The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry [Paperback]

Robert DiYanni (Author), Kraft Rompf (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070169446 | ISBN-13: 978-0070169449 | Publication Date: January 1, 1993 | Edition: 1

This is, perhaps, the widest ranging, most comprehensive poetry collection available, and it is useful for poetry courses at all levels. It contains an excellent introduction to reading poetry and understanding the elements, as well as sections on poems and paintings, poems and music, and poems from other languages. Sections on featured poets are integrated with the chronological anthology which gives students a perspective on the variety and range of a large group of poets. This multi-national, multi-cultural, multi-genre and multi-lingual collection gives students a view and instructors an opportunity to teach the universality of poetry. Includes a superb historical range of poetry, from its recorded beginnings to most contemporary.

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Choral Ode: Fury by Aeschylus
The Bride by Bella Akhmadulina
Absence by Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
Drinking The Corinthian Sun by Odysseus Alepoudeli
The Muse Of Amergin by Amergin
A Pity. We Were Such A Good Invention by Yehuda Amichai
Bonus by Archie Randolph Ammons
Reflective by Archie Randolph Ammons
High And Dry by Benny Andersen
11 by Aneirin
21 by Aneirin
8 by Aneirin
Fugue Of Death by Paul Antschel
The Eiffel Tower by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Mirabeau Bridge by Guillaume Apollinaire
Mirror by Guillaume Apollinaire
Letters by Cathy Appel
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Kaspar Is Dead by Hans Arp
The Painter by John Ashbery
Spelling by Margaret Atwood
In Memory Of W.b. Yeats by Wystan Hugh Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Shield Of Achilles by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Unknown Citizen by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Sea Eats The Land At Home by Kofi Awoonor
Song Of War by Kofi Awoonor
17 by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note by Amiri Baraka
Like This Before You, Just As I Am by Yocheved Bat-miriam
The Albatross by Charles Baudelaire
The Flowers Of Evil: Correspondences by Charles Baudelaire
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 by Bible
Isaiah: 11, Sels. by Bible
Job, Sels. by Bible
Psalm 13 by Bible
Psalm 137 by Bible
Psalm 139: Domine, Probasti by Bible
Song Of Solomon: The Song Of Songs: 7, Sels. by Bible
Song Of The Sea by Bible
Then Lord Answered Job Out Of The Whirlwind by Bible
Vanity Of Vanities by Bible
The Armadillo; For Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop
First Death In Nova Scotia by Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
In The Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
The Monument by Elizabeth Bishop
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Questions Of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop
Sandpiper by Elizabeth Bishop
Seascape by Elizabeth Bishop
Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop
The Unbeliever by Elizabeth Bishop
Auguries Of Innocence by William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
The Clod And The Pebble, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The Echoing Green, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
The Garden Of Love, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The Lamb, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
London, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Mock On, Mock On! Voltaire, Rousseau by William Blake
The New [or, Building Of] Jerusalem [or, To The Christians] by William Blake
A Poison Tree, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The Proverbs Of Hell by William Blake
The Sick Rose, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Only Of Myself I Knew How To Tell by Rachel Bluwstein
Driving To Town Late To Mail A Letter by Robert Bly
Women by Louise Bogan
Anorexic by Eavan Boland
True Name by Yves Bonnefoy
Amorous Anticipation by Jorge Luis Borges
Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet
Song On Black Saturday At The Eleventh Hour Before Easter by Bertolt Brecht
Remembrance by Emily Jane Bronte
The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool; The Pool Players. Seven At The Golden Shovel by Gwendolyn Brooks
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Andrea Del Sarto (called The Faultless Painter) by Robert Browning
The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed's Church by Robert Browning
Meeting At Night by Robert Browning
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
Soliloquy Of The Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning
Auld Lang Syne (with Music) by Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
The Destruction Of Sennacherib by George Gordon Byron
She Walks In Beauty by George Gordon Byron
Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon
