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WEALTH
An Anthology of Poetry in English
EDITED BY
Neil Besner, Deborah Schnitzer, and Alien Turner
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Toronto New York Oxford
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS
W—'
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
XXXIII
INTRODUCTION
XXXIX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 from The Kings and Queens of Scotland
Scotland. 1542-1587
England/Ireland. 1552-1599
2
2
from Amoretti
Sonnet 1
Sonnet 15
MICHAEL DRAYTON
3
To the Virginian Voyage
England. 1564-1616
5
5
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 107
SIR J O H N DAVIES
6
Epigram 36: Of Tobacco
EMILIA LANIER
England. 1569-1645
7
from Salve Deus Rex Judceorum
Eves Apologie
MAIRI NIGHEAN
ALASDAIR R U A I D H /
MARY MACLEOD
9
Luinneag Mhic Leoid/MacLeod's Lilt
EDMUND SPENSER
England. 1563-1631
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
England. 1569-1626
Scotland, c. 1569-c. 1674
J O H N DONNE
14
England. 1572-1631
15
The Canonization
Song ('Go and catch a falling star')
THOMAS MORTON
16
The Song
England/N. America,
c. 1579-c. 1631
17
18
from Quodlibets
To the first planters of Newfoundland
A Skeltonical continued rhyme in praise
of my Newfoundland
ROBERT HERRICK
18
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
19
19
Of Their Government
Of Their Persons and Parts of Body
England/America. 1575-1646
ROBERT HAYMAN
England. 1591-1674
ROGER WILLIAMS
England/America. 1603-1683
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Of English Verse
JOHN MILTON
England. 1608-1674
21
from. Paradise Lost
Book 1: The Argument
ANNE BRADSTREET
26
27
The Author to Her Book
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
28
To His Coy Mistress
29
from The Day of Doom: or, a Description of
the Great and Last fudgement
31
Friendship's Mystery, To my dearest Lucasia
32
from The Bay Psalm Book
Psalm 23: A Psalm of David
33
To the Most Illustrious Prince Christopher
Duke of Albemarle on His Voyage to His
Government of Jamaica. A Pindarick.
A Song in Dialogue
EDMUND WALLER
England. 1606-1687
England/America,
c. 1612-1672
ANDREW MARVELL
England. 1621-1678
MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH
England/America. 1631-1705
KATHERINE FOWLER
PHILIPS
England. 1632-1664
ANONYMOUS
America. 1640
APHRA BEHN
England. 1640-1689
36
Edward Taylor
37
America, c. 1644-1729
38
from Preparatory Meditations
Prologue
from Sacramental Meditations
Meditation 38
39
43
D6nall Qg/Donal 6 g
Donal 6 g
England. 1660-1685
44
45
Penelope to Ulysses
To the Queen
ANONYMOUS
47
London Mourning in As'
51
51
The Unequal Fetters
To the Nightingale
ANONYMOUS
Ireland, after 1650; c. 1902
MRS A N N E KILLIGREW
England. 1661
ANNE FINCH,
COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA
England. 1661-1720
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Ireland. 1667-1745
53
53
Verses Said to be Written on the Union
Verses Made for the Women Who Cry
Apples, etc.
SARAH EGERTON
55
The Emulation
57
from Henry Kelsey His Book
Prologue
.
60
The Triumvirate
61
from The New England Primer
Alphabet
62
Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts and
Learning in America
JONATHAN SWIFT
(NEE FYGE, LATER FIELD)
England, c. 1669-c 1722
HENRY KELSEY
England/N. America,
c. 1670-1724
ELIZABETH THOMAS
England. 1675-1731
ANONYMOUS
America. 1683
GEORGE BERKELEY
Ireland. 1685-1753
ALEXANDER POPE
England. 1688-1744
63
64
70
from the Seventh Book of Homer's Odysses
The Gardens of Akinous
from An Essay on Man
Epistle I
Epistle II, verse 1
71
from Six Town Eclogues: With Some
Other Poems
Satturday: The Small Pox: Flavia
74
The Woman's Labour: An Epistle to
Mr Stephen Duck; In Answer to his Late
Poem, Called 'The Threshers Labour'
80
A was an Archer, and shot at a Frog
Scotland/England. 1700-1748
81
84
A Hymn [On the Seasons]
Ode: Rule, Britannia
THOMAS GRAY
85
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
89
An Essay on Woman
LADY MARY WORTLEY
MONTAGU
England. 1689-1762
MARY COLLIER
England, c. 1690-c. 1762
MARY COOPER
England, c. 1700-1761
JAMES THOMSON
England. 1716-1771
MARYLEAPOR
England. 1722-1746
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To a Young Lady
A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of
Reason, Occasioned by its Privation to a
Friend of Very Superior Talents and
Virtues, 1770
MERCY OTIS WARREN
91
USA. 1728-1814
92
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
93
from The Deserted Village
97
The Liberty Song
99
The Lake; or, Modern Improvement in
Landscape
Ireland/England, c. 1730-1774
J O H N DICKINSON
America. 1732-1808
ANNASEWARD
Scotland. 1742-1809
ANNA LAETITIA (AIKEN)
BARBAULD
102
105
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the
Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the
Slave Trade, 1791
The Rights of Woman
106
I've Gotten a Rock, I've Gotten a Reel
107
'The Dead Beggar, an Elegy addressed to a
Lady, who was affected at seeing the
Funeral of a nameless Pauper, buried
at the Expence of the Parish, in the
Church-Yard at Brighthelmstone, in
November 1792'
England. 1743-1825
SUSANNA BLAMIRE
Scotland. 1747-1794
CHARLOTTE SMITH
England. 1749-1806
108
Auld Robin Gray
PHILIP FRENEAU
109
USA. 1752-1832
110
The Indian Burying Ground
On Mr Paine's Rights of Man
LADY A N N E LINDSAY
Scotland. 1750-1825
PHILLK WHEATLEY
112
America, c. 1754-1784
112
WILLIAM BLAKE
114
England. 1757-1827
115
ROBERT BURNS
115
Scotland. 1759-1796
117
On Being Brought from Africa to America
On Imagination
The Little Black Boy
The Garden of Love
A Poet's Welcome to his love-begotten
Daughter; the first instance that entitled
him to the venerable appellation of
Father—
Auld lange syne
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SARAH WENTWORTH
MORTON
118
USA. 1759-1846
118
Memento, for My Infant Who Lived But
Eighteen Hours
The African Chief
CAROLINA OLIPHANT,
BARONESS NAIRNE
120
The Regalia
England. 1770-1850
122
124
Lucy Gray; or, Solitude
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
SIR WALTER SCOTT
124
Proud Maisie
125
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream.
