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A Whole Wide World: An Anthology of Poems  
  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Anonymous
Inanna spoke [from The Cycle of Inanna: The Courtship of Inanna and
       Dumazi; c. 2000 B.C.; Akkadian; trans. DianeWolkstein & Samuel Noah
         Kramer]
a
 14:8
The Blacksmiths [c. 1400-1500]
a
 68:82
The Day We Die [c. 1800-1925; San; trans. Arthur Markowitz]
a - b
 6:289; 14:882
Death [c. ?; Welsh; trans. Aneirin Talfan Davies]
a - b
 68:122
Death Is Before Me Today [c. 1900 B.C.; Egyptian; trans. W.S. Merwin]
a - b
 14:16
Do You Remember That Night [c. 1800-1900; Irish Gaelic; trans. George
      Petrie]
a
 14:735
Huntsong for a Small Son [c. ?; Welsh; a modern version of a Medieval
      poem by 'Wesli Court' aka Lewis Turco]
a - b
 56:107
I will make love [c. 1000-1300; Spanish; trans. Willis Barnstone]
a
 61:247
Little Friend [c. 1940-1945?]
a
 14:1232
Magic Words [c. ?; Inuit, trans. Edward Field]
a - b - c
 6:268; 36:160
The Names of the Hare [c. 1200-1300; Middle English; trans. Seamus       Heaney]
a - b
 68:305
The Old Woman of Beare [c. 800; Irish Gaelic; trans. Brendan Kennelly]
a
 14:316
Song of a Marriageable Girl [c. 1800-1900; Pygmy; trans. Willard Trask]
a
 14:883
The Unquiet Grave [c. 1500]
a
 14:533; 56:96; 68:446
Western Wind [c. 1400-1500]
a
 5:61; 56:157
Winter [c. ?; Welsh; a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court'
      aka Lewis Turco]
a - b
 56:204
The Words of the All-Wise [from The Elder Edda; c. 900-1000; Icelandic;
       trans. W.H. Auden & Paul Taylor]
a - b - c
 14:366

Steve Abbott
When We Sought Justice
a
 Puddi:#60
Fleur Adcock
(b. 1934)
  Advice to a Discarded Lover
a
   Adco:29
  Against Coupling
a
   Adco:49
  England's Glory
a
   Adco:163
For a Five-Year-Old
a - b - c
 25:230; 45:12; Adco:21
Future Work
a - b
 34:1; 55:263; Adco:84
  A Hymn to Friendship
a
   Adco:214
  Mornings After
a
   Adco:50
  A Surprise in the Peninsula
a - b
   Adco:38
  The Telephone Call
a
   Adco:179
Weathering
a
 34:3; Adco:124
Aeschylus
(525-456 B.C.; Greek)
The Battle of Salamis [from The Persians; trans. Peter Levi]
a
 14:105
Ai
(1947-2010)
Child Beater
a
 61:721
Conrad Aiken
(1899-1973)
The Quarrel
a
 25:288
Bella Akhmadulina
(1937-2010; Russian)
Winter [trans. Barbara Einzig]
a - b
 61:409
Anna Akhmatova
(1889-1966; Russian)
Alone [trans. Stephen Berg]
a
 61:385
Lot's Wife [trans. Richard Wilbur]
a
 55:88; 61:373
Requiem [trans. Stanley Kunitz & Max Hayward]
a - b - c
 7:101; 62:41
Rafael Alberti
(1902-1999; Spanish)
Blue [trans. Mark Strand]
a
 44:559
Sandra Alcosser
(b. 1944)
Michael's Wine
a
 Alco2:53
A Night on Goat Haunt
a
 Alco1:17
Trajectory
a
 Alco2:67
Wildcat Path
a - b
 Alco2:48
Elizabeth Alexander
(b. 1962)
The End
a - b
 67:67
Sherman Alexie
(b. 1966)
Crow Testament
a - b
 16:1050
Marilyn Monroe [from Tourists, Part 2]
a
 16:1047
Agha Shahid Ali
(1949-2001)
The Dacca Gauzes
a - b
 16:889

In Arabic
a
 53:183
Lenox Hill
a
 16:896
Fergus Allen
(1921-2017)
  The Beachcombing
a
   Alle3:42
  The Dartry Dye Works
a - b
   Alle4:53
  Dublin Zoo 1930
a
   Alle2:21
Elegy for Faustina
a
 58:134; Alle1:52
  The Exile
a
   Alle1:57
The Fall
a
 58:135; Alle1:65
  Genealogy
a - b
   Alle1:31
  A Samaritan Surprised
a - b
   Alle1:34
  To Be Read Before Being Born
a
   Alle3:3
Julia Alvarez
(b. 1950)
How I Learned to Sweep
a - b
 57:5
Yehuda Amichai
(1924-2000; Hebrew)
The Diameter of the Bomb [trans. Chana Bloch]
a
 62:289
A Man in His Life [trans. Chana Bloch]
a - b
 62:283
A.R. Ammons
(1926-2001)
Ballad
a
 54:736
Cascadilla Falls
a
 3:896; 54:734
Corsons Inlet
a - b
 2:33; 3:892; 5:1255; 9:599; 16:290; 37:280; 54:730; 65:133
Gravelly Run
a
 2:31; 16:293; 37:279; 65:136
Hardweed Path Going
a
 1:552
Visit
a
 2:32
Ammuvanar
(c. 50-300; Tamil)
They Shout Out the Price of Salt [from The Classical Tamil Anthologies;
      trans. George L. Hart III]
a
 14:186
Betsy Anderson
Woman in the Well
a
 Comst:Ande
Sandra Anfang
The Bamboo Chime
a
 Ghaza:Anfa
Maya Angelou
(1928-2014)
Phenomenal Woman
a
 82:73; 85:384
Tiel Aisha Ansari
(b. 1964)
Dervish Lion
a
 Soull:Sum17
Guillaume Apollinaire
(1880-1918; French)
  Flies [trans. Robert Bly]
a
   73:32
The Little Car [trans. Oliver Bernard]
a
 7:68; 62:18
Louis Aragon
(1897-1982; French)
Pop Song [trans. ?]
a
 Poetr:Mar06
Rae Armantrout
(b. 1947)
Fact
a
 Poetr:Sep07
Craig Arnold
(1967-2009)
Incubus
a
 Poetr:May05
Matthew Arnold
(1822-1888)
Dover Beach
a - b
 5:794; 14:723; 20:9; 28:185; 39:2; 64:288
John Ashbery
(1927-2017)
The Instruction Manual
a - b - c
 3:946; 8:13; 16:387; 41:275; 54:804
Sally Ashton
What Childbirth and the Moon Landing Have in Common
a - b - c
 Museu:#27
Margaret Atwood
(b. 1939)
Footnote to the Amnesty Report on Torture
a - b
 16:769
W.H. Auden
(1907-1973)
As I Walked Out One Evening
a
 5:1099; 17:793; 24:162; 51:19; 54:500; 64:263; 68:36

In Memory of W.B. Yeats
a - b
 17:798; 20:14; 21:406; 28:188; 31:144; 39:4; 50:54; 54:502
Musee des Beaux Arts
a - b
 5:1100;17:797;21:404; 31:142; 36:499; 51:18; 54:501; 64:279

O Tell Me the Truth About Love
a
 25:292

O What Is That Sound
a - b
 21:410
The Platonic Blow
a
 59:48

September 1, 1939
a - b - c

7:164; 17:801;21:423;25:356; 31:146; 54:504

The Shield of Achilles
a

5:1106;13:160;17:808; 21:415; 54:519
J. Archer Avary
(b. 1976)
Tunnel of Insults
a
 Under:Jan21
Rafiq Azad
(1942-2016; Bengali)
Give me Bhaat, Bastard [trans. Quader Mahmud]
a
 70:222
B Whole Wide World: An Anthology of Poems  
  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Jimmy Santiago Baca
(b. 1952)
Green Chile
a - b
 52:14
John Balaban
(b. 1943)
The Guard at the Binh Thuy Bridge
a
 7:688; 29:7
Words for My Daughter
a
 36:77; 38:57; 83:169
Raffaello Baldini
(1924-2005; Italian)
Hygiene [trans. Adria Bernardi]
a
 Poetr:Dec07
Amiri Baraka
(1934-2014)
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
a
 85:387
Amy Bartlett
(1949-2004)
Chest X-Ray
a
 63:13
2 A.M.
a
 63:20
Matsuo Basho
(1644-1694; Japanese)
The temple bell stops [trans. Robert Bly]
a - b
 14:683
  Though I'm in Kyoto [trans. John Tarrant]
a
   77:93
Aphra Behn
(1640-1689)
When you Love, or speak of it
a
 61:448
Ben Belitt
(1911-2003)
Xerox
a - b
 32:18
Marvin Bell
(b. 1937)
Ending with a Line from Lear
a
 38:110
Joachim du Bellay
(1522-1560; French)
Heureux Qui, Comme Ulysse, a Fait un Beau Voyage [trans. Anthony
      Hecht]
a
 14:552
Salli M. Kawennotakie Benedict
(1954-2011)
Sweetgrass Is Around Her
a
 75:63
Stephen Vincent Benet
(1898-1943)
Metropolitan Nightmare
a - b - c
 65:60
Gottfried Benn
(1886-1956; German)
Chopin [trans. Michael Hofmann]
a
 62:31
This Is Bad [trans. Harvey Shapiro]
*
 62:30
Stephen Berg
(1934-2014)
The Coat
a
 52:15
In a New Leaf
a - b
 4:19
Olga Berggolts
(1910-1975; Russian)
Infidelity [trans. Daniel Weissbort]
a
 61:400
Wendell Berry
(b. 1934)
  Creation Myth
a
   78:16
Healing
a - b
 12:52
John Berryman
(1914-1972)

