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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“Birds small enough...” First appeared in Poetry
By Donald Revell

(“We both live in the same village...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

A Color of the Sky
By Tony Hoagland

A Few Days Ago
By Barbara Howes

A Forsaken Garden
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A January Dandelion
By George Marion McClellan

A Late History
By Weldon Kees

A Literalist
By Robin Blaser

A Poison Tree
By William Blake

A Quilled Quilt, a Needle Bed
By Brad Leithauser

A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns

A Toast First appeared in Poetry
By Peter Balakian

Abundance
By John Ciardi

Adam After the Ice Storm
By John Engels

After Apple Picking
By Robert Frost

After the Winter
By Claude McKay

Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake

Alas, Kind Element!
By Léonie Adams

Almond Blossom
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

An Arbor First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Gregerson

An Introduction to My Anthology
By Marvin Bell

Another Story with a Burning Barn in It
By Lisa Olstein

Aperture First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Tonge

Ararat First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Doty

Ardors
By Carol Frost

At Home from Church
By Sarah Orne Jewett

Authority
By W. S. Merwin

Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers

“Dank fens of cedar; hemlock-branches gray”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

“How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school’s sway”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

“Teach Us to Number Our Days”
By Rita Dove

“The Vision of Saint Augustine” First appeared in Poetry
By Beverley Bie

Bath
By Amy Lowell

Bavarian Gentians
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Becoming a Redwood
By Dana Gioia

Beech First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin McFadden

Bees and Morning Glories
By John Ciardi

Binsey Poplars
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Birches
By Robert Frost

Blizzard
By William Carlos Williams

Blue Juniata First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

Breughel First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Collier

Brick
By Robert Creeley

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Cage
By Josephine Miles

Calendar
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Canada Anemone First appeared in Poetry
By Fleda Brown

Canned Food Drive First appeared in Poetry
By Kathleen Lynch

Carolina Journal First appeared in Poetry
By Nicole Pekarske

Childhood’s Retreat
By Robert Duncan

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christmas Tree
By John Frederick Nims

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Cold Turkey First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Mehigan

Color
By Christina Rossetti

Conrad Siever
By Edgar Lee Masters

Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet

Crown
By Kay Ryan

Cups: 1
By Robin Blaser

Daisy Time
By Marjorie Pickthall

Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree
By P. K. Page

Dirge in Woods
By George Meredith

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

Doing Laundry on Sunday First appeared in Poetry
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Drifting at Midday First appeared in Poetry
By Malachi Black

Dust of Snow
By Robert Frost

Each and All
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early Frost
By Scott Cairns

Earth's Answer
By William Blake

Elm
By Sylvia Plath

Elms
By Louise Glück

from Endymion
By John Keats

Envy
By Mary Lamb

Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke

Fancy
By John Keats

Fawn
By Mary Barnard

Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor

Fish of the Flood First appeared in Poetry
By Emilia Stuart Lorimer

Floating Trees
By C. D. Wright

Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
By Galway Kinnell

Flowers by the Sea
By William Carlos Williams

Four-Leaf Clover
By Ella Higginson

Fox Sleep First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 9: The Netherlands
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Garden First appeared in Poetry
By H. D.

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

Gloire de Dijon
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost

Grain Field
By Adelaide Crapsey

Gravelly Run First appeared in Poetry
By A. R. Ammons

Harp Trees
By Robin Blaser

Hearing
By W. S. Merwin

Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty

Her Garden
By Donald Hall

Himalayan Balsam
By Anne Stevenson

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
By Robert Browning

Horses on the Grass
By Grace Schulman

Hyacinth
By Louise Glück

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hymn to Life First appeared in Poetry
By James Schuyler

I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied
By Henry David Thoreau

I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
By Walt Whitman

I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move
By Louise Erdrich

Ikebana
By Cathy Song

In a Garden
By Amy Lowell

In Kona, Thinking of the Elements First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 2
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

