The Norton Introduction to Poetry
Brueghel In Naplesby Dannie AbseSweep Me Through Your Many-chambered Heartby Diane AckermanComposed In The Composing Roomby Franklin Pierce AdamsBoston Yearby Elizabeth AlexanderThe Dacca Gauzesby Agha Shahid AliNeedsby Archie Randolph AmmonsAfricaby Maya AngelouRiot Act, April 29, 1992by Florence AnthonyTwenty-year Marriageby Florence AnthonyHiding Placeby Richard ArmourDover Beachby Matthew ArnoldA City Afternoonby John AshberyDeath Of A Young Son By Drowningby Margaret AtwoodSiren Songby Margaret AtwoodIn Memory Of W.b. Yeatsby Wystan Hugh AudenMusee Des Beaux Artsby Wystan Hugh AudenTouching Each Other's Surfacesby Carol Jane BangsNighttime Firesby Regina BarrecaOn Her Loving Two Equallyby Aphra BehnPraise Psalm Of The City-dwellerby April BernardIn Westminster Abbeyby John BetjemanAnglosaxon Streetby Earl (earle) BirneyThe Armadillo; For Robert Lowellby Elizabeth BishopSestinaby Elizabeth BishopThe Lamb, Fr. Songs Of Innocenceby William BlakeLondon, Fr. Songs Of Experienceby William BlakeThe Sick Rose, Fr. Songs Of Experienceby William BlakeThe Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experienceby William BlakeCartographyby Louise BoganSingle Sonnetby Louise BoganAfter A Deathby Ruth Elizabeth BorsonSave Us Fromby Ruth Elizabeth BorsonTo My Dear And Loving Husbandby Anne BradstreetFor The Bones Of Josef Mengele, Disinterred June 1985by Robert BringhurstIn Summer's Mellow Midnightby Emily Jane BronteThe Children Of The Poor: 4by Gwendolyn BrooksQueen Of The Bluesby Gwendolyn BrooksWe Real Cool; The Pool Players. Seven At The Golden Shovelby Gwendolyn BrooksSonnets From The Portuguese: 43by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningMy Last Duchessby Robert BrowningSoliloquy Of The Spanish Cloisterby Robert BrowningA Red, Red Roseby Robert BurnsJoy Sonnet In A Random Universeby Helen ChasinThe Word Plum Is Deliciousby Helen ChasinAubadeby Marilyn Mei Ling ChinTo The Ladiesby Mary Lee ChudleighThe Changelingby Judith Ortiz CoferHow To Get A Babyby Judith Ortiz CoferUnspokenby Judith Ortiz CoferKubla Khanby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMetrical Feetby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThis Lime-tree Bower My Prisonby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhat Is An Epigram?by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSonnetby Henry ConstableThe Miserby Eliza CookAnother Christmas Poemby Wendy CopeEmily Dickinsonby Wendy CopeThe Expense Of Spirits Is A Crying Shameby Wendy CopeNot Only Marble, But The Plastic Toysby Wendy CopeParting In Wartimeby Frances Crofts Darwin CornfordEpisode Of Handsby Harold Hart CraneExileby Harold Hart CraneForgetfulnessby Harold Hart CraneTo Emily Dickinsonby Harold Hart CraneAn Epitaph Upon Husband And Wife Who Died And Were Buriedby Richard CrashawFor A Lady I Knowby Countee Cullen50 Poems: 29by Edward Estlin Cummings95 Poems: 1by Edward Estlin CummingsChanson Innocente: 1, Fr. Tulipsby Edward Estlin CummingsOne: 30by Edward Estlin CummingsPortraits: 8by Edward Estlin CummingsNo Imagesby Waring CuneyA Century Of Epigrams: 29, History Of Ideasby James Vincent CunninghamTlingit Concrete Poemby Nora Marks DauenhauerTwo Songs: 2by Cecil Day LewisSlim Cunning Handsby Walter John De La MareTo His Importunate Mistressby Peter De VriesCherrylog Roadby James DickeyThe Leapby James DickeyAfter Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comesby