Henry's Understanding
a
 3:793; 14:1215; 16:100; 54:608
The Moon and the Night and the Men
a
 1:380; 2:55; 37:50; 50:60
John Betjeman
(1906-1984)
The Cottage Hospital
a
 17:780
Frank Bidart
(b. 1939)
Ellen West
a
 16:750
If I Could Mourn Like a Mourning Dove
a
 16:759
George Bilgere
(b. 1951)
The Garage
a
 78:22
Magellan
a
 78:21
Bingxin
( 1900-1999; Chinese)
Mother, if you see a tiny white paper boat in your sleep [trans. Kai-yu
     Hsu]
a
 55:203
Elizabeth Bishop
(1911-1979)
At the Fishhouses
a
 2:62; 5:1138; 16:26; 20:20; 37:27; 45:259; 54:553; 61:577; 65:99; 72:613; 84:105
The Bight
a - b
 68:76; 81:157; 84:104

A Cold Spring
a
 51:37

Crusoe in England
a
 16:36; 54:561; 61:585

Exchanging Hats
a
 54:555

Filling Station

 5:1139; 24:207; 37:34; 79:117

First Death in Nova Scotia
a
 2:66; 3:764; 84:117
The Fish
a
 3:760; 16:21; 45:174; 61:573; 68:153; 72:610; 79:103; 84:100
Insomnia
a
 61:576
It Is Marvellous
a
 59:53; 67:42; 72:628
Letter to N.Y.
a
 67:264; 72:616
Manners
a
 68:268; 72:620
The Moose
a
 69:44; 84:122
One Art
a - b
 5:1136; 16:43; 20:19; 28:11; 34:9; 37:39; 54:565; 72:626; 82:84
Sestina
a - b
 61:581; 72:624
John Peale Bishop
(1892-1944)
Speaking of Poetry
a
 21:304
Robert Bly
(1926-2021)
The Dead Seal
a
 65:188
Cecil Bodker
(1927-2020; Danish)
Calendar [trans. Nadia Christensen & Alexander Taylor]
a - b
 61:366
Paula Bohince
A Brief History of the Cocktail
a
 Poetr:May19
Eavan Boland
(b. 1944)
Anna Liffey
a
 47:427; 58:279
Jorge Luis Borges
(1899-1986; Spanish)
Alexandria A.D. 641 [trans. Stephen Kessler]
a
 Borg:393
Anticipation of Love [trans. Robert Fitzgerald]
a
 Borg:39
Baruch Spinoza [trans. Willis Barnstone]
a
 Borg:383
Break of Day [trans. Stephen Kessler]
a - b
 Borg:23
Borges and I [trans. James E. Irby]
a
 62:104
The Cyclical Night [trans. Alastair Reid]
a - b
 Borg:151
Emerson [trans. Mark Strand]
a
 Borg:211
Everything and Nothing [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
a - b
 Borg:87
For Leopoldo Lugones [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
a
 Borg:69
I Am Not Even Dust [trans. Eric McHenry]
a
 Borg:399
In Praise of Darkness [trans. Hoyt Rogers]
a
 50:68; Borg:299
Luke XXIII [trans. Mark Strand]
a
 Borg:131
The Maker [trans. Stephen Kessler]
a
 Borg:443
Manuscript Found in a Book of Joseph Conrad [trans. Alastair Reid]
a
 Borg:45
Mirrors [trans. Alastair Reid]
a
 Borg:105
Museum [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
a
 Borg:139
Nightmare [trans. Willis Barnstone]
a
 Borg:373
Of Heaven and Hell [trans. Alastair Reid]
a
 Borg:155
Parable of the Palace [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
a - b
 Borg:83
Ragnarok [trans. Kenneth Krabbenhoft]
a - b
 Borg:91
The Unending Rose [trans. Alastair Reid]
a
 Borg:367
The Watcher [trans. Alastair Reid]
a
 Borg:325
Todd Boss
(b. 1968)
The Hush of the Very Good
a
 Poetr:Feb07
David Bottoms
(b. 1949)
Under the Vulture-Tree
a - b
 19:23
Kevin Bowen
(b. 1947)
Incoming
a
 35:62
Elizabeth Bradfield
(b. 1971)
Multi-Use Area
a
 65:193
Anne Bradstreet
(c. 1612-1672)
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
     July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper
a - b - c
 3:7; 5:325; 9:30; 28:178; 61:444
In Reference to Her Children, 23, June, 1656
a
 61:441
Bertolt Brecht
(1898-1956; German)
Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar [trans. H.R. Hays]
a - b
 14:908

Motto [trans. John Willett]
a
 7:27; 62:101
To Those Born Later [trans. John Willett, Ralph Manheim & Erich Fried]
a
 7:216
Chanel Brenner
  Happy Hour
a
   Folia:May13
Riley Died Again Yesterday
a
 Folia:May13
Joseph Brodsky
(1940-1996)
Autumn in Norenskaia
a
 72:237
Emily Bronte
(1818-1848)
Remembrance
a
 5:755; 28:184; 39:22; 74:47
Gwendolyn Brooks
(1917-2000)
Beverly Hills, Chicago
a - b
 1:439
kitchenette building
a
 61:607; 72:318; 84:140; 85:264
the mother
a
 54:624; 84:140; 85:264
A Song in the Front Yard
a
 16:141; 54:623; 72:319; 85:264
A Sunset of the City
a
 61:608; 84:142
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
a
 67:65; 72:324
LoVerne Brown
Meeting of Mavericks
a
 55:227
Rosellen Brown
(b. 1939)
I'm listening, I said. [from Cora Fry's Pillow Book]
a
 Brwr:99
  Thelma was the one in our class most likely to— [from Cora Fry's       Pillow Book]
a
   Brwr:116
  They need a sign: No mothers in the body shop! [from Cora Fry's       Pillow Book]
a - b
   Brwr:98
Stephen Brown
The Chase
a
 Canar:#39
Sterling A. Brown
(1901-1989)
Bitter Fruit of the Tree
a
 24:169

Master and Man
a
 54:457
  Old Lem
a
   85:140
Slim in Atlanta
a
 69:70
Thoughts of Death
a
 24:127
Susan Browne
Buddha's Dogs
a - b
 43:154
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1806-1861)
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
a
 64:118
A Musical Instrument
a - b - c
 5:675
When our two souls stand up erect and strong
a
 61:460
Edith Bruck
(b. 1932; Italian)
Birth [trans. Ruth Feldman & Brian Swann]
a
 61:311
Equality, Father [trans. Ruth Feldman]
a
 7:389
William Cullen Bryant
(1794-1878)
Thanatopsis
a
 3:30; 9:84; 54:24
Julia de Burgos
(1914-1953; Spanish)
To Julia de Burgos [trans. Grace Schulman]
a
 61:271; 85:291
Robert Burns
(1759-1796)
To a Mouse
a - b
 5:511
Robert Olen Butler
(b. 1945)
Walter Raleigh, courtier and explorer, beheaded by King James I,
      1618
a
 59:134
Denver Butson
Tuesday 9:00 AM
a - b
 18:265
George Gordon, Lord Byron
(1788-1824)
The Destruction of Sennacherib
a
 5:588; 14:709; 64:226; 68:126
C Whole Wide World: An Anthology of Poems  
  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Roy Campbell
(1902-1957)
Choosing a Mast
a
 21:386
Nick Carbo
(b. 1964)
Directions to My Imaginary Childhood
a
 70:15
Ernesto Cardenal
(1925-2020; Spanish)
Ecology [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
a - b
 35:81
"For Those Dead, Our Dead . . ." [trans. Jonathan Cohen]
a
 62:297

