Gale - A Study Guide for Dudley Randalls Ballad of Birmingham

v. 20 Air for Mercury by Brenda Hillman. -- The Alchemy of Day by Anne Hebert. --- But Perhaps God needs the longing by Nelly Sachs. -- Drinking alone beneath the moon by Li Po. -- Gacela of the dark death by Federico Garcia Lorca. -- the God who loves you by Carl Dennis. -- Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho. -- In particular by Elena Karina Byme. -- Memoir by Mona Van Duyn. -- Moreover, the moon by Mina Loy. -- Ode to a drum by Yusef Komunyakaa. -- Paradiso by Kenneth Koch. -- A thirst against by Linda Gregg. -- Two poems for T. by Cesare Pavese. -- Vairations on nothing by Giuseppe Ungaretti. -- The waste land by T.S. Eliot.;v. 53 Alive together / by Lisel Mueller -- Alone / by Maya Angelou -- Axe handles / by Gary Snyder -- The changing light / by Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The delight song of Tsoai-Talee / by N. Scott Momaday -- En route to Bangladesh, another crisis of faith / by Tarfia Faizullah -- I like to see it lap the miles / by Emily Dickinson -- Im alive, I believe in everything / by Lesley Choyce -- Loves growth / by John Donne -- Please fire me / by Deborah Garrison -- The pomegranate and the big crowd / by Alberto Rios -- Punishment in kindergarten / by Kamala Das -- Sadie and Maud / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Speeches for Dr Frankenstein / by Margaret Atwood -- Urban renewal : XVIII / by Major Jackson -- Yesterday / by W.S. Merwin.;v. 19 And what if I spoke of despair -- Ellen Bass -- The boy -- Marilyn Hacker -- Childhood -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- The cinnamon peeler -- Michael Ondaatje -- The city limits -- A.R. Ammons -- His speed and strength -- Alicia Ostriker -- Ithaka -- C.P. Cavafy -- Once again I prove the theory of relativity -- Sandra Cisneros -- On location in the Loire Valley -- Diane Ackerman -- Ordinary words -- Ruth Stone -- Perfect light -- Ted Hughes -- Proem -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Seven seeds -- Jill Bialosky -- Social life -- Tony Hoagland -- somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond -- e.e. cummings -- True night -- Gary Snyder.;v. 27 Archaic torso of Apollo -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- Borges and I -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Conversation with a stone -- Wislawa Szymborska -- Dream song 29 -- John Berryman -- Goblin market -- Christina Rossetti -- Iola, Kansas -- Amy Clampitt -- The man-moth -- Elizabeth Bishop -- My grandmothers plot in the family cemetary -- Claudia Emerson -- Ozymandias -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Requiem -- Anna Akhmatova -- A satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general -- Jonathan Swift -- September 1, 1939 -- W.H. Auden -- Telephone conversation -- Wole Soyinka -- Waterfalls in a bank -- A.K. Ramanujan -- Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance -- Lyn Hejinian.;v. 18 60 -- Rabindranath Tagore -- Address to the angels -- Maxine Kumin -- The afterlife -- Billy Collins -- The continuous life -- Mark Strand -- The country without a post office -- Agha Shahid Ali -- The darkling thrush -- Thomas Hardy -- Duration -- Octavio Paz -- The garden shukkei-en -- Carolyn Forche -- The greatest grandeur -- Pattiann Rogers -- The last question -- Dorothy Parker -- Midnight verses -- Anna Akhmatova -- New rule -- Anne Carson -- Song of reasons -- Robert Pinsky -- Spring-watching pavilion -- Ho Xuan Huong -- Temple bells die out -- Matsuo Basho -- To an unknown poet -- Carolyn Kizer.;v. 9 Anasazi / Gary Snyder -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Barbie Doll / Marge Piercy -- Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art / John Keats -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- The exhibit / Lisel Mueller -- For an Assyrian frieze / Peter Viereck -- Four mountain wolves / Leslie Marmon Silko -- In memory of radio / Amiri Baraka -- The missing / Thom Gunn -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Psalm 8 -- Reactionary essary on applied science / Phyllis McGinley -- Sonnet 19 / William Shakespeare -- Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell -- Trouble with math in a one-room country school / Jane Kenyon -- War is kind / Stephen Crane.;v. 32 After apple picking / Robert Frost -- A Black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps -- Everything is plundered / Anna Akhmatova -- The explorer / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Grudnow / Linda Pastan -- Hanging fire / Audre Lorde -- The horses / Ted Hughes -- In response to Executive Order 9066 : all Americans of Japanese