virtue

240

(1)

Artillery

241

(1)

The Collar

242

(1)

The Pulley

243

(1)

The Flower

243

(2)

The Forerunners

245

(1)

Love (III)

246

(1)

Thomas Carew (ca. 1595--1640)

246

(5)

A Song (``Ask me no more where Jove bestows'')

246

(1)

Song. To My Inconstant Mistress

247

(1)

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr. John Donne

247

(3)

The Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book (1640)

250

(1)

Psalm 58

250

(1)

Edmund Waller (1606--1687)

251

(1)

Song (``Go, lovely rose!'')

251

(1)

John Milton (1608--1674)

252

(29)

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

252

(8)

On Shakespeare

260

(1)

L'Allegro

260

(4)

Il Penseroso

264

(4)

How Soon Hath Time

268

(1)

Lycidas

269

(5)

Comus

274

(1)

Song (``Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen'')

274

(1)

When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

274

(1)

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

275

(1)

Methought I Saw

275

(1)

Paradise Lost

276

(5)

The Verse

276

(1)

Book I [The Invocation]

277

(1)

From Book 4 [lines 1--113]

278

(3)

Sir John Suckling (1609--1642)

281

(1)

Song (``Why so pale and wan, fond lover?'')

281

(1)

Sonnet II (``Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white'')

281

(1)

Out upon It!

282

(1)

Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612--1672)

282

(6)

The Prologue

282

(1)

Before the Birth of One of Her Children

283

(2)

To My Dear and Loving Husband

285

(1)

The Author to Her Book

285

(1)

A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment

286

(1)

Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666

287

(1)

Richard Crashaw (1613--1649)

288

(1)

The Tear

288

(1)

Richard Lovelace (1618--1658)

289

(3)

To Althea, from Prison

289

(1)

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

290

(1)

The Grasshopper

291

(1)

Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)

292

(6)

Bermudas

292

(1)

To His Coy Mistress

293

(1)

The Definition of Love

294

(1)

The Mower against Gardens

295

(1)

The Garden

296

(2)

Henry Vaughan (1621--1695)

298

(4)

The Retreat

298

(1)

They Are All Gone into the World of Light!

299

(2)

The Waterfall

301

(1)

Margaret Cavendish (1623--1673)

302

(1)

An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book

302

(1)

Of Many Worlds in This World

302

(1)

John Dryden (1631--1700)

303

(9)

Mac Flecknoe

303

(6)

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

309

(1)

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

310

(2)

Katherine Philips (1632--1664)

312

(1)

Epitaph

312

(1)

To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship

312

(1)

Thomas Traherne (1637--1674)

313

(2)

Wonder

313

(2)

Edward Taylor (ca. 1642--1729)

315

(3)

Meditation 8 (``I kenning through astronomy divine'')

315

(1)

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly

316

(2)

Aphra Behn (1640?--1689)

318

(5)

Song (``Love Armed'')

318

(1)

The Disappointment

318

(4)

Song (``On Her Loving Two Equally'')

322

(1)

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman

323

(1)

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647--1680)

323

(4)

The Disabled Debauchee

323

(2)

The Imperfect Enjoyment

325

(1)

A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover

326

(1)

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661--1720)

327

(6)

The Spleen

327

(4)

Adam Posed

331

(1)

A Nocturnal Reverie

331

(2)

Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)

333

(20)

A Description of a City Shower

333

(1)

Stella's Birthday

334

(2)

The Lady's Dressing Room

336

(3)

A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

339

(2)

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.

341

(12)

Isaac Watts (1674--1748)

353

(3)

Our God, Our Help

353

(2)

Psalm 58

355

(1)

John Gay (1685--1732)

356

(1)

Songs from The Beggar's Opera

356

(1)

Air X---``Thomas, I Cannot''

356

(1)

Air XI---``A Soldier and a Sailor''

356

(1)

Air XVI---``Over the Hills, and Far Away''

356

(1)

Air XXVII---``Green Sleeves''

357

(1)

Alexander Pope (1688--1744)

357

(33)

The Rape of the Lock

357

(18)

Epistle to Miss Blount

375

(1)

An Essay on Man, in Four Epistles

376

(3)

From Epistle 1 (lines 1--130)

376

(3)

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

379

(10)

The Dunciad

389

(1)

[The Triumph of Dulness]

389

(1)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689--1762)

390

(4)

Saturday (The Smallpox)

390

(2)

The Lover: A Ballad

392

(1)

A Receipt to Cure the Vapors

393

(1)

James Thomson (1700--1748)

394

(3)

The Seasons

394

(3)

From Winter (lines 223--358)

394

(3)

Samuel Johnson (1709--1784)

397

(10)

Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick

397

(2)

The Vanity of Human Wishes

399

(8)

Thomas Gray (1716--1771)

407

(7)

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

407

(2)

Ode (On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes)

409

(1)

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

410

(4)

William Collins (1721--1759)

414

(3)

Ode on the Poetical Character

414

(2)

Ode to Evening

416

(1)

Christopher Smart (1722--1771)

417

(3)

Jubilate Agno, lines 697--770 (``For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry'')

417

(2)

Psalm 58

419

(1)

Jean Elliot (1727--1805)

420

(1)

The Flowers of the Forest

420

(1)

Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730--1774)

421

(10)

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly

421

(1)

The Deserted Village

422

(9)

William Cowper (1731--1800)

431

(3)

Olney Hymns

431

(1)

Light Shining out of Darkness

431

(1)

The Castaway

431

(2)

Lines Written during a Period of Insanity

433

(1)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743--1825)

434

(2)

The Rights of Woman

434

(1)

To the Poor

435

(1)

Life

435

(1)

Charlotte Smith (1749--1806)

436

(2)

To the Shade of Burns

436

(1)

Nepenthe

437

(1)

From Beachy Head

437

(1)

Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753--1784)

438

(2)

On Being Brought from Africa to America

438

(1)

To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works

439

(1)

William Blake (1757--1827)

440

(11)

Poetical Sketches

440

(1)

Song (``How sweet I roam'd from field to field'')

440

(1)

To the Evening Star

440

(1)

Songs of Innocence

441

(3)

Introduction (``Piping down the valleys wild'')

441

(1)

The Lamb

441

(1)

Holy Thursday [I.]

