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 164 poems for Valentine's Day

First appeared in Poetry = First appeared in Poetry magazine.

“Feuerzauber”
By Louis Untermeyer

A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti

A Maul for Bill and Cindy’s Wedding
By Gary Snyder

A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns

A Token
By Robert Creeley

A un Desconocido
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Acts of Love
By Pam Rehm

After a God
By Jenny Browne

After Metaphysics, or When the Fly Leaves the Flybottle
By Deborah Slicer

Alas Madam for Stealing of a Kiss
By Thomas Wyatt

Altruism
By Molly Peacock

Always
By Rane Arroyo

Ars Amoris
By J. V. Cunningham

Astrophel and Stella XX
By Philip Sidney

At a Window First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Aubade
By Amber Flora Thomas

“As We Are So Wonderfully Done with Each Other”
By Kenneth Patchen

“Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?”
By Marilyn Hacker

“Lying in bed I think about you ...”
By Joshua Beckman

Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
By Stephen C. Foster

Black Valentine
By Tess Gallagher

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

Cave Dwellers
By A. Poulin

Chance Meeting
By Susan Browne

Clarinet
By Terrance Hayes

Colors passing through us
By Marge Piercy

Counsel to Unreason First appeared in Poetry
By Léonie Adams

Credo
By Matthew Rohrer

crossing into canaan First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

Cuckoldom First appeared in Poetry
By BJ Ward

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
By Diane Wakoski

Dark Harvest
By Joseph Millar

Dear One Absent This Long While
By Lisa Olstein

Debt First appeared in Poetry
By Sara Teasdale

Domestic
By Carl Phillips

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

Eclipsed
By Richard Meier

Envoi
By Ezra Pound

Eros
By Robert Bridges

Eros of Heroines First appeared in Poetry
By Ange Mlinko

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Finale
By Pablo Neruda

First turn to me. . . .
By Bernadette Mayer

For Anybody’s Martyr’s Song
By Jean Garrigue

Formerly Communist Love Sonnet
By Connie Deanovich

Friendship’s Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia
By Katherine Philips

From the Dressing-Room
By Medbh McGuckian

Hemachandra’s Grammar 418.1
By Anonymous

Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
By Wallace Stevens

I Knew a Woman
By Theodore Roethke

I Love Your Crazy Bones
By Barton Sutter

In Love with You First appeared in Poetry
By Kenneth Koch

In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
By Mary Szybist

in the Catskills again
By Dick Lourie

Juan’s Song
By Louise Bogan

Knowing You Could Is Better Than Knowing You Will
By Mark Bibbins

Leave-Taking First appeared in Poetry
By Louise Bogan

Lisa
By David Hernandez

Love and Death
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Love and Life: A Song
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Love in the Weather’s Bells
By Jay Wright

Love Letter (Clouds)
By Sarah Manguso

Love Pirates
By Joseph Millar

Love Poem with Harbor View
By Erica Funkhouser

Love Song First appeared in Poetry
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Love Song
By David P. Young

Lovers' Infiniteness
By John Donne

Lunchbox Love Note
By Kenn Nesbitt

Memory at These Speeds
By Jane Miller

Moraine for Bob
By Joanna Fuhrman

My Boyfriend
By Camille Guthrie

My Love
By Don Paterson

My Lover Gave Me Green Leaves
By Josephine Dickinson

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Negotiation
By Lisa Olstein

Odes First appeared in Poetry
By Fernando Pessoa

Old Love and New First appeared in Poetry
By Sara Teasdale

Older Love
By Jim Harrison

One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
By Pablo Neruda

Passing Remark
By William E. Stafford

Pied Booty First appeared in Poetry
By Dabney Stuart

Poem for My Love
By June Jordan

Poem [“When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen”]
By Frank O'Hara

Postlude
By Noelle Kocot

Postlude First appeared in Poetry
By William Carlos Williams

Power in Silence
By Michael Field

Probation First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

Recitative First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Romance
By Claude McKay

Romantic
By Dara Wier

She Walks in Beauty
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Should the Wide World Roll Away
By Stephen Crane

Song (“Love has crept...”) First appeared in Poetry
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Song After Campion
By Robert Fitzgerald

Song from Arcadia: “My True Love Hath My Heart”
By Philip Sidney

Song to Celia
By Ben Jonson

Song: I prithee spare me gentle boy
By Sir John Suckling

Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XX
By Pablo Neruda

Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
By William Shakespeare

Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I Love thee? Let me Count the Ways
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Study/Trees
By Leonard Gontarek

Sublimation Point
By Jason Schneiderman

Sunflower
By André Breton

Superbly Situated
By Robert Hershon

sweet reader, flanneled and tulled
By Olena Kalytiak Davis

The Bait
By John Donne

The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner

from The Book of Funnels
By Christian Hawkey

The Cloister
By William Matthews

The Diner
By Richard Jones

The Ecstasy
By John Donne

The Flea
By John Donne

The Good-Morrow
By John Donne

The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov

The Greatest Love
By Anna Swir

The Healing Improvisation of Hair
By Jay Wright

The House of Life: 22. Heart's Haven
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The house was just twinkling in the moon light
By Gertrude Stein

The Hush of the Very Good First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Boss

The Illiterate
By William Meredith

The Kiss
By Kirmen Uribe

The Love Cook
By Ron Padgett

The lover
By Sina Queyras

The Orange
By Wendy Cope

The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Parlement of Fowls
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe

The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos

The Quiet World
By Jeffrey McDaniel

The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine

The Shipfitter’s Wife
By Dorianne Laux

The Shirt
By Jane Kenyon

They
By Wendell Berry

This First appeared in Poetry
By Ralph Angel

To a Husband First appeared in Poetry
By Amy Lowell

To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell

To My Dear and Loving Husband
By Anne Bradstreet

To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday
By Wendell Berry

To You
By Kenneth Koch

Togetherness First appeared in Poetry
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Tree Marriage
By William Meredith

from Twenty-One Love Poems: XIII
By Adrienne Rich

Valentine
By Tom Pickard

Valentine To RR Written Extempore Feb. 14 1802
By Charlotte Richardson

Valentine's Afternoon First appeared in Poetry
By Michael McFee

VooDoo/Love Magic
By Angela Jackson

Want Song
By Lance Larsen

We Had Words
By Vona Groarke

Wedding Dress
By Michael Waters

What You Pray Toward
By Patricia Smith

When ’Midst the Gay I Meet
By Thomas Moore

When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr

White Rose
By Tom Pickard

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
By Walt Whitman

Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)
By Emily Dickinson

Windchime
By Tony Hoagland

Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress
By Richard Crashaw

You! Inez!
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

You, Therefore
By Reginald Shepherd

You’re
By Sylvia Plath

Yours & Mine
By Alice Fulton