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(MORE THAN) A FEW POEMS
I admire and enjoy... "Eating Together" --Kim Addonizio "Heraclitean" --Kim Addonizio "In Dreams" --Kim Addonizio "Last Toast" --Anna Akhmatova (Trans. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky) "Lot's Wife" --Anna Akhmatova "Reading Hamlet" --Anna Akhmatova (Trans. by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward) "Sympathy for Foreign Mothers" --Threa Almontaser "Walking Unsure of Myself, Election Day, 2004" --John Amen "Five Songs - II" --W.H. Auden "Funeral Blues" --W.H. Auden "Lullaby" --W.H. Auden "The Injured Moon" --Charles Baudelaire "The Ragpicker's Wine" --Charles Baudelaire (Translated by C.F. Macintyre and Robert Lowell) "I Long to Hold the Poetry Editor's Penis in My Hand" --Francesca Bell "How to Be a Poet" --Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things” –Wendell Berry "Marriage" --Wendell Berry "Black Marigolds" --Kavi Bilhana (Trans. by E. Powys Mathers) "Letter to N.Y." --Elizabeth Bishop "One Art" --Elizabeth Bishop "Sestina" --Elizabeth Bishop "Holy Thursday" --William Blake "A Poison Tree" --William Blake "The Sick Rose" --William Blake "The Tyger" --William Blake "Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter" --Robert Bly "Was a Man" --Philip Booth "Ants Crawl My Drunken Arms" --Charles Bukowski "Fingernails; Nostrils; Shoelaces" --Charles Bukowski "Ice for the Eagles" --Charles Bukowski "This Dirty, Valiant Game" --Charles Bukowski "Electricity" --Jack Butler "For Her Surgery" --Jack Butler "Aura" --Hayden Carruth "The Bearer" --Hayden Carruth "Depression" --Hayden Carruth “Memory” –Hayden Carruth "Of Distress Being Humiliated by the Classical Chinese Poets" --Hayden Carruth "Words for My Daughter from the Asylum" --Hayden Carruth "Bonnard's Nudes" --Raymond Carver "The Cobweb" --Raymond Carver "Waiting for the Barbarians" --C.P. Cavafy (Trans. by Edmund Keeley) "Genius" --Billy Collins "Litany" --Billy Collins "Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant" --Billy Collins "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes" --Billy Collins “The Orange” –Wendy Cope "The Desk" --Cid Corman "La Selva" --Cid Corman "At Melville's Tomb" --Hart Crane “Interior” –Hart Crane "In the Desert" --Stephen Crane "Should the Wide World Roll Away" --Stephen Crane "Buffalo Bill's" --E.E. Cummings "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" -- E.E. Cummings "Acceptance Speech for Winning the Nobel Peace Prize" --Peter Davis "Winter with Abraham Lincoln"--Peter Davis "For the Last Wolverine" --James Dickey "The Heaven of Animals" --James Dickey "Because I could not stop for Death" --Emily Dickinson “The first Day's Night had come” –Emily Dickinson "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" --Emily Dickinson "I died for Beauty - but was scarce" --Emily Dickinson "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" --Emily Dickinson "Holy Sonnet 10: Death Be Not Proud" --John Donne "Song" --John Donne "Ego" --Denise Duhamel "Me, First" --Melanie Dunbar "On the Death of a Colleague" --Stephen Dunn "Journey of the Magi" --T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" --T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land" --T.S. Eliot “Any Man's Advice to His Son” –Kenneth Fearing “Coda for Job” –Karynn Fish "The Colonel" --Carolyn Forché "The Countries That Claim Me" --Linda Nemec Foster "Letter from the Last Place on Earth" --Linda Nemec Foster “Living Yule” –Angela France "Acquainted with the Night" --Robert Frost "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep" --Robert Frost "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same" --Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening" --Robert Frost "To Earthward" --Robert Frost "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" --Mary Elizabeth Frye "Alba" --Federico Garcia Lorca "Romance sonambulo" --Federico Garcia Lorca "Si mis manos pudieran deshojar" --Federico Garcia Lorca "A Brief for the Defense" --Jack Gilbert "Failing and Flying" --Jack Gilbert "It Is Difficult to Speak of the Night" --Jack Gilbert "Horses at Midnight Without a Moon" --Jack Gilbert "Trying to Have Something Left Over" --Jack Gilbert "America" --Allen Ginsberg "Howl" --Allen Ginsberg "To Aunt Rose" --Allen Ginsberg “Summer Storm” –Dana Gioia "My Blue Hen" --Ann Gray "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes" --Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West" --Thomas Gray "The Darkling Thrush" --Thomas Hardy “During Wind and Rain” –Thomas Hardy “Neutral Tones” –Thomas Hardy “After the Anonymous Swedish” –Jim Harrison "The Brand New Statue of Liberty" --Jim Harrison "Counting Birds" --Jim Harrison "Lorca Again" --Jim Harrison "Mom and Dad" --Jim Harrison “Returning at Night” –Jim Harrison "Middle Passage" --Robert Hayden “Those Winter Sundays” –Robert Hayden "Mid-Term Break" --Seamus Heaney "Punishment" --Seamus Heaney “The End of the Weekend” –Anthony Hecht "More Light! More Light!"