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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"Love of My Flesh, Living Death"
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

"Sometimes a human mammal is not to be seen"
By Bernadette Mayer

‘The Opal Sea’
By Ella Higginson

(“Over the green and yellow...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

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

Gloria Mundi
By Walter De La Mare

A Blasphemy First appeared in Poetry
By Maurice Manning

A Blessing
By James Wright

A Chest of Angels
By John Reibetanz

A Clearing in the Woods
By Thomas P. Lynch

A Day on the Big Branch First appeared in Poetry
By Howard Nemerov

A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda
By Andrew Marvell

A Felicitous Life
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Forsaken Garden
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Hanging Screen First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Anania

A Kind of Meadow
By Carl Phillips

A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Lyric of the Dawn
By Edwin Markham

A Magic Mountain
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England First appeared in Poetry
By Denise Levertov

A Marriage in the Dolomites First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Quilled Quilt, a Needle Bed
By Brad Leithauser

A Request
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

A Shropshire Lad I: From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
By A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad XXXI: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
By A. E. Housman

A Song on the End of the World
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Strategem
By Michael Anania

A Winter Daybreak above Vence
By James Wright

A World of Light
By John Reibetanz

Abandoned Farmhouse
By Ted Kooser

Abscess
By Forrest Gander

Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor

Address to the Migrations
By Jean Garrigue

After the Winter
By Claude McKay

Aftermath
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

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

All Hallows
By Louise Glück

Alpine Wedding
By Ralph Angel

America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

America Remembers
By Paul Engle

American Sketches
By Donald Justice

Among the Rocks
By Robert Browning

An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan

from An Explanation of America: A Love of Death
By Robert Pinsky

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry
By William Collins

An Old Road
By Edwin Markham

from Anecdote of the Jar First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

Animal Caution First appeared in Poetry
By Chase Twichell

ANWR
By Sherwin Bitsui

Apollo Musagetes
By Matthew Arnold

Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape
By Bin Ramke

Arrowhead Hunting First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

At Dauphin Island, 1997 First appeared in Poetry
By Wilmer Mills

At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
By William E. Stafford

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

Au Vieux Jardin First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Aldington

Ælla, a Tragical Interlude
By Thomas Chatterton

Backdrop addresses cowboy
By Margaret Atwood

Bat
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

from Beachy Head
By Charlotte Smith

Beauty and the Illiterate
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

Becune Point First appeared in Poetry
By Derek Walcott

Beginning
By James Wright

Below the Coast
By John Koethe

Between the Wars
By Robert Hass

Beyond the Red River
By Thomas McGrath

Bixby’s Landing
By Robinson Jeffers

Blackberrying
By Sylvia Plath

Blackened Rings
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Blowfly Grass
By Les Murray

Blue Juniata First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

from Briggflatts First appeared in Poetry
By Basil Bunting

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Burning the Fields
By Linda Bierds

Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
By Robert Burns

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning

Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
By John Dryden

Camouflage First appeared in Poetry
By Henry Carlile

Camouflaging the Chimera
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Canada Anemone First appeared in Poetry
By Fleda Brown

Cape Cod
By George Santayana

Carmel Highlands First appeared in Poetry
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Carmel Point
By Robinson Jeffers

Cheer
By Stanley Plumly

Choices
By Tess Gallagher

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christmas Away from Home
By Jane Kenyon

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Claribel
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Clorinda and Damon
By Andrew Marvell

Color in American History: An Essay First appeared in Poetry
By Tom Disch

Come with Me First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Bly

Comin thro' the Rye
By Robert Burns

Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Constantinople
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Cool Pastoral on Bloor Street
By John Reibetanz

Country Summer
By Léonie Adams

Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Coyote, with Mange First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Wunderlich

Crown
By Kay Ryan

Daisy Time
By Marjorie Pickthall

Damon the Mower
By Andrew Marvell

Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
By Delmore Schwartz

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

Deep South First appeared in Poetry
By Thomas McGrath

Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dirge at the Edge of Woods
By Léonie Adams

Dirge in Woods
By George Meredith

Disgraceland First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Karr

Dog Gospel First appeared in Poetry
By Brian Barker

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

Domes First appeared in Poetry
By John Koethe

Double
By Rae Armantrout

Down Stream
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass

Dream Land
By Christina Rossetti

Dream-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe

Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River
By Robert Bly

Each and All
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
By B. H. Fairchild

Earthly Meditations First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Wrigley

East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

Easter Week
By Joyce Kilmer

Easy as Falling Down Stairs First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Eclogue of the Shepherd and the Townie
By Anthony Hecht

Elegance
By Linda Gregg

Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
By William Wordsworth

Encounter in Buffalo
By Mary Barnard

from Endymion
By John Keats

Ephemera
By Robin Becker

from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Evening
By William Lisle Bowles

Evening
By H. D.

