1998.
A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.
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Houghton Mifflin,
9780395895993
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I, too, sing America : three centuries of African-American poetry
Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
Alcorn, Stephen, ill.
[selected and annotated by] Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn.
1998
I, too, sing America : three centuries of African-American poetry
1985.
A collection of American poems written for children or traditionally enjoyed by children, by such authors as Longfellow, Poe, Eugene Field, Langs
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Oxford University Press,
9780195035391
9780195067613
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The Oxford book of children's verse in America
Hall, Donald, 1928-2018
edited by Donald Hall.
1985
The Oxford book of children's verse in America
2014.
"Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers an unequaled view of the quality and diversit
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9781421411392
9781421411408
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Over the river and through the wood : an anthology of nineteenth-century American children's poetry
Kilcup, Karen L., editor.
Sorby, Angela editor.
edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Angela Sorby.
2014
Over the river and through the wood : an anthology of nineteenth-century American children's poetry
c2013.
1st ed.
For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems," Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite po
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Disney/Hyperion Books,
9781423108054
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Poems to learn by heart
The first book / Here I am, and other poems about the self: from The world is round / I am cherry alive / My shadow / Crying / O dear! How disgusting is life! / Bad morning / Ode to Pablo's tennis shoes / Don't worry if your job is small / It couldn't be done / Personal / A man said / Sonnet 94 / Dust of snow / If-- / from A drama of exile / Between what I see and what I say-- / Micah 6:8 --
I dreamed I had to pick a mother out, and other poems about family: Disobedience / Brother / Brother and sister / If Little Red Riding Hood-- / Andre / The parent / Bilingual/bilingüe / Ballad of Birmingham / Manners
I'm expecting you! and other poems about friendship and love: Bee! I'm expecting you! / Vade mecum / Evil / A poison tree / Tableau / Voices rising / He wishes for the cloths of heaven / The dream keeper / A blessing / Invitation to love / 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 / For Katrina's sun-dial / Liberty
I met a little elf-man, once, and other poems about fairies, ogres, and witches: The little elf / The fairies / I'd love to be a fairy's child / Some one / Under the bed / What's that? / from The masque of queens / Song of the ogres / The splendour falls on castle walls
Where can a man buy a cap for his knee? and other nonsensical poems: Foolish questions / Way down South / There was an old man in a garden / There was an old person whose habits / Baby ate a microchip / from Through the looking-glass / Herbert Glerbett / The toys talk of the world / All about boys and girls / Some worlds inside of words / The tale of custard the dragon
It is the duty of the student, and other poems about school: Duty of the student / Gnome / Sick / Homework / Lucky trade / Bubble troubles / How to paint a donkey / The lesson / Theme for English B / if everything happens that can't be done
We dance round in a ring and suppose, and other poems about sports and games: The secret sits / Hide-and-seek, 1933 / Block city / The girls in the circle / We real cool / Slam, dunk, & hook / Defender / Zuri at bat / Casey at the bat / Casey's revenge / May
Four score and seven years ago, and other poems about war: Will, lost in a sea of trouble / The destruction of Sennacherib / Ozymandias / from Henry V, IV, iii, 56-67 / Shiloh / Gettysburg Address / Charge of the light brigade / Ukase / When he was small, when he would fall / The unknown soldier / First they came for the Jews / from "Voice from Lemnos" / Peace
The world is so full of a number of things, and other poems about nature: from "Auguries of innocence" / Happy thought / What are heavy? / Devotion / Will there really be a "morning"? / Ballad of the morning streets / who are you, little i / In beauty may I walk / Tommy / from As You Like It, II, v, 5-12: 18-25 / Anecdote of the jar / The snow man / Winter trees / from The metamorphoses, Book I / The world / from The Canterbury tales, general prologue / Young Lochinvar / The cremation of Sam McGee / Paul Revere's ride / Kubla Khan / Catch a little rhyme
Kennedy, Caroline.
Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-
by Caroline Kennedy -- Rita Dove -- Gertrude Stein ; Delmore Schwartz ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Galway Kinnell ; Edward Lear ; Langston Hughes ; Gary Soto ; anonymous ; Edgar Albert Guest ; Langston Hughes ; Stephen Crane ; William Shakespeare ; Robert Frost ; Rudyard Kipling ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Octavio Paz ;
A.A. Milne ; Mary Ann Hoberman ; Lewis Carroll ; Jeff Moss ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Ogden Nash ; Rhina P. Espaillat ; Dudley Randall ; Elizabeth Bishop --
Emily Dickinson ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; William Blake ; Countee Cullen ; DreamYard Prep Slam Team ; William Butler Yeats ; Langston Hughes ; James Wright ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Saint Paul ; Henry van Dyke ; Janet S. Wong --
John Kendrick Bangs ; Rose Fyleman ; Robert Graves ; Walter de la Mare ; Penny Trzynka ; Florence Parry Heide ; Ben Jonson ; W.H. Auden ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
American folk rhyme ; anonymous ; Edward Lear ; Edward Lear ; Neal Levin ; Lewis Carroll ; Jack Prelutsky ; Katharine Pyle ; John Ciardi ; Richard Wilbur ; Ogden Nash --
Edward Anthony ; Samuel Beckett ; Shel Silverstein ; Jane Yolen ; Matthew M. Fredericks ; Janet S. Wong ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; E.E. Cummings --
Robert Frost ; Galway Kinnell ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Nikki Giovanni ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Linda Sue Park ; Nikki Grimes ; Ernest Lawrence Thayer ; Grantland Rice ; John Updike --
Archilochos ; George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; William Shakespeare ; Herman Melville ; Abraham Lincoln ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Pfc. C.G. Tiggas ; Vladimir Nabokov ; Billy Rose ; Martin Niemöller ; Seamus Heaney ; Gerard Manley Hopkins --
William Blake ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Christina Rossetti ; Robert Frost ; Emily Dickinson ; Amiri Baraka ; E.E. Cummings ; from the Navajo ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; William Shakespeare ; Wallace Stevens ; Wallace Stevens ; William Carlos Williams ; Ovid ; William Brighty Rands -- Geoffrey Chaucer ; Sir Walter Scott ; Robert Service ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Eve Merriam.
Caroline Kennedy ; paintings by Jon J Muth.
2013
Poems to learn by heart
c2009.
This book is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as on
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University of Georgia Press,
9780820332772
9780820334318
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Black nature : four centuries of African American nature poetry
We must be careful / Earth is a living thing / Mountains of California, part I / Mountain road ends here / Queen Anne's lace / On summer / Yellow jacket / Eclogue at twilight / Ruellia noctiflora / Evening primrose / Night-blooming cereus / September night / Sweet enough ocean, cotton / Metamorphism / Brown girl's nature poem: provincetown / What more? / Be careful / Watching blackbirds turn to ghosts / If winter comes, can spring? / 31 words * prose poems [#12]
We are not strangers here / For a farmer / To waste at trees / White dog / You must walk this lonesome / Down from the houses of magic / Ephemera / Sleepwalker on the mountain / #543 / Aphrodite of economy / Arachis hypogaea / In the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge, thinking of Rachel Carson / language / For Alice Walker (a summertime tanka) / Generations / Work / Poem to my child, if ever you shall be / To a certain lady, in her garden / Urban nature / September songs
from 12 million Black voices / Another April / Barriers / Young peacock / Urban renewal: XIII / Bees / Carrion / Look at the blackbird fall / Flight of the California condor / Since everyone can never be safe / Won't be but a minute / Called / Harvest song / Black man talks of reaping / Wood and rain / Joy in the woods / Sorrow home / Blues aubade (or, Revision of the lean, post-modernist pastorale) / Romance / April is on the way
Boll weevils, coyotes, and the color of nuisance / Miscarriage in October with ladybugs / Man reading in bed by a window with bugs / Pest / Ambition II: mosquito in the mist / Market / For those who need a true story / Postcard to an ecologist / Nature boy / Plague of starlings / O believer / Brown menace or poem to the survival of roaches / Life / What a snakehead discovered in a Maryland pond and a poet in corporate America have in common / Lost conquistador / Beginning of the end of the world / Carpenter bee / Yellowjackets
