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Tables of Contents for Americans' Favorite Poems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
2
Anna Akhmatova (1889--1966)
5
1
The Sentence
A. R. Ammons (B. 1926)
6
2
Mansion
Archilochos (Seventh Century B.C.E.)
8
1
Will, lost in a sea of trouble
Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)
9
2
Dover Beach
John Ashbery (B. 1927)
11
1
The Improvement
Margaret Atwood (B. 1939)
12
2
Variation on the Word Sleep
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)
14
4
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Refugee Blues
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (B. 1934)
18
1
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
19
4
One Art
At the Fishhouses
Black Elk (1863--1950)
23
1
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle
William Blake (1757--1827)
24
3
Eternity
The Ecchoing Green
The Little Black Boy
Eavan Boland (B. 1944)
27
1
The Emigrant Irish
Anne Bradstreet (1612--1672)
28
2
Before the Birth of one of her Children
To my Dear and loving Husband
Rupert Brooke (1886--1915)
30
1
The Soldier
Gwendolyn Brooks (B. 1917)
31
2
We Real Cool
The Bean Eaters
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861)
33
1
Sonnet 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.)
Robert Browning (1812--1889)
34
2
My Last Duchess
Julia De Burgos (1914--1953)
36
2
Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress
Robert Burns (1759--1796)
38
2
Address to a Haggis
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824)
40
4
She Walks in Beauty
from Manfred
Lewis Carroll (1832--1898)
44
2
Jabberwocky
Willa Cather (1876--1947)
46
2
Grandmither, Think Not I Forget
Catullus (84--54 B.C.E.)
48
1
31
C. P. Cavafy (1863--1933)
49
1
The City
Paul Celan (1920--1970)
50
1
from Zeitgehoft
Geoffrey Chaucer (CA. 1342--1400)
51
1
from The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Sandra Cisneros (B. 1954)
52
1
You Called Me Corazon
Lucille Clifton (B. 1936)
53
1
The Lost Baby Poem
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)
54
4
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Hart Crane (1899--1933)
58
3
Poem: To Brooklyn Bridge
Voyages (III)
Robert Creeley (B. 1926)
61
2
The Rain
I Know a Man
Countee Cullen (1903--1946)
63
1
Yet Do I Marvel
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)
64
2
i sing of Olaf glad and big
Robert Desnos (1900--1945)
66
1
Last Poem
James Dickey (1923--1997)
67
3
The Bee
Emily Dickinson (1830--1886)
70
4
I'm Nobody! Who are You? (288)
I never saw a Moor---(1052)
A little Madness in the Spring (1333)
``Hope'' is the thing with Feathers---(254)
A Bird came down the Walk---(328)
John Donne (1572--1631)
74
3
The Flea
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Mark Doty (B. 1953)
77
1
The Embrace
Rita Dove (B. 1952)
78
2
Daystar
Michael Drayton (1563--1631)
80
1
Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part (10)
Alan Dugan (B. 1923)
81
1
Love Song: I And Thou
Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872--1906)
82
1
We Wear the Mask
Hussein Elhami (Twentieth Century)
83
1
A Lyric in Exile
T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)
84
7
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Dry Salvages (II)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)
91
1
The Rhodora
Robert Frost (1874--1963)
92
7
The Road Not Taken
Acquainted with the Night
Immigrants
Birches
A Hillside Thaw
``Out, Out---''
Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)
99
2
The Terms in Which I Think of Reality
Louise Gluck (B. 1943)
101
1
The Queen of Carthage
Thom Gunn (B. 1929)
102
1
Baby Song
Donald Hall (B. 1928)
103
2
Names of Horses
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)
105
2
The Darkling Thrush
Robert Hass (B. 1941)
107
2
Meditation at Lagunitas
Robert Hayden (1913--1980)
109
3
Those Winter Sundays
Monet's ``Waterlilies''
Semus Heaney (B. 1939)
112
2
Mid-Term Break
William Ernest Henley (1849--1903)
114
2
Invictus
George Herbert (1593--1633)
116
2
Church-musick
Vertue
Zbigniew Herbert (B. 1924)
118
1
The pebble
Nazim Hikmet (1902--1963)
119
4
Things I Didn't Know I Loved
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874--1929)
123
1
Do you see the town?
