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October 17, 1989 0393959074 978-0393959079 Second Edition

This Second Edition is a thorough, thoughtful revision of the acclaimed Modern Poems.

The editors have undertaken two major changes to the text, making the anthology a more useful resource in teaching the work of individual poets. Whereas the previous edition sometimes offered only a single poem by a given poet, the Second Edition presents at least three poems by each poet, with the few exceptions being poets with significantly long poems. The editors have also expanded the author headnotes to set forth one or two critical points that invite students into the poems.

Other noteworthy changes include the addition of 38 new poets representing a diversity of traditions, from canonical poets like Lewis Carroll to contemporary ones like Rita Dove, and more careful attention paid to ethnic poetry and poetry by women.

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Corsons Inlet by Archie Randolph Ammons
Easter Morning by Archie Randolph Ammons
Motion's Holdings by Archie Randolph Ammons
Singling & Doubling Together by Archie Randolph Ammons
Hard Times by John Ashbery
The Instruction Manual by John Ashbery
Knocking Around by John Ashbery
Paradoxes And Oxymorons by John Ashbery
The Tennis Court Oath by John Ashbery
The Animals In That Country by Margaret Atwood
Daguerreotype Taken In Old Age by Margaret Atwood
Footnote To The Amnesty Report On Torture by Margaret Atwood
Spelling by Margaret Atwood
This Is A Photograph Of Me by Margaret Atwood
Variations On The Word Love by Margaret Atwood
Adolescence by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Cutty Wren by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of Sigmund Freud by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Memory Of W.b. Yeats by Wystan Hugh Auden
In Praise Of Limestone by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Letter by Wystan Hugh Auden
Lullaby by Wystan Hugh Auden
A Lullaby by Wystan Hugh Auden
Mundus Et Infans by Wystan Hugh Auden
Musee Des Beaux Arts by Wystan Hugh Auden
Our Hunting Fathers Told The Story by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Shield Of Achilles by Wystan Hugh Auden
Song by Wystan Hugh Auden
Their Lonely Betters by Wystan Hugh Auden
The Wanderer by Wystan Hugh Auden
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Legacy (for Blues People) by Amiri Baraka
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Political Poem by Amiri Baraka
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The Dream Songs: 149 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 312 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 75 by John Berryman
The Dream Songs: 76. Henry's Confession by John Berryman
The Arrest Of Oscar Wilde At The Cadogan Hotel by John Betjeman
The Cottage Hospital by John Betjeman
False Security by John Betjeman
An Incident In The Early Life Of Ebenezer Jones, Poet, 1828 by John Betjeman
A Subaltern's Love-song by John Betjeman
The Bear On The Delhi Road by Earl (earle) Birney
The Gray Woods Exploding by Earl (earle) Birney
The Armadillo; For Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
In The Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
The Man-moth by Elizabeth Bishop
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Over 2000 Illustrations And A Complete Concordance by Elizabeth Bishop
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Abandoning Your Car In A Snowstorm: Rosslyn, Virginia by Michael Blumenthal
Back From Word-processing Course, I Say To My Old Typewriter by Michael Blumenthal
Inventors by Michael Blumenthal
Evolution From The Fish by Robert Bly
Johnson's Cabinet Watched By Ants by Robert Bly
My Father's Wedding: 1924 by Robert Bly
The Dream by Louise Bogan
Medusa by Louise Bogan
The Meeting by Louise Bogan
Women by Louise Bogan
The Blackstone Rangers: 1. As Seen By Disciplines by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Boy Breaking Glass by Gwendolyn Brooks
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A Song In The Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks
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A Cure At Porlock by Amy Clampitt
Gooseberry Fool by Amy Clampitt
At Melville's Tomb by Harold Hart Crane
The Broken Tower by Harold Hart Crane
Chaplinesque by Harold Hart Crane
Royal Palm; For Grace Hart Crane by Harold Hart Crane
To Brooklyn Bridge by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 1 by Harold Hart Crane
The Faces by Robert Creeley
I Keep To Myself Such Measures by Robert Creeley
Self-portrait by Robert Creeley
A Wicker Basket by Robert Creeley
The Window by Robert Creeley
Heritage by Countee Cullen
Incident by Countee Cullen
Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen
1x1 (one Times One): 13 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 14 by Edward Estlin Cummings
50 Poems: 34 by Edward Estlin Cummings
73 Poems: 46 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 10 by Edward Estlin Cummings
