THE HEATH INTRODUCTION TO
POETRY
FIFTH EDITION
Joseph DeRoche
Northeastern University
D. C. HEATH AND COMPANY
Lexington, Massachusetts
Toronto
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: ON POETRY
1 A BRIEF HISTORY
1
23
(eighth century)
25
"The Seafarer" (modern version by Ezra Pound, 1912)
ANONYMOUS
ANONYMOUS
25
27
From "Beowulf"* (translation by C. W. Kennedy)
27
ANONYMOUS—Middle English Lyrics (thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries)
28
"Sumer Is Icumen In"
28
"Alysoun"
29
"All Night by the Rose"
30
"Western Wind"
30
"The Lady Fortune"
30
1343-1400)
"The Legend of Good Women"*
31
31
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (C.
ANONYMOUS—the Popular Ballads (fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries)
32
"Get Up and Bar the Door"
32
"Lord Randal"
33
"The Three Ravens"
34
"The Cherry-Tree Carol"
35
"The Unquiet Grave"
36
"Bonny Barbara Allan"
37
(1503-1542)
"They Flee from Me"
38
SIR THOMAS WYATT
38
(i552?-i6i8)
39
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
*excerpt
xiii
39
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Contents
(i552?-i599)
40
From "Amoretti"*
40
Sonnet 15 ("Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toyle")
40
Sonnet 67 ("Lyke as a huntsman, after weary chace")
40
Sonnet 75 ("One day I wrote her name upon the strand")
41
Sonnet 82 ("Joy of my life, full oft of loving you")
41
EDMUND SPENSER
(1554-1586)
"Thou Blind Man's Mark"
"Leave Me, O Love"
42
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE
"Tichborne's Elegy"
42
42
(i558?-i586)
43
(i56i?-i595)
"The Burning Babe"
43
ROBERT SOUTHWELL
43
43
(1563-1631)
44
From "Idea"*
Sonnet 6 ("How many paltry, foolish, painted things")
44
Sonnet 7 ("Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part")
MICHAEL DRAYTON
(1564-1593)
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
44
45
45
(1564-1616)
46
Sonnet 2 ("When forty winters shall besiege thy brow")
46
Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day")
46
Sonnet 20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted")
46
Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes")
47
Sonnet 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")
47
Sonnet 55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments")
48
Sonnet 64 ("When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced")
48
Sonnet 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")
48
Sonnet 97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been")
49
Sonnet 104 ("To me, fair friend, you never can be old")
49
Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")
49
Sonnet 129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame")
50
Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;")
50
Sonnet 144 ("Two loves I have, of comfort and despair")
51
Sonnet 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth,")
51
Sonnet 151 ("Love is too young to know what conscience is")
51
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
ANONYMOUS—ELIZABETHAN LYRICS (SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
CENTURIES)
52
"Back and Side Go Bare"
52
"April Is in My Mistress'Face"
"My Love in Her Attire"
53
53
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"There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind"
"The Silver Swan"
54
53
(1567-1601)
54
"Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss"
54
THOMAS NASHE
(1567-1620)
"My Sweetest Lesbia"
55
"There Is a Garden in Her Face"
THOMAS CAMPION
2 A BRIEF HISTORY
55
56
57
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)
59
"Song ("Go and catch a falling star")"
59
"The Sun Rising"
59
"Song ("Sweetest love, I do not go")"
60
"A Valediction: Of Weeping"
61
"The Apparition"
62
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
62
"The Funeral"
63
From "Holy Sonnets"*
64
Sonnet 7 ("At the round earth's imagined corners, blow")
Sonnet 10 ("Death, be not proud, though some have called
thee")
64
Sonnet 13 ("What if this present were the world's last
night?")
