How does a poem mean? / John Ciardi, Miller Williams. [print]

I knew a woman Theodore Roethke -- Detroit Conference of Unity and Art Nikki Giovanni -- Romantic George Garrett -- Thank you for the valentine Diane Wakoski -- After work Gary Snyder -- For Jane ; -- Style ; -- Short order Charles Bukowski -- What lips my lips have kissed Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Holy Sonnet XIV John Donne -- Thou art indeed just, Lord Gerard Manley Hopkins -- On our crucified Lord, naked and bloody Richard Crashaw -- Love George Herbert -- A prayer to the Father of heaven John Skelton -- For a dead lady Edwin Arlington Robinson -- On my first daughter ; -- On my first son ; -- Epitaph on S.P., a child of queen Elizabeth's chapel Ben Jonson -- Little elegy ; -- On a child who lived one minute ; -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter X.J. Kennedy -- December 24 and George McBride is dead Richard Hugo -- A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London Dylan Thomas -- Elegy for a nature poet Howard Nemerov --

An Irish airman foresees his death W.B. Yeats -- Soliloquy Francis Ledwidge -- Aubade : New YorkC. Robert Wallace -- The roach John Raven -- Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota James Wright -- The tragedy of the leaves Charles Bukowski -- Northwest airlines Fred Chappell -- The place of backs W.S. Merwin -- The more loving one W.H. Auden -- Woodchucks Maxine Kumin -- Song of myself Walt Whitman -- A valediction forbidding mourning John Donne -- Departmental Robert Frost -- Heaven Rupert Brooke -- Arriving Daniel Halpern -- Ode on the death of a favorite cat Thomas Gray -- To a fair lady playing with a snake Edmund Waller -- A satirical elegy on the death of a late famous General Jonathan Swift -- The latest decalogue Arthur Hugh Clough -- Three poems from the Japanese Yamabe No Akahito -- Written on the wall at Chang's hermitage Tu Fu -- A friend advises me to stop drinking Mei Yao Ch'en --

To a traveler Su Tung P'o -- A bestiary Kenneth Rexroth -- The red wheelbarrow ; -- This is just to say William Carlos Williams -- I saw a man ; -- The book of wisdom ; -- The heart Stephen Crane -- The death of the ball turret gunner Randall Jarrell -- I love you and the rosebush Armando Uribe -- The world is too much with us; late and soon William Wordsworth -- Sonnet LXXIII William Shakespeare -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer John Keats -- Sonnet Samuel Daniel -- Young Reynard George Meredith -- To a waterfowl William Cullen Bryant -- Poet Peter Viereck -- Exchange Dabney Stuart -- Meditation for a pickle suite R.H.W. Dillard -- Gamecock James Dickey -- A timepiece James Merrill -- Sonnet CXLVII / -- William Shakespeare -- The Hippopotamus / -- T.S. Eliot -- The flea John Donne -- A simile for her smile Richard Wilbur -- A poison tree William Blake --

Ars poetica Archibald MacLeish -- How do I love thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- What the sonnet is Eugene Lee Hamilton -- The great lover Rupert Brooke -- Scyros Karl Shapiro -- gee i like to think of the dead / -- E.E. Cummings -- Dirge Kenneth Fearing -- Hero and leander Christopher Marlowe -- Walter Jenks' Bath William Meredith -- A grasshopper Richard Wilbur -- Ponce de Leon : a morning walk Al Young -- Dolor Thoedore Roethke -- Some good things to be said for the Iron age Gary Snyder -- Between walls William Carlos Williams -- The great bear meditations J. Michael Yates -- The lost pictures Hollis Summers -- Dog Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Time out Donald Finkel -- An elegy is preparing itself Donald Justice -- Buick Karl Shapiro -- El Greco E.L. Mayo -- With rue my heart is laden A.E. Housman -- To Lucasta, on going to the wars Richard Lovelace --

Sir Beelzebub Edith Sitwell -- Lenox Avenue mural Langston Hughes -- How Jakc found that bean may go back on a chap Guy Wetmore Carryl -- To mistress Margaret Hussey John Skelton -- After long silence W.B. Yeats -- Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Voice of the studio announcer Archibald MacLeish -- My last duchess Robert Browning -- Crass times redeemed by dignity of souls Peter Viereck -- The end of the world Archibald MacLeish -- The traveler's curse agter misdirection Robert Graves -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward FitzGerald -- allegro ; penseroso John Milton -- How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix Robert Browning -- The charge of the light brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- To be, or not to be ; -- For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground ; -- Under the greenwood tree ; -- Full fathom five William Shakespeare -- In a time of pestilence Thomas Nashe --

The negro James Emanual -- Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Song Thomas Carew -- Why so pale and wan? Sir John Suckling -- Early evening quarrel Langston Hughes -- Essay on criticism ; Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Alexander Pope -- What riddle asked the sphinx Archibald MacLeish -- The anniversarie John Donne -- South end Conrad Aiken -- Nude descending a staircase X.J. Kennedy -- The altar George Herbert -- Do the dead know what time it is? Kenneth Patchen -- The span of life Robert Frost -- O western wind Anonymous -- The fury of aerial bombardment Richard Eberhart -- My papa's waltz Theodore Roethke -- Before disaster Yvor Winters -- Hawk's way Ted Olson -- On the vanity of earthly greatness Arthur Guiterman -- War poet Roy Fuller -- Herself John Holmes -- My Luve Robert Burns -- Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The passionate shepherd to his love Christopher Marlowe --

The nymph's reply to the shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh -- The baite John Donne -- To his coy mistress Andrew Marvell -- You, Andrew Marvell Archibald MacLeish -- The tyger William Blake -- And what is love? Misunderstanding, pain J.V. Cunningham -- The second coming ; -- Sailing to Byzantium W.B. Yeats -- Anthem for doomed youth (first draft) ; -- Anthem for doomed youth (final version) Wilfred Owen -- Dauer im Wechsel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Permanence in change transliterated by Mark J. Doyle -- Permanence in change translated by John Nims -- Canto I (lines 1-21) of -- The inferno Dante Alighieri -- Canto I (lines 1-21) of -- The inferno translated by Allan Gilbert -- Canto I (lines 1-21) of -- The inferno translated by Charles S. Singleton -- Canto I (lines 1-21) of -- The inferno translated by Dorothy L. Sayers -- Canto I (lines 1-21) of -- The inferno translated by John Ciardi -- Canto I (lines 1-21) of -- The inferno translated by Butler Fletcher.

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