95 Poems: 82 by Edward Estlin Cummings
La Guerre: 2 by Edward Estlin Cummings
One: 28 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Song: 4 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Sonnet - Realities: 1 by Edward Estlin Cummings
W (viva): 30 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Buckdancer's Choice by James Dickey
The Hospital Window by James Dickey
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson
The Brain - Is Wider Than The Sky by Emily Dickinson
The Chariot by Emily Dickinson
Dying by Emily Dickinson
I Never Lost As Much But Twice by Emily Dickinson
In Winter, In My Room by Emily Dickinson
Parting by Emily Dickinson
The Snake by Emily Dickinson
There's A Certain Slant Of Light by Emily Dickinson
This Is My Letter To The World by Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Long Tale by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The Walrus And The Carpenter, Fr. Alice In Wonderland by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The White Knight's Song by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Fragment Sixty-eight by Hilda Doolittle
Helen by Hilda Doolittle
Oread by Hilda Doolittle
Sea Rose by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 36 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 40 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 41 by Hilda Doolittle
Aristocrats by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Simplify Me When I'm Dead by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Vergissmeinnicht by Keith Castellaine Douglas
Banneker by Rita Dove
The Event by Rita Dove
The Great Palaces Of Versailles by Rita Dove
The House Slave by Rita Dove
Parsley by Rita Dove
Weathering Out by Rita Dove
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn In The Urals by Norman Dubie
Elegy For Wright & Hugo by Norman Dubie
Elizabeth's War With The Christmas Bear: 1601 by Norman Dubie
Lamentations by Norman Dubie
Childhood's Retreat by Robert Duncan
A Little Language by Robert Duncan
Poetry, A Natural Thing by Robert Duncan
Cape Ann by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Four Quartets: Little Gidding (1-5 Complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Gerontion by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by Thomas Stearns Eliot
New Hampshire by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sweeney Among The Nightingales by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Waste Land (1-5, Complete) by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Whispers Of Immortality by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Ignorance Of Death by William Empson
Legal Fiction by William Empson
Missing Dates by William Empson
Villanelle by William Empson
Francine's Room by Louise Erdrich
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich
That Pull From The Left by Louise Erdrich
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Runoff by William Everson
Tendril In The Mesh, Sels. by William Everson
Year's End by William Everson
Dead Soldiers by James Fenton
A German Requiem by James Fenton
God, A Poem by James Fenton
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After Apple Picking by Robert Frost
The Bearer Of Evil Tidings by Robert Frost
Birches by Robert Frost
Desert Places by Robert Frost
Design by Robert Frost
Directive by Robert Frost
Fire And Ice by Robert Frost
The Gift Outright by Robert Frost
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
An Old Man's Winter Night by Robert Frost
The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
Provide, Provide by Robert Frost
Range-finding by Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
The Subverted Flower by Robert Frost
To Earthward by Robert Frost
Two Tramps In Mud Time by Robert Frost
Two Witches: 1. The Witch Of Coos by Robert Frost
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Mugging by Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg
To Aunt Rose by Allen Ginsberg
The Blue-fly by Robert Ranke Graves
The Cool Web by Robert Ranke Graves
Devil's Advice To Story-tellers by Robert Ranke Graves
Down, Wanton, Down! by Robert Ranke Graves
Ogres And Pygmies by Robert Ranke Graves
The Persian Version by Robert Ranke Graves
To Juan At The Winter Solstice by Robert Ranke Graves
Ulysses by Robert Ranke Graves
Autobiography by Thomson William Gunn
The Byrnies by Thomson William Gunn
Donahue's Sister by Thomson William Gunn
Moly by Thomson William Gunn
My Sad Captains by Thomson William Gunn
Canzone by Marilyn Hacker
Coda, Sels. by Marilyn Hacker
Mythology by Marilyn Hacker
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The Convergence Of The Twain; Lines On Loss Of The Titanic by Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy
Hap by Thomas Hardy
The Harbour Bridge by Thomas Hardy
He Never Expected Much by Thomas Hardy
I Found Her Out There by Thomas Hardy
In Time Of 'the Breaking Of Nations' by Thomas Hardy
Lines To A Movement In Mozart's E-flat Symphony by Thomas Hardy
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