--Anthony Hecht "Elegy of Fortinbras" --Zbigniew Herbert "I Would Like to Describe" --Zbigniew Herbert "The Rain" --Zbigniew Herbert (Trans. by Czeslaw Milosz) "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time" --Robert Herrick "After working sixty hours again for what reason" --Bob Hicock "Feeling the draft" --Bob Hicock "The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day" --Bob Hicock "The Envoy" --Jane Hirshfield "The Heat of Autumn" --Jane Hirshfield "Mathematics" --Jane Hirshfield "My Species" --Jane Hirshfield "A Story" --Jane Hirshfield “The Icelandic Language” –Bill Holm "Carrion Comfort" --Gerard Manley Hopkins "God's Grandeur" --Gerard Manley Hopkins "Pied Beauty" --Gerard Manley Hopkins "Ode I, IX (Vides ut alta)" --Horace (Trans. by David West) "To an Athlete Dying Young" --A.E Housman "Carver and Cheever Watch the Bucky Dent Game in a Bar in Chicago, October 2, 1978" --Amorak Huey "A Primer" --Amorak Huey "Putting the Fun in Fungible" --Amorak Huey "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" --Randall Jarrell "Protocols" --Randall Jarrell "Carmel Point" --Robinson Jeffers "Cremation" --Robinson Jeffers "Measuring Grace" --Arnold Johnston "Sooner Than Later" --Arnold Johnston "On My First Son" --Ben Jonson “Decent People, After ‘High Noon’’” –William Joyce "A Letter Home"--William Joyce "Letter to a Dead Mosquito"--William Joyce "An Elegy is Preparing Itself" --Donald Justice “Men at Forty” –Donald Justice "The Snowfall" --Donald Justice "Ode to a Nightingale" --John Keats "To Autumn" --John Keats “River Song” –Weldon Kees “To Build a Quiet City in His Mind” –Weldon Kees “La Vita Nuova” –Weldon Kees “Year’s End” –Weldon Kees "Neanderthal Bone Flute"--Rose Kelleher "Math Anxiety" --Elizabeth Kerlikowske "Mother as Lint" --Elizabeth Kerlikowske "Succession" --Elizabeth Kerlikowske "Selecting a Reader" --Ted Kooser "Relic" --David Landrum "Aubade" --Philip Larkin “The Card-Players” –Philip Larkin “Talking in Bed” –Philip Larkin "Mystic" --D.H. Lawrence "Piano" --D.H. Lawrence "Romantic Comedies" --Mark Leidner "Contraband" --Denise Levertov "Living" --Denise Levertov "Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad" --Jan Heller Levi "Power" --Audre Lorde "December 7, 1948" --Kurt Luchs "A Party" --Kurt Luchs "Jesus Incognito" --Alison Luterman "What About God" --Alison Luterman "Caminante, no hay camino" --Antonio Machado "The End of the World" --Archibald MacLeish "Hemingway" --Archibald MacLeish "Care" --William Matthews "Mingus at the Showplace" --William Matthews "A Poetry Reading at West Point" --William Matthews "In Flanders Fields" --John McCrae "At the Construction Site" --Kathleen McGookey "The Waiting" --Kathleen McGookey "The Illiterate" --William Meredith “For the Anniversary of My Death” –W.S. Merwin "First Fig" --Edna St. Vincent Millay "Sonnet XLIII" (What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why) --Edna St. Vincent Millay "Spring" --Edna St. Vincent Millay "Incantation" --Czeslaw Milosz "Love in the Ruins" --Jim Moore "Honey" --Robert Morgan "Sailing from the United States" --Stanley Moss "The Animals" --Edwin Muir "Elegy for a Nature Poet" --Howard Nemerov "Si tu me olvidas" --Pablo Neruda "Burning the Old Year" --Naomi Shihab Nye "Praying" --Mary Oliver "The Swan" --Mary Oliver "Wild Geese" --Mary Oliver "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now" --Matthew Olzmann "Anthem for Doomed Youth" --Wilfred Owen "Arms and the Boy" --Wilfred Owen "Dulce Et Decorum Est" --Wilfred Owen "Elizabethan" --Linda Pastan “Ethics” –Linda Pastan "Why Are Your Poems So Dark?" --Linda Pastan "Melting Points" --Lynn Pattison "Seventy-Five Kimonos" --Lynn Pattison "Samurai Song" --Robert Pinsky "Stupid Meditation on Peace" --Robert Pinsky "The Applicant" --Sylvia Plath "The Colossus" --Sylvia Plath "Morning Song" --Sylvia Plath "Annabel Lee" --Edgar Allen Poe "The Raven" --Edgar Allen Poe "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" --Ezra Pound "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter" --John Crowe Ransom "From a Survivor" --Adrienne Rich "Archaic Torso of Apollo" --Rainer Maria Rilke "The Duino Elegies" --Rainer