65
Sonnet 14 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God; for
you")
65
"Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness"
66
(1591-1674)
67
"Delight in Disorder"
67 \
"Upon Julia's Clothes"
67
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
ROBERT HERRICK
(1593-1633)
"The Pulley"
68
"The Collar"
69
"Easter Wings"
70
"Virtue"
70
"Love (III)"
71
GEORGE HERBERT
67
68
(1608-1674)
71
"How Soon Hath Time"
71
"On His Blindness"
72
"At a Solemn Music"
72
"On the Late Massacre in Piedmont"
From "Paradise Lost", Book XII*
JOHN MILTON
73
73
64
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ANNE BRADSTREET (i6i2?-i672)
76
"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
76
"A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon PublickfEmployment"
(1621-1678)
"To His Coy Mistress"
77
"The Garden"
78
76
77
ANDREW MARVELL
(1677-1745)
80
"A Description of the Morning"
"A Description of a City Shower"
JONATHAN SWIFT
(1688-1744)
"Ode on Solitude"
82
From "An Essay on Man"*
ALEXANDER POPE
3 A BRIEF HISTORY
80
80
82
83
85
(1716-1771)
87
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
THOMAS GRAY
90
90
CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771)
From "Rejoice in the Lamb"*
WILLIAM[ BLAKE (1757-1827)
88
93
From "Songs of Innocence"*
93
"Introduction"
93
"The Lamb"
93
94
"The Chimney Sweep"
94
"The Little Black Boy"
From "Songs of Experience"*
95
"The Sick Rose"
95
"The Tyger"
95
"London"
95
"To the Muses"
97
From "Milton"* ("And did those feet in ancient time")
97
(1759-1796)
98
"To a Mouse"
98
"John Anderson, My Jo"
99
"A Red, Red Rose"
100
ROBERT BURNS
(1770-1850)
100
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"
104
"A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
105
"It Is a Beauteous Evening"
105
"London,1802"
105
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
100
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"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3,1802"
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood"
106
"She Was a Phantom of Delight"
112
"The World Is Too Much with Us"
112
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
113
"The Solitary Reaper"
113
"Mutability"
114
"Scorn Not the Sonnet"
115
(1772-1834)
"KublaKhan"
115
"This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
"Dejection: An Ode"
136
115
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
117
119
(1788-1824)
139
"SoWe'llGoNoMoreA-Roving"
139
"She Walks in Beauty"
140
"The Destruction of Sennacherib"
140
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
(1791-1865)
141
"The Mother of Washington"
141
"Death of an Infant"
142
"Female Education"
143
LYDIA SIGOURNEY
(1792-1822)
143
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
143
"Ozymandias"
146
"Ode to the West Wind"
146
"To —" ("Music, when soft voices die")
148
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
149
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
"When I Have Fears"
149
"Ode to a Nightingale"
150
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
152
"La Belle Dame sans Merci"
154
"Ode on Melancholy"
155
"To Autumn"
156
4 A BRIEF HISTORY
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Concord Hymn"
"Days"
161
159
(1803-1882)
161
161
149
106
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(1806-1861)
162
"On a Portrait of Wordsworth by B. R. Haydon"
162
"Grief"
162
From "Sonnets from the Portuguese"*
162
Sonnet 14 ("If thou must love me, let it be for nought")
Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
(1807-1882)
"The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"
163
"Chaucer"
165
"The Cross of Snow"
165
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
"To Helen"
"The Raven"
"Annabel Lee"
162
163
163
166
166
166
169
(1809-1892)
170
"Song" ("A spirit haunts the year's last hours")
170
"Ulysses"
171
From "The Lotos-Eaters"*
173
"Break, Break, Break"
174
"The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls"
174
From "In Memoriam A. H. H."*
175
I ("I held it truth, with him who sings")
175
7 ("Dark house, by which once more I stand")
175
I1 ("Calm is the morn without a sound")
175
50,("Be near me when my light is low")
176
130 ("Thy voice is on the rolling air")
176
"The Eagle"
177
"Crossing the Bar"
177
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
(1812-1889)
178
"My Last Duchess"
178
"Home-Thoughts, from Abroad"
179
"Meeting at Night"
180
"Parting at Morning"
180
ROBERT BROWNING
(1819-1892)"
181
"Song of Myself"
181
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
~ 225
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
229
"Cavalry Crossing a Ford"
230
"When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
230
"A Noiseless Patient Spider"
236
"The Dalliance of the Eagles"
237
WALT WHITMAN
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Contents
ALICE CAREY (1820-1871)
"The Bridal Veil"
"The West Country"
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"Shakespeare"
"Dover Beach"
xix
237
237
238
(1822-1888)
239
239
239
(1830-1886)
240
"Success is counted sweetest" (#67)
240