The Subalterns by Thomas Hardy
The Voice by Thomas Hardy
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Debridement by Michael S. Harper
Book Ends by Tony Harrison
Heredity by Tony Harrison
Lines To My Grandfather by Tony Harrison
Marked With D. by Tony Harrison
Me Tarzan by Tony Harrison
On Not Being Milton by Tony Harrison
Self Justification by Tony Harrison
Turns by Tony Harrison
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Bone-flower Elegy by Robert Earl Hayden
A Letter From Phillis Wheatley by Robert Earl Hayden
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The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
The Otter by Seamus Heaney
Punishment by Seamus Heaney
Requiem For The Croppies by Seamus Heaney
The Strand At Lough Beg by Seamus Heaney
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The Imaginative Life by Geoffrey Hill
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September Song by Geoffrey Hill
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The Lingam And The Yoni by Alec Derwent Hope
Observation Car by Alec Derwent Hope
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Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Habit Of Perfection by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Heaven-haven; A Nun Takes The Veil by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sonnet 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
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Eight O'clock by Alfred Edward Housman
Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries by Alfred Edward Housman
Hell Gate by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 19. To An Athlete Dying Young by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 2 by Alfred Edward Housman
A Shropshire Lad: 62 by Alfred Edward Housman
Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by Alfred Edward Housman
Crow's First Lesson by Edward James Hughes
Orf by Edward James Hughes
An Otter by Edward James Hughes
Roe Deer by Edward James Hughes
The Thought-fox by Edward James Hughes
Wodwo by Edward James Hughes
Brass Spittoons by James Langston Hughes
Madam's Past History by James Langston Hughes
Morning After by James Langston Hughes
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers by James Langston Hughes
Theme For English B by James Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues by James Langston Hughes
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The Freaks At Spurgin Road Field by Richard Hugo
The Lady In Kicking Horse Reservoir by Richard Hugo
Salt Water Story by Richard Hugo
The Way A Ghost Dissolves by Richard Hugo
The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
Eighth Air Force by Randall Jarrell
A Girl In A Library by Randall Jarrell
Next Day by Randall Jarrell
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The Deer Lay Down Their Bones by Robinson Jeffers
Fawn's Foster-mother by Robinson Jeffers
Hurt Hawks by Robinson Jeffers
New Mexican Mountain by Robinson Jeffers
The Purse-seine by Robinson Jeffers
Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers
Shiva by Robinson Jeffers
Vulture by Robinson Jeffers
Deliza Spend The Day In The City by June Jordan
July 4, 1984: For Buck by June Jordan
Onesided Dialog by June Jordan
Second Poem From Nicaragua Libre: War Zone by June Jordan
You Came With Shells by June Jordan
Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh
Come Dance With Kitty Stobling by Patrick Kavanagh
In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh
Inniskeen Road: July Evening by Patrick Kavanagh
Tinker's Wife by Patrick Kavanagh
Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye ... Students by Galway Kinnell
Flower Herding On Mount Monadnock by Galway Kinnell
The Seekonk Woods by Galway Kinnell
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
The Derelict by Rudyard Kipling
The Nurses by Rudyard Kipling
The Prodigal Son by Rudyard Kipling
Recessional by Rudyard Kipling
The Runes On Weland's Sword by Rudyard Kipling
Shillin' A Day by Rudyard Kipling
A Song To Mithras by Rudyard Kipling
The Storm Cone by Rudyard Kipling
The Way Through The Woods by Rudyard Kipling
The Widow At Windsor by Rudyard Kipling
Portrait Of The Poet As Landscape by Abraham Moses Klein
Seeing The Bones by Maxine W. Kumin
Spree by Maxine W. Kumin
Video Cuisine by Maxine W. Kumin
River Road by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
The Wellfleet Whale by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
Church Going by Philip Larkin
The Explosion by Philip Larkin
High Windows by Philip Larkin
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Sad Steps by Philip Larkin
Sunny Prestatyn by Philip Larkin
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
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The Bride by David Herbert Lawrence
Gloire De Dijon by David Herbert Lawrence
Love On The Farm by David Herbert Lawrence
Middle Of The World by David Herbert Lawrence
Piano by David Herbert Lawrence