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

In the Tree House at Night
By James L. Dickey

Information
By David Ignatow

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Inside My Head
By Robert Creeley

Introduction to the Songs of Experience
By William Blake

Itinerary
By James McMichael

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Korean mums First appeared in Poetry
By James Schuyler

Learning the Trees First appeared in Poetry
By Howard Nemerov

Leaving
By Cathy Song

Letter to the Local Police
By June Jordan

Letters to Walt Whitman First appeared in Poetry
By Ronald Johnson

Lightness in Autumn
By Robert Fitzgerald

Lilacs
By Amy Lowell

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

little tree
By E. E. Cummings

Long Finger Poem First appeared in Poetry
By Jin Eun-Young

Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur

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

May
By Jonathan Galassi

Measure
By Robert Hass

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Messenger
By Dave Smith

Mock Orange
By Louise Glück

Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass

Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen

More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy

Mowing
By Robert Frost

Mr. Luna’s Plum Tree
By Alberto Ríos

Much in Little
By Yvor Winters

Mushrooms
By Charles Tomlinson

Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold

Native Trees
By W. S. Merwin

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Wright

Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith

November Night
By Adelaide Crapsey

Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold

October First appeared in Poetry
By Jacob Polley

October
By Robert Frost

October 10
By Wendell Berry

October Arriving
By Charles Simic

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

Odes First appeared in Poetry
By Fernando Pessoa

Of Forced Sightes and Trusty Ferefulness
By Jorie Graham

On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt

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

One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker

One With The Sun
By A. F. Moritz

Oread
By H. D.

Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke

Over and Over Stitch
By Jorie Graham

Pass It On, III
By Rachel Hadas

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Planting a Dogwood
By Roy Scheele

Poppies in July
By Sylvia Plath

Poppies in October
By Sylvia Plath

Pura Vida First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost

Queen-Anne’s Lace
By William Carlos Williams

Rainbow’s End
By Louis Untermeyer

Raking Near the Great Works First appeared in Poetry
By Megan Grumbling

Range-finding
By Robert Frost

Reading Titus Andronicus In Three Mile Plains, N.S.
By George Elliott Clarke

Recollection of the Wood
By Léonie Adams

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Requests for Toy Piano First appeared in Poetry
By Tony Hoagland

Requiescat
By Matthew Arnold

River Road
By Stanley Kunitz

Rogue Russets First appeared in Poetry
By R. T. Smith

Roses
By Barbara Guest

Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold

Running Away Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Saint Francis and the Sow
By Galway Kinnell

Sanoe
By Lydia Kamakaeha Lili’uokalani

Sea Iris
By H. D.

Sea Poppies
By H. D.

Sea Rose
By H. D.

Seasons First appeared in Poetry
By John Haag

Sent with a Flower-Pot Begging a Slip of Geranium
By Christian Milne

Sheltered Garden
By H. D.

Shoreline First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

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

Song: My silks and fine array
By William Blake

Sonnet
By Robert Hass

Sonnet
By Frances Anne Kemble

Sonnets for Five Seasons
By Anne Stevenson

Spring Snow First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Gregerson

Spring, the sweet spring
By Thomas Nashe

Study/Trees
By Leonard Gontarek

Stump First appeared in Poetry
By Donald Hall

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Sundown
By Léonie Adams

Symphony of a Mexican Garden First appeared in Poetry
By Grace Hazard Conkling

Tall Ambrosia
By Henry David Thoreau

Tangerine
By Ruth L. Schwartz

The Air Plant
By Hart Crane

The Apple Tree First appeared in Poetry
By Wendell Berry

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Barrel-Organ
By Alfred Noyes

The Bearer First appeared in Poetry
By Hayden Carruth

The Beautiful Animal
By Geoffrey Brock

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Bluet
By James Schuyler

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

from The Botanic Garden, “The Economy of Vegetation”: Canto I
By Erasmus Darwin

The Bumblebee
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Catalpa
By John Ciardi