"I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed" (#214)
241
"I like a look of Agony" (#241)
241
"Wild Nights—Wild Nights!" (#249)
241
"I can wade Grief" (#252)
242
"There's a certain Slant of light" (#258)
242
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (#280)
243
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?" (#288)
243
"The Soul selects her own Society" (#303)
244
"A Bird came down the Walk" (#328)
244
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" (#341)
245
"Much Madness is divinest Sense" (#435)
245
"This is My letter to the World" (#441)
245
"I heard a Fly buzz—when I died" (#465)
246
"Pain—has an Element of Blank" (#650)
246
"Because I could not stop for Death" (#712)
246
"My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun" (#754)
247
"The poets light but Lamps" (#883)
248
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass" (#986)
248
"I never saw a Moor" (#1052)
249
"The Bustle in a House" (#1078)
249
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slaiif (#1129)
249
"A route of Evanescence" (#1463)
250
"My life closed twice before its close" (#1732)
250
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee" (#1755)
EMILY DICKINSON
(1830-1885)
"Her Eyes"
251
"Found Frozen"
251
"Danger"
251
251
HELEN HUNT JACKSON
(1832-1898)
"Jabberwocky"
252
LEWIS CARROLL
252
(1840-1928)
253
"The Ruined Maid"
253
"Neutral Tones"
254
THOMAS HARDY
250
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Contents
"The Man He Killed"
254
"The Convergence of the Twain"
"Channel Firing"
256
(1841-1928)
257
"Withheld"
257
"I Cannot Count My Life a Loss"
255
INA COOLBRITH
(1844-1889)
"Heaven-Haven"
259
"Pied Beauty"
259
"Spring and Fall"
259
"(Carrion Comfort)"
260
"No Worst, There Is None"
260
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
258
259
A. E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)
261
From "A Shropshire Lad"*
261
"Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now"
261
"When I Was One-and-Twenty"
261
"To an Athlete Dying Young"
262
"From Far, from Eve and Morning"
262
"With Rue My Heart Is Laden"
263
"Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff..."
263
5 A BRIEF HISTORY
267
(1865-1939)
269
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
269
"When You Are Old"
269
"The Folly of Being Comforted"
269
"Easter 1916"
270
"The Wild Swans at Coole"
272
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
273
"The Second Coming"
273
"Leda and the Swan"
274
"Sailing to Byzantium"
274
"Among School Children"
275
"After Long Silence"
277
"Lapis Lazuli"
277
"Politics"
279
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
(1867-1900)
279
"Non sum qualis eram bonea sub regno Cynarae"
ERNEST DOWSON
(1869-1935)
280
281
282
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
"Miniver Cheevy"
"For a Dead Lady"
"Eros Turannos"
280
279
Contents
"Mr. Flood's Party"
"Karma"
285
"New England"
WALTER DE LA MARE
"The Listeners"
xxi
283
285
(1873-1956)
286
286
(1874-1963)
287
"Mending Wall"
287
"The Death of the Hired Man"
288
"The Road Not Taken"
292
"The Oven Bird"
293
"Birches"
293
"Out, Out—"
295
"Fire and Ice"
296
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
"Once by the Pacific"
296
"Departmental"
297
"Design"
298
"The Draft Horse"
298
"In Winter in the Woods Alone"
299
ROBERT FROST
296
(1874-1945)
299
"A Petticoat"
299
"A Waist"
299
"A Time to Eat"
300
From "Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship
Faded'"*
300
29 ("I love my love with a v")
300
GERTRUDE STEIN
(1878-1967)
"Early Copper"
300
"Fog"
301
"Cool Tombs"
301
CARL SANDBURG
\ 300
(1879-1955)
301
"Sunday Morning"
301
"Anecdote of the Jar"
304
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
"The Snow Man"
307
"TheEmperor of Ice-Cream"
307
"The Idea of Order at Key West"
308
"Peter Quince at the Clavier"
309
WALLACE STEVENS
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
"The Young Housewife"
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
"The Yachts"
312
(1883-1963)
311
312
305
311
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"The Dance"
313
"The Great Figure"
313
"This Is Just to Say"
314
D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
"Piano"
314
"Snake"
314
314
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
317
"The Garden"
317
"Salutation"
317
"In a Station of the Metro"
317
"Dance Figure"
318
"L'Art 1910"
318
"The Tea Shop"
318
"Ancient Music"
319
"The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
319
"These Fought in Any Case"
320
From "The Cantos"*
321
"Canto 81"
321
From "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly"*
323
H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961)
"Heat"
324
"Sea Rose"
325
"Oread"
325
324
(1887-1962)
325
"Divinely Superfluous Beauty"
325
"Love the Wild Swan"
326
"Cassandra"
326
ROBINSON JEFFERS
(1887-1972)
327
"Poetry"
327
"A Grave"
328
"The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing"
MARIANNE MOORE
EDWIN MUIR (1887-1959)
"Childhood"
"The Animals"
"The Brothers"
"The Horses"
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
328
329
329
330
331
332
.
