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POETRY FOR STUDENTS 

Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry 

Each entry, or chapter, focuses on one poem. The following elements are contained in each entry: Introduction, 

Author Biography, Plot Summary, Characters, Themes, Style, Historical and Cultural Context, Critical 

Overview, Sources, For Further Study, Criticism, Media Adaptations, Compare and Contrast Box, What Do I 

Read Next?, and Study Questions. Each volume is indexed by author, title, nationality/ethnicity, subject, and 

theme and includes a glossary of literary terms. 

Author Title Series Vol 

Frost Robert Acquainted with the Night 

Tu-jin Pak August River 

Kinnell Galway Blackberry Eating 

Byron Lord Childe Harold's Pilgramage 

Mitchell Susan Dead, The 

Dickinson Emily I'm Nobody! Who are You? 

Milosz Czeslaw In Music 

Robinson Edwin Arlington Miniver Cheevy 

Brodsky Joseph Odysseus to Telemachus 

Stevens Wallace Of Modern Poetry 

Shakespeare William Seven Ages of Man 

Neruda Pablo Sonnet 89 

Donne John Song 

Mora Pat Uncoiling 

Giovanni Nikki Winter 

Wright Charles Words and the Diminution of All Things 

O'Hara Frank Autobiographia Literaria 

Pushkin Alexander Bridegroom, The 

St. Vincent Millay Edna Conscientious Objector 

Blake William Fly, The 

Mort Valzhyna Grandmother 

Walcott Derek Midsummer, Tobago 

Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee My Mother Combs My Hair 

Szymborska Wislawa Possibilities 

Cummings E.e. since feeling is first 

Emerson Ralph Waldo Snowstorm, The 

Yeats William Butler Stolen Child, The 

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Lovelace Richard To Althea, from Prison 

Williams William Carlos This Is Just to Say 

Rosetti Christina Uphill 

Roethke Theodore Waking, The 

Walker Alice Women 

Simic Charles Classic Ballroom Dances 

Mora Pat Elena 

Neruda Pablo Full Powers 

Eliot T.S. Hollow Men, The 

Wordsworth William I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 

Sandburg Carl Jazz Fantasia 

Voigt Ellen Bryant Lotus Flowers, The 

Plath Sylvia Mushrooms 

Bronte Emily Old Stoic 

Jonson Ben On My First Son 

Nye Naomi Shihab Shoulders 

Dunbar Paul Laurence Sympathy 

ha-Nagid Shmuel Two Eclipses 

Bradstreet Anne Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 

Hongo Garrett What For 

Angelou Maya Woman Work 

Frost Robert After Apple-Picking 

Bontemps Arna Black Man Talks of Reaping, A 

Akhmatova Anna Everything Is Plundered 

Brooks Gwendolyn Explorer, The 

Pastan Linda Grudnow 

Lord Audre Hanging Fire 

Hughes Ted Horses, The 

Okita Dwight In Response to Executive Order 9066 

Fu Tu Jade Flower Palace 

Keats John On the Grasshopper and the Cricket 

Harjo Joy Remember 

Spenser Edmund Sonnet 75 

Dickinson Emily Success is counted sweetest 

Shelley Percey Bysshe To a Skylark 

Piercy Marge To be of use 

Lovelace Richard To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 

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St. Vincent Millay Edna Ancient Gesture, An 

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Oliver Mary Black Snake, The 

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Bishop Elizabeth Fish, The 

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Nash Ogden Hippopotamus, The 

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Taylor Edward Huswifery 

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Garcia Lorca Federico Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias 

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Walker Margaret Lineage 

PFS 31 

Jarrell Randall Losses 

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Whitman Walt Noiseless Patient Spider, A 

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Boland Eavan Outside History 

PFS 31 

Hayden Robert Runagate Runagate PFS 

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Szymborska Wislawa Some People Like Poetry 

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Toomer Jean Storm Ending 

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Levertov Denise Tree Telling of Orpheus, A 