Flowers / On imagination / For Saundra / Natural world / Lament for dark peoples / White things / Parsley / Haunted oak / from Rape of Florida, Canto I / Swimchant of nigger mer-folk (an aquaboogie set in lapis) / Water USA / Migration / February leaving / Blue horses / Sick man looks at flowers / Prodigal / Potters' field / Monument
Disasters, nature, and poetry / Floodtide / Children of the Mississippi / Emmett Till / Sign post / Song / Sacred history of the earth / Greenness taller than gods / San Francisco, spring 1986 / Cure / Reapers / Erasure / Floodsong 2: water moccasin's spiritual / Requiem / Ice storm
Shepherd's tale / Beehive / Black-and-white dusk at Limantour Beach / Sympathy / Sea-turtle and the shark / #175 / European folk tale variant / Man raised as chicken / Far / Spider speaks / Hummingbird / Herd / Speed / Points of view / Requiem for a nest / Surfaces and masks: XXX / Minks / Possum / Appaloosa / April lyric/All I know is
April in Eatonton / Locus / Jaguaripe / What there was / Wind talker / Mulberry fields / I am black and the trees are green / Maple remains / Tallahatchie lullaby, baby / Out in the country of my country / Three days of forest, a river, free / American light / Look ahead, look south: the future / Southern song / Wave / Her table mountain / from Juneteenth: the bicentennial poem / Tap-root / Last talk with Jim Hardwick / History as apple tree
Writing home / #559 / Millpond / Seven pastorals at sixteen / Before a screen door / Pull / Two directions / My grandfather walks in the woods / Mississippi gardens / I called them trees / Beaches, why I don't care for them / At 57, my father learns to grow things / Suburban noir / Letter to the local police / Homeopathic / Root / What my child learns of the sea / Ritual of season / More than once in caves / Pachuta, Mississippi/A memoir
First skunk of spring / [Earth, I thank you] / Bemidji in spring / Winter poem / After the winter / For Alexis / Thank you / Spring down / Deep in the quiet wood / Violets / Man, his bowl, his raspberries / What to eat, and what to drink, and what to leave for poison / Earth song / Rondeau / Southern living / Geraniums / My Mississippi spring / Fearless
Dungy, Camille T., 1972-
Ed Roberson -- Lucille Clifton -- Al Young -- G.E. Patterson -- June Jordan -- George Moses Horton -- Nikki Giovanni -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Marilyn Nelson -- Rita Dove -- Robert Hayden -- George Marion McClellan -- Thylias Moss -- Helene Johnson -- Toni Wynn -- Gerald Barrax Sr. -- Ed Roberson -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Alvin Aubert -- Rita Shockley.
Ravi Howard -- James A. Emanuel -- Gerald Barrax Sr. -- Carl Phillips -- Evie Shockley -- Cyrus Cassells -- George Marion McClellan -- Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Richard Wright -- Mark McMorris -- Marilyn Nelson -- Anthony Walton -- Camille T. Dungy -- June Jordan -- Lucille Clifton -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Ross Gay -- Sterling Brown -- Ed Roberson -- Reginald Shepherd.
Richard Wright -- Anne Spencer -- Gerald Barrax Sr. -- Lenard D. Moore -- Major Jackson -- Audre Lorde -- Anthony Walton -- June Jordan -- Wanda Coleman -- Camille T. Dungy -- Patricia Smith -- Michael S. Harper -- Jean Toomer -- Arna Bontemps -- Melvin Dixon -- Claude McKay -- Margaret Walker -- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- Ed Roberson -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson.
C.S. Giscombe -- Amber Flora Thomas -- Gregory Pardlo -- Major Jackson -- Tim Seibles -- #459 / Richard Wright -- Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Tara Betts -- Lenard D. Moore -- C.S. Giscombe -- Robert Hayden -- Janice N. Harrington -- Audre Lorde -- Kwame Alexander -- Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Shane Book -- Lucille Clifton -- Natasha Trethewey -- Yusef Komunyakaa.
Alice Walker -- Phillis Wheatley -- Nikki Giovanni -- G.E. Patterson -- Langston Hughes -- Anne Spencer -- Rita Dove -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Albery Whitman -- Douglas Kearney -- Clarence Major -- Major Jackson -- Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Ed Roberson -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Arna Bontemps -- Cynthia Parker-Ohene -- Natasha Trethewey.