Exile
By Conrad Aiken

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
By William Wordsworth

Fairy-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe

Fancy
By John Keats

Farewell to Florida
By Wallace Stevens

Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
By John Ashbery

Fawn
By Mary Barnard

Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor

Fern Hill
By Dylan Thomas

Field Burning: A Full Moon
By Robert Wrigley

Figures in the Carpets First appeared in Poetry
By David Schloss

First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald

Floating Island
By Dorothy Wordsworth

Flow
By Jonathan Galassi

Flowers by the Sea
By William Carlos Williams

For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

For Grant Wood First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Mackinnon

For John Muir, a Century and More After His Time
By Janet Loxley Lewis

For You O Democracy
By Walt Whitman

Four Appaloosas
By Stanley Plumly

from Four Good Things
By James McMichael

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 9: The Netherlands
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frère Jacques, Frère Antoine
By John Peck

Freeway 280
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gairmscoile
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Georgia Dusk
By Jean Toomer

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

Good-Bye
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grace First appeared in Poetry
By Wendell Berry

Gray Weather
By Robinson Jeffers

Greenland’s Icy Mountains
By William McGonagall

Grown about by Fragrant Bushes
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Guysborough Road Church
By George Elliott Clarke

Hangzhou, Lake of the Poets
By Marie Ponsot

Harp Trees
By Robin Blaser

Hearke, Hearke, the Larke at Heauens Gate Sings
By William Shakespeare

Height Is the Distance Down First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

Heroic Simile
By Robert Hass

Himalayan Balsam
By Anne Stevenson

Hooded Night
By Robinson Jeffers

Horses
By Wendell Berry

How It Was
By Czeslaw Milosz

Hurt Hawks
By Robinson Jeffers

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

Hymn of Pan
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

I Am Learning To Abandon the World First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

I Heard an Angel
By William Blake

I Hid my Love
By John Clare

I started Early – Took my Dog – (656)
By Emily Dickinson

I Walk’d the Other Day
By Henry Vaughan

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
By William Wordsworth

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

Il Penseroso
By John Milton

Illinois: At Night, Black Hawk's Statue Broods First appeared in Poetry
By J. W. Rivers

In
By Andrew Hudgins

In Death Valley
By Edwin Markham

In Exile
By Emma Lazarus

In Harvest
By Sophie Jewett

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

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

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 15
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

In the Cold Country First appeared in Poetry
By Barbara Howes

In the Midwest
By Edward Hirsch

In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Indian Names
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Indistinguishable from the Darkness
By Charlie Smith

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass

Inverkirkaig
By Anne Stevenson

Irish Prospects
By J. D. McClatchy

Israfel
By Edgar Allan Poe

It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Itinerary
By James McMichael

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

John Sutter
By Yvor Winters

Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kalaloch
By Carolyn Forché

L'Allegro
By John Milton

Land’s End
By Weldon Kees

Landscape
By Samuel Menashe

Landscape, Dense with Trees
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Les Très Riches Heures de Florida
By Debora Greger

Let Me Die on the Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

Letter from a Distant Land First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Booth

Letters to Walt Whitman First appeared in Poetry
By Ronald Johnson

Li Hua's Messenger First appeared in Poetry
By Peter Bethanis

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
By William Wordsworth

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lions Are Interesting First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

Lissadell First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Cope

Loiter
By Forrest Gander

Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Long Island Sound
By Emma Lazarus

Looking Around First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Wright

Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning

Love at Thirty-two Degrees First appeared in Poetry
By Katherine Larson

Love in the Valley
By George Meredith

Lycidas
By John Milton

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
By James Wright

Magic First appeared in Poetry
By Louis Untermeyer

Magnum Mysterium
By Lucie Brock-Broido

Makeup First appeared in Poetry
By Dora Malech

Mapping the Genome First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Symmons Roberts