PFS 31 

Longfellow Henry W. Wreck of the Hesperus, The PFS 

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Sappho Fragment 2 

PFS 31 

Cummings E(dward) E(stlin) anyone lived in a pretty how town PFS 30 

Swenson May Centaur, The PFS 30 

Heaney Seamus Follower PFS 30 

Cervantes Lorna Dee Freeway 280 PFS 30 

Walker Alice Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning PFS 30 

Hughes Langston I, Too PFS 30 

Finch Anne Nocturnal Reverie, A PFS 30 

Soto Gary Oranges PFS 30 

Berry Wendell Peace of Wild Things, The PFS 30 

Komunyakaa Yusef Slam, Dunk, & Hook PFS 30 

Paz Octavio 

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Lowell Amy Taxi, The PFS 30 

Bryant William Cullen Thanatopsis PFS 30 

Carroll Lewis Walrus and the Carpenter, The PFS 30 

Sidney Sir Philip Ye Goatherd Gods PFS 30 

Sexton Anne Young PFS 30 

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Youssef Saadi America, America PFS 29 

Tsvetayeva Marina An Attempt at Jealousy PFS 29 

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Yevtushenko Yevgeny Babii Yar PFS 29 

Rich Adrienne Diving into the Wreck PFS 29 

Milosz Czeslaw From the Rising of the Sun PFS 29 

Snodgrass W. D. Heart's Needle PFS 29 

Clifton Lucille homage to my hips PFS 29 

Ginsberg Allen Howl PFS 29 

Wilbur Richard Love Calls Us to the Things of This World PFS 29 

Trethewey Natasha Native Guard PFS 29 

Herrick Robert The Night-piece, to Julia PFS 29 

Wheatley Phillis On Being Brought from Africa to America PFS 29 

Lim Shirley Geok-lin Pantoum for Chinese Women PFS 29 

Fraser Kathleen Poem in Which My Legs Are Accepted PFS 29 

Rukeyser Muriel St. Roach PFS 29 

Byron Lord When We Two Parted PFS 29 

ALL PUBLISHED or TYPESET VOLUMES 

Tennyson Alfred Lord Charge of the Light Brigade, The PFS 1 

Johnson James Weldon Creation, The PFS 1 

Byron Lord Destruction of Sennacherib, The PFS 1 

Thomas Dylan Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night PFS 1 

Hughes Langston Harlem PFS 1 

Yeats William Butler Irish Airman Foresees His Death, An PFS 1 

Cummings E(dward) E(stlin) l(a PFS 1 

Eliot T(homas) S(tearns) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The PFS 1 

Plath Sylvia Mirror PFS 1 

Clifton (Thelma) Lucille Miss Rosie PFS 1 

Auden W(ystan) H(ugh) Musee des Beaux Arts PFS 1 

Browning Robert My Last Duchess PFS 1 

Keats John Ode on a Grecian Urn PFS 1 

Poe Edgar Allan Raven, The PFS 1 

Williams William Carlos Red Wheelbarrow, The PFS 1 

Shakespeare William Sonnet 130 PFS 1 

Brooks Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) Sonnet-Ballad, The PFS 1 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) Soul Selects Her Own Society, The PFS 1 

Frost Robert (Lee) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening PFS 1 

Anonymous Swing Low Sweet Chariot PFS 1 

Dove Rita (Frances) This Life PFS 1 

Hayden Robert E(arl) Those Winter Sundays PFS 1 



Momaday N. Scott Angle of Geese PFS 2 

Brooks Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) Bean Eaters, The PFS 2 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) Because I Could Not Stop for Death PFS 2 

Jarrell Randall Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, The PFS 2 

Arnold Matthew Dover Beach PFS 2 

Basho Matsuo Falling upon Earth PFS 2 

Stafford William Fifteen PFS 2 

Angelou Maya Harlem Hopscotch PFS 2 

Donne John Holy Sonnet 10 (Death Be Not Proud) PFS 2 

Pound Ezra In a Station of the Metro PFS 2 

Heaney Seamus (Justin) Midnight PFS 2 

Whitman Walt(er) O Captain! My Captain! PFS 2 

Shelley Percy Bysshe Ode to the West Wind PFS 2 

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Paul Revere's Ride PFS 2 

Frost Robert (Lee) Road Not Taken, The PFS 2 

Yeats William Butler Sailing to Byzantium PFS 2 


Browning Elizabeth Barrett Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?) PFS 2 

Wordsworth William Tintern Abbey PFS 2 

Blake William Tyger, The PFS 2 

Tennyson Alfred Lord Ulysses PFS 2 

Keats John When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be PFS 2 

McElroy Colleen A Pied PFS 3 

Cullen Countee Any Human to Another PFS 3 

Shapiro Karl Auto Wreck PFS 3 

Poe Edgar Allan Bells, The PFS 3 

Sandburg Carl Chicago PFS 3 

St. Vincent Millay Edna Courage That My Mother Had, The PFS 3 

Thomas Dylan Fern Hill PFS 3 

Larkin Philip (Arthur) High Windows PFS 3 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) Hope is the Thing with Feathers PFS 3 