333
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"The Waste Land"
337
"Preludes"
352
333
Contents
"Sweeney Among the Nightingales"
"Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
"La Figlia Che Piange"
356
"Marina"
357
"Journey of the Magi"
358
6 A BRIEF HISTORY
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353
354
361
(1888-1974)
363
"Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter"
"Old Mansion"
363
"Piazza Piece"
365
"Spectral Lovers"
365
JOHN CROWE RANSOM
(1892-1982)
"Ars Poetica"
366
"You, Andrew Marvell"
367
363
366
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
(1892-1950)
368
"First Fig"
368
Sonnet 2 ("Time does not bring relief; you all have lied")
368
Sonnet 5 ("If I should learn, in some quite casual way")
369
Sonnet 11 ("I shall forget you presently, my dear")
369
Sonnet 15 ("Only until this cigarette is ended")
369
Sonnet 18 ("When I too long have looked upon your face,")
370
Sonnet 21 ("On, my beloved, have you thought of this:")
370
Sonnet 27 ("I know I am but summer to your heart,")
371
Sonnet 42 ("What lips my lips have kissed, and where and why")
371
Sonnet 45 ("Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.")
371
Sonnet 68 ("For this your mother sweated in the cold")
372
'
Sonnet 95 ("Women have loved'before as I love now:")
372
,
Sonnet 99 ("Love is not all; it is riot meat nor drink")
373
Sonnet 115 ("Even in the moment of our earliest kiss,")
373
Sonnet 116 ("Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;")
373
Sonnet 120 ("If in the years to come you should recall")
374
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
(1893-1918)
374
"Strange Meeting"
374
"Duke et Decorum Est"
375
"Anthem for Doomed Youth"
376
WILFRED OWEN
DOROTHY PARKER
"Resume"
(1893-1967)
377
377
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1963)
377
"the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"
"may i feel said he"
377
377
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"All in green went my love riding"
378
"in Just-"
379
"Buffalo Bill's"
380
"my sweet old etcetera"
380
"i sing of Olaf glad and big"
381
(1897-1970)
382
" The Crossed Apple"
382
"The Dragonfly"
383
"Medusa"
384
LOUISE BOGAN
HART CRANE (1899-1932)
384
"Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge"
"Chaplinesque"
386
JANET LEWIS (1899-
"Girl Help"
)
384
386
386
ALLEN TATE (1899-1979)
387
"Ode to the Confederate Dead"
387
(1900-1968)
389
"At the San Francisco Airport"
389
YVOR WINTERS
(1902-1967)
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"I, Too"
391
"Old Walt"
391
"Harlem"
391
LANGSTON HUGHES
390
390
(1902-1972)
392
"Not Waving but Drowning"
392
STEVIE SMITH
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-I946)
"For a Lady I Know"
392
"Heritage"
393
EARL BIRNEY (1904-
)
392 '
396
"Anglosaxon Street"
396
"Twenty-Third Flight"
397
"The Bear on the Delhi Road"
398
"From the Hazel Bough"
399
(1904)
399
"The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"
399
"On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn, in New England"
RICHARD EBERHART
(1905-1982)
"Vitamins and Roughage"
KENNETH REXROTH
400
400
400
Contents xxv
"Proust's Madeleine"
401
W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
402
"The Unknown Citizen"
402
"Mus6e des Beaux Arts"
402
"In Memory ofW. B.Yeats"
403
"Epitaph on a Tyrant"
405
"As I Walked Out One Evening"
405
(1908-1963)
"Root Cellar"
407
"The Waking"
407
"Dolor"
408
"I Knew a Woman"
408
"In a Dark Time"
409
"My Papa's Waltz"
410
"The Meadow Mouse"
410
407
THEODORE ROETHKE
A. M. KLEIN (1909-1972)
411
"The Rocking Chair"
"Lone Bather"
412
411
(1909-1995)
413
"I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great"
"The Express"
414
STEPHEN SPENDER
(1910-1970)
414
"I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You"
413
CHARLES OLSON
(1911-1979)
"The Fish"
418
"Sandpiper"
420
"In the Waiting Room"
"The Moose"
423
"One Art"
427
"Sonnet"
427
414
418
ELIZABETH BISHOP
4io
(1911-1972)
428
"The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost"
"Do the Dead Know What Time It Is?"