442

(1)

The Divine Image

442

(1)

The Little Black Boy

443

(1)

Songs of Experience

444

(4)

Introduction (``Hear the voice of the Bard!'')

444

(1)

A Divine Image

444

(1)

Holy Thursday [II.]

445

(1)

The Clod & the Pebble

445

(1)

The Sick Rose

446

(1)

A Poison Tree

446

(1)

The Tyger

446

(1)

Ah Sun-flower

447

(1)

The Garden of Love

447

(1)

London

448

(1)

Songs and Ballads

448

(2)

I Asked a Thief

448

(1)

Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

449

(1)

A Question Answered

449

(1)

Milton

450

(1)

And Did Those Feet

450

(1)

Jerusalem

450

(1)

England! Awake! Awake! Awake!

450

(1)

Robert Burns (1759--1796)

451

(5)

Green Grow the Rashes

451

(1)

To a Mouse

452

(1)

Holy Willie's Prayer

453

(2)

John Anderson My Jo

455

(1)

A Red Red Rose

456

(1)

William Wordsworth (1770--1850)

456

(30)

Expostulation and Reply

456

(1)

The Tables Turned

457

(1)

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

458

(4)

Anecdote for Fathers

462

(2)

The Prelude

464

(7)

Book I, lines 301--647 (``Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up'')

464

(7)

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

471

(1)

Three Years She Grew

471

(1)

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

472

(1)

Resolution and Independence

473

(3)

It Is a Beauteous Evening

476

(1)

London, 1802

477

(1)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

477

(1)

Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room

478

(1)

My Heart Leaps Up

478

(1)

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

478

(5)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

483

(1)

The World Is Too Much with Us

484

(1)

The Solitary Reaper

484

(1)

Surprised by Joy

485

(1)

Mutability

485

(1)

Scorn Not the Sonnet

486

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)

486

(23)

Kubla Khan

486

(2)

Frost at Midnight

488

(1)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

489

(16)

Dejection: An Ode

505

(4)

Walter Savage Landor (1775--1864)

509

(1)

Rose Aylmer

509

(1)

Dirce

509

(1)

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

509

(1)

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824)

510

(28)

Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos

510

(1)

She Walks in Beauty

510

(1)

When We Two Parted

511

(1)

So We'll Go No More A-Roving

512

(1)

Don Juan

512

(25)

Fragment on the Back of the Ms. of Canto I

512

(1)

Canto the First. Stanzas 1--119

513

(24)

On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year

537

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)

538

(26)

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

538

(3)

Ozymandias

541

(1)

Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples

541

(1)

England in 1819

542

(1)

Ode to the West Wind

543

(2)

The Cloud

545

(2)

To a Skylark

547

(3)

Adonais

550

(13)

Hellas

563

(1)

The World's Great Age

563

(1)

John Clare (1793--1864)

564

(2)

Badger

564

(1)

Farewell

565

(1)

I Am

566

(1)

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793--1835)

566

(1)

Casabianca

566

(1)

John Keats (1795--1821)

567

(21)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

567

(1)

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again

568

(1)

When I Have Fears

568

(1)

To Homer

569

(1)

The Eve of St. Agnes

569

(10)

On the Sonnet

579

(1)

La Belle Dame sans Merci

579

(2)

Ode to Psyche

581

(1)

Ode to a Nightingale

582

(2)

Ode on Melancholy

584

(1)

Ode on a Grecian Urn

585

(2)

To Autumn

587

(1)

Bright Star

588

(1)

This Living Hand

588

(1)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)

588

(5)

Concord Hymn

588

(1)

The Rhodora

589

(1)

The Snow-Storm

589

(1)

Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing)

590

(3)

Intellect

593

(1)

Fate

593

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861)

593

(4)

Sonnets from the Portuguese

593

(1)

1 (``I thought once how Theocritus had sung'')

593

(1)

43 (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'')

594

(1)

Aurora Leigh

594

(3)

From Book 5 [Poets and the Present Age]

594

(3)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)

597

(3)

From Evangeline

597

(1)

The Song of Hiawatha

597

(2)

From Part III: Hiawatha's Childhood

597

(2)

The Cross of Snow

599

(1)

Edward Fitzgerald (1809--1883)

600

(13)

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur

600

(13)

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809--1894)

613

(1)

The Chambered Nautilus

613

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)

614

(5)

Sonnet---To Science

614

(1)

To Helen

615

(1)

The Raven

615

(3)

Annabel Lee

618

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)

619

(23)

Mariana

619

(2)

The Lady of Shalott

621

(4)

The Lotos-Eaters

625

(4)

Ulysses

629

(2)

Break, Break, Break

631

(1)

Songs from The Princess

631

(2)

Tears, Idle Tears

631

(1)

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

632

(1)

In Memoriam A.H.H.