Jeffers Robinson Hurt Hawks PFS 3 

Whitman Walt(er) I Hear America Singing PFS 3 

Hardy Thomas Man He Killed, The PFS 3 

Hughes Langston Mother to Son PFS 3 

Roethke Theodore My Papa's Waltz PFS 3 

Smith Stevie Not Waving but Drowning PFS 3 

Frost Robert (Lee) Nothing Gold Can Stay PFS 3 



Keats John Ode to a Nightingale PFS 3 

Cummings E(dward) E(stlin) old age sticks PFS 3 

Milton John On His Blindness PFS 3 

Angelou Maya On the Pulse of the Morning PFS 3 


Auden W(ystan) H(ugh) Unknown Citizen, The PFS 3 

Hardy Thomas Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? PFS 4 

Auden W(ystan) H(ugh) As I Walked Out One Evening PFS 4 

Emerson Ralph Waldo Concord Hymn PFS 4 

Frost Robert (Lee) Death of the Hired Man, The PFS 4 

Hughes Ted Hawk Roosting PFS 4 

Noyes Alfred Highwayman, The PFS 4 

Ortiz Simon Hunger in New York City PFS 4 

Sexton Anne Oysters PFS 4 

Anonymous Psalm 23 PFS 4 

Robinson Edwin Arlington Richard Cory PFS 4 

Coleridge Samuel Taylor Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The PFS 4 

Jeffers Robinson Shine, Perishing Republic PFS 4 

Anonymous Sir Patrick Spens PFS 4 


Brooks Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) Strong Men Riding Horses PFS 4 

Tennyson Alfred Lord Tears, Idle Tears PFS 4 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) This Is My Letter to the World PFS 4 

Larkin Philip (Arthur) Toads PFS 4 

McKay Claude Tropics in New York, The PFS 4 

Housman A(fred) E(dward) When I Was One and Twenty PFS 4 

MacLeish Archibald Ars Poetica PFS 5 

Randall Dudley Ballad of Birmingham PFS 5 

Revard Carter Birch Canoe PFS 5 

Masefield John (Edward) Cargoes PFS 5 

Thayer Ernest Lawrence Casey at the Bat PFS 5 

Heaney Seamus (Justin) Digging PFS 5 

Yeats William Butler Easter 1916 PFS 5 

Komunyakaa Yusef Facing It PFS 5 

Gluck Louise (Elisabeth) Gold Lilly, The PFS 5 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died-- PFS 5 

McCrae John In Flanders Fields PFS 5 



Coleridge Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan PFS 5 

Purdy Al Lament for the Dorsets PFS 5 

Merwin W. S. Leviathan PFS 5 

Song Cathy Lost Sister PFS 5 

Frost Robert (Lee) Mending Wall PFS 5 

Shakespeare William Sonnet 55 (Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments) PFS 5 

Ginsberg Allen Supermarket in California, A PFS 5 

Marvell Andrew To His Coy Mistress PFS 5 

Reed Ishmael Beware: Do Not Read This Poem PFS 6 

Bishop Elizabeth Brazil, January 1, 1502 PFS 6 

Bly Robert (Elwood) Come with Me PFS 6 

Sandburg Carl Cool Tombs PFS 6 

Walcott Derek Far Cry from Africa, A PFS 6 

Dickey James Heaven of Animals, The PFS 6 

Doolittle Hilda (H.D.) Helen PFS 6 

Anonymous Lord Randal PFS 6 

Hecht Anthony (Evan) More Light! More Light!" PFS 6 

Merriam Eve Onomatopoeia PFS 6 

Lawrence D. H. Piano PFS 6 

Lowell Robert (Traill Spence Jr.) Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, The PFS 6 

Williams William Carlos Queen-Ann's-Lace PFS 6 

Hughes Langston Theme for English B PFS 6 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) There's a Certain Slant of Light PFS 6 