Emily DickinsonThe Chariotby Emily DickinsonGo Not Too Near A House Of Roseby Emily DickinsonI Dwell In Possibilityby Emily DickinsonI Reckon - When I Count At Allby Emily DickinsonMy Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gunby Emily DickinsonPartingby Emily DickinsonSafe In Their Alabaster Chambersby Emily DickinsonShe Dealt Her Pretty Words Like Bladesby Emily DickinsonThe Snakeby Emily DickinsonWe Do Not Play On Gravesby Emily DickinsonWild Nights! Wild Nights!by Emily DickinsonThe Wind Begun To Knead The Grassby Emily DickinsonJabberwockyby Charles Lutwidge DodgsonThe Canonizationby John DonneThe Fleaby John DonneThe Good-morrowby John DonneHoly Sonnet: 10by John DonneHoly Sonnet: 14by John DonneSongby John DonneThe Sun Risingby John DonneA Valediction: Forbidding Mourningby John DonneEve Names The Animalsby Susan DonnellyGarden: 2by Hilda DoolittleSea Roseby Hilda DoolittleDaystarby Rita DoveFifth Grade Autobiographyby Rita DoveParsleyby Rita DoveMarriage A La Mode: Songby John DrydenMarriage A-la-mode: Songby John DrydenTo The Memory Of Mr. Oldhamby John DrydenElegyby Alan DuganWe Wear The Maskby Paul Laurence DunbarDancing With Godby Stephen Elliott DunnThe Fury Of Aerial Bombardmentby Richard Ghormley EberhartThe Groundhogby Richard Ghormley EberhartJourney Of The Magiby Thomas Stearns EliotThe Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrockby Thomas Stearns EliotYouth And Cupidby Elizabeth IEmmett Tillby James Andrew EmanuelJacklightby Louise ErdrichDirgeby Kenneth FearingReunionby Carolyn ForcheTaking Off My Clothesby Carolyn ForcheHogwashby Robert FrancisDesignby Robert FrostNever Again Would Birds' Song Be The Sameby Robert FrostOnce By The Pacificby Robert FrostRange-findingby Robert FrostThe Road Not Takenby Robert FrostStopping By Woods On A Snowy Eveningby Robert FrostSudden Journeyby Tess GallagherLove's Emblemby John GayMy Own Epitaphby John GaySongby John GaySonnet: The Ladies' Home Journalby Sandra M. GilbertBeautyby Susan GlickmanLabor Dayby Louise GluckThe Geeseby Jorie GrahamThe Naked And The Nudeby Robert Ranke GravesElegy Written In A Country Churchyardby Thomas GrayChannel Firingby Thomas HardyThe Convergence Of The Twain; Lines On Loss Of The Titanicby Thomas HardyThe Darkling Thrushby Thomas HardyDuring Wind And Rainby Thomas HardyThe Ruined Maidby Thomas HardyDear John, Dear Coltraneby Michael S. HarperPenelopeby James HarrisonThe Feastby Robert HassFrederick Douglassby Robert Earl HaydenThose Winter Sundaysby Robert Earl HaydenThe Outlawby Seamus HeaneyThe Dover Bitch; A Criticism Of Lifeby Anthony HechtThe Collarby George HerbertEaster Wingsby George HerbertDelight In Disorderby Robert HerrickThe Pillar Of Fameby Robert HerrickTo The Virgins, To Make Much Of Timeby Robert HerrickUpon Julia's Clothesby Robert HerrickIn Memory Of Jane Fraser; An Attempted Reparationby Geoffrey HillAdam's Taskby John HollanderA State Of Natureby John HollanderYou Too? Me Too - Why Not? Soda Popby John HollanderGod's Grandeurby Gerard Manley HopkinsPied Beautyby Gerard Manley HopkinsSpring And Fall: To A Young Childby Gerard Manley HopkinsThe Windhover: To Christ Our Lordby Gerard Manley HopkinsMirror Image: Port-au-princeby Barbara HowesHarlemby James Langston HughesThe Negro Speaks Of Riversby James Langston HughesTheme For English Bby James Langston HughesThe Death Of The Ball Turret Gunnerby