Perrine's literature : structure, sound, and sense / compiled by Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson.

A description of the morning/ Jonathan Swift -- Fern Hill/ Dylan Thomas -- The virgins/ Derek Walcott -- To a stranger ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Whoever you are holding me now in hand/ Walt Whitman -- The Critic/ C/ K. Williams -- Poem ; Spring and all/ William Carlos Williams -- The slow Pacific swell ; A summer commentary/ Yvor Winters -- I wandered lonely as a cloud ; The solitary reaper/ William Wordsworth -- The lake isle of Innisfree ; Sailing to Byzantium ; The second coming ; The wild swans at Coole/ William Butler Yeats -- Trifles/ Susan Glaspell -- The stronger/ August Strindberg -- Beauty/ Jane Martin -- Tape /Jos e Rivera -- POOF! / Lynn Nottage -- The sandbox/ Edward Albee -- Time flies/ David Ives -- A doll house/ Hendrik Ibsen -- The glass menagerie/ Tennessee Williams -- Los vendidos/ Luis Valdez -- Oedipus Rex/ Sophocles -- Othello, the Moor of Venice/ William Shakespeare -- Tartuffe/ Moli ere -- Am I blue/ Beth Henley -- Death of a salesman/ Arthur Miller -- A midsummer night's dream/ William Shakespeare -- Fences/ August Wilson -- Andr e's mother/ Terrence McNally.

For a lamb/ Richard Eberhart -- Apparently with no surprise/ Emily Dickinson -- Since there's no help/ Michael Drayton -- Picnic, lightning/ Billy Collins -- My mistress' eyes/ William Shakespeare -- Crossing the bar/ Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The oxen/ Thomas Hardy -- One dignity delays for all ; 'Twas warm-at first-like us/ Emily Dickinson -- The apparition ; The flea/ John Donne -- Dover Beach/ Matthew Arnold -- Church going/ Philip Larkin -- The turtle/ Ogden Nash -- That night when joy began/ W.H. Auden -- The waking/ Theodore Roethke -- God's grandeur/ Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Blow, blow, thou winter wind/ Wlliam Shakespeare -- We real cool/ Gwendolyn Brooks -- Woman work/ Maya Angelou -- Rite of passage/ Sharon Olds -- As imperceptibly as grief/ Emily Dickinson -- Music lessons/ Mary Oliver -- Traveling through the dark/ William Stafford -- Thistles/ Ted Hughes -- Nothing gold can stay/ Robert Frost -- Virtue/ George Herbert -- "Introduction" to Songs of innocence/ William Blake -- Had I the choice/ Walt Whitman -- The aim was song/ Robert Frost -- Stanzas/ George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Old ladies' home/ Sylvia Plath -- Africa/ Maya Angelou -- To a daughter leaving home/ Linda Pastan -- A blessing/ James Wright -- Porphyria's lover/ Robert Browning -- Break, break, break/ Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Eight o'clock/ A.E. Housman -- Sound and sense/ Alexander Pope -- I heard a fly buzz-when I died/ Emily Dickinson -- Anthem for doomed youth/ Wilfred Owen -- Landcrab/ Margaret Atwood -- Tree at my window/ Robert Frost -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers/ Adrienne Rich -- At the round earth's imagined corners/ John Donne -- Blackberry eating/ Galway Kinnell -- The health-food diner/ Maya Angelou -- The dance/ William Carlos Williams -- The pulley/ George Herbert -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer/ John Keats -- That time of year/ William Shakespeare -- Do not go gentle into that good night/ Dylan Thomas -- From Romeo and juliet/ William Shakespeare -- Death, be not proud/ John Donne -- The sheaves/ Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The white city/ Claude McKay -- America/ Claude McKay -- We wear the mask/ Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sonnenizio on a line from Drayton/ Kim Addonizio -- Acquainted with the night/ Robert Frost -- In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn/ T.S. Eliot -- Villanelle for an anniversary/ Seamus Heaney -- The house on the hill/ Edwin Arlington Robinson -- These are the days when birds come back/ Emily Dickinson -- Delight in disorder/ Robert Herrick -- Still to be near/ Ben Jonson -- The canonization/ John Donne -- Ode on a Grecian urn/ John Keats -- Home burial/ Robert Frost.