Epigram: 1 by Callimachus
Epigram: 2 by Callimachus
Epigram: 3 by Callimachus
Epigram: 4 by Callimachus
Amaryllis by Thomas Campion
Cherry Ripe (with Music) by Thomas Campion
Song by Thomas Carew
Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
Photograph Of My Father In His Twenty-second Year by Raymond Carver
Carmen: 11 by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
I Hate And Love by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
That Man Is Seen By Me As A God's Equal by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
To Lesbia by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
We Should Live, My Lesbia, And Love by Gaius (caius) Valerius Catullus
As Much As You Can by Constantine P. Cavafy
The City by Constantine P. Cavafy
First Problem by Aime Cesaire
The Word Plum Is Delicious by Helen Chasin
The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue (modern Version) by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale And Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer
Beach Glass by Amy Clampitt
Homage To My Hips by Lucille Clifton
The Lost Baby Poem by Lucille Clifton
Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Book Of Kells by Padraic Colum
My Picture by Abraham Cowley
To Brooklyn Bridge by Harold Hart Crane
War Is Kind: 1 by Stephen Crane
After Lorca by Robert Creeley
I Know A Man by Robert Creeley
Incident by Countee Cullen
50 Poems: 29 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 34 by Edward Estlin Cummings
73 Poems: 12 by Edward Estlin Cummings
No Thanks: 16 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Portraits: 8 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Xaipe: 65 by Edward Estlin Cummings
The Painter Yearning For Her Lake by Vinnie-marie D'ambrosio
My Songs Are Children by Gabriele D'annunzio
The Girls Of Llandbadarn by Dafydd Ap Gwilym
I Think by Dai Meng'ou
There Are Nights With No Name by Leon Gontran Damas
Canto 3 by Dante Alighieri
A Victorian Hangman Tells His Love by Bruce Dawe
She Demonstrating ... Men's Wishes In Blaming Women by Juana Ines De La Cruz
She Ponders The Choice Of A Way Of Life Binding Until Death by Juana Ines De La Cruz
The Listeners by Walter John De La Mare
Buckdancer's Choice by James Dickey
The Heaven Of Animals by James Dickey
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson
The Chariot by Emily Dickinson
Colloquy by Emily Dickinson
Crumbling Is Not An Instant's Act by Emily Dickinson
Dying by Emily Dickinson
Exclusion by Emily Dickinson
The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Emily Dickinson
I Cannot Dance Upon My Toes by Emily Dickinson
I Felt A Funeral In My Brain by Emily Dickinson
I Like A Look Of Agony by Emily Dickinson
I'm 'wife' - I've Finished That by Emily Dickinson
The Last Night That She Lived by Emily Dickinson
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson
My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
The Mystery Of Pain by Emily Dickinson
Parting by Emily Dickinson
Post-mortem by Emily Dickinson
Remorse Is Memory Awake by Emily Dickinson
The Snake by Emily Dickinson
Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant by Emily Dickinson
There Is A Pain - So Utter by Emily Dickinson
There's A Certain Slant Of Light by Emily Dickinson
We Grow Accustomed To The Dark by Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
Diptych by Birago Diop
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Pattern Poem With An Elusive Intrduer by Reinhold Dohl
The Anniversary [anniversarie] by John Donne
The Canonization by John Donne
The Ecstasy [extasie] by John Donne
Elegy: 19. To His Mistress Going To Bed by John Donne
The Flea by John Donne
Holy Sonnet: 10 by John Donne
Holy Sonnet: 14 by John Donne
Hymn To God My God, In My Sickness by John Donne
A Hymn To God The Father by John Donne
The Indifferent by John Donne
Lovers' Infiniteness by John Donne
A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day, Being The Shortest Day by John Donne
Song by John Donne
The Sun Rising by John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
Heat by Hilda Doolittle
Helen by Hilda Doolittle
Canary by Rita Dove
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
Women Of Suli by Theoni Dracopoulu
Idea: 61 by Michael Drayton
On The Tower by Annette Freiin Von Droste-hulshoff
A Song For St. Cecilia's Day by John Dryden
Love Song: I And Thou by Alan Dugan
We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Dance by Robert Duncan
Tullamore Poetry Recital by Paul Durcan
The Groundhog by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
Coventry Cathedral by Ruth F. Eisenberg
Jocasta by Ruth F. Eisenberg
Every Human Is A World, Populated by Gunnar Ekelof
Gerontion by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Preludes: 1-4 (complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Waste Land (1-5, Complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Youth And Cupid by Elizabeth I
