Contents for Poems, Second Edition
Selections in bold are new to the Second Edition.
- Anonymous
- Western Wind
- Anonymous
- Sir Patrick Spens
- Diane Ackerman
- School Prayer
- John Agard
- Palm Tree King
- Paul Allen
- The Man with the Hardest Belly
- Matthew Arnold
- Dover Beach
- John Ashbury
- At North Farm
- The Painter
- Margaret Atwood
- You Fit Into Me
- W. H. Auden
- As I Walked Out One Evening
- Musée des Beaux Arts
- In Memory of W. B. Yeats
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
- The Rights of Women
- Aphra Behn
- To the Fair Clarinda
- John Berryman
- The Dream Songs: 14
- Elizabeth Bishop
- The Fish
- Sestina
- One Art
- Sonnet
- William Blake
- To Autumn
- The Lamb
- The Chimney Sweeper (1789)
- The Sick Rose
- The Tyger
- London
- The Chimney Sweeper (1794)
- Anne Bradstreet
- The Author to Her Book
- To My Dear Loving Husband
- A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
- Emily Brontë
- I’m Happiest When Most Away
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- the mother
- We Real Cool
- The Bean Eaters
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (from Sonnets from the Portugese)
- 32 (“The first time that the sun rose on thine oath”)
- 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”)
- Robert Browning
- My Last Duchess
- Love Among the Ruins
- Lynne Bryer
- The Way
- Robert Burns
- A Red, Red Rose
- Lord Byron (George Gordon)
- She Walks in Beauty
- So, we’ll go no more a roving
- Thomas Campion
- There is a garden in her face
- Nick Carbo
- I Found Orpheus Levitating
- Lewis Carroll
- Jabberwocky
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Rosemounde
- Lak of Stedfastnesse
- Lucille Clifton
- homage to my hips
- Lorena
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Kubla Khan
- Dejection: An Ode
- Billy Collins
- Introduction to Poetry
- Picnic, Lightning
- On Turning Ten
- Sonnet
- E. E. Cummings
- Buffalo Bill
- in Just
- anyone lived in a pretty how town
- Carol Ann Davis
- Tips from My Father
- Ingrid de Kok
- Parts of speech
- The transcriber speaks
- James Dickey
- Cherrylog Road
- Emily Dickinson
- 254 (“Hope is the thing with feathers”)
- 269 (“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!)
- 303 (“The Soul selects her own Society”)
- 341 (“After great pain, a formal feeling comes—“)
- 465 (“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—“)
- 712 (“Because I could not stop for Death—“)
- 986 (“A narrow Fellow in the Grass”)
- John Donne
- Song: Go and catch a falling star
- The Sun Rising
- The Canonization
- The Flea
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- Holy Sonnet 10 (“Death, be not proud”)
- Holy Sonnet 14 (“Batter my heart”)
- Rita Dove
- The House Slave
- Daystar
- Denise Duhamel
- Song For All The Would-Have-Been Princesses
- Bob Dylan
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- Tangled Up in Blue
- T. S. Eliot
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Louise Erdrich
- Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
- Captivity
- Caroline Forché
- The Colonel
- Robert Frost
- Hom -Burial
- After Apple-Picking
- Mending Wall
- “Out, Out—“
- The Road Not Taken
- Birches
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Acquainted with the Night
- Design
- The Silken Tent
- Zulfikar Ghose
- Autobiography in Late Middle Age
- Allen Ginsberg
- A Supermarket in California
- Thomas Gray
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Thomas Hardy
- Hap
- The Convergence of the Twain
- Channel Firing
- Joy Harjo
- The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
- Robert Hayden
- Those Winter Sundays
- Seamus Heaney
- Digging
- The Tollund Man
- Punishment
- The Skunk
- A Call
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- Casabianca
- George Herbert
- Easter Wings
- The Collar
- Robert Herrick
- Delight in Disorder
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- Upon Julia’s Clothes
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- God’s Grandeur
- The Windhover
- Pied Beauty
- Spring and Fall
- A. E. Housman
- 1887
- To an Athlete Dying Young
- The Immortal Part
- Shot? So quick, so clean an ending?
