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

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

A Farewell to Tobacco
By Charles Lamb

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

A Magic Mountain
By Czeslaw Milosz

A New Story
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Version of Paolo and Francesca
By Peter Balakian

A Woman on the Dump
By Debora Greger

Abraham Lincoln
By Abraham Lincoln

Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor

Address to the Devil
By Robert Burns

Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke

After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer

Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake

All overgrown by cunning moss, (146)
By Emily Dickinson

America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

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

Bacchanalia
By Matthew Arnold

Before Sextet
By Bernadette Mayer

Beyond Words
By Kevin Young

Blues for Dante Alighieri First appeared in Poetry
By Kim Addonizio

Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning

Call Me Pier
By Susan Firer

Cassandra
By Louise Bogan

Chicago First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cleanliness
By Charles Lamb

Consolation First appeared in Poetry
By Wisława Szymborska

Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

courthouse steps First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch

Customs of the Barbarians First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Williamson

Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

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

Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

Do you Remember me? or are you Proud?
By Walter Savage Landor

Don Juan: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Earth's Answer
By William Blake

Easter Week
By Joyce Kilmer

Elegy of Fortinbras
By Zbigniew Herbert

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Exile
By George Elliott Clarke

Fancy
By John Keats

First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Funny Strange First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

George & Rue: Pure, Virtuous Killers
By George Elliott Clarke

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne

Gospel
By Fleda Brown

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Handle First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

He Said Turn Here
By Dean Young

Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty

Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer

Heroic Simile
By Robert Hass

History Lessons First appeared in Poetry
By Sidney Wade

Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
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 Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake

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

Hyperion
By John Keats

Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea
By Walter Savage Landor

If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
By John Keats

Impromptus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Introduction to the Songs of Experience
By William Blake

Isis: Dorothy Eady, 1924
By Mark Doty

Isolation: To Marguerite
By Matthew Arnold

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

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

Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke

Kind of Blue First appeared in Poetry
By Lynn Powell

Kindness First appeared in Poetry
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Last Lines
By Anne Brontë

Letter to a Young Poet First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Wrigley

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

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

Lissadell First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Cope

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

Looking Around First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Wright

Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love (I)
By George Herbert

Love Armed
By Aphra Behn

Love's Deity
By John Donne

Love-Lily
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Lucifer in Starlight
By David St. John

Lullaby First appeared in Poetry
By Amanda Jernigan

Lullabye for the Second Millennium First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

Magnificat First appeared in Poetry
By Eleanor Wilner

Marco Polo at Finisterre First appeared in Poetry
By Matthew Brenneman

Market Forecast First appeared in Poetry
By Alexa Selph

Mary Shelley in Brigantine First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dunn

Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Milton: And did those feet in ancient time
By William Blake

Milton: But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance
By William Blake

Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los
By William Blake

Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney

Morality
By Matthew Arnold

Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor

Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold

N First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Mann

Negation
By George Elliott Clarke

Notes on the Steps of the San Diego Bus Depot
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Obbligato First appeared in Poetry
By Bruce Smith

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

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

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

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
By John Keats

One Night Stand
By Jack Spicer

Ophelia's Technicolor G-String: An Urban Mythology
By Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett

Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke

Orpheus in Hell
By Jack Spicer

Outside
By Mark Jarman

Pamet Harbor First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke

Pentecost First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

Phases First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

Philomela
By Matthew Arnold

Pig Song First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Atwood

Platonic Love First appeared in Poetry
By Curt Anderson

Prais’d be Diana’s Fair and Harmless Light
By Sir Walter Ralegh

Prayer (I)
By George Herbert

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Private and Profane First appeared in Poetry
By Marie Ponsot

Prometheus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

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

Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert

Report from the Temple of Confessions in Old Chicano English
By Brenda Cárdenas

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

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Rue First appeared in Poetry
By Samuel Menashe

Saul
By Robert Browning

Schools First appeared in Poetry
By Paula Tatarunis

Scrabble with Matthews First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

Sean Penn Anti-Ode First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Self-Portrait at 38 First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Tonge

Separation at Burnt Island First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Son of Fog First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

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

Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
By William Cowper

Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O'er
By Walter Savage Landor

Spring Snow First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Gregerson

Stalin's Library Card First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

Staying Power First appeared in Poetry
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Stomackes First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

That Too First appeared in Poetry
By Lawrence Joseph

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Boathouse First appeared in Poetry
By David St. John

The Book of Urizen
By William Blake

The Calm
By John Donne

The Collar
By George Herbert

The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
By Ambrose Bierce

The Death of Allegory First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

The Death of Antinoüs First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Doty

The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Divine Image
By William Blake

The Doors First appeared in Poetry
By David St. John

The Duffel Bag First appeared in Poetry
By David Harsent

The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The French Revolution
By William Blake

The Future
By Matthew Arnold

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats First appeared in Poetry
By John Surowiecki

The Hitchhikers First appeared in Poetry
By Diane Wakoski

The Hold-fast
By George Herbert

The Horses Run Back To Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson

The Larger First appeared in Poetry
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The List
By A. F. Moritz

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

The Magi First appeared in Poetry
By William Butler Yeats

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By William Blake

The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

The Passing of the Wise Men First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück

The Red Cadillac First appeared in Poetry
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson

The Relic
By John Donne

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

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The Science Masquerade
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats

The Snail
By Richard Lovelace

The Statesmen
By Ambrose Bierce

The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti

from The Vanity of Human Wishes
By Samuel Johnson

The Voyage Home First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Appleman

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

Thought First appeared in Poetry
By Thomas Pfau

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

To Catullus
By Robert Bridges

To Homer
By John Keats

To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer

To the Consolations of Philosophy First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

To the Muses
By William Blake

To Whistler, American First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

To You First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin A. González

Translation First appeared in Poetry
By Deirdre O'Connor

Trip to Delphi First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Friman

Truly Pathetic First appeared in Poetry
By Neal Bowers

Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning

Update on the Last Judgment First appeared in Poetry
By Ellen Hinsey

Venetian Coda First appeared in Poetry
By John Koethe

Venus Transiens First appeared in Poetry
By Amy Lowell

Verities First appeared in Poetry
By Kim Addonizio

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

Watching the Oregon Whale
By Annie Finch

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

We Old Dudes First appeared in Poetry
By Joan Murray

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr

Wight First appeared in Poetry
By Stanley Plumly

Winter promises
By Marge Piercy

Zeus to Juno First appeared in Poetry
By Fiona Sampson

[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up
By Bernadette Mayer