Brahma by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich
The Starry Night by Robert Fagles
A Coney Island Of The Mind: 15 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Finch
My Love I Gave For Hate by Gerald Fitzgerald
In Sunburnt Parks Where Sundays Lie by Robert Stuart Fitzgerald
The Memory Of Elena by Carolyn Forche
The Canticle Of The Creatures [or, Sun] by Francis Of Assisi
Cadence by Robert Francis
Pitcher by Robert Francis
Poem In Which My Legs Are Accepted by Kathleen Fraser
Acquainted With The Night by Robert Frost
After Apple Picking by Robert Frost
Birches by Robert Frost
Departmental by Robert Frost
Desert Places by Robert Frost
Design by Robert Frost
Fire And Ice by Robert Frost
For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost
Hyla Brook by Robert Frost
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
The Most Of It by Robert Frost
Mowing by Robert Frost
The Need Of Being Versed In Country Things by Robert Frost
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations by Robert Frost
Once By The Pacific by Robert Frost
'out, Out -' by Robert Frost
The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
Provide, Provide by Robert Frost
Putting In The Seed by Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
The Silken Tent by Robert Frost
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
To Earthward by Robert Frost
Tree At My Window, Window Tree by Robert Frost
The Tuft Of Flowers by Robert Frost
Two Look At Two by Robert Frost
Dance Script With Electric Ballerina by Alice Fulton
Kidnaper by Tess Gallagher
Somnambule Ballad by Federico Garcia Lorca
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg
The Garden by Louise Gluck
Nature And Art by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
From My Mother's House by Lea Goldberg
Song by Oliver Goldsmith
Requiem: 10. Crucifixion by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: 1935-1940 by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: 2 by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: 3 by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: 4 by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: 5 by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: 6 by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: 7. The Sentence by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: 8. To Death by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: 9 by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: Dedication by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: Epilogue by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Requiem: Prologue by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Rquiem: 1 by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Mind by Jorie Graham
San Sepolcro by Jorie Graham
Afterthought by Elsa Grave
Down, Wanton, Down! by Robert Ranke Graves
Symptoms Of Love by Robert Ranke Graves
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Hungry Waters; For A Little Boy At Linthingow by Christopher Murray Grieve
Lady Love by Eugene Grindel
Renga: Highly Renowned, Sels. by Gusai
This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
Canzone by Marilyn Hacker
The Pure Lover by Yehuda Halevi
My Son, My Executioner by Donald Hall
Channel Firing by Thomas Hardy
During Wind And Rain by Thomas Hardy
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy
American History by Michael S. Harper
Meditation At Lagunitas by Robert Hass
The Two Neighbors by George Campbell Hay
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Earl Hayden
10. by Seamus Heaney
12 by Seamus Heaney
Bog Queen by Seamus Heaney
Casualty by Seamus Heaney
Death Of A Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
Digging by Seamus Heaney
The Grauballe Man by Seamus Heaney
The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
Mid-term Break by Seamus Heaney
Punishment by Seamus Heaney
The Skunk by Seamus Heaney
Squarings: 1. Lightenings 8 by Seamus Heaney
The Dover Bitch; A Criticism Of Life by Anthony Hecht
The Lorelei by Heinrich Heine
Thaw Night by Gudrid Helmsdal-nielsen
The Altar by George Herbert
The Collar by George Herbert
Denial [or, Deniall] by George Herbert
The Pulley by George Herbert
Virtue [or, Vertue] by George Herbert
Delight In Disorder by Robert Herrick
To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time by Robert Herrick
God Bless The Child (with Music) by Arthur, Jr. Herzog
Fall by Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin
Adam's Task by John Hollander
Swan And Shadow by John Hollander
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Cyclops by Homer
The Iliad: Book 2. Hector And Andromache by Homer
Imperial Adam by Alec Derwent Hope
Abyss by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars (felled 1879) by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Immanent by Gerard Manley Hopkins