Mona Lisa Saloy -- Askia M. Touré -- Sterling Brown -- James A. Emanuel -- Devorah Major -- Audre Lorde -- G.E. Patterson -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Patricia Spears Jones -- Carl Phillips -- Liturgy / Natasha Trethewey -- Jean Toomer -- Earthquake blues / Ishmael Reed -- Amber Flora Thomas -- Douglas Kearney -- Anne Spencer -- Robert Hayden.
Sean Hill -- Jean Toomer -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Richard Wright -- Harryette Mullen -- Wendy S. Walters -- C. S. Giscombe -- Shara McCallum -- Cyrus Cassells -- Tim Seibles -- Cornelius Eady -- Ishmael Reed -- Wanda Coleman -- Clarence Major -- Toi Derricotte -- Janice N. Harrington -- Afaa Michael Weaver -- G.E. Patterson.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- Robert Hayden -- Myronn Hardy -- Janice N. Harrington -- Frank X Walker -- Lucille Clifton -- E. Ethelbert Miller -- Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- Douglas Kearney -- June Jordan -- Rita Dove -- Claudia Rankine -- C. S. Giscombe -- Margaret Walker -- Ed Roberson -- Evie Shockley -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Indigo Moor -- Marilyn Nelson -- Michael S. Harper.
Camille T. Dungy -- Richard Wright -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Sean Hill -- Janice N. Harrington -- Indigo Moor -- C. S. Giscombe -- Marilyn Nelson -- Stephanie Pruitt -- Gerald Barrax Sr. -- Wanda Coleman -- Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Gregory Pardlo -- June Jordan -- Frank X Walker -- Terrance Hayes -- Audre Lorde -- Remica L. Bingham -- Mark McMorris -- Al Young.
Marilyn Nelson -- Anne Spencer -- Sean Hill -- Nikki Giovanni -- Claude McKay -- Joanne V. Gabbin -- Ross Gay -- George Marion McClellan -- James Weldon Johnson -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Claudia Rankine -- Camille T. Dungy -- Langston Hughes -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Kendra Hamilton -- Elizabeth Alexander -- Margaret Walker -- Tim Seibles.
edited by Camille T. Dungy.
2009
Black nature : four centuries of African American nature poetry
[1965]
Nearly 700 poems by fifty poets, from colonial times to the present.
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Harper & Row,
Book
American poetry
The Prologue -- Contemplations -- The Flesh and the Spirit -- The Author to Her Book -- To My Dear and Loving Husband -- In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old -- Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 / Prologue (from "Preparatory Meditations) -- Meditation I -- The Reflexion -- Meditation 6 -- Meditation 8 -- Meditation 20 -- Meditation 29 -- Meditation 38 -- Meditation 40 -- Meditation 68A, Second Series -- from "Gods Determinations Touching His Elect -- The Preface -- The Glory of and Grace in the Church Set Out -- The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended -- Miscellaneous Poems -- An Address to the Soul Occasioned By a Rain -- Upon a Spider Catching a Fly -- Huswifery -- Upon Wedlock and Death of Children -- The Ebb and Flow / The Power of Fancy -- Death (from "The House of Night") -- The Vanity of Existence -- To the Memory of the Brave Americans -- The Hurricane -- The Wild Honey Suckle -- The Indian Burying Ground -- To Sir Toby -- Ode -- Amanda's Complaint -- On a Honey Bee -- On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature / The Hasty-Pudding -- from "The Columbiad" [One Centred System] / Thanatopsis -- The Yellow Violet -- Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood -- To a Waterfowl -- Green River -- A Winter Piece -- Summer Wind -- A Forest Hymn -- "Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids" -- The Evening Wind -- To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe -- To the Fringed Gentian -- The Prairies -- Earth -- The Antiquity of Freedom -- "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race" -- The Poet -- The Death of Lincoln