Bradstreet Anne To My Dear and Loving Husband PFS 6 

Brooks Gwendolyn (Elizabeth) We Real Cool PFS 6 

Frost Robert (Lee) Wood-Pile, The PFS 6 

Simpson Louis American Poetry PFS 7 

Anonymous Barbara Allen PFS 7 

Wright James A. Blessing, A PFS 7 

Simic Charles Butcher Shop PFS 7 

Frost Robert (Lee) Fire and Ice PFS 7 

Lowell Robert (Traill Spence Jr.) For the Union Dead PFS 7 

Levertov Denise In the Land of Shinar PFS 7 

Blumenthal Michael Inventors PFS 7 

Eliot T(homas) S(tearns) Journey of the Magi PFS 7 

Raine Craig Martian Sends a Postcard Home, A PFS 7 

Muldoon Paul Meeting the British PFS 7 



Basho Matsuo Moon Glows the Same, The PFS 7 

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Psalm of Life, A PFS 7 

Yeats William Butler Second Coming, The PFS 7 

Atwood Margaret Siren Song PFS 7 

Soto Gary Small Town with One Road PFS 7 

Brooke Rupert (Chawner) Soldier, The PFS 7 

Housman A(fred) E(dward) To an Athlete Dying Young PFS 7 

Stafford William At the Bomb Testing Site PFS 8 

Wright James Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio PFS 8 

MacBeth George (Mann) Bedtime Story PFS 8 

Hope A(lec) D(erwent) Beware of Ruins PFS 8 

Kooser Ted Constellation Orion, The PFS 8 

Heaney Seamus (Justin) Drink of Water, A PFS 8 

Wright Judith Drought Year PFS 8 

Pastan Linda Ethics PFS 8 

Thomas Dylan Force That Through the Green Fuse . . . PFS 8 

Oliver Mary Music Lessons PFS 8 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) My Life Closed Twice before Its Close PFS 8 

Hall Donald (Andrew Jr.) Names of Horses PFS 8 

Burns Robert Red, Red Rose, A PFS 8 

Pound Ezra River Merchant's Wife, The PFS 8 

Anonymous Seafarer, The PFS 8 


Levine Philip Starlight PFS 8 

Ondaatje Michael To a Sad Daughter PFS 8 

Birney (Alfred) Earle Vanouver Lights PFS 8 

O'Hara Frank Why I Am Not a Painter PFS 8 

Snyder Gary Anasazi PFS 9 

Poe Edgar Allan Annabel Lee PFS 9 

Piercy Marge Barbie Doll PFS 9 

Keats John Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art PFS 9 

Strand Mark Eating Poetry PFS 9 

Gray Thomas Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard PFS 9 

Mueller Lisel Exhibit, The PFS 9 

Viereck Peter For an Assyrian Frieze PFS 9 

Silko Leslie Marmon Four Mountain Wolves PFS 9 

Baraka Amiri In Memory of Radio PFS 9 



Gunn Thom(son William) Missing, The PFS 9 

Holmes Oliver Wendell Old Ironsides PFS 9 

King James Bible Psalm 8 PFS 9 

McGinley Phyllis Reactionary Essay on Applied Science PFS 9 

Shakespeare William Sonnet 19 (Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's 

paws . . .) 

PFS 9 

Kinnell Galway St. Francis and the Sow PFS 9 

Kenyon Jane Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School PFS 9 

Crane Stephen War Is Kind PFS 9 

Madgett Naomi Long Alabama Centennial PFS 10 

Rukeyser Muriel Ballad of Orange and Grape PFS 10 

Rossetti Christina Birthday, A PFS 10 

Wright Charles Black Zodiac PFS 10 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) Bustle in the House, The PFS 10 

Service Robert Cremation of Sam McGee, The PFS 10 

Tate James Dear Reader PFS 10 

Dawe Bruce Drifters PFS 10 

Owen Wilfred Dulce et Decorum Est PFS 10 

Hartnett Michael Farewell to English, A PFS 10 

Auden W(ystan) H(ugh) Funeral Blues PFS 10 

Graham Jorie Hiding Place, The PFS 10 

Dugan Alan How We Heard the Name PFS 10 

Taylor Henry Landscape with Tractor PFS 10 

Hughes Langston Negro Speaks of Rivers, The PFS 10 

Frost Robert (Lee) Out, Out-- PFS 10 

Nemerov Howard Phoenix, The PFS 10 

Wilbur Richard Beowulf PFS 11 

Simpson Louis Chocolates PFS 11 

Tennyson Alfred, Lord Eagle, The PFS 11 

Anonymous Go Down, Moses PFS 11 

Dickey James (Lafayette) Hospital Window PFS 11 

Rios Alberto Island of the Three Marias PFS 11 

Carroll Lewis Jabberwocky PFS 11 

Fenton James Martin Milk Fish Gatherers, The PFS 11 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) Narrow Fellow in the Grass, A PFS 11 

