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Tables of Contents for Poems to Read
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xxi
Introduction
Robert Pinsky
xxiii
There Was a Child Went Forth
My Father
Yehuda Amichai
3
1
Sestina
Elizabeth Bishop
4
2
The Game
Eavan Boland
6
2
Dreamtigers
Jorge Luis Borges
8
1
To my Dear Children
Anne Bradstreet
9
1
Boy Breaking Glass
Gwendolyn Brooks
10
2
Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12
3
My Grandmother's Love Letters
Hart Crane
15
2
Story for Margarita
Ruben Dario
17
4
Coastal
Mark Doty
21
2
Little Brown Baby
Paul Laurence Dunbar
23
2
Once by the Pacific
Robert Frost
25
1
Time
Louise Gluck
26
2
At the Railway Station, Upway
Thomas Hardy
28
1
The Self Unseeing
28
2
Follower
Seamus Heaney
30
1
Blackberry-Picking
31
2
Spring and Fall
Gerard Manley Hopkins
33
2
Ode I.9 / To Thaliarchus
Horace
35
1
Dreams
Langston Hughes
36
1
A Flower Given to My Daughter
James Joyce
37
1
You Were Wearing
Kenneth Koch
38
1
Venus's-flytraps
Yusef Komunyakaa
39
2
The Catch
Stanley Kunitz
41
1
The Piano
D. H. Lawrence
42
1
My Childhood-Home I See Again
Abraham Lincoln
43
4
Silence
Marianne Moore
47
1
August, Los Angeles, Lullaby
Carol Muske
48
3
Adventures of Isabel
Ogden Nash
51
2
Autobiographia Literaria
Frank O'Hara
53
1
Alicante Lullaby
Sylvia Plath
54
1
The Lice Seekers
Arthur Rimbaud
55
1
Child On Top Of A Greenhouse
Theodore Roethke
56
1
The Land of Counterpane
Robert Louis Stevenson
57
2
There was Child Went Forth
Walt Whitman
59
2
On the Beach Night
61
2
The Turtle
William Carlos Williams
63
2
Night Light
Ann Winters
65
1
The Song of Wandering Aengus
William Butler Years
66
5
Either Whom to Love or How
Just Walking Around
John Ashbery
71
1
To My Mother
George Barker
72
1
A Bouqet
Bei Dao
73
2
The Shampoo
Elizabeth Bishop
75
1
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand (Sonnets from the Portuguese 6)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
76
1
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Thomas Campion
77
1
The Bandaged Shoulder
C. P. Cavafy
78
1
somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
E. E. Cummings
79
1
Wild Nights-Wild Nights! (249)
Emily Dickinson
80
1
If you were coming in the Fall (511)
81
1
Song
John Donne
82
2
Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee (Idea 30)
Michael Drayton
84
1
The Love I Gave You Once
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
85
2
To Earthward
Robert Frost
87
1
Dust of Snow
88
1
A Broken Appointment
Thomas Hardy
89
1
Misery and Splendor
Robert Hass
90
1
Love (III)
George Herbert
91
1
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Robert Herrick
92
1
Oh, when I was in love with you (A Shropshire Lad 28)
A. E. Housman
93
1
Life is Fine
Langeston Hughes
94
2
His Excuse for Loving
Ben Jonson
96
1
My Picture Left in Scotland
97
1
Love Song
Denise Levertov
98
1
The Definition of Love
Andrew Marvell
99
2
Ballad
Gabriela Mistral
101
1
From the Journals of the Frog Prince
Susan Mitchell
102
2
Tonight I Can Write
Pablo Neruda
104
2
Steps
Frank O'Hara
106
2
Love Letter
Sylvia Plath
108
2
To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe
110
1
``No, Thank You, John''
Christina Rossetti
111
2
To Atthis
Sappho
113
2
Let met to the marriage of true minds (Sonnets 116)
William Shakespeare
115
1
My True Love hath my heart and I have his
Sir Philip Sidney
116
1
Love After Love
Derek Walcott
117
1
Natural History
E. B. White
118
1
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Walt Whitman
119
1
Still Life
C. K. Williams
120
2
The Act
William Carlos Williams
122
1
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
William Butler Yeats
123
4
The Forgetful Kingdom of Death
Thoughts of Death
Sterling A. Brown
127
1
I have of sorwe so grete woon
Geoffrey Chaucer
128
1
The Watch
Frances Cornford
129
1
The Heart asks Pleasure-first (536)
Emily Dickinson
130
1
I heard a Fly buzz when I died- (465)
130
2
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee (Holy Sonnets 10)
John Donne
132
2
The Poet Goes about Her Business
Linda Gregg
134
2
You that seek what life is in death (Caelica 82)
Fulke Greville Lord Brooke
136
1
Death
George Herbert
137
1
To Daffodils
Robert Herrick
138
1
To an Athlete Dying Young
A. E. Housman
139
2
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Randall Jarrell
141
1
A Contemplation upon Flowers
Henry king
142
1
The Bolt
Mary Kinzie
143
2
On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia
Walter Savage Landor
145
1
Janet Waking
John Crowe Ransom
146
2
Elegy for Jane
Theodore Roethke
148
1
Fear no more the heat o' the sun
William Shakespeare
149
1
Question
May Swenson
150
1
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas
151
2
The Death of a Toad
Richard Wilbur
153
1
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
William Carlos Williams
154
5
In Durance Soundly Caged
Mad Tom's Song
Anonymous
159
170
As I Walked Out One Evening
W. H. Auden
162
3
Nurse's Song (from Song of Innocence)
William Blake
165
1
Nurse's Song (from Song of Experience)
166
1
The Grey Monk
166
2
First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string...