descent must report to relocation centers / Dwight Okita -- Jade flower palace / Tu Fu -- On the grasshopper and the cricket / John Keats -- Remember / Joy Harjo -- Sonnet 75 / Edmund Spenser -- Success is counted sweetest / Emily Dickinson -- To a sky-lark / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- To be of use / Marge Piercy -- To Lucasta, going to the wars / Richard Lovelace.;v. 47 Africa / by Maya Angelou -- The ball poem / by John Berryman -- Curiosity / by Alastair Reid -- Daily / by Naomi Shihab Nye -- The emigrant Irish / by Eavan Boland -- Hatred / by Wislawa Szymborska -- Her kind / by Anne Sexton -- I taste a liquor never brewed / by Emily Dickinson -- Maestro / by Pat Mora -- Ode to my socks / by Pablo Neruda -- Once by the Pacific / by Robert Frost -- The sick rose / by William Blake -- Silence / by Marianne Moore -- The sun rising / by John Donne -- To a mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough, November, 1785 / Robert Burns -- Who are you, little I / E.E. Cummings.;v. 29 America, America -- Saadi Youssef -- An attempt at jealousy -- Marina Tsvetaeva -- Babii Yar -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- Diving into the wreck -- Adrienne Rich -- From the rising of the sun -- Czeslaw Milosz -- Hearts needle -- W.D. Snodgrass -- Homage to my hips -- Lucille Clifton -- Howl -- Allen Ginsberg -- Love calls us to the things of this world -- Richard Wilbur -- Native guard -- Natasha Trethewey -- The night piece: to Julia -- Robert Herrick -- On being brought from Africa to America -- Phillis Wheatley -- Pantoun for Chinese women -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Poem in which my legs are accepted -- Kathleen Fraser -- St. Roach -- Muriel Rukeyser -- When we two parted -- Lord George Gordon Byron.;v. 46 Against love / by Katherine Philips -- Ah mah / by Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- The boy / by Marie Howe -- If I could tell you / by W.H. Auden -- If thou must love me / by Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- My father in the navy / by Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Nurture / by Maxine Kumin -- Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / by Walt Whitman -- Primer for blacks / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Problems with hurricanes / by Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Snowmen / by Agha Shahid Ali -- Song (why so pale and wan?) / by Sir John Suckling -- Speaking / by Simon J. Ortiz -- The street / by Octavio Paz -- To a daughter leaving home / by Linda Pastan -- Voyages I / by Hart Crane.;v. 11 Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The Eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The Milkfish gatherers / James Fenton -- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Overture to a dance of locomotives / William Carlos Williams -- Paradoxes and oxymorons / John Ashbery -- To a child running with outstretched arms in Canyon de Chelly / N. Scott Momaday -- Tonight I can write / Pablo Neruda -- A valediction: Forbidding mourning / John Donne -- The war against the trees / Stanley Kunitz -- The weight of sweetness / Li-Young Lee.;v. 7 American poetry / Louis Simpson -- Barbara Allan / Anonymous -- A blessing / James Wright -- Butcher shop / Charles Simic -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- For the union dead / Robert Lowell -- In the land of Shinar / Denise Levertov -- Inventors / Michael Blumenthal -- Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot -- A Martian sends a postcard home / Craig Raine -- Meeting the British / Paul Muldoon -- The moon glows the same / Matsuo Basho -- A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- Siren song / Margaret Atwood -- Small town with one road / Gary Soto -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman.;v. 26 After Raphael -- Lucie Brock-Broido -- Another night in the ruins -- Galway Kinnell -- An anthem -- Sonia Sanchez -- The black heralds -- Cesar Vallejo -- Curse -- Frank Bidart -- I, I, I -- Hayden Carruth -- Mastectomy -- Alicia Ostriker -- One of the smallest -- Gerald Stern -- Pied beauty -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Russian letter -- John Yau -- Sentimental education -- Mary Ruefle -- Walk your body down -- J.T. Barbarese -- The war correspondent -- Ciaran Carson -- What the poets could have been -- Julianna Baggott -- Witness -- Liz Waldner.;V. 38 400 meter freestyle / by Maxine Kumin -- All / by Bei Dao -- Table for when theres no way out / by May Swenson -- Fragment 16 / by Sappho -- The guitar / by Frederico Garcia Lorca -- Invitation to the voyage / by Charles Baudelaire -- Letter to my wife / by