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 -- From 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 -- From 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 -- From 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 -- From Crass times redeemed by dignity of souls Peter Viereck The end of the world Archibald MacLeish The traveler's curse agter misdirection Robert Graves -- From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Edward FitzGerald -- L' allegro ; Il 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 -- From Essay on criticism ; From 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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