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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 Take Me Out to the Go-Go
By Thomas Sayers Ellis

'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Paradise Lost: Book I
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book IV
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book IX
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book X
By John Milton

A Blasphemy First appeared in Poetry
By Maurice Manning

A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning

A Hymn to Childhood
By Li-Young Lee

A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne

A Hymn to God the Father
By Ben Jonson

A little East of Jordan, (145)
By Emily Dickinson

from A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman

A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
By Jupiter Hammon

A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
By Thomas Traherne

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
By John Dryden

A Tenth Anniversary Photograph, 1952
By Miller Williams

A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick

Aaron
By George Herbert

Abou Ben Adhem
By Leigh Hunt

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

After the Surprising Conversions
By Robert Lowell

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley
By Jupiter Hammon

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
By Jupiter Hammon

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Essay on Man: Epistle I
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle II
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle III
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope

An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries
By Jupiter Hammon

An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty
By Edmund Spenser

Ark
By Camille T. Dungy

Artificer
By Czeslaw Milosz

At Mass
By Vachel Lindsay

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

Autumn Psalm
By Jacqueline Osherow

“Of all that God has shown me ...”
By Mechtild

“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville

Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe

BEAM 30: The Garden
By Ronald Johnson

Before You First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Rakosi

Bel Canto First appeared in Poetry
By Kenneth Koch

Belleau Wood
By Paul Engle

Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright

Book of Isaiah
By Anne Carson

Brahma
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

brothers
By Lucille Clifton

By Night when Others Soundly Slept
By Anne Bradstreet

Cædmon's Hymn
By Cædmon

Carrion Comfort
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Chorus Sacerdotum
By Fulke Greville

Clear Night
By Charles Wright

Cold Turkey First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Mehigan

Davis Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters

Dio ed Io First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Wright

Divine Epigrams: To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine
By Richard Crashaw

Doot Dah Do
By Diane Glancy

Easter Wings
By George Herbert

Eden
By Thomas Traherne

Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By John Berryman

Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By Mark Jarman

Eve
By Ella Higginson

Eve Considers the Possibility of Pardon
By John Engels

Ex-Embassy
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Exclusion
By Emily Dickinson

Felix Randal
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiduciary First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Mann

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

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

Gnostic
By Honor Moore

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

God's Grandeur
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

God's World
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne

Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost

Hap
By Thomas Hardy

Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion
By William Cowper

Hayden
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

here is little Effie’s head
By E. E. Cummings

High Tension Lines across a Landscape
By John Ciardi

His Prayer for Absolution
By Robert Herrick

His Wish to God
By Robert Herrick

Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
By John Donne

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

Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
By John Donne

Hurt Hawks
By Robinson Jeffers

Hymn
By Carl Phillips

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

Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne

Hymn: Thou Hidden Love of God
By John Wesley

I Am!
By John Clare

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591)
By Emily Dickinson

I know that He exists. (365)
By Emily Dickinson

I Live Up Here
By W. S. Merwin

I Walk’d the Other Day
By Henry Vaughan

I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
By Yehuda Amichai

In Heaven
By Stephen Crane

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 124
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 126
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 54
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 55
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In the Cool of the Evening
By Andrew Hudgins

In the Days of Awe
By Robin Becker

In the Holy Nativity of our Lord
By Richard Crashaw

Incandescence at Dusk
By Edward Hirsch

Innocence
By Thomas Traherne

Irony
By Louis Untermeyer

Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake!
By William Blake

Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
By William Blake

Jordan (I)
By George Herbert

from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

Juggling Jerry
By George Meredith

Kneeling
By R. S. Thomas

Last Lines
By Anne Brontë

Laus Veneris
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Le Secret
By Thomas James Merton

Let me not thirst with this Hock at my Lip
By Emily Dickinson

Let me tell you about my marvelous god
By Susan Stewart

Light Shining out of Darkness
By William Cowper

Little Blessing for My Floater First appeared in Poetry
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Longing
By Ina Coolbrith

Love (I)
By George Herbert

Love (II)
By George Herbert

Love (III)
By George Herbert

Makeup First appeared in Poetry
By Dora Malech

Man
By George Herbert

Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Meditations
By Margaret Fuller

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

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

Morality
By Matthew Arnold

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

My Soul
By Stevie Smith

Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg

News
By Thomas Traherne

No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë

Nothing New
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

O Black and Unknown Bards
By James Weldon Johnson

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Ode for the American Dead in Asia
By Thomas McGrath