Scotland. 1766-1845
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Scotland. 1771-1832
SAMUEL TAYLOR
COLERIDGE
England. 1772-1834
ANONYMOUS
A Fragment.
127
Alphabet
America. 1775
ANONYMOUS
America/Canada. 1776; 1780
GEORGE GORDON,
128
Burrowing Yankees
129
An Appeal
130 from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
LORD BYRON
Scotland/England. 1788-1824
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
England. 1792-1822
JANET HAMILTON
Scotland. 1795-1873
Canto 3, verses 1-8
132
133
The Indian Girl's Song
England in 1819
134 A Phase of the War in America, 1864
135 Comparative Slavery
England. 1795-1821
137
138
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Ode on a Grecian Urn
SojouRNER TRUTH
140
Ain't I a Woman?
.141
Colonial Nomenclature
142
To My Ever Beloved and Lamented Son
William Henry
JOHN KEATS
USA. c. 1797-1883
J O H N DUNMORE LANG
Australia. 1799-1878
BAMEWAWASGEZHIKAQUAY/
JANE SCHOOLCRAFT
Chippewa. 1800-1841
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USA. 1803-1882
144
144
Concord Hymn
The Problem
JAMES CLARENCE
146
The Nameless One
148
The Micmac
149
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
MANGAN
Ireland. 1803-1849
JOSEPH H O W E
Canada. 1804-1873
ELIZABETH BARRETT
BROWNING
England. 1806-1861
HENRY WADSWORTH
LONGFELLOW
157 from The Song of Hiawatha
XXII: Hiawatha's Departure
USA. 1807-1882
163
To the Pupils of the Hindu College
EDGAR ALLAN P O E
USA. 1809-1849
163
Annabel Lee
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
165
Ulysses
167
168
My Last Duchess
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint
Praxed's Church
EMILY BRONTE
England. 1818-1848
171
The Prisoner: A Fragment
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
173
A Parody
175
176
A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight
Monody
HENRY
L. DEROZIO
India. 1809-1831
England. 1809-1892
ROBERT BROWNING
England. 1812-1889
USA. c. 1818-c. 1895
HERMAN MELVILLE
USA. 1819-1891
WALT WHITMAN
177 from Song of Myself
USA. 1819-1892
WILLIAM WILSON
Ojibway. c. 1820-1839
192
England and British America
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MATTHEW ARNOLD
England. 1822-1888
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
197 To Marguerite—Continued
198
Ireland. 1824-1889
CHEESQUATALAWNY/
YELLOW BIRD/
JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE
Cherokee. 1827-1867
IX
from Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland:
A Modern Poem in Twelve Chapters
Chapter I, Laurence, lines 1-111
201 The Atlantic Cable
203 #632: The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
USA. 1830-1886 204 #1082: Revolution is the Pod
EMILY DICKINSON
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
England. 1830-1894
204
WILLIAM MORRIS
England. 1834-1896 205
206
'That where I am, there ye may be also'
from The Earthly Paradise
An Apology
November
HENRY KENDALL
Australia. 1839-1882
207
The Last of His Tribe
THOMAS HARDY
England. 1840-1928
208
The Darkling Thrush
GERARD MANLEY
HOPKINS
England. 1844-1889
209
Pied Beauty
EMILY LAWLESS
Ireland. 1845-1913
210
Clare Coast: Circa 1720
ALICE MEYNELL 213 Renouncement
England. 1847-1922 214 A Father of Women
ISABELLA VALANCY
CRAWFORD
Canada. 1850-1887
ROBERT Louis STEVENSON
Scotland/England/Samoa.
1850-1894
215 The Dark Stag
216 Said the Canoe
219
Foreign Children
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220
Our Casuarina Tree
221
The Skater
223
Low Tide on Grand Pre
224
The Other Side of a Mirror
Canada. 1861-1899
225
227
Heat
In November
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
228
from The Child
TORU D U T T
India. 1856-1877
CHARLES
G.D.