Nazim Hikmet -- Marriage / by Marianne Moore -- Poem (lana turner has collapsed) / by Frank OHara -- Pride/ by Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Stanza LXXXIII / by Gertrude Stein -- Still I rise / by Maya Angelou -- A storm in the mountains / by Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- Two bodies / by Octavio Paz -- The weary blues / by Langston Hughes -- The world is too much with us / by William Wadsworth.;v. 54 Be nobodys darling / by Alice Walker -- Democracy / by Langston Hughes -- The female seer will burn upon this pyre / by Elizabeth Alexander -- Fundamentalism / by Naomi Shihab Nye -- Good times / by Lucille Clifton -- I am offering this poem / by Jimmy Santiago Baca -- If you forget me / by Pablo Neruda -- In my craft or sullen art / by Dylan Thomas -- Lift every voice and sing / by James Weldon Johnson -- Lunar baedeker / by Mina Loy -- Matriot acts, act I [history of mankind] / by Anne Waldman -- O the chimneys / by Nelly Sachs -- Postcard from Kashmir / by Agha Shahid Ali -- Song / by Christina Rossetti -- The tables turned / by William Wordsworth -- Whispers of immortality / by T.S. Eliot.;v. 51 The bluebird / by Charles Bukowski -- A chinese banquet / by Kitty Tsui -- The cord / by Leanne OSullivan -- Defeat / by Kahlil Gibran -- Dejection : an ode / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- First thought / by Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Hattie McDaniel arrives at the Coconut Grove / by Rita Dove -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven / by William Butler Yeats -- A jewish cemetery in Germany / by Yehuda Amichai -- Let me die a youmans death / by Roger McGough -- Love and friendship / by Emily Bronte -- The night game / by Robert A. Pinsky -- Numbers / by Mary Cornish -- The summer I was sixteen / by Geraldine Connolly -- What are big girls made of? / by Marge Piercy -- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomd / by Walt Whitman.;v. 4. Ah, are you digging on my grave? -- As I walked out one evening -- Concord hymn -- The death of the hired man -- Hawk roosting -- The highwayman -- Hunger in New York City -- Oysters -- Psalm 23 -- Richord Cory -- The rime of the ancient mariner -- Shine, perishing republic -- Sir Patrick Spens -- Sonnet 30 -- Strong men, riding horses -- Tears, idle tears -- This is my letter to the world -- Toads -- The tropics in New York -- When I was one-and-twenty.;v. 56 Alzheimers / by Kelly Cherry -- Blonde white women / by Paticia Smith -- The broken tower / by Hart Crane -- The concrete river / by Luis J. Rodriguez -- Eagle poem / by Joy Harjo -- For a daughter who leaves / Janice Mirikitani -- Indigo / by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Inner tube / by Michael Ondaatje -- Patterns / by Amy Lowell -- Persimmons / by Li-Young Lee -- Rite of passage / by Sharon Olds -- The ruined maid / by Thomas Hardy -- They flee from me / by Thomas Wyatt -- A total sranger one black day / by E.E. Cummings -- To the lady / by Mitsuye Yamada -- Woodchucks / by Maxine Kumin.;v. 16 Business -- Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Colibri -- Martin Espada -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- Ezra Pound -- I stop writing the poem -- Tess Gallagher -- Merlin enthralled -- Richard Wilbur -- Much madness is divinest sense -- Emily Dickinson -- My fathers song -- Simon Ortiz -- Reunions with a ghost -- Ai -- Song of a citizen -- Czeslaw Milosz -- Sonnet XXIX -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Southbound on the freeway -- May Swenson -- Story from bear country -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Sunday morning -- Wallace Stevens -- Three times my life has opened -- Jane Hirshfield -- Ways to live -- William Stafford -- What my child learns of the sea -- Audre Lorde.;v. 3. Any human to another -- A piaed -- Auto wreck -- The bells -- Chicago -- The courage that my mother had -- Fern Hill -- High windows -- Hope is the thing with feathers -- Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers -- I hear America singing -- The man he killed -- Mother to son -- My papaa waltz -- Nothing gold can stay -- Not waving but drowning -- Ode to a nightingale -- old age sticks -- [On his blindness] Sonnet 16 -- On the pulse of morning -- Sonnet 116 -- The unknown citizen.;v. 5. Ars poetica -- Ballad of Birmingham -- Birch canoe -- Cargoes -- Casey at the bat -- Digging -- Easter 1916 -- Facing it -- The gold lily -- I heard a fly buzz -- when I died -- In Flanders fields -- Kubla Khan -- Lament for the Dorsets -- Leviathan -- Lost sister -- Mending wall -- Sonnet 55 -- A supermarket in California -- To his coy mistress.;v. 33 Classic