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock/ T.S. Eliot -- Sunday mornig/ Wallace Stevens -- The weary blues/ Langston Hughes -- The fish/ Elizabeth Bishop -- Diving into the wreck/ Adrienne Rich -- Mus ee des beaux arts/ W.H. Auden -- Main character/ Jimmy Santiago Baca -- On her loving two equally/ Aphra Behn -- On reading poems to a senior class at South High/ District of Columbia Berry -- Manners/ Elizabeth Bishop -- Sadie and Maud ; a song in the front yard ; Tornado at Talladega/ Gwendolyn Brooks -- Combing/ Gladys Cardiff -- To the ladies/ Mary, Lady Chudleigh -- good times/ Lucille Clifton -- Kubla Khan/ Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Voyages/ Hart Crane -- War is kind/ Stephen Crane -- the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; Spring is like a perhaps hand/ e. e. cummings -- A light exists in spring ; A narrow fellow in the grass; I died for beauty-but was scarce ; I like a look of agony/ Emily Dickinson -- The good-morrow ; Song: Go and catch a falling star/ John Donne -- Nexus ; Persephone, falling/ Rita Dove -- Sympathy/ Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Christ climbed down/ Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The colonel/ Carolyn Forch e -- Birches ; Mending wall ; Once by the Pacific/ Robert Frost -- A supermarket in California/ Allen Ginsberg -- From the wave/ Thom Gunn -- Snow White and the seven deadly sins/ R.S. Gwynn -- On the death of a child/ Daniel Halpern -- Channel firing ; The darkling thrush ; Neutral tones/ Thomas Hardy -- Follower/ Seamus Heaney -- To an athlete dying young/ A.E. Housman -- Aunt Sue's stories ; Negro servant/ Langston Hughes -- The death of the ball turret gunner/ Randall Jarrell -- To Celia/ Ben Jonson -- Warning/ Jenny Joseph -- Men at forty/ Donald Justice -- La belle dame sans merci ; Ode to a nightingale ; To one who has been long in city pent/ John Keats -- Aubade/ Philip Larkin -- The blind man's house at the edge of the cliff/ Denise Levertov -- To Lucasta, on going to the wars/ Richard Lovelace -- Puberty/ William Matthews -- Silence/ Marianne Moore -- Dim lady/ Harryette Mullen -- I go back to May 1937 ; The planned child ; The victims/ Sharon Olds -- R esum e/ Dorothy Parker -- A work of artifice/ Marge Piercy -- Mad girl's love song ; Spinster ; Wuthering Heights/ Sylvia Plath -- Epigram from the French/ Alexander Pope -- Salutation/ Ezra Pound -- Here lies a lady/ John Crowe Ransom -- Poetry: I/ Adrienne Rich -- The mill ; Mr. Flood's party ; Richard Cory/ Edwin Arlington Robinson -- I knew a woman ; My papa's waltz ; Root cellar/ Theodore Roethke -- Young/ Anne Sexton -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ William Shakespeare -- Watermelons/ Charles Simic -- Not waving but drowning/ Stevie Smith -- Small town with one road/ Gary Soto -- One day I wrote her name upon the sand/ Edmund Spenser -- Anecdote of the jar ; The course of a particular ; The death of a soldier/ Wallace Stevens.

The most dangerous game/ Richard Connell -- Hunters in the snow/ Tobias Wolff -- The destructors/ Graham Greene -- How I met my husband/ Alice Munro -- Interpreter of maladies/ Jhumpa Lahiri -- Everyday use/ Alice Walker -- Miss Brill/ Katherine Mansfield -- The man who was almost a man/ Richard Wright -- Welding with children/ Tim Gautreaux -- The darling/ Anton Chekhov -- A worn path/ Eudora Welty -- Once upon a time/ Nadine Gordimer -- Paul's case/ Willa Cather -- The lottery/ Shirley Jackson -- The jilting of Granny Wetherall/ Katherine Anne Porter -- Hills like white elephants/ Ernest Hemingway -- The rocking-horse winner/ D.H. Lawrence -- Young goodman Brown/ Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The ones who walk away from Omelas/ Ursula K. Le Guin -- A very old man with enormous wings/ Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The drunkard/ Frank O'Connor -- Rape fantasies/ Margaret Atwood -- The guest/ Albert Camus -- Roman fever/ Edith Wharton -- A new leaf/ F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Civil peace/ Chinua Achebe -- The swimmer/ John Cheever -- The story of an hour/ Kate Chopin -- A rose for Emily/ William Faulkner -- A jury of her peers/ Susan Glaspell -- The gilded six-bits/ Zora Neale hurston -- The real thing/ Henry James -- Bartleby the scrivener/ Herman Melville -- The cask of Amontillado/ Edgar Allan Poe -- A and P/ John Updike -- The eagle/ Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Winter/ William Shakespeare -- Dulce et decorum est/ Wilfred Owen -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day/ William Shakespeare -- The whipping/ Robert Hayden -- The last night that she lived/ Emily Dickinson -- Ballad of Birmingham/ Dudley Randall -- Kitchenette building/ Gwendolyn Brooks -- The red wheelbarrow/ William Carlos Williams -- Constantly risking absurdity/ Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Terence, this is stupid stuff/ A.E. Housman -- Archibald MacLeish -- The man he killed/ Thomas Hardy -- A study of reading habits/ Philip Larkin -- Is my team plowing/ A.E. Housman -- Break of day/ John Donne -- There's been a death, in the opposite house/ Emily Dickinson -- When in Rome/ Mari Evans -- Animals are passing from our lives/ Philip Levine -- Question/ May Swenson -- Mirror/ Sylvia Plath -- The clod and the pebble/ William Blake -- Ethics/ Linda Pastan -- Storm warnings/ Adrienne Rich.

