Americans' favorite poems : the Favorite Poem Project anthology / [print]
edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz.
- first edition.
- New York : Norton, [(c)2000.
- xix, 327 pages ; 25 cm.
The Sentence Mansion Will, lost in a sea of trouble Dover Beach The Improvement Variation on the Word Sleep In Memory of W. B. Yeats Refugee Blues Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note One Art At the Fishhouses Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle Eternity The Ecchoing Green The Little Black Boy The Emigrant Irish Before the Birth of one of her Children To My Dear and loving Husband The Soldier We Real Cool The Bean Eaters Sonnet 43 (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress Address to a Haggis She Walks in Beauty from Manfred Jabberwocky Grandmither, Think Not I Forget 31 The City from Zeitgehoft Anna Akhmatova A. R. Ammons Archilochos Matthew Arnold John Ashbery Margaret Atwood W. H. Auden W. H. Auden Amiri Baraka Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop Black Elk William Blake William Blake William Blake Eavan Boland Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet Rupert Brooke Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks Robert Browning Julia De Burgos Robert Burns George Gordon, Lord Byron George Gordon, Lord Byron Lewis Carroll Willa Cather Catullus C. P. Cavafy Paul Celan -- from The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge Voyages (III) / Hart Crane The Rain I Know a Man Yet Do I Marvel I sing of Olaf glad and big Last Poem The Bee I'm Nobody! Who are you? / Emily Dickinson --- I never saw a Moor, / Emily Dickinson A little Madness in the Spring "Hope" is the thing with Feathers, / Emily Dickinson A Bird came down the Walk The Flea A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning The Embrace Daystar Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part Love Song: I And Thou We Wear the Mask A Lyric in Exile The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Dry Salvages The Rhodora The Road Not Taken Acquainted with the Night Immigrants Birches A Hillside Thaw "Out, Out," / Robert Frost The Terms in Which I Think of Reality The Queen of Carthage Baby Song Names of Horses The Darkling Thrush Meditation at Lagunitas Those Winter Sundays Monet's "Waterlilies" / Robert Hayden -- Geoffrey Chaucer ; Hart Crane Robert Creeley Robert Creeley Countee Cullen E. E. Cummings Robert Desnos James Dickey Emily Dickinson ; Emily Dickinson John Donne John Donne Mark Doty Rita Dove Michael Drayton Alan Dugan Paul Lawrence Dunbar Hussein Elhami T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Robert Frost Robert Frost Robert Frost Robert Frost ; Allen Ginsberg Louise Gluck Thom Gunn Donald Hall Thomas Hardy Robert Hass Robert Hayden Mid-Term Break Invictus Church-musick Vertue The pebble Things I Didn't Know I Loved Do you see the town? / Hugo Von Hofmannsthal from the Iliad (Book Six, lines 439-79) / Homer God's Grandeur Pied Beauty The Windhover Diffugere Nives Minstrel Man Merry-Go-Round Mother to Son Driving Montana Next Day Losses The Purse-Seine The Creation Song to Celia On My First Son Ecce Puer Ode to a Nightingale Sonnet Virgin IslandsI (O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell) / John Keats This Living Hand Otherwise St. Francis and the Sow Facing It Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation from Tao te Ching Snake The New Colossus Come into Animal Presence You Can Have It A Psalm of Life The Moon Sails Out Song of the Barren Orange Tree Patterns Seamus Heaney William Ernest Henley George Herbert George Herbert Zbigniew Herbert Nazim Hikmet Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins A. E. Housman Langston Hughes Langston Hughes Langston Hughes Richard Hugo Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell Robinson Jeffers James Weldon Johnson Ben Jonson Ben Jonson James Joyce John Keats John Keats Jane Kenyon Galway Kinnell Yusef Komunyakaa Stanley Kunitz Lao Tzu D. H. Lawrence Emma Lazarua Denise Levertov Philip Levine Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Federico Garcia Lorca Federico Garcia Lorca Amy Lowell -- The First Snow-Fall Waking in the Blue Big Momma To His Coy Mistress Art Strawberries Sonnet XXIV (When you, that at this moment are to me) / Edna St. Vincent Millay Dirge Without Music Happiness On Pilgrimage Lycidas Harmonics Poetry I May, I Might, I Must The Time I've Lost in Wooing Ode to My Socks Quiet Until the Thaw A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island The Summer Day Dulce et Decorum Est To Return to the Urges Unconscious of Their Beginnings Luncheon on the Grass The Night Dances Lady Lazarus Polly's Tree Cancer and Nova from Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter I loved you Love Constant Beyond Death The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Naming of Parts To the Days Prospective Immigrants Please Note Entrance Romance James Russell Lowell Robert Lowell Haki R. Madhubuti Andrew Marvell Herman Melville W. S. Merwin Edna St. Vincent Millay A. A. Milne Czeslaw Milosz John Milton William Vaughn Moody Marianne Moore Marianne Moore Thomas Moore Pablo Neruda Jacob Nibenegenasabe Frank O'Hara Mary Oliver Wilfred Owen Pham Tien Duat Carl Phillips Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath Hyam Plutzik Alexander Pope Ezra Pound Alexander Pushkin Francisco De Quevedo Sir Walter Raleigh Henry Reed Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich Rainer Maria Rilke Arthur Rimbaud -- Our Land Eros Turannos Mr. Flood's Party My Papa's Waltz Night Journey The Waking Who Says Words with My Mouth Chicago Equal to the gods An Old Man on the River Bank Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) / William Shakespeare Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes) / William Shakespeare Sonnet 138 (When my love swears that she is made of truth) / William Shakespeare Not Waving But Drowning Scars The Idea of Order at Key West The Snow Man Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Girl in a Nightgown Block City Home No More Home to Me, Whither Must I Wander? / Robert Louis Stevenson Pot Roast Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition Gift Ulysses Casey at the Bat Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night In My Craft or Sullen Art Fern Hill Tichborne's Elegy A Far Cry from Africa Arizona Midnight An Old Man's Thought of School from Song of the Open Road (1, 4, and 8) / Walt Whitman To a Certain Cantatrice from Song of Myself (46 and 52) / Walt Whitman Love Calls Us to the Things of This World My Fly To Elsie Danse Russe from The Prelude (Book IV, lines 354-70) / William Wordsworth Lines (Tintern Abbey) / William Wordsworth On a Bank As I Sat Fishing A Blessing Forget Not Yet Politics When You Are Old Sailing to Byzatium The lower leaves of the trees To Go to Lvov The Way of the Water-Hyacinth Yannis Ritsos Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke Jalal Al-Din Rumi Carl Sandburg Sappho George Seferis Stevie Smith William Stafford Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Robert Louis Stevenson Mark Strand Wislawa Szymborska Rabindranath Tagore Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ernest Lawrence Thayer Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas Chidiock Tichborne Derek Walcott Robert Penn Warren Walt Whitman Walt Whitman Richard Wilbur C. K. Williams William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams Sir Henry Wotton James Wright Thomas Wyatt William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats Sone No Yoshitada Adam Zagajewski Zawgee.
A collection of 200 poems by such authors as Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Keats, with comments by those Americans who chose them as their favorites.