Red Geranium And Godly Mignonette by David Herbert Lawrence
The Ship Of Death by David Herbert Lawrence
Snake by David Herbert Lawrence
Whales Weep Not by David Herbert Lawrence
When I Read Shakespeare by David Herbert Lawrence
The Wild Common by David Herbert Lawrence
When You Got Up This Morning The Sun by Robert Lax
The Birth Of Tragedy by Irving Layton
A Tall Man Executes A Jig by Irving Layton
Caedmon by Denise Levertov
The Dog Of Art by Denise Levertov
Goodbye To Tolerance by Denise Levertov
Matins: 1 by Denise Levertov
Prisoners by Denise Levertov
Song For Ishtar by Denise Levertov
Genius by Philip Levine
The Life Ahead by Philip Levine
They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine
To A Child Trapped In A Barber Shop by Philip Levine
The River-merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
Beams by Audre Lorde
Coal by Audre Lorde
Love Poem by Audre Lorde
Power by Audre Lorde
The Women Of Dan Dance With Swords In Their Hands ... by Audre Lorde
The Biglow Papers. 2d Series: Rev. H. Wilbur's Festina Lente by James Russell Lowell
After The Convention by Robert Lowell
Dolphin by Robert Lowell
Epilogue by Robert Lowell
Ezra Pound by Robert Lowell
For The Union Dead by Robert Lowell
Memories Of West Street And Lepke by Robert Lowell
The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket by Robert Lowell
Robert Frost by Robert Lowell
Skunk Hour; For Elizabeth Bishop by Robert Lowell
'to Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage' by Robert Lowell
Bagpipe Music by Frederick Louis Macneice
Brother Fire by Frederick Louis Macneice
The Libertine by Frederick Louis Macneice
Snow by Frederick Louis Macneice
Variation On Heraclitus by Frederick Louis Macneice
Spoon River Anthology: Anne Rutledge by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Elsa Wertman by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Hamilton Greene by Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology: Lucinda Matlock by Edgar Lee Masters
America by Claude Mckay
The Harlem Dancer by Claude Mckay
If We Must Die by Claude Mckay
The Tropics In New York by Claude Mckay
Bachelor by William Meredith
Crossing Over by William Meredith
Dying Away by William Meredith
On Falling Asleep By Firelight by William Meredith
The Broken Home by James Ingram Merrill
The Chaning Light At Sandover, Sels. by James Ingram Merrill
Empty Perfection, As I Take You In by James Ingram Merrill
Interlude by James Ingram Merrill
The Pier: Under Pisces by James Ingram Merrill
The Victor Dog by James Ingram Merrill
The Burnt Child by William Stanley Merwin
The Drunk In The Furnace by William Stanley Merwin
Footprints On The Glacier by William Stanley Merwin
Home For Thanksgiving by William Stanley Merwin
Leviathan by William Stanley Merwin
Belief by Josephine Miles
The Entrepreneur Chicken Shed His Tail Feathers Surplus by Josephine Miles
Fields Of Learning by Josephine Miles
Preliminary To Classroom Lecture by Josephine Miles
Reason by Josephine Miles
First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The Fish by Marianne Moore
A Grave by Marianne Moore
The Pangolin by Marianne Moore
Poetry (further Revised) by Marianne Moore
What Are Years? by Marianne Moore
Ballad Of Hector In Hades by Edwin Muir
The Horses by Edwin Muir
One Foot In Eden by Edwin Muir
The Big House by Paul Muldoon
Brock by Paul Muldoon
Making The Move by Paul Muldoon
The Right Arm by Paul Muldoon
The Weepies by Paul Muldoon
I Only Am Escaped Alone To Tell Thee by Howard Nemerov
More Joy In Heaven by Howard Nemerov
Reading Pornography In Old Age by Howard Nemerov
Wolves In The Zoo by Howard Nemerov
The Day Lady Died by Frank O'hara
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Why I Am Not A Painter by Frank O'hara
Maximus, To Gloucester: Letter 2 by Charles Olson
Off-shore, By Islands Hidden In The Blood by Charles Olson
Burning Hills by Michael Ondaatje
Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje
Inner Tube by Michael Ondaatje
Letters & Other Worlds by Michael Ondaatje
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Disabled by Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Greater Love by Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
Images Of Angels by Patricia Kathleen Page
Kaleidoscope by Patricia Kathleen Page
Photos Of A Salt Mine by Patricia Kathleen Page
The Stenographers by Patricia Kathleen Page
Doctor Frolic by Robert Pinsky
The Figured Wheel by Robert Pinsky
The Living by Robert Pinsky
The Questions by Robert Pinsky
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
Canto 1 by Ezra Pound
Canto 81 (the Pisan Cantos) by Ezra Pound
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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
Lament For The Dorsets by Alfred Wellington Purdy
The Madwoman On The Train by Alfred Wellington Purdy
Spinning by Alfred Wellington Purdy
Winter Walking by Alfred Wellington Purdy
An Old Malediction by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
An Attempt At Jealousy by Craig Raine
A Martian Sends A Postcard Home by Craig Raine
Nature Study by Craig Raine