ROBERTS
Canada. 1860-1943
BLISS CARMAN
Canada. 1861-1929
MARY COLERIDGE
England. 1861-1907
ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN
India. 1861-1941
TEKAHIONWAKE/
EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON
.230
231
As Red Men
Die
A Cry from an Indian Wife
Mohawk. 1861-1913
DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT 233
The Forsaken
Canada. 1862-1947
SWAMI VlVEKANANDA
India. 1863-1902
236
The Cup
ANDREW BARTON
('THE BANJO') PATERSON
237
The Man from Snowy River
Australia. 1864-1941
MARYGILMORE
240
Eve-song
Australia. 1865-1962
241
Never Admit the Pain
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Ireland. 1865-1939
241
242
The Magi
Easter 1916
HENRY LAWSON
244
The Bastard from the Bush
246
The Song of the Smoke
(%')
247
Flesh
Australia. 1868-1946
248
Cubes
Australia. 1867-1922
W.E.B. Du Bois
USA. 1868-1963
MARY FULLERTON
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249
London
~ England. 1869-1928
250
251
The Fanner's Bride
Monsieur Qui Passe (Quai Voltaire)
JAMES W E L D O N JOHNSON
252
O Black and Unknown Bards
MANMOHAN GHOSE
India. 1869-1924
CHARLOTTE M E W
USA. 1871-1938
J.M. SYNGE 254
Ireland. 1871-1909 254
The Curse
A Question
255
We Wear the Mask
256
The Orange Tree
257
The Song of Hungarrda
258
Ode to Sequoyah
USA. 1874-1963
259
260
260
In White
Design
Desert Places
A M Y LOWELL
261
The Sisters
USA. 1874-1925
265
New Heavens for Old
GERTRUDE STEIN
266
from Tender Buttons
270
The Gypsy
271
The Newspaper-Seller
273
Arctic Woods
274
275
Awake!
Bangle-Sellers
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
USA. 1872-1906
J O H N SHAW NEILSON
Australia. 1872-1942
NGUNAITPONI/
DAVID UNAIPON
Australia. 1873-1967
ALEXANDER POSEY
Creek. 1873-1908
ROBERT FROST
USA/France. 1874-1946
EDWARD THOMAS
England. 1878-1917
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Ireland. 1879-1944
FREDERICK PHILIP GROVE
Prussia/Canada. 1879-1948
SAROJINI NAIDU
India. 1879-1949
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PATRICK (PADRAIC)
HENRY PEARSE
276
The Mother
277
277
Of Mere Being
The Planet on the Table
278
from Brebeufand His Brethren
[The Martyrdom of Brebeuf and
Lalemant, 16 March 1649] XII
from Towards the Last Spike
The Pre-Cambrian Shield (i) and
(ii) Dynamite on the North Shore
Ireland. 1879-1916
WALLACE STEVENS
USA. 1879-1955
E J . PRATT
Canada. 1882-1964
282
T.E. HULME
England. 1883-1917
284
285
The Blanket-makers
Autumn
EDITH A N N E ROBERTSON
Scotland. 1883-c. 1978
285
286
Pyatie Beauty/Pied Beauty
Country boy on a motor cycle
WILLIAM CARLOS
WILLIAMS
286
287
Danse Russe
This Is Just to Say
England. 1884-1947
288
288
The Fired Pot
The Sick Assailant
D.H.
289
Figs
292
In a Southern Garden
293
293
A Pact
L'art, 1910
294
On Being Eighty
H.D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE)
USA/England. 1886-1961
295
296
At Baia
from Sigil
RUPERT BROOKE
300
Dining-Room Tea
USA. 1883-1963
A N N A WICKHAM
LAWRENCE
England. 1885-1930
DOROTHEA MACKELLAR
Australia. 1885-1968
EZRA POUND
USA/England. 1885-1972
HELEN
B.
CRUICKSHANK
Scotland. 1886-1975
England. 1887-1915
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MARIANNE MOORE
USA. 1887-1972
302 Poetry (1921 version)
303 Poetry (1924 version)
303 Poetry (1967 version)
EDWIN M U I R
Scotland. 1887-1959
304
For Ann Scott-Moncrieff
EDITH SITWELL
England. 1887-1964
305 Lullaby
T.S. ELIOT 307 The Hollow Men
USA/England. 1888-1965
310
To Stanislaw Wyspianski
Jamaica/USA. 1889-1948
311
312
If We Must Die
America
IVORGURNEY
312
The Silent One
{CATHERINE MANSFIELD
New Zealand. 1888-1923
CLAUDE MCKAY
England. 1890-1937
ISAAC ROSENBERG
313 Break of Day in the Trenches
England. 1890-1918
FRANCIS LEDWIDGE
314
To One Dead
315
from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
319
To My Brother
320
Honey for Tea
322
[the Cambridge ladies who live in
furnished souls]
[somewhere i have never travelled,gladly
beyond]
Ireland. 1891-1917
HUGH MACDJARMID/
CHRISTOPHER MURRAY
GRIEVE
Scotland. 1892-1978
VERA BRITTAIN
England. 1893-1970
SYLVIA TOWNSEND
WARNER
England. 1893-1978
ce. cutnmings
USA. 1894-1962
322
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LOUISE BOGAN
323
Women
324
Black Tambourine
USA. 1897-1970
HART CRANE
USA. 1899-1932
324 from Voyages
325
Shadow on Snow
F.R. SCOTT
Canada. 1899-1985
326
Laurentian Shield
ERNEST G. M O L L
Australia. 1900-1979
327
A Gnarled Riverina Gum-tree
ROLLA LYNN RIGGS
Cherokee. 1899-1954
Six NATIONS COUNCIL,
IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY
Canada/America. 1900
KENNETH SLESSOR
328 Condolence Ceremony
330 from The Ceremony Called 'At the Wood's
Edge'
333
Five Bells
336
Heritage
337
Cultural Notes
338
The Weary Blues
339
The Lonely Land
Australia. 1901-1971
GWENDOLYN
B. BENNETT
USA. 1902-1981
KENNETH FEARING
USA. 1902-1961
LANGSTON HUGHES
USA. 1902-1967
A.J.M.