633

(6)

1 (``I held it truth, with him who sings'')

633

(1)

2 (``Old Yew, which graspest at the stones'')

633

(1)

7 (``Dark house, by which once more I stand'')

634

(1)

11 (``Calm is the morn without a sound'')

634

(1)

19 (``The Danube to the Severn gave'')

634

(1)

50 (``Be near me when my light is low'')

635

(1)

67 (``When on my bed the moonlight falls'')

635

(1)

88 (``Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet'')

636

(1)

95 (``By night we lingered on the lawn'')

636

(2)

119 (``Doors, where my heart was used to beat'')

638

(1)

121 (``Sad Hesper o'er the buried sun'')

638

(1)

130 (``Thy voice is on the rolling air'')

639

(1)

The Eagle

639

(1)

Tithonus

639

(2)

Crossing the Bar

641

(1)

Robert Browning (1812--1889)

642

(24)

Porphyria's Lover

642

(1)

My Last Duchess

643

(1)

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church

644

(3)

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad

647

(1)

A Toccata of Galuppi's

648

(2)

``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''

650

(6)

Fra Lippo Lippi

656

(8)

Two in the Campagna

664

(2)

Edward Lear (1812--1888)

666

(2)

There Was an Old Man with a Beard

666

(1)

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

666

(1)

How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear

667

(1)

Emily Bronte (1818--1848)

668

(3)

Remembrance

668

(1)

The Prisoner. A Fragment

669

(2)

No Coward Soul Is Mine

671

(1)

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819--1861)

671

(2)

The Latest Decalogue

671

(1)

Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth

672

(1)

Julia Ward Howe (1819--1910)

673

(1)

Battle-Hymn of the Republic

673

(1)

Herman Melville (1819--1891)

673

(6)

The Portent

673

(1)

Shiloh

674

(1)

The Maldive Shark

674

(1)

The Berg

675

(1)

Monody

676

(1)

Spirituals

676

(1)

Go Down, Moses

676

(1)

Ezekiel Saw the Wheel

677

(2)

Walt Whitman (1819--1892)

679

(25)

Song of Myself

679

(5)

1 (``I celebrate myself, and sing myself'')

679

(1)

5 (``I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you'')

679

(1)

6 (``A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands'')

680

(1)

11 (``Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore'')

681

(1)

24 (``Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son'')

682

(1)

52 (``The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me'')

683

(1)

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

684

(5)

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

689

(1)

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night

689

(1)

Beat! Beat! Drums!

690

(1)

Cavalry Crossing a Ford

691

(1)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

691

(5)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

696

(6)

A Noiseless Patient Spider

702

(1)

To a Locomotive in Winter

703

(1)

Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)

704

(8)

Shakespeare

704

(1)

To Marguerite

704

(1)

The Scholar-Gypsy

705

(6)

Dover Beach

711

(1)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--1882)

712

(4)

The Blessed Damozel

712

(3)

The House of Life

715

(1)

A Sonnet

715

(1)

George Meredith (1828--1909)

716

(3)

Modern Love

716

(2)

1 (``By this he knew she wept with waking eyes'')

716

(1)

17 (``At dinner, she is hostess, I am host'')

716

(1)

30 (``What are we first? First, animals; and next'')

717

(1)

48 (``Their sense is with their senses all mixed in'')

717

(1)

49 (``He found her by the ocean's moaning verge'')

717

(1)

50 (``Thus piteously Love closed what he begat'')

718

(1)

Lucifer in Starlight

718

(1)

Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)

719

(14)

39 (49) (``I never lost as much but twice -'')

719

(1)

68 (89) (Some things that fly there be -'')

719

(1)

112 (67) (``Success is counted sweetest'')

719

(1)

124 (216) (``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -'') (1859)

720

(1)

124 (216) (``Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -'') (1862)

720

(1)

145 (59) (``A little East of Jordan'')

721

(1)

202 (185) (`` `Faith' is a fine invention'')

721

(1)

260 (288) (``I'm nobody! Who are you?'')

722

(1)

269 (249) (``Wild nights - Wild nights!'')

722

(1)

314 (254) (`` `Hope' is the thing with feathers -'')

722

(1)

320 (258) (``There's a certain Slant of light'')

723

(1)

339 (241) (``I like a look of Agony'')

723

(1)

340 (280) (``I felt a Funeral, in my Brain'')

723

(1)

359 (328) (``A Bird, came down the Walk -'')

724

(1)

372 (341) (``After great pain, a formal feeling comes -'')

725

(1)

409 (303) (``The Soul selects her own Society -'')

725

(1)

445 (613) (``They shut me up in Prose -'')

725

(1)

479 (712) (``Because I could not stop for Death -'')

726

(1)

533 (569) (``I reckon - When I count at all -'')

727

(1)

591 (465) (``I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -'')

727

(1)

620 (435) (``Much Madness is divinest Sense -'')

728

(1)

740 (789) (``On a Columnar Self -'')

728

(1)

764 (754) (``My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -'')

728

(1)

782 (745) (``Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue -'')

729

(1)

788 (709) (``Publication - is the Auction'')

730

(1)

905 (861) (``Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music -'')

730

(1)

1096 (986) (``A narrow Fellow in the Grass'')

730

(1)

1108 (1078) (``The Bustle in a House'')

731

(1)

1263 (1129) (``Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -'')

731

(1)

1489 (1463) (``A Route of Evanescence'')

732

(1)

1793 (1732) (``My life closed twice before it's close'')

732

(1)

1788 (1763) (``Fame is a bee'')

732

(1)

Christina Rossetti (1830--1894)

733

(3)

Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'')

733

(1)

Remember

733

(1)

Echo

733

(1)

In an Artist's Studio

734

(1)

Up-Hill

734

(1)

Passing Away, Saith the World, Passing Away

735

(1)

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832--1898)

736

(2)

Jabberwocky

736

(1)

[Humpty Dumpty's Explication of Jabberwocky]

737

(1)

W. S. Gilbert (1836--1911)

738

(2)

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General

738

(2)

Titwillow

740

(1)

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837--1909)

740

(4)

Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon

740

(2)

When the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces

740

(2)

A Forsaken Garden

742

(2)

Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)

744

(8)

Hap

744

(1)

I Look into My Glass

744

(1)

Drummer Hodge

745

(1)

A Broken Appointment

745

(1)

The Darkling Thrush

746

(1)

The Ruined Maid

747

(1)

The Convergence of the Twain

748

(1)

Channel Firing

749

(1)

The Voice

750

(1)

During Wind and Rain

751

(1)

In Time of ``The Breaking of Nations''

751

(1)

Sidney Lanier (1842--1881)

752

(3)

The Marshes of Glynn

752

(3)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)

755

(5)

God's Grandeur

755

(1)

The Windhover

755

(1)

Pied Beauty

756

(1)

[As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame]

756

(1)

Felix Randal

757

(1)

Spring and Fall

757

(1)

[Carrion Comfort]

758

(1)

[No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief]

758

(1)

[My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On]

759

(1)

[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord . . .]