Randall JarrellDelayby Elizabeth JenningsPaper Matchesby Paulette JilesSonnet To A Negro In Harlemby Helene JohnsonPenis Envyby Erica Mann JongEpitaph On Elizabeth, L.h.by Ben JonsonFreedom In Dress [or, Clerimont's Song, Or, Sweet Neglect]by Ben JonsonOn My First Sonby Ben JonsonSong [or, Echo's Dirge For Narcissus]by Ben JonsonTo Penshurstby Ben JonsonVolpone: To Celiaby Ben JonsonSomething Like A Sonnet For Phillis Miracle Wheatleyby June JordanChildren Walking Home From School Through Good Neighborhoodby Donald JusticeCounting The Madby Donald JusticeBeauty Triumphant [or, Beauty's Immortality]by John KeatsThe Eve Of St. Agnesby John KeatsLa Belle Dame Sans Merciby John KeatsLa Belle Dame Sans Merciby John KeatsLast Sonnet (original Version)by John KeatsLast Sonnet (revised Version)by John KeatsOde On A Grecian Urnby John KeatsOde On Melancholyby John KeatsOde To A Nightingaleby John KeatsOn First Looking Into Chapman's Homerby John KeatsOn Seeing The Elgin Marblesby John KeatsOn The Grasshopper And Cricketby John KeatsOn The Sonnetby John KeatsSonnetby John KeatsSonnet: To Sleepby John KeatsTo Autumnby John KeatsEpitaph For A Postal Clerkby X. J. KennedyIn A Prominent Bar In Secaucus One Dayby X. J. KennedyAfter Making Love We Hear Footstepsby Galway KinnellBlackberry Eatingby Galway KinnellBitchby Carolyn KizerHeirloomby Abraham Moses KleinHard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insaneby Etheridge KnightVariations On A Theme By William Carlos Williamsby Kenneth KochWoodchucksby Maxine W. KuminIn Novemberby Archibald LampmanWinter Eveningby Archibald LampmanThe Georgesby Walter Savage LandorChurch Goingby Philip LarkinThe Laundromatby Dorianne LauxFrom Colony To Nationby Irving LaytonStreet Funeralby Irving LaytonThe Way The World Endsby Irving LaytonPersimmonsby Li-young LeeWhat Were They Likeby Denise LevertovThe River-merchant's Wife: A Letterby Li PoGreen Rainby Dorothy LivesayThe Jewish Cemetery At Newportby Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHanging Fireby Audre LordeRecreationby Audre LordeTo Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hairby Richard LovelaceSkunk Hour; For Elizabeth Bishopby Robert LowellArs Poeticaby Archibald MacleishSunday Morningby Frederick Louis MacneiceFair, Rich, And Young? How Rare Is Her Perfectionby Marcus Valerius MartialisYou've Told Me, Maro, Whilst You Liveby Marcus Valerius MartialisThe Passionate Shepherd To His Loveby Christopher MarloweThe Gardenby Andrew MarvellThe Mower Against Gardensby Andrew MarvellOn A Drop Of Dewby Andrew MarvellTo His Coy Mistressby Andrew MarvellTwo St. Petersburgsby Heather MchughAmericaby Claude MckayThe Harlem Dancerby Claude MckayThe White Houseby Claude MckayWatching The Dance: 1. Balanchine'sby James Ingram MerrillWatching The Dance: 2. Discothequeby James Ingram MerrillBurning The Catby William Stanley MerwinAn Ancient Gestureby Edna St. Vincent MillayFirst Figby Edna St. Vincent MillaySecond Figby Edna St. Vincent MillaySonnet: 41by Edna St. Vincent MillaySonnet: 42by Edna St. Vincent MillaySonnet: 95. Fatal Interview: 26by Edna St. Vincent MillayLines 1-43by John MiltonLines 1-49by John MiltonLines 56-76by John MiltonLycidasby John MiltonSonnet: 18. On The Late Massacre In Piedmontby John MiltonSonnet: 19. On His Blindnessby John MiltonLove In Americaby Marianne MooreGentle Communionby Pat MoraSonrisasby Pat MoraThirteen Yearsby Erin