SMITH
Canada. 1902-1980
STEVIE SMITH
340
Not Waving But Drowning
England. 1902-1971
341
Emily Writes Such a Good Letter
LORINE NlEDECKER
USA. 1903-1970
342
[I married]
EARLE BIRNEY
Canada. 1904-1995
343
Can. Lit.
343
The Bear on the Delhi Road
GLADYS MAY 345 Junior Geography Lesson
CASELY-HAYFORD
('AQUAH LALUAH')
Ghana/Sierra Leone.1904-1950
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PATRICK KAVANAGH
346 from The Great Hunger
Ireland. 1904-1967
Louis
349
from 'A—11
350
from The Love Poems of Marichiko
352
Something There
W.H. AUDEN
353
Letter to a Wound
England/USA. 1907-1973
355
Lullaby
ZUKOFSKY
USA. 1904-1978
KENNETH REXROTH
USA. 1905-1982
SAMUEL BECKETT
Ireland. 1906-1989
A.D. HOPE 356
Australia, b. 1907
Louis
The End of a Journey
357
Reflections
DENIS DEVLIN
Scotland/Ireland. 1908-1959
358
Liffey Bridge
KATHLEEN RAINE
360
Spell to Bring Lost Creatures Home
361
My Papa's Waltz
362
Ambulando
MACNEICE
Ireland. 1907-1963
England/Scotland, b. 1908
THEODORE ROETHKE
USA. 1908-1963
CHARLES BRASCH
New Zealand. 1909-1973
JEAN EARLE 363
England/Wales, b. 1909
OLFV'E FRASER
364
Lines Written after a Nervous
Breakdown (II)
365
The Wire
370
The Song of India
Scotland. 1909-1977
ROBERT GARIOCH
Young Girls Running
(SUTHERLAND)
Scotland. 1909-1987
VINAYAK KRISHNA GOKAK
India, b. 1909
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RALPH GUSTAFSON
371
In the Yukon
Canada. 1909-1995
A M . KLEIN
372
Montreal
Canada. 1909-1972
374
Political Meeting
DOROTHY LIVESAY
Canada, b. 1909
375
380
Day and Night
Bartok and the Geranium
MARIE MAKINO
381
'Ilda
382
from The Maximus Poems, Book III
The Festival Aspect
P.S. REGE
India. 1910-1978
385
Dream
ELIZABETH BISHOP
386
390
The Moose
In the Waiting Room
393
395
Landfall in Unknown Seas
An Incorrigible Music
396
Ban-Ghaidheal/A Highland Woman
England, [b. date unknown]
CHARLES OLSON
USA. 1910-1970
USA. 1911-1979
ALLEN CURNOW
New Zealand, b. 1911
SOMHAIRLE
MACGILL-EAIN/
SORLEY MACLEAN
Scotland, b. 1911
J O H N CAGE
USA. 1912-1992
399 from Diary: How to Improve the World
(You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
1965-1967
Canada, b. 1912
406
407
From Colony to Nation
Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959
BHARATI SARABHAI
408
from The Well of the People
Chorus of Workers
411
from The Lynchings of Jesus
Passage to Godhead
R.S. THOMAS
Wales, b. 1913
412
413
Welsh History
Expatriates
DOUGLAS LEPAN
414
A Country Without a Mythology
IRVING LAYTON
India, b. 1912
MURIEL RUKEYSER
USA. 1913-1980
Canada, b. 1914
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DYLANTHOMAS
X
415 Fern Hill
Wales. 1914-1953
DOROTHY AUCHTERLONIE
(GREEN)
417 Apopemptic Hymn
England/Australia. 1915-1991
G.S. FRASER
418 An Elegy for Keith Bullen
Scotland. 1915-1980
ALUN LEWIS
419
Goodbye
Wales. 1915-1944
ROLAND MATHIAS
420 Laus Deo
Wales, b. 1915
SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH
421 The Grace of God and the Meth-Drinker
New Zealand/Scotland.
1915-1975
JUDITH WRIGHT
Australia, b. 1915
P.K. PAGE
423 The Hawthorn Hedge
424 At Cooloola
425
The Permanent Tourists
Canada, b. 1916
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
426 The Mother
USA. b. 1917
ROBERT LOWELL
427 For the Union Dead
USA. 1917-1977
JAMES MCAULEY
429
Because
Australia. 1917-1976
MIRIAM WADDINGTON
430 Deja Vu
Canada, b. 1917
MARGARET AVISON
432 The Swimmer's Moment
Canada, b. 1918
W.S.