Williams William Carlos Overture to a Dance of Locomotives PFS 11 

Ashbery John Paradoxes and Oxymorons PFS 11 



Momaday N. Scott To a Child Running in Canyon de Chelly PFS 11 

Neruda Pablo Tonight I Can Write PFS 11 

Donne John Valediction: Forbidden Mourning PFS 11 

Kunitz Stanley (Jasspon) War against the Trees, The PFS 11 

Lee Li-Young Weight of Sweetness, The PFS 11 

Boland Eavan (Aisling) Anorexic PFS 12 

Larkin Philip (Arthur) Arundel Tomb PFS 12 

Francis Robert Base Stealer, The PFS 12 

Dubie Norman (Evans) Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals, PFS 12 

Bishop Elizabeth Filling Station PFS 12 

Nowlan Alden For Jean Vincent d'Abbadie, Baron St.-Castin PFS 12 

Montague John Grafted Tongue, A PFS 12 

O'Hara Frank Having a Coke With You PFS 12 

Sandburg Carl Hope Is a Tattered Flag PFS 12 

Blake William Lamb, The PFS 12 

Cummings E(dward) E(stlin) maggie and millie and molly PFS 12 

Acosta Teresa Palomo My Mother Pieced Quilts PFS 12 

Wilbur Richard On Freedom's Ground PFS 12 

Pope Alexander Rape of the Lock, The PFS 12 

Layton Irving (Peter) Tall Man Executes a Jig, A PFS 12 

Purdy Al Wilderness Gothic PFS 12 

Duncan Robert African Elegy, An PFS 13 

Frost Robert (Lee) Birches PFS 13 

Mueller Lisel Blood Oranges PFS 13 

Whitman Walt(er) Cavalry Crossing a Ford PFS 13 

McGinley Phyllis Conquerors, The PFS 13 

Schnackenberg Gjertrud Darwin in 1881 PFS 13 

Warren Rosanna Daylights PFS 13 

Rose Wendy For the White Poets Who Would Be Indians PFS 13 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) I Felt a Funeral in My Brain PFS 13 

Cummings E(dward) E(stlin) I was sitting at mcsorleys PFS 13 

Stevens Wallace Idea of Order at Key West, The PFS 13 

Yeats William Butler Leda and the Swan PFS 13 

Du Bois W(illiam) E(dward) B 

(urghadt) 

Song of the Smoke, The PFS 13 

Wheatley Phillis To His Excellency, General Washington PFS 13 

Herrick Robert To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time PFS 13 



Espada Martin We Live by What We See at Night PFS 13 

Erdrich Louise Bidwell Ghost PFS 14 

Chaucer Geoffrey Canterbury Tales, The PFS 14 

Clifton (Thelma) Lucille Climbing PFS 14 

Sexton Anne Courage PFS 14 

Nemerov Howard Deep Woods PFS 14 

Hudgins Andrew (Leon, Jr.) Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead PFS 14 