759

(1)

A. E. Housman (1859--1936)

760

(5)

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

760

(1)

To an Athlete Dying Young

760

(1)

Is My Team Ploughing

761

(1)

With Rue My Heart Is Laden

762

(1)

``Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff . . .''

762

(2)

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

764

(1)

Crossing Alone the Nighted Ferry

764

(1)

Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose

765

(1)

Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936)

765

(2)

Tommy

765

(1)

Recessional

766

(1)

William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)

767

(20)

The Stolen Child

767

(1)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

768

(1)

When You Are Old

769

(1)

Adam's Curse

769

(1)

No Second Troy

770

(1)

The Wild Swans at Coole

771

(1)

Easter 1916

772

(2)

The Second Coming

774

(1)

Sailing to Byzantium

774

(2)

Leda and the Swan

776

(1)

Among School Children

776

(2)

Byzantium

778

(2)

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

780

(1)

Lapis Lazuli

780

(2)

Long-Legged Fly

782

(1)

The Circus Animals' Desertion

782

(2)

Under Ben Bulben

784

(3)

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869--1935)

787

(3)

Richard Cory

787

(1)

George Crabbe

787

(1)

Reuben Bright

788

(1)

Miniver Cheevy

788

(1)

Mr. Flood's Party

789

(1)

Charlotte Mew (1869--1928)

790

(2)

The Farmer's Bride

790

(2)

Stephen Crane (1871--1900)

792

(2)

From The Black Riders and Other Lines

792

(1)

I (``Black Riders Came from the Sea'')

792

(1)

III (``In the Desert'')

792

(1)

XXV (``Behold, the Grave of a Wicked Man'')

792

(1)

LVI (``A Man Feared That He Might Find an Assassin'')

793

(1)

From War is Kind

793

(1)

[A Man Adrift on a Slim Spar]

793

(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906)

794

(1)

A Summer's Night

794

(1)

Sympathy

795

(1)

Robert Frost (1874--1963)

795

(15)

Mending Wall

795

(1)

Home Burial

796

(3)

After Apple-Picking

799

(1)

The Wood-Pile

800

(1)

The Road Not Taken

801

(1)

The Oven Bird

801

(1)

Birches

802

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

803

(1)

Acquainted with the Night

804

(1)

Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

804

(1)

Design

805

(1)

Provide, Provide

805

(1)

The Silken Tent

806

(1)

Come In

806

(1)

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same

807

(1)

The Most of It

807

(1)

The Gift Outright

808

(1)

Directive

808

(2)

Amy Lowell (1874--1925)

810

(3)

Patterns

810

(2)

The Weather-Cock Points South

812

(1)

Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)

813

(1)

Stanzas in Meditation

813

(1)

Part I, Stanza XIII (``She may count three little daisies very well'')

813

(1)

Part III, Stanza II (``I think very well of Susan but I do not know her name'')

813

(1)

Part III, Stanza V (``It is not a range of a mountain'')

814

(1)

Part V, Stanza XXXVIII (``Which I wish to say is this'')

814

(1)

Part V, Stanza LXIII (``I wish that I had spoken only of it all.'')

814

(1)

Edward Thomas (1878--1917)

814

(2)

In Memoriam [Easter 1915]

814

(1)

As the team's head brass

815

(1)

Wallace Stevens (1879--1955)

816

(11)

The Snow Man

816

(1)

The Emperor of Ice-Cream

816

(1)

Sunday Morning

817

(3)

Anecdote of the Jar

820

(1)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

820

(2)

Peter Quince at the Clavier

822

(2)

The Idea of Order at Key West

824

(1)

Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu

825

(1)

Of Mere Being

826

(1)

E. J. Pratt (1883--1964)

827

(1)

Come Not the Seasons Here

827

(1)

From Stone to Steel

827

(1)

William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)

828

(10)

Danse Russe

828

(1)

Portrait of a Lady

829

(1)

The Red Wheelbarrow

829

(1)

This Is Just to Say

830

(1)

Poem

830

(1)

A Sort of a Song

831

(1)

Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

831

(7)

Book I

831

(7)

Pictures from Brueghel

838

(1)

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

838

(1)

D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)

838

(6)

Love on the Farm

838

(2)

Piano

840

(1)

Snake

840

(3)

The English Are So Nice!

843

(1)

Bavarian Gentians

843

(1)

Ezra Pound (1885--1972)

844

(7)

Portrait d'une Femme

844

(1)

The Garden

845

(1)

A Pact

845

(1)

Ts'ai Chi'h

846

(1)

In a Station of the Metro

846

(1)

The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter

846

(1)

The Cantos

847

(4)

I (``And then went down to the ship'')

847

(2)

XLV (``With Usura'')

849

(2)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886--1961)

851

(2)

Helen

851

(1)

The Walls Do Not Fall

851

(2)

[1] (``An incident here and there'')

851

(2)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)

853

(1)

``They''

853

(1)

Everyone Sang

853

(1)

Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)

854

(1)

Shine, Perishing Republic

854

(1)

Birds and Fishes

854

(1)

Marianne Moore (1887--1972)

855

(7)

The Fish

855

(1)

Poetry

856

(1)

The Steeple-Jack

857

(2)

What Are Years?