Marco Polo at Finisterre First appeared in Poetry
By Matthew Brenneman

Marshlands
By Emily Pauline Johnson

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

May
By Jonathan Galassi

Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning

Meg Merrilies
By John Keats

Memorabilia
By Robert Browning

Men Say Brown First appeared in Poetry
By Henry M. Seiden

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Mending Wall
By Robert Frost

from Mercian Hymns
By Geoffrey Hill

Messengers
By Louise Glück

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
By Gary Snyder

Midsummer First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Fitzgerald

Mine eyes have seen the glory of ... First appeared in Poetry
By Eleanor Wilner

Miniature
By Brad Leithauser

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mount Angel First appeared in Poetry
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes

Mowing
By Robert Frost

Music First appeared in Poetry
By George Scarbrough

My Mother's Nipples
By Robert Hass

N First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Mann

Napa Valley First appeared in Poetry
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Near Helikon
By Trumbull Stickney

Night Images
By Robert Fitzgerald

Night Without Sleep
By Robinson Jeffers

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

No Buyers
By Thomas Hardy

Nomadology First appeared in Poetry
By Alissa Leigh

North of Mist First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Videlock

Northern Exposures First appeared in Poetry
By G. E. Murray

Notes from the City of the Sun
By Bei Dao

November Cotton Flower
By Jean Toomer

O Carib Isle! First appeared in Poetry
By Hart Crane

O Heart Uncovered
By Joseph Ceravolo

Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold

October First appeared in Poetry
By Jacob Polley

October 10
By Wendell Berry

Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode on the Spring
By Thomas Gray

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

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

Odes First appeared in Poetry
By Fernando Pessoa

OEnone
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Oh Lovely Rock
By Robinson Jeffers

Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster

On a Raised Beach
By Hugh MacDiarmid

On a View of Pasadena from the Hills
By Yvor Winters

On Hearing a Description of a Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

On Inhabiting an Orange First appeared in Poetry
By Josephine Miles

On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me First appeared in Poetry
By John Ciardi

On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt

On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell First appeared in Poetry
By Geoffrey Hill

On the Departure of the Nightingale
By Charlotte Smith

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

Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana
By Susan Mitchell

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

Ondine First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

One Morning
By Emmy Pérez

One Possible Meaning First appeared in Poetry
By Charlie Smith

Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
By William Shakespeare

Our Valley First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Levine

Out of Metropolis
By Lynn Emanuel

Out of Town First appeared in Poetry
By Piotr Sommer

Paean to Place
By Lorine Niedecker

Palais des Artes
By Louise Glück

Parents
By Robert Wrigley

Parting at Morning
By Robert Browning

Parts of a Story First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Walker Graham

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Passing the Frontier First appeared in Poetry
By Pierre Martory

Pastoral
By Bei Dao

Pastorals
By Alexander Pope

Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving
By Clarence Major

Pickers
By John Haines

Piute Creek
By Gary Snyder

Planting the Meadow First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Makofske

Plowing through Ashes
By Walter McDonald

Poetry First appeared in Poetry
By Arthur Davidson Ficke

Poppies on the Wheat
By Helen Hunt Jackson

Poste Restante
By R. S. Thomas

Primitive Road First appeared in Poetry
By Lucas Howell

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Pronouns
By Cole Swensen

Prothalamion
By Edmund Spenser

Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
By Jack Spicer

Pura Vida First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Queen-Anne’s Lace
By William Carlos Williams

Quivira
By Ronald Johnson

Radar
By Jack Spicer

Radio First appeared in Poetry
By Gottfried Benn

Rain Country
By John Haines

Rain Gauge
By John Kinsella

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

Re-Incarnation
By Eva Gore-Booth

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

Real Estate: Kripplebush, New York
By Marie Ponsot

Realism
By Tom Clark

Recollections of the Arabian Nights
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Repose of Rivers
By Hart Crane

