Letter to Alex Comfort / Dannie Abse
Prelude XIV. Prelude LVI / Conrad Aiken
Visit. The wide land / A.R. Ammons
Civilization and its discontents. Faust / John Ashbery
Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day. Musée des Beaux Arts. As I walked out one evening / W.H. Auden
To my mother. From To my son / George Barker
The European shoe. Some litanies / Michael Benedikt
Winter landscape. Dream song 14. Dream song 62. Dream song 76: Henry's confession. Dream song 77 / John Berryman
A subaltern's love-song. Youth and age on Beaulieu River, Hants / John Betjeman
Letter to N.Y.A cold spring. Florida. The prodigal / Elizabeth Bishop
Women. Evening in the sanitarium / Louise Bogan
Ego. First lesson / Philip Booth
Hotel Paradiso e Commerciale. Nuns at eve / John Malcolm Brinnin
Elegy just in case / John Ciardi
Miss Rosie. For deLawd. Good times / Lucille Clifton
Ars poetica about ultimates. Aware aware. Just afater noon with fierce shears / Tram Combs
nobody loses all the time. anyone lived in a pretty how town. somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond. when serpents bargain for the right to squirm / E.E. Cummings
Lunch at the Coq D'or. The star watcher / Peter Davison
For the nightly ascent of the hunter Orion over a forest clearing. Cherrylog road / James Dickey
Memorial service for the invasion beach where the vacation in the flesh is over. The mirror perilous / Alan Dugan
New Hampshire, February. The fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart
Preludes. The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Portrait of a lady. Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot
The laughing hyena, by Hokusai. University examinations in Egypt / D.J. Enright
The death of Vitellozzo Vitelli. The old men / Irving Feldman
The imprisoned. Cobb would have caught it. Souls lake / Robert Fitzgerald
The cell of himself / Arthur Freeman.
Acquainted with the night. Stopping by woods on a snowy evening. The road not taken. The runaway. Provide, provide. The silken tent / Robert Frost
The mouse. The stranger / Jean Garrigue
An elegy / David Gascoyne
A supermarket in California. Uptown / Allen Ginsberg
Flying crooked. To Juan at the winter solstice. In procession / Robert Graves
On the move. Black jackets. From the highest camp. Considering the snail / Thom Gunn
The sleeping giant. The body politic / Donald Hall
"Summertime and the living ..." / Robert Hayden
Digging. Twice shy / Seamus Heaney
A charm against the tooth-ache. The lady's complaint / John Heath-Stubbs
Samuel Sewall. "More light! More light!" Lizards and snakes / Anthony Hecht
The survivors. Untitled / Daryl Hine
The seals in Penobscot Bay / Daniel Hoffman
The lady's maid song. The great bear / John Hollander
Crepuscular / Richard Howard
Chimera. Home leave / Barbara Howes
Hawk Roosting. View of a pig / Ted Hughes
Simultaneously. News report. The bagel / David Ignatow
Nestus Gurley. The woman at the Washington zoo. The snow-leopard / Randall Jarrell
Memo from the desk of X. The tourist from Syracuse / Donald Justice
Afterwards, they shall dance. To my son Parker, asleep in the next room / Bob Kaufman
Artificer. Driving cross-country / X.J. Kennedy
First song. Duck-chasing. To Christ our Lord / Galway Kinnell
The secret garden. Folk wisdom / Thomas Kinsella
The science of the night. Father and son / Stanley Kunitz.
Poetry of departures. Church going / Philip Larkin
Bedtime. Psalm concerning the castle / Denise Levertov
Departure in the dark. Reconciliation. The dead / Cecil Day Lewis
Ford Madox Ford. Death from cancer. For the Union dead. Mr. Edwards and the spider / Robert Lowell
The lesson. Poet in winter / Edward Lucie-Smith
You, Andrew Marvell. "Not marble nor the gilded monuments" / Archibald MacLeish
The sunlight on the garden. Morning sun. Prayer before birth / Louis MacNeice
Kite poem. Laboratory poem. Voices form the other world / James Merrill
Thorn leaves in March. The drunk in the furnace / W.S. Merwin
In some seer's cloud car. Edward Lear in February / Christopher Middleton
A carriage from Sweden. The student. Four quartz crystal clocks / Marianne Moore
The gift to be simple. Underwood. Great spaces / Howard Moss
Learning by doing. Mousemeal / Howard Nemerov
The peaceable kingdom / Marge Piercy
The applicant. Daddy / Sylvia Plath
Further instructions. Commission. The garden. Portrait d'une femme. The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound
Survey of literature. Dead boy. Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom
I knew a woman. Prayer. A field of light. Elegy for Jane. The waking / Theodore Roethke
Boy with his hair cut short. Effort at speech between two people / Muriel Rukeyser.
The ballet of the fifth year. The heavy bear who goes with me. Baudelaire / Delmore Schwartz
Midsummer. The glass blower / James Scully
Letter written on a ferry crossing Long Island. Sound. Her kind / Anne Sexton
Nostalgia. Haircut. Drug store / Karl Shapiro
Death of a son / Jon Silkin
Hot night on Water Street. My father in the night commanding no / Louis Simpson
A disappearance in West Cedar Street. In and out: severance of connections, 1946 / L.E. Sissman
Heart and mind. Still falls the rain. Scotch rhapsody / Edith Sitwell
American primitive. Independence Day. The closing the rodeo / William Jay Smith
The campus on the hill. April inventory / W.D. Snodgrass
The express. An elementary school class room in a slum. Port Bou / Stephen Spender
Bone thoughts on a dry day. New strain / George Starbuck
The poems of our climate. The sense of the sleight-of-hand man. Mrs. Alfred Uruguay. Peter Quince at the clavier / Wallace Stevens
The tunnel. The last bus / Mark Strand
The centaur / May Swenson
Mr. Pope. Death of little boys / Allen Tate
The lost pilot / James Tate
The hunchback in the park. A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London. Do not go gentle into that good night. Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas
Las Trampas U.S.A. At barstow / Charles Tomlinson
Ruins of a great house / Derek Walcott
Bearded oaks. Pursuit / Robert Penn Warren
The heron. The lady with the unicorn / Vernon Watkins
The last day and the first / Theodore Weiss
The birth of a shark / David Wevill
Digging for China. Beasts. A baroque wall-fountain in the Villa Sciarra. Advice to a Prophet / Richard Wilbur
Pastoral. The lonely street. Tract. The bull / William Carlos Williams
A blessing. Inscription for the tank / James Wright.