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I hear America singing ; The muse in the New World ; Recorders ages hence ; The commonplace ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Reconciliation ; I hear it was charged against me ; Mannahatta ; Song of myself ; Song of the open road ; The broad-ax ; On the beach at night ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking ; Facing west from California's shores ; When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; O captain! My captain! ; Dirge for two veterans ; Come up from the fields, father ; Vigil strange I kept on the field one night ; The poet ; Give me the splendid silent sun ; To a locomotive in winter ; This compost ; After the supper and talk ; The last invocation ; The untold want ; Joy, shipmate, joy / Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) --
I taste a liquor never brewed ; A bird came down the walk ; Elysium is as far ; I never saw a moor ; I never lost as much ; Indian summer ; I died for beauty ; The sky is low ; Mysteries ; I like to see it lap the miles ; The soul selects ; My life closed twice before its close ; The heart asks pleasure first ; I cannot live with you ; Of course I prayed ; There is no frigate like a book ; I had been hungry all the years ; I heard a fly buzz when I died ; There's a certain slant of light ; I measure every grief I meet ; The brain is wider than the sky ; Bring me the sunset in a cup ; The tint I cannot take is best ; I dreaded that first robin so ; After great pain a formal feeling comes ; A cemetery ; Ample makes this bed ; Although I put away his life ; The world feels dusty ; Lightly stepped a yellow star ; Go not too near a house of rose ; I reckon, when I count at all ; Because that you are going ; What soft, cherubic creatures ; Because I could not stop for death ; The mountains grow unnoticed ; Truth is as old as God ; The return ; Success is counted sweetest ; The lonely house ; Pain has an element of blank ; Renunciation ; Some keep the sabbath going to church ; Purple clover ; The bee ; Hope is the thing with feathers ; The wind tapped like a tired man ; At half-past three a single bird ; Called back / Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) --
Outwitted ; The man with the hoe ; The avengers ; Preparedness ; Lincoln, the man of the people / Markham, Edwin (1852-1940) --
Tears ; Spicewood ; Spring ecstasy ; Ownership ; A Puritan lady ; A flower of mullein / Reese, Lizette Woodworth (1856-1935) --
Exit ; Credo ; James Wetherell ; Miniver Cheevy ; Cliff Lingenhagen ; The house on the hill ; An old story ; Richard Cory ; Rewick Finzer ; Reuben Bright ; For a dead lady ; Calvary ; Vickery's mountain ; Too much coffee ; The master ; Mr. Flood's party ; George Crabbe ; Luke Havergal ; John Gorham ; How Annandale went out ; The field of glory ; The clerks ; The dark hills ; Eros Turannos ; The sheaves ; Ben Jonson entertains a man from Stratford ; New England ; The gift of God ; The prodigal son ; The pity of the leaves ; Aaron Stark ; Uncle Ananias ; Karma / Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935) --
Week end by the sea ; Widows ; Petit, the poet ; Lucinda Matlock ; Anne Rutledge ; Silence / Masters, Edgar Lee (1886-1950) --
I saw a man ; The wayfarer ; Hymn ; The blades of grass ; The book of wisdom ; The candid man ; The heart ; There was a man ; A learned man ; A youth / Crane, Stephen (1871-1900) --
The creation / Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938) --
The monk in the kitchen / Branch, Anna Hempstead (1874-19837) --
Meeting house hill ; A lady ; Solitaire ; Patterns ; Wind and silver ; Night clouds ; Free fantasia on Japanese themes ; A decade ; Lilacs ; The taxi / Lowell, Amy (1874-1925) --
