IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009

Poetry Magazine

Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.

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"It is the living who cannot"
By Hilda Morley

"Of": An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield

"Rise up, rise up"
By Hilda Morley

‘One morn I left him in his bed’
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

What is this about losing respect?
By Mark Rudman

A Ballad of Death
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Daughter of Eve
By Christina Rossetti

A Dirge First appeared in Poetry
By Thomas James Merton

A Dirge
By Felicia Dorothea Hemans

A Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe

A Lament
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai

A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead First appeared in Poetry
By Kenneth Koch

A Newly Discovered ‘Homeric’ Hymn
By Charles Olson

A Poet’s Death
By David Trinidad

A Private Matter
By Carol Muske-Dukes

A Secret Gratitude
By James Wright

A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Song
By Helen Maria Williams

A Song from the Italian from Limberham: or, the Kind Keeper
By John Dryden

A Thousand Birds
By Hilda Morley

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne

A Valediction: of Weeping
By John Donne

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ae Fond Kiss
By Robert Burns

After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
By Emily Dickinson

Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo

Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid
By Elizabeth I

Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
By Martín Espada

Alas, Kind Element!
By Léonie Adams

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Arbor First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Gregerson

An Epitaph on S.P.
By Ben Jonson

An Offering
By John Reibetanz

And Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Dylan Thomas

And Soul
By Eavan Boland

And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

And Wilt thou Leave me Thus?
By Thomas Wyatt

Anthem First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Hahn

Anthem for Doomed Youth
By Wilfred Owen

Anthology of Rapture
By James Scully

Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ashes of Life
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

At Night the States
By Alice Notley

At the Beach First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Alexander

At the Executed Murderer’s Grave First appeared in Poetry
By James Wright

At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
By Larry Levis

At the Grave of the Fourth Man
By Henri Coulette

At the Vietnam Memorial First appeared in Poetry
By George Bilgere

At Thomas Merton’s Grave First appeared in Poetry
By Spencer Reece

Autopsychography First appeared in Poetry
By Fernando Pessoa

Ave Atque Vale
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Avising the Bright Beams
By Thomas Wyatt

“Although the wind ...”
By Izumi Shikibu

“Find Work” First appeared in Poetry
By Rhina P. Espaillat

“In Kyoto ...”
By Bashō

“oh antic God”
By Lucille Clifton

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Beautiful Wreckage
By W.D. Ehrhart

Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet

Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom

Bereavement
By William Lisle Bowles

Between Hovers
By Michael Longley

Beyond Harm First appeared in Poetry
By Sharon Olds

Beyond the Stars First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Hanson Towne

Birthday Blues
By Mark Rudman

Bitter Suite
By Henri Coulette

Break, Break, Break
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler

Campo dei Fiori
By Czeslaw Milosz

Charles Sumner
By Charlotte L. Forten Grimké

Child of a Day
By Walter Savage Landor

Claribel
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Cold Blooded Creatures
By Elinor Wylie

Come Up from the Fields Father
By Walt Whitman

Comment in Passing
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Consolation
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

Cor Cordium
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Cortège
By Carl Phillips

Cottonmouth Country
By Louise Glück

Dead Boy
By John Crowe Ransom

Death of an Infant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Death, in a bull's pelt
By Miguel Hernández

December, 1919
By Claude McKay

Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams

Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Depending on the Wind
By James Galvin

Depression
By Henry Carlile

Dirge at the Edge of Woods
By Léonie Adams

Dirge Without Music
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas

Dockery and Son
By Philip Larkin

Dreams of My Father
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

During the Service First appeared in Poetry
By Carrie Grabo

During the War
By Philip Levine

Duties of the Spirit
By Patricia Fargnoli

Early June Meditation at Lakeside
By Colette Inez

Ebb
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Eclipsed
By Richard Meier

Elegy
By Miguel Hernández

Elegy Asking That It Be the Last
By Norman Dubie

Elegy on Toy Piano First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
By Alexander Pope

Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It First appeared in Poetry
By Larry Levis

Eloisa to Abelard
By Alexander Pope

Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
By John Crowe Ransom

Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson

Episode in a Library
By Zbigniew Herbert

Epitaph
By Katherine Philips

Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
By Ben Jonson

Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died Before
By Aphra Behn

Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke

Exile
By George Elliott Clarke

Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Faint Music
By Robert Hass

Father Son and Holy Ghost
By Audre Lorde

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
By William Shakespeare

Feeding Our Ancient Ancestors First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

Feel Me
By May Swenson

Felix Randal
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fifteen Epitaphs I
By Louise Imogen Guiney

First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald

Firstlings
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Follow Thy Fair Sun
By Thomas Campion

For Virginia Chavez
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

For Weeks After the Funeral
By Andrea Hollander Budy

Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From a Daybook First appeared in Poetry
By David St. John

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Gathering the Bones Together
By Gregory Orr

Golden State
By Frank Bidart

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne

Grafik
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Grief
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World
By Sherman Alexie