ballroom dances / by Charles Simic -- Elena / by Pat Mora -- Fully empowered / by Pablo Neruda -- The hollow men / by T.S. Eliot -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / by William Wordsworth -- Jazz fantasia / by Carl Sandburg -- The lotus flowers / by Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Mushrooms / by Sylvia Plath -- The old stoic / by Emily Bronte -- On my first son / by Ben Jonson -- Shoulders / by Naomi Shihab Nye -- Sympathy / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Two eclipses / by Shmuel HaNagid -- Upon the burning of our house, July 10th, 1666 / by Anne Bradstreet -- What for / by Garrett Kaoru Hongo -- Woman work / by Maya Angelou.;v. 1. The charge of the Light Brigade -- The creation -- The destruction of Sennacherib -- Do not go gentle into that good night -- Harlem -- An Irish airman foresees his death -- a -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Mirror -- Miss Rosie -- Musaee des beaux arts -- My last duchess -- Ode on a Grecian urn -- The raven -- The red wheelbarrow -- The sonnet-ballad -- Sonnet 130 -- The soul selects her own society -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening -- Swing low sweet chariot -- This life -- Those winter Sundays.;v. 24 All I was doing was breathing -- Mirabai -- Always -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- At the cancer clinic -- Ted Kooser -- The Chambered Nautilus -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- For the sake of strangers -- Dorianne Laux -- Kindness -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- The litany -- Dana Gioia -- Monologue for an onion -- Sue (Suji) Kwock Kim -- Not like a cypress -- Yehuda Amichai -- One is one -- Marie Ponsot -- Our side -- Carol Muske-Dukes -- A poison tree -- William Blake -- Portrait of a couple at centurys end -- Sherod Santos -- The room -- Conrad Aiken -- Seeing you -- Jean Valentine -- Three tos and an oi -- Heather McHugh.;v. 55 Alone / by Edgar Allan Poe -- At the San Francisco airport / by Yvor Winters -- Blackberries / by Yusef Komunyakaa -- Bury me in a free land / by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- The fence / by Saadi Youssef -- I am not I / by Juan Ramon Jimenez -- Incident / by Amiri Baraka -- In the bazaars of Hyderabad / by Sarojini Naidu -- Love song / by Dorothy Parker -- Southern cop / by Sterling Brown -- Sure you can ask me a personal question / by Diane Burns -- Unbidden / by Rae Armantrout -- Valentine / by Carol Ann Duffy -- The walk / by Thomas Hardy -- When I was growing up / by Nellie Wong -- Yellow light / by Garrett Hongo.;v. 45 Against love poetry / by Eavan Boland -- Balndeur / Kay Ryan -- Defending walt whitman / by Sherman Alexie -- The esquimos have no word for war / by Mary Oliver -- Half-hanged mary / by Margaret Atwood -- In the orchard / by Henrik Ibsen -- Let america be america again / by Langston Hughes -- Meeting at night / by Robert Browning -- Midcentury love letter / by Phyllis McGinley -- Peace / by Rupert Brooke -- Question / by May Swenson -- Sounds and sense / by Alexander Pope -- A story / by Li-Young Lee -- To the ladies / by Mary Chudleigh -- What lips my lips have kissed / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The whipping / by Robert Hayden.;v. 40 Another feeling / by Ruth Stone -- Civilian and soldier / by Wole Soyinka -- Defining the grateful gesture / by Yvonne Sapia -- for the young who want to / by Marge Piercy -- I am learning to abandon the world / by Linda Pastan -- In just / by E.E. Cummings -- The journey / by Mary Oliver -- Legal alien / by Pat Mora -- London / by William Blake -- Loveliest of the trees, the cherry now / by Alfred Edward Housman -- The moon at the fortified pass / by Li Po -- The mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Night Journey / by Theorore Roethke -- Spring and fall: to a young girl / by Gerard Manley Hopkins -- We wear the mask / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Who understands me, but me / by Jimmy Santiago Baca.;v. 35 Acquainted with the night / by Robert Frost -- Blackberry eating / by Galway Kinnell -- Childe Harolds pilgrimage / by Lord Byron -- The dead / by Susan Mitchell -- Im nobody! Who are you? / by Emily Dickinson -- In music / by Czeslaw Milosz -- Miniver Cheevy / by Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Odysseus to Telemachus / by Joseph Brodsky -- Of modern poetry / by Wallace Stevens -- River of August / by Pak Tu-Jin -- Seven ages of man / by William Shakespeare -- Song / by John Donne -- Sonnet LXXXIX / by Pablo Neruda -- Uncoiling / by Pat Mora -- Winter / by Nikki Giovanni -- Words are the diminution of all things / by Charles Penzel