Resolution and Independence
By William Wordsworth

Rest before you sleep First appeared in Poetry
By Dionisio D. Martinez

Return in Autumn
By Paul Engle

Returning Native
By John Updike

Reverie in Open Air First appeared in Poetry
By Rita Dove

Riprap
By Gary Snyder

River
By Sherwin Bitsui

Rivers and Mountains
By John Ashbery

Rock and Hawk
By Robinson Jeffers

Romance
By Edgar Allan Poe

Roots First appeared in Poetry
By John Piller

Ruined Tunnel
By Forrest Gander

Ruins
By Samuel Menashe

Sad and Alone First appeared in Poetry
By Maurice Manning

Saint Francis of Assisi
By W. S. Di Piero

San Diego and Matisse
By Clarence Major

Scavenging the Wall First appeared in Poetry
By R. T. Smith

Scrapbook First appeared in Poetry
By George Scarbrough

Seasons First appeared in Poetry
By John Haag

Seaweeds First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra McPherson

September Midnight First appeared in Poetry
By Sara Teasdale

September, 1819
By William Wordsworth

Shale
By Anne Stevenson

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
By William Wordsworth

Sierra Nevada
By Anne Stevenson

Silent Film First appeared in Poetry
By Kurt Brown

Since There Is No Escape
By Sara Teasdale

Sitting Outside at the End of Autumn
By Charles Wright

Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell

Sleep in the Mojave Desert
By Sylvia Plath

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

Solar
By Robin Becker

Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco

Song for Autumn First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Oliver

Song in Sligo
By Jean Garrigue

Song of Ecclesiastes
By George Elliott Clarke

Song of the Piper
By William Pitt Root

Song: Memory, hither come
By William Blake

Sonnet Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
By Charlotte Smith

Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a Glorious Morning have I Seen
By William Shakespeare

Sonnets for Five Seasons
By Anne Stevenson

South Country
By Kenneth Slessor

Spring Letter First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Dennis

Spring, the sweet spring
By Thomas Nashe

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
By Matthew Arnold

Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Still Water First appeared in Poetry
By Patricia Fargnoli

Stilling
By Donald Revell

Stone
By Charles Simic

Stone Canyon Nocturne
By Charles Wright

Stony Limits
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost

from Stops Along the Western Bank of the Missouri River: Of the River Itself
By Michael Anania

Strays
By Stanley Plumly

Suitcase Song First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Summer
By John Clare

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Summer at North Farm First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Kuusisto

Summer Images
By John Clare

Sundown
By Léonie Adams

Swallow the Lake
By Clarence Major

Sympathy of Peoples
By Robert Fitzgerald

Talbingo
By Kenneth Slessor

Telling the Bees
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Temporarily in Oxford
By Anne Stevenson

Tent Caterpillars
By Susan Mitchell

The Abandoned Farm First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Bait
By John Donne

The Barefoot Boy
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Beach at Sunset
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Bearer First appeared in Poetry
By Hayden Carruth

The Beauty of Things
By Robinson Jeffers

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

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

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Character of Holland
By Andrew Marvell

The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Corn Baby First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Wunderlich

The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy

The Dipper First appeared in Poetry
By Kathleen Jamie

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Double Leash First appeared in Poetry
By Katharine Coles

The Ecstasy
By John Donne

The Eight O Five
By Diane Glancy

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Farm
By Joyce Sutphen

The Farm on the Great Plains First appeared in Poetry
By William E. Stafford

The Fight in the Meadow
By Russell Edson

The Forsaken Merman
By Matthew Arnold

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Four Seasons
By Henry Carlile

The Future
By Matthew Arnold

The Garden by Moonlight
By Amy Lowell

The Garden of Proserpine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds

The Grand Canyon
By Jean Garrigue

The Green Linnet
By William Wordsworth

The Herdsman First appeared in Poetry
By Fernando Pessoa

The Hills of Youth
By Alfred Noyes

The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin
By Ann Yearsley

The Interrupted Concert
By Federico García Lorca

The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens

The King and Queen of Hearts
By Charles Lamb

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

from The Lady of the Lake: The Western Waves of Ebbing Day
By Sir Walter Scott

The Lake First appeared in Poetry
By Sophie Cabot Black

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
By William Butler Yeats

The Land of Nod
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Late Wisconsin Spring
By John Koethe

The Lesson
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling

The Long Voyage First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

The Lost Land
By Eavan Boland

The Map
By Larry Levis

The Map of the World Confused with Its Territory
By Susan Stewart

The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

The Meadow
By Tom Sleigh

The Moment When Your Name is Pronounced
By Forrest Gander

The Moon is distant from the Sea – (387)
By Emily Dickinson

The Mower
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower against Gardens
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Old Cumberland Beggar
By William Wordsworth