In The Valley Of The Elwy by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Terrible Sonnets: 3 by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Wreck Of The Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Shropshire Lad: 19. To An Athlete Dying Young by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 27 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 54 by Alfred Edward Housman
Description Of Spring by Henry Howard
Hawk Roosting by Edward James Hughes
Ballad Of The Landlord by James Langston Hughes
Harlem by James Langston Hughes
I, Too, Sing America by James Langston Hughes
Madam And The Rent Man by James Langston Hughes
Mother To Son by James Langston Hughes
Mulatto by James Langston Hughes
My People by James Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers by James Langston Hughes
Same In Blues by James Langston Hughes
Theme For English B by James Langston Hughes
Trumpet Player by James Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues by James Langston Hughes
An Apple Tree And A Pig by Emyr Humphries
Agnes by Henrik Johan Ibsen
Looking At My Grandchildren by Izumi Shikibu
Tanka by Izumi Shikibu
Tanka: Waiting For My Two Lovers by Izumi Shikibu
The Old Women by Rolf Jacobsen
The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
I Shall Run Through The Shadow by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Protrait Of An Engine Driver by Bobi Jones
On My First Daughter by Ben Jonson
On My First Son by Ben Jonson
Simplex Munditiis by Ben Jonson
Song: To Celia (with Music) by Ben Jonson
To Penshurst by Ben Jonson
Volpone: To Celia by Ben Jonson
In Bertram's Garden by Donald Justice
Men At Forty by Donald Justice
In Grief After His Wife's Death by Kakinomoto Hitomaro
A Strange Old Man by Kakinomoto Hitomaro
Christopher Magisto by Rodger Lee Kamenetz
Mount Fuji by Kaneko Mitsuharu
Tanka Written To Otomo No Yakamochi (2) by Kasa
Tinker's Wife by Patrick Kavanagh
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats
Last Sonnet (revised Version) by John Keats
Ode On A Grecian Urn by John Keats
Ode On Melancholy by John Keats
Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
Sonnet by John Keats
Sonnet by John Keats
Sonnet On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again by John Keats
To Autumn by John Keats
First Confession by X. J. Kennedy
In A Prominent Bar In Secaucus One Day by X. J. Kennedy
Nude Descending A Staircase by X. J. Kennedy
The Exequy [on His Wife] by Henry (1592-1669) King
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps by Galway Kinnell
Saint Francis And The Sow by Galway Kinnell
Awakened By A Horse's Fart by Kobayashi Issa
Falling Leaves by Kobayashi Issa
I Look Into A Dragonfly's Eye by Kobayashi Issa
The Old Dog Bends His Head Listening by Kobayashi Issa
The Pigeon Makes His Request by Kobayashi Issa
Variations On A Theme By William Carlos Williams by Kenneth Koch
You Were Wearing by Kenneth Koch
The Grasshopper And The Ant by Jean De La Fontaine
Church Going by Philip Larkin
A Study Of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin
The Elephant Is Slow To Mate by David Herbert Lawrence
Humming-bird by David Herbert Lawrence
Love On The Farm by David Herbert Lawrence
Piano by David Herbert Lawrence
Snake by David Herbert Lawrence
When I Read Shakespeare by David Herbert Lawrence
The Owl And The Pussy Cat by Edward Lear
The Infinite by Giacomo Leopardi
To The Moon by Giacomo Leopardi
O Taste And See by Denise Levertov
Tune: Telling Of Innermost Feelings by Li Ch'ing-chao
Tune: The Magnolias by Li Ch'ing-chao
A Thought by Li Jinfa
Autumn Cove by Li Po
Poem No. 19 In The Old Manner by Li Po
The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
Liadan Laments Cuirithir by Liadan Of Corcaguiney
Now That I Am Forever With Child by Audre Lorde
To Althea, From Prison by Richard Lovelace
Patterns by Amy Lowell
Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54 by Robert Lowell
Skunk Hour; For Elizabeth Bishop by Robert Lowell
Daydreams Have Endlessly Turning by Antonio Machado Ruiz
Vincent by Don Maclean
Ars Poetica by Archibald Macleish
The Tomb Of Edgar Poe by Stephane Mallarme
The Tomb Of Edgar Poe (version A) by Stephane Mallarme
Insomnia by Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam
The Stalin Epigram by Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam
Sixteen-syllable Stanza by Mao Tse-tung
Martial's Quiet Life by Marcus Valerius Martialis
You Serve The Best Wine Always, My Dear Sir by Marcus Valerius Martialis
The Nightingale by Marie De France
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe
The Definition Of Love by Andrew Marvell
A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body by Andrew Marvell
The Garden by Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Cargoes by John Masefield
Haiku by Matsuo Munefusa
How Rough A Sea by Matsuo Munefusa
Not Even A Hat by Matsuo Munefusa
On A Journey, Ill by Matsuo Munefusa
The Tropics In New York by Claude Mckay
The Abandonment by Wesley Mcnair
The Enamel Box; Given By Mother By A Visitor From Ukraine by Askold Melnyczuk
Lucifer In Starlight by George Meredith
The Pier: Under Pisces by James Ingram Merrill
