To Whistler, American / Ezra Pound --
XOPIKOE / Richard Aldington --
General William Booth enters into heaven / Nicholas Vachel Lindsay --
from Contemporania: Tenzone --
In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound --
Proof of immortality / William Carlos Williams --
from Lustra: I, III / Ezra Pound --
from Irradiations: I, II, VI, X, XI / John Gould Fletcher --
Illicit / D.H. Lawrence --
Code - Heroics / Robert Frost --
from Chicago poems: Chicago / Carl Sandburg --
Eros Turannos / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
Magi / William Butler Yeats --
To KAANON / Ezra Pound --
Coming of war: Actaeon / Ezra Pound --
from Nineteen-fourteen: Peace --
Soldier / Rupert Brooke --
Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot --
from Discordants: IV / Conrad Aiken --
Answer / Sara Teasdale --
Beethoven / John Hall Wheelock --
Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens.
Scholars / William Butler Yeats --
In memory of Bryan Lathrop / Edgar Lee Masters --
Lake isle / Ezra Pound --
from Epigrams / Rabindranath Tagore --
from Observations: La figlia che piange --
Morning at the window / T.S. Eliot --
Wave symphony / Arthur Davison Ficke --
Marriage / William Carlos Williams --
From Trench poems: Break of day in the trenches / Isaac Rosenberg --
from My people: In tall grass / Carl Sandburg --
Evening song / Sherwood Anderson --
Reciprocity / John Drinkwater --
from Figs from thistles: First fig --
Thursday / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Medicin Malgre Lui / William Carlos Williams --
Nostalgia / D.H. Lawrence --
from Propertius: IV / Ezra Pound --
Walt Whitman / Emanuel Carnevali --
Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
End of the comedy / Louis Untermeyer --
Horrid voice of science / Vachel Lindsay --
from Pecksniffiana: Fabliau of Florida --
Indigo glass in the grass --
Curtains in the house of the metaphysician --
Paltry nude starts on a spring voyage / Wallace Stevens --
Danny / Malcolm Cowley --
To W.C.W.M.D. / Alfred Kreymborg --
Atavism / Elinor Wylie --
Cubist portrait / Marjorie Allen Seiffert.
Golden fleece / Oscar Williams --
Poet at night-fall / Glenway Wescott --
from Sur ma guzzla gracile: Snow man --
Tea at the palaz of Hoon --
Of the manner of addressing clouds --
Of heaven considered as a tomb / Wallace Stevens --
Witch of Coos / Robert Frost --
Wild orchard / William Carlos Williams --
In high places / Harriet Monroe --
from Beginning and end: Knowledge / Louise Bogan --
Monody to the sound of zithers / Kay Boyle --
from Wanderings: Champs d'honneur --
Chapter heading / Ernest M. Hemingway --
Pastoral / Marion Strobel --
Static autumn / Yvor Winters --
Flower-boat / Robert Frost --
From Three songs: Thessalian / Winifred Bryher --
from Contributions: For instance / Robert McAlmon --
from Body's head: Head itself / Laura Riding Gottschalk --
Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish --
Crimson tent / John Dos Passos --
At Melville's tomb / Hart Crane --
from Blue Juniata: Streets of air / Malcolm Cowley --
To a seaman dead on land / Kay Boyle --
In the beginning was a word / Robert Graves --
Contemporary / Hortense Flexner --
O Carib isle! / Hart Crane --
from Things known: Under the hill / Richard Eberhart --
Hoar frost / Morton Dauwen Zabel.
from Published correspondence: Espistle to the Rapalloan / Archibald MacLeish --
Marching song / George Dillon --
Sonnet [Women have loved before...] / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
from Words on the wind: Fruit of loneliness / May Sarton --
Kansas City west bottoms / Edward Dahlberg --
Hypocrite swift / Louise Bogan --
Sailor / Langston Hughes --
from Sonnets of the blood I, II, IV, VII, IX / Allen Tate --
Kansas boy / Ruth Lechlitner --
Extract / Paul Frederic Bowles --
Winter night / Cecil Day Lewis --
Fearful symmetry / Basil Bunting --
Watershed / Robert Penn Warren --
from Part of a novel, part of a poem, part of a play: Steeplejack --
Enrich my resignation / Hart Crane --
Winter sketches / Charles Reznikoff --
from Magnetic mountain: Condemned / Cecil Day Lewis --
from "That's the American style": 4th of July / William Carlos Williams --
Empty dwelling places / Kenneth Patchen --
from Local habitation: On inhabiting an orange / Josephine Miller --
At Woodward's gardens / Robert Frost --
Night-music / Muriel Rukeyser --
"Long live the weeds" / Theodore Roethke --
Farewell / Harriet Monroe.
Journey to Iceland / W.H. Auden --
We lying by seasand / Dylan Thomas --
Poem [You, my photographer] / Delmore Schwartz --
My love was light / Thomas Lanier Williams --
from Two mornings and two evenings: Paris, 7 A.M. --
From the country to the city --
Song / Elizabeth Bishop --
Past midnight / Edmund Wilson --
Bearded oaks / Robert Penn Warren --
At Carmel highlands / Janet Lewis --
[In the naked bed, in Plaot's cave / Delmore Schwartz --
Four poems / Dylan Thomas --
Marginal field / Stephen Spender --
Sense of the sleight-of-hand man / Wallace Stevens --
Sonnet [The crumbled rock of London] / Roy Fuller --
from Stanzas in meditation I, IV, V, VI / Gertrude Stein --
Perdita / Louis MacNeice --
Raleigh was right / William Carlos Williams --
[anyone lived in a pretty how town] / E.E. Cummings --
Things / Walter de la Mare --
Antiques / Walter de la Mare --
University / Edwin Muir --
Bloody sire / Robinson Jeffers --
Memory / Babette Deutsch --
Immanent / Walter de la Mare --
from Conscript: III / Peter De Vries --
To Violet / Basil bunting --
Henry James at Newport / Weldon Kees --
Upon the heavenly scarp / A.M. Klein --
Dark morning / Thomas James Merton --
Springboard / Louis MacNeice --
[what if a much of a which of a wind] / E.E. Cummings.
Sigmund Freud / Howard Nemerov --
Emancipators / Randall Jarrell --
Tennis trophy / John Frederick Nims --
Dolor / Theodore Roethke --
Fable of the ant and the word / Mary Barnard --
First snow on an airfield / John Ciardi --
Losses / Randall Jarrell --
Poem in October / Dylan Thomas --
Part for the whole / Robert Francis --
Higher empiricism / Francis C. Golffing --
Poem for my twentieth birthday / Kenneth Koch --
from "Theory of vision" - The green eye / James Merrill --
Return / Theodore Roethke --
Night of battle / Yvor Winters --
Motive / Muriel Rukeyser --
Broken bowl / James Merrill --
Love poem / John Frederick Nims --
Niagara Falls / Alan Dugan --
Schoolyard in April / Kenneth Koch --
"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious" / Paul Goodman --
Dirty word / Karl Shapiro --
Fat man in the mirror / Robert Lowell --
[if (touched by love's own secret) we, like homing] / E.E. Cummings --
Party / Margaret Avison --
Ultimate poem is abstract / Wallace Stevens --
Small prayer / Weldon Kees --
Return of the goddess Artemis / Robert Graves --
Death of a toad / Richard Wilbur --
from The metaphor - 4.Terror and love as fugitives / Henry Rago --
Traveler / John Berryman --
Lear / William Carlos Williams --
Sleeping beauty: variation of the prince / Randall Jarrell --
Children of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks --
from Things of August: 1, 3, 8 / Wallace Stevens.
Self unsatisfied runs everywhere / Delmore Schwartz --
Poem / Babette Deutsch --
Little ode / Paul Goodman --
"World without objects is a sensible emptiness" / Richard Wilbur --
Alceste in the wilderness / Anthony Hecht --
Beauty of things / Robinson Jeffers --
To an anthologist / Theodore Roethke --
Hotel de L'Univers et Portugal / James Merrill --
Foreboding / Robert Graves --
Instrument / Kathleen Raine --
Nijinsky / Parker Tyler --
Shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden --
After the Persian / Louise Bogan --
Then the ermine: / Marianne Moore --
from Paterson, Book V - The river of heaven / William Carlos Williams --
Sestina in time of winter / Patrick Anderson --
From the embassy / Robert Graves --
Illiterate / William Meredith --
Prison song / Alan Dugan --
World of water / E.L. Mayo --
Marginalia / Richard Wilbur --
Alphabet / Karl Shapiro --
Horatian ode / Joseph Warren Beach --
Aging / Randall Jarrell --
Chez Jane / Frank O'Hara --
Island in the evening / Fairfield Porter --
High fidelity / Thom Gunn --
Landed: a valentine / Richard Howard --
Bachelor / William Meredith --
from Cycle of six lyrics - O pearl and breasted world / George Barker --
Permanently / Kenneth Koch --
Birth of Venus / Constance Urdang --
Metamorphosis / Sylvia Plath --
from Inscriptions on Chinese paintings / Witter Bynner.
Metaphysical / Robert Fitzgerald --
Approach to Theves / Stanley Kunitz --
Unsettles motorcyclist's vision of his death / Thom Gunn --
from King Midas - The King's speech / Howard Moss --
Wreaths / Geoffrey Hill --
Mark of resistance / Adrienne Rich --
Morning letter / Robert Duncan --
Holding the mirror up to nature / Howard Nemerov --
In time of gold / H.D. --
Shepherd / William Stafford --
Mirror / James Merrill --
Demands of the muse / Vernon Watkins --
To the snake / Denise Levertov --
Skykomish River running / Richard F. Hugo --
Close-up / A.R. Ammons --
Fire at Alexandria / T. Weiss --
Death of myth-making / Sylvia Plath --
from The bean eaters - We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Spider / Richard Eberhart --
Returning to roots of first feeling / Robert Duncan --
Nude descending a staircase / X.J. Kennedy --
In favor of one's time / Frank O'Hara --
Population / George Oppen --
Gravelly run / A.R. Ammons --
Inside the river / James Dickey --
[how many moments must (amazing each] / E.E. Cummings --
Illustration - a footnote / Denise Levertov --
Blessing / James Wright --
For the passing of Groucho's pursuer / John Hollander --
Notes for a history of poetry / David Daiches --
Astronomers of Mont Blanc / Edgar Bowers --
Stars over the Dordogne / Sylvia Plath --