Wright.;v. 50 Alone in the woods / by Stevie Smith -- America / by Gertrude Stein -- Bocas : a daughters geography / by Ntozake Shange -- Catch / by Robert Francis -- Dogs death / by John Updike -- Dreams / by Langston Hughes -- Fog / by Carl Sandburg -- I am / by John Clare -- If we must die / by Claude McKay -- Introduction to poetry / by Billy Collins -- Japanese-American farmhouse, California, 1942 / by Sharon Olds -- My heart is heavy / by Sara Teasdale -- Romance Sonambulo / by Federico Garcia Lorca -- Snapping beans / by Lisa Parker -- Taking leave of a friend / by Li Po -- The tall figures of Giacometti / by May Swenson.;Annotation;v. 22 Apple sauce for Eve -- Marge Piercy -- Death sentences -- Radmila Lazic -- The forest -- Susan Stewart -- If -- Rudyard Kipling -- Its a womans world -- Eavan Boland -- Metamorphoses -- Ovid -- Omen -- Edward Hirsch -- On the threshold -- Eugenio Montale -- The passionate shepherd to his love -- Christopher Marlowe -- Pineapples and pomegranates -- Paul Muldoon -- t The satyrs heart -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- The Toni Morrison dreams -- Elizabeth Alexander -- Trompe lOeil -- Mary Jo Salter -- What I would ask my husbands dead father -- Sharon Hashimoto -- When I heard the learnd astronomer -- Walt Whitman -- Why the classics -- Zbigniew Herbert.;v. 13 An African elegy -- Robert Duncan -- Birches -- Robert Frost -- Blood oranges -- Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a ford -- Walt Whitman -- The conquerors -- Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 -- Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- Daylights -- Rosanna Warren -- For the White poets who would be Indian -- Wendy Rose -- I felt a funeral, in my brain -- Emily Dickinson -- i was sitting in mcsorleys -- e. e. cummings -- The idea of order at Key West -- Wallace Stevens -- Leda and the swan -- William Butler Yeats -- The song of the smoke -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- To his excellency General Washington -- Phillis Wheatley -- To the virgins, to make much of time -- Robert Herrick -- We live by what we see at night -- Martin Espada.;v. 43 And your soul shall dance / by Garrett Hongo -- The colonel / by Carolyn Forche -- Easter wings / by George Herbert -- The great figure / by William Carlos Williams -- Hope / by Ariel Dorfman -- Indian boarding school: the runaways / by Louise Erdich -- Inside out / by Diane Wakoski -- Invictus / by William Ernest Henley -- Morning song / by Sylvia Plath -- My father as a guitar / by Martin Espada -- Reapers / by Jean Toomer -- Remembrance / by Emily Bronte -- Sonnet 106 (when in the chronicle of wasted time) / by William Shakespeare -- Vicarious love / by Juana Ines de la Cruz -- The youngest daughter / by Cathy Song.;v. 39 Corinnas going a-maying / by Robert Herrick -- Domestic violence / by Eavan Boland -- Exile / by Julia Alvarez -- flounder / by Natasha Trethewey -- Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ghost of a chance / by Adrienne Rich -- Let evening come / by Jane Kenyon -- The listeners / by Walter de la Mare -- Miracles / by Walt Whitman -- The powwow at the end of the world / by Sherman Alexie -- Sea canes / by Derek Walcott -- Seven laments for the war-dead / by Yehuda Amichai -- Song for the last act / by Louise Bogan -- Syrinx / by Amy Clampitt -- Thoughts of hanoi / by Nguyen Thi Vinh -- The tide, rises, the tide, falls / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.;v. 8 At the bomb testing site / William Stafford -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright -- Bedtime story / George MacBeth -- Beware of ruins / A.D. Hope -- The Constellation Orion / Ted Kooser -- A drink of water / Seamus Heaney -- Drought year / Judith Wright -- Ethics / Linda Pastan -- The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Dylan Thomas -- Music lessons / Mary Oliver -- My life closed twice before its close / Emily Dickinson -- Names of horses / Donald Hall -- A red, red rose / Robert Burns -- The river-merchants wife: A letter / Pound Ezra -- The seafarer / Anonymous -- Sonnet 29 / William Shakespeare -- Starlight / Philip Levine -- To a sad daughter / Michael Ondaatje -- Vancouver lights / Earle Birney -- Why I am not a painter / Frank OHara.;v. 15 Anniversary / Jo Harjo -- Astonishment / Wislawa Szymborska -- Blackberrying / Sylvia Plath -- Dream variations / Langston Hughes -- For a new citizen of these United States / Li-Young Lee -- Geometry / Rita Dove -- The horizons of rooms / W.S. Merwin -- The Lady of Shalott / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / Willima Butler Yeats -- The mystery / Louise Gluck -- Porphyrias lover / Robert Browning -- Rusted legacy / Adrienne Rich -- Smart and final Iris / James Tate -- What belongs to us / Marie Howe -- Wild geese / Mary Oliver.;v. 23 Allegory -- Mary Jo Bang -- All it takes -- Carl Phillips -- The art of the novel -- Natasha Saj02233}0-- Aurora Leigh -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The crime was in Granada -- Antonio Machado -- An elementary school classroom in a slum -- Stephen Spender -- Fiddler crab -- Josephine Jacobsen -- Its like this -- Stephen Dobyns -- Lake -- Rosanna Warren -- Lepidopterology -- Jesper Svenbro -- Lost in translation -- James Merrill -- The nerve -- Glyn Maxwell -- Pine -- Kimiko Hahn -- Practice -- Ellen Bryant Voigt -- September -- Joanne Kyger -- Song: to Celia -- Ben Jonson.;v. 52 The answer / by Bei Dao -- The childrens hour / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Enlightenment / by Natasha Trethewey -- Heaven / by Cathy Song -- He seems to be a god / by Sappho -- Identity card / by Mahmoud Darwish -- Loose woman / by Sandra Cisneros -- Mid-term break / by Seamus Heaney -- Nebraska / by Jack Kerouac -- Poem / by Muriel Rukeyser -- Reading aloud to my father / by Jane Kenyon -- Saturday at the canal / by Gary Soto -- Sonnet 60 / by William Shakespeare -- So, well go no more a roving / by Lord Byron -- They called them blue / by Katia Kapovich -- To the sun / by Ingeborg Bachmann.;v. 14 Bidwell ghost -- Louise Erdrich -- The Canterbury tales -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Climbing -- Lucille Clifton -- Courage -- Anne Sexton -- Deep woods -- Howard Nemerov -- Elegy for my father, who is not dead -- Andrew Hudgins -- The fish -- Marianne Moore -- Incident in a rose garden -- Donald Justice -- In the suburbs -- Louis Simpson -- Kilroy -- Peter Viereck -- Last request -- Joel Brouwer -- The nymphs reply to the shepherd -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Remember -- Christina Rossetti -- She walks in beauty -- Lord Byron -- Song of the Chattahoochee -- Sidney Lanier -- There will come soft rains -- Sara Teasdale.;v. 25 Art thou the thing I wanted -- Alice Fulton -- Bonnards garden -- Rick Barot -- Chorale -- Kevin Young -- The cossacks -- Linda Pastan -- Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta -- Reetika Vazirani -- Hum -- Ann Lauterbach -- Knowledge -- Kim Addonizio -- The legend -- Garrett Hongo -- Originally -- Carol Ann Duffy -- Rent -- Jane Cooper -- The river mumma wants out -- Lorna Goodison -- Self-portrait -- Adam Zagajewski -- Supernatural love -- Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- View -- Marvin Bell -- Virtue -- George Herbert -- Whoso list to hunt -- Thomas Wyatt.;v. 31 An ancient gesture / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The black snake / by Mary Oliver -- The fish / by Elizabeth Bishop -- Fragment 2 / by Sappho -- The hippopotamus / by Ogden Nash -- Huswifery / by Edward Taylor -- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / by Federico Garcia Lorca -- Lineage / by Margaret Walker -- Losses / by Randall Jarrell -- A noiseless patient spider / by Walt Whitman -- Outside history / by Eavan Boland -- Runagate runagate / by Robert Hayden -- Some people like poetry / by Wislawa Szymborska -- Storm ending / by Jean Toomer -- A tree telling of Orpheus / by Denise Levertov -- The wreck of the Hesperus / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.;v. 49 Adlestrop / by Edward Thomas -- Annunciation overheard from the kitchen / by Mary Szybist -- Carmel point / by Robinson Jeffers -- Coal / by Audre Lorde -- The emperor of ice-cream / by Wallace Stevens -- Fable / by Octavio Paz -- A felicitous life / by Czeslaw Milosz -- A golden day / by Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Ground swell / by Mark Jarman -- Lady Lazarus / by Sylvia Plath -- Nighttime fires / Regina Barreca -- On passing thru Morgantown, PA. / by Sonia Sanchez -- Recuerdo / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Snakes / by A.K. Ramanujan -- Solitude / by Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- You and I / by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.;v. 12 Anorexic / Evan Boland -- The Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The czars last christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling stations / Elizabeth Bishop -- Fro Jean Vincent Dabbadie, Baron St. Castin / Alden Nowlan -- A grafted tongue / John Montague -- Having a coke with you / Frank OHara -- Hope is a tattered flag / Carl Sandburg -- The lamb / William Blake -- Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / E.E. Cummings -- My mother pieced quilts / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- On freedoms ground / Richard Wilbur -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- A tall man executes a jig / Irving Layton -- Wilderness gothic / Al Purdy.;v. 17 The arsenal at Springfield -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- La belle dame sans merci -- John Keats -- The blue rim of memory -- Denise Levertov -- The cobweb -- Raymond Carver -- Driving to town late to mail a letter -- Robert Bly -- Early in the morning -- Li-Young Lee -- For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton -- Richard Hugo -- Having it out with melancholy -- Jane Kenyon -- I go back to May 1937 -- Sharon Olds -- Knoxville, Tennessee -- Nikki Giovanni -- Mind -- Jorie Graham -- On his having arrived at the age of twenty-three -- John Milton -- Poetry -- Marianne Moore -- The Rhodora -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The singers house -- Seamus Heaney -- Wild swans -- Edna St. Vincent Millay.;v. 48 Back when all was continuous chuckles / by Colette Inez -- A beautiful girl combs her hair / Li Ho -- City of dreams / by Diane Ackerman -- Counting the mad / by Donald Justice -- Earth tremors felt in Missouri / by Mona Van Duyn -- The erlking / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Guide to the other gallery / by Dana Gioia -- The guitarist tunes up / by Frances Cornford -- Jamaica 1980 / Lorna Goodison -- The panther / by Rainer Maria Rilke -- Silver / by A.R. Ammons -- Snapshots of a daughter-in-law / by Adrienne Rich -- Song / by H.D. -- To my brother Miguel / Cesar Vallejo -- Where mountain lion lay down with deer / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Yet do I marvel / by Countee Cullen.;v. 41 Anecdote of the jar / by Wallace Stevens -- The canonization / by John Donne -- Cinderella / by Anne Sexton -- Constantly risking absurdity / by Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The cucumber / by Nazim Hikmet -- A display of mackerel / by Mark Doty -- The end and the beginning / by Wislawa Szymborska -- The floral apron / by Marilyn Chin -- The forge / by Seamus Heaney -- Home burial / by Robert Frost -- I, being born a woman and distressed (sonnet XVIII) / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- In the inner city / by Lucille Clifton -- Love among the ruins / by Robert Browning -- New world / by N. Scott Momanday -- United fruit co. / by Pablo Neruda -- What are friends for / by Rosellen Brown.;v. 37 Anthem for doomed youth / by Wilfred Owen -- Camouflaging the chimera / by Yusef Komunyakaa -- A description of the morning / by Jonathan Swift -- Fear / by Gabriela Mistral -- The gift / by Li-Young Lee -- Grape serbet / by Rita Dove -- The latin deli: an ars poetica / by Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The lorelei / by Heinrich Heine -- Lucinda matlock / by Edgar Lee Masters -- Most satisfied by snow / by Diana Chang -- Mushrooms / by Margaret Atwood -- The new colosus / by Emma Lazarus -- A simile / by N. Scott Momaday -- Two people I want to be like / by Eve Merriam -- When I consider (sonnet XIX) / by John Milton -- The world as will and representation / by Robert Hass.;v. 28 Blighters / Siegfried Sassoon -- The bronze horseman / Alexander Pushkin -- Christ climbed down / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath -- The drunken boat / Arthur Rimbaud -- Ego-tripping / Nikki Giovanni -- The heights of Macchu Picchu / Pablo Neruda -- How I got that name / Marilyn Chin -- I died for beauty / Emily Dickinson -- Sea rose / H.D. -- Self-portrait in a convex mirror / John Ashbery -- The tragedy of the leaves / Charles Bukowski -- The wings / Mark Doty -- The women who loved Elvis all their lives / Fleda Brown.;v. 36 All shall be restored / by Kay Ryan -- Birdfoots grampa / by Joseph Bruchac -- Hawthorne / by Robert Lowell -- An hymn to the evening / by Phillis Wheatley -- I am not one of those who left the land / by Anna Akhmatova -- I built my hut beside a traveled road / by Tao Chien -- The idea of ancestry / by Etheridge Knight -- Moon rondeau / by Carl Sandburg -- Prayer to the masks / by Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Prodigy / by Charles Simic -- Self in 1959 / by Anne Sexton -- Snow-bound / by John Greenleaf Whitier -- Song to the men of england / by Percy Bysshe Shelley -- To autumn / by John Keats -- What I expected / by Stephen spender -- When in rome / by Mari Evans.;v. 6 Beware: do not read this poem -- Brazil, January 1, 1502 -- Come with me -- Cool tombs -- A far cry from Africa -- The heaven of animals -- Helen -- Lord Randal -- More light! More light! -- Onomatopoeia -- Piano -- The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket -- Queen-Anns-lace -- Theme for English B -- Theres a certain