The pasture ; The onset ; The tuft of flowers ; Reluctance ; Mending wall ; The cow in apple-time ; The death of the hired man ; After apple-picking ; An old man's winter night ; Birches ; Brown's descent ; The runaway ; To earthward ; Fire and ice ; Two look at two ; A sky pair , Canis Major , The peaceful shepherd ; Bereft ; Tree at my window ; West-running brook ; Once by the Pacific ; The bear ; Sand dunes ; The lovely shall be choosers ; The egg and the machine ; Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening ; Nothing gold can stay ; The road not taken ; A leaf-treader ; Lost in heaven ; Desert places ; Two tramps in mud-time ; Departmental ; A considerable speck ; Happiness makes up in height ; Come in ; From plane to plane ; Choose something like a star ; The gift outright ; Directive ; Acquainted with the night / Frost, Robert (1874-1963) --
Ten definitions of poetry ; Chicago ; Fog ; Grass ; Cool tombs ; Nocture in a deserted brickyard ; Limited ; Four preludes on playthings of the wind ; A. E. F. ; Prayers of steel ; Jazz fantasia ; Blue island intersection ; From "Smoke and steel" ; Losers ; Wind song ; Primer lesson ; Broken-face gargoyles ; Flash crimson ; Early lynching ; Precious moments ; Moist moon people ; Bundles ; Upstream ; Sunsets ; Elephants are different ; For you ; From "The people, yes" , They have yarns , The people will live on / Sandburg, Carl (1878- ) The Congo ; To a golden-haired girl in a Louisiana town ; General Willam Booth enters into heaven ; The eagle that is forgotten ; The ghosts of the buffaloes ; The traveler ; A Negro sermon:—Simon Legree ; John Brown ; The dove of new snow ; The flower-fed buffaloes ; Abraham Lincoln walks at mignight ; The Chinese nightingale ; Why I voted the socialist ticket / Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931) --
Tree in December ; Dawn has yet to ripple in ; Hymn to night / Cane, Melville (1879- ) --
Anecdote of the jar ; Peter Quince at clavier ; To the one of fictive music ; Sunday morning ; Domination of black ; Sea surface full of clouds ; Annual gaiety ; Homunculus el la belle étoile ; Two figures in dense violet light ; Gallant château ; The idea of order at Key West ; Bouquet of the belle scavoir ; Asides on the oboe ; The glass of water ; The sense of the sleight-of-hand man ; The motive for metaphor / Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) --
Metric figure ; Love song ; Danw ; Poem ; January ; Queen-Ann's-lace ; Daisy ; On gay wallpaper ; Tract ; Smell ; A good night ; The red wheelbarrow ; Flowers by the sea ; The poor ; these ; Illegitimate things ; the yachts ; The yellow season / Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) --
Night song at Amalfi ; Spring night ; I shall not care ; The long hill ; Water-lilies ; Let it be forgotten ; Wisdom ; The solitary ; The crystal gazer ; Appraisal ; On the south downs ; August nights / Teasdale, Sara (1884-1933) --
The sky ; Christmas morning ; Orpheus ; Stranger / Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1885-1941) --
The eagle and the mole ; The knight fallen on evil days ; Pegasus lost ; Madman's song ; Sanctuary ; Velvet shoes ; Escape ; Golden bough ; August ; Puritan sonnet ; Nebuchadnezzar ; Let no charitable hope ; Confession of faith ; "Desolation is a delicate thing" ; Peter and John ; Full moon ; Epitaph ; Birthday sonnet ; O virtuous light ; The pebble ; Sonnet from "One person" ; This corruptible ; Hymn to earth / Wylie, Elinor (1885-1928) --
Salutation ; Teh garden ; Sestina: Altaforte ; The river-merchant's wife ; An immorality ; A virginal ; Ballad for gloom ; Greek epigram ; Ballad of the goodly fere ; A girl ; In a station of the metro ; Dance figure ; ΔΩΡΙΑ ; Silet ; Portait d'une femme ; The return ; Envoi ; The rest ; Ité ; Canto I ; Canto II ; Hgh Selwyn Mauberley ; Yeux glauques ; "Siena mi fe'; disfecemi maremma" ; Brennbaum ; Mr. Nixon / Pound, Ezra (1885- ) --