Grief Was to Go Out, Away
By Jean Garrigue

Handsel
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Hap
By Thomas Hardy

Her Garden
By Donald Hall

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
By John Donne

Home Burial
By Robert Frost

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Hospital parking lot, April First appeared in Poetry
By Laura Kasischke

Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Hyacinth
By Louise Glück

I felt a Funeral in my Brain
By Emily Dickinson

I Heard an Angel
By William Blake

I Saw a Chapel
By William Blake

I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves
By Colleen J. McElroy

I Want You to See
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

II-The Person That You Were Will Be Replaced
By Alice Notley

Imbiancato
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Impossible to Tell
By Robert Pinsky

In Black
By Joyce Sutphen

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII [all 133 poems]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 105
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 11
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 116
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 131
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 22
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 27
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 3
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 30
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 5
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 7
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 72
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 78
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 83
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 95
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 99
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: [Prelude]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memorium: Alphonse Campbell Fordham
By Mary Weston Fordham

In Memory of a Child
By Vachel Lindsay

In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the Mushroom Summer
By David Mason

In the Valley of Cauteretz
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Inhibited
By Louis Untermeyer

Insomnia
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

It was not death, for I stood up
By Emily Dickinson

Janet Waking
By John Crowe Ransom

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

John Lennon
By Mary Jo Salter

June Twenty, Three Days After
By Miller Williams

Kaddish
By Allen Ginsberg

Keats
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Knucks
By Carl Sandburg

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
By John Keats

Lament
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
By Federico García Lorca

Laodamia
By William Wordsworth

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Letter from the Mountains
By James K. Baxter

Little Elegy
By Elinor Wylie

Little Father
By Li-Young Lee

Lost First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Luke Havergal
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Lullaby First appeared in Poetry
By Amanda Jernigan

Lullaby of the Onion
By Miguel Hernández

Lycidas
By John Milton

Mariana
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Mariana in the South
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

Maud; A Monodrama (from Part II)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Meditation at Sundown
By Frederick Morgan

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold

Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
By Gary Snyder

Monody
By Herman Melville

Moonlight: Chickens On The Road
By Robert Wrigley

Morte d'Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mountain Dulcimer First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Morgan

Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
By Robert E. Hayden

My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness
By Thomas Wyatt

My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy

My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Natal Command
By Peter Sacks

Night Ferry
By Peter Sacks

Night Images
By Robert Fitzgerald

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

Nostalgia of the Lakefronts
By Donald Justice

Not to Be Dwelled On First appeared in Poetry
By Heather McHugh

Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost

O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman

Ode
By Henry Timrod

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd.
By Mark Twain

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
By William Wordsworth

from Odes: 10. Chorus of Furies
By Basil Bunting

Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso First appeared in Poetry
By Donald Revell

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)
By Thomas Moore

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster

On a Dead Child
By Robert Bridges

On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born
By Charles Lamb

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On the Death of Richard West
By Thomas Gray

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
By William Wordsworth

On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
By William Lisle Bowles

On The Western Front
By Alfred Noyes

Once
By Henri Coulette

Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our Family Tree
By Joseph Cephas Holly

Our Willie
By Henry Timrod

Peace
By Robert Wrigley

Philomela
By Matthew Arnold

Photograph from September 11
By Wisława Szymborska

Piano
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Pomegranates
By Hilda Morley

Posthumous First appeared in Poetry
By Jean Nordhaus

Postpartum Blues First appeared in Poetry
By Elton Glaser

Praise
By Hilda Morley

Prayer for My Father First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Bly

Rebus
By Jane Hirshfield

Remember
By Christina Rossetti

Retrospect
By Emily Dickinson

Reuben Bright
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Romanticism
By David Baker

Rondeau Redoublé (and Scarcely Worth the Trouble, at That)
By Dorothy Parker

Rose Aylmer
By Walter Savage Landor

Sad and Alone First appeared in Poetry
By Maurice Manning

Sadness
By Donald Justice

Sailing Home from Rapallo
By Robert Lowell

Sarah Brown
By Edgar Lee Masters

Scree First appeared in Poetry
By Heidy Steidlmayer

Self-Pity
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Separation First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Shapes
By Ruth Stone

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
By William Wordsworth

Shell First appeared in Poetry
By Harriet Brown

Sherbourne Morning
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Since ye so Please
By Thomas Wyatt

Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Small Elegy
By Reginald Gibbons

So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Something Childish, but Very Natural
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Son of Fog First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring
By John Dryden

Song: I once rejoiced, sweet evening gale...
By Amelia Opie

Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
By William Blake

Song: Memory, hither come
By William Blake

Song: My silks and fine array
By William Blake

Song: Rarely, rarely, comest thou
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sonnet LXXI: No Longer Mourn for me when I am Dead
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint
By John Milton

Sonnet XXX: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet: Grief Dies
By Henry Timrod