GRAHAM
433 Johann Joachim Quantz's Five Lessons
Scotland. 1918-1986
A L PURDY
436
Lament for the Dorsets
Canada, b. 1918 438 The Runners
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Scotland, b. 1918
440
441
Bluebell Among the Sables
Created and Abandoned
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
441
I Am Waiting
446
Thoughts After Ruskin
447
Under the Baby Blanket
Australia, b. 1920
448
449
New Music
Suburban Sonnet
EDWIN MORGAN
450
Canedolia: an off-concrete scotch fantasia
451
We Are Going
ANONYMOUS
Nigeria, c. 1921
452
Salute to the Elephant
GEORGE MACKAY BROWN
454
King of Kings
457
Clann-Nighean an Sgadain/The Herring
Girls
MURIEL SPARK
-
USA. b. 1919
ELMA MITCHELL
Scotland/England, b. 1919
MAY SWENSON
USA. 1919-1989
GWEN HARWOOD
Scotland, b. 1920
OODGEROO (FORMERLY
KATH WALKER)
Australia. 1920-1993
Scotland, b. 1921
RUARAIDH MACTHdMAIs/
DERICK THOMSON
Scotland, b. 1921
459
Nigeria, b. 1921 460
GABRIEL OKARA
One Night at Victoria Beach
Suddenly the air cracks
462
Pangloss's Song: A Comic-Opera Lyric
463
Faith Healing
E L I MANDEL
Canada. 1922-1992
464
Houdini
KENDRICK SMITHYMAN
465
The Last Morion
RICHARD WILBUR
USA. b. 1921
PHILIP LARKIN
England. 1922-1985
New Zealand, b. 1922
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HONE TUWHARE
466
Snowfall
New Zealand, b. 1922
467 Epithalamion
Wales, b. 1923 468 X-Ray
DANNIE ABSE
MARI EVANS
469
I Am a Black Woman
470
A Tree Telling of Orpheus
474
Certain Questions for Monsieur Renoir
USA.
DENISE LEVERTOV
England/USA, b. 1923
JOHN ORMOND
Wales. 1923-1990
476
India, b. 1924 477
NISSIM EZEKIEL
JANET FRAME 478
New Zealand, b. 1924
EFUA SUTHERLAND 479
Ghana, b. 1924
479
Scotland, b. 1925 480
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY
CAROLYN KIZER
Very Indian Poem in Indian English
Enterprise
The Clown
A Professional Beggar's Lullaby
Ballad
Little Calendar
480 Exodus
USA. b. 1925
A N N E RANASINGHE
482
Auschwitz From Colombo
483
The Ikons
Sri Lanka, b. 1925
JAMES
K. BAXTER
New Zealand. 1926-1972
RAYMOND GARLICK 484
Wales, b. 1926
ALLEN GINSBERG
Map Reading
485
A Supermarket in California
486
Why I Am Not a Painter
USA. b. 1926
FRANK O'HARA
USA. 1926-1966
JOHN ASHBERY 487
USA. b. 1927
The Painter
xx
TABLE OF CONTENTS
488
Stone Hammer Poem
493
Poetics Against the Angel of Death
494
A Good Woman Feeling Bad
495
The Search
496
Shall Gaelic Die?
India, b. 1928
500
500
Hunger
The Abandoned British Cemetery
at Balasore
A N N E SEXTON
502
The Death Baby
U. A. FANTHORPE
England, b. 1929
506
508
Not My Best Side .
Knowing about Sonnets
T H O M GUNN
England/USA, b. 1929
509
510
On the Move
Lament
PETER PORTER
513
Phar Lap in the Melbourne Museum
514
Still Another View of Grace
515
517
Diving into the Wreck
(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)
518
Mango Seedling
E.K. BRATHWAITE
Barbados, b. 1930
519
Calypso
T E D HUGHES
521
Dust As We Are
ROBERT KROETSCH
Canada, b. 1927
PHYLLIS W E B B
- Canada, b. 1927
MAYAANGELOU
USA. b. 1928
KWESIBREW
Ghana, b. 1928
IAIN MACA'GHOBHAINN/
IAIN CRICHTON SMITH
Scotland, b. 1928
JAYANTA MAHAPATRA
USA.1928-1974
Australia, b. 1929
A.K.