There is no frigate like a book/ Emily Dickinson -- When my love swears she is made of truth/ William Shakespeare -- Pathedy of manners/ Ellen Kay -- Naming of parts/ Henry Reed -- Cross/ Langston Hughes -- The world is too much with us/ William Wordsworth -- Desert places/ Robert Frost -- Let no charitable hope/ Elinor Wylie -- A hymn to God the Father/ John Donne -- One art/ Elizabeth Bishop -- 35/10/ Sharon Olds -- Meeting at night ; Parting at morning/ Robert Browning -- Spring/ Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The widow's lament in springtime/ William Carlos Williams -- The man with night sweats/ Thom Gunn -- I felt a funeral, in my brain/ Emily Dickinson -- Living in sin/ Adrienne Rich -- The forge/ Seamus Heaney -- After apple-picking/ Robert Frost -- Those winter Sundays/ Robert Hayden -- An August night/ Seamus Heaney -- The snow man/ Wallace Stevens/ To autumn/ John Keats -- Harlem/ Langston Hughes -- Bereft/ Robert Frost -- It sifts from leaden sieves/ Emily Dickinson -- The author to her book/ Anne Bradstreet -- The telephone/ Maya Angelou -- Bright star/ John Keats -- Mind/ Richard Wilbur -- I taste a liquor never brewed/ Emily Dickinson -- Metaphors/ Sylvia Plath -- Toads/ Philip Larkin -- Ghost of a chance/ Adrienne Rich -- A valediction: forbidding mourning/ John Donne -- To his coy mistress/ Andrew Marvell -- Introduction to poetry/ Billy Collins -- The road not taken/ Robert Frost -- A noiseless patient spider/ Walt Whitman -- The sick rose/ William Blake -- Digging/ Seamus Heaney -- To the virgins, to make much of time/ Robert Herrick -- Peace/ George Herbert -- The writer/ Richard Wilbur -- Fire and ice/ Robert Frost -- Up-hill/ Christina Rossetti -- Harlem hopscotch/ Maya Angelou -- I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing/ Walt Whitman -- Because I could not stop for death/ Emily Dickinson -- Hymn to God my God, in my sickness/ John Donne -- Weighing the dog/ Billy Collins -- Ulysses/ Alfred. Lord Tennyson -- Much madness is divinest sense/ Emily Dickinson -- The sun rising/ John Donne -- Incident/ Countee Cullen -- Barbie doll/ Marge Piercy -- The chimney sweeper/ William Blake -- Ozymandias/ Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Lady luncheon club/ Maya Angelou -- Batter my heart, three-personed God/ John Donne -- Sorting laundry/ Elisavietta Ritchie -- The history teacher/ Billy Collins -- Mid-term break/ Seamus Heaney -- A considerable speck/ Robert Frost -- The unknown citizen/ W.H. Auden -- in the inner city/ Lucille Clifton -- My last duchess/ Robert Browning -- "Out, out" / Robert Frost -- "She should have died hereafter" / William Shakespeare -- in Just/ e.e. cummings -- Yet do I marvel/ Countee Cullen -- On his blindness/ John Milton -- Miniver Cheevy/ Edwin Arlington Robinson -- My son the man/ Sharon Olds -- Siren song/ Margaret Atwood -- Journey of the Magi/ T.S. Eliot -- Little Jack Horner/ Anonymous -- Loveliest of trees/ A.E. Housman -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening/ Robert Frost -- The rhodora/ Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Design/ Robert Frost -- I never saw a moor/ Emily Dickinson --"Faith" is a fine invention/ Emily Dickinson -- On the sonnet/ John Keats -- Sonnet/ Billy Collins -- The lamb ; The tiger/ William Blake -- The indifferent/ John Donne -- Love's deity/ John Donne -- My number/ Billy Collins -- I had heard it's a fight/ Edwin Denby.

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