Ballad Of Birmingham by Dudley Randall
Booker T. And W.e.b. by Dudley Randall
A Poet Is Not A Jukebox by Dudley Randall
Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter by John Crowe Ransom
Captain Carpenter by John Crowe Ransom
Dead Boy by John Crowe Ransom
The Equilibrists by John Crowe Ransom
Here Lies A Lady by John Crowe Ransom
Piazza Piece by John Crowe Ransom
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Orion by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Snapshots Of A Daughter-in-law by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: 11 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: 2 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: 20 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: 21 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Yom Kippur 1984 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
A Dream Of Husbands by Alberto Alvaro Rios
Madre Sofia by Alberto Alvaro Rios
The Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving by Alberto Alvaro Rios
The Dark Hills by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson
For A Dead Lady by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Luke Havergal by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Sheaves by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Supremacy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Cuttings by Theodore Roethke
Dolor by Theodore Roethke
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, And Frau Schwartze by Theodore Roethke
I Knew A Woman by Theodore Roethke
In A Dark Time by Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
North American Sequence: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
Wish For A Young Wife by Theodore Roethke
Break Of Day In The Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg
Louse Hunting by Isaac Rosenberg
The Mirror by Isaac Rosenberg
Returning, We Hear The Larks by Isaac Rosenberg
Chicago by Carl Sandburg
Cool Tombs by Carl Sandburg
Gargoyle by Carl Sandburg
Grass by Carl Sandburg
Blighters by Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
The General by Siegfried Sassoon
On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon
All My Pretty Ones by Anne Sexton
The Starry Night by Anne Sexton
The Truth The Dead Know by Anne Sexton
In Cold Storm Light by Leslie Marmon Silko
It Was A Long Time Before by Leslie Marmon Silko
Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story; For Simon Ortiz, July 1973 by Leslie Marmon Silko
Hole, Where Once In Passion We Swam by Dave Smith
The Roundhouse Voices by Dave Smith
Snapshot Of A Crab-picker Among Barrels Spilling Over by Dave Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Florence Margaret Smith
Thoughts About The Person From Porlock by Florence Margaret Smith
To Carry The Child by Florence Margaret Smith
Was He Married? by Florence Margaret Smith
Axe Handles by Gary Snyder
Four Poems For Robin: A Spring Night In Shokoku-ji by Gary Snyder
Four Poems For Robin: An Autumn Morning In Skokoku-ji by Gary Snyder
Four Poems For Robin: December At Yase by Gary Snyder
Four Poems For Robin: Siwashing It Out .. In Sisulaw Forest by Gary Snyder
Geese Gone Beyond by Gary Snyder
Getting In The Wood by Gary Snyder
The Grand Entry by Gary Snyder
Old Woman Nature by Gary Snyder
Riprap by Gary Snyder
Beauty And Sadness by Cathy Song
Heaven by Cathy Song
Leaving by Cathy Song
Lost Sister by Cathy Song
Making Money: Drought Year In Minkler, California by Gary Soto
The Map by Gary Soto
Oranges by Gary Soto
The Tale Of Sunlight by Gary Soto
Arguing Against Contention That Art Comes From Discontent by William Edgar Stafford
At The Bomb Testing Site by William Edgar Stafford
Monuments For A Friendly Girl At A Tenth Grade Party by William Edgar Stafford
Report To Crazy Horse by William Edgar Stafford
Traveling Through The Dark by William Edgar Stafford
The Almond Tree by Jon Stallworthy
A Letter From Berlin by Jon Stallworthy
A Poem About Poems About Vietnam by Jon Stallworthy
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Anecdote Of The Jar by Wallace Stevens
Bantams In Pine-woods by Wallace Stevens
The Emperor Of Ice-cream by Wallace Stevens
Farewell To Florida by Wallace Stevens
The Idea Of Order At Key West by Wallace Stevens
The Man On The Dump by Wallace Stevens
Of Modern Poetry by Wallace Stevens
Peter Quince At The Clavier by Wallace Stevens
The Plain Sense Of Things by Wallace Stevens
A Quiet Normal Life by Wallace Stevens
A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts by Wallace Stevens
The Sense Of The Sleight-of-hand Man by Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
To An Old Philosopher In Rome by Wallace Stevens
The Blue Booby by James Tate
The Lost Pilot by James Tate
Poem To Some Of My Recent Poems by James Tate
A Wedding by James Tate
The Wheelchair Butterfly by James Tate
Ode To The Confederate Dead by John Orley Allen Tate
The Swimmers by John Orley Allen Tate
To The Lacedemonians by John Orley Allen Tate
