Letter to Alex Comfort / Dannie Abse
Prelude LVI / Conrad Aiken
The wide land / A.R. Ammons
Civilization and its discontents
Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day
As I walked out one evening / W.H. Auden
from To my son / George Barker
Some Litanies / Michael Benedikt
Dream song 76: Henry's confession
Dream Song 77 / John Berryman
Youth and age on Beaulieu River, Hants / John Betjeman
The prodigal / Elizbeth Bishop
evening in the sanitarium / Louise Bogan
First lesson / Phillip Booth
Hotal Paradiso e Commerciale
Nuns at eve / John Malcolm Brinnin
Elegy just in case / John Ciardi
Good times / Lucille Clifton
Ars poetica about ultimates
Just after noon with fierce shears / Tram Combs
nobody loses all the time
anyone lived in a pretty how town
somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
when serpents bargain for the right to squirm / E.E. Cummings
The star watcher / Peter Davison
For the nightly ascent of the hunter Orion over aforest clearing
Cherrylog road / James Dickey
Memorial service for the invsion beach where the vacation in the flesh is over
The mirror perilous / Alan Dugan
The fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot
The laughing hyena, by Hokusai
University examinations in Egypt / D.J. Enright
The death of Vitellozzo Vitelli
The old men / Irving Feldman
Cobb would have caught it
Souls lake / Robert Fitzgerald
The cell of himself / Arthur Freeman
Acquainted with the night
Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening
The silken tent / Robert Frost
The stranger / Jean Garrigue
An elegy / David Gascoyne
A supermarket in California
To Juan at the winter solstice
In procession / Robert Graves
Considering the snail / Thom Gunn
The body politic / Donald Hall
"Summertime and the living ..." / Robert Hayden
Twice shy / Seamus Heaney
A charm against the tooth-ache
The lady's complaint / John Heath-Stubbs
"More light! More light!"
Lizards and snakes / Anthony Hecht
The seals in Penobscot Bay / Daniel Hoffman
The great bear / John Hollander
Crepuscular / RIchard Howard
Home leave / Barbara Howes
View of a pig / Ted Hughes
The bagel / David Ignatow
The woman at the Washington zoo
The snow leopard / Randall Jarrell
The tourist from Syracuse / Donald Justice
Afterwards. they shall dance
To my son Parker, asleep in the next rom / Bob Kaufman
Driving cross country / X.J. Kennedy
To Christ our Lord / Galway Kinnell
Folk wisdom / Thomas Kinsella
Father and son / Stanley Kunitz
Church going / Phillip Larkin
Psalm concerning the castle / Denise Levertov
The dead / Cecil Day Lewis
Mr. Edwards and the spider / Robert Lowell
Poet in winter / Edward Lucie-Smith
"Not marble nor the gilded monuments" / Archibald MacLeish
The sunlight on the garden
Prayer before birth / Louis MacNiece
Voices from the other world / James Merrill
The drunk in the furnace / W.S. Merwin
Edward Lear in February / Christopher Middleton
Four quartz crystal clocks / Marianne Moore
Great spaces / Howard Moss
Mousemeal / Howard Nemerov
The peaceable kingdom / Marge Piercy
The river merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound
Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom
The waking / Theodore Roethke
Boy with his hair cut short
Effort at speech between two people / Muriel Rukeyser
The ballet of the fifth year
The heavy bear who goes with me
Baudelaire / Delmore Schwartz
The glass blower / James Scully
Letter written on a ferry crossing Long Island Sound
Drug store / Karl Shapiro
Death of a son / Jon Silkin
Hot night on Water Street
My father in the night commanding no / Louis Simpson
A disappearance in West Cedar Street
In and out: severance of connections / L.E. Sissman
Scotch rhapsody / Edith Sitwell
The closing of the rodeo / William Jay Smith
April inventory / W.D. Snodgrass
An elementary school class room in a slum
Port Bou / Stephen Spender
Bone thoughts on a dry day
New strain / George Starbuck
The sense of the sleight of hand man
Peter Quince at the clavier / Wallace Stevens
The last bus / Mark Strand
The centaur / May Swenson
Death of little boys / Allen Tate
The lost pilot / James Tate
The hunchback in the park
A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London
Do not go gentle into that good night
At Barstow / Charles Tomlinson
Ruins of a great house / Derek Walcott
Pursuit / Robert Penn Warren
The lady with the unicorn / Vernon Watkins
The last day and the first / Theodore Weiss
The birth of a shark / David Wevil
A baroque wall fountain in the Villa Sciarra
Advice to a Prophet / Richard Wilbur
The bull / William Carlos Williams
Inscription for the tank / James Wright.