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only call a labor of love. A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N
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A
Conrad Aiken, Music I
Heard, The Song of Senlin
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues
B
Amiri Baraka, Preface to a
Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Earle Birney, Plaza
de la Inquisición
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
William Blake, The Fly, The
Sick Rose, The Clod
and the Pebble
The Tyger, The Angel
Andre Breton, Always
for the First Time
Charlotte Brontë, On the Death of
Anne Brontë
Gwendolyn Brooks, We
Real Cool, the
sonnet-ballad
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning,
How Do I Love Thee?
Robert Browning, Two in
the Compagna, My Last Duchess
Robert Burns, A Red, Red
Rose, On Jas. Grieve,
Elegy on Mr. William Cruikshank A.M.
Epitaph for William Nicol
George, Lord Byron, So We'll Go No
More A-Roving
C
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Lucille Clifton, Homage to my Hips
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
e.e. cummings, a salesman is an
it that stinks excuse,
somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
D
Emily Dickinson, I Died for Beauty,
Because I Could Not Stop
for Death,
Much Madness is Divinest Sense,
The Soul Selects its own
Society,
This is my Letter to the World,
Tell all the Truth but Tell it
Slant
John Donne, The Good Morrow
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Life's Tragedy
E
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land
Odysseas Elytis, Gift Silver Poem
Mari Evans, The Rebel
F
Mattis Fishman, [Wearing her humid
air like damp perfume],
[letters, like petals], Letter to Li Po
Ugo Foscolo, To Zakynthos
G
Allen Ginsberg, America
Jorie Graham, Evening Prayer
Robert Graves, Traveller's Curse
After Misdirection
H
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to
Make Much of Time
A.E. Houseman, Terence, This Is
Stupid Stuff
Langston Hughes, Dreams
I -
J
James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice
and Sing
K
Jane Kenyon, Let Evening Come
L
Else Lasker-Schuler, I Know
D.H. Lawrence, Piano
Robert Lowell, Obit
M
John McCrae, In Flanders Fields
Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica
Cynthia MacDonald, The Weekend He
Died
Carson McCullers, Stone is Not Stone
Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate
Shepherd to His Love
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy
Mistress
Edna St. Vincent Millay, What Lips My Lips
Have Kissed
N
Ogden Nash, Reflections on
Ice-Breaking
O
Frank O'Hara, Why I am not a
Painter
Sharon Olds, Feared Drowned
P
Dorothy Parker, One Perfect Rose,
Resume
Kenneth Patchen, Do the Dead Know
What Time It Is?
Sylvia Plath, Metaphors
Edgar Allen Poe, Annabel Lee
Alexander Pope, Ode for St.
Cecilia's Day
Aleksandr Pushkin, To...
Q - R
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply
to the Shepherd
Dudley Randall, The Ballad of
Birmingham
Ishmael Reed, Beware: Do Not
Read This Poem
Adrienne Rich, A Woman Mourned by
Daughters,
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff
Rainer Maria Rilke, The
Walk, [Once I took your face
into],
[You who never arrived], Orpheus. Eurydice.
Hermes
Christina Rossetti, No Thank
You, John, Promises Like Pie-Crust
Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Sudden Light
S
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Supernatural Love
Walter Scott, [Breathes There
the Man]
William Shakespeare, The Song,
Sonnets 104, 116
Edith Sitwell, Heart and Mind
Stevie Smith, Not Waving but
Drowning
Robert Southey, [My Days Among the
Dead are Passed]
Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV (from
Amoretti)
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice
Cream
Gertrude Stein, Stanza XII
Mark Strand, A Piece of the
Storm
T
Rabindranath Tagor, The Sky is Filled
with Stars and The Sun
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, All in All
Dylan Thomas, Do not go Gentle
into that Good Night
U -
V - W
Derek Walcott, Pentecost
Alice Walker, Women
Margaret Walker, Lineage
Robert Penn Warren, The Corner of the
Eye
Walt Whitman, O Captain! My
Captain!
Richard Wilbur, Advice to a
Prophet
William Carlos Williams, The Red
Wheelbarrow, Raleigh was Right
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Y - Z
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