RAMANUJAN
India/USA. 1929-1993
ADRIENNE RICH
USA. b. 1929
CHINUAACHEBE
Nigeria, b. 1930
England, b. 1930
TABLE OF CONTENTS
522
Elegy
ALDA LARA
Angola. 1930-1962
523
Testament
GARY SNYDER
524
Riprap
USA. b. 1930
525
What You Should Know to Be a Poet
DEREK WALCOTT
526
from Omeros, Chapter LXIV
MAZJSI KUNENE
South Africa, b. 1930
-
St Lucia b. 1930
JAY MACPHERSON 527
Canada, b. 1931
The Fisherman
528
An Old Woman
529
Elegy for Slit-Drum
532
Isatou Died
533
Daddy
535
'Measure for Measure'
536
A Letter from an English novelist: Paul
Maxwell, author of 'A Second Eve',
writes to Ruth Arbeiter in Vermont
538
538
Wife to Husband
For a Five-Year-Old
AMIRI BARAKA
539
An Agony. As Now
USA. b. 1934
540
Numbers, Letters
LEONARD COHEN
541
I Have Not Lingered in European
Monasteries
French and English
ARUN BALKRISHNA
KOLATKAR
India, b. 1932
CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO
Nigeria. 1932-1967
LENRIE PETERS
The Gambia, b. 1932
SYLVIA PLATH
USA. 1932-1963
SlPHO SEPAMLA
South Africa, b. 1932
A N N E STEVENSON
England, b. 1933
FLEURADCOCK
New Zealand/England, b. 1934
Canada, b. 1934
542
KAMALADAS
544
The Old Playhouse
India, b. 1934
545
An Introduction
XXII
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUDRE LORDE
USA. 1934-1992
DAVID MALOUF
546 Power
548
Off the Map
- Australia, b. 1934
N. SCOTT MOMADAY 549 Rainy Mountain Cemetery
Kiowa. b. 1934
R. PARTHASARATHY 550 from Ghosts
Tamil/USA, b. 1934
I: Luiz Vaz de Camoens, 15247-1580
SONIA SANCHEZ 551 under a soprano sky
USA. b. 1934 552 haiku (for the police on osage ave)
W O L E SOYINKA
Nigeria, b. 1934
CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE
Australia, b. 1934
ARONIAWENRATE/
PETER BLUE CLOUD
552 Telephone Conversation
553 'No!' He Said
555 Love Poem
556 A Wintry Manifesto
557
Rattle
Mohawk, b. 1935
KOFI AWOONOR
560 Afro-American Beats
Ghana, b. 1935
J O H N PEPPER CLARK
BEKEDEREMO
563 A Child Asleep
Nigeria, b. 1935
GEORGE BOWERING
564
Grandfather
565
Menika
567
Lletherneuadd Uchaf, 1868
568
Combat
570
'Kitchen-Maid'
Canada, b. 1935
YASMINE GOONERATNE
Sri Lanka/Australia, b. 1935
SALLY ROBERTS JONES
Wales, b. 1935
TITUS CHUKWENEKA
Nwosu
Nigeria, b. 1935
STEWART CONN
Scotland, b. 1936
TABLE OF CONTENTS
K.D. KATRAK
India, b. 1936
571
574
MARGE PlERCY 575
USA. b. 1936 576
PRAKASH BANDEKAR
XXIII
Malabar Hill
The Kitchen Door
The woman in the ordinary
Unlearning to not speak
577
Afternoon Massacre
579
On Air
India, b. 1937
GILLIAN CLARKE
Wales, b. 1937
K.N. DARUWALLA 580
India, b. 1937
The Epileptic
581
In the Dark, Father
582
Bangla (water pipe) Desh
India, b. 1938
584
584
Poem in Self-Exile
Mumbai: A Song
JONATHAN KARIARA
587
A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree
588
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
589
Samuel Hearne in Wintertime
CLAIRE HARRIS
Trinidad and Tobago/
Canada, b. 1937
G.S. SHARAT
CHANDRA
India, b. 1938
DILIP CHITRE
Kenya, b. 1938
LES A. MURRAY
Australia, b. 1938
J O H N NEWLOVE
Canada, b. 1938
PAULA GUNN ALLEN 591
Laguna/Sioux. b. 1939
MARGARET ATWOOD
Canada, b. 1939
bid bissett
Canada, b. 1939
SEAMUS HEANEY
Ireland, b. 1939
Kopis'taya (A Gathering of Spirits)