The Old Swimmin' Hole
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe

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

The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
By Andrew Marvell

The Place for No Story
By Robinson Jeffers

The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers

from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time
By William Wordsworth

from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
By William Wordsworth

The Primrose of the Rock
By William Wordsworth

The Princess: Come down, O Maid
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Question
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

from The Return
By Charles Tomlinson

The Reverie of Poor Susan
By William Wordsworth

The Right Whale in Iowa
By Debora Greger

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

The Sévres Road First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Donnelly

The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The Seer First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

from The Shepheardes Calender: April
By Edmund Spenser

from The Shepheardes Calender: October
By Edmund Spenser

The Shires
By John Fuller

The Shore
By David St. John

The Shrubbery
By William Cowper

The Simplon Pass
By William Wordsworth

The Simulacra First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

The Skylark
By John Clare

The Sleeper
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Snake
By Emily Dickinson

The Snow-Storm
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Solitary Reaper
By William Wordsworth

The Spring
By Thomas Carew

The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
By Edmund Waller

The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Summer Bower
By Henry Timrod

The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth

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

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper

The Topography of History
By Thomas McGrath

The Town Dump
By Howard Nemerov

The Trespasser
By Ben Belitt

The Tropics in New York
By Claude McKay

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Undeniable Pressure of Existence
By Patricia Fargnoli

The Untamed
By R. S. Thomas

The Valley of Unrest
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Very Rich Hours First appeared in Poetry
By James McMichael

The Victory of the Beet-Fields
By Louis Untermeyer

The Village: Book I
By George Crabbe

The West Window in Moveen
By Thomas P. Lynch

The Wild Common
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Wind, the Sun and the Moon
By Anne Stevenson

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

The Woodspurge
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Worship of Nature
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Yellowhammer's Nest
By John Clare

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This Little Glade, Remember
By Pattiann Rogers

Thread
By Jonathan Galassi

Three Sonnets
By James Galvin

Three Years She Grew
By William Wordsworth

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

To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe

To a Greek Marble First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Aldington

To a Highland Girl
By William Wordsworth

To Autumn
By John Keats

To Live with a Landscape
By Constance Urdang

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

To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
By John Keats

To the Cuckoo
By William Wordsworth

To the Desert
By Benjamin Alire Sáenz

To the Destroyers of Ballots
By Donald Revell

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

To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

To the Quarry and Back First appeared in Poetry
By Katia Kapovich

To The Stone-Cutters
By Robinson Jeffers

Today First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Tor House
By Robinson Jeffers

Tree Ferns
By Stanley Plumly

Triolets in the Argolid First appeared in Poetry
By Rachel Hadas

Twenty-third First appeared in Poetry
By Christina Pugh

Twilight: After Haying
By Jane Kenyon

Two Guitars
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Ultima Thule
By Linda Bierds

Under the Greenwood Tree
By William Shakespeare

Under Two Windows First appeared in Poetry
By Schuyler Van Rensselaer

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

Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough
By Andrew Marvell

Valentine
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Vespers [In your extended absence, you permit me]
By Louise Glück

Wake Me in South Galway First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Tillinghast

Wales Visitation
By Allen Ginsberg

Walking Down Park
By Nikki Giovanni

from Water Music
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Waumandee First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Wunderlich

Way Out West
By Amiri Baraka

West Topsham
By John Engels

What Is the Field? First appeared in Poetry
By Leila Wilson

What Kind of Times Are These
By Adrienne Rich

What to Count On
By Peggy Shumaker

When in Wisconsin Where I Once Had Time
By John Engels

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

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

Why They Turned Back/Why They Went On
By Constance Urdang

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

Wild Peaches
By Elinor Wylie

Winter Journal: Disseminate Birds over Water
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Fish Rises, Dark Brown Muscle Turns Over
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Gold Rivulet Weave, Gauded
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Gray Shadings
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: The Sky Is the Lost Orpheum
By Emily Wilson

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

Wonder
By Thomas Traherne

Woodcut
By Thomas McGrath

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yarrow Unvisited
By William Wordsworth

Yarrow Visited. September, 1814
By William Wordsworth

Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico
By Robin Becker

You Can't Buy Shoes in a Painting First appeared in Poetry
By Jill Osier

You Goatherd Gods
By Philip Sidney

You That I Loved First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz

Zun-zet
By William Barnes

[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]
By Juan Felipe Herrera

[morning green through ivy]
By Dan Beachy-Quick

[Posterity, this me is Now—]
By Dan Beachy-Quick

[Record no oiled tongue]
By Dan Beachy-Quick