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| Poet | Poem |
|---|---|
| Akhmatova, Anna | The Sentence |
| Ashbery, John | The Improvement |
| Auden, W.H. | Musée des Beaux Arts |
| Bishop, Elizabeth | At the Fishhouses |
| Bishop, Elizabeth | One Art |
| Blok, Aleksandr | The Night, the Street, the Streetlamp... |
| Boland, Eavan | The Emigrant Irish |
| Bolina, Jaswinder | Make Believe |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn | We Real Cool |
| Burgos, Julia de | Ay, Ay, Ay, de la Grifa Negra |
| Crane, Hart | At Melville's Tomb |
| Cullen, Countee | Yet Do I Marvel |
| Dickinson, Emily | #288 (I'm Nobody! Who are You?") |
| Drayton, Michael | Since There's No Help |
| Dunbar, Paul Laurence | The Party |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Concord Hymn |
| Frost, Robert | For Once, Then, Something |
| Frost, Robert | "OUT OUT--" |
| Frost, Robert | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
| Glück, Louise | Lamentations |
| Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann (tr. Robert Bly) | From the Holy Longing |
| Harjo, Joy | Fishing |
| Heaney, Seamus | Death of a Naturalist |
| Manley Hopkins, Gerard | God's Grandeur |
| Housman, A.E. | Diffugere Nives |
| Hughes, Langston | Merry Go Round |
| Hughes, Langston | Minstrel Man |
| Jones, Evan | The Song of the Banana Man |
| Komunyakaa, Yusef | Facing It |
| Kunitz, Stanley | Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation |
| Levertov, Denise | Settling |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | A Psalm of Life |
| Machado, Antonio | Caminante, No Hay Camino / Traveler, There is no Road |
| Marvell, Andrew | To His Coy Mistress |
| Milton, John | From Lycidas |
| Mistral, Gabriela | Piececitos |
| Nemerov, Howard | The Makers |
| O'Hara, Frank | POEM |
| Neruda, Pablo | Soneto XVII / Sonnet XVII |
| Sexton, Anne | Said the Poet to the Analyst |
| Parker, Pat | Let Me Come to You Naked |
| Plath, Sylvia | Nick and the Candlestick |
| Plath, Sylvia | Polly's Tree |
| Li Po | On a Quiet Night |
| Rimbaud Arthur | Le Dormeur du Val |
| Ritsos, Yannis | Our Land |
| Roethke, Theodore | My Papa's Waltz |
| Roethke, Theodore | The Sloth |
| Roethke, Theodore | The Waking |
| Shakespeare, William | Sonnet 29 |
| Stevens, Wallace | The Idea of Order at Key West |
| Stevens, Wallace | The Snow Man |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Block City |
| Szymborska, Wisława | Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition |
| Tagore, Rabindranath | From Gitanjali |
| Tate, James | The Lost Pilot |
| Thayer, Lawrence Ernest | Casey at the Bat |
| Walker, Margaret | For My People |
| Whitman, Walt | from Song of Myself |
| Whitman, Walt | from Song of the Open Road |
| Whitman, Walt | O Captain! My Captain! |
| Yeats, William Butler | Politics |
| Yeats, William Butler | When You Are Old |
| Yoshitada, Sone No (tr. Kenneth Rexroth) | Untitled Tanka ["The Lower Leaves of the Trees"] |
| Zawgee | Way of the Water Hyacinth |
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