Elegy by William Stanley Merwin
Separation by William Stanley Merwin
When You Go Away by William Stanley Merwin
Sonnet: 8 by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 42 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 98. Fatal Interview: 30 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Hymn To Light by John Milton
Il Penseroso by John Milton
L'allegro by John Milton
Lycidas by John Milton
O, For That Warning Voice, Which He, Who Saw by John Milton
Of Man's First Disobedience, And The Fruit by John Milton
Sonnet: 18. On The Late Massacre In Piedmont by John Milton
Sonnet: 19. On His Blindness by John Milton
Sonnet: 23. On His Deceased Wife by John Milton
Vermeer by Stephen Mitchell
November 3rd by Miyazawa Kenji
Angle Of Geese by Navarre Scott Momaday
A Simile by Navarre Scott Momaday
The Eel by Eugenio Montale
Critics And Connoisseurs by Marianne Moore
The Fish by Marianne Moore
The Mind Is An Enchanting Thing by Marianne Moore
The Monkeys by Marianne Moore
Nevertheless by Marianne Moore
The Past Is The Present by Marianne Moore
Poetry (further Revised) by Marianne Moore
Propriety by Marianne Moore
The Steeple-jack by Marianne Moore
To A Snail by Marianne Moore
At The Mid Hour Of Night by Thomas Moore
A Litany In Time Of Plague by Thomas Nashe
The War In The Air by Howard Nemerov
Amazing Grace (with Music) by John Newton
Chief Leschi Of The Nisqually by Duane Niatum
Up Late by Arthur Nortje
Autobiographia Literaria by Frank O'hara
Poem For My Father's Ghost by Mary Oliver
Maximus, To Gloucester, Sunday, July 19 by Charles Olson
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 1 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 100 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 101 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 12 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 16 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 24 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 42 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 54 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 63 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 7 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1879 Edition: 71 by Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat, 1889 Edition: 74 by Omar Khayyam
Tanka by Ono No Komachi
Tanka by Ono No Komachi
Tanka: Imagining Her Death And Cremation by Ono No Komachi
Lover's Complaint by Otomo Of Sakanoe
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Love Song by Sophia Mavroidi Papadaky
Hamlet by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
The Day In Udaipur [el Dia En Udaipur] by Octavio Paz
The Key Of Water [la Llave De Agua] by Octavio Paz
The Street by Octavio Paz
The Lover For Shame-fastness Hideth His Desire by Petrarch
My Ship Is Sailing, Full Of Mindless Woe by Petrarch
Sonnets To Laura In Life: 109 by Petrarch
Sonnets To Laura In Life: 156 by Petrarch
A Song Of Winter by Emily Jane (davis) Pfeiffer
Olympian Odes: 11 by Pindar
Dying by Robert Pinsky
The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
Black Rook In Rainy Weather by Sylvia Plath
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
Crossing The Water by Sylvia Plath
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Edge by Sylvia Plath
Elm; For Ruth Fainlight by Sylvia Plath
Fever 103 Degrees by Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
Words by Sylvia Plath
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen (1) by Edgar Allan Poe
Summer Sestina by Marie Ponsot
Epistle To Miss Blount, On Her Leaving The Town by Alexander Pope
An Essay On Man: Epistle 1 by Alexander Pope
An Essay On Man: Epistle 2 by Alexander Pope
Nature by Alexander Pope
Ode On Solitude (final Printed Version) by Alexander Pope
Part 2 by Alexander Pope
The Rape Of The Lock by Alexander Pope
Canto 1 by Ezra Pound
Canto 13 by Ezra Pound
Canto 45 by Ezra Pound
Epitaph: Fu I by Ezra Pound
The Garden by Ezra Pound
Homage To Sextus Propertius: 7 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 1. E.p. Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 13. Envoi, 1919 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 2 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 3 by Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: 4 by Ezra Pound
In A Station Of The Metro by Ezra Pound
A Pact by Ezra Pound
Portrait D'une Femme by Ezra Pound
The Return by Ezra Pound
Sestina: Altaforte by Ezra Pound
The White Stag by Ezra Pound
Yet %ere The Season Died A-cold by Ezra Pound
Siesta Time In Sultry Summer by Publius Ovidius Naso
The Story Of Daedalus And Icarus by Publius Ovidius Naso
Book 1: Arms And The Man by Publius Vergilius Maro
Book 2: Dido And Aeneas by Publius Vergilius Maro
The Fourth Eclogue by Publius Vergilius Maro
Old Man by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
Emblem: 3 by Francis Quarles
Letter To My Mother by Salvatore Quasimodo
Ah God How Thet Race, Postumus, Postumus by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