859

(1)

Nevertheless

860

(1)

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

861

(1)

T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)

862

(19)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

862

(4)

The Waste Land

866

(13)

The Hollow Men

879

(2)

John Crowe Ransom (1888--1974)

881

(2)

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

881

(1)

Piazza Piece

882

(1)

Parting, without a Sequel

882

(1)

Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918)

883

(1)

Break of Day in the Trenches

883

(1)

Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) (1892--1978)

884

(1)

Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

884

(1)

From In Memoriam James Joyce

884

(1)

Archibald MacLeish (1892--1982)

885

(2)

Ars Poetica

885

(1)

The Snowflake Which Is Now and Hence Forever

886

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)

887

(2)

First Fig

887

(1)

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare

887

(1)

[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed]

887

(1)

The Buck in the Snow

888

(1)

I Dreamed I Moved among the Elysian Fields

888

(1)

Armenonville

889

(1)

Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)

889

(3)

Anthem for Doomed Youth

889

(1)

Dulce Et Decorum Est

890

(1)

Strange Meeting

891

(1)

Futility

892

(1)

E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)

892

(6)

All in green went my love riding

892

(1)

Spring is like a perhaps hand

893

(1)

``next to of course god america i

894

(1)

since feeling is first

894

(1)

somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond

895

(1)

may I feel said he

895

(1)

anyone lived in a pretty how town

896

(1)

who are you, little I

897

(1)

Jean Toomer (1894--1967)

898

(1)

Cane

898

(1)

Reapers

898

(1)

Harvest Song

898

(1)

Robert Graves (1895--1985)

899

(2)

Love Without Hope

899

(1)

Warning to Children

899

(1)

The White Goddess

900

(1)

Louise Bogan (1897--1970)

901

(2)

Juan's Song

901

(1)

Man Alone

901

(1)

Song for the Last Act

902

(1)

Night

903

(1)

Hart Crane (1899--1932)

903

(6)

Voyages

903

(4)

The Bridge

907

(1)

Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge

907

(1)

To Emily Dickinson

908

(1)

Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901--1991)

909

(1)

The Wind Suffers

909

(1)

Ding-Donging

910

(1)

Sterling A. Brown (1901--1989)

910

(2)

Slim in Atlanta

910

(2)

Bitter Fruit of the Tree

912

(1)

Langston Hughes (1902--1967)

912

(5)

The Weary Blues

912

(1)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

913

(1)

Dream Variations

914

(1)

Cross

914

(1)

Song for a Dark Girl

914

(1)

Harlem

915

(1)

Theme for English B

915

(1)

Dinner Guest: Me

916

(1)

Roy Campbell (1902--1957)

917

(1)

The Zulu Girl

917

(1)

The Sisters

918

(1)

Stevie Smith (1902--1971)

918

(2)

No Categories!

918

(1)

Mr. Over

919

(1)

Not Waving but Drowning

920

(1)

Countee Cullen (1903--1946)

920

(4)

Heritage

920

(3)

Incident

923

(1)

Yet Do I Marvel

923

(1)

Earle Birney (1904--1991)

924

(2)

Bushed

924

(1)

The Bear on the Delhi Road

925

(1)

C. Day Lewis (1904--1972)

926

(1)

Two Songs

926

(1)

(``I've heard them lilting at loom and belting'')

926

(1)

(``Come, live with me and be my love'')

926

(1)

Where are the War Poets?

927

(1)

Patrick Kavanagh (1904--1967)

927

(3)

From The Great Hunger

927

(2)

Epic

929

(1)

Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)

930

(1)

Robin Redbreast

930

(1)

Touch Me

931

(1)

Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)

931

(3)

Bearded Oaks

931

(2)

Masts at Dawn

933

(1)

Evening Hawk

934

(1)

William Empson (1906--1984)

934

(2)

Legal Fiction

934

(1)

Missing Dates

935

(1)

W. H. Auden (1907--1973)

936

(12)

Lullaby [Lay your sleeping head love]

936

(1)

As I Walked Out One Evening

937

(1)

Twelve Songs

938

(1)

IX [Funeral Blues]

938

(1)

Musee des Beaux Arts

939

(1)

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

939

(2)

September 1, 1939

941

(3)

In Praise of Limestone

944

(2)

The Shield of Achilles

946

(2)

A. D. Hope (1907--2000)

948

(1)

Australia

948

(1)

Inscription for a War

949

(1)

Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)

949

(6)

The Sunlight on the Garden

949

(1)

Bagpipe Music

950

(1)

From Autumn Journal (``September has come and I wake'')

951

(1)

London Rain

952

(2)

Star-gazer

954

(1)

Theodore Roethke (1908--1963)

955

(3)

My Papa's Waltz

955

(1)

Elegy for Jane

955

(1)

The Waking

956

(1)

I Knew a Woman

956

(1)

Wish for a Young Wife

957

(1)

Richard Wright (1908--1960)

958

(1)

Haiku: This Other World

958

(1)

21 (``On winter mornings'')

958

(1)

31 (``In the falling snow'')

958

(1)

210 (``Crying and crying'')

958

(1)

490 (``Waking from a nap'')

958

(1)

762 (``Droning autumn rain'')

958

(1)

783 (``I cannot find it'')

958

(1)

Malcolm Lowry (1909--1957)

959

(1)

Delirium in Vera Cruz

959

(1)

Eye-Opener

959

(1)

Strange Type

959

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911--1979)

960

(7)

Casabianca

960

(1)

The Fish

960

(2)