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 Hand That Signed The Paper Felled A City by Dylan Thomas
The Hunchback In The Park by Dylan Thomas
A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas
The Gallows by Philip Edward Thomas
The Green Roads by Philip Edward Thomas
The Gypsy by Philip Edward Thomas
October by Philip Edward Thomas
The Owl by Philip Edward Thomas
Sonnet: 2. February Afternoon by Philip Edward Thomas
Belly Dancer by Diane Wakoski
Thanking My Mother For Piano Lessons by Diane Wakoski
Valentine For Ben Franklin Who Drives A Truck In California by Diane Wakoski
Codicil by Derek Walcott
A Far Cry From Africa by Derek Walcott
The Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott
Frederiksted, Dusk by Derek Walcott
Port Of Spain by Derek Walcott
Bearded Oaks by Robert Penn Warren
Island Of Summer: 4. Riddle In The Garden by Robert Penn Warren
Mexico Is A Foreign Country: 5 by Robert Penn Warren
Or Else: 12. Flaubert In Egypt by Robert Penn Warren
Or Else: 19. There's A Grandfather's Clock In The Hall by Robert Penn Warren
Cavalry Crossing A Ford by Walt Whitman
Poem Of The Propositions Of Nakedness by Walt Whitman
A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak Gray And Dim by Walt Whitman
Song Of Myself: 1 by Walt Whitman
To A Locomotive In Winter by Walt Whitman
When I Heard At The Close Of The Day by Walt Whitman
Ceremony by Richard Wilbur
The Death Of A Toad by Richard Wilbur
Grasse: The Olive Trees by Richard Wilbur
Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World by Richard Wilbur
Pangloss's Song: A Comic-opera Lyric by Richard Wilbur
The Pardon by Richard Wilbur
Playboy by Richard Wilbur
The Writer by Richard Wilbur
Best Minds Destroyed by William Carlos Williams
Burning The Christmas Greens by William Carlos Williams
The Dance (1) by William Carlos Williams
The Delineaments Of The Giants by William Carlos Williams
Delineaments Of The Giants by William Carlos Williams
The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams
Haymaking by William Carlos Williams
The Ivy Crown by William Carlos Williams
Pictures From Brueghel: 2. Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
Portrait Of A Lady by William Carlos Williams
Raleigh Was Right (first Version) by William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
Spring And All by William Carlos Williams
Sunday In The Park With Soutien-george by William Carlos Williams
This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
Tract by William Carlos Williams
The Widow's Lament In Springtime by William Carlos Williams
The Yachts by William Carlos Williams
The Young Housewife by William Carlos Williams
John Sutter by Yvor Winters
Sir Gawaine And The Green Knight by Yvor Winters
Time And The Garden by Yvor Winters
Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright
In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse..condemned by James Wright
The Journey by James Wright
Minneapolis Poem by James Wright
A Secret Gratitude by James Wright
Australia 1970 by Judith Wright
The Beanstalk, Meditated Later by Judith Wright
Bora Ring by Judith Wright
'dove-love' by Judith Wright
Flood Year by Judith Wright
Adam's Curse by William Butler Yeats
Among School Children by William Butler Yeats
Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Cap And Bells by William Butler Yeats
The Circus Animals' Desertion by William Butler Yeats
A Coat by William Butler Yeats
Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931 by William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop by William Butler Yeats
Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats
Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats
Friends 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
The Magi by William Butler Yeats
The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland by William Butler Yeats
Michael Robartes Bids His Beloved Be At Peace by William Butler Yeats
No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats
On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Joined Agitation .. by William Butler Yeats
A Prayer For My Daughter by William Butler Yeats
Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
September 1913 by William Butler Yeats
The Song Of The Happy Shepherd by William Butler Yeats
To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time by William Butler Yeats
Under Ben Bulben by William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
Who Goes With Fergus? by William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans At Coole by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Richard Ellmann was Goldsmiths’ Professor at Oxford University and Woodruff Professor at Emory University. He achieved world fame for his biography of Joyce and wrote many scholarly and critical works, including two on Yeats.

Robert O’Clair was professor of English at Manhattanville College.

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  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Second Edition edition (October 17, 1989)
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