Poetry for Students - Volume 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 airman foresees his death - William Butler Yeats -- l(a - e.e. cummings -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T. S. Eliot -- Mirror - Sylvia 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 2 : Angle of geese - N. Scott Momaday -- The bean eaters - Gwendolyn Brooks -- Because I could not stop for death - Emily Dickinson -- 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 Captain! - 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 Byzantium - 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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 - Theodore Roethke -- 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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 - in 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 in New York - Claude McKay -- When I was one-and-twenty - A. E. Housman.
Poetry for Students - Volume 5 : Ars poetica - Archibald MacLeish -- Ballad of 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 field - John McCrae -- Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Lament 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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 and loving husband - Anne Bradstreet -- We real cool - Gwendolyn Brooks -- The wood-pile - Robert Frost.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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 - Margaret Atwood -- Small town with one road - Gary Soto -- The soldier - Rupert Brooke -- To an athlete dying young - A. E. Housman.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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 its 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 9 : Anasazi - Gary Snyder -- Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe -- Barbie doll - Marge Piercy -- Bright star! 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 - Thom Gunn -- Old Ironsides - Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Psalm 8 - King James Bible -- Reactionary essay on applied science - Phyllis 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 11 : Beowulf - Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates - Louis Simpson -- The eagle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses - Anonymous -- The hospital window - James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias - Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll -- The milkfish gatherers - James Fenton -- A narrow fellow in the grass - Emily Dickinson -- Overture to a dance of locomotives - William Carlos Williams -- Paradoxes and oxymorons - John Ashbery -- To a child running with outstretched arms in Canyon de Chelly - N. Scott Momaday -- Tonight I can write - Pablo Neruda -- A valediction: forbidding mourning - John Donne -- The war against the trees - Stanley Kunitz -- The weight of sweetness - Li-Young Lee.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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 pieced 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 14 : Bidwell ghost - Louise Erdrich -- The Canterbury tales - Geoffrey Chaucer -- Climbing - Lucille Clifton -- Courage - Anne Sexton -- Deep woods - Howard Nemerov -- Elegy for my father, who is not dead - Andrew Hudgins -- The fish - Marianne Moore -- Incident in a rose garden - Donald Justice -- In the suburbs - Louis Simpson -- Kilroy - Peter Viereck -- Last request - Joel Brouwer -- The nymph's reply to the shepherd - Sir Walter Raleigh -- Remember - Christina Rossetti -- She walks in beauty - Lord Byron -- Song of the Chattahoochee - Sidney Lanier -- There will come soft rains - Sara Teasdale.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 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.
Poetry for Students - Volume 17 : The arsenal at Springfield - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- La belle dame sans merci - John Keats -- The blue rim of memory - Denise Levertov -- The cobweb - Raymond Carver -- Driving to town late to mail a letter - Robert Bly -- Early in the morning - Li-Young Lee -- For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton - Richard Hugo -- Having it out with melancholy - Jane Kenyon -- I go back to May 1937 - Sharon Olds -- Knoxville, Tennessee - Nikki Giovanni -- Mind - Jorie Graham -- On his having arrived at the age of twenty-three - John Milton -- Poetry - Marianne Moore -- The Rhodora - Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The singer's house - Seamus Heaney -- Wild swans - Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Poetry for Students - Volume 18 : 60 - Rabindranath Tagore -- Address to the angels - Maxine Kumin -- The afterlife - Billy Collins -- The continuous life - Mark Strand -- The country without a post office - Agha Shahid Ali -- The darkling thrush - Thomas Hardy -- Duration - Octavio Paz -- The garden shukkei-en - Carolyn Forche -- The greatest grandeur - Pattiann Rogers -- The last question - Dorothy Parker -- Midnight verses - Anna Akhmatova -- New rule - Anne Carson -- Song of reasons - Robert Pinsky -- Spring-watching pavilion - Ho Xuan Huong -- Temple bells die out - Matsuo Basho -- To an unknown poet - Carolyn Kizer.
Poetry for Students - Volume 19 : And what if I spoke of despair - Ellen Bass -- The boy - Marilyn Hacker -- Childhood - Rainer Maria Rilke -- The cinnamon peeler - Michael Ondaatje -- The city limits - A. R. Ammons -- His speed and strength - Alicia Ostriker -- Ithaka - C.P. Cavafy -- Once again I prove the theory of relativity - Sandra Cisneros -- On location in the Loire Valley - Diane Ackerman -- Ordinary words - Ruth Stone -- Perfect light - Ted Hughes -- Proem - Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Seven seeds - Jill Bialosky -- Social life - Tony Hoagland -- somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond - e.e. cummings -- True night - Gary Snyder.
Poetry for Students - Volume 20 : Air for Mercury - Brenda Hillman -- Alchemy of day - Anne Hebert -- But perhaps God needs the longing - Nelly Sachs -- Drinking alone beneath the moon - Li Po -- Gacela of the dark death - Federico Garcia Lorca -- God who loves you - Carl Dennis -- Hymn to Aphrodite - Sappho -- In particular - Elena Karina Byrne -- Memoir - Mona Van Duyn -- Moreover, the moon - Mina Loy -- Ode to a drum - Yusef Komunyakaa -- Paradiso - Kenneth Koch -- Thirst against - Linda Gregg -- Two poems for T - Cesare Pavese -- Variations on nothing - Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Waste land - T.S. Eliot.