Filling Station

962

(1)

Sestina

963

(1)

In the Waiting Room

964

(2)

One Art

966

(1)

Irving Layton (b. 1912)

967

(1)

The Birth of Tragedy

967

(1)

Berry Picking

968

(1)

Robert Hayden (1913--1980)

968

(3)

Those Winter Sundays

968

(1)

Night, Death, Mississippi

969

(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

970

(1)

Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980)

971

(1)

Boy with His Hair Cut Short

971

(1)

Night Feeding

971

(1)

Rondel

972

(1)

May Swenson (1913--1989)

972

(2)

Cardinal Ideograms

972

(1)

Goodbye, Goldeneye

973

(1)

R. S. Thomas (1913--2000)

974

(1)

Welsh Landscape

974

(1)

The View from the Window

975

(1)

John Berryman (1914--1972)

975

(5)

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet

975

(2)

17--21

975

(2)

A Sympathy, A Welcome

977

(1)

The Dream Songs

977

(3)

1 (``Huffy Henry hid the day'')

977

(1)

14 (``Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so'')

978

(1)

29 (``There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart'')

978

(1)

145 (``Also I love him: me he's done no wrong'')

979

(1)

324. An Elegy for W.C.W., The Lovely Man

979

(1)

382 (``At Henry's bier let some thing fall out well:'')

980

(1)

Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)

980

(4)

90 North

980

(1)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

981

(1)

Eighth Air Force

981

(1)

Next Day

982

(2)

Weldon Kees (1914--1955)

984

(1)

For H. V. (1901--1927)

984

(1)

When the Lease Is Up

984

(1)

Robinson

984

(1)

Henry Reed (1914--1986)

985

(1)

Lessons of the War

985

(1)

1. Naming of Parts

985

(1)

Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)

986

(6)

The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

986

(1)

The Hand That Signed the Paper

987

(1)

After the Funeral

987

(1)

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London

988

(1)

Fern Hill

989

(1)

In My Craft or Sullen Art

990

(1)

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

991

(1)

Judith Wright (1915--2000)

992

(2)

Woman to Man

992

(1)

Eve to Her Daughters

992

(2)

David Gascoyne (1916--2001)

994

(2)

Ecce Homo

994

(2)

P. K. Page (b. 1916)

996

(2)

Stories of Snow

996

(1)

Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree

997

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917--2000)

998

(3)

kitchenette building

998

(1)

the birth in a narrow room

998

(1)

the rites for Cousin Vit

999

(1)

We Real Cool

999

(1)

Medgar Evers

1000

(1)

Boy Breaking Glass

1000

(1)

Robert Lowell (1917--1977)

1001

(9)

Mr. Edwards and the Spider

1001

(2)

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow

1003

(3)

Water

1006

(1)

For the Union Dead

1007

(2)

Epilogue

1009

(1)

Amy Clampitt (1920--1994)

1010

(2)

Beach Glass

1010

(1)

The Cormorant in Its Element

1011

(1)

Syrinx

1011

(1)

Keith Douglas (1920--1944)

1012

(2)

Vergissmeinnicht

1012

(1)

Aristocrats

1013

(1)

Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)

1014

(3)

The Goose Fish

1014

(1)

A Primer of the Daily Round

1015

(1)

The Blue Swallows

1015

(1)

Boy with Book of Knowledge

1016

(1)

Strange Metamorphosis of Poets

1017

(1)

Mona Van Duyn (b. 1921)

1017

(3)

Letters from a Father

1017

(3)

Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

1020

(6)

First Snow in Alsace

1020

(1)

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

1021

(1)

Advice to a Prophet

1022

(1)

Junk

1023

(1)

Cottage Street, 1953

1024

(1)

Zea

1025

(1)

Philip Larkin (1922--1985)

1026

(8)

For Sidney Bechet

1026

(1)

Born Yesterday

1027

(1)

Church Going

1027

(2)

An Arundel Tomb

1029

(1)

MCMXIV

1030

(1)

Talking in Bed

1031

(1)

The Trees

1031

(1)

Sad Steps

1032

(1)

The Explosion

1032

(1)

This Be The Verse

1033

(1)

James Dickey (1923--1997)

1034

(2)

The Lifeguard

1034

(1)

Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony

1035

(1)

Anthony Hecht (1923--2004)

1036

(7)

A Hill

1036

(1)

The Dover Bitch

1037

(1)

The Ghost in the Martini

1038

(3)

Still Life

1041

(1)

The Book of Yolek

1042

(1)

Death the Painter

1043

(1)

Denise Levertov (1923--1997)

1043

(3)

O Taste and See

1043

(1)

Tenebrae

1044

(1)

Caedmon

1045

(1)

Donald Justice (1925--2004)

1046

(2)

Counting the Mad

1046

(1)

Men at Forty

1046

(1)

Pantoum of the Great Depression

1047

(1)

Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925)

1048

(4)

The Erotic Philosophers (Part Five of ``Pro Femina'')

1048

(4)

Kenneth Koch (1925--2002)

1052

(2)

You Were Wearing

1052

(1)

Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams

1053

(1)

To My Twenties

1053

(1)

A. R. Ammons (1926--2001)

1054

(4)

Corsons Inlet

1054

(3)

Pet Panther

1057

(1)

All's All

1058

(1)

James K. Baxter (1926--1972)

1058

(1)

New Zealand

1058

(1)

Robert Creeley (b. 1926)

1059

(2)

Heroes

1059

(1)

I Know a Man

1060

(1)

Bresson's Movies

1060

(1)

Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)

1061

(7)

Howl

1061

(6)

Part I

1061

(6)

A Supermarket in California

1067

(1)

James Merrill (1926--1995)

1068

(7)

The Broken Home

1068

(3)

The Victor Dog

1071

(1)