She by Jean-joseph Rabearivelo
Traduits De La Nuit: 18 by Jean-joseph Rabearivelo
The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd by Walter Raleigh
Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter by John Crowe Ransom
Piazza Piece by John Crowe Ransom
For Uwe Gressmann by Lutz Rathenow
Mechanical Doll by Dahlia Ravikovitch
Chard Whitlow (mr. Eliot's Sunday Evening Postcript) by Henry Reed
Lessons Of The War: 1. Naming Of Parts by Henry Reed
Floating by Kenneth Rexroth
Ode To My Socks by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Kaddish by Charles Reznikoff
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 13 (dedications) by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 2 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Cecile Rich
For An Album by Adrienne Cecile Rich
The Knight by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Orion by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Rape by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Snapshots Of A Daughter-in-law by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Storm Warnings by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Trying To Talk With A Man by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Archaic Torso Of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
Buddha In Glory by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Cadet Picture Of My Father by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
A Dream Of Husbands by Alberto Alvaro Rios
The Meaning Of Simplicity by Yannis Ritsos
Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Elegy For Jane by Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
Snow by Amelia Rosselli
Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Barren Spring by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Myth by Muriel Rukeyser
Exiles by George William Russell
O The Chimneys by Nelly Leonie Sachs
Matisse's Dance by Natalie Safir
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
Alone by Sappho
Seizure by Sappho
Nineteen Elastic Poems: 17. Mee Too Buggi by Frederic Sauser
Ode To Joy by Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller
Signs by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
At Point Hpoe On The Chukchi Sea by Sandra Schor
The Scholar And His Cat by Sedulius Scottus
Turn! Turn! Turn! by Pete Seeger
The Old Man by George Seferis
Night Of Sine by Leopold Sedar Senghor
Paris In The Snow by Leopold Sedar Senghor
The Starry Night by Anne Sexton
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph by Anne Sexton
Us by Anne Sexton
After Seeing A Masque [the Grand Style] by William Shakespeare
April, Fr. Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
Ariel's Song (1) [or, Dirge] [or, A Sea Dirge]. Fr. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Dirge [for Fidele], Fr. Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
End Of The Civil War by William Shakespeare
Feste's Song (1), Fr. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Feste's Song (2), Fr. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Greenwood Tree, Fr. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Hamlet's Soliloquy [on Death], Fr. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Harfleur [or, Soliloquy] by William Shakespeare
King Henry Before The Field Of Saint Crispian by William Shakespeare
Love In Spring-time by William Shakespeare
New News At New Court by William Shakespeare
O Mighty Caesar! by William Shakespeare
Soliloquy by William Shakespeare
Soliloquy by William Shakespeare
Soliloquy by William Shakespeare
Song Of The Holly, Fr. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 129 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 130 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 146 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 18 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 29 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 55 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 65 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 71 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 73 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 94 by William Shakespeare
Winter, Fr. Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
Zntony's Eulogy On Caesar by William Shakespeare
Ode To The West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To A Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shutting The Door Of A Tiny Stude by Shen Yee-ping
Death The Leveller [or, Death The Conqueror] by James Shirley
Astrophel And Stella: 1 by Philip Sidney
Astrophel And Stella: 109 by Philip Sidney
Slim Man Canyon by Leslie Marmon Silko
Stone by Charles Simic
Richard Cory by Paul Simon
American Poetry by Louis Simpson
The Heroes by Louis Simpson
My Father In The Night Commanding No by Louis Simpson
Head-ransom, Sels. by Egil Skallagrimsson
To Mistress Margaret Hussey by John Skelton