The Sphinx -- Each and All -- The Problem -- Uriel -- Alphonso of Castile -- Mithridates -- Hamatreya -- The Rhodora -- The Snow-Storm -- Ode -- Ode to Beauty -- Give All to Love -- The Apology -- Merlin -- Bacchus -- Blight -- Musketaquid -- Threnody -- Concord Hymn -- Brahma -- Days -- Two Rivers -- Waldeinsamkeit -- Terminus -- Compensation / Hymn to the Night -- The Skeleton in Armor -- The Arsenal at Sspringfield -- Seaweed -- The Fire of Driftwood -- In the Churchyard at Cambridge -- The Jewish Cemetery at Newport -- The Ropewalk -- My Lost Youth -- Snow-Flakes -- Killed at the Ford -- Divina Commedia -- The Challenge -- Aftermath -- The Sicilian's Tale -- Chaucer -- Milton -- Keats -- The Sound of the Sea -- The Harvest Moon -- Nature -- The Chamber over the Gate -- The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls -- Jugurtha -- The Cross of Snow / Memories -- Proem -- Ichabod -- Skipper Ireson's Ride -- The Old Burying-Ground -- Telling the Bees -- My Playmate -- Barbara Frietchie -- Snow-Bound -- Laus Deo! -- Prelude (from"Among the Hills") -- At Last / Tamerlane -- Evening Star -- A Dream Within a Dream -- Sonnet-To Science -- Al Aaraaf -- Romance -- To Helen -- Israfel -- The City in the Sea -- The Sleeper -- Lenore -- The Valley of Unrest -- The Coliseum -- To One in Paradise -- The Haunted Palace -- Sonnet-Silence -- The Conqueror Worm -- Dream-Land -- The Raven -- Ulalume-A Ballad -- Eldorado -- For Annie -- To My Mother -- Annabel Lee / The Ballad of the Oysterman -- Old Ironsides -- The Last Leaf -- The Chambered Nautilus -- The Living Temple -- The Deacon's Masterpiece -- Contentment -- The Two Streams -- Manhood (from "Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts") -- Dorothy Q. -- Two Sonnets: Harvard -- The Peau De Chagrin of State Street
To the Canary Bird -- Thy Beauty Fades -- The New Birth -- Nature -- Life -- The Garden -- The columbine -- The Dead -- The Slave -- Love -- Thy Brother's Blood -- The Hand and Foot -- Psyche -- The Barberry-Bush -- Man in Harmony with Nature -- On the Completion of the Pacific Telegraph -- The Broken Bowl -- The April Snow -- Soul-Sickness -- The Clouded Morning -- Abdolonymus the Sidonian -- The Fugitive Slaves -- On Visiting the Graves of Hawthorne and Thoreau -- The New Man -- The New World / Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life -- Great God, I Ask Thee for No Meaner Pelf -- Light-Winged Smoke, Icarian Bird -- Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind -- Woof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze -- Lately, Alas, I Knew a Gentle Boy -- The Inward Morning -- My Books I'd Fain Cast Off, I Cannot Read -- I Am A Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied -- Inspiration -- The Fall of the Leaf / To the Dandelion -- From "A Fable for Critics" [Emerson] -- [Bryant] -- [Whittier] -- [Hawthorne] -- [Cooper] -- [Poe and Longfellow] -- [Lowell] -- Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration -- Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line -- The Washers of the Shroud -- Auspex -- The Recall -- On Receiving a Copy of Mr. Austin Dobson's "Old World Idylls" -- Verses, Intended to Go With a Posset Dish / Song of Myself -- From "To Think of Time" -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking -- From "Children of Adam" -- To the Garden the World -- From Pent-up Aching Rivers -- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals -- As adam Early in the Morning -- From "Calamus" In Paths Untrodden -- Scented Herbage of My Breast -- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing -- When I Heard at the Close of the Day -- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me -- I Dream'd in a Dream -- From "Drum-Taps" Beat! Beat! Drums! -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford -- Bivouac on a Mountain Side -- By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame -- The Wound-Dresser -- A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim -- To the Leaven'd Soil they Trod -- O Captain! My Captain! -- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd -- Sparkles From the Wheel -- A Noiseless Patient Spider -- To a Locomotive in Winter -- Good-Bye My Fancy!