The Book of Ephraim

1072

(2)

C. (``Correct but cautious, that first night, we asked'')

1072

(2)

Arabian Night

1074

(1)

Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)

1075

(2)

The Day Lady Died

1075

(1)

Why I Am Not a Painter

1076

(1)

W. D. Snodgrass (b. 1926)

1077

(3)

Heart's Needle

1077

(2)

2 (``Late April and you are three; today'')

1077

(1)

3 (``The child between them on the street'')

1077

(1)

7 (``Here in the scuffled dust'')

1078

(1)

10 (``The vicious winter finally yields'')

1078

(1)

Mementos, 1

1079

(1)

John Ashbery (b. 1927)

1080

(4)

The Painter

1080

(1)

Soonest Mended

1081

(2)

Ode to Bill

1083

(1)

Paradoxes and Oxymorons

1083

(1)

Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)

1084

(2)

The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students

1084

(1)

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

1085

(1)

W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)

1086

(2)

The Drunk in the Furnace

1086

(1)

Separation

1086

(1)

Losing a Language

1087

(1)

Whoever You Are

1088

(1)

Charles Tomlinson (b. 1927)

1088

(1)

Farewell to Van Gogh

1088

(1)

James Wright (1927--1980)

1089

(2)

A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack

1089

(1)

Speak

1090

(1)

Donald Hall (b. 1928)

1091

(3)

The One Day

1091

(3)

Prophecy

1091

(3)

Independence Day Letter

1094

(1)

Philip Levine (b. 1928)

1094

(2)

You Can Have It

1094

(2)

The Simple Truth

1096

(1)

Anne Sexton (1928--1974)

1096

(3)

The Truth the Dead Know

1096

(1)

And One for My Dame

1097

(2)

L. E. Sissman (1928--1976)

1099

(1)

Dying: An Introduction

1099

(1)

IV. Path. Report

1099

(1)

V. Outbound

1099

(1)

Thom Gunn (1929--2004)

1100

(4)

On the Move

1100

(1)

A Map of the City

1101

(1)

From the Wave

1102

(1)

The Missing

1103

(1)

John Hollander (b. 1929)

1104

(1)

Swan and Shadow

1104

(1)

An Old-Fashioned Song

1105

(1)

Richard Howard (b. 1929)

1105

(6)

Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565

1105

(6)

Peter Porter (b. 1929)

1111

(3)

A Consumer's Report

1111

(1)

An Exequy

1112

(2)

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

1114

(8)

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

1114

(1)

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

1115

(4)

Diving into the Wreck

1119

(2)

Modotti

1121

(1)

Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b. 1930)

1122

(2)

The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy

1122

(2)

Ancestors

1122

(1)

1 (``Every Friday morning my grandfather'')

1122

(1)

2 (``All I can remember of his wife'')

1123

(1)

3 (``Come-a look'')

1123

(1)

Ted Hughes (1930--1998)

1124

(5)

The Thought-Fox

1124

(1)

Pike

1125

(1)

Examination at the Womb-Door

1126

(1)

Daffodils

1127

(1)

Platform One

1128

(1)

Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

1129

(3)

Above Pate Valley

1129

(1)

Four Poems for Robin

1130

(2)

Instructions

1132

(1)

Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

1132

(6)

A Far Cry from Africa

1132

(1)

From The Schooner Flight

1133

(2)

Midsummer

1135

(1)

Omeros

1136

(2)

Chapter XXXVIII

1136

(2)

Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931)

1138

(1)

Common Sense

1138

(1)

Jay MacPherson (b. 1931)

1139

(1)

The Swan

1139

(1)

A Lost Soul

1139

(1)

Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)

1140

(3)

The Guardians

1140

(1)

Mercian Hymns

1141

(1)

VI (``The princes of Mercia were badger and raven. Thrall'')

1141

(1)

VII (``Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools'')

1141

(1)

VIII (``The mad are predators. Too often lately they harbour'')

1142

(1)

Lachrimae

1142

(1)

1. Lachrimae Verae

1142

(1)

An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England

1143

(1)

9. The Laurel Axe

1143

(1)

Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)

1143

(8)

Tulips

1143

(2)

Daddy

1145

(2)

Ariel

1147

(1)

Lady Lazarus

1148

(3)

Anne Stevenson (b. 1933)

1151

(3)

Arioso Dolente

1151

(1)

Popular Ballads of the Twentieth Century

1152

(1)

Pete Seeger (b. 1919) Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

1152

(1)

Bob Dylan (b. 1941) Boots of Spanish Leather

1153

(1)

Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (b. 1934)

1154

(2)

In Memory of Radio

1154

(1)

An Agony. As Now.

1155

(1)

Audre Lorde (1934--1992)

1156

(2)

Coal

1156

(1)

From the House of Yemanja

1157

(1)

N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)

1158

(1)

Headwaters

1158

(1)

The Eagle-Feather Fan

1158

(1)

The Gift

1159

(1)

Two Figures

1159

(1)

Wole Soyinka (b. 1934)

1159

(1)

Telephone Conversation

1159

(1)

Mark Strand (b. 1934)

1160

(2)

The Prediction

1160

(1)

Always

1160

(1)

Dark Harbor

1161

(1)

XVI (``It is true, as someone has said, that in'')

1161

(1)

Charles Wright (b. 1935)

1162

(3)

Chinese Journal

1162

(1)

As Our Bodies Rise, Our Names Turn into Light

1163

(1)

Quotations

1164

(1)

Daryl Hine (b. 1936)

1165

(1)

Letting Go

1165

(1)

Riddle

1165

(1)

C. K. Williams (b. 1936)

1166

(2)

Snow: II

1166

(1)

The Question

1166

(2)

Tony Harrison (b. 1937)

1168

(3)

