v. 1. The charge of the light brigade /Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The
creation /James Weldon Johnson -- The destruction of Sennacherib
/Lord Byron -- Do not go gentle into that good night /Dylan Thomas --
Harlem /Langston Hughes -- An Irish foresees his death /William
Butler Yeats -- L(a /e.e. cummings -- The love of J. Alfred Prufrock
/T.S. Eliot -- Mirror /Silvia Plath -- Miss Rosie /Lucille Clifton --
Musee des beaux arts /W.H. Auden -- My last duchess /Robert Browning
-- Ode on a Grecian urn /John Keats -- The raven /Edgar Allan Poe --
The red wheelbarrow /William Carlos Williams -- The sonnet-ballad
/Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sonnet 130 /William Shakespeare -- The soul
selects her own society /Emily Dickinson -- Stopping by woods on a
snowy evening /Robert Frost -- Swing low sweet chariot /Anonymous --
This life /Rita Dove -- Those winter Sundays /Robert Hayden.
v. 2. Angle of geese /N. Scott Momaday -- The bean eaters /Gwendoly
Brooks -- Because I could not stop for death /Emily Dickinson -- The
death of the ball turret gunner /Randall Jarrell -- Dover Beach
/Matthew Arnold -- Falling upon earth /Matsuo Basho -- Fifteen
/William Stafford -- Harlem hopscotch /Maya Angelou -- Holy sonnet 10
/John Donne -- In a station of the metro /Ezra Pound -- Midnight
/Seamus Heaney -- O captain! my captian! /Walt Whitman -- Ode to the
west wind /Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Paul Revere's ride /Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow -- The road not taken /Robert Frost -- Sailing
to Bysantium /William Butler Yeats -- Sonnet 18 /William Shakespeare
-- Sonnet 43 /Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Tintern Abbey /William
Wordsworth -- The tyger /William Blake -- Ulysses /Alfred, Lord
Tennyson -- When I have fears that I may cease to be /John Keats.
v. 3. Any human to another /Countee Cullen -- A pied /Colleen McElroy
-- Auto wreck /Karl Shapiro -- The bells /Edgar Allan Poe -- Chicago
/Carl Sandburg -- The courage that my mother had /Edna St. Vincent
Millay -- Fern Hill /Dylan Thomas -- High windows /Philip Larkin --
Hope is the thing with feathers /Emily Dickinson -- Hurt hawks
/Robinson Jeffers -- I hear America singing /Walt Whitman -- The man
he killed /Thomas Hardy -- Mother to son /Langston Hughes -- My
papa's waltz -- Nothing gold can stay /Robert Frost -- Not waving but
drowning /Stevie Smith -- Ode to a nightingale /John Keats -- old age
sticks /e.e. cummings -- (On his blindness) Sonnet 16 /John Milton --
On the pulse of morning /Maya Angelou -- Sonnet 116 /William
Shakespeare -- The unknown citizen /W.H. Auden.
v. 4. Ah, are you digging on my grave? /Thomas Hardy -- As I walked
out one evening /W.H. Auden -- Concord hymn /Ralph Waldo Emerson --
The death of the hired man /Robert Frost -- Hawk roosting /Ted Hughes
-- The highwayman /Alfred Noyes -- Hunger in New York City /Simon
Ortiz -- Oysters /Anne Sexton -- Psalm 23 /(King James Bible) --
Richard Cory /E.A. Robinson -- The rime of the ancient mariner
/Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Shine, perishing republic /Robinson
Jeffers -- Sir Patrick Spens /Anonymous -- Sonnet 30 /William
Shakespeare -- Strong men, riding horses /Gwendolyn Brooks -- Tears,
idle tears /Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- This is my letter to the world
/Emily Dickinson -- Toads /Philip Larkin -- The tropics of New York
/Claude McKay -- When I was one-and-twenty /A.E. Housman.