593
595
Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer
Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never
Be Written
598
th wundrfulness uv th mountees our secret
police
599
Digging
600 from Whatever You Say Say Nothing
xiv
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PATRICK LANE
602
Passing into Storm
Canada, b. 1939
DENNIS L E E
603 from Civil Elegies
Canada, b. 1939
MUDROOROO/
606
Crow
COLIN JOHNSON
Nyoongah/Australia. b. 1939
FRED W A H 607
Canada, b. 1939
EUNICE D E SOUZA
Waiting for Saskatchewan
608 Encounter at a London Party
India, b. 1940
ADIL JussAWALLA 608
India, b. 1940
JUDITH KAZANTZIS
A Bomb-site
609 For my sister pregnant
England, b. 1940
GEOFFREY LEHMANN
611 Night Flower
Australia, b. 1940
RACHEL MCALPINE
611 Here it is
New Zealand, b. 1940
MOLARA
612
song at the african middle class
613
Nargol
615
In My Lifetime
OGUNDIPE-LESLIE
Nigeria, b. 1940
GiEVE P A T E L
India, b. 1940
JAMES WELCH
Blackfoot. b. 1940
MICHAEL HARTNETT
616 from A Farewell to English
Ireland, b. 1-941
GWENDOLYN MACEWEN
618
Dark Pines Under Water
619
Elavanyo Concerto
Canada. 1941-1987
ATUKWEI O K A I /
J O H N OKAI
Ghana, b. 1941
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SIMON J. ORTIZ
622 Waiting for You to Come By.
Acoma Pueblo, b. 1941
PAULINE STAINER
623 Sighting the Slave Ship
England, b. 1941
LAKDASA
624 Don't Talk To Me About Matisse
WlKKRAMASINHA
Sri Lanka. 1941-1978
ANNHARTE
625 Raced Out to Write This Up
Anishinabe. b. 1942
EILEAN Ni CHUILLEANAIN
Ireland, b. 1942
GAURI DESHPANDE
626
The Second Voyage
627 Amelia
628 The Female of The Species
India, b. 1942
DOUGLAS D U N N
629
Empires
Scotland, b. 1942
DAPHNE MARLATT
630 Imperial Cannery, 1913
Australia/Canada, b. 1942
MICERE
GlTHAE MuGO
631 Where Are Those Songs?
Kenya, b. 1942
MUKHTARR MUSTAPHA
633 Gbassay—blades in regiment
Sierra Leone, b. 1942
ANDREW SUKNASKI
634 Overland to the Southern Plain
Canada, b. 1942
HUGO WILLIAMS
636 The Couple Upstairs
England, b. 1942
GRACE AKELLO
636
Encounter
Uganda, b. 1940s
AMELIA BLOSSOM HOUSE
638 We Still Dance
South Africa, b. 1940s
LOUISE GLUCK
USA. b. 1943
639
Aubade
639 Dedication to Hunger
xxvi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAULETTEJILES 642
USA/Canada, b. 1943
Windigo
643
The City on the Hill
Sri Lanka/Canada, b. 1943
644
644
Bearhug
The Cinnamon Peeler
OLIVE SENIOR
646
Colonial Girls School
647
649
Mise Eire
Listen. This is the Noise of Myth
DENNIS COOLEY
Canada, b. 1944
651
a curse on a critic
PAUL DURCAN
652
655
Crinkle, near Birr
The Jewish Bride
THOMAS KING
Cherokee, b. 1943
MICHAEL ONDAATJE
Jamaica, b. 1943
EAVAN BOLAND
Ireland, b. 1944
Ireland, b. 1944
T O M LEONARD
Scotland, b. 1944
656 Jist ti Let Yi No
657 A Priest Came on at Merkland Street
bpNichoC 663
Two Words: A Wedding
Canada. 1944-1988
SALEEM PEERADINA
664
There Is No God
India/USA, b. 1944
CRAIG RAINE 665
England, b. 1944
CAROL RUMENS
In the Kalahari Desert
667
Rules for Beginners
668
The Growing
669
I Found South African Breweries Most
Hospitable
670
Letter to a Tormented Playwright
England, b. 1944
MONGANE (WALLY)
SEROTE
South Africa, b. 1944
K I T WRIGHT
England, b. 1944
SYL CHENEY-COKER
Sierra Leone, b. 1945
TABLE OF CONTENTS
GILLIAN HANSCOMBE
671
Australia/England, b. 1945
XXVII
An Apostrophe to Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II
SELIMAHILL
672
The Significance of Significance
England, b. 1945
673
Eating Chocolates in the Dark
JACK MAPANJE
674
At the Metro: Old Irrelevant Images
675
The Woman in This Poem
677
Saving the World
679
These Poems, She Said
CHRYSTOS
Menominee/USA/Canada.
b. 1946
680
Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading
TONY CURTIS
681
Thoughts from the Holiday Inn
686
talking new york: waiting on love
Malawi, b. 1945
BRONWEN WALLACE
Canada. 1945-1989
T O M WAYMAN
Canada, b. 1945
ROBERT BRINGHURST
USA/Canada, b. 1946
Wales, b. 1946
PATRICK FRIESEN
Canada, b. 1946
LEONA G O M 687
Canada, b. 1946
University
688
I'm Not in Charge of This Ritual
690
Senior lady sells garden eggs
New Zealand, b. 1946
691
692
Wellington
Party Going
MIGUEL PINERO
692
The Book of Genesis According to
Saint Miguelito
WAYNE KEON
Algonkin-lroquois. b. 1946
KojO
LAING
Ghana, b. 1946
BILLMANHIRE
Puerto Rico/USA, b. 1946
PETER READING
England, b. 1946
695
696
696
from Evagatory
[Province of hyperborean bleakness]
[East End of London . . .]
[Forest, Sarawak, limestone outcrop]
xxvm
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Canada, b. 1946
696
697
Loose Woman Poem
Po-It-Tree
PENNY WINDSOR
698
Advice on Pregnancy
SHARON THESEN
Wales, b. 1946
Ghana, b. 1947
700 from Soul in Birthwaters (Suite for the
Revolution)
II. Radio Revolution
PETER FINCH
702
Visual Text Makes It As Super Hero
703
Identi-kit
KOFI ANYIDOHO
Wales, b. 1947
VERONICA FORRESTTHOMSON
Scotland. 1947-1975
KERI HULME 703
New Zealand, b. 1947
Liz
Mushrooms and Other Bounty
704
Six Men Monologues
708
The Sale
710
Somewhere in the Dark Continent
712
Scraps Worthy of Wind
CIARAN CARSON
714
Belfast Confetti
Ireland b. 1948
714
Narrative in Black and White
LOCHHEAD
Scotland, b. 1947
ARVIND KRISHNA
MEHROTRA
India, b. 1947
M.