MoureHidden Meaningby Susan MusgraveI Am Not A Conspiracy Everything ... Not Everywhereby Susan MusgraveYou Didn't Fitby Susan MusgraveSummer's Last Will And Testament: A Litany In Time Of Plagueby Thomas NasheBoom!by Howard NemerovEpigram: 6. Political Reflexionby Howard NemerovThe Goose Fishby Howard NemerovThe Town Dumpby Howard NemerovThe Vacuumby Howard NemerovA Way Of Lifeby Howard NemerovThe Elder Sisterby Sharon OldsThe Glassby Sharon OldsLeningrad Cemetery, Winter Of 1941by Sharon OldsThe Liftingby Sharon OldsSex Without Loveby Sharon OldsThe Victimsby Sharon OldsKing Kong Meets Wallace Stevensby Michael OndaatjeArab And Jew In Alaskaby Gregory OrfaleaDulce Et Decorum Estby Wilfred OwenA Certain Ladyby Dorothy ParkerCommentby Dorothy ParkerIndian Summerby Dorothy ParkerOne Perfect Roseby Dorothy ParkerErosionby Linda PastanLove Poemby Linda PastanMarksby Linda PastanTo A Daughter Leaving Homeby Linda PastanIn Time Of Crisisby Raymond Richard PattersonForeign Languageby Ricardo Pau-llosaFarewell To Armsby George PeeleL'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbreyby Katherine PhilipsBarbie Dollby Marge PiercyTo Have Without Holdingby Marge PiercyWhat's That Smell In The Kitchenby Marge PiercyBlack Rook In Rainy Weatherby Sylvia PlathDaddyby Sylvia PlathLady Lazarusby Sylvia PlathMirrorby Sylvia PlathMorning Songby Sylvia PlathPoint Shirleyby Sylvia PlathThe Ravenby Edgar Allan PoeTwo Fishby Katha PollittOde On Solitude (first Printed Version)by Alexander PopeOde On Solitude (manuscript Version)by Alexander PopeSound And Sense; Lines 337-383by Alexander PopeThe Gardenby Ezra PoundIn A Station Of The Metroby Ezra PoundA Virginalby Ezra PoundThe Author's Epitaph, Made By Himself [himselfe]by Walter RaleighThe Nymph's Reply To The Shepherdby Walter RaleighHunting Arrowheadsby Jarold RamseyThe Tally Stickby Jarold RamseyBallad Of Birminghamby Dudley RandallBells For John Whiteside's Daughterby John Crowe RansomLessons Of The War: 2. Judging Distancesby Henry ReedBeware: Do Not Read This Poemby Ishmael ReedI Am A Cowboy In The Boat Of Raby Ishmael Reed3.by Adrienne Cecile RichAt A Bach Concertby Adrienne Cecile RichAunt Jennifer's Tigersby Adrienne Cecile RichDeltaby Adrienne Cecile RichDialogueby Adrienne Cecile RichDiving Into The Wreckby Adrienne Cecile RichFor The Recordby Adrienne Cecile RichLeafletsby Adrienne Cecile RichLetters In The Familyby Adrienne Cecile RichLiving In Sinby Adrienne Cecile RichOrigins And History Of Consciousnessby Adrienne Cecile RichOrionby Adrienne Cecile RichPlanetariumby Adrienne Cecile RichPowerby Adrienne Cecile RichSnapshots Of A Daughter-in-lawby Adrienne Cecile RichStorm Warningsby Adrienne Cecile RichTwo Songsby Adrienne Cecile RichWalking Down The Roadby Adrienne Cecile RichAdvice To A First Cousinby Alberto Alvaro RiosThe Potato Harvestby Charles George Douglas RobertsMr. Flood's Partyby Edwin Arlington RobinsonThe Dreamby Theodore RoethkeElegy For Janeby Theodore RoethkeI Knew A Womanby Theodore RoethkeMy Papa's Waltzby Theodore RoethkeThe Wakingby Theodore RoethkeMarried Loveby Liz RosenbergEveby Christina Georgina RossettiMythby Muriel RukeyserReading Time: 1 Minute 26 Secondsby Muriel RukeyserWelcome To Hiroshimaby Mary Jo SalterThe Onondaga Madonnaby Duncan Campbell ScottThe Farmer's Wifeby Anne SextonThe Fury Of Overshoesby Anne SextonWith Mercy For The Greedyby Anne SextonApril, Fr. Love's Labour's