v. 5. Ars poetica /Archibald MacLeish -- Ballad Birmingham /Dudley
Randall -- Birch canoe /Carter Revard -- Cargoes /John Masefield --
Casey at the bat /Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Digging /Seamus Heaney --
Easter 1916 /W.B. Yeats -- Facing it /Yusef Komunyakaa -- The gold
lily /Louise Gluck -- I heard a fly buzz, when I died-- /Emily
Dickinson -- In Flanders fields /John McCrae -- Kubla Khan /Samuel
Taylor Coleridge -- Laments for the Dorsets /Al Purdy -- Leviathan
/W.S. Merwin -- Lost sister /Cathy Song -- Mending wall /Robert Frost
-- Sonnet 55 /William Shakespeare -- A supermarket in California
/Allen Ginsberg -- To his coy mistress /Andrew Marvell.
v. 6. Beware: do not read this poem /Ishmael Reed -- Brazil, January
1, 1502 /Elizabeth Bishop -- Come with me /Robert Bly -- Cool tombs
/Carl Sandburg -- A far cry from Africa /Derek Walcott -- The heaven
of animals /James Dickey -- Helen /H.D. -- Lord Randal /Anonymous --
More light! more light!" /Anthony Hecht -- Onomatopoeia /Eve Merriam
-- Piano /D.H. Lawrence -- The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket /Robert
Lowell -- Queen-Ann's-lace /William Carlos Williams -- Theme for
English B /Langston Hughes -- There's a certain slant of light /Emily
Dickinson -- To my dear loving husband /Anne Bradstreet --We real
cool /Gwendolyn Brooks -- The wood-pile /Robert Frost.
v. 7. American poetry /Louis Simpson -- Barbara Allan /Anonymous -- A
blessing /James Wright -- Butcher shop /Charles Simic -- Fire and ice
/Robert Frost -- For the Union dead /Robert Lowell -- In the land of
Shinar /Denise Levertov -- Inventors /Michael Blumenthal -- Journey
of the magi /T.S. Eliot -- A Martian sends a postcard home /Craig
Raine -- Meeting the British /Paul Muldoon -- The moon glows the same
/Matsuo Basho -- A psalm of life /Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The
second coming /William Butler Yeats -- Siren song /argaret Atwood --
Small town with one road /Gary Soto -- The soldier /Rupert Brooke --
To an athlete dying young /A.E. Housman.
v. 8. At the bomb testing site /William Stafford -- Autumn begins in
Martins Ferry, Ohio /James Wright -- Bedtime story /George MacBeth --
Beware of ruins /A.D. Hope -- The constellation Orion /Ted Kooser --
A drink of water /Seamus heaney -- Drought year /Judith Wright --
Ethics /Linda Pastan -- The force that through the green fuse drives
the flower /Dylan Thomas -- Music lessons /Mary Oliver -- My life
closed twice before it close /Emily Dickinson -- Names of horses
/Donald Hall -- A red, red rose /Robert Burns -- The river-merchant's
wife: a letter /Ezra Pound -- The seafarer /Anonymous -- Sonnet 29
/William Shakespeare -- Starlight /Philip Levine -- To a sad daughter
/Michael Ondaatje -- Vancouver lights /Earle Birney -- Why I am not a
painter /Frank O'Hara.
v. 9. Anasazi /Gary Snyder -- Annabel Lee /Edgar Allan Poe -- Barbie
doll /Marge Piercy -- Bright start! would I were steadfast as thou
art /John Keats -- Eating poetry /Mark Strand -- Elegy written in a
country churchyard /Thomas Gray -- The exhibit /Lisel Mueller -- For
an Assyrian frieze /Peter Viereck -- Four mountain wolves /Leslie
Marmon Silko -- In memory of radio /Amiri Baraka -- The missing
/Thomas Gunn -- Old Ironsides /Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Psalm 8 --
Reactionary essay on applied science /Phillis McGinley -- Sonnet 19
/William Shakespeare -- Saint Francis and the sow /Galway Kinnell --
Trouble with math in a one-room country school" /Jane Kenyon -- War
is kind /Stephen Crane.
