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Tables of Contents for Poems to Read
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xxi
Introduction
xxiii
There Was a Child Went Forth
My Father
3
1
Sestina
4
2
The Game
6
2
Dreamtigers
8
1
To my Dear Children
9
1
Boy Breaking Glass
10
2
Frost at Midnight
12
3
My Grandmother's Love Letters
15
2
Story for Margarita
17
4
Coastal
21
2
Little Brown Baby
23
2
Once by the Pacific
25
1
Time
26
2
At the Railway Station, Upway
28
1
The Self Unseeing
28
2
Follower
30
1
Blackberry-Picking
31
2
Spring and Fall
33
2
Ode I.9 / To Thaliarchus
35
1
Dreams
36
1
A Flower Given to My Daughter
37
1
You Were Wearing
38
1
Venus's-flytraps
39
2
The Catch
41
1
The Piano
42
1
My Childhood-Home I See Again
43
4
Silence
47
1
August, Los Angeles, Lullaby
48
3
Adventures of Isabel
51
2
Autobiographia Literaria
53
1
Alicante Lullaby
54
1
The Lice Seekers
55
1
Child On Top Of A Greenhouse
56
1
The Land of Counterpane
57
2
There was Child Went Forth
59
2
On the Beach Night
61
2
The Turtle
63
2
Night Light
65
1
The Song of Wandering Aengus
66
5
Either Whom to Love or How
Just Walking Around
71
1
To My Mother
72
1
A Bouqet
73
2
The Shampoo
75
1
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand (Sonnets from the Portuguese 6)
76
1
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
77
1
The Bandaged Shoulder
78
1
somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
79
1
Wild Nights-Wild Nights! (249)
80
1
If you were coming in the Fall (511)
81
1
Song
82
2
Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee (Idea 30)
84
1
The Love I Gave You Once
85
2
To Earthward
87
1
Dust of Snow
88
1
A Broken Appointment
89
1
Misery and Splendor
90
1
Love (III)
91
1
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
92
1
Oh, when I was in love with you (A Shropshire Lad 28)
93
1
Life is Fine
94
2
His Excuse for Loving
96
1
My Picture Left in Scotland
97
1
Love Song
98
1
The Definition of Love
99
2
Ballad
101
1
From the Journals of the Frog Prince
102
2
Tonight I Can Write
104
2
Steps
106
2
Love Letter
108
2
To Helen
110
1
``No, Thank You, John''
111
2
To Atthis
113
2
Let met to the marriage of true minds (Sonnets 116)
115
1
My True Love hath my heart and I have his
116
1
Love After Love
117
1
Natural History
118
1
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
119
1
Still Life
120
2
The Act
122
1
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
123
4
The Forgetful Kingdom of Death
Thoughts of Death
127
1
I have of sorwe so grete woon
128
1
The Watch
129
1
The Heart asks Pleasure-first (536)
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)
132
2
The Poet Goes about Her Business
134
2
You that seek what life is in death (Caelica 82)
136
1
Death
137
1
To Daffodils
138
1
To an Athlete Dying Young
139
2
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
141
1
A Contemplation upon Flowers
142
1
The Bolt
143
2
On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia
145
1
Janet Waking
146
2
Elegy for Jane
148
1
Fear no more the heat o' the sun
149
1
Question
150
1
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
151
2
The Death of a Toad
153
1
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
154
5
In Durance Soundly Caged
Mad Tom's Song
159
170
As I Walked Out One Evening
162
3
Nurse's Song (from Song of Innocence)
165
1
Nurse's Song (from Song of Experience)
166
1
The Grey Monk
166
2
First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string...
168
1
Bitter Fruit of the Tree
169
2
Waiting for the Barbarians
171
2
Incident
173
1
After Great pain, a formal feeling comes- (341)
174
1
Belinda's Petition
175
1
Nothing Gold Can Stay
176
1
The Red Poppy
177
1
Frederick Dougles
178
1
Binsey Poplars
179
2
90 North
181
2
King of the River
183
3
1910
186
2
For the Union Dead
188
3
Not to Be Spattered by His Blood
191
3
Resume
194
1
Storm Warnings
195
2
Richard Cory
197
2
Her Kind
199
1
Like This
200
1
Like This
200
1
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
201
1
Reapers
202
1
By the road to the contagious hospital
203
4
Curled Around These Images
Filling Station
207
2
Medusa
209
2
at last we killed the roaches
211
1
Pear Tree
212
1
An Ox Looks at Man
213
2
Plague of Dead Sharks
215
1
Preludes
216
3
Departmental
219
2
In back of the real
221
2
Yoko
223
2
Considering the Snail
225
1
Then man pulling radishes
226
1
To Autumn
227
2
Let Evening Come
229
1
First Sight
230
1
In Houston
231
2
Bring Me the Sunflower
233
1
Those Various Scalpels
234
2
The Village of Reason
236
2
Archaic Torso of Apollo
238
1
Ozymandias
239
1
Spring
240
1
Augusto Jandolo: On Excavating an Etruscan Tomb
241
2
Five Dogs
243
3
The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
246
1
The Yonder Tree
247
3
Aboard at a Ship's Helm
250
3
Alive With Many Separate Meanings
The Path to the White Moon
253
2
Dream Song 14
255
1
To F-
256
1
The Smile
256
1
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
257
1
``Do not be afraid of no''
258
2
Ithaka
260
2
Geometry
262
1
How We Heard the Name
263
1
Gascoigne's Lullaby
264
2
from Faust, Part 2
266
2
Prayer
268
1
When all this All doth pass from age to age (Caelica 69)
269
1
The Seventh
270
2
On My Own
272
2
Years of Solitude
274
1
Pretty Blue Apron
275
3
A Field of Light
278
3
Quietness
281
1
Proverbs from Purgatory
282
3
Old Joke
285
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
267
21
Of Mere Being
288
1
A Contribution to Statistics
289
3
from Gitanjali (35 & 39)
292
2
Personal
294
3
I Made My Song a Coat
from Requiem
297
1
Lament for the Makers
298
1
Ars Poetica
299
2
To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time
301
2
We Play at paste- (320)
303
1
There is no Frigate like a Book (1263)
303
1
A word is dead (1212)
304
1
A Supermarket in California
305
2
Get It Again
307
3
Theme for English B
310
2
The Secret
312
2
What He Thought
314
3
Incantation
317
1
A Step Away from Them
318
2
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
320
3
Eating Poetry
323
1
Dream On
324
3
A Coat
327
2
Notes
329
4
Permissions
333
10
Index
343