The Portent -- Misgivings -- The Conflict of Convictions -- The March into Virginia -- A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight -- Shiloh -- Malvern Hill -- The House-Top -- A Dirge for McPherson -- On the Grave of a Young Cavalry Officer Killed in the Valley of Virginia -- Commemorative of a Naval Victory -- Epilogue (from "Clarel") -- The Æolian Harp -- The Maldive Shark -- The Berg -- Pebbles -- After the Pleasure Party -- The Ravaged Villa -- Monody -- Art / The Question -- Refrigerium -- Sonnets: Part I - XXII -- XXIV -- XXV -- XXVI -- Sonnets: Part II - VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- XI -- XII -- XIII -- XIV -- XV -- XVI -- XVII -- XXXI -- XXXII -- XXXIII -- XXXIV / Charleston -- Spring -- The Unknown Dead -- Ode / 49 I never lost as much but twice -- 67 Success is counted sweetest -- 76 Exultation is the going -- 80 Our lives are Swiss -- 126 To fight aloud, is very brave -- 128 Bring me the sunset in a cup -- 130 These are the days when birds come back -- 160 Just lost, when I was saved -- 165 A wounded deer, leaps highest -- 187 How many times these low feet staggered -- 214 I taste a liquor never brewed -- 216 Safe in their alabaster chambers -- 241 I like a look of agony -- 249 Wild nights-wild nights -- 258 There's a certain slant of light -- 280 I felt a funeral, in my brain -- 287 A clock stopped -- 290 Of bronze-and blaze -- 303 The soul selects her own society -- 318 I'll tell you how the sun rose -- 322 There came a day at summer's full -- 328 A bird came down the walk -- 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- 348 I dreaded that first robin, so -- 376 Of course-I prayed -- 378 I saw no way-the Heavens were stitched -- 401 What soft-cherubic creatures -- 435 Much madness is divinest sense
441 This is my letter to the world -- 448 This was a poet, it is that -- 449 I died for beauty-but was scarce -- 465 I heard a fly buzz-when I died -- 474 They put us far apart -- 502 At least-to pray-is left-is left -- 511 If you were coming in the fall -- 526 To hear an oriole sing -- 536 The heart asks pleasure-first -- 556 The brain, within it's groove -- 585 I like to see it lap the miles -- 620 It makes no difference abroad -- 640 I cannot live with you -- 650 Pain-has an element of blank -- 657 I dwell in possibility -- 664 Of all the souls that stand create -- 675 Essential oils-are wrung -- 712 Because I could not stop for death -- 721 Behind me-dips eternity -- 742 Four trees-upon a solitary acre -- 754 My life had stood-a loaded gun -- 764 Presentiment-is that long shadow-on the lawn -- 813 This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies -- 822 This consciousness that is aware -- 829 Ample make this bed -- 861 Split the lark-and you'll find the music -- 870 Finding is the first act -- 875 I stepped from plank to plank -- 888 When I have seen the sun emerge -- 946 It is an honorable thought -- 949 Under the light, yet under -- 985 The missing all, prevented me -- 986 A narrow fellow in the grass -- 997 Crumbling is not an instant's act -- 1052 I never saw a moor -- 1068 Further in summer than the birds -- 1072 Title divine-is mine -- 1078 The bustle in a house -- 1082 Revolution is the pod -- 1084 At half past three, a single bird -- 1129 Tell all the truth but tell it slant -- 1176 We never know how high we are -- 1207 He preached upon "Breadth" till it argued him narrow -- 1243 Safe despair it is that raves -- 1304 Not with a club, the heart is broken -- 1333 A little madness in the spring -- 1393 Lay this laurel on the one -- 1463 A route of evanescence -- 1540 As imperceptibly as grief -- 1587 He ate and drank the precious words -- 1612 The auctioneer of parting -- 1624 Apparently with no surprise -- 1670 In winter in my room -- 1672 Lightly stepped a yellow star -- 1695 There is a solitude of space -- 1712 A pit-but Heaven over it -- 1732 My life closed twice before its close / Thar's more in the man than thar is in the land -- Corn -- The Symphony -- The Waving of the Corn -- Evening Song -- Song of the Chattahoochee -- The Harlequin of Dreams -- The Revenge of Hamish -- The Marshes of Glynn -- A Ballad of Trees and the Master / Glouchester Moors -- An Ode in Time of Hesitation -- On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines -- The Menagerie -- The Bracelet of Grass -- Faded Pictures -- Thammuz / George Crabbe -- Luke Havergal -- Credo -- Cliff Klingenhagen -- How Annandale went out -- Miniver Cheevy -- For a Dead Lady -- The Gift of God -- Hillcrest -- Eros Turannos -- Bewick Finzer -- The Man Against the Sky -- Demos -- The Dark Hills -- Mr. Flood's Party -- The Sheaves -- Karma / From "The Black Riders" - I -- III -- VI -- VIII -- IX -- X -- XII -- XIV -- XVIII -- XIX -- XXI -- XXIII -- XXIV -- XXVIII -- XXIX -- XXXIV -- XXXIX -- XLI -- XLVI -- XLIX -- LI -- LIV -- LX -- LXVI -- LXVII -- The Blue Battalions -- From "War is Kind" - [I] -- [VI] -- [VII] -- [XI] -- [XII] -- [XVIII] -- [XIX] -- [XXI] -- [XXIII] -- Three Poems
The Tuft of Flowers -- Mending Wall -- Home Burial -- After Apple-Picking -- The Road Not Taken -- The Oven Bird -- The Witch of Coös -- Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening -- For Once, Then, Something -- The Onset -- To Earthward -- Two Look at Two -- Acquainted with the Night -- West-Running Brook -- Two Tramps in Mud Time -- Desert Places -- Neither Out Far Nor in Deep -- Design -- The Gift Outright -- Directive / Chicago -- Sketch -- Fog -- Pool -- Prayers of Steel -- Wilderness -- Handfuls -- Cool Tombs -- Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind -- When Death Came April Twelve 1945 / Domination of Black -- The Snow Man -- Le Monocle de Mon Oncle -- A High-Toned Old Christian Woman -- The Emperor of Ice-Cream -- Sunday Morning -- Anecdote of the Jar -- To the One of Fictive Music -- Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird -- Sea Surface Full of Clouds -- The Idea of Order at Key West -- Anglais Mort À Florence -- A Postcard from the Volcano -- Study of Two Pears -- The Glass of Water -- The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man -- Mrs. Alfred Uruguay -- Asides on the Oboe -- The Motive for Metaphor -- Credences of Summer -- To an Old Philosopher in Rome -- The Rock -- The World as Meditation -- As You Leave the Room / Tract -- The Widow's Lament in Springtime -- Queen-Ann's-Lace -- Spring and All -- To Elsie -- Rain -- The Yachts -- These -- Preface to Paterson: Book One -- The Semblables -- Burning the Christmas Greens -- The Injury / Portrait d'Une Femme -- The Seafarer -- A Virginal -- The Return -- Lament of the Frontier Guard -- Liu Ch'e -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- Canto I -- Canto II / Adonis -- Heat -- Pear Tree -- Oread -- From Citron-Bower -- Erige Cor Tuum Ad Me in Caelum / Night -- Birds -- Apology for Bad Dreams -- Hurt Hawks -- Promise of Peace -- The Eye -- Ocean -- My Burial Place -- Let Them Alone -- But I am Growing Old and Indolent / Poetry -- The Steeple-Jack -- No Swan so Fine -- The Pangolin -- What are Years? -- The Mind is an Enchanting Thing -- In Distrust of Merits -- Armour's Undermining Modesty -- Tom Fool at Jamaica -- Melchior Vulpius / Winter Remembered -- Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter -- Captain Carpenter -- Vision by Sweetwater -- Piazza Piece -- Antique Harvesters -- The Equilibrists -- Painted Head -- Master's in the Garden Again -- Prelude to an Evening