v. 10. Alabama centennial /Naomi Long Madgett -- Ballad of orange and
grape /Muriel Rukeyser -- A birthday /Christina Rossetti -- Black
zodiac /Charles Wright -- The bustle in a house /Emily Dickinson --
The cremation of Sam McGee /Robert W. Service -- Dear reader /James
Tate -- Drifters /Bruce Dawe -- Dulce et decorum est /Wilfred Owen --
A farewell to English /Michael Hartnett -- Funeral blues /W.H. Auden
-- The hiding place /Jorie Graham -- How we heard the name /Alan
Dugan -- Landscape with tractor /Henry Taylor -- The negro speaks of
rivers /Langston Hughes -- Out, out /Robert Frost -- The phoenix
/Howard Nemerov.
v. 12. Anorexic /Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb /Philip Larkin --
The base stealer /Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter.
A barn in the Urals /Norman Dubie -- Filling station /Elizabeth
Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St.-Castin /Alden Nowlan
-- A grafted tongue /John Montague -- Having a coke with you /Frank
O'Hara -- Hope is a tattered flag /Carl Sandburg -- The lamb /William
Blake -- maggie and milly and molly and may /e.e. cummings -- My
mother pierced quilts /Teresa Palomo Acosta -- On freedom's ground
/Richard Wilbur -- The rape of the lock /Alexander Pope -- A tall man
executes a jig /Irving Layton -- Wilderness Gothic /Al Purdy.
v. 13. An African elegy /Robert Duncan -- Birches /Robert Frost --
Blood oranges /Lisel Mueller -- Cavalry crossing a Ford /Walt Whitman
-- The conquerors /Phyllis McGinley -- Darwin in 1881 /Gjertrud
Schnackenberg -- Daylights /Rosanna Warren -- For the white poets who
would be Indian /Wendy Rose -- I felt a funeral, in my brain /Emily
Dickinson -- i was sitting in mcsorley's /e.e. cummings -- The idea
of order at Key West /Wallace Stevens -- Leda and the swan /William
Butler Yeats -- The song of the smoke /W.E.B. Du Bois -- To his
excellency General Washington /Phillis Wheatley -- To the virgins, to
make much of time /Robert Herrick -- We live by what we see at night
/Martin Espada.
v. 15. Anniversary /Joy Harjo -- Astonishment /Wislawa Szymborska --
Blackberrying /Sylvia Plath -- Dream variations /Langston Hughes --
For a new citizen of these United States /Li-Young Lee -- Geometry
/Rita Dove -- The horizons of rooms /W.S. Merwin -- The lady of
Shalott /Alfred, Lord Tennyson --The lake isle of Innisfree /W.B.
Yeats -- The mystery /Louise Gluck -- Porphyria's lover /Robert
Browning -- Rusted legacy /Adrienne Rich -- Smart and final iris
/James Tate -- What belongs to us /Marie Howe -- Wild geese /Mary
Oliver.
v. 16. Business /Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Colibri /Martin Espada --
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley /Ezra Pound -- I stop writing the poem /Tess
Gallagher -- Merlin Enthralled /Richard Wilbur -- Much madness is
divinest sense /Emily Dickinson -- My father's song /Simon Ortiz --
Reunions with a ghost /Ai -- Song of a citizen /Czeslaw Milosz --
Sonnet xxix /Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Southbound on the freeway
/May Swenson -- Story from bear country /Leslie Marmon Silko --
Sunday Morning /Wallace Stevens -- Three times my life has opened
/Jane Hirshfield -- Ways to live /William Stafford -- What my child
learns of the sea /Audre Lorde.
v. 17. The arsenal at Springfield /Henry Wadswo
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