Prayer ; Caliban in the coal mines ; The dark chamber ; Long feud ; Portrait of a machine ; To a vine-clad telegraph pole ; From "Food and drink" ; Last words before winter ; Mother Goose up-to-date , John Masefield , Walter de la Mare , Edna St. Voncent Millay , Archibald MacLeish , Edgar A. Guest / Untermeyer, Louis (1885- ) --
From "Irradiations" ; Green symphony ; London nightfall ; The skaters ; Lincoln ; A rebel ; Before Olympus / Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950) --
Merchants from Cathay ; Night ; The fawn in the snow ; Whale ; The horse thief ; Brazen tongue ; Jesse James ; Eternal masculine ; Inscription for a mirror in a deserted dwelling ; Sagacity / Benét, William Rose (1886- ) --
High tide ; Autumn ; Sinfonia domestica ; Country of no lack ; Dew on a dusty heart ; False enchantment / Untermeyer, Jean Starr (1886- ) --
Oread ; Pear tree ; Heat ; Orchard ; Song ; From "Let Zeus record" ; Lais ; From "Halcyon" ; Songs from Cyprus ; Holy satyr ; The islands ; Helen ; Lethe / H. D. (1886-1961) --
Sunday evening in the common ; Triumph of love ; Nirvana ; Love and liberation ; Earth ; This quiet dust ; The house in the green well / Wheelock, John Hall (1886- ) --
Old Christmas morning ; Lonesome water / Helton, Roy (1887- ) --
A talisman ; That harp you play so well ; To a steam roller ; England ; The fish ; Poetry ; What are years? ; The mind is an enchanting thing ; In the distrust of merits ; At rest in the blast / Moore, Marianne (1887- ) --
Compensation ; Age in prospect ; Ante mortem ; Post mortem ; Noon ; Clouds of evening ; To the stone-cutters ; Gale in April ; Apology for bad dreams ; Promise of peace ; Birth-dues ; Summer holiday ; Credo ; Pelicans ; Love the wild swan ; Night ; Shine, perishing republic ; Divinely superfluous beauty ; Hurt hawks ; Prescription of painful ends ; May-June ; The inquisitors ; Original sin / Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962) --
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; The waste land , I. The burial of the dead , II. A game of chess , III. The fire sermon , IV. Death by water , V. What the thunder said , Notes ; The hollow men ; Journey of the magi ; Ash-Wednesday ; From "Four quartets" , Burnt Norton / Eliot, T. S. (1888- ) --
Bells for John Whiteside's daughter ; Lady lost ; Blue girls ; Here lies a lady ; Janet waking ; Spiel of the three Mountebanks ; First travels of Max ; Antique harvesters ; Piazza piece ; Captain Carpenter ; Old man pondered ; Parting, without a sequel ; Prelude to an evening ; Painting: a head / Ransom, John Crowe (1888- ) --
Bread and music ; Miracles ; Morning song from "Senlin" ; The room ; The puppet dreams ; Portrait of a girl ; And in the hanging gardens— ; The road ; Annihilation ; The quarrel ; At a concert of music ; Tetélestai ; When the tree bares ; One star fell and another ; But how it came from earth ; Prelude VI ; Cloister / Aiken, Conrad (1889- ) --
Renascence ; The pear tree ; God's world ; Wild swans ; The poet and his book ; Spring ; Passer mortuus est ; What lips my lips have kissed ; Pity me not ; Departure ; I shall go back ; Elegy ; Justice denied in Massachusetts ; Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare ; On hearing a symphony of Beethoven ; Sonnet to Gath ; The cameo ; Oh, sleep forever in the Latmian cave ; See where Capella with her golden kids ; The return / Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) --