Maria Rilke "Sonnets to Orpheus"--Rainer Maria Rilke (Rilke translated by Stephen Mitchell and Gary Miranda) "The Drunken Boat" --Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" --Arthur Rimbaud "When Rimbaud Came to Charleroi" --Arthur Rimbaud (Rimbaud translated by Wallace Fowlie and J.E. Scruggs) "Elegy for Jane" --Theodore Roethke "My Papa's Waltz" --Theodore Roethke "To the Ghost of John Milton" --Carl Sandburg "The Anactoria Poem" --Sappho (Trans. by Jim Powell) "I Remember" --Anne Sexton "Her Kind" --Anne Sexton "The Starry Night" --Anne Sexton "The Truth the Dead Know" --Anne Sexton "Sonnet XVIII" (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) --William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIX" (When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) --William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIII" (Full many a glorious morning have I seen) --William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX" (Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore) --William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIV" (When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced) --William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI" (No longer mourn for me when I am dead) --William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIII" (That time of year thou mayst in me behold) --William Shakespeare "England in 1819" --Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias" --Percy Bysshe Shelley "Mirrors at 4 a.m." --Charles Simic "Prodigy" --Charles Simic "The Soul Has Many Brides" --Charles Simic "Titanic" --David R. Slavitt "My Cat Jeoffrey" (from Jubilate Agno) --Christopher Smart "Not Waving but Drowning" --Stevie Smith "Our Bog is Dood" --Stevie Smith "Thoughts about the Person from Porlock" --Stevie Smith "Dragonfly" --Gary Snyder "Four Poems for Robin" --Gary Snyder "I Went into the Maverick Bar" --Gary Snyder "The Road" --James Stephens "Day of Grief" --Gerald Stern "Stepping Out of Poetry" --Gerald Stern "Waving Goodbye" --Gerald Stern "Anecdote of the Jar" --Wallace Stevens "Bantams in Pine-Woods" --Wallace Stevens "The Snow Man" --Wallace Stevens “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” –Wallace Stevens "Question" --May Swenson "A Contribution to Statistics" --Wislawa Szymborska "In Praise of Self-Deprecation" --Wislawa Szymborska “Lot’s Wife” –Wisława Szymborska "Our Ancestors' Short Lives" --Wislawa Szymborska “True Love” –Wisława Szymborska “View with a Grain of Sand” –Wisława Szymborska (Symborska translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak) "Teaching the Ape to Write Poems" --James Tate "Those Who Love" --Sara Teasdale "Tears, Idle Tears" (from The Princess) --Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" --Dylan Thomas "In My Craft or Sullen Art" --Dylan Thomas "Adlestrop" --Edward Thomas "My prime of youth is but a frost of cares" --Chidiok Tichborne "On a Moonstruck Gravel Road" --Rodney Torreson "Clearing Rain" --Tu Fu (Trans. by D. Hinton) "Dog's Death" --John Updike “To Helen of Troy (N.Y.)” –Peter Viereck "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" --Walt Whitman "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" --Walt Whitman "Advice to a Prophet" --Richard Wilbur "The Death of a Toad" --Richard Wilbur "Year's End" --Richard Wilbur "Solitude" --Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Listen" --Miller Williams “Sale” –Miller Williams "The Widow's Lament in Springtime" --William Carlos Williams "This Is Just to Say" --William Carlos Williams "To Elsie" --William Carlos Williams "The End" --Ian Willey "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" --William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" --William Wordsworth "It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear" --William Wordsworth "Alcohol" --Franz Wright "Postcard 2" --Franz Wright "Rorschach Test" --Franz Wright "A Blessing" --James Wright "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" --James Wright "Mutterings over the Crib of a Deaf Child" --James Wright “Saint Judas” –James Wright "Cold-Blooded Creatures" --Eleanor Wylie "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death" --William Butler Yeats "No Second Troy" --William Butler Yeats "The Second Coming" --William Butler Yeats "When You Are Old" --William Butler Yeats "Our Northern Cities"--Adam Zagajewski "Poets are Pre-Socratics"--Adam Zagajewski "Try to Praise the Mutilated World"--Adam Zagajewski (Zagajewski translated by Clare Cavanagh) |
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