Mosquito Kingdom [trans. Donald D. Walsh]
a
 11:498
The Parrots [trans. Marc Zimmerman]
a - b
 35:85
Hayden Carruth
(1921-2008)
The Cows at Night
a - b
 13:224; 19:43; PoetE:#47-48
Testament
a
 19:54; 78:40
Ciaran Carson
(1948-2019)
Bagpipe Music
a - b
 58:317
Dresden
a
 58:308
Hamlet
a
 58:314
Jefferson Carter
Life Partner
a
 Rattl:#66
Raymond Carver
(1938-1988)
Happiness
a
 10:149; 13:317; 25:33; 45:4
Wine
a - b - c
 6:248
Willa Cather
(1876-1947)
Grandmither, Think Not I Forget
a
 20:46
Catullus
(84-54 B.C.; Latin)
By Strangers’ Coasts and Waters [trans. Robert Fitzgerald]
a
 14:140
Constantine Cavafy
(1863-1933; Greek)
Ithaka [trans. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard]
a
 24:260; 62:5; 67:314
Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340 [trans. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard]
a - b
 12:77
Richard Cecil
(b. 1944)
Internal Exile
a
 45:83
Fred Chappell
(b. 1936)
The Bible of the Unlucky Soldier
a
 Chap:84
Fast Ball
a
 Chap:72
A Glorious Twilight
a
 Chap:49
Heath at Two: Learning to Talk
a - b
 Chap:144
Latencies
a
 Chap:79
Moonswarm
a
 Chap:107
Patience
a
 Chap:19
Scarecrow Colloquy
a
 Chap:96
Teller
a
 Chap:83
Tiger in the Field of Flame Grass
a
 Chap:78
Mike Chasar
Conches on Christmas
a
 Poetr:Sep05
David Chin
(b. 1953)
A Seven-Day Diary
a
 8:74
Chiyo
(1703-1775; Japanese)
After a long winter, giving [trans. David Ray]
a
 61:173
Dinos Christianopoulos
(1931-2020; Greek)
Dismissed from Military Service [trans. Kimon Friar]
a
 44:266
Interval of Joy [trans. Kimon Friar]
a - b
 44:266
Chu Shu-chen
(c. 1200; Chinese)
Morning [trans. Kenneth Rexroth]
a
 6:216; 61:173
John Ciardi
(1916-1986)
A Walk Down a Mountainside
a
Amy Clampitt
(1920-1994)
Marine Surface Low Overcast
a
 50:92; 54:659
Medusa
a
 37:479
  The Reedbeds of the Hackensack a   47:154; 81:139
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews
a
 54:660
John Clare
(1793-1864)
Badger
a - b
 5:641; 68:57
The Flood
a
 68:156
Greg Clary
New York City, August 7, 1974 Trail:Vol11
Lucille Clifton
(1936-2010)
hag riding 69:12
Henri Cole
(b. 1956)
The Prince Enters the Forest
a
 34:13
Billy Collins
(b. 1941)
Dharma
a
 26:50; 41:339; 54:959
  The Lanyard
a
   41:145
Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles From Tintern Abbey
a
 54:956
Marginalia
a - b
 13:428

The Moment
a - b
 Poetr:Apr05
Passengers
a
 10:291; 45:35

A Sense of Place
a
 Poetr:Jul05

Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
a - b
 25:250; 78:47
Wendy Cope
(b. 1945)
Summer Villanelle [from From June to December]
a
 67:24
Tristan Corbiere
(1845-1875; French)
Letter from Mexico [trans. William Meredith]
a
 Mere:59
Alfred Corn
(b. 1943)
A Walrus Tusk from Alaska
a
 4:39; 28:227
Frances Cornford
(1886-1960)
Childhood
a
 84:34
John William Corrington
(1932-1988)
on my 18th birthday
a
 32:40
Gregory Corso
(1931-2001)
  Marriage
a
   2:78; 5:1321; 41:111; 67:74
Mae V. Cowdery
(1909-1948)
  Longings
a
   85:154
Steven Cramer
(b. 1953)
Goodbye to the Orchard
a
 78:62
Adelaide Crapsey
(1878-1904)
Amaze
a
 54:248
Release
a
 54:246

Susanna and the Elders
a
 54:247

Trapped
a
 54:247
Triad
a
 54:246
Robert Creeley
(1926-2005)
Kore
a
 42:152; 54:747
The Rain
a
 1:563; 2:85; 9:604; 20:61; 36:495; 42:153
Jeremy Cronin
(b. 1949)
Group Photo from Pretoria Local on the Occasion of a Fourth
     Anniversary (Never Taken)
a
 7:748
Motho Ke Motho Ka Batho Babang (A Person Is a Person Because
     of Other People)
a - b
 7:747
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
(1648-1695; Spanish)
But Venus first [from First Dream; trans. Samuel Beckett]
a
 61:267
Countee Cullen
(1903-1946)
Incident
a
 17:728; 24:173; 85:160
  Tableau
a
   85:161
e.e. cummings
(1894-1962)
anyone lived in a pretty how town
a
 1:182; 3:641; 5:1044; 9:437; 17:553; 21:324; 51:68; 54:397; 68:35

the boys i mean are not refined
a
 54:396

a man who had fallen among thieves
a
 3:635

may i feel said he
a
 3:637; 17:552; 54:395; 67:26
poem
a
 5:1047; 54:400
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
a
 1:180; 5:1043; 21:325; 24:79; 51:70
Averill Curdy
Dark Room
a
 Poetr:Apr05
D Whole Wide World: An Anthology of Poems  
  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Bernard Dadie
(1916-2019; French)
I Thank You God [trans. John O. Reed & Clive Wake]
a - b
 62:218
Dante Alighieri
(1265-1321; Italian)
The good master said: Now, my son, we approach the city
      known as Dis [The Inferno, Canto VIII, 67-130 & Canto IX, 1-105;
      trans. Robert Hollander & Jean Hollander]
a
 Dant2: 153
Master, I said, tell me more: this Fortune [The Inferno, Canto VII,
      67-96; trans. Robert Hollander & Jean Hollander]
a
 Dant2: 135
THROUGH ME COME INTO THE CITY FULL OF PAIN [The
      Inferno, Canto III; trans. Armand Schwerner]
a
 Dant1: 10; 14:411
Mahmoud Darwish
(1941-2008; Arabic)
In Jerusalem [trans. Fady Joudah]
a - b
 70:245
Nora Dauenhauer
(1927-2017)
How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River
a - b - c
 30:20; 75:192
Pennar Davies
(1911-1996; Welsh)
  Ave Atque Vale [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
a
   86:143
  I Was with Ulysses [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
a
   86:141
When I Was a Boy [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
a
 86:140
Walter de la Mare
(1873-1956)
Napoleon
a
 68:307
Alison Hawthorne Deming
(b. 1946)
Specimens Collected at the Clear Cut
a - b - c
 65:226
Eustache Deschamps
(1346-1410; French)
Ballade 1 [trans. David Curzon & Jeffrey Fiskin]
a - b
 14:381
Robert Desnos
(1900-1945; French)
Mid-Way [trans. William Kulik & Carole Frankel]
a
 50:96
Eunice de Souza
(1940-2017)
Sacred River
a - b - c
 70:489
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
(b. 1952; Irish)
  Aubade [trans. Michael Longley]
a
   Dhom:149
  The Head [trans. Ciaran Carson]
a
   Dhom:15
  The Language Issue [trans. Paul Muldoon]
a
   Dhom:155
  Looking at a Man [trans. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]
a
   Dhom:141
  Nude [trans. Paul Muldoon]
a
   Dhom:91
  The Race [trans. Derek Mahon]
a
   Dhom:95
  The Shan Van Vocht [trans. Ciaran Carson]
a
   Dhom:129
  Stronghold [trans. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin]
a
   Dhom:121
The Unfaithful Wife [trans. Paul Muldoon]
a
 58:373; Dhom:105
James Dickey
(1923-1997)
  Drinking from a Helmet
a - b - c
   72:486
The Heaven of Animals
a
 2:90; 3:857; 9:585; 14:1224; 16:236; 25:221; 37:163; 65:124; 72:477
Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
a
 61:470
As imperceptibly as Grief
a
 3:350; 5:816; 81:166

Because I could not stop for Death
a
 3:342; 5:812; 9:253; 17:38; 21:56; 54:179; 61:477; 64:232

Bee! I'm expecting you
a
 54:181

A bird came down the walk
a - b
 3:331; 5:808; 9:251; 17:35; 20:72; 21:53; 54:168; 65:16