Ars poetica ; Prologue ; In my thirtieth year ; Memorial rain ; Weather ; Immortal autumn ; You, Andrew Marvell ; The end of the world ; The too-late born ; Epistle to be left in the earth ; Burying ground by the ties ; Panic ; Final chorus from "Panic" ; The reconciliation ; Speech to a crowd / MacLeish, Archibald (1892- ) --
The old mare ; Daniel Webster's horses ; The circus-postered barn ; On a night of smow ; A lady comes to an inn / Coatsworth, Elizabeth J. (1893- ) --
Former barn lot ; Immortal ; The pulse ; The distant runners ; The escape ; The whisper / Van Doren, Mark (1894- ) --
When God lets my body be ; Sunset ; Impression—IV ; La guerre , the bigness of cannon , O sweet spontaneous ; Chanson innocent ; Always before your voice ; Song ; Portrait VIII ; Sonnet ; This is the garden ; Poem, or beauty hirrts Mr. Vinal ; Item ; Since feeling is first ; Somewhere I have never travelled ; If there are any heavens ; Anyone lived in a pretty how town ; What if a much of a which of a wind / Cummings, E. E. (1894-1963) --
With child ; The enamel girl ; Solar myth ; Doomsday morning ; Try tropic ; Dilemma of the elm / Taggard, Genevieve (1894-1948) --
As one who bears beneath his neighbor's roof ; Pastoral ; Prothalamion ; The assassination ; A letter to Robert Frost / Hillyer, Robert (1895-1961) --
Medusa ; Women ; Decoration ; Statue and birds ; The alchemist ; Simple autumnal ; Cassandra ; Com, break with time ; The dream / Bogan, Louise (1897- ) --
The crows / McCord, David (1897- ) --
Rain after a vaudeville show ; Winged man ; The ballad of William Sycamore ; From "John Brown's body" , Love came by from the riversmoke , Song of the riders ; Nightmare number three / Benét, Stephen Vincent (1989-1943) --
They found him sitting in a chair ; Peoms for my daughter ; Valediction to my contemporaries ; Ask no return ; For you, my son ; The postman's bell is answered everywhere ; This is the place to wait / Gregory, Horace (1898- ) --
Repose of rivers ; To Brooklyn Bridge (prelude to "The bridge") ; Voyages: II ; Voyages: VI ; Praise for an urn ; From "The bridge" , Van Winkle , The river , The dance , Power: Cape Hatteras , the tunnel ; Royal Palm ; The air plant ; The hurricane ; At Melville's tomb ; The broken tower / Crane, Hart (1899-1932) --
Ode to the Confederate dead ; Mother and son ; The cross ; The Mediterranean ; The swimmers / Tate, Allen (1899- ) --
April mortality ; Home-coming ; Thought's end ; Death and the lady ; Twilit revelation ; Ghostly tree ; The horn ; The river in the meadows ; Country summer ; The mount ; This measure ; Bell tower ; Kingdom of heaven ; Sundown ; Night-piece ; Lullaby / Adams, Léonie (1899- ) --
John Sutter ; Time and the garden ; To a military rifle ; To the Holy Spirit / Winters, Yvor (1900- ) --
Homesick blues ; Brass spittoons ; Saturday night ; Jazz band in a Parisian cabaret ; Drum ; Florida road workers / Hughes, Langston (1902- ) --
The people vs. the people ; Portrait ; American rhapsody ; Readings, forecasts, personal guidance / Fearing, Kenneth (1902-1961) --
The daisy ; The lovers ; The white dress ; Head of Medusa ; Woman at the piano ; The tempest / Zaturenska, Marya (1902- ) --
The rhinoceros ; Adventures of Isabel ; Golly, how truth will out! ; Song to be sung by the father of infant female children ; The evening out ; The seven spiritual ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore ; The purist / Nash, Ogden (1902- ) --
Simon the Cyrenian speaks ; Three epitaphs , For my grandmother , For a virgin lady , A lady I know ; Heritage / Cullen, Countee (1903-1946) --
Old men and old women going home on the street car ; It is winter, I know ; Shot who? Jim Lane! ; Warning to one ; How she resolved to act ; Pandora and the moon ; Village noon: mid-day bells ; Unknown man in the morgue ; The book of how ; And to the young men ; The noise that time makes / Moore, Merrill (1903-1957) --