Moore Marianne Fish, The PFS 14 

Simpson Louis In the Suburbs PFS 14 

Justice Donald (Rodney) Incident in a Rose Garden PFS 14 

Viereck Peter Kilroy PFS 14 

Brouwer Joel Last Request (Exactly What Happened) PFS 14 

Raleigh Walter Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, The PFS 14 

Byron Lord She Walks in Beauty PFS 14 

Lanier Sidney Song of the Chattahoochee PFS 14 

Rossetti Christina Sonnet ["Remember"] PFS 14 

Teasdale Sara There Will come Soft Rains PFS 14 

Harjo Joy Anniversary PFS 15 

Szymborska Wislawa Astonishment PFS 15 

Plath Sylvia Blackberrying PFS 15 

Hughes (James) Langston Dream Variation PFS 15 

Lee Li-Young For a Citizen of These United States PFS 15 

Dove Rita (Frances) Geometry PFS 15 

Merwin W(illiam) S(tanley) Horizons of Rooms PFS 15 

Tennyson Alfred Lady of Shallott, The PFS 15 

Yeats William Butler Lake Isle of Innisfree, The PFS 15 

Browning Robert Porphyria's Lover PFS 15 

Rich Adrienne (Cecile) Rusted Legacy PFS 15 

Tate James (Vincent) Smart and Final Iris PFS 15 

Gluck Louise (Elisabeth) The Mystery PFS 15 

Howe Marie What Belongs to Us PFS 15 

Oliver Mary Wild Geese PFS 15 

Cruz Victor Hernandez Business PFS 16 

Espada Martin Colibri PFS 16 

Pound Ezra (Weston Loomis) Hugh Selwyn Mauberly PFS 16 

Gallagher Tess I Stop Writing the Poem PFS 16 



Wilbur Richard (Purdy) Merlin Enthralled PFS 16 

Dickinson Emily (Elizabeth) Much Madness is Divinest Sense PFS 16 

Ortiz Simon J(oseph) My Father's Song PFS 16 

Ai Reunions with a Ghost PFS 16 

Milosz Czeslaw Song of a Citizen PFS 16 

Browning Elizabeth Barrett Sonnet 29 (Sonnets from the Portugese) PFS 16 

Swenson May Southbound on the Freeway PFS 16 

Silko Leslie (Marmon) Story from Bear Country PFS 16 

Stevens Wallace Sunday Morning PFS 16 

Hirshfield Jane Three Times My Life Has Opened PFS 16 

Stafford William (Edgar) Ways to Live PFS 16 

Lorde Audre (Geraldine) What My Child Learns of the Sea PFS 16 

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Arsenal at Springfield, The PFS 17 

Keats John Belle dame sans merci, La PFS 17 

Levertov Denise Blue Rim of Memory, The PFS 17 

Carver Raymond Cobweb, The PFS 17 

Bly Robert (Elwood) Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter PFS 17 

Lee Li-Young Early in the Morning PFS 17 

Hugo Richard F(ranklin) For Jennifer, 6, On The Teton PFS 17 

Kenyon Jane Having it out with Melancholy PFS 17 

Olds Sharon I Go Back to May 1937 PFS 17 

Giovanni Nikki Knoxville, Tennesee PFS 17 

Graham Jorie Mind PFS 17 

Milton John On His Having Arrived at the Age of 23 PFS 17 

Moore Marianne (Craig) Poetry PFS 17 

Emerson Ralph Waldo Rhodora, The PFS 17 

Heaney Seamus (Justin) Singer's House, The PFS 17 

Millay Edna St. Vincent Wild Swans PFS 17 

Tagore Rabindranath #60 PFS 18 

Kumin Maxine (Winokur) Address to the Angels PFS 18 

Collins Billy Afterlife, The PFS 18 

Strand Mark Continuous Life, The PFS 18 

Ali Agha Shahid Country Without A Post Office PFS 18 

Hardy Thomas Darkling Thrush, The PFS 18 

Paz Octavio Duration PFS 18 

Forche Carolyn (Louise) Garden Shukkei-En, The PFS 18 

Rogers Pattiann Greatest Grandeur, The PFS 18 



Parker Dorothy (Rothschild) Last Question, The PFS 18 

Akhmatova Anna Midnight Verses PFS 18 

Carson Anne New Rule PFS 18 

Pinsky Robert Song of Reasons PFS 18 

Huang Ho Xuan Spring-Watching Pavilion PFS 18 

Basho Matsuo Temple Bells Die Out PFS 18 

Kizer Carolyn (Ashley) To An Unknown Poet PFS 18 

Ackerman Diane On Location in the Loire Valley PFS 19 

Ammons A(rchie) R(andolph) City Limits, The PFS 19 

Bass Ellen And What if I Spoke of Despair? PFS 19 

Bialosky Jill Seven Seeds PFS 19 

Cavafy C(onstantine) P(eter) Ithaca PFS 19 

Cisneros Sandra Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity PFS 19 

Cummings E(dward) E(stlin) somewhere i have never traveled PFS 19 

Hacker Marilyn Boy, The PFS 19 

Hoagland Anthony Dey Social Life PFS 19 

Hughes Ted Perfect Light PFS 19 

Ondaatje (Philip) Michael Cinnamon Peeler, The PFS 19 

Ostriker Alicia (Suskin) His Speed and Strength PFS 19 

Rilke Rainer Maria Childhood PFS 19 

Snyder Gary (Sherman) True Night PFS 19 

Stone Ruth Ordinary Words PFS 19 

Tennyson Alfred Proem from In Memoriam A.H.H., The PFS 19 

Hillman Brenda Air for Mercury PFS 20 

Hebert Anne Alchemy of Day, The PFS 20 

Sachs Nelly But Perhaps God Needs the Longing PFS 20 

Po Li Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon PFS 20 

Garcia Lorca Federico Gacela of the Dark Death PFS 20 

Dennis Carl God Who Loves You, The PFS 20 

Sappho Hymn to Aphrodite PFS 20 

Byrne Elena Karina In Particular PFS 20 

Van Duyn Mona Memoir PFS 20 

Loy Mina Moreover, the Moon PFS 20 

Komunyakaa Yusef Ode to a Drum PFS 20 

Koch Kenneth Paradiso PFS 20 

Gregg Linda Thirst Against, A PFS 20 

Pavese Cesare Two Poems for T. PFS 20 



Ungaretti Giuseppe Variations on Nothing PFS 20 

Eliot T. S. Waste Land, The PFS 20 

Alegria Claribel Accounting PFS 21 

Transtromer Tomas Answers to Letters PFS 21 

Creeley Robert Fading Light PFS 21 

Spires Elizabeth Ghazal PFS 21 

Baudelaire Charles Hymn to Beauty PFS 21 

Celan Paul Late and Deep PFS 21 

Swir Anna Maternity PFS 21 

Arvio Sarah Memory PFS 21 

Malroux Claire Morning Walk PFS 21 

Biele Joelle Rapture PFS 21 

Farrokhzaad Faroogh Rebirth, A PFS 21 

Dunn Stephen Reverse Side, The PFS 21 

Grennan Eamon Station PFS 21 

Behn Robin Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning PFS 21 

Castillo Ana While I Was Gone a War Began PFS 21 

Bogan Louise Words for Departure PFS 21 

Piercy Marge Apple sauce for Eve PFS 22 

Lazic Radmila Death Sentences PFS 22 

Stewart Susan Forest, The PFS 22 

Kipling Rudyard If PFS 22 

Boland Eavan It's a Woman's World PFS 22 

Ovid Metamorphoses PFS 22 

Hirsch Edward Omen PFS 22 

Montale Eugenio On the Threshold PFS 22 

Marlowe Christopher Passionate Shepherd to His Love, The PFS 22 

Muldoon Paul Pineapples and Pomegranates PFS 22 

Kelly Brigit Pegeen Satyr's Heart, The PFS 22 

Alexander Elizabeth Toni Morrison Dreams, The PFS 22 

Salter Mary Jo Trompe l'Oeil PFS 22 

Hashimoto Sharon What I Would Ask My Husband's Dead Father PFS 22 

Whitman Walt When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer PFS 22 

Herbert Zbigniew Why The Classics PFS 22 

Bang Mary Jo Allegory PFS 23 

Phillips Carl All It Takes PFS 23 



Saje Natasha Art of the Novel, The PFS 23 

Browning Elizabeth Barrett Aurora Leigh PFS 23 

Machado Antonio Crime Was in Granada, The PFS 23 

Spender Stephen Elementary School Classroom in a Slum, An PFS 23 

Jacobsen Josephine Fiddler Crab PFS 23 

Dobyns Stephen It's like This PFS 23 

Warren Rosanna Lake PFS 23 