NOURBESE PHILIP
Trinidad and Tobago/Canada,
b. 1947
ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN
Oneida. b. 1947
LORNA CROZIER 716
Canada, b. 1948
KRISTJANA GUNNARS
718
On the Seventh Day
Stefan Eyjolfsson XIV
Iceland/Canada, b. 1948
WENDY ROSE 719
Hopi. b. 1948
Story Keeper
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LESLIE MARMON SILKO 722
Laguna Pueblo, b. 1948
XXIX
Lullaby
MURRAY EDMOND
722
My Return to Czechoslovakia
New Zealand, b. 1949
724
House
CILLA M C Q U E E N
725
Matinal
New Zealand, b. 1949
726
Weekend Sonnets
CAROLYN FORCHE 727 . Kalaloch
USA. b. 1950
LENORE KEESHIG-TOBIAS
730
Resistance
731
Venus and the Rain
732
Tropical Death
733
A Handle for the Flutist .
734
Going back to Hlidarendi
735
The World of Dreams'
737
Our Bird Aegis
Ojibway. b. 1950
M E D B H MCGUCKIAN
Ireland, b. 1950
GRACE NICHOLS
Guyana/England, b. 1950
ODIA OFEIMUN
Nigeria, b. 1950
SHEENAGH PUGH
England/Wales, b. 1950
PHILIP SALOM
Australia, b. 1950
RAY A. YOUNG BEAR
Meskwaki. b. 1950
CATHERINE OBIANUJU
.
738
Nigeria in the year 1999
739
Boating
741
The Dialectic Criminal: Hand in Glove with
an Old Hat
ACHOLONU
Nigeria, b. 1951
MEENA ALEXANDER
India/USA, b. 1951
CHRISTOPHER DEWDNEY
Canada, b. 1951
JOY HARJO
743
Anchorage
Creek, b. 1951
744
I Am a Dangerous Woman
xxx
TABLE OF CONTENTS
745
from A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty
749
Why Brownlee Left
750
Burial of the Dog
RooBORSON
Canada, b. 1952
751
City Lights
Dl BRANDT
Canada, b. 1952
752
questions i asked my mother
HELEN DUNMORE
England, b. 1952
754
755
Sisters leaving before the dance
Poem for December 28
LINTONKWESI JOHNSON
756
MekkinHistri
757
The Line
759
The know
760
Work and Freedom
FRANK KUPPNER
Scotland, b. 1951
PAUL MULDOON
-
Ireland, b. 1951
SUSAN MUSGRAVE
USA/Canada, b. 1951
Jamaica/England, b. 1952
DANIEL DAVID MOSES
Delaware, b. 1952
CHRISTINE QUNTA
South Africa, b. 1952
VIKRAMSETH
India, b. 1952
DIONNE BRAND
761 from No Language Is Neutral
Trinidad and Tobago/Canada,
b. 1953
ABENA P. A. BUSIA
763
Exiles
Ghana, b. 1953
763
Liberation
MONIZAALVI
764
The Sari
765
Another Woman
767
I'r Hen Iaith Ai Chaneuon/To the Old
Pakistan/England, b. 1954
IMITIAZ DHARKER
India, b. 1954
IAN DUHIG
Ireland/England, b. 1954
Tongue and Its Songs
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LOUISE ERDRICH
Chippewa. b. 1954
768 Dear John Wayne
NUALA ARCHER
770 Whale on the Line
XXXI
-USA/Ireland, b. 1955
DAVID DABYDEEN
British Guyana/England b. 1955
CAROL A N N DUFFY
Scotland, b. 1955
771
772
The Canecutters' Song
The New Poetry
773 Standing Female Nude
774 The Captain of the 1964 Top of the
Form Team
Ireland, b. 1955
775 Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
(Galway Labour Exchange)
ERIN MOURE
776
Cherish
777
Five Poems
RITA A N N HIGGINS
Canada, b. 1955
V£RONIQUE TADJO
Ivory Coast, b. 1955
SUJATA BHATT
India, b. 1956
JEAN BINTA BREEZE
780 White Asparagus
781 A Different Way to Dance
784
Ordinary Mawning
Jamaica/England, b. 1956
New Zealand, b. 1956
786 Collisions
786 In absentia
IYAMIDE HAZELEY
787 When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes
ANNE FRENCH
Sierra Leone, b. 1957
Ll-YOUNG LEE
Indonesia/USA, b. 1957
IAN M C M I L L A N
788
This Room and Everything in It
790 Just the Facts, Just the
England, b. 1957
ARCHIE WELLER
791
The Legend of Jimmy's Axe
Australia, b. 1957
792
Untitled
MOYA CANNON
793
'Taom'
Ireland, b. 1958
jcxir
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DERMOT BOLGER
794
Snuff Movies
795
Abortion (Like Motherhood) Changes
Ireland, b. 1959
JOANNE ARNOTT
Canada, b. 1960
CHERRY SMYTH
Nothing
796
Black Leather Jacket
798
Azania
799
The Queen of Sheba
802
from The Adoption Papers
Chapter 4: Baby Lazarus
804
The Woman
805
a fine grammar of bones
807
AUTHOR INDEX
Ireland/England, b. 1960
MAUDSULTER
Scotland, b. 1960
KATHLEEN JAMIE
Scotland, b. 1962
JACKIE KAY
Scotland, b. 1962
KRISTINA RUNGANO
Zimbabwe, b. 1963
MEIRA COOK
South Africa/Canada, b. 1964

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