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IntroductionAnne Bradstreet (1612-1672) Contemplations Before the Birthof One of her Children To my Dear and Loving Husband The Author to Her BookIn Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet On my Dear GrandchildSimon Bradstreet Her Follow some Verses upon the Burning of our House As WearPilgrimMichael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) From the Day of DoomEdward Taylor(1642? - 1729) Let by Rain The Reflexion Meditation 8 (first series) ("Ikenning through astronomy divine") Meditation 150 (second series) ("MyBlessed Lord, how doth thy beautious spouse") Upon a Spider Catching a FlyHuswifery Upon Wedlock, and Death of ChildrenPhilip Freneau (1752-1832) Onthe Emigration to America The Wild Honey Suckle The Indian Burying Ground OnMr. Paine's Rights of Man To an Author On Observing a Large Red-StreakApplePhillis Wheatley (1753-1784) On Being Brought from Africa to America Onthe Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield Thoughts on the Works of ProvidenceTo S.M., a young African Painter, On Seeing his WorksJoel Barlow (1754-1812)Advice to a Raven in RussiaRichard Henry Wilde (1789-1847) The Lament of theCaptiveLydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865) Indian Names The Stars To theFirst Slave ShipWilliam Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) To Cole, the Painter,Departing from Europe A Winter Piece The Prairies Thanatopsis To a WaterfowlThe African ChiefJames Gates Percival (1795-1856) The Coral GroveLydia MariaChild (1802-1880) The New England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving DaySarahHelen Whitman (1803-1878) The Morning-Glory A November LandscapeRalph WaldoEmerson (1803-1882) Each and All Sea Shore Ode ("Though loath to grieve")Give all to Love Thine Eyes Still Shined Concord Hymn Brahma From the RiverDaysElizabeth Oakes-Smith (1806-1893) Ode to SapphoJohn Greenleaf Whittier(1807-1892) To my old Schoolmaster Telling the Bees Barbara FrietchieSnow-BoundHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) From The Song of Hiawatha(Introduction) Mezzo Cammin The Jewish Cemetery at Newport The Cross of SnowSeaweed Afternoon in February The Arrow and the Song Paul Revere'sRideLucretia Davidson (1808-1825) AmericaOliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)The Chambered NautilusEdgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) To Helen The City in theSea Sonnet-Silence The Raven El Dorado For Annie Annabel LeeFrances SargentOsgood (1811-1850) Woman Ellen Learning to Walk Ah! Woman StillChristopherPearse Cranch (1813-1892) Cnosis The Pines and the SeaJones Very (1817-1862)The Columbine I was sick and in Prison The Lament of the Flowers Nature TheSumach LeavesHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Inspiration I am a Parcel ofVain Strivings Tied Light-Winged Smoke, Icarian Bird Within the Circuit ofthis Plodding LifeWilliam Ellery Channing (1818-1901) From a Poet's HopeJamesRussell Lowell (1819-1891) To the DandelionWalt Whitman (1819-1892) One'sSelf I Sing From Song of Myself I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing As Adamearly in the Morning Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Out of the Cradle EndlesslyRocking When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer Vigil Strange I Kept on the Fieldone Night The Wound-Dresser When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ANoiseless Patient SpiderJulia Ward Howe (1819-1910) The Portent The MarchInto Virginia A Utalitarian View of the Monitor's Fight Shiloh Malvern HillThe Martyr The Maldive Shark The Berg ArtAlice Cary (1820-1871) The Sea-SideCaveFrederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) Sonnet ("The starry flower, theflower-like stars that fade") Sonnet ("And so, as this great sphere") TheQuestionFrances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) The Slave Auction Bury Me in a FreeLand The Slave MotherHenry Timrod (1828-1867) Charleston Ode ("Sleep Sweetlyin your Humble Graves")Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) "Success is CountedSweetest" "A Wounded deer leaps highest" "I felt a funderal in my brain""There's a certain slant of light" "I can wade grief" "Pain has an element ofblank" "A bird came down the walk" "He fumbles at your spirit" "I heard a flybuzz when I died" "I started early, took my dog" "Because I could not stopfor death" "A narrow fellow in the grass" "The last night that she lived" "Mylife closed twice before its close" "Tell all the truth but tell itslant"Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) My Lighthouses Poppies on theWheatSidney Lanier (1842-1881) Song of the Chattahoochee A Ballad of Treesand the Master CloverSarah Orne Jewett (1849-1887) At Home from Church ACountry Boy in Winter A Caged BirdEmma Lazarus (1849-1887) The New EzekielSouthLouise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) The Wild Ride When on the Marge ofEveningEdgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) The Hill Petit, the Poet The LostOrchardEdwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) John Evereldown Richard CoryMiniver Cheevy Mr. Flood's PartyStephen Crane (1871-1900) From The BlackRiders (In the Desert)James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Oh Black and UnknownBardsPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) A Negro Love Song Ere SLeep Comes Downto Sooth the Weary Eyes Ships that Pass in the Night Lover's Lane The DebtThe Haunted OakTrumbull Stickney (1874-1904) Age in Youth Pity RequiescamQuiet after the Rain of Morning In the Past In Ampezzo The DepartureAmyLowell (1874-1925) Meeting-House Hill Music ChinoiseriesRobert Frost(1874-1963) Storm fear Mowing Home Burial The Wood-Pile Fire and Ice Stoppingby Woods on a Snowy Evening Nothing Gold Can Stay Spring Pools Design TheGift Outright The Silken Tent "Out, Out-" The Subverted Flower DirectiveCarlSandburg (1878-1967) The Harbour Chicago Languages Bas-Relief Cool TombsGrassVachel Lindsay (1879-1931) General William Booth Entern intoHeavenWallace Stevens (1879-1955) The Snow Man Nomad Exquisite Of ModernPoetry Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Sunday Morning Ancedote of AJar The Idea of Order at Key West From Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction (itmust be abstract) To an Old Philosopher in Rome Final Soliloquy of theInterior ParamourWilliam Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Woman Walking It is aSmall Plant To a Poor Old Woman The Sadness of the Sea Spring and all The RedWheelbarrow The Young Housewife To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven Mists over theRiver From Paterson (The Falls)Sarah Teasdale (1884-1933) Open Windows Overthe RoofsEzra Pound (1885-1972) Sestma: Altaforte The Virginal The Return TheRiver-Merchant's Wife: A Letter A Pact In a Station of the Metro From HughSelwyn Mauberley (1: "The tea-rose tea-grown, etc.") (2: "These fought inany way") Canto I ("And then went down to the ship") Canto XLV ("WithUsura")"H.D." (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) Pear Tree Oread At Ithaca TheShrine Helen At BaiaRobinson Jeffers (1887-1962) To the Stone-Cutters NightShine, Perishing Republic Hurt Hawks Rock and Hawk But I am Growing Old andIndolentElinor Wylie (1887-1928) Wild Peaches Let no Chantable HopeMalediction Upon Myself CastilianMarianne Moore (1887-1972) The Fish PoetryMarriage The Steeple-Jack In Distrust of Merits When I Buy PicturesJohn CroweRansom (1888-1974) Bells for John Ehiteside's Daughter Piazza Piece BlueGirls Janet WakingT.S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockGerontion The Waste LandConrad Aiken (1889-1973) Dear Uncle Stranger HatterasCalling SolitaireClaude McKay (1890-1948) The Lynching If We Must Die HarlemShadowsArchibald MacLeish (1892-1983) Ars Poetica You, Andrew MarvellEdnaSt.Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Renascence From: Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree(1:"So she came back into his house again") The Buck in the Snow From: FatalInterview (36: "Hearing a word, and not a word among them") RaggedIslandCharles Reznikoff (1894-1976) From: TestimonyJean Toomer (1894-1967)Reapers November Cotton Flowere.e.cummings (1894-1962) "you shall above allthings be glad and young" "anyone lived in a pretty how town" "i sing of Okafglad and big" "my father moved through dooms of love"Louise Bogan (1897-1970)Winter Swan Men Loved Wholly beyond Wisdom M., SingingMelvin Beanearus Tolson(1898-1966) African China Dark SymphonyHart Crane (1899-1932) Repose ofRivers Voyages From: The Bridge (To Brooklyn Bridge) To Emily Dickinson TherBroken TowerLeonie Adams (1899-1988) Lght at Equinox April MortallityAllenTate (1899-1979) Ode to the Confederate Dead Mr. PopeYvor Winters (1900-1968)Summer Noon: 1941 The Slow Pacific SwellLaura Riding Jackson (1901-1991)Prisms Helen's Burning All Things he World and I Nothing so FarGwendolyn B.Bennett (1902-1981) To a Dark Girl Heritage HatredLangston Hughes (1902-1967)The Weary Blues The Negro Speaks of Rivers Jazzonia Cross Po' Boy BluesEsthete in Harlem As I grew Older Theme for English BArna Bontemps(1902-1973) A Black Man Talks Reaping Nocturne of the Wharves Blight God Giveto MenCountee Cullen (1903-1946) Heritage From the Dark Tower Timed