Svenbro Jesper Lepidopterology PFS 23 

Merrill James Lost in Translation PFS 23 

Maxwell Glyn Nerve, The PFS 23 

Hahn Kimiko Pine PFS 23 

Voigt Ellen Bryant Practice PFS 23 

Kyger Joanne September PFS 23 

Jonson Ben Song: To Celia PFS 23 

Mirabai All I Was Doing Was Breathing PFS 24 

Apollinaire Guillaume Always PFS 24 

Kooser Ted At the Cancer Clinic PFS 24 

Holmes Oliver Wendell Chambered Nautilus, The PFS 24 

Laux Dorianne For the Sake of Strangers PFS 24 

Nye Naomi Shihab Kindness PFS 24 

Gioia Dana Litany, The PFS 24 

Kim Sue (Suji) Kwock Monologue for an Onion PFS 24 

Amichai Yehuda Not like a Cypress PFS 24 

Ponsot Marie One Is One PFS 24 

Muske-Dukes Carol Our Side PFS 24 

Blake William Poison Tree, A PFS 24 

Santos Sherod Portrait of a Couple at Century's End PFS 24 

Aiken Conrad Room, The PFS 24 

Valentine Jean Seeing You PFS 24 

McHugh Heather Three To's and an Oi PFS 24 

Fulton Alice Art Thou the Thing I Wanted PFS 25 

Barot Rick Bonnard's Garden PFS 25 

Young Kevin Chorale PFS 25 

Pastan Linda Cossacks, The PFS 25 

Vazirani Reetika Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta PFS 25 

Lauterbach Ann Hum PFS 25 

Addonizio Kim Knowledge PFS 25 



Hongo Garrett Legend, The PFS 25 

Duffy Carol Ann Originally PFS 25 

Cooper Jane Rent PFS 25 

Goodison Lorna River Mumma Wants Out, The PFS 25 

Zagajewski Adam Self-Portrait PFS 25 

Schnackenberg Gjertrud Supernatural Love PFS 25 

Bell Marvin View PFS 25 

Herbert George Virtue PFS 25 

Wyatt Thomas Whoso List to Hunt PFS 25 

Brock-Broido Lucie After Raphael PFS 26 

Kinnell Galway Another Night in the Ruins PFS 26 

Sanchez Sonia Anthem, An PFS 26 

Vallejo Cesar Black Messengers, The PFS 26 

Bidart Frank Curse PFS 26 

Carruth Hayden I, I, I PFS 26 

Ostriker Alicia Mastectomy PFS 26 

Stern Gerald One of the Smallest PFS 26 

Hopkins Gerard Manley Pied Beauty PFS 26 

Yau John Russian Letter PFS 26 

Ruefle Mary Sentimental Education PFS 26 

Barbarese J. T. Walk Your Body Down PFS 26 

Carson Ciaran War Correspondent, The PFS 26 

Baggott Julianna What the Poets Could Have Been PFS 26 

Waldner Liz Witness PFS 26 

Rilke Rainer Maria Archaic Torso of Apollo PFS 27 

Borges Jorge Luis Borges and I PFS 27 

Szymborska Wislawa Conversation with a Stone PFS 27 

Berryman John Dream Song 29 PFS 27 

Rossetti Christina Georgina Goblin Market PFS 27 

Clampitt Amy Iola, Kansas PFS 27 

Bishop Elizabeth Man-Moth, The PFS 27 

Emerson Claudia My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetary PFS 27 

Shelley Percy Bysshe Ozymandias PFS 27 

Akhmatova Anna Requiem PFS 27 

Swift Jonathan Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General, PFS 27 

Auden W. H. September 1, 1939' PFS 27 

Soyinka Wole Telephone Conversation PFS 27 



Ramanujan A. K. Waterfalls in a Bank PFS 27 

Hejinian Lyn yet we insist that life is full of happy chance PFS 27 

Sassoon Siegfried Blighters PFS 28 

Pushkin Alexander Bronze Horsemen, The PFS 28 

Ferlinghetti Lawrence Christ Climbed Down PFS 28 

Plath Sylvia Daddy PFS 28 

Rimbaud Arthur Drunken Boat, The PFS 28 

Giovanni Nikki Ego Tripping PFS 28 

Neruda Pablo 

PFS 28 

Chin Marilyn 

Heights of Macchu Picchu, The (or just Canto XII of this 

cycle if there's enough critical material to warrant this) 

How I Got That Name PFS 28 

Dickinson Emily I Died for Beauty, but Was Scarce PFS 28 

D(oolittle) H(ilda) Sea Rose PFS 28 

Ashbery John Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror PFS 28 

Bukowski Charles Tragedy of the Leaves, The PFS 28 

Doty Mark Alan Wings, The PFS 28 

Brown Fleda Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives, The PFS 28 

Youssef Saadi America, America PFS 29 

Tsvetayeva Marina An Attempt at Jealousy PFS 29 

Yevtushenko Yevgeny Babii Yar PFS 29 

Rich Adrienne Diving into the Wreck PFS 29 

Milosz Czeslaw From the Rising of the Sun PFS 29 

Snodgrass W. D. Heart's Needle PFS 29 

Clifton Lucille homage to my hips PFS 29 

Ginsberg Allen Howl PFS 29 

Wilbur Richard Love Calls Us to the Things of This World PFS 29 

Trethewey Natasha Native Guard PFS 29 

Herrick Robert The Night-piece, to Julia PFS 29 

Wheatley Phillis On Being Brought from Africa to America PFS 29 

Lim Shirley Geok-lin Pantoum for Chinese Women PFS 29 

Fraser Kathleen Poem in Which My Legs Are Accepted PFS 29 

Rukeyser Muriel St. Roach PFS 29 

Byron Lord When We Two Parted PFS 29

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