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Sweeney Among the Nightingales -- Gerontion -- The Waste Land -- The Hollow Men -- Ash-Wednesday / The Road -- Sea Holly -- Elder Tree -- The Room -- Doctors' Row -- North Infinity Street -- The lovers -- Music / Ars Poetica -- The End of the World -- You, Andrew Marvell -- Immortal Autumn -- "Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments" -- Pole Star -- Theory of Poetry / O Sweet Spontaneous -- A Man Who Had Fallen Among Thieves -- "Next to of Course God America I -- Somewhere I have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond -- Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town -- My Father Moved through Dooms of Love -- Pity this Busy Monster, Manunkind -- What if a Much of a Which of a WInd -- Now Does Our World Descend -- Enter No (Silence is the Blood Whose Flesh) / Black Tambourine -- Praise for an Urn -- Chaplinesque -- Repose of Rivers -- The Wine Menagerie -- For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen -- At Melville's Tomb -- Voyages -- To Brooklyn Bridge (Proem to "The Bridge") -- The River (from "The Bridge") -- The Tunnel (from "The Bridge") -- O Carib Isle! -- Royal Palm -- The Hurricane -- The Broken Tower / Mr. Pope -- The Subway -- Ode to the Confederate Dead -- The Cross -- Sonnets at Christmas (1934) -- The Mediterranean -- Aeneas at Washington -- Pastoral -- Seasons of the Soul -- The Swimmers / Open House -- Cuttings, Later -- Dolor -- The Lost Son -- Elegy for Jane -- Four for Sir John Davies -- The Waking -- Words for the Wind -- The Song -- First Meditation (from "Meditations of an Old Woman") / The Dome of Sunday -- The Potomac -- Nostalgia -- Elegy for a Dead Soldier -- V-Letter -- The Sickness of Adam (from "Adam and Eve') / 90 North -- Second Air Force -- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- A Camp in the Prussian Forest -- The Orient Express -- The Woman at the Washington Zoo / Winter Landscape -- Cloud and Flame -- The Dispossessed -- Three Around the Old Gentleman / In Memory of Arthur Winslow -- Christmas Eve Under Hooker's Statue -- The Drunken Fisherman -- Children of Light -- The Exile's Return -- Colloquy in Black Rock -- The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket -- As a Plane Tree by the Water -- Mr. Edwards and the Spider -- After the Surprising Conversions -- Where the Rainbow Ends -- Falling Asleep Over the Aeneid -- Words for Hart Crane -- Skunk Hour -- The Public Garden / First Snow in Alsace -- Bell Speech -- Still, Citizen Sparrow -- The Death of a Toad -- Lamarck Elaborated -- Pangloss's song: A Comic-Opera Lyric / The Heaven of Animals -- Between Two Prisoners -- The Scratch -- The Dusk of Horses -- The Beholders / On an East Wind From the Wars -- Love Song: I and Thou -- Funeral Oration for a Mouse -- Elegy -- Plague of Dead Sharks / Pleasures -- The Goddess -- Come into Animal Presence -- The Well -- The Novel / Returned to Frisco, 1946 -- The Campus on the Hill -- April Inventory -- Heart's Needle: 5 -- A Flat One / Hart Crane -- The Way -- The Rose -- The Wife -- The Snow / Dictum: For a Masque of Deluge -- When I Came From Colchis -- The Annunciation -- John Otto -- In the Night Fields / a Man Walking and Singing -- Canticle -- May Song -- Ascent -- The Guest -- November 26, 1963
Allen, Gay Wilson, 1903-1995.
Rideout, Walter B. (Walter Bates)
Robinson, James K.
Anne Bradstreet -- Edward Taylor -- Philip Freneau -- Joel Barlow -- William Cullen Bryant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Jones Very -- Henry David Thoreau -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman.
Herman Melville -- Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- Henry Timrod -- Emily Dickinson.
Emily Dickinson -- Sidney Lanier -- William Vaughn Moody -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Stephen Crane.
Robert Frost -- Carl Sandburg -- Wallace Stevens -- Ezra Pound -- William Carlos Williams -- H.D. -- Robinson Jeffers -- Maianne Moore -- John Crowe Ransom.
T.S. Eliot -- Conrad Aiken -- Archibald MacLeish -- e.e. cummings -- Hart Crane -- Allen Tate -- Theodore Roethke -- Karl Shapiro -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Richard Wilbur -- James Dickey -- Alan Dugan -- Denise Levertov -- W. D. Snodgrass -- Robert Creeley -- W. S. Merwin -- Wendell Berry.
[edited by] Gay Wilson Allen, Walter B. Rideout [and] James K. Robinson.
1965
American poetry
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