- “Terence, this is stupid stuff . . .”
- Langston Hughes
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Dream Boogie
- Harlem
- Theme for English B
- Randall Jarrell
- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
- Ben Jonson
- Song: to Celia
- On My First Daughter
- On My First Son
- John Keats
- On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- When I Have Fears
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- To Sleep
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- To Autumn
- Galway Kinnell
- Blackberry Eating
- When Making Love We Hear Footsteps
- Etheridge Knight
- The Idea of Ancestry
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Facing It
- We Never Know
- Maxine Kumin
- Woodchucks
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.)
- Revenge
- The Little Shroud
- Philip Larkin
- Church Going
- High Windows
- Aubade
- Li-Young Lee
- Visions and Interpretations
- The Gift
- Eating Together
- Eating Apart
- Robert Lowell
- Skunk Hour
- For the Union Dead
- Susan Ludvigson
- After Love
- Archibald MacLeish
- Ars Poetica
- Ed Madden
- Sunday Morning, Wadmalaw
- Christopher Marlowe
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
- Andrew Marvell
- To His Coy Mistress
- Claude McKay
- America
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
- I, Being Born Woman and Distressed
- Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink
- John Milton
- When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
- Marianne Moore
- Poetry
- The Steeple Jack
- Sharon Olds
- Sex Without Love
- The One Girl at the Boys’ Party
- I Go Back to May 1937
- Wilfred Owen
- Dulce et Decorum Est
- Marge Piercy
- Barbie doll
- Sylvia Plath
- Metaphors
- Lady Lazarus
- Daddy
- Edgar Allan Poe
- The Raven
- Annabel Lee
- Ezra Pound
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
- In a Station of the Metro
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Farewell, False Love
- Nature, that washed her hands in milk
- John Crowe Ransom
- Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
- Adrienne Rich
- Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
- Diving into the Wreck
- The School Among the Ruins
- Transparencies
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Richard Cory
- Mary Robinson
- January, 1795
- Theodore Roethke
- Root Cellar
- My Papa’s Waltz
- I Knew a Woman
- The Waking
- Christina Rossetti
- After Death
- A Birthday
- Anne Sexton
- Her Kind
- William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”)
- Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee”)
- Sonnet 29 (“When, in disgrace with fortune”)
- Sonnet 55 (“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of time”)
- Sonnet 73 (“That time of year”)
- Sonnet 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”)
- Sonnet 129 (“The expense of spirit in a waste of shame”)
- Sonnet 130 (“My mistress’ eyes”)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ozymandias
- Song: To the Men of England
- Ode to the West Wind
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Astrophel and Stella 1 (“Loving in truth”)
- Stevie Smith
- Not Waving But Drowning
- Stephen Spender
- The Pylons
- Edmund Spenser
- Amoretti 75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)
- Bruce Springsteen
- The River
- Born in the U. S. A.
- William Stafford
- Traveling through the Dark
- Wallace Stevens
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
- The Snow Man
- Anecdote of the Jar,
- Sunday Morning
- The Emperor of Ice-Cream
- Leon Stokesbury
- Unseen Message to My Brother in His Pain
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Ulysses
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Crossing the Bar
- Dylan Thomas
- The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
- Fern Hill
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- Catherine Tufariello
- February 18, 1943
- Derek Walcott
- A Latin Primer
- White Magic
- The Light of the World
- Walt Whitman
- Song of Myself, 1-7
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford
- Richard Wilbur
- Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
- A Late Aubade
- William Carlos Williams
- Spring and All
- The Red Wheelbarrow
- This Is Just to Say,
- William Wordsworth
- The Tables Turned
- Lines, written a few miles above Tintern Abbey
- She dwelt among the untrodden ways
- Lucy Gray
- Nutting
- I wandered lonely as a cloud
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- The World Is Too Much With Us
- James Wright
- A Blessing
- Mary Wroth
- My Pain, Still Smothered in My Grieved Breast
- Sir Thomas Wyatt (the elder)
- My Galley
- They Flee From Me
- William Butler Yeats
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- The Second Coming
- Leda and the Swan
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Who Goes with Fergus?
- Adam’s Curse
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
- Easter 1916
- Politics
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