The horse chestnut tree ; The goundhog ; Seals, terns, time ; A New England bachlor ; Rainscapes, hydrangeas, roses, and singing birds / Eberhart, Richard (1904- ) --
Pondy woods ; Pro sua vita ; Letter of a mother ; History among the rocks ; Letter from a coward to a hero ; The owl ; Letter to a friend ; Aubade for hope ; Bearded oaks ; Pursuit ; When the century dragged / Warren, Robert Penn (1905- ) --
The science of the night ; When the light falls ; End of summer ; The thief / Kunitz, Stanley (1905- ) --
The day after Sunday ; Imitations of mortality ; The theology of Jonathan Edwards ; Trinity Place / McGinley, Phyllis (1905- ) --
I knew a woman ; Elegy for Jane ; the waking ; Four for Sir John Davies ; In a dark time ; Light listened ; Meditation at Oyster River / Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963) --
Lyrics ; Sonnets , So it begins. Adam is in his earth , Our doom is in our being. We began , Those former loves wherein our lives have run , Now stands our love on that still verge of day ; Permit me voyage ; Song with words ; Two songs on the economy of abundance ; In heavy mind I strayed the field ; Rapid transit / Agee, James (1909-1995) --
In memory of Kathleen ; Do the dead know what time it is? ; The deer and the snake ; Street corner college ; Like a mourningless child ; We go out together ; From my high love / Patchen, Kenneth (9011- ) --
The fish ; The imaginary iceberg ; The man-moth ; Little exercise / Bishop, Elizabeth (1911- ) --
Montana pastroal ; Coffee ; Three epigrams , I married in my youth a wife , Here lies new critic who would fox us , I had gone broke, and got set to come back / Cunningham, J. V. (1911- ) --
For Rhoda ; Tired and unhappy, you think of houses ; For the one who would take man's life in his hands ; In the naked bed, in Plato's cave ; Let us consider where the great men are / Schwartz, Delmore (1913- ) --
Ceiling unlimited ; Effort at speech between two people ; The soul and body of John Brown ; A leg in a plaster cast ; The meeting ; Madboy's song ; Holy family ; Ajanta / Rukeyser, Muriel (1913- ) --
The leg ; The puritan ; Travelogue for exiles ; the twins ; The dome of Sunday ; October 1 ; Poet / Shapiro, Karl (1913- ) --
Winter landscape ; Parting as descent ; The ball poem ; Canto amor / Berryman, John (1914- ) --
A camp in the Prussian forest ; Pilots, man your planes ; The death of the ball turret gunner ; Burning the letters ; Jews at Haifa ; A country life ; Hope ; The refugees / Jarrell, Randall (1914- ) --
Portrait of the boy as artist ; Death of a Vermont farm woman ; The triumph of death ; On a bouganvillæa vine ; On Galveston beach / Howes, Barbara (1914- ) --
In an iridescent time ; The magnet ; Vernal equinox / Stone, Ruth (1915- ) --
Kilroy ; Vale from Carthage ; Love song to Eohippus ; Blindman's bluff ; Poet / Viereck, Peter (1916- ) --
The holy innocents ; Colloquy in Black Rock ; As a plane tree by the water ; The death of the sheriff ; Where the rainbow ends ; Falling asleep over the Aeneid ; Waking in the blue ; Skunk hour / Lowell, Robert (1917- ) --
American primitive ; A pavane for the nursery ; Plain talk ; The lovers ; The tempest / Smith, William Jay (1918- ) --
"A world without objects" ; Bell speech ; Love calls us to the things of this world ; After the last bulletins ; In the smoking car ; Advice to a prophet / Wilbur, Richard (1921- ) --
Without ceremony ; Christmas morning ; Bout with burning ; Judas ; Defense rests / Miller, Vassar (1924- ) --
Ten days leave ; Song ; From "Heart's needle" , Child of my winter ; The men's room in the college chapel ; Mementos ; Lying awake / Snodgrass, W. D. (1926- ) --
You, Doctor Martin ; Some foreign letters ; Funnel ; The truth the dead know ; In the deep museum / Sexton, Anne (1928- ).