Index: Poems

• Conrad Aiken, "Summer"  
• Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach" 
• Margaret Atwood, "It is dangerous to read newspapers"
• W.H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts" 
• Samuel Beckett, "what would I do without this world faceless incurious" 
• John Betjeman, "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel"  
• Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish" 
• William Blake, "Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau" 
• William Blake, "Proverbs of Hell" from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• Margaret Blum, "Three Double Dactyls"
• Emily Brontë, "Hope" 
• Robert Browning, "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church"
• Robert Browning, "A Toccata of Galuppi's"  
• George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Don Juan
• George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Written After Swimming From Sestos to Abydos"
• Geoffrey Chaucer, from The Canterbury Tales: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue"
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"  
• Billy Collins, "Musée des Beaux Arts Revisited" 
• Hart Crane, "Chaplinesque"  
• Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel" 
• E.E. Cummings, "my father moved through dooms of love"
• C. Day Lewis, "Almost Human"
• Emily Dickinson, "The Bible is an antique Volume" 
• Emily Dickinson, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers--"  
• Emily Dickinson, "I like to see it lap the miles" 
• Emily Dickinson, "The Soul has Bandaged moments"
• Emily Dickinson, "Tell the Truth but tell it slant" 
• John Donne, from Holy Sonnets 
• John Donne, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
• Ernest Dowson, "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae" 
• John Dryden, "Prologue to The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island"  
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We wear the mask" 
• Richard Eberhart, "The Groundhog"
• T.S. Eliot, "Five-Finger Exercises"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Snowstorm"   
• William Empson, "Missing Dates" 
• Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" 
• Robert Frost, "Spring Pools"  
• Robert Graves, "The Cool Web" 
• Robert Graves, "Warning to Children"
• Emily Grosholz, "Putting On the Ritz" 
• Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain: Lines on the Loss of the Titanic"  
• Thomas Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush"  
• Thomas Hardy, "The Respectable Burgher on 'The Higher Criticism'" 
• Anthony Hecht, "The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life" 
• George Herbert, "The Collar" 
• Robert Herrick, "The Night Piece, to Julia" 
• Robert Herrick, "Upon Julia's Clothes"  
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal, "Manche freilich..."
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, "No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief"  
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child" 
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, "That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection"
• A.E. Housman, "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now" 
• A.E. Housman, "'Terence, this is stupid stuff'"
• Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B" 
• Robinson Jeffers, "Hurt Hawks"   
• Patrick Kavanagh, "Lecture Hall" 
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
• John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" 
• Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"
• Stanley Kunitz, "The War Against the Trees"  
• D.H. Lawrence, "Bavarian Gentians" 
• D.H. Lawrence, "Snake" 
• Vachel Lindsay, "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Chaucer"  
• Richard Lovelace, "To Althea, From Prison"  
• Archibald MacLeish, "You, Andrew Marvell"
• Louis MacNeice, "Snow"  
• Andrew Marvell, "The Garden"
• Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
• Claude McKay, "America" 
• Herman Melville, "Shiloh: A Requiem (April 1862)"  
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Dirge Without Music"
• John Milton, from Paradise Lost
• John Milton, "When I consider how my light is spent" 
• Marianne Moore, "Peter" 
• Marianne Moore, "What Are Years?"
• Edwin Muir, "The Horses"  
• Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"  
• William Plomer, "In the Snake Park" 
• Edgar Allan Poe, "Sonnet--To Science" 
• Alexander Pope, from The Dunciad
• Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro" 
• Ezra Pound, "A Study in Aesthetics"  
• John Crowe Ransom, "Here Lies a Lady" 
• Kenneth Rexroth, "Proust's Madeleine" 
• Laura Riding, "With the Face" 
• Rainer Maria Rilke, from Sonnets to Orpheus 
• Arthur Rimbaud, "Voyelles" 
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, "New England"  
• Theodore Roethke, "I Knew a Woman" 
• Christina Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio" 
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Silent Noon" from The House of Life 
• William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought)  
• William Shakspeare, "When that I was and a little tiny boy" 
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"  
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark" 
  
• Philip Sidney, "Ye goatherd gods, that love the grassy mountains" 
• Christopher Smart, "From Jubilate Agno"  
• Stevie Smith, "Was He Married?"
• Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar"  
• Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West" 
• Wallace Stevens, "To an Old Philosopher in Rome" 
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, from Atalanta in Calydon 
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Sundew"
  
• Allen Tate, "Last Days of Alice" 
• Edward Taylor, "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" 
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from The Princess ("Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white") 
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Tithonus" 
• Edward Thomas, "Lights Out" 
• Edward Thomas, "The Path" 
• Henry David Thoreau, "I am a parcel of vain strivings tied" 
• Jean Toomer, "Georgia Dusk"  
• Henry Vaughan, "The World"  
• Paul Verlaine, "Art Poétique"
• Robert Penn Warren, "Bearded Oaks"  
• Vernon Watkins, "Waterfalls" 
• Walt Whitman, "To a Locomotive in Winter"
• Walt Whitman, "Vigil strange I kept on the field one night"   
• Richard Wilbur, "The Death of a Toad" 
• Richard Wilbur, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
• William Carlos Williams, "The Dance"  
• William Carlos Williams, "Poem" 
• William Carlos Williams, "The Yachts"  
• Yvor Winters, "Time and the Garden" 
• William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with us; late and soon" 
• Richard Wright, "Four Haiku"  
• Thomas Wyatt, "They flee from me, that sometime did me seek"  
• William Butler Yeats, "Among School Children" 
• William Butler Yeats, "Lapis Lazuli"  
• William Butler Yeats, "When you are old and gray and full of sleep" 
• Zhang Zhen, "The Cat at My Friend's House"
• Louis Zukofsky, "Tall and singularly dark you pass among the breakers"