Lostby William ShakespeareAubade [or, A Morning Song For Imogen], Fr. Cymbelineby William ShakespeareSonnet: 116by William ShakespeareSonnet: 129by William ShakespeareSonnet: 130by William ShakespeareSonnet: 138by William ShakespeareSonnet: 144by William ShakespeareSonnet: 33by William ShakespeareSonnet: 55by William ShakespeareSonnet: 60by William ShakespeareSonnet: 73by William ShakespeareWinter, Fr. Love's Labour's Lostby William ShakespeareAuto Wreckby Karl ShapiroOde To The West Windby Percy Bysshe ShelleyOzymandiasby Percy Bysshe ShelleyAstrophel And Stella: 7by Philip SidneyLong Time Agoby Leslie Marmon SilkoOde On A Grecian Urn Summarizedby Desmond SkirrowI Rememberby Florence Margaret SmithThe Jungle Husbandby Florence Margaret SmithOur Bog Is Doodby Florence Margaret SmithAnnunciationby Kay SmithLeaving The Motelby William Dewitt SnodgrassA Mongoloid Child Handling Shells On The Beachby Richard SnyderA Mehinaku Girl In Seclusionby Cathy SongAt The Bomb Testing Siteby William Edgar StaffordAnecdote Of The Jarby Wallace StevensThe Emperor Of Ice-creamby Wallace StevensSunday Morningby Wallace StevensSecond-hand Coatby Ruth StoneSongby John SucklingA Description Of A City Showerby Jonathan SwiftA Description Of The Morningby Jonathan SwiftBreak, Break, Breakby Alfred TennysonThe Princess: Songby Alfred TennysonThe Princess: Songby Alfred TennysonTithonusby Alfred TennysonUlyssesby Alfred TennysonDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightby Dylan ThomasFern Hillby Dylan ThomasIn My Craft Or Sullen Artby Dylan ThomasReapersby Jean ToomerSong Of The Sonby Jean ToomerLimerickby AnonymousLord Randalby AnonymousMadrigalby AnonymousSir Patrick Spensby AnonymousWestern Wind (2)by AnonymousWhat The Motorcycle Saidby Mona Van DuynUlysses Embroideredby Miriam Dworkin WaddingtonMy Father's Gardenby David WagonerA Poet Recognizing The Echo Of The Voiceby Diane WakoskiA Far Cry From Africaby Derek WalcottSongby Edmund WallerWayman In Loveby Tom WaymanFacing West From California's Shoresby Walt WhitmanI Hear America Singingby Walt WhitmanA Noiseless Patient Spiderby Walt WhitmanPresident Lincoln's Burial Hymnby Walt WhitmanSong Of Myself: 1by Walt WhitmanLove Calls Us To The Things Of This Worldby Richard WilburThe Dance (1)by William Carlos WilliamsPoem (the Rose Fades)by William Carlos WilliamsRaleigh Was Right (first Version)by William Carlos WilliamsThe Red Wheelbarrowby William Carlos WilliamsThis Is Just To Sayby William Carlos WilliamsAt The San Francisco Airportby Yvor WintersEpigramby John WolcottLines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbeyby William WordsworthLondon, 1802 (2)by William WordsworthLucy (2)by William WordsworthPoor Susan (earlier Version Of The Reverie Of Poor Susan)by William WordsworthThe Reverie Of Poor Susanby William WordsworthSonnetby William WordsworthThe World; Sonnetby William WordsworthArrangements With Earth For Three Dead Friendsby James Wright'dove-love'by Judith WrightThe Lover Showeth How He Is Forsakenby Thomas WyattAmong School Childrenby William Butler YeatsByzantiumby William Butler YeatsEaster 1916by William Butler YeatsLeda And The Swanby William Butler YeatsSailing To Byzantiumby William Butler YeatsThe Second Comingby William Butler YeatsA Woman Young And Old: 9. A Last Confessionby William Butler Yeats--Table of Poems fromPoem Finder®--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.