Gwendolyn Brooks
168
1
Bitter Fruit of the Tree
Sterling A. Brown
169
2
Waiting for the Barbarians
C. P. Cavafy
171
2
Incident
Countee Cullen
173
1
After Great pain, a formal feeling comes- (341)
Emily Dickinson
174
1
Belinda's Petition
Rita Dove
175
1
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
176
1
The Red Poppy
Louise Gluck
177
1
Frederick Dougles
Robert Hayden
178
1
Binsey Poplars
Gerad Manley Hopkins
179
2
90 North
Randall Jarrell
181
2
King of the River
Stanley Kunitz
183
3
1910
Federico Garcia Lorca
186
2
For the Union Dead
Robert Lowell
188
3
Not to Be Spattered by His Blood
Edna ST. Vincent Millay
191
3
Resume
Dorothy Parker
194
1
Storm Warnings
Adrienne Rich
195
2
Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson
197
2
Her Kind
Anne sexton
199
1
Like This
Stevie Smith
200
1
Like This
200
1
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens
201
1
Reapers
Jean Toomer
202
1
By the road to the contagious hospital
William Carlos Williams
203
4
Curled Around These Images
Filling Station
Elizabeth Bishop
207
2
Medusa
Louise Bogan
209
2
at last we killed the roaches
Lucille Clifton
211
1
Pear Tree
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
212
1
An Ox Looks at Man
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
213
2
Plague of Dead Sharks
Alan Dugan
215
1
Preludes
T. S. Eliot
216
3
Departmental
Robert Frost
219
2
In back of the real
Allen Ginsberg
221
2
Yoko
Thom Gunn
223
2
Considering the Snail
225
1
Then man pulling radishes
Issa
226
1
To Autumn
John Keats
227
2
Let Evening Come
Jane Kenyon
229
1
First Sight
Philip Larkin
230
1
In Houston
Gail Mazur
231
2
Bring Me the Sunflower
Eugenio Montale
233
1
Those Various Scalpels
Marianne Moore
234
2
The Village of Reason
Michael Plamer
236
2
Archaic Torso of Apollo
Rainer Maria Rilke
238
1
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
239
1
Spring
Charles Simic
240
1
Augusto Jandolo: On Excavating an Etruscan Tomb
Tom Sleigh
241
2
Five Dogs
Mark Strand
243
3
The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
Dylan Thomas
246
1
The Yonder Tree
Joshua Weiner
247
3
Aboard at a Ship's Helm
Walt Whitman
250
3
Alive With Many Separate Meanings
The Path to the White Moon
John Ashbery
253
2
Dream Song 14
John Berryman
255
1
To F-
William Blake
256
1
The Smile
256
1
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
257
1
``Do not be afraid of no''
Gwendolyn Brooks
258
2
Ithaka
C. P. Cavafy
260
2
Geometry
Rita Dove
262
1
How We Heard the Name
Alan Dugan
263
1
Gascoigne's Lullaby
George Gascoigne
264
2
from Faust, Part 2
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
266
2
Prayer
Jorie Graham
268
1
When all this All doth pass from age to age (Caelica 69)
Fulke Greville Lord Brooke
269
1
The Seventh
Attila Jozsef
270
2
On My Own
Philip Levine
272
2
Years of Solitude
Dionisio Martinez
274
1
Pretty Blue Apron
James Michael
275
3
A Field of Light
Theodore Roethke
278
3
Quietness
Jalal al-din Rumi
281
1
Proverbs from Purgatory
Lloyd Schwartz
282
3
Old Joke
Alan Shapiro
285
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
Wallace Stevens
267
21
Of Mere Being
288
1
A Contribution to Statistics
Wislawa Szymborska
289
3
from Gitanjali (35 & 39)
Rabindranath Tagore
292
2
Personal
C. D. Wright
294
3
I Made My Song a Coat
from Requiem
Anna Akhmatova
297
1
Lament for the Makers
Frank Bidart
298
1
Ars Poetica
Jorge Luis Borges
299
2
To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time
Countee Cullen
301
2
We Play at paste- (320)
Emily Dickinson
303
1
There is no Frigate like a Book (1263)
303
1
A word is dead (1212)
304
1
A Supermarket in California
Allen Ginsberg
305
2
Get It Again
Mark Halliday
307
3
Theme for English B
Langston Hughes
310
2
The Secret
Denise Levertov
312
2
What He Thought
Heather McHugh
314
3
Incantation
Czeslaw Milosz
317
1
A Step Away from Them
Frank O'Hara
318
2
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Wallace Stevens
320
3
Eating Poetry
Mark Strand
323
1
Dream On
James Tate
324
3
A Coat
William Butler Yeats
327
2
Notes
329
4
Permissions
333
10
Index
343
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