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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There are 130 Common Measure poems

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe."
By Anonymous

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
By Emily Dickinson

A Crowded Trolley Car
By Elinor Wylie

A Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe

A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Leak in the Dike
By Phoebe Cary

A Little Book
By Ruth Lilly

A Parable
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns

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

A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
By William Wordsworth

A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest

Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett

Adam and Eve
By Marjorie Pickthall

Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
By Jonathan Swift

And If I Did, What Then?
By George Gascoigne

Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

As imperceptibly as grief
By Emily Dickinson

At Mass
By Vachel Lindsay

“Faith” is fine invention (202)
By Emily Dickinson

Break, Break, Break
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Colonel Fazackerley
By Charles Causley

Daisy Time
By Marjorie Pickthall

Danny
By J. M. Synge

Discontents in Devon
By Robert Herrick

Eight O'Clock
By Sara Teasdale

Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie

Exile
By Marjorie Pickthall

Farewell to Bath
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

For a War Memorial
By G. K. Chesterton

George Washington’s Birthday: Wondering
By Bobbi Katz

How Doth the Little Crocodile
By Lewis Carroll

I Believe
By Robert W. Service

I felt a Funeral in my Brain
By Emily Dickinson

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

I never hear the word “Escape” (144)
By Emily Dickinson

I Travelled among Unknown Men
By William Wordsworth

I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

It Couldn’t Be Done
By Edgar Albert Guest

It was not death, for I stood up
By Emily Dickinson

Jacob
By Phoebe Cary

Just Think!
By Robert W. Service

Light Shining out of Darkness
By William Cowper

Little Bo-Peep
By Anonymous

Love Song
By Dorothy Parker

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Maternity
By Robert W. Service

Meg Merrilies
By John Keats

My Doggy Ate My Homework
By Dave Crawley

My Madonna
By Robert W. Service

My Violin
By Bruce Lansky

New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg

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

Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Perfect
By Kenn Nesbitt

Queer People
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Retrospect
By Emily Dickinson

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
By William Wordsworth

Shoes
By Anonymous

Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sing a Song of Sixpence
By Anonymous

Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir Humphrey Gilbert
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine)
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Song for Pythagoras
By Dannie Abse

Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy
By Lewis Carroll

Success is counted sweetest (112)
By Emily Dickinson

Suppose
By Phoebe Cary

Surgeons must be very careful (156)
By Emily Dickinson

The Animal Store
By Rachel Field

The Ballad of Nat Turner
By Robert E. Hayden

The Battle of the Bulge
By Robert W. Service

The Bear Hunt
By Abraham Lincoln

The Benefactors
By Rudyard Kipling

The Betrothal
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson

The Chant of the Vultures
By Edwin Markham

The Chariot
By Emily Dickinson

The Children's Hour
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service

The Cut
By Ann Taylor

The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy

The Day is Done
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Donkey
By G. K. Chesterton

The Glove and the Lions
By Leigh Hunt

The Harpy
By Robert W. Service

The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Kindergarten Concert
By Robert Pottle

The Listeners
By Walter De La Mare

The Look
By Sara Teasdale

The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale

The Palace of Art
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: As thro' the Land
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Props assist the House (729)
By Emily Dickinson

The Prospector
By Robert W. Service

The Railway Train
By Emily Dickinson

The Reckoning
By Robert W. Service

The Sleeper
By Walter De La Mare

The Snake
By Emily Dickinson

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Spider and the Fly
By Mary Howitt

The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth

The Weary Blues
By Langston Hughes

The Worship of Nature
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
By Emily Dickinson

Thoughts
By Marjorie Pickthall

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

To a Copper Paper Weight
By Ruth Lilly

To Althea, from Prison
By Richard Lovelace

To J. S.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
By Richard Lovelace

To the Cuckoo
By William Wordsworth

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
By Robert Herrick

Union Square
By Sara Teasdale

Vision
By Marjorie Pickthall

What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay

When de Co'n Pone's Hot
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Willie’s Wart
By Kenn Nesbitt

Yarrow Revisited
By William Wordsworth

Yarrow Unvisited
By William Wordsworth

Yarrow Visited. September, 1814
By William Wordsworth

Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
By Robert Burns

You are Old, Father William
By Lewis Carroll

You charm'd me not with that fair face
By John Dryden