Sentence / Anna Akhmatova --
Mansion / A. R. Ammons --
Will, lost in a sea trouble / Archilochos --
Dover beach / Matthew Arnold --
Improvement / John Ashbery --
Variation on the word sleep / Margaret Atwood --
In memory of W. B. Yeats / W. H. Auden --
Refugee blues / W. H. Auden --
Preface to a Twenty volume suicide note / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) --
One art / Elizabeth Bishop --
At the fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop --
Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle / Black Elk --
Eternity / William Blake --
Ecchoing green / William Blake --
Little black boy / William Blake --
Emigrant Irish / Evan Boland --
Before the birth of one of her children / Anne Bradstreet --
To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet --
Soldier / Rupert Brooke --
We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Sonnet 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
My last Duchess / Robert Browning --
Ay, ay, ay of the Kinky-haired negress Julia De Burgos --
Address to a Haggis / Robert Burns --
She walks in beauty / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
from Manfred / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll --
Grandmither, think not i forget / Willa Cather --
from The general prologue to the Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer --
You called me Corazon / Sandra Cisneros --
Lost baby poem / Lucille Clifton --
from The Rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
Proem: To Brooklyn bridge / Hart Crane --
Voyages (III) / Hart Crane --
I know a man / Robert Creeley --
Yet do I Marvel / Countee Cullen --
I sing of Olaf glad and big / E. E. Cummings --
Last poem / Robert Desnos --
I'm nobody! Who are you? / Emily Dickinson --
I never saw a Moor / Emily Dickinson --
Little Madness in the spring / Emily Dickinson --
"Hope" is the thing with feathers / Emily Dickinson --
Bird came down the Walk / Emily Dickinson --
Valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne --
Since ther's no helpe, come let us kisse and part / Michael Drayton --
Love song: I and thou / Alan Dugan --
We wear the mask / Paul Lawrence Dunbar --
Lyric in exile / Hussein Elhami --
Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot --
Dry salvages (II) / T. S. Eliot --
Rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Road not taken / Robert Frost --
Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost --
Immigrants / Robert Frost --
Birches / Robert Frost --
Hillside Thaw / Robert Frost --
"Out, out-" / Robert Frost --
Terms in which I think of reality / Allen Ginsberg --
Queen of Carthage / Louise Gluck --
Names of horses / Donald Hall --
Darkling thrush / Thomas Hardy --
Mediatation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass / Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden --
Monet's "Waterlilies" / Robert Hayden --
Mid-term break / Seamus Heaney --
Invictus / William Ernest Henley --
Church-musick / George Herbert --
Vertue / George Herbert --
Pebble / Zbigniew Herbert --
Things I didn't know I loved / Nazim Hikmet --
Do you see the town? / Hugo Von Hofmannsthal --
from Iliad (Book Six, lines 439-79) / Homer --
God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Diffugere Nives / A. E. Housman --
Minstrel Man / Langston Hughes --
Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes --
Mother to son / Langston Hughes --
Driving Montana / Richard Hugo --
Next day / Randall Jarrell --
Losses / Randall Jarrell --
Purse-seine / Robinson Jeffers --
Creation / James Weldon Johnson --
Song to Celia / Ben Johson --
On my first son / Ben Jonson --
Ecce Puer / James Joyce --
Ode to a nightingale / John Keats --
Sonnet VII (O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell) / John Keats --
This living hand / John Keats --
Otherwise / Jane Kenyon --
St. Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell --
Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Hornworm:Autumn Lamentation / Stanley Kunitz --
from Tao te Ching / Lao Tzu --
Snake / D. H. Lawrence --
New Colossus / Emma Lazarus --
Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov --
You can have it / Philip Levine --
Psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longefellow --
Moon sails out / Federico Garcia Lorca --
Song of the barren orange tree / Federico Garcia Lorca --
First snow-fall / James Russell Lowell --
Waking in the blue / Robert Lowell --
Big momma / Haki R. Madhubuti --
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell --
Strawberries / W. S. Merwin --
Sonnet XXIV (When you, that at this moment are to me) / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Dirge without music / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Happiness / A., A. Milne --
On pilgrimage / Czeslaw Milosz --
Harmonics / William Vaughn Moody --
Poetry / Marianne Moore --
I may, I might, I must / Marianne Moore --
Time I've lost in wooing / Thomas Moore --
Ode to my socks / Pablo Neruda --
Quiet until the thaw / Jacob Nibenegenasabe --
True account of talking to the sun at Fire Island / Frank O'Hara --
Summer day / Mary Oliver --
Dulce et Decorum Est / Wilfred Owen --
To return to the urges unconscious of their beginnings / Pham Tien Duat --
Luncheon on the grass / Carl Phillips --
Night dances / Sylvia Plath --
Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath --
Polly's tree / Sylvia Plath --
Cancer and Nova / Hyam Plutzik --
from Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope --
River-merchant's wife:A letter / Ezra Pound --
I loved you / Alexander Pushkin --
Love constant beyond death / Francisco De Quevedo --
Nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh / Naming of parts / Henry Reed --
To the days / Adrienne Rich --
Prospective immigrants please note / Adrienne Rich --
Entrance / Rainer Maria Rilke / Romance / Arthur Rimbaud --
Our land / Yannis Ritsos --
Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
My Papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke --
Night Journey / Theodore Roethke --
Waking / Theodore Roethke --
Who says words with my mouth / Jalal Al-Din Rumi --
Chicago / Carl Sandburg --
Equal to the gods / Sappho --
An old man on the river bank / George Seferis --
Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) / William Shakespeare --
Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) / William Shakespeare --
Sonnet 138 (When my love swears that she is made of truth) / William Shakespeare --
Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith --
Scars / William Stafford --
Idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens --
Snow man / Wallace Stevens --
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon / Wallace Stevens --
Girl in a nightgown / Wallace Stevens --
Block City / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Pot roast / Mark Strand --
Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan expedition / Wislawa Szymborska --
Gift / Rabindranth Tagore --
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer --
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas / In my craft or Sullen art / Dylan Thomas --
Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas --
Tichborne's elegy / Chidiock Tichborne --
A far cry from Africa / Derek Walcott --
Arizona Midnight / Robert Penn Warren --
Old man's thought of school / Walt Whitman --
from Song of the open road (1, 4 & 8) / Walt Whitman --
To a certain cantatrice / Walt Whitman --
from Song of myself (46 & 52) / Walt Whitman --
Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur --
My fly / C. K. Williams --
To Elsie / William Carlos Williams --
Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams --
from The prelude (Book VI, lines 354-70) / William Wordsworth --
Lines (tintern Abbey) / William Wordsworth --
On a bank as I sat fishing / Sir Henry Wotton --
Blessing / James Wright --
Forget not yet / Thomas Wyatt --
Politics / William Butler Yeats / When you are old / William Butler Yeats --
Sailing to Byzatium / William Butler Yeats --
Lower leaves of the trees / Sone No Yoshitada --
To go to Lvov / Adam Zagajewski --
Way of the water-hyacinth / Zawgee