The Brain–is wider than than the Sky–
a
 17:38; 21:49; 54:175; 77:116
I died for Beauty–but was scarce
a - b
 28:145; 54:170; 61:471; 64:192
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
a - b
 61:468
I heard a Fly buzz–when I died
a
 3:334;5:809; 9:252; 17:36; 21:57; 24:130; 54:170; 61:472; 65:17
I like to see it lap the Miles
a
 61:473

I taste a liquor never brewed–
a - b
 3:326; 5:804; 17:33; 21:51; 54:164; 64:31

My Life had stood–a Loaded Gun
a
 5:813; 17:39; 54:179
Sweet Mountains–Ye tell me no lie–
a - b
 61:484

There came a Wind like a Bugle
a - b - c
 3:350; 21:54; 39:47; 65:19; 68:417
There is a pain–so utter–
a
 61:474

There is no Frigate like a Book
a
 24:303; 54:182

There's a certain slant of light
a
 3:328; 5:806; 9:249; 17:34; 21:56; 54:166; 61:467; 68:418; 81:188
Wild Nights–Wild Nights!
a
 3:327; 5:806; 14:726; 17:33; 24:80; 36:440; 54:165; 59:13; 61:479; 67:25
Tom Disch
(1940-2008)
The Art of Dying
a
 Disc:50
C [from MCMLXXXIV]
a
 Disc:6
In Defense of Forest Lawn
a
 Disc:18
The Doppelganger
a
 Disc:53
How to Behave when Dead
a
 Disc:57
March
a - b
 Disc:30
Ode on the Source of the Clitumnus
a - b
 Disc:97
Swimming
a
 Disc:27
XXX [from MCMLXXXIV]
a
 Disc:9
Zewhyexary
a - b
 57:23; Disc:62
Rosemary Dobson
(1920-2012)

Country Press
a
 84:164
Stephen Dobyns
(b. 1941)

Spiritual Chickens
a
 41:318
Wind Chimes
a - b
 83:325
John Donne
(1572-1631)
At the round earth’s imagined corners
a
 5:221; 28:61

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day
a - b
 5:211
To His Mistress Going to Bed
a
 67:33
Mark Doty
(b. 1953)
Crepe de Chine
a
 53:256
Keith Douglas
(1920-1944)
Time Eating
a
 31:198
Vergissmeinnicht
a
 17:863; 25:354; 31:202; 68:448
Rita Dove
(b. 1952)
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time
      Before Bed
a
 16:986
Fox Trot Fridays
a
 27:Year03-59
  Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Cocoanut Grove
a
   85:627
  The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe
a
   85:626
Freda Downie
(1929-1993)
Starlight
a
 84:204
Michael Drayton
(1563-1631)
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
a
 64:124; 68:390
John Dryden
(1631-1700)
Roundelay
a
 56:223
Norman Dubie
(b. 1945)
A Grandfather’s Last Letter
a
 38:89

Of Politics & Art
a
 18:203
Carol Ann Duffy
(b. 1955)
Mrs Lazarus
a
 16:1029
Mrs Midas
a - b - c
 18:49
Alan Dugan
(1923-2003)
The Decimation Before Phraata
a
 12:107

The Mirror Perilous
a
 51:74

On an East Wind from the Wars
a
 7:341; 50:100

Portrait From the Infantry
a
Variation on a Theme by Stevens
a
 Poetr:Apr1963
Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka
a - b - c
 2:100
Denise Duhamel
(b. 1961)
Yes
a
 41:115
Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872-1906)
A Choice
a
 54:211

He Had His Dream
a - b
 54:211
Little Brown Baby
a
 5:904; 24:23
We Wear the Mask
a
 5:904; 20:82; 54:210; 56:216; 64:207; 85:83
  When Malindy Sings
a
   85:84
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
(1875-1935)
I Sit and Sew
a
 85:93
Stephen Dunn
(b. 1939)
At the Smithville Methodist Church
a - b
 52:73
The Imagined
a
 26:72
  The Last Hours
a - b
   78:79

Little Essay on Communication
a
 13:372
  A Postmortem Guide
a
   78:77
The Routine Things Around the House
a
 52:72
  Seriousness
a - b
   41:119
Paul Durcan
(b. 1944)
The Divorce Referendum, Ireland, 1986
a
 66:283
The Haulier's Wife Meets Jesus on the Road Near Moone
a
 58:290
  Maureen Durcan
a
   82:171
We resided in a Loreto convent in the centre of Dublin city [from Six
    Nuns Die in Convent Inferno, I]
a
 58:297
E Whole Wide World: An Anthology of Poems  
  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Russell Edson
(1935-2014)
Ape
a
 36:467
The Large Thing
a
 23:124
Gunter Eich
(1907-1972; German)
Dreams [trans. Michael Hofmann]
a - b
 Poetr:Apr07
Inventory [trans. Joshua Mehigan]
a - b
 Poetr:Apr09
Menna Elfyn
(b. 1951; Welsh)
  Nothing but Curves [trans. Elin ap Hywel]
a
   86:319
The Theology of Hair [trans. Elin ap Hywel]
a
 86:318
T.S. Eliot
(1888-1965)
Little Gidding
a - b
 17:488; 54:369
Macavity: the Mystery Cat
a
 68:255
Odysseus Elytis
(1911-1996; Greek)
The Mad Pomegranate Tree [trans. Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard]
a - b
 50:109
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
Each and All
a - b
 3:38; 54:28
The Rhodora
a
 3:52; 5:666; 20:91; 54:31; 67:176
William Empson
(1906-1984)
Ignorance of Death
a
 17:782
Enheduanna
(c. 2300 B.C.; Sumerian)
Inanna and the City of Uruk [adapted by Aliki Barnstone & Willis
       Barnstone from trans. by William W. Hallo & J.J.A. van Dijk]
a
 61:4
John Ennis
(b. 1944)
Alice of Daphne, 1799
a
 66:285
The Road to Patmos
a
 66:289
Louise Erdrich
(b. 1954)
Captivity
a
 16:1006; 30:340
The Strange People
a - b
 65:243
Rhina P. Espaillat
(b. 1932)
Bread
a
 Espa1:34
Circling the Jellyfish
a - b
 Espa3:29
Clearing
a
 Espa2:40
Contingencies
a
 Espa4:46
A Eulogy, Maybe
a
 Espa3:52
Evan, Breathing
a
 Espa4:22
Guidelines
a - b
 Espa4:36
"Hard Sciences"
a
 Espa2:75
Impasse: Glose
a - b
 Espa2:18
On Rereading a Sonnet Written in 1951
a
Espa4:8
On the Avenue
a
 Espa3:69
On the Impossibility of Translation
a
 Espa4:88
Practice
a
 Espa2:10
Sacrament
a
 Espa1:51
This Is To Tell You
a
 Espa3:41
Trick or Treat [from Three for the Bones]
a
 Espa4:63
Two Nuns at the Mall
a
 Espa3:57
Vignette
a
 Espa4:86
Wheelchairs
a
 Espa3:68
Eve L. Ewing
(b. 1946)
Requiem for Fifth Period and the Things That Went On Then
a
 46:90
Nissim Ezekiel
(1924-2004)
I met a man once [from Hymns in Darkness]
a
 14:1101
F Whole Wide World: An Anthology of Poems  
  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
(1911-1984; Urdu, Arabic)
Before You Came [trans. Naomi Lazard]
a - b
 62:212
The Love I Gave You Once [trans. Mahbub-ul-Haq]
a
 24:85
Padraic Fallon
(1905-1974)
Gurteen [from Three Houses, I]
a - b
 58:55
Kiltarten Legend
a
 58:51
Peter Fallon
(b. 1951)
Himself
a
 66:366
Spring Song
a - b
 66:359
Saqi Farooqi
(1936-2018; Urdu)
An Injured Tomcat in an Empty Sack [trans. Frances W. Pritchett]
a
 70:89
James Fenton
(b. 1949)
Dead Soldiers
a - b
 7:708; 16:901
Edilson Afonso Ferreira
A Dangerous Journey
a
 Pppez:Aug20
Julia Fields
(b. 1938)
High on the Hog
a
 85:440
Donald Finkel
(1929-2008)
Hunting Song
a
 2:107
Aaron Fogel
(b. 1947)
The Printer’s Error
a - b
 18:97; 27:Year88/97-110; 54:1029
Jean de la Fontaine
(1621-1695; French)
Phoebus and Boreas [trans. Marianne Moore]
a - b
 14:654
Carolyn Forche
(b. 1950)
Museum of Stones
a
 65:261
Franco Fortini
(1917-1994; Italian)
Far Away, Far Away . . . [trans. Geoffrey Brock]
a
 Poetr:Dec07
Robert Francis
(1901-1987)
Bluejays
a
 Fran:150
Blue Winter
a
 Fran:48
Bouquets
a
 Fran:257
Boy Sleeping
a
 Fran:142
Catch
a
 36:186; Fran:205
Clouds
a - b
 Fran:32
Condor
a
 Fran:218
Emergence
a
 Fran:220
Farm Boy after Summer
a - b
 Fran:184
The Forced Forsythia
a
 Fran:222
Gold
a
 Fran:183
He died at eighty. Out in the fields that summer [Four Men, IV]
a
 Fran:11
Hide-and-Seek
a
 Fran:176
His Own
a
 Fran:159
Juniper
a
 1:234; Fran:125
Monadnock
a
 Fran:206
New England Mind
a
 Fran:49
Nothing Is Far
a - b
 Fran:151
Old Man's Confession of Faith
a - b - c
 Fran:217
Old Roofs
a
 Fran:143
Part for the Whole
a
 Fran:165
Past Tense
a
 Fran:200

