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 Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

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

A Reminiscence
By Anne Brontë

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
By Jonathan Swift

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

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

An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Elegy for Five Old Ladies
By Thomas James Merton

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne
By Thomas Carew

An Epitaph on S.P.
By Ben Jonson

And Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Dylan Thomas

Ave Atque Vale
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom

Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler

Casualty
By Seamus Heaney

Child of a Day
By Walter Savage Landor

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Claribel
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Dead Boy
By John Crowe Ransom

Dear Mr. Merrill, First appeared in Poetry
By Moira Egan

Deathfugue
By Paul Celan

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas

Done
By Michelle Boisseau

Double Elegy
By Michael S. Harper

Duncan
By Thom Gunn

During the Service First appeared in Poetry
By Carrie Grabo

Elegy
By Miguel Hernández

Elegy
By Lyn Hejinian

Elegy
By Anne Stevenson

Elegy First appeared in Poetry
By Pierre Martory

Elegy (“Who keeps the owl’s breath?”) First appeared in Poetry
By David St. John

Elegy Asking That It Be the Last
By Norman Dubie

Elegy for a Soldier
By Marilyn Hacker

from Elegy for My Sister
By Sherod Santos

Elegy for Peter
By Bruce Weigl

Elegy for the Quagga First appeared in Poetry
By Sarah Lindsay

Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne

Elegy of Fortinbras
By Zbigniew Herbert

Elegy on Toy Piano First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
By Alexander Pope

Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne

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

Elegy with Surrealist Proverbs as Refrain
By Dana Gioia

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
By Thomas Gray

Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
By John Crowe Ransom

Encounter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson

Epitaph
By Katherine Philips

Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
By Ben Jonson

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
By William Wordsworth

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate

Family History
By Irving Feldman

Father Son and Holy Ghost
By Audre Lorde

Feeding Our Ancient Ancestors First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

Felix Randal
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

For Billy
By Jack Spicer

For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For Malcolm X
By Margaret Walker

For Malcolm X
By Margaret Walker

Frederick Douglass
By Robert E. Hayden

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

Golden State
By Frank Bidart

Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty

Hell
By Donald Justice

here rests
By Lucille Clifton

Homecoming
By Keith Althaus

How It Is
By Maxine W. Kumin

Hyacinth
By Louise Glück

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH
By Anne Bradstreet

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

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

In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
By June Jordan

In Memory of a Child
By Vachel Lindsay

In Memory of Jane Fraser
By Geoffrey Hill

In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn
By Donald Justice

In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

John Lennon
By Mary Jo Salter

Kaddish
By Allen Ginsberg

Keats
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kind of Blue First appeared in Poetry
By Lynn Powell

Lament
By Thom Gunn

Late Ripeness
By Czeslaw Milosz

Little Elegy
By Elinor Wylie

Lonely Eagles
By Marilyn Nelson

Lycidas
By John Milton

Madmen First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

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

Memorial Service First appeared in Poetry
By George Garrett

Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Misery and Splendor
By Robert Hass

Monody
By Herman Melville

Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party First appeared in Poetry
By William E. Stafford

Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen

Mountain Dulcimer First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Morgan

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

Musical Moments First appeared in Poetry
By Dannie Abse

My Father's Diary First appeared in Poetry
By Sharon Olds

My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy

My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman

My Sad Captains
By Thom Gunn

Nina's Blues
By Cornelius Eady

No Children, No Pets
By Sue Ellen Thompson

Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith

O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman

Ode
By Henry Timrod

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

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market First appeared in Poetry
By Pablo Neruda

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

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

of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery
By Gwendolyn Brooks

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

On a Dead Child
By Robert Bridges

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On Shakespeare. 1630
By John Milton

On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë

On the Death of Richard West
By Thomas Gray

On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper

On the Preserved Body of an Inca Child Frozen to Death as a Sacrifice to the Sun
By A. F. Moritz

Our Father
By Irving Feldman

Pauline Is Falling First appeared in Poetry
By Jean Nordhaus

Phases First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton

Posthumous First appeared in Poetry
By Jean Nordhaus

Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
By Jack Spicer

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill

Requiescat
By Matthew Arnold

Reunion
By Jeff Daniel Marion

Revelations in the Key of K First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Karr

Roots First appeared in Poetry
By John Piller

Santa Lucia
By Robert Hass

Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Separation First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Silent Film First appeared in Poetry
By Kurt Brown

Small Elegy
By Reginald Gibbons

Spring Music First appeared in Poetry
By Frederick Feirstein

Stable
By Claudia Emerson Andrews

Stony Limits
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Stump First appeared in Poetry
By Donald Hall

Suitcase Song First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Swifts First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

The Answering Machine First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Bones of My Father
By Etheridge Knight

The Book of Phillip Sparrow
By John Skelton

The Burial of the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall

The Canticle of Jack Kerouac
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The Castaway
By William Cowper

The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández

The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy

The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara

The Dignity of Ushers First appeared in Poetry
By Al Maginnes

The Drowned Children
By Louise Glück

The Dying Child
By John Clare

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Garbo Cloth First appeared in Poetry
By Lucia Perillo

The Great Blue Heron First appeared in Poetry
By Carolyn Kizer

The Inheritance
By Stanley Moss

The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski

The Legend
By Garrett Hongo

The Little White Hearse
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Lost Pilot
By James Tate

The Miscarriage First appeared in Poetry
By Amit Majmudar

The Odd Last Thing She Did First appeared in Poetry
By Brad Leithauser

The Performance First appeared in Poetry
By James L. Dickey

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück

The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Role of Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang

The Unknown Dead
By Henry Timrod

The Wind Chimes
By Shirley Buettner

The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith

There Are Black
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

This Day after Yesterday
By Philip Booth

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

Three Years She Grew
By William Wordsworth

To a Child in Heaven
By Richard Emil Braun

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 an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman

To Aunt Rose
By Allen Ginsberg

To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand First appeared in Poetry
By Howard Nemerov

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

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 You First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin A. González

To. W. P.
By George Santayana

Trollius and trellises
By Charles Bukowski

We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Westray: 1991
By Linda Bierds

What Became First appeared in Poetry
By Wesley McNair

What Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert

What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay

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

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

Where They Lived
By Marge Saiser

Wyatt Resteth Here
By Henry Howard, earl of Surrey

Yellow Dress First appeared in Poetry
By Amy Beeder

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

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