The Children
By Mark Jarman

The China Painters
By Ted Kooser

The Clote (Water-Lily)
By William Barnes

The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Copper Beech
By Marie Howe

The Cypress Broke
By Mahmoud Darwish

The Dead First appeared in Poetry
By Don Paterson

The Difficulty with a Tree
By Russell Edson

The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I

The Dying Child
By John Clare

The End of Summer
By Rachel Hadas

The Fact of the Garden
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
By Dylan Thomas

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

The Four Seasons
By Henry Carlile

The Garden
By Andrew Marvell

The Green Linnet
By William Wordsworth

The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Hills of Youth
By Alfred Noyes

The Hitchhikers First appeared in Poetry
By Diane Wakoski

The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson

The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Long Voyage First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell

The Marriage in the Trees
By Stanley Plumly

The May Apple
By Cynthia Zarin

The Menage
By Carl Rakosi

The Moon and the Yew Tree
By Sylvia Plath

The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Mountain Cemetery
By Edgar Bowers

The Mower
By Andrew Marvell

The night is darkening round me
By Emily Jane Brontë

The One-Year-Old Lemon Tree
By W. S. Di Piero

The Origin of Order First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost

The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Poppy
By Jane Taylor

The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers

The Primrose of the Rock
By William Wordsworth

The Prince's Progress
By Christina Rossetti

The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear

The Question
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Question
By Ruth Stone

The Rhodora
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Room
By Conrad Aiken

The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The Search for Lost Lives
By James Tate

The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove

The Shrubbery
By William Cowper

The Sick Rose
By William Blake

The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens

The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
By Mina Loy

The Sound of Trees
By Robert Frost

The Spire
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods
By Rigoberto González

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Swing
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth

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

The Tree
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Trees are Down
By Charlotte Mew

The Trespasser
By Ben Belitt

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Untamed
By R. S. Thomas

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov

The Violet
By Jane Taylor

The Washingtonian
By May Miller

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

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

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

Things
By Louis Simpson

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This Little Glade, Remember
By Pattiann Rogers

Thread
By Jonathan Galassi

Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
By Matthew Arnold

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

To a Mountain Daisy
By Robert Burns

To Autumn
By John Keats

To Bessie Drennan First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Doty

To Daffodils
By Robert Herrick

To Margaret W------
By Charles Lamb

To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

To the Reader
By Jorie Graham

Tom O’ Bedlam among the Sunflowers
By Thomas James

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

Toward an Organic Philosophy
By Kenneth Rexroth

Tree
By Jane Hirshfield

Tree
By Nikki Grimes

Tree Ferns
By Stanley Plumly

Tree Marriage
By William Meredith

Trees
By Joyce Kilmer

Trillium
By Louise Glück

Tropics
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Tulips
By Sylvia Plath

Tulips First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Turkish Bath First appeared in Poetry
By Sidney Wade

Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning

Under the Greenwood Tree
By William Shakespeare

Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen

Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough
By Andrew Marvell

Upon the Vine-tree
By John Bunyan

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor

Valentine
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Vaunting Oak
By John Crowe Ransom

Verities First appeared in Poetry
By Kim Addonizio

Vespers ["Once I believed in you..."]
By Louise Glück

Virtue
By George Herbert

Wash of Cold River
By H. D.

What Kind of Times Are These
By Adrienne Rich

What the Leaf Told Me
By Ronald Johnson

What to Eat, What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison
By Camille T. Dungy

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

When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley

Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Rossetti

Wildflowers
By Reginald Gibbons

Winesaps
By Dave Smith

Winter Journal: Threshed Blue, Cardings, Dim Tonsils
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Wind Thumbs through Woods
By Emily Wilson

Winter Trees
By William Carlos Williams

Wood
By Reginald Gibbons

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yellow from a Distance
By Karen Whalley

Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[morning green through ivy]
By Dan Beachy-Quick