Pitcher
a
 36:187; Fran:189
Prophet
a
 Fran:14
The Revelers
a - b
 Fran:190
The Seed Eaters
a
 Fran:193

Silent Poem
a
 48:42; Fran:240
Simple Death
a
 Fran:27
Spicebush and Witch-Hazel
a
 Fran:139
Stellaria
a
 Fran:221
The Stile
a
 Fran:41
Two Glories
a
 Fran:159
The Wasp
a
 Fran:139
While I Slept
a
 Fran:26
Robert Frost
(1874-1963)
After Apple-Picking
a
 3:396; 17:207; 21:180; 54:218

Birches
a - b
 5:914; 17:211; 20:94; 21:186; 54:223; 68:78; 72:548
A Considerable Speck
a
 64:47
Departmental
a
 3:412; 24:219
Design
a
 3:414; 5:921; 9:313; 17:221; 21:178; 36:222; 54:233; 64:180; 65:24; 72:551

Mending Wall
a
 1:4; 3:395; 5:908; 17:203; 21:178; 54:212; 72:545

The Most of It
a
 5:923; 6:46; 17:223; 54:235; 65:24
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
a
 65:22
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
a
 5:922; 72:552

Nothing Gold Can Stay
a
 1:16; 3:402; 9:312; 24:176; 54:228; 72:550
The Onset
a - b
 64:33; 79:8

The Oven Bird
a - b
 3:397; 5:914; 17:211; 54:225; 72:547

The Silken Tent
a
 3:415; 9:314; 17:222; 51:114; 72:552

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
a
 3:402; 5:917; 9:312; 17:214; 25:73; 51:111; 54:228; 65:23; 68:407; 72:551

Two Tramps in Mud Time
a
 17:218; 21:181; 54:231

Unharvested
a
 17:221; 45:26
The Wood-Pile
a
 1:8; 5:912; 9:310; 17:208; 54:222
Alice Fulton
(b. 1952)
Fictions of the Feminine: Quasi-Carnal Creatures from the Cloud
      Decks of Venus
a
 8:162
G Whole Wide World: An Anthology of Poems  
  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Tess Gallagher
(b. 1943)
Each Bird Walking
a
 52:91; 84:280
The Hug
a - b
 25:38
Laughter and Stars
a
 4:80
  The Ritual of Memories a - b   47:88
Brendan Galvin
(b. 1938)
An Intermission
a - b
 65:267
Robbie Gamble
Reading from the Desert Fathers at the Laundromat
a
 Soull:Sum17
Kenneth Gangemi
(b. 1937)
First Marriage
a
 83:219
Gail Gardner
(1892-1987)
The Sierry Petes
a
 80:3
Jean Garrigue
(1914-1972)
Remember That Country
a
 1:389
George Gascoigne
(c. 1535-1577)
Gascoigne’s Lullaby
a - b
 5:101; 24:264
The Green Knight's Farewell to Fancy
a
 39:62
Jack Gilbert
(1925-2012)
Michiko Dead
a
 55:84
Gary Gildner
(b. 1938)
A Mouse
a
 8:171
Allen Ginsberg
(1926-1997)
A Supermarket in California
a
 2:114; 3:922; 16:344; 21:539; 24:305; 42:172; 50:114; 54:750; 64:266
Dana Gioia
(b. 1950)
Summer Storm
a - b
 10:80; 54:1073; 57:50
Nikki Giovanni
(b. 1943)
Nikki-Rosa
a
 85:443
Louise Gluck
(b. 1943)
Celestial Music
a - b
 27:Year88/97-116; 54:991; 72:90

Hawk's Shadow
a
 25:111
Mock Orange
a
 16:821; 28:234; 37:504; 54:990; 72:88
  Telemachus' Detachment
a
   72:93

Vespers
a
 27:Year88/97-118; 54:992
Widows
a
 52:97
Albert Goldbarth
(b.1948)
A Song about Colonial Times [from A Continuum, 4]
a
 Gold:78
Stomackes
a
 Poetr:Feb06; Gold:321
Sumerian Votive Figurines [from Ancient Musics]
a
 Gold:46
Thermodynamics/Sumer
a
 Gold:217
Things I've Put in This Poem
a
 Gold:263
12th Century Chinese Painting with a Few Dozen Seal Imprints
      Across It
a
 Gold:195
Leona Gom
(b. 1946)
November
a
 8:182
Lorna Goodison
(b. 1947)
  For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength)
a
   85:649
The Road of the Dread
a
 11:599
Mitchell Goodman
(1923-1997)
Man and Wife
a
 1:498
Paul Goodman
(1911-1972)
I Planned To Have A Border Of Lavender
a
 1:336; 54:569
Charles Goodrich
(b. 1951)
Millennial Spring
a - b
 65:282
Natalya Gorbanyevskaya
(1936-2013)
And there is nothing at all--–neither fear [trans. David Weissbort]
a
 61:404
Judy Grahn
(b. 1940)
Ella, in a Square Apron, along Highway 80 [from The Common Woman
       Poems]
a
 8:184
Helen, at 9 A.M., at Noon, at 5:15 [from The Common Woman Poems]
a
 8:183
Eamon Grennan
(b. 1941)
  Detail
a
   78:109
Men Roofing
a
 66:204
Totem
a
 58:248
John Grey
  The Ape Enclosure
a - b
   Heads:Grey
Body Talk
a
 Beakf:Dec16
J. Gwyn Griffiths
(1911-2004; Welsh)
There Are Limits to Brotherly Love [trans. Richard Poole]
a
 86:146
  Two Are Embracing [trans. Richard Poole]
a
   86:147
Jorge Guillen
(1893-1984; Spanish)
The Horses [trans. Richard Wilbur]
a - b
 44:527
Thom Gunn
(1929-2004)
Lament
a
 50:116
Yoko
a
 24:223; 69:104
Lars Gustafsson
(1936-2016; Swedish)
Ballad of the Dogs [trans. Philip Martin]
a - b
 14:932; 62:341
R.S. Gwynn
(b. 1948)
Shakespearean Sonnet
a
 41:289
H Whole Wide World: An Anthology of Poems  
  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Marilyn Hacker
(b. 1942)
Ballad of Ladies Lost and Found
a
 37:491
Rune of the Finland Woman
a - b
 53:111; 57:82
Rachel Hadas
(b. 1948)
The Red Hat
a
 54:1052; 57:101
Hafiz
(1320-1389; Persian)
  Companion for Life [trans. Daniel Ladinsky]
a
   76:186
Ghazal: Half-Way Through the Night [trans. Geoffrey Squires]
a
 14:481
Anna Hajnal
(1907-1977; Hungarian)
Fear [trans. Daniel Hoffman]
a
 61:356
Corrinne Hales
Power
a
 55:9
Donald Hall
(1928-2018)
The Impossible Marriage
a
 54:844
Last Days
a
 45:190
Ox Cart Man
a
 10:161
Summer Kitchen
a - b - c
 69:34
When the Young Husband
a
 54:847
Moishe Leib Halpern
(1886-1932; Yiddish)
Man, That Ape [trans. John Hollander]
a
 62:33
Forest Hamer
(b. 1956)
Goldsboro Narrative #28
a
 85:654
James Hannon
Sarajevo Monday
a
 Fearm:#35
Deborah Harding
How I Knew Harold
a
 55:30
Thomas Hardy
(1840-1928)
Afternoon Service at Mellstock
a
 Hard:2
Afterwards
a
 5:851; 14:729; 17:61; 21:90; 68:23; Hard:2
A Broken Appointment
a
 Hard:11
Channel Firing
a
 68:103
Copying Architecture in an Old Minster
a - b
 Hard:19