429
KENNETH PATCHEN
IRVING LAYTON (1912-
"Party at Hydra"
"Berry Picking"
)
(1913-1980)
"Those Winter Sundays"
"Frederick Douglass"
ROBERT HAYDEN
430
430
431
431
431
432
428
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(1914-1972)
432
"A Professor's Song"
432
"Dream Song #14"
433
JOHN BERRYMAN
(1914)
"Sunday at the State Hospital"
"Moonlight Poem"
434
"No Theory"
434
"The Bagel"
434
433
433
DAVID IGNATOW
(1914-1965)
435
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
"Nestus Gurley"
435
RANDALL JARRELL
(1914"Ballad of Birmingham"
)
DUDLEY RANDALL
435
437
437
(1914)
438
"At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border"
"Traveling Through the Dark"
438
WILLIAM STAFFORD
(1914-1953)
439
"A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
"In My Craft or Sullen Art"
439
"Fern Hill"
440
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
441
438
DYLAN THOMAS
P. K. PAGE (1916-
)
"The Stenographers"
"Schizophrenic"
442
442
443
GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-
"The Bean Eaters"
"We Real Cool"
)
444
444
444
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(1917-1977)
445
"Mr. Edwards and the Spider"
445
"Skunk Hour"
446
"Water"
447
"For the Union Dead"
448
ROBERT LOWELL
(1918)
"A Nameless One"
450
450
MARGARET AVISON
ALFRED PURDY (1918-
"The Cariboo Horses"
"Wilderness Gothic"
439
)
451
451
452
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(1919)
"In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see"
"The pennycandystore beyond the El"
453
453
454
(1920-1991)
455
"The Goose Fish"
455
"I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee"
456
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
HOWARD NEMEROV
(1921)
457
"In a Churchyard"
457
"Exeunt"
458
"Place Pigalle"
459
"Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
"Years's-End"
460
RICHARD WILBUR
(1922-1985)
"Church Going"
461
"The Whitsun Weddings"
461
PHILIP LARKIN
JAMES DICKEY (1923-
459
463
)
465
"The Heaven of Animals"
"Buckdancer's Choice"
465
466
(1923)
467
"SixVariations(part iii)"
467
"Come into Animal Presence"
467
"What Were They Like?"
468
"Losing Track"
469
DENISE LEVERTOV
EDWARD FIELD (1924-
)
469
"The Bride of Frankenstein"
(1925"Here in Katmandu"
"Luxury"
472 "
"Anonymous Drawing"
DONALD JUSTICE
ROBERT BLY (1926-
469
) ^471
471
472
)
473
"Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter"
(1926"Oh No"
473
"Naughty Boy"
474
)
473
(1926)
From "Howl"*
474
"A Supermarket in California"
474
ROBERT CREELEY
ALLEN GINSBERG
480
473
xxviii
(1926-1995)
"Charles on Fire"
480
"Maisie"
481
JAMES MERRILL
Contents
480
(1926-1966)
482
"The Day Lady Died"
482
"Autobiographica Literaria"
483
"A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island"
FRANK O'HARA
(1927)
"City Afternoon"
485
"Paradoxes and Oxymorons"
JOHN ASHBERY
485
486
(1927)
486
"Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock"
"To Christ Our Lord"
489
GALWAY KINNELL
W. S. MERWIN (1927-
)
486
490
"The River of Bees"
490
"The Moths"
490
(1927-1980)
491
"Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio"
"Two Postures Beside a Fire"
492
JAMES WRIGHT
PHILIP LEVINE (1928-
)
491
492
"To a Child Trapped in a Barber Shop"
"You Can Have It"
493
(1928)
"The Ballad of Dead Yankees"
492
494
494
DONALD PETERSEN
(1928-1974)
496
"Her Kind"
496
"Cinderella"
496
"In Celebration of My Uterus"
ANNE SEXTON
THOM GUNN (1929-
)
501
"Street Song"
501
"The Discovery of the Pacific"
"Black Jackets"
502
X. J. KENNEDY (1929L-
499
)
501
503
"In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus, N. J."
