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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A Certain Village
By Theodore Weiss

A Summer Shower
By Henry Timrod

A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Alameda Street
By Douglas Kearney

Alas, Kind Element!
By Léonie Adams

All Summer Long
By Carol Frost

Amor Mundi
By Christina Rossetti

Ardors
By Carol Frost

As imperceptibly as grief
By Emily Dickinson

At Noon
By Reginald Gibbons

At the Sea-Side
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Au Vieux Jardin First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Aldington

Bath
By Amy Lowell

Bed in Summer
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Better Days First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright

Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler

Butter First appeared in Poetry
By Connie Wanek

Colophon
By Dean Young

Color
By Christina Rossetti

Consecration First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Stewart

Country Summer
By Léonie Adams

Courtesy
By David Ferry

Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
By Delmore Schwartz

Dear One Absent This Long While
By Lisa Olstein

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

Driving through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings
By Robert Bly

Ephemera
By Robin Becker

Fable of the Ant and the Word First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

Falling From Us, Vanishings
By Alan Williamson

Fancy
By John Keats

Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor

Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost

For once, then Something
By Robert Frost

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Harvest Gathering
By Phoebe Cary

He Said Turn Here
By Dean Young

I Hid my Love
By John Clare

I’uni Kwi Athi? Hiatho.
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In Harvest
By Sophie Jewett

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 the Tunnel of Summers
By Anne Stevenson

Jet
By Tony Hoagland

Joy in the Woods
By Claude McKay

July
By Kazim Ali

July in Washington
By Robert Lowell

Lake Echo, Dear
By C. D. Wright

Last August Hours Before the Year 2000
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Long Island Sound
By Emma Lazarus

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
By Gary Snyder

Midsummer First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Fitzgerald

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy

Morningside Heights, July
By William Matthews

Moths First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer O'Grady

My Brother, the Artist, at Seven First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Levine

Near Helikon
By Trumbull Stickney

North of Childhood
By Jonathan Galassi

Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost

Obbligato First appeared in Poetry
By Bruce Smith

On Summer
By George Moses Horton

On the Screened Porch First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Penumbra
By Amy Lowell

Penumbrae
By John Updike

Permanent Press First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Friman

Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
By Jack Spicer

Pura Vida First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Ralegh’s Prizes
By Robert Pinsky

Recollection of the Wood
By Léonie Adams

Repose of Rivers
By Hart Crane

Rhode Island
By William Meredith

Robin Hood
By John Keats

September Midnight First appeared in Poetry
By Sara Teasdale

So This Is Nebraska
By Ted Kooser

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

Sonnet XCVII: How like a Winter hath my Absence been
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
By William Shakespeare

Sonnets for Five Seasons
By Anne Stevenson

Sotto Voce First appeared in Poetry
By C. Dale Young

Spring A. D.
By George Seferis

Subway Wind
By Claude McKay

Sumer is i-cumin in
By Anonymous

Summer
By Conrad Aiken

Summer
By John Clare

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Summer Evening
By Eamon Grennan

Summer Images
By John Clare

Summer near the River
By Carolyn Kizer

The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees

The Clote (Water-Lily)
By William Barnes

The Corn Baby First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Wunderlich

The Cuckoo Song
By Anonymous

The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara

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

The End of Summer
By Rachel Hadas

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Four Seasons
By Henry Carlile

The Icehouse in Summer
By Howard Nemerov

The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song

The King and Queen of Hearts
By Charles Lamb

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Long Voyage First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

The Mower to the Glow-Worms
By Andrew Marvell

The Old Swimmin' Hole
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost

from The Return
By Charles Tomlinson

The Summer Bower
By Henry Timrod

The Summer Image
By Léonie Adams

The Swing
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth

Three Songs at the End of Summer First appeared in Poetry
By Jane Kenyon

To the Light of September First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Tokens
By William Barnes

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Tropics
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Two Views of Buson
By Robert Hass

Up at a Villa—Down in the City
By Robert Browning

Warm Summer Sun
By Mark Twain

What the Winds Bring
By Edmund Clarence Stedman

With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath
By Linda Gregerson

Zun-zet
By William Barnes