The Darkling Thrush
a - b
 5:846; 14:730; 17:48; 20:105; 21:77; 31:25; 68:120; Hard:20
The Eve of Waterloo
a
 Hard:26
Friends Beyond
a - b
 Hard:29
The Going
a
 Hard:31
The Levelled Churchyard
a
 Hard:49
The Man He Killed
a
 68:267
The Oxen
a
 68:331; Hard:64
Paying Calls
a
 Hard:66
The Ruined Maid
a
 Hard:73
Shortening Days at the Homestead
a
 31:33
The Sunshade
Hard:80
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
(1875-1911)
Bury Me in a Free Land
a
 85:60
Jonathan Harrington
Underwear of the Dead
a
 PoetS:Jul21
Joseph Harrison
(b. 1957)
Air Larry
a
 43:265
Jewel Hart
Riding Light
a - b
 Fearm:#28
Heather Hartley
Elegy in India Ink
a
 63:107
Robert Hass
(b. 1941)
The Dry Mountain Air
a - b
 Hass:335
Horace: Three Imitations
a
 Hass:306
Paschal Lamb
a
 Hass:153
  Shame: An Aria
a
   41:57; Hass:236
Some of David's Story
a
 Hass:29
Sonnet
a
 16:788; 72:184; Hass:231
A Story About the Body
*
 52:131; 53:101; 54:969; 78:112; 83:195; Hass:158
Robert Hayden
(1913-1980)
  A Letter from Phillis Wheatley
a
   72:413; 85:316
Middle Passage [Part I]
a
 9:532; 14:1211; 16:54; 37:91; 54:582; 72:404; 85:308
The Night-Blooming Cereus
a - b - c
 65:109
Those Winter Sundays
a - b
 5:1158; 9:532; 10:369; 16:62; 20:109; 25:201; 28:150; 36:141; 54:581; 72:400; 83:39; 85:307
Terrance Hayes
(b. 1971)
  The Same City
a
   78:116
segregate
a
 78:115
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
(1886-1961)
  Lethe
a
   84:35
Seamus Heaney
(1939-2013)
The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise [from Lightenings,
    VIII]
a
 25:418; 31:275; 58:216

Bog Queen
a
 16:728
Casualty
a
 16:733; 58:205
Funeral Rites
a
 58:202
I had come to the edge of the water [from Station Island, 7]
a
 66:165
In Memoriam M.K.H. (1911-1984) [from Clearances, 3]
a
 6:183; 16:745; 67:188

Mid-Term Break
a
 5:1379; 20:112

Personal Helicon
a
 31:267
Punishment
a - b
 5:1382; 16:731
Anthony Hecht
(1923-2004)
A Hill
a
 2:132; 16:229; 37:171; 54:680; 72:346
"It Out-Herods Herod, Pray You Avoid It"
a
 2:133; 3:854; 7:328; 16:230; 72:349

"More Light, More Light!"
a

1:505; 2:131; 3:853;5:1236;7:327; 37:173; 42:94; 50:131; 68:293; 72:350
Heinrich Heine
(1797-1856; German)
Sea-Sickness [trans. Vernon Watkins]
a
 14:794
Llywarch Hen
(c. 850; Welsh)
The Head of Urien [a modern version of a Medieval poem by 'Wesli Court'
      aka Lewis Turco]
a
 56:250
Robert Henryson
(c. 1425-1500)
Robin and Makyn
a
 56:142
George Herbert
(1593-1633)
The Bag
a
 Herb:65
Bitter-Sweet
a
 Herb:79
The Collar
a
 Herb:66
Constancie
a
 Herb:34
Grace
a - b
 Herb:31
Love
a
 77:84; Herb:91
The Pilgrimage
a
 Herb:62
Prayer
a
 5:256; 77:81; Herb:27
The Priesthood
a
 Herb:69
The Pulley
a
 Herb:68
Redemption
a
 Herb:23
Time
a
 Herb:56
Unkindnesse
a
 Herb:45
Zbigniew Herbert
(1924-1998; Polish)
Mr. Cogito–The Return [trans. John Carpenter & Bogdana Carpenter]
a
 12:209
Report from Paradise [trans. Czeslaw Milosz & Peter Dale Scott]
a
 62:270
Report from the Besieged City [trans. John Carpenter & Bogdana
        Carpenter]
a - b - c
 7:462; 12:215
Robert Herrick
(1591-1674)
Corinna's Going A-Maying
a - b
 5:244; 67:29
Delight in Disorder
a
 67:175
John Hewitt
(1907-1987)
Landscape
a
 31:162
Substance and Shadow
a
 31:163
Nazim Hikmet
(1902-1963; Turkish)
About Mount Uludag [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
a
 14:1086
The Evening Walk [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
a
 7:507
Letter from My Wife [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
a
 67:99
On Living [trans. Deniz Perin]
a
 62:126
Since I Was Thrown Inside [trans. Deniz Perin]
a
 62:124
Things I Didn't Know I Loved [trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk]
a - b - c
 7:504;11:240; 20:119; 50:134
Jane Hirshfield
(b. 1953)
The Bell Zygmunt
a
 78:130
  Bone
a
   Hirs:56
  Great Powers Once Raged Through Your Body
a
   Hirs:44
  Heat
a
   Hirs:215
  One Penny
a
   Hirs:139
  A Room
a - b
   Hirs:138
Tony Hoagland
(1953-2018)
Cement Truck
a - b
 Poetr:Jan06
Grammar
a - b
 18:124
  Phone Call
a
   41:147; 78:137
Vladimir Holan
(1905-1980; Czech)
June, July, and August, 1945 [trans. C.G. Hanzlicek & Dana Habova]
a
 62:155
John Hollander
(1929-2013)
Swan and Shadow
a - b
 5:1308; 13:220; 37:346; 54:858
Miroslav Holub
(1923-1998; Czech)
Bullfight [trans. Ian Milner & Jarmila Milner]
a - b
 68:90
The fly [trans. George Theiner]
a
 25:346; 68:159
Homer
(c. 850 B.C.; Greek)
Alas! what weight of anguish hast thou known? [The Iliad, XXIV:
      653-839, trans. Alexander Pope]
a - b
 Homr:1120
And now to Xanthus' gliding stream they drove [The Iliad, XXI: 1-150
      & 229-447, trans. Alexander Pope]
a - b
 Homr:972
As when the winds, ascending by degrees [The Iliad, IV: 478-542, trans.
      Alexander Pope]
a - b
 Homr:188
Automedon and Alcimus prepare [The Iliad, XIX: 426-471, trans.
      Alexander Pope]
a
 Homr:923
Health to Achilles! happy are thy guests! [The Iliad, IX: 295-413, trans.
      Alexander Pope]
a
 Homr:435
Meanwhile awaken'd from his dream of Love [The Iliad, XV: 6-91,
       trans. Alexander Pope]
a - b
 Homr:704
Sweet pleasing Sleep! (Saturnia thus began) [The Iliad, XIV: 266-416,
      trans. Alexander Pope]
a
 Homr:667
There sate the seniors of the Trojan race [The Iliad, III: 191-314, trans.
      Alexander Pope]
a - b
 Homr:141
Why comes Aeneas thro' the ranks so far? [The Iliad, XX: 214-307, trans.
      Alexander Pope]
a
 Homr:943
A.D. Hope
(1907-2000)
Advice to Young Ladies
a
 5:1110; 17:819
Australia
a
 17:817
Imperial Adam
a
 5:1111

Meditation on a Bone
a - b
 14:1206
Observation Car
a
 17:818
Tiger
a
 68:430
Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1844-1889)
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
a
 68:41; 77:118
Carrion Comfort
a
 5:858; 17:81; 21:98; 28:64
Felix Randal
a - b - c
 5:856; 14:731; 17:79; 21:102

God's Grandeur
a
 5:855; 17:76; 20:126; 21:95; 36:477; 56:19; 77:119
The Habit of Perfection
a
 5:854; 17:66; 21:104; 68:180
No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief
a
 5:858; 14:731; 17:80; 21:99; 39:79
Pied Beauty
a
 5:855; 17:78; 20:127; 21:96; 36:478; 64:43; 68:344; 77:120
Horace
(65-8 B.C.; Latin)
Priapus [Satire 1.8; trans. David Ferry]
a
 Poetr:Apr07
Julia Ward Howe
(1819-1910)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
a
 3:181; 9:225; 54:80; 74:49
Susan Howe
(b. 1937)
The Falls Fight [from Articulation of Sound Forms in Time]
a
 23:238
Andrew Hudgins
(b. 1951)
  Blur
a
   78:150
Praying Drunk
a - b - c
 41:60; 57:115
Sam Hudson
The Isle Is Full of Noises
a
 56:177
Langston Hughes
(1902-1967)
Afro-American Fragment
a
 64:165
Cross
a - b
 9:478; 17:689; 85:193
Desire
a
 59:43
  Dream Variations
a
   85:195