Poetry for Students - Volume 21 : Accounting - Claribel Alegria -- Answer to Letters - Tomas Transtromer -- Fading light - Robert Creeley -- Ghazal - Elizabeth Spires -- Hymn to beauty - Charles Baudelaire -- Late and deep - Paul Celan -- Maternity - Anna Swir -- Memory - Sarah Arvio -- Morning walk - Claire Malroux -- Rapture - Joelle Biele -- A rebirth - Faroogh Farrokhzaad -- The reverse side - Stephen Dunn -- Station - Eamon Grennan -- Ten years after your deliberate drowning - Robin Behn -- While I was gone a war began - Ana Castillo -- Words for departure - Louise Bogan.
Poetry for Students - Volume 22 : Apple sauce for Eve - Marge Piercy -- Death sentences - Radmila Lazic -- The forest - Susan Stewart -- If - Rudyard Kipling -- It's a woman's world - Eavan Boland -- Metamorphoses - Ovid -- Omen - Edward Hirsch -- On the threshold - Eugenio Montale -- The passionate shepherd to his love - Christopher Marlowe -- Pineapples and pomegranates - Paul Muldoon -- |tThe satyr's heart - Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- The Toni Morrison dreams - Elizabeth Alexander -- Trompe l'Oeil - Mary Jo Salter -- What I would ask my husband's dead father - Sharon Hashimoto -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer - Walt Whitman -- Why the classics - Zbigniew Herbert.
Poetry for Students - Volume 23 : Allegory - Mary Jo Bang -- All it takes - Carl Phillips -- The art of the novel - Natasha Sajé -- Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The crime was in Granada - Antonio Machado -- An elementary school classroom in a slum - Stephen Spender -- Fiddler crab - Josephine Jacobsen -- It's like this - Stephen Dobyns -- Lake - Rosanna Warren -- Lepidopterology - Jesper Svenbro -- Lost in translation - James Merrill -- The nerve - Glyn Maxwell -- Pine - Kimiko Hahn -- Practice - Ellen Bryant Voigt -- September - Joanne Kyger -- Song: to Celia - Ben Jonson
Poetry for Students - Volume 24 : All I was doing was breathing - Mirabai -- Always - Guillaume Apollinaire -- At the cancer clinic - Ted Kooser -- The Chambered Nautilus - Oliver Wendell Holmes -- For the sake of strangers - Dorianne Laux -- Kindness - Naomi Shihab Nye -- The litany - Dana Gioia -- Monologue for an onion - Sue (Suji) Kwock Kim -- Not like a cypress - Yehuda Amichai -- One is one - Marie Ponsot -- Our side - Carol Muske-Dukes -- A poison tree - William Blake -- Portrait of a couple at century's end - Sherod Santos -- The room - Conrad Aiken -- Seeing you - Jean Valentine -- Three to's and an oi - Heather McHugh.
Poetry for Students - Volume 25 : Art thou the thing I wanted - Alice Fulton -- Bonnard's garden - Rick Barot -- Chorale - Kevin Young -- The cossacks - Linda Pastan -- Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta - Reetika Vazirani -- Hum - Ann Lauterbach -- Knowledge - Kim Addonizio -- The legend - Garrett Hongo -- Originally - Carol Ann Duffy -- Rent - Jane Cooper -- The river mumma wants out - Lorna Goodison -- Self-portrait - Adam Zagajewski -- Supernatural love - Gjertrud Schnackenberg -- View - Marvin Bell -- Virtue - George Herbert -- Whoso list to hunt - Thomas Wyatt.
Poetry for Students - Volume 26 : After Raphael - Lucie Brock-Broido -- Another night in the ruins - Galway Kinnell -- An anthem - Sonia Sanchez -- The black heralds - Cesar Vallejo -- Curse - Frank Bidart -- I, I, I - Hayden Carruth -- Mastectomy - Alicia Ostriker -- One of the smallest - Gerald Stern -- Pied beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Russian letter - John Yau -- Sentimental education - Mary Ruefle -- Walk your body down - J. T. Barbarese -- The war correspondent - Ciaran Carson -- What the poets could have been - Julianna Baggott -- Witness - Liz Waldner.
Poetry for Students - Volume 27 : Archaic torso of Apollo - Rainer Maria Rilke -- Borges and I - Jorge Luis Borges -- Conversation with a stone - Wislawa Szymborska -- Dream song 29 - John Berryman -- Goblin market - Christina Rossetti -- Iola, Kansas - Amy Clampitt -- The man-moth - Elizabeth Bishop -- My grandmother's plot in the family cemetary - Claudia Emerson -- Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Requiem - Anna Akhmatova -- A satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general - Jonathan Swift -- September 1, 1939 - W.H. Auden -- Telephone conversation - Wole Soyinka - Waterfalls in a bank - A.K. Ramanujan -- Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance - Lyn Hejinian. |