Homer (Mid Ninth Century B.C.E)
124
2
from the Iliad (Book Six, lines 439--79)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)
126
3
God's Grandeur
Pied Beauty
The Windhover
A. E. Housman (1859--1936)
129
2
Diffugere Nives
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)
131
3
Minstrel Man
Merry-Go-Round
Mother to Son
Richard Hugo (1923--1982)
134
2
Driving Montana
Randall Jarrell (1914--1965)
136
4
Next Day
Losses
Robinson Jeffers (1887--1962)
140
2
The Purse-Seine
James Weldon Johnson (1871--1938)
142
4
The Creation
Ben Jonson (1573--1637)
146
2
Song To Celia
On My First Son
James Joyce (1882--1941)
148
1
Ecce Puer
John Keats (1795--1821)
149
4
Ode to a Nightingale
Sonnet VII (O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell)
This Living Hand
Jane Kenyon (1947--1995)
153
1
Otherwise
Galway Kinnell (B. 1927)
154
2
St. Francis and the Sow
Yusef Komunyakaa (B. 1947)
156
1
Facing It
Stanley Kunitz (B. 1905)
157
2
Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation
Lao Tzu (Ca. Fourth to third Centuries B.C.E)
159
1
from Tao te Ching
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)
160
3
Snake
Emma Lazarus (1849--1887)
163
1
The New Colossus
Denise Levertov (1923--1997)
164
2
Come into Animal Presence
Philip Levine (B. 1928)
166
2
You Can Have It
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882)
168
3
A Psalm of Life
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898--1936)
171
2
The Moon Sails Out
Song of the Barren Orange Tree
Amy Lowell (1874--1925)
173
4
Patterns
James Russell Lowell (1819--1891)
177
2
The First Snow-Fall
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)
179
2
Waking in the Blue
Haki R. Madhubuti (B. 1942)
181
2
Big Momma
Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)
183
2
To His Coy Mistress
Herman Melville (1819--1891)
185
1
Art
W. S. Merwin (B. 1927)
186
1
Strawberries
Edna ST. Vincent Millay (1892--1950)
187
2
Sonnet XXIV (When you, that at this moment are to me)
Dirge Without Music
A. A. Milne (1882--1956)
189
1
Happiness
Czeslaw Milosz (B. 1911)
190
1
On Pilgrimage
John Milton (1608--1674)
191
5
Lycidas
William Vaughn Moody (1869--1910)
196
1
Harmonics
Marianne Moore (1887--1972)
197
2
Poetry
I May, I Might, I Must
Thomas Moore (1779--1852)
199
1
The Time I've Lost in Wooing
Pablo Neruda (1904--1973)
200
3
Ode to My Socks
Jacob Nibenegenasabe (1900--1977)
203
1
Quiet Until the Thaw
Frank O'Hara (1926--1966)
204
3
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
Mary Oliver (B. 1953)
207
1
The Summer Day
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)
208
2
Dulce et Decorum Est
Pham Tien Duat (B. 1941)
210
1
To Return to the Urges Unconscious of Their Beginnings
Carl Phillips (B. 1959)
211
2
Luncheon on the Grass
Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)
213
6
The Night Dances
Lady Lazarus
Polly's Tree
Hyam Plutzik (1911--1962)
219
1
Cancer and Nova
Alexander Pope (1688--1744)
220
2
from Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)
222
2
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Alexander Pushkin (1799--1837)
224
1
I loved you
Francisco De Quevedo (1580--1645)
225
1
Love Constant Beyond Death
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552--1618)
226
1
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Henry Reed (1914--1986)
227
2
Naming of Parts
Adrienne Rich (B. 1929)
229
2
To the Days
Prospective Immigrants Please Note
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875--1926)
231
1
Entrance
Arthur Rimbaud (1854--1891)
232
31
Romance
Wislawa Szymborska (B. 1923)
263
2
Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition
Rabindranath Tagore (1861--1941)
265
2
Gift
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)
267
3
Ulysses
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863--1940)
270
3
Casey at the Bat
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)
273
4
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
In My Craft or Sullen Art
Fern Hill
Chidiock Tichborne (CA. 1558--1586)
277
1
Tichborne's Elegy
Derek Walcott (B. 1930)
278
2
A Far Cry from Africa
Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)
280
1
Arizona Midnight
Walt Whitman (1819--1892)
281
6
An Old Man's Thought of School
from Song of the Open Road (1, 4, & 8)
To a Certain Cantatrice from Song of Myself (46 & 52)
Richard Wilbur (B. 1921)
287
2
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
C. K. Williams (B. 1936)
289
2
My Fly
William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)
291
4
To Elsie
Danse Russe
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)
295
6
from The Prelude (Book IV, lines 354--70)
Lines (Tintern Abbey)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568--1639)
301
1
On a Bank As I Sat Fishing
James Wright (1927--1980)
302
1
A Blessing
Thomas Wyatt (1503--1542)
303
1
Forget Not Yet
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)
304
3
Politics
When You Are Old
Sailing to Byzatium
Sone no Yoshitada (Late Tenth Century)
307
1
The lower leaves of the trees
Adam Zagajewski (B. 1945)
308
3
To Go to Lvov
Zawgee (1907--1990)
311
2
The Way of the Water-Hyacinth
Permissions
313
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Index
321