On Not Being Milton

1168

(1)

A Kumquat for John Keats

1168

(3)

Les Murray (b. 1938)

1171

(3)

Noonday Axeman

1171

(3)

Morse

1174

(1)

Charles Simic (b. 1938)

1174

(2)

Prodigy

1174

(1)

A Book Full of Pictures

1175

(1)

Cameo Appearance

1176

(1)

Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)

1176

(3)

At the Tourist Center in Boston

1176

(2)

Flowers

1178

(1)

Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

1179

(8)

Digging

1179

(1)

Punishment

1180

(2)

The Skunk

1182

(1)

A Dream of Jealousy

1182

(1)

From Station Island

1183

(2)

From Clearances

1185

(1)

Casting and Gathering

1186

(1)

Fom Squarings

1187

(1)

Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)

1187

(3)

A Long Branch Song

1187

(1)

The Street

1188

(1)

ABC

1189

(1)

Billy Collins (b. 1941)

1190

(2)

Japan

1190

(1)

Litany

1191

(1)

Robert Hass (b. 1941)

1192

(2)

Meditation at Lagunitas

1192

(1)

Tahoe in August

1193

(1)

Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

1194

(2)

A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford

1194

(2)

The Window

1196

(1)

Eric Ormsby (b. 1941)

1196

(2)

Starfish

1196

(1)

Skunk Cabbage

1197

(1)

Origins

1197

(1)

Alfred Corn (b. 1943)

1198

(1)

Navidad, St. Nicholas Ave.

1198

(1)

A Conch from Sicily

1199

(1)

Louise Gluck (b. 1943)

1199

(2)

The Garden

1199

(1)

Vita Nova

1200

(1)

Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943)

1201

(3)

Letters & Other Worlds

1201

(2)

House on a Red Cliff

1203

(1)

Michael Palmer (b. 1943)

1204

(2)

Of this cloth doll which

1204

(1)

I Do Not

1205

(1)

Eavan Boland (b. 1944)

1206

(1)

That the Science of Cartography Is Limited

1206

(1)

Craig Raine (b. 1944)

1207

(2)

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

1207

(2)

Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947)

1209

(2)

Facing It

1209

(1)

Banking Potatoes

1209

(1)

Sunday Afternoons

1210

(1)

Robyn Sarah (b. 1949)

1211

(2)

Courtney, Mentioned in Passing, Years After

1211

(1)

Relics

1212

(1)

Agha Shahid Ali (1949--2001)

1213

(1)

Lenox Hill

1213

(1)

James Fenton (b. 1949)

1214

(3)

Dead Soldiers

1214

(2)

In Paris with You

1216

(1)

Charles Bernstein (b. 1950)

1217

(2)

Of Time and the Line

1217

(1)

why we ask you not to touch

1218

(1)

this poem intentionally left blank

1219

(1)

Anne Carson (b. 1950)

1219

(3)

New Rule

1219

(1)

Sumptuous Destitution

1219

(1)

The Beauty of the Husband

1220

(2)

IV. He She we They You

1220

(2)

Dana Gioia (b. 1950)

1222

(1)

Prayer

1222

(1)

The Next Poem

1222

(1)

Jorie Graham (b. 1951)

1223

(3)

At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body

1223

(3)

The Surface

1226

(1)

Paul Muldoon (b. 1951)

1226

(5)

Milkweed and Monarch

1226

(1)

Third Epistle to Timothy

1227

(4)

Rita Dove (b. 1952)

1231

(3)

Parsley

1231

(2)

Dusting

1233

(1)

Daniel Hall (b. 1952)

1234

(2)

Love-Letter-Burning

1234

(1)

Mangosteens

1235

(1)

Vikram Seth (b. 1952)

1236

(2)

From The Golden Gate

1236

(2)

Gary Soto (b. 1952)

1238

(2)

The Soup

1238

(1)

Not Knowing

1239

(1)

Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. 1953)

1240

(1)

Supernatural Love

1240

(1)

Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)

1241

(1)

I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move

1241

(1)

Birth

1242

(1)

Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955)

1242

(1)

Warming Her Pearls

1242

(1)

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)

1243

(3)

Persimmons

1243

(2)

Out of Hiding

1245

(1)

Cynthia Zarin (b. 1959)

1246

(1)

The Ant Hill

1246

(1)

Song

1247

(1)

Simon Armitage (b. 1963)

1247

(2)

From Killing Time

1247

(2)

Greg Williamson (b. 1964)

1249

(2)

Double Exposures

1249

(1)

III. Visiting Couple Kissing and Halved Onion

1249

(1)

XXV. Group Photo with Winter Trees

1249

(1)

New Year's: A Short Pantoum

1250

(1)

Versification

1251

(26)

Rhythm

1252

(1)

Meter

1253

(7)

Rhyme

1260

(3)

Forms

1263

(12)

Basic Forms

1263

(7)

Composite Forms

1270

(2)

Irregular Forms

1272

(1)

Open Forms or Free Verse

1272

(2)

Other Forms of Poetry

1274

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

1275

(2)

Poetic Syntax

1277

(22)

What Is Syntax?

1277

(2)

Parts of Syntax

1279

(5)

Sentences and Words

1279

(1)

Clauses

1280

(4)

Moves in the Game

1284

(5)

Nominal Syntax

1284

(1)

Double Syntax

1285

(1)

Word Order Inversions

1286

(3)

The Game of Interpretation

1289

(7)

Emily Dickinson

1289

(2)

John Keats

1291

(1)

Thomas Gray

1291

(1)

John Dryden

1292

(1)

William Blake

1293

(3)

Scorn Not Syntax

1296

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

1297

(2)

Biographical Sketches

1299

(51)

Permissions Acknowledgments

1350

(7)

Index

1357

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The Norton Anthology of Poetry

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