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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“Do Not Embrace Your Mind’s New Negro Friend”
By William Meredith

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 Book on a Shelf First appeared in Poetry
By Roger Mitchell

A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
By Wallace Stevens

A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
By Frank O'Hara

A Vision of Poesy
By Henry Timrod

A Workman to the Gods
By Edwin Markham

About the Phoenix
By James Merrill

Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor

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

All Afternoon
By Charles Tomlinson

An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
By Robert Browning

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

An Xmas Murder First appeared in Poetry
By Alfred Corn

Anchored to the Infinite
By Edwin Markham

Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning

At the Executed Murderer’s Grave First appeared in Poetry
By James Wright

Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy (complete text)
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers

‘Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair’
By Philip Larkin

Bees and Morning Glories
By John Ciardi

Beyond the Stars First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Hanson Towne

Birches
By Robert Frost

Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Brothers-American Drama
By James Weldon Johnson

Burning Trash
By John Updike

Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning

Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson

Change
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Clear-seeing
By Edgar Bowers

Cleon
By Robert Browning

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Conscription Camp First appeared in Poetry
By Karl Shapiro

Contrary Theses (II)
By Wallace Stevens

Counselors
By Robert Fitzgerald

Darkness
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Days
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
By Richard F. Hugo

Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
By Delmore Schwartz

Eclogue of the Shepherd and the Townie
By Anthony Hecht

Elena
By Irving Feldman

Equations of the Light
By Dana Gioia

Ex-Basketball Player
By John Updike

Exile
By Conrad Aiken

Farewell to Florida
By Wallace Stevens

Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor

First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For once, then Something
By Robert Frost

Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

God
By Isaac Rosenberg

God’s Acre
By Conrad Aiken

Gyroscope
By Howard Nemerov

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

Hyperion
By John Keats

I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris
By Louis Simpson

Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In a London Drawingroom
By George Eliot

In Celebration
By Mark Strand

In Cities, Be Alert
By Annie Finch

In the Kingdom of Pleasure
By Alan Shapiro

In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave
By Delmore Schwartz

Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
By William Wordsworth

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens

Learning the Trees First appeared in Poetry
By Howard Nemerov

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

Lincoln
By Delmore Schwartz

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 to Accompany Flowers for Eve
By Carolyn Kizer

London’s Summer Morning
By Mary Robinson

Magnificat First appeared in Poetry
By Eleanor Wilner

Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro

Mending Wall
By Robert Frost

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Middle-Aged First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger

Money
By Howard Nemerov

Morte d'Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith

from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction: It Must Give Pleasure
By Wallace Stevens

O Carib Isle! First appeared in Poetry
By Hart Crane

OEnone
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Of Modern Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

On Virtue
By Phillis Wheatley

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

Part for the Whole First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Francis

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Paths First appeared in Poetry
By John Montague

Peripeteia
By Anthony Hecht

Planting the Meadow First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Makofske

Portrait d'une Femme
By Ezra Pound

from Preludes for Memnon
By Conrad Aiken

Pretty
By Stevie Smith

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Prometheus Unbound
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

from Queen Mab: Part VI
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Ralegh’s Prizes
By Robert Pinsky

Rarefied First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Retirement
By Henry Timrod

Road First appeared in Poetry
By Lisa Williams

Samson Agonistes
By John Milton

Scrabble with Matthews First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

Sea Holly
By Conrad Aiken

Seele im Raum First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Jarrell

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Some Assembly Required First appeared in Poetry
By George Bradley

Storm Windows
By Howard Nemerov

Sugar Cane
By Alfred Corn

Sunday Morning First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry

The Age of Dinosaurs First appeared in Poetry
By James Scruton

The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
By Howard Nemerov

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Bearer First appeared in Poetry
By Hayden Carruth

The Beggars First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Widdemer

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
By Robert Browning

The Brief Journey West
By Howard Nemerov

The Caterpillar
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

The Children
By Mark Jarman

The Chorus
By Rachel Hadas

The Comedian as the Letter C
By Wallace Stevens

The Constant Voice
By John Koethe

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Deodand
By Anthony Hecht

The Dependencies
By Howard Nemerov

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

The Fable
By Yvor Winters

The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
By William Wordsworth

The Great Blue Heron First appeared in Poetry
By Carolyn Kizer

The Hearts
By Robert Pinsky

The Icehouse in Summer
By Howard Nemerov

The Idea of Order at Key West
By Wallace Stevens

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Lovers of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Man on the Dump
By Wallace Stevens

The Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham

The Marriage in the Trees
By Stanley Plumly

The Old Cumberland Beggar
By William Wordsworth

The Perfect Life First appeared in Poetry
By John Koethe

The Phyllis
By R. T. Smith

The Pit
By John Fuller

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

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

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

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

The Princess: Our Enemies Have Fall'n
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

The Simplon Pass
By William Wordsworth

The Singers First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Hearon

The Snow-Storm
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Soldier
By David Ferry

The Sponge First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Mehigan

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

The Steel Glass
By George Gascoigne

The Summer Bower
By Henry Timrod

The Summer Image
By Léonie Adams

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks

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

from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
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

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

The Transfiguration
By Edwin Muir

The Troubles That Women Start Are Men
By Rodney Jones

The West Window in Moveen
By Thomas P. Lynch

The Woman at the Washington Zoo
By Randall Jarrell

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

There was a Boy
By William Wordsworth

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tithonus
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

To Mr. [S.T.] C[oleridge]
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

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

To Whistler, American First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford

Troop Train
By Karl Shapiro

Twelfth Birthday First appeared in Poetry
By Rachel Hadas

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

University First appeared in Poetry
By Karl Shapiro

Venetian Coda First appeared in Poetry
By John Koethe

Venetian Interior, 1889
By Richard Howard

Voyages
By Hart Crane

Washing Day
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Witch Doctor
By Robert E. Hayden

Writing
By Howard Nemerov