Harlem
a
 5:1069; 17:704; 36:310; 54:472; 64:206
  I, Too
a
   85:196
Life Is Fine
a - b
 17:699; 24:94
Merry-Go-Round
a - b - c
 20:132
  The Negro Speaks of Rivers
a
   85:190
Theme for English B
a - b
 3:700; 5:1069; 9:480; 17:702; 24:310
Ted Hughes
(1930-1998)
Birth of Rainbow
*
 12:230
Buzz in the Window [from Orts, 17]
a
 16:570

Ravens
a
 31:239
Teaching a Dumb Calf
a
 12:232
Tractor
a
 12:228; 69:100
Wilfred Owen's Photographs
a
 31:235
T. Rowland Hughes
(1903-1949; Welsh)
Crib Goch [trans. Catherine Fisher]
a
 86:116
Victor Hugo
(1802-1885; French)
Expiation [Part 1; trans. Louis Simpson]
a - b
 14:747
Bruce Hunter
(b. 1952)
Between the Old and the Knowing
a
 Hunt:75
The Day We Tore Up Stanley's Lawn
a
 Hunt:106
The Funeral
a
 Hunt:87
Magnolia Fraseri Walt
a
 Hunt:94
Manta Ray
a
 Hunt:151
Sardinia
a
 Hunt:149
The Scale
a - b
 Hunt:83
Spring Opening–Lock Four
a - b
 Hunt:67
They Dream of Being Gardeners
a
 Hunt:95
Two O'Clock Creek
a - b
 Hunt:187
Warlock's Arsenal
a
 Hunt:97
What My Students Teach Me
a - b
 Hunt:123
Meirion MacIntyre Huws
(b. 1963; Welsh)
Conscience [trans. Geraint Lovgreen]
a
 86:386
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  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Ibaragi Noriko
(1926-2006; Japanese)
When I Was Prettiest in My Life [trans. Naoshi Koriyama & Edward
       Lueders]
a
 14:1131
Itaikkunrurkilar
(c. 50-300; Tamil)
His Legs Strong and Lithe [from the Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans.
       George L. Hart III]
a - b
 14:193
Lady Izumi Shikibu
(970-1030; Japanese)
You told me it was [trans. Willis Barnstone]
a - b
 14:280; 61:168
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  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Marcus Jackson
Full-Time Driver
a
 Rockh:#29
Francis Jammes
(1868-1938; French)
A Prayer to Go to Heaven with the Donkeys [trans. Richard Wilbur]
a - b
 50:140; 68:166
Randall Jarrell
(1914-1965)
Field and Forest
a
 1:403
The Lost Children
a
 2:166; 54:611; 64:135
Robinson Jeffers
(1887-1962)
Boats in a Fog
a
 5:982; 6:60; 21:266

Carmel Point
a
 5:984; 6:34; 17:419

The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
a
 50:142; 65:46

Fawn's Foster-Mother
a
 3:541; 17:416
Fire on the Hills
a - b
 36:300; 54:321

Hurt Hawks
a
 3:541; 5:983; 9:373; 17:416; 54:320; 65:43; 68:204

The Purse-Seine
a - b
 3:547; 5:983; 17:418; 20:140; 65:44
Shine, Perishing Republic
a
 1:121; 3:540; 5:981; 9:373; 17:415; 54:319; 65:42
Vulture
a
 3:551; 5:985; 17:420
James Weldon Johnson
(1871-1938)
The Creation
a
 64:173
Richard Jones
(b. 1953)
The Bell
a - b
 52:184
The Loft
a
 10:107
Sky Funeral
a - b - c
 PoetI:2005
Ben Jonson
(1572-1637)
Her Triumph
a
 39:83
A. Van Jordan
(b. 1965)
Rope
a
 85:818
Attila Jozsef
(1905-1937; Hungarian)
The Seventh [trans. John Batki]
a
 24:270; 62:158; 68:377
Roberto Juarroz
(1925-1995; French)
Life draws a tree [trans. W.S. Merwin]
a - b - c - d
 50:144; 62:294
Ferenc Juhasz
(1928-2015; Hungarian)
Birth of the Foal [trans. David Wevill]
a
 68:79
Donald Justice
(1925-2004)
Anonymous Drawing
a
 Just:71
Cool Dark Ode [from Three Odes, 1]
a
 Just:111
  Heart
*
   Just:68
Here in Katmandu
a - b
 2:172; 23:29; 42:135; Just:39
Incident in a Rose Garden (2)
a
 Just:88
Last Days of Prospero
a - b
 Just:92
Mule Team and Poster
a
 12:245; 37:215; Just:137
On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for
      the Insane
a - b
 Just:52
  Sonnet to My Father
a
   Just:41
The Wall
a - b
 Just:34
A Winter Ode to the Old Men of Lummus Park, Miami, Florida
a
 Just:50
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  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
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Book:Page
Kakkaipirtiniyar Naccellaiyar
(c. 50-300; Tamil)
Many Said [from the Classical Tamil Anthologies; trans. George L. Hart III]
a
 14:193
Yalie Kamara
Besaydoo
a
 Adroi:#34
Anna Kamienska
(1920-1986; Polish)
A Prayer That Will Be Answered [trans. Thomas P. Krzeszowski &
       Desmond Graham]
a
 62:226
Stephen Kampa
The Quiet Boy
a
 Birmi:#44
Orhan Veli Kanik
(1914-1950; Turkish)
Rumors [trans. Murat Nemet-Nejat]
a
 62:202
Patrick Kavanagh
(1904-1967)
Epic
a - b
 17:749; 28:65; 31:132; 58:47
Inniskeen Road: July Evening
a - b
 5:1087; 17:746; 25:308; 31:127
Shancoduff
a
 5:1088; 31:128
Tarry Flynn
a - b
 58:39
To the Man After the Harrow
a
 58:31
Lawrence Kearney
(b. 1948)
After the Interrogation
a - b
 23:153
John Keats
(1795-1821)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
a
 5:663; 28:214; 64:190

Ode to a Nightingale
a
 39:86; 68:316
When I have fears that I may cease to be
a - b
 5:649; 14:716; 64:280
Tina Kelley
An Adoration of Stenches
a - b
 Ucity:Kell
  Free Day for Sale
a
   Ucity:Kell
  Predicting the Kiss
a - b
   Ucity:Kell
X.J. Kennedy
(b. 1929)
First Confession
a
 42:221
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
a
 10:343; 42:225
Jane Kenyon
(1947-1995)
The Shirt
a - b
 59:144
Ussin Kerim
(1929-1984; Bulgarian)
Babahak [trans. William Matthews]
a
 Matt:162
Al-Khansa
(575-646; Arabic)
On Her Brother Sakhr [trans. Willis Barnstone]
a - b
 61:93
Anne Killigrew
(1660-1685)
On Death
a
 61:449
Kim Kwang-kyu
(b. 1941; Korean)
North South East West [trans. Brother Anthony of Taize]
a - b
 70:353
Suji Kwock Kim
(b. 1969)
The Korean Community Garden
a - b
 70:448
Maxine Hong Kingston
(b. 1940)
Idea!: Four-word poems!
a - b - c
 53:81
Galway Kinnell
(1927-2014)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
a
 9:640; 16:382; 36:59; 37:312; 67:41

The Bear
a
 1:605; 2:186; 9:637; 25:63; 28:220; 37:309; 65:357
Conversation
a
 Poetr:Sep06

The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible
a
 3:970
First Song
a - b
 69:3