Sonnets from the Portuguese 35: If I Leave all for thee
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sorrow
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

sorrow song
By Lucille Clifton

Speed the Parting-
By Elinor Wylie

Spring and Fall
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Stanzas
By Emily Jane Brontë

Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Stationed First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Still Water First appeared in Poetry
By Patricia Fargnoli

Success is counted sweetest (112)
By Emily Dickinson

Sunday Morning First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

Survival
By Primus St. John

Sweetness First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dunn

Sylvester’s Dying Bed First appeared in Poetry
By Langston Hughes

Tell the Bees First appeared in Poetry
By Sarah Lindsay

Telling the Bees
By Lizette Woodworth Reese

Terms First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin Stein

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Answering Machine First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Ashes
By Karin Gottshall

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
By Robert Herrick

The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke

The Body
By Frederick Morgan

The Bones of My Father
By Etheridge Knight

The Book of Phillip Sparrow
By John Skelton

The Book of the Deer, the Bear and the Elk
By Henry Carlile

The Burial of the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall

The Bustle in a House (1108)
By Emily Dickinson

The Castaway
By William Cowper

The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández

The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Complaint of Lisa
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Cross of Snow
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Day is Done
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Debt
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Dowser’s Ear First appeared in Poetry
By Wilmer Mills

The Dust Covers My Shoes
By Hilda Morley

The Dying Child
By John Clare

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Faithful
By Jane Cooper

The Fire of Drift-wood
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Gaffe First appeared in Poetry
By C. K. Williams

The Gate
By Marie Howe

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The heart asks pleasure first
By Emily Dickinson

The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Inheritance
By Stanley Moss

The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski

The Jester First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Widdemer

The Kingfisher
By Amy Clampitt

The Lamp of Poor Souls
By Marjorie Pickthall

The Last Laugh
By Wilfred Owen

The Lesson
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Little White Hearse
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour
By Thomas Wyatt

The Lost Pilot
By James Tate

The Lowering
By May Swenson

The Maid’s Lament
By Walter Savage Landor

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Miscarriage First appeared in Poetry
By Amit Majmudar

The Mower
By Philip Larkin

The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell

The Nails
By W. S. Merwin

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
By Andrew Marvell

The Old Familiar Faces
By Charles Lamb

The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Past
By Henry Timrod

The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry

The Penitent
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Priest
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Prince's Progress
By Christina Rossetti

The Princess: As thro' the Land
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück

The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Redbreast
By Charlotte Richardson

The Revisionist Dream
By Maxine W. Kumin

The Role of Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang

The Second Slaughter First appeared in Poetry
By Lucia Perillo

The Shadow on the Stone
By Thomas Hardy

The Shrubbery
By William Cowper

The Step Mother
By Susanna Moodie

from The Task, Book I: The Sofa
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Thorn
By William Wordsworth

The Triple Fool
By John Donne

The Triumph of Time
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Tropics in New York
By Claude McKay

The Untrustworthy Speaker
By Louise Glück

The Widow’s Lament in Springtime First appeared in Poetry
By William Carlos Williams

The Widows’ House
By Sarah Orne Jewett

The Wind Chimes
By Shirley Buettner

The Woodspurge
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Wound
By Ruth Stone

The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

There was a Boy
By William Wordsworth

They Flee From Me
By Thomas Wyatt

This Day after Yesterday
By Philip Booth

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

To a Child in Heaven
By Richard Emil Braun

To a Dead Lover First appeared in Poetry
By Louise Bogan

To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, Aged One Year
By Phillis Wheatley

To a Highland Girl
By William Wordsworth

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To J. S.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To Mary
By William Cowper

To My Daughter On Being Separated from Her on Her Marriage
By Anne Hunter

To the Consolations of Philosophy First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
By John Dryden

To Theodore
By George Marion McClellan

To You First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin A. González

To. W. P.
By George Santayana

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Touch First appeared in Poetry
By Trevor West Knapp

Trillium
By Louise Glück

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Uncle's First Rabbit
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Unstable Dream
By Thomas Wyatt

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor

Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666
By Anne Bradstreet

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
By Walt Whitman

Visitation
By Jeffrey Harrison

from War is Kind ["Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind"]
By Stephen Crane

War Widow
By Chris Abani

Warm Summer Sun
By Mark Twain

Ways of Talking First appeared in Poetry
By Ha Jin

We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa

We Wear the Mask
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

What Grieving Was
By Lynn Emanuel

What I Learned From My Mother
By Julia Kasdorf

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay

When I Am Asked First appeared in Poetry
By Lisel Mueller

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman

White Apples
By Donald Hall

Why Are Your Poems So Dark? First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

Winter
By Marie Ponsot

Words for a Young Widow in Maine
By Norman Williams

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Written on a Wall at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
By Robert Burns

Year’s End
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

You Goatherd Gods
By Philip Sidney

You Got a Song, Man
By Martín Espada

You Were You Are Elegy First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Jo Bang

Your Clothes First appeared in Poetry
By Judith Kroll

Yourself
By Jones Very

Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge