Ulysses / Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The bugle song" / Alfred Lord Tennyson
The charge of the light bridage / Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tithonus / Alfred Lord Tennyson
Crossing the bar / Alfred Lord Tennyson
My last duchess / Robert Browning
Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister / Robert Browning
Meeting at night / Robert Browning
How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning
from Song of myself / Walt Whitman
Crossing Brooklyn ferry / Walt Whitman
Bivouac on a mountain side / Walt Whitman
The last invocation / Walt Whitman
The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
Adam's curse / William Butler Yeats
The second coming / William Butler Yeats
Among school children / William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Bysantium / William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane on the day of judgement / William Butler Yeats
Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 / William Butler Yeats
Christian Berard / Gretrude Stein
She bowed to her brother / Gertrude Stein
If I told him / Gertrude Stein
The oven bird / Robert Frost
The road not taken / Robert Frost
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost
To Earthward / Robert Frost
The silken tent / Robert Frost
Cool tombs / Carl Sandburg
107 from The people, yes / Carl Sandburg
Fabliau of Florida / Wallace Stevens
Bantams in Pine-Woods / Wallace Stevens
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens
The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens
So-and-so reclining on her couch / Wallace Stevens
Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself / Wallace Stevens
Queen-Anne's-lace / William Carlos Williams
Spring and all / William Carlos Williams
To Elsie / William Carlos Williams
The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams
A sort of a song / William Carlos Williams
The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound
Cantico del sole / Ezra Pound
In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound
XLV from The cantos / Ezra Pound
from Helen in Egypt / H. D.
Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers
The purse-seine / Robinson Jeffers
The day is a poem (September 19, 1939) / Robinson Jeffers
Oh, lovely rock / Robinson Jeffers
Carmel Point / Robinson Jeffers
Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom
Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom
Painted head / John Crowe Ransom
The equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom
Dead boy / John Crowe Ransom
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot
La figlia che piange / T. S. Eliot
Journey of the magi / T. S. Eliot
Burnt Norton from Four quartets / T. S. Eliot
Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millary
First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink / Edna St. Vincent Millay
I shall forget you presently my dear / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies / Edna St. Vincent Millay
One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker
News item / Dorothy Parker
Afternoon / Dorothy Parker
A pig's-eye view of literature / Dorothy Parker
The lady's reward / Dorothy Parker
In just- / E. E. Cummings
Love is a place / E. E. Cummings
May I feel said he / E. E. Cummings
Anyone lived in a pretty how town / E. E. Cummings
As freedom is a breakfastfood / E. E. Cummings
Pity this busy monster / E. E. Cummings
The daemon / Louise Bogan
The sleeping fury / Louise Bogan
Song for the last act / Louise Bogan
An ex-judge at the bar / Melvin B. Tolson
Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson
Lambda / Melvin B. Tolson
O vocables of love / Laura (Riding) Jackson
Death as death / Laura (Riding) Jackson
Nothing so far / Laura (Riding) Jackson
Take hands / Laura (Riding) Jackson
The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes
Mother to son / Langston Hughes
The wearty blues / Langston Hughes
Good morning / Langston Hughes
Harlem (2) / Langston Hughes
The trouble with women is men / Ogden Nash
Potrait of the artist as a prematurely old man / Ogden Nash
I do, I will, I have / Ogden Nash
I must tell you about my novel / Ogden Nash
Laments for a dying language / Ogden Nash
O where are you going? / W. H. Auden
Funeral blues / W. H. Auden
As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden
In memory of W. B. Yeats / W. H. Auden
Musee des beaux arts / W. H. Auden
If I could tell you / W. H. Auden
Bagpipe music / Louise MacNeice
Conversation / Louise MacNeice
Meeting point / Louise MacNeice
The British Museum reading room / Louise MacNeice
Star-gazer / Louise MacNeice
My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke
The waking / Theodore Roethke
I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke
The sloth / Theodore Roethke
In a dark time / Theodore Roethke
The fish / Elizabeth Bishop
The map / Elizabeth Bishop
The armadillo / Elizabeth Bishop
Crusoe in England / Elizabeth Bishop
One art / Elizabeth Bishop
In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden
Homage to the empress of the blues / Robert Hayden
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) / Robert Hayden
Words in the mourning time / Robert Hayden
Night feeding / Muriel Rukeyser
from Letter to the front / Muriel Rukeyser
The poem as a mask / Muriel Rukeyser
Waiting for Icarus / Muriel Rukeyser
Ballad of orange and grape / Muriel Ruckeyser
The star in the hills / William Stafford
Traveling through the dark / William Stafford
Passing remark / William Stafford
Saint Matthew and all / William Stafford
Report to a crazy horse / William Stafford
90 North / Randall Jarrell
The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell
Seele im raum / Randall Jarrell
Next day / Randall Jarrell
The ball poem / John Berryman
4 from The dream songs / John Berryman
14 from The dream songs / John Berryman
22 from The dream songs / John Berryman
"Sole watchman" from Eleven addresses to the lord / John Berryman
And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas
Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred / Dylan Thomas
In my craft or sullen art / Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
Skunk hour / Robert Lowell
Home after three months away / Robert Lowell
"To speak of woe that is in marriage" / Robert Lowell
For the union dead / Robert Lowell
A song in the front yard / Gwendolyn Brooks
Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
The boy died in my alley / Gwendolyn Brooks
Speech to the young / Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry, a natural thing / Robert Duncan
The structure of rime 1 / Robert Duncan
Often I am permitted to return to a meadow / Robert Duncan
The sentinels / Robert Duncan
Places, loved ones / Philip Larkin
The Whitsun weddings / Philip Larkin
Wild oats / Philip Larkin
This be the verse / Philip Larkin
The old fools / Philip Larkin
Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov
The secret / Denise Levertov
Talking to grief / Denise Levertov
A woman alone / Denise Levertov
Her sadness / Denise Levertov
A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg
Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara
Poem (hate is only one of many responses) / Frank O'Hara
The day Lady died / Frank O'Hara
Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) / Frank O'Hara
The truth the dead know / Anne Sexton
The operation / Anne Sexton
For my lover, returning to his wife / Anne Sexton
Rumpelstiltskin / Anne Sexton
The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane / Etheridge Knight
Belly song / Etheridge Knight
Dark prophecy: I sing of shine / Etheridge Knight
The violent space / Etheridge Knight
Morning song / Sylvia Plath
I am vertical / Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath
Disc #1 includes selected poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, John Crowe Ransom, T.S. Eliot.
Disc #2 includes selected poems by Edna St. Vincent Milay, Dorothy Parker, E.E. Cummings, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Muriel Rukeyser.
Disc #3 includes selected poems by William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Duncan, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, Etheridge Knight, Sylvia Plath.