00$a/ Archibald MacLeish --
How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
What the sonnet is / Eugene Lee Hamilton --
The great lover / Rupert Brooke --
gee i like to think of the dead / E.E. Cummings --
Dirge / Kenneth Fearing --
From Hero and leander / Christopher Marlowe --
Walter Jenks' Bath / William Meredith --
A grasshopper / Richard Wilbur --
Ponce de Leon : a morning walk / Al Young --
Dolor / Thoedore Roethke --
Some good things to be said for the Iron age / Gary Snyder --
Between walls / William Carlos Williams --
From The great bear meditations / J. Michael Yates --
The lost pictures / Hollis Summers --
Dog / Lawrence Ferlinghetti --
Time out / Donald Finkel --
An elegy is preparing itself / Donald Justice --
With rue my heart is laden / A.E. Housman --
To Lucasta, on going to the wars / Richard Lovelace --
Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
Why so pale and wan? / Sir John Suckling --
Early evening quarrel / Langston Hughes --
From Essay on criticism ; From Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope --
What riddle asked the sphinx / Archibald MacLeish --
The anniversarie / John Donne --
South end / Conrad Aiken --
Nude descending a staircase / X.J. Kennedy --
The altar / George Herbert --
Do the dead know what time it is? / Kenneth Patchen --
The span of life / Robert Frost --
O western wind / Anonymous --
The fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart --
My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke --
Before disaster / Yvor Winters --
Hawk's way / Ted Olson --
On the vanity of earthly greatness / Arthur Guiterman --
My Luve / Robert Burns --
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
The passionate shepherd to his lov
Detroit Conference of Unity and Art / Nikki Giovanni --
Romantic / George Garrett --
Thank you for the valentine / Diane Wakoski --
After work / Gary Snyder --
For Jane ; Style ; Short order / Charles Bukowski --
What lips my lips have kissed / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Holy Sonnet XIV / John Donne --
Thou art indeed just, Lord / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
On our crucified Lord, naked and bloody / Richard Crashaw --
A prayer to the Father of heaven / John Skelton --
For a dead lady / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
On my first daughter ; On my first son ; Epitaph on S.P., a child of queen Elizabeth's chapel / Ben Jonson --
Little elegy ; On a child who lived one minute ; Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / X.J. Kennedy --
December 24 and George McBride is dead / Richard Hugo --
A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Dylan Thomas --
foresees his death / W.B. Yeats
Aubade : N.Y.C. / Robert Wallace --
The roach / John Raven --
Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota / James Wright --
The tragedy of the leaves / Charles Bukowski --
Northwest airlines / Fred Chappell --
The place of backs / W.S. Merwin --
The more loving one / W.H. Auden --
Woodchucks / Maxine Kumin --
Song of myself / Walt Whitman --
A valediction forbidding mourning / John Donne --
Departmental / Robert Frost --
Heaven / Rupert Brooke --
Arriving / Daniel Halpern --
Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Thomas Gray --
To a fair lady playing with a snake / Edmund Waller --
A satirical elegy on the death of a late famous General / Jonathan Swift --
The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough --
Three poems from the Japanese / Yamabe No Akahito --
Written on the wall at Chang's hermitage / Tu Fu --
the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh --
The baite / John Donne --
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell --
You, Andrew Marvell / Archibald MacLeish --
The tyger / William Blake --
And what is love? Misunderstanding, pain / J.V. Cunningham --
The second coming ; Sailing to Byzantium / W.B. Yeats --
Anthem for doomed youth (first draft) ; Anthem for doomed youth (final version) / Wilfred Owen --
Dauer im Wechsel / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --
Permanence in change / transliterated by Mark J. Doyle --
Permanence in change / translated by John Nims --
Canto I (lines 1-21) of The inferno / Dante Alighieri --
Canto I (lines 1-21) of The inferno / translated by Allan Gilbert --
Canto I (lines 1-21) of The inferno / translated by Charles S. Singleton --
Canto I (lines 1-21) of The inferno / translated by Dorothy L. Sayers --
Canto I (lines 1-21) of The inferno / translated by John Ciardi --
Canto I (lines 1-21) of The
Sir Beelzebub / Edith Sitwell --
Lenox Avenue mural / Langston Hughes --
How Jakc found that bean may go back on a chap / Guy Wetmore Carryl --
To mistress Margaret Hussey / John Skelton --
After long silence / W.B. Yeats --
Spring and Fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Voice of the studio announcer / Archibald MacLeish --
My last duchess / Robert Browning --
From Crass times redeemed by dignity of souls / Peter Viereck --
The end of the world / Archibald MacLeish --
the traveler's curse agter misdirection / Robert Graves --
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / Edward FitzGerald --
L' allegro ; Il penseroso / John Milton --
How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning --
The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
To be, or not to be ; For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground ; Under the greenwood tree ; Full fathom five / William Shakespeare --
In a time of pestilence / Thomas
To a traveler / Su Tung P'o --
From A bestiary / Kenneth Rexroth --
The red wheelbarrow ; This is just to say / William Carlos Williams --
I saw a man ; The book of wisdom ; The heart / Stephen Crane --
The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell --
I love you and the rosebush / Armando Uribe --
The world is too much with us; late and soon / William Wordsworth --
Sonnet LXXIII / William Shakespeare --
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats --
Sonnet / Samuel Daniel --
Young Reynard / George Meredith --
To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant --
Exchange / Dabney Stuart - Meditation for a pickle suite / R.H.W. Dillard --
Gamecock / James Dickey --
A timepiece / James Merrill --
Sonnet CXLVII / William Shakespeare --
The Hippopotamus / T.S. Eliot --
A simile for her smile / Richard Wilbur --
A poison tree / William Blake