LoverLousZukofsky (1904-1978) "A"-11 ("River that must turn full after I stopdying")Richard Eberhart (1904-) For a Lamb Ther Fury of Aerial Bombardment ALoon CallStanley Kunitz (1905-) The Science of the Night The Snakes ofSeptemberRobert Penn Warren (1905-1989) Bearded Oaks Blow, West Wind EvenigHawk Heart of Autumn Amazing Grace in the BAck Country What Voice atMoth-Hour Vermont Ballad: Change of SeasonTheodore Roethke (1908-1963)Cuttings ("Sticks-in-a-drowse droop over sugary loam") Cuttings (Later)("This urge, wrestle, resurrection of dry sticks") Root Cellar Orchids BigWind My Papa's Waltz Elegy for Jane The Far FieldCharles Olson (1910-1970)From: The Maximus Poems, Book III (Poem 143: The Festival Apect)JosephineMiles (1911-1985) Belief Conception AlbumElizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)Seascape A Cold Spring The Map Little Exercise In the Waiting Room TheArmadillo Questions of TravelMuriel Rukeyser (1912-1980) Iris Then I Saw Whatthe Calling WasRobert Hayden (1913-1980) Night, Death, Mississippi A Road inKentucky Those Winter Sundays Middle PassageDelmore Schwartz (1913-1966) TheHeavy Bear Who Goes With MeWilliam Stafford (1914-1993) Traveling through theDark The Rescued Year At the Bomb Testing SiteJohn Berryman (1914-1972) From:Homage to Mistress Bradstreet From: The Dream Songs (1. "Huffy Henry hid theday") (4. "Filling her compact and delicious body') (5. "Henry sats in debar & was odd") (14. "Life, friends, is boring") Henry's FateRandall Jarell(1914-1965) The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner The Knight, Death, and theDevil The Woman at the Washington ZooRobert Lowell (1917-1977) The QuakerGraveyard in Nantucket Mr. Edwards and the Spider Grandparents Man and WifeSkunk Hour For the Union Dead HistoryGwendolyn Brooks (1917- ) Negro HeroNotes from the Childhood and the Girlhood Jessie Mitchell's Mother Of RobertFrost Langston HughesRobert Duncan (1919-1988) Often I Am Permitted to Returnto Meadow Passage over WaterHoward Nemerov (1920-1991) Blue Suburban TheWestern Approaches The War in the AirAmy Clampitt (1920-1994) A BaroqueSunburstMona Van Duyn (1921- ) Moose in the Morning. Northern MaineRichardWilbur (1921- ) A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra Still, CitizenSparrow Love Calls Us to the Things of this World MindJames Dickey (1923- )The Heaven of Animals The Dusk of Horses Cherrylog RoadAnthony Hecht (1923-) Jason The Gardens of the Villa D'EsteGalway Kinnell (1927- ) The BearAfter Making Love We Hear footstepsJames Wright (1927-1980) Sparrwos in aHillside Drift Milkweed Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Lying in aHammock at Wiliam Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Beginning AnneSexton (1928-1974) Music Swims Back to Me The Truth the Dead Know The StarryNight Wanting to DiePeter Davison (1928- ) Cross CutPhilip Levine (1928- )Animals Are Passing From Our Lives Angel Butcher Later Still Bell Isle, 1949Snow BeliefJohn Hollander (1929- ) The Great Bear Morning in the Islands TheMad PotterRobert Pack (1929- ) The Trasher in the Willow by the Lake ProtonDecayAdrienne Rich (1929- ) Aunt Jennifer's Tigers In the Evening Divinginto the Wreck Power Integrity Tattered KaddishGary Snyder (1930- )Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout Axel Handles The Snow on SaddleMountainSylvia Plath (1932-1963) Morning Song Dadd Fever 103" AnelAnneStevenson (1933- ) The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument In the OrchardImamuAmiri Baraka (1934 - ) Return of the Native LegacyMark Strand (1934- ) TheKite The Garden Shooting WhalesN.Scoot Momaday (1934-1992) Carners of theDream Whell Winter Holding odf the Coast of North AmericaAudre Lorde (1935-) The Night-blooming JasmineMary Oliver (1935- ) Some Questios You Might AskWhen Death ComesCharles Wright (1935- ) Virgo Descending Snow Stone CanyonNocturne Sitting at Night on the Front Porch Porstriat of the Artist with LaPo California SpringNancy Williard (1936- ) Angels in WinterCharles Simic(1838- ) Fork Against Whatever It is That's Encroaching Ancient AutumnClouds GatheringRobert Pinsky (1940- ) First Early Mornings Together SerpentKnowledge The Questions ShirtErica Jong (1941- ) The Buddha in theWombRobert Hass (1941- ) Meditation at LagunitasSimon J. Ortiz (1941- ) TheCreation: According to Coyote The Serenity in StonesDave Smith (1942- ) TheRoundhouse Voices August, on the Rented FarmMarilyn Hacker (1942- ) Rondeauafter a Transatlantic Telephone CallJames Tate (1942- ) The Lost PilotLouiseGlueck (1943- ) The Pond The School Children Messengers Mount Ararat TheWild IrisAcknowledgments Index of Authors Index of Titles and First Lines