Lost Your Head Blues by Elizabeth Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Florence Margaret Smith
Culloden And After by Iain Crichton Smith
Prayer For The Great Family; After A Mohawk Prayer by Gary Snyder
In Praise Of God by Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Girl Powdering Her Neck by Cathy Song
Lost Sister by Cathy Song
Antigone: Chorus. Man by Sophocles
The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell
Hamlet by Wole Soyinka
Amoretti: 75 by Edmund Spenser
Traveling Through The Dark by William Edgar Stafford
A Petticoat by Gertrude Stein
1. by Wallace Stevens
2. by Wallace Stevens
3. by Wallace Stevens
4. by Wallace Stevens
5. by Wallace Stevens
6. by Wallace Stevens
Anecdote Of The Jar by Wallace Stevens
Bantams In Pine-woods by Wallace Stevens
The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm by Wallace Stevens
The Idea Of Order At Key West by Wallace Stevens
Of Modern Poetry by Wallace Stevens
Peter Quince At The Clavier by Wallace Stevens
The Poems Of Our Climate by Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
On Astrild, Honing His Arrows by Georg Stiernhielm
Eating Poetry by Mark Strand
Leopardi by Mark Strand
Street Scenes 3, Fr. Word Play And Minor Art by August Strindberg
Constancy by John Suckling
The Centaur by May Swenson
How Everything Happens (based On A Study Of The Wave) by May Swenson
Women by May Swenson
A Description Of The Morning by Jonathan Swift
The Lady's Dressing Room by Jonathan Swift
Blossoms On The Pear by Tangiguchi Buson
The Piercing Chill I Feel by Tangiguchi Buson
Break, Break, Break by Alfred Tennyson
Crossing The Bar by Alfred Tennyson
The Eagle; A Fragment by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 11 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 119 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 130 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 34 by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 7 by Alfred Tennyson
The Lotos-eaters by Alfred Tennyson
Mariana by Alfred Tennyson
The Princess: Song by Alfred Tennyson
The Princess: Song by Alfred Tennyson
Song [a Small Sweet Idyll] by Alfred Tennyson
Tithonus by Alfred Tennyson
Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson
And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower by Dylan Thomas
The Hunchback In The Park by Dylan Thomas
I See The Boys Of Summer In Their Ruin by Dylan Thomas
In My Craft Or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas
Poem In October by Dylan Thomas
A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas
Tichborne's Elegy, Written In The Tower Before His Execution by Chidiock Tichborne
With Loyal Industry I Shall Begin by Titus Lucretius Carus
Between by Tomioka Taeko
Just The Two Of Us by Tomioka Taeko
Reapers by Jean Toomer
Decline by Georg Trakl
Storm by Tomas Transtromer
Alone, Looking For Blossoms Along The River by Tu Fu
Ballad Of A Hundred Worries by Tu Fu
For Neruda by James Tyack
An Attempt At Jealousy by Marina Ivanovna Tzvetayeva
Brush Fire by Tchicaya U Tam'si
You Shattered by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Adam Lay I-bowndyn [or, I-bounden, Or, Y-bounden] by Anonymous
The Artist by Anonymous
Barbara Allan by Anonymous
Chant To The Fire-fly by Anonymous
Cuckoo Song by Anonymous
The Death Of Sir Stig by Anonymous
Edward by Anonymous
I Gave Them Fruits by Anonymous
I Sing Of A Maiden [or, Syge Of A Mayden] by Anonymous
The Lord Among The Clouds by Anonymous
The Moon And The Year by Anonymous
Mother Dear! by Anonymous
Near The East Gate by Anonymous
Now Death Is The Portion Of Doomed Men by Anonymous
The Seafarer by Anonymous
Song Of The Fallen Deer by Anonymous
Song Of The Thunders by Anonymous
The Three Ravens (1) by Anonymous
Western Wind (1) by Anonymous
Western Wind (2) by Anonymous
What Happened To A Young Man by Anonymous
A Woman's Complaint by Anonymous
Words Of The High One, Sels. by Anonymous
The Mosquito by John Updike
My Father's Eye by Eleni Vakalo
Helen by Paul Valery
The Black Riders by Cesar Vallejo
They Are All Gone by Henry Vaughan
La Donna E Mobile (with Music) by Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
Sentimental Dialogue by Paul Verlaine
Ballade Of The Ladies Of Bygone Time by Francois Villon
I Am Francis by Francois Villon
My Childhood Cities, By Now I've Forgotten Them All by David Vogel
I Am Goya by Andrey (andrei) Andreyevich Voznesensky
Walking In The Snow by David Wagoner
Belly Dancer by Diane Wakoski
Codicil by Derek Walcott
The Double Play by Robert Wallace
Song by Edmund Waller
Audubon: 6. Love And Knowledge by Robert Penn Warren
Man Frail And God Eternal by Isaac Watts
Magic Fox by James Welch
Bivouac On A Mountain Side by Walt Whitman
Cavalry Crossing A Ford by Walt Whitman
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
The Dalliance Of The Eagles by Walt Whitman
Good-bye My Fancy! by Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
One's-self I Sing by Walt Whitman
President Lincoln's Burial Hymn by Walt Whitman