Rapture
a - b
 53:24
Why Regret?
 a - b - c
 4:146; 54:832
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936)
The Female of the Species
a
 67:84
  If
a
   82:65
Mandalay
a - b
 21:147; 64:93
Carolyn Kizer
(1925-2014)
Bitch
a
 13:307; 19:157; 25:276; 54:706
The Erotic Philosophers
a
 54:707
The Intruder
a
 61:632
Summer Near the River
a - b
 1:543, 2:191
Hester Knibbe
(b. 1946; Dutch)
Last Night [trans. Jacquelyn Pope]
a
 Poetr:Apr09
Etheridge Knight
(1931-1991)
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminally
     Insane
a - b
 7:684; 22:127; 42:247; 83:280; 85:482
The Idea of Ancestry
a - b
 22:129; 25:317; 36:44; 42:249; 85:476
To Make a Poem in Prison
a
 7:683
Kenneth Koch
(1925-2002)
One Train May Hide Another
a - b
 16:267; 27:Year88/97-171; 50:148; 54:720
The Railway Stationery
a - b - c
 5:1252; 54:712
Ron Koertge
(b. 1940)
Girl Talk
a
 83:250
Howard Kogan
(b. 1940)
Bailey at the Museum
a
 Koga:4
Echo
a
 Koga:42
Tree Swallows
a
 Koga:44
The Way We Met
a
 Koga:36
Winter Wren
a
 Koga:12
Yusef Komunyakaa
(b. 1947)
Eclogue at Twilight
a
 4:148
Facing It
a - b
 16:861; 20:156; 25:362; 26:132; 27:Year88/97-174; 54:1035; 79:52; 85:683
Starlight Scope Myopia
a
 16:859; 23:176; 28:282; 29:150; 83:297
Tom Koontz
(b. 1939)
Currrr
a
 Koon
A Face of Winter
a - b
 Koon
from a letter, Sarajevo...
a
 Koon
The Gift
a
 Koon
In Such a Light
a
 Koon
It's Nothing, Really
a
 Koon
Poetry Is the Life of the Soul
a
 Koon
rain all morning
a
 Koon
Rhymes for a Master of Social Work
a
 Koon
So It Happens/As It Happens
a
 Koon
thousands killed in the attack
a
 Koon
wind flipping the leaves
a
 Koon
Ted Kooser
(b. 1939)
A Jacquard Shawl
a
 43:108
Steve Kowit
(1938-2015)
The Prodigal Son’s Brother
a
 45:202
Marilyn Krysl
(b. 1942)
There Is No Such Thing as the Moment of Death
a
 8:222
Cody Kucker
Task
a
 Alba:#28
Maxine Kumin
(1925-2014)
The Bangkok Gong
a
 16:273
  In the Root Cellar
a
   84:191
  Seven Caveats in May
a - b
   72:377
Stanley Kunitz
(1905-2006)
The Portrait
a
 10:346; 17:760; 36:134; 55:43; 72:137
  The Wellfleet Whale
a
   72:147
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  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Andrew Lang
(1844-1912)
Rondel of Charles D'Orleans
a
 56:219
Valery Larbaud
(1881-1957; French)
Images [trans. William Jay Smith]
a
 6:77
Philip Larkin
(1922-1985)
Aubade
a - b
 16:226; 25:374; 39:92

Church Going
a
 5:1227; 16:212; 51:198

Cut Grass
a
 31:220; 68:119
The Explosion
a
 68:144
  Here
a
   79:115

Sunny Prestatyn
a
 16:220

Talking in Bed
a
 5:1230; 16:218
The Whitsun Weddings
a - b
 5:1229; 16:215; 31:217
Dorianne Laux
(b. 1952)
The Shipfitter's Wife
a
 59:164
This Close
a
 55:211
  Twilight
a
   78:187
D.H. Lawrence
(1885-1930)
Bavarian Gentians
a - b
 5:956; 17:341; 21:238; 31:59
Man and Bat
a - b
 68:262
Mosquito
a - b
 68:294
The Ship of Death
a - b
 5:957; 17:342; 21:240; 31:60; 50:152
Snake
a
 5:952; 17:333; 20:160; 68:395
A Youth Mowing
a
 17:328
Irving Layton
(1912-2006)
An Aubade
a
 14:1210
Berry Picking
a
 5:1156
Emma Lazarus
(1849-1887)
The New Colossus
a - b
 20:163; 54:184; 74:54
David Lee
(b. 1966)
Benediction
a
 19:180
For Jan, with Love
a
 19:171
Li-Young Lee
(b. 1957)
The Hammock
a
 4:153; 78:194
Persimmons
a
 16:1041
Brad Leithauser
(b. 1953)
Angel
a - b
 34:68; Leit:86
Death of the Family Archivist
*
 Leit:178
Furnishings of the Moon
a
 Poetr:Jul07
A Good List
*
 Leit:215
  Long Odds
*
   Leit:38
  The Mail from Anywhere
a
   Leit:127
  Undergone
a
   Leit:11
Giacomo Leopardi
(1798-1837; Italian)
Saturday Night in the Village [trans. Robert Lowell]
a
 14:814
To His Lady [trans. Jonathan Galassi]
a
 Poetr:Apr08
Denise Levertov
(1923-1997)
Living
a - b - c - d
 1:517; 6:24; 10:28; 25:31; 67:231

The Mutes
a
 3:876; 54:687
What Were They Like?
a
 1:517
Philip Levine
(1928-2015)
Keats in California
a
 4:160
Salami
a
 3:999
You Can Have It
a - b - c
 12:268; 16:424; 20:166; 37:327; 54:851; 83:241
Cecil Day Lewis
(1904-1972)
The Dead
a
 51:207

Departure in the Dark
a
 51:205
Sheepdog Trials in Hyde Park
a
 5:1082
C.S. Lewis
(1898-1963)
The Late Passenger
a
 18:80
Gwyneth Lewis
(b. 1959; Welsh)
Strip-Tease [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
a
 86:369
Li Ch'ing-chao
(c. 1084-1151; Chinese)
A Weary Song to a Slow Sad Tune [trans. Kenneth Rexroth]
a
 61:14
Laurence Lieberman
(b. 1935)
The Coral Reef
a - b
 2:206
Li Kuang-t’ien
(1906-1968; Chinese)
A Dead Turk [trans. Kai-yu Hsu]
a - b
 14:1109
Li Po
(701-762; Chinese)
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter [trans. Ezra Pound]
a - b
 3:498; 5:963; 9:357; 17:352; 20:222; 36:347; 51:271; 54:301; 68:357
Alan Llwyd
(b. 1948; Welsh)
The Bull of Bryncelyn [trans. Joseph P. Clancy]
a
 86:298
Gerald Locklin
(1941-2021)
The Best Years of Her Life
a - b
 83:160
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
a
 3:91; 5:677; 9:139; 54:44
Mezzo Cammin
a
 5:676; 9:139
Michael Longley
(b. 1939)
Laertes [from Homeric Poems]
a
 58:229
Peace
a
 66:185
Phemios & Medon [from Homeric Poems]
a
 58:231
Barry Lopez
(1945-2020)
Desert Reservation
a - b
 19:186
Amy Lowell
(1874-1925)
Patterns 20:173; 61:411; 64:222; 67:170
The Weather-Cock Points South
a - b
 67:32
Mina Loy
(1882-1966)
Letters of the Unliving 61:516
Parturition
a
 61:506
Three Moments in Paris
a
 61:501
Wing Tek Lum
(b. 1946)
The Butcher
a
 70:103
John Lyly
(1553-1606)
Cards and Kisses
a
 64:120
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  Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)  
Bibliography
Book:Page
Okkur Macatti
(c. 1-300; Tamil)
What Her Girlfriend Said to Her [trans. A.K. Ramanujan]
a
 61:65
Norman MacCaig
(1910-1996)
So many summers
a - b
 31:171
Hugh MacDiarmid
(1892-1978)
O Wha’s the Bride?
a
 14:1188; 17:521; 21:295; 36:326
Antonio Machado
(1875-1939; Spanish)
Eyes [trans. Rosa Berumen]
a
 62:11
To Jose Maria Palacio [trans. Angel Flores]
a
 44:476
Archibald MacLeish
(1892-1982)
Ars Poetica
a
 3:624; 5:1029; 9:423; 13:61; 17:515; 21:307; 25:441; 54:385

The End of the World
a - b
 1:164; 3:624; 17:516; 64:258
"Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments"
a
 5:187; 51:221
Colman mac Lenini
(d. 604; Irish Gaelic)
In Praise of a Sword Given Him by His Prince [trans. Richard
    O’Connell]
a - b - c
 14:312
Louis MacNeice
(1907-1963)
Apple Blossom
a
 68:36
Bagpipe Music
a
 68:59
To Wales once more, though not on holiday now [from Autumn Sequel,
    Canto XX]
a
 58:88
Holly Magill
Hums
a
 Nutsh:Aug14
Akka Mahadevi
(c. 1100-1200; Kannada)
Riding the blue sapphire mountains [trans. A.K. Ramanujan]
a
 61:67
Derek Mahon
(1941-2020)
Consolations of Philosophy
a
 Maho:42
Courtyards in Delft
a
 66:236; Maho:120
Craigvara House
a
 Maho:154
The Globe in North Carolina
a
 66:242; Maho:161
The Joycentenary Ode
a - b
 Maho:143
Morning
a
 Maho:16
The Snow Party
a - b - c - d
 16:800; 31:287; 58:258;