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Tables of Contents for Poetry Out Loud
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Introduction
xv
James Earl Jones
On Poetry Out Loud
1
6
Poems of Love and Wreckage
7
28
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear
``Ye tradeful Merchants that with weary toil''
Edmund Spenser
``My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun''
William Shakespeare
From Philip Sparrow
John Skelton
The Sniffle
Ogden Nash
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
Master Charge Blues
Nikki Giovanni
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae
Ernest Dowson
I Knew a Woman
Theodore Roethke
The Sun Rising
John Donne
John Donne in California
Amy Clampitt
``They flee from me that sometime did me seek''
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Fourth Dance Poem
Gerald W. Barrax
Light Verse and Poems that Tell Stories
35
28
Limericks with a Civil Lear
Edward Lear
Ogden Nash
Robert Frost
Clerihews, Straightly and Bentley
Paul Horgan
William Jay Smith
Jonathan Williams
Jaques Barzun
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
``anyone lived in a pretty how town''
e.e. cummings
Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Children's Story
Ricky Walters
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Rudyard Kipling
Corroboree
Kath Walker
The Unquiet Grave---Traditional British ballad
Calverly's
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Aboard at a Ship's Helm
Walt Whitman
Crossing the Bar
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Views
Mona Van Duyn
From a Railway Carriage
Robert Louis Stevenson
Poems of Animals and the Natural World
63
26
The Greater Cats
Victoria Sackville-West
The Heaven of Animals
James Dickey
The Tyger
William Blake
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Cecil Frances Alexander
The Oven-Bird
Robert Frost
Proud Songsters
Thomas Hardy
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
Thomas Gray
The Cat as Cat
Denise Levertov
``Dear, why make you more of a dog than me?''
Sir Philip Sidney
Lament for Toby, a French Poodle
May Sarton
Orchard
H.D.
Cameos
Rita Dove
A Description of a City Shower
Jonathan Swift
Poems of Contradiction and Opposition
89
26
From ``The General Prologue,'' The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
From ``The Burial of the Dead,'' The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
W.H. Auden
Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord
Robert Lowell
Atticus
Alexander Pope
Novelists
Howard Nemerov
My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth
The World's Greatest Tricycle-Rider
C.K. Williams
A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age
Alice Meynell
To W.B.Y.
Julia Randall
``It was not Death, for I stood up''
Emily Dickinson
The Movement of My Father's Death
Sharon Olds
``When I consider how my light is spent''
John Milton
``Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night''
Dylan Thomas
Poems of Vision
115
24
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Canal Bank Walk
Patrick Kavanagh
As on a Darkling Plain
Henry Taylor
Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich
The Good Man in Hell
Edwin Muir
Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes
Ode on Melancholy
John Keats
Janet Waking
John Crowe Ransom
The Maldive Shark
Herman Melville
The Yachts
William Carlos Williams
Poems of Alienation
139
58
Summer is icumen in
Anonymous
Ancient Music
Ezra Pound
The White City
Claude McKay
Leaving Port Authority for the St. Regis Rezz
Wendy Rose
O Black and Unknown Bards
James Weldon Johnson
The Heart
Stephen Crane
April Mortality
Leonie Adams
After Death
Christina Rossetti
True Story of the Pins
Alberto Rios
Delight in Disorder
Robert Herrick
Devolution of the Nude
Lynne McMahon
American Names
Stephen Vincent Benet
Old New England
Derek Walcott
Israel
Karl Shapiro
The Last Knocks
Fadwa Tuqan (trans. Issa J. Boullata)
Art, Poetry, and the Making Thereof
165
32
The Trees
Philip Larkin
Blackberrying
Sylvia Plath
Coon Song
A.R. Ammons
From ``The Prologue''
Anne Bradstreet
We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks
In the National Gallery
Siegfried Sassoon
Nude Descending a Staircase
X.J. Kennedy
Sonnet--To Science
Edgar Allan Poe
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens
My Grandfather's Church Goes Up
Fred Chappell
Virtue
George Herbert
In Memory of David Kalstone, Who Died of AIDS
Anthony Hecht
Missing Dates
William Empson
One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
Poetry
Marianne Moore
Deaf Poem
Tess Gallagher
Further Notes on the Poems
197
8
Index of Poems by Title
205
4
Index of First Lines
209
4
Index of Authors
213