A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak Gray And Dim by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 1 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 11 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 2 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 24 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 3 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 32 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 4 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 46 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 47 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 48 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 49 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 5 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 50 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 51 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 52 by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 6 by Walt Whitman
There Was A Child Went Forth by Walt Whitman
Vigil Strange I Kept On The Field One Night by Walt Whitman
When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman
The Wound-dresser by Walt Whitman
Mind by Richard Wilbur
1. by William Carlos Williams
At The Ball Game by William Carlos Williams
The Dance (1) by William Carlos Williams
Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams
January Morning by William Carlos Williams
The Last Words Of My English Grandmother by William Carlos Williams
Nantucket by William Carlos Williams
Pictures From Brueghel: 2. Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
Queen-anne's-lace by William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
A Sort Of A Song by William Carlos Williams
Spring And All by William Carlos Williams
This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
To A Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams
Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
The Young Housewife by William Carlos Williams
The Boy Of Winander [repeat Of Poem Of 1798] by William Wordsworth
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Evening On Calais Beach by William Wordsworth
Fair Seed-time by William Wordsworth
Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Lucy (2) by William Wordsworth
Lucy (3) by William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
Perfect Woman by William Wordsworth
The Rainbow [in The Sky] by William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
Spots Of Time by William Wordsworth
To My Sister by William Wordsworth
The World; Sonnet by William Wordsworth
A Blessing by James Wright
Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright
Eve To Her Daughters by Judith Wright
The Hind by Thomas Wyatt
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken by Thomas Wyatt
The Ruins Of Gandan by Yang Lian
Adam's Curse by William Butler Yeats
Among School Children by William Butler Yeats
Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Circus Animals' Desertion by William Butler Yeats
A Coat by William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop by William Butler Yeats
Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
Lapis Lazuli (for Henry Clifton) by William Butler Yeats
Leda And The Swan by William Butler Yeats
Long-legged Fly by William Butler Yeats
No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats
Politics by William Butler Yeats
A Prayer For My Daughter by William Butler Yeats
Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Scholars by William Butler Yeats
The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans At Coole by William Butler Yeats
Babii Yar by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
To The Execution Ground by Yu Youze
Declaration; For Yu Luoke by Zhao Zhenkai
A Glance; Rembrandt's 'young Girl At An Open Half Door' by Zheng Min
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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Robert DiYanni is Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities. He has also taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, at New York University in the Graduate Rhetoric Program, and most recently in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University (1968) and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (1976). Robert DiYanni has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. His books include Literature: Reading, Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay; The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry; Women’s Voices; Like Season’d Timber: New Essays on George Herbert; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions (a text to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse, Voices and Visions). With Kraft Rompf, he edited The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, (1993) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (1995). With Pat Hoy, he edited Encounters: Readings for Inquiry and Argument (1997).

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