Ode to a Blizzard First appeared in Poetry
By Tom Disch

Of Man by Nature
By John Bunyan

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

On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan

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

On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë

On the Farm
By R. S. Thomas

Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our Family Tree
By Joseph Cephas Holly

Outbreak
By Donald Revell

Outside
By Mark Jarman

Ovid in the Third Reich
By Geoffrey Hill

Paradise Lost: Book I (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book II (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book III (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book IV (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book IX (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book VI (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book VII (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book VIII (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book X (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book XI (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book XII (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book I (1671)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book II (1671)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book III (1671)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book IV (1671)
By John Milton

Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti

Peace
By Henry Vaughan

Pied Beauty
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Pied Booty First appeared in Poetry
By Dabney Stuart

Plead for Me
By Emily Jane Brontë

Possible Answers to Prayer
By Scott Cairns

Prayer (I)
By George Herbert

Praying Drunk
By Andrew Hudgins

Progressive Health First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Dennis

Prometheus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez

Realism
By Tom Clark

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Return for an Instant
By Juan Ramón Jiménez

Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold

Self-Dependence
By Matthew Arnold

Shine, Perishing Republic
By Robinson Jeffers

Sin (I)
By George Herbert

Slavery
By Hannah More

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)
By Emily Dickinson

Song of Social Despair
By Marvin Bell

Song of the Little Cripple at the Street Corner First appeared in Poetry
By Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

St. Agnes' Eve
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Staying Power First appeared in Poetry
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Terminus
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert

The Altar
By George Herbert

The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Bungalows
By John Ashbery

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake

The Collar
By George Herbert

The Creation of the Inaudible
By Pattiann Rogers

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Divine Image
By William Blake

The Elixir
By George Herbert

The Embankment
By T. E. Hulme

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

The Friar's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

the garden of delight
By Lucille Clifton

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Goddess Who Created This Passing World
By Alice Notley

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Grand View
By Dannie Abse

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More

The Higher Pantheism
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Hold-fast
By George Herbert

The House of Life: 66. The Heart of the Night
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 72. The Choice, II
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Lamb
By Linda Gregg

The Lion for Real
By Allen Ginsberg

The Little Black Boy
By William Blake

The Little Vagabond
By William Blake

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By William Blake

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

The Morning-Watch
By Henry Vaughan

The Name Drawn from the Names
By Juan Ramón Jiménez

The New Decalogue
By Ambrose Bierce

The New Religion
By Chris Abani

The One in All
By Margaret Fuller

The Pearl
By George Herbert

The Pilgrim
By John Bunyan

The Preface
By Edward Taylor

The Prisoner
By R. S. Thomas

The Pulley
By George Herbert

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Quip
By George Herbert

The Rainbow
By David Baker

The Reason
By Stevie Smith

The Retreat
By Henry Vaughan

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine

The Rose
By Jean Valentine

The Same City
By Terrance Hayes

The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Star
By Henry Vaughan

The Statue
By Ella Higginson

The Summoner's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

The Temper (I)
By George Herbert

The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti

The Truth
By Carl Phillips

The Tyger
By William Blake

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The World
By Henry Vaughan

The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

They are all Gone into the World of Light
By Henry Vaughan

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thoughts about the Person from Porlock
By Stevie Smith

Threshold
By R. S. Thomas

Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
By Emily Dickinson

To a Waterfowl
By William Cullen Bryant

To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer

To Heaven
By Ben Jonson

To Live in the Mercy of God
By Denise Levertov

To Marguerite: Continued
By Matthew Arnold

To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden

To Our Land
By Mahmoud Darwish

To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey

To the Desert
By Benjamin Alire Sáenz

To the Negro Farmers of the United States
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Trees
By Joyce Kilmer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Two Went up into the Temple to Pray
By Richard Crashaw

Unholy Sonnet 1
By Mark Jarman

Unholy Women
By Chris Abani

Upon Apparel
By John Bunyan

Walking
By Thomas Traherne

What He Thought
By Heather McHugh

When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton

When You Watch Us Sleeping
By Pattiann Rogers

Wonder
By Thomas Traherne

Written on a Wall at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

You and I
By Stanley Moss

[It's been two thousand years now] First appeared in Poetry
By Marie-Claire Bancquart