slant of light -- To my dear and loving husband -- We real cool -- The wood-pile.;v. 2. Angle of geese -- The bean eaters -- Because I could not stop for death -- The death of the ball turret gunner -- Dover Beach -- Falling upon earth -- Fifteen -- Harlem hopscotch -- Holy Sonnet 10 -- In a station of the metro -- Midnight -- O captain! My captain! -- Ode to the west wind -- Paul Reveres ride -- The road not taken -- Sailing to Byzantium -- Sonnet 18 -- Sonnet 43 -- Tintern Abbey -- The tyger -- Ulysses -- When I have fears that I may cease to be.;v. 44 Crossing the bar / by Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Dry your tears, Africa! / by Bernard Dadie --Fragment 34 / by Sappho -- Grace / by Joy Harjo -- How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth (Sonnet 7) / by John Milton -- Nocturne / by Tomas Transtromer --One art / by Elizabeth Bishop -- Perceval, the story of the Grail / by Chretien de Troyes --Poem about people / by Robert Pinsky -- Salutation / by Ezra Pound --The slave mother / by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Try to praise the mutilated world / by Adam Zagejewski --Voronezh / by Anna Akhamatova --Welcome to Hiroshima / by Mary Jo Salter -- The white city / by Claude McKay -- Womans work / by Julia Alvarez.;v. 42 All things considered / by Naomi Shihab Nye -- Aubade / by Philip Larking -- The author or her book / by Anne Bradstreet -- The convergence of the twain / by Thomas Hardy -- A dream within a dream / by Edgar Allan Poe -- The history teacher / by Billy Collins -- Incident / by Countee Cullen -- Lilacs / by Amy Lowell -- Phenomenal woman / by Maya Angelou -- Recessional / by Rudyard Kipling -- Serene words / by Gabriela Mistral -- Rime 140 / by Francesco Petrarch -- Tell all the truth but tell it slant / by Emily Dickinson -- What were they like? / by Denise Levertov -- The wild swans at coole / by William Butler Yeats -- The world is not a pleasant place to be / by Nikki Giovanni.;v. 30 Anyone lived in a pretty how town -- e. e. cummings -- The centaur -- May Swenson -- Follower -- Seamus Heaney -- Freeway 280 -- Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Good night, Willie Lee, Ill see you in the morning -- Alice Walker -- I, too -- Langston Hughes -- A nocturnal reverie -- Anne Finch -- Oranges -- Gary Soto -- The peace of wild things -- Wendell Berry -- Slam, dunk, & hook -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Sunstone -- Octavio Paz -- The taxi -- Amy Lowell -- Thanatopsis -- William Cullen Bryant -- The walrus and the carpenter -- Lewis Carroll -- Ye goatherd gods -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Young -- Anne Sexton.;v. 34 Autobiographia literaria / by Frank OHara -- The bridegroom / by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin -- Conscientious objector / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The fly / by William Blake -- Grandmother / by Valzhyna Mort -- Midsummer, Tobago / by Derek Walcott -- My mother combs my hair / by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Possibilities / by Wislawa Szymborska -- Since feeling is first / by E.E. Cummings -- The snow-storm / by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The stolen child / by William Butler Yeats -- This is just to say / by William Carlos Williams -- To Althea, from prison / by Richard Lovelace -- Up-hill / by Christina Georgina Rossetti -- The waking / by Theodore Roethke -- Women / by Alice Walker.;v. 21 Accounting -- Claribel Alegria -- Answer to Letters -- Tomas Transtromer -- Fading light -- Robert Creeley -- Ghazal -- Elizabeth Spires -- Hymn to beauty -- Charles Baudelaire -- Late and deep -- Paul Celan -- Maternity -- Anna Swir -- Memory -- Sarah Arvio -- Morning walk -- Claire Malroux -- Rapture -- Joelle Biele -- A rebirth -- Faroogh Farrokhzaad -- The reverse side -- Stephen Dunn -- Station -- Eamon Grennan -- Ten years after your deliberate drowning -- Robin Behn -- While I was gone a war began -- Ana Castillo -- Words for departure -- Louise Bogan.;v. 10 Alabama / Naomi Long Madgett -- Ballad of Orange and Grape / Muriel Rukeyser -- A birthday / Christina Rossetti -- Black zodiac / Charles Wright -- Bustle in a house / Emily Dickinson -- Cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service -- Dear reader / James Tate -- Drifters / Bruce Dawe -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- A farewell to English / Michael Hartnett -- Funeral blues / W.H. Auden -- Hiding place / Jori Graham -- How we heard the name / Alan Dugan -- Landscape with tractor / Henry Taylor -- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Out, out / Robert Frost -- Phoenix / Howard Nemerov.