"Nude Descending a Staircase"
504
(1929)
"Listening for the Elders"
"Legacy"
506
MAURICE KENNY
505
505
503
483
Contents
(1929"A Clock in the Square"
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
"The Insusceptibles"
"Diving into the Wreck"
)
ADRIENNE RICH
TED HUGHES (1930-
507
507
507
508
508
)
"Hawk Roosting"
"Pike"
511
"The Thought-Fox"
xxix
510
510
512
GARY SNYDER (1930-
)
513
"Before the Stuff Comes Down"
(1930"Sea Canes"
513
"A Far Cry from Africa"
DEREK WALCOTT
)
513
513
514
DON SUMMERHAYES (1931-
)
515
"from the corner of one eye"
515
"her swans in high park"
515
"lucy lost her breasts and died"
516
ROBERT CLAYTON CASTO
"The Salt Pork"
"Sketch"
517
(1932516
)
516
(1932-1963)
518
"Ariel"
518
"Morning Song"
519
"Medallion"
520
"Metaphors"
520
"Daddy"
521
?
"Lady Lazarus"
523
"Fever 103°"
525
SYLVIA PLATH
(1933-1991)
527
"For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide"
ETHERIDGE KNIGHT
AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) (1934-
"W.W."
LEONARD COHEN
"Elegy"
"The Bus"
)
527
(1934528
528
AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)
"Coal"
529
"Love Poem"
529
)
528
529
527
527
xxx
"Power"
530
"A Question of Climate"
Contents
531
MARK STRAND (1934-
)
532
"The Dead"
532
"The Tunnel"
532
"Keeping Things Whole"
"Eating Poetry"
534
(1934"The River at Wolf"
"X"
535
533
)
534
JEAN VALENTINE
MARY OLIVER (1935-
534
)
535
"Landscape"
535
"Bats"
536
(1936"in the inner city"
)
LUCILLE CLIFTON
536
536
MARGE PIERCY (1936-
)
537
"A Battle of Wills Disguised"
537
"When a Friend Dies"
538
DIANE WAKOSKI
(1937-
"The Canoer"
"The Singer"
)
538
538
539
(1938)
540
"Aunt Laura Moves Toward the Open Grave of Her Father"
"Blond"
540
JOSEPH DEROCHE
S. HARPER (1938"Dear John, Dear Coltrane"
)
(1938)
"The Partial Explanation"
"Watermelons"
543
"Fork"
543
543
543
MICHAEL
541
541
CHARLES SIMIC
(1939)
544
"It Is Dangerous to Read Newspapers"
544
MARGARET ATWOOD
SEAMUS HEANEY (1939-
"Bogland"
"Waterfall"
"Docker"
(1939547
LOLA LEMIRE TOSTEVIN
"for Peter"
)
545
545
546
546
)
547
540
Contents xxxi
From "Song of Songs"* 547
"8"
547
MARTHA COLLINS (1940-
)
547
"A History of Small Life on a Windy Planet"
"Owl"
548
SHARON OLDS (1942-
)
549
"The Death of Marilyn Monroe"
"Sex Without Love"
550
NIKKI GIOVANNI (1943-
"Nikki-Rosa"
547
549
)
551
551
LOUISE GLUCK (1943-
"Mock Orange"
"The Mountain"
)
552
552
552
MICHAEL ONDAATJE (1943-
"(Inner Tube)"
)
553
553
JAMES TATE (1943-
)
554
"The Lost Pilot"
554
"The Blue Booby"
555
"Consumed"
557
AMBER COVERDALE SUMRALL (1945-
)
"Keams Canyon, Black Mesa"
"Ceremonials"
558
"Infinity"
559
YUSEF KOMUNYUKAA (1947"More Girl Than Boy"
"Facing It"
560
)
559
•;
KENNETH SHERMAN (1950-
559
)
561
"My Father Kept His Cats Well Fed"
RITA DOVE (1952-
"Geometry"
"Dusting"
)
562
562
562
INDEX OF TERMS
565
INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
575
557
557
567
561