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- catalog contributor b7836525.
- catalog created "[1971]".
- catalog date "1971".
- catalog date "[1971]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1971]".
- catalog description "2. ALLUSION -- Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead / J.V. Cunningham -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats -- Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton / John Dryden -- The tortoise / Cid Corman.".
- catalog description "2. BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS TO SING : Bonny Barbara Allan / Anonymous -- Still Growing / Anonymous -- Squire and milkmaid, or, Blackberry fold / Anonymous -- Plane wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) / Woddy Guthrie -- Good mornin', Blues / Anonymous -- Fear no more the heat o' th' sun / William Shakespeare -- The year's at the Spring / Robert Browning -- The unquiet grave / Anonymous -- The Cherry-Tree carol / Anonymous -- Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous.".
- catalog description "2. SUBJECT, THEME AND TONE : The television / Anne Stevenson -- The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- To a locomotive in Winter / Walt Whitman -- I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson -- The fall of the House of Usher / Reed Whittemore -- to Lucasta / Richard Lovelace -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen.".
- catalog description "2. THE SONNET AND OTHER FIXED FORMS : My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare -- Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part / Michael Drayton -- Grief / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Cloë / George Granville, Lord Lansdowne -- You serve the best wines always, my dear Sir / Martial -- Of treason / Sir, John Harrington -- Antiquary / John Donne -- Impromptu on Charles II / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- An empty house / Alexander Pope -- Her whole life is an epigram / William Blake -- a politician / E.E. Cummings -- Visiting poet / John Frederick Nims -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Petit, the poet / Edgar Lee Masters.".
- catalog description "3. FREE VERSE: Six variations (part iii) Denise Levertov -- Buffalo Bill's / E.E. Cummings -- Victory comes late / Emily Dickinson -- The dance / William Carlos Williams -- Upon a child that died / Robert Herrick -- Poem ("the only response") / Saint Geraud -- The heart / Stephen Crane -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- First practice / Gary Gildner.".
- catalog description "3. LYRIC AND DIDACTIC : For a lady I know / Countee Cullen -- Art / Ambrose Bierce -- 4. Mask and Irony : Another grace for a child / Robert Herrick -- Oh no / Robert Creeley -- The workbox / Thomas Hardy -- Letter to accompany a submission of verse to Carave / Knute Skinner.".
- catalog description "3. RIME : Julius Caesar / Anonymous -- The angel that presided o'er my birth / William Blake -- The hippopotamus / Hilaire Belloc -- Song for strangers in Wales / John Malcolm Brinnin -- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Opus 6 / Emanuel Morgan.".
- catalog description "4. READING POEMS ALOUD : For Review and Further Study -- It was a lover and his lass / William Shakespeare -- Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick -- Rivers arise; whether thou be the son / John Milton -- Rondeau ("Jenny kissed me") / Leigh Hunt -- With rue my heart is laden / A.E. Houseman -- Winter ocean / John Updike -- Lullaby / Bert Meyers -- To close / William Carlos Williams.".
- catalog description "ALTERNATIVES: The Poet 's Revisions : The old pensioner / William Butler Yeats -- The lamentation of the old pensioner / William Butler Yeats -- My son, my executioner / Donald Hall -- Translation : La Guitarra (Guitar) / Federico Garc ́́ia Lorca -- Vorgefühl (Foreboding) / Rainer Maria rilke -- Odes I / Horace -- Recueillement (Meditations) / Charles Baudelaire -- WHAT IS POETRY? : Air poetica / Archbald Macleish.".
- catalog description "ANTHOLOGY : Western wind / Anonymous -- I have a young sister / Anonymous -- Edward / Anonymous -- Sir Patrick Spence / Anonymous -- The three ravens / Anonymous -- The twa corbies / Anonymous -- The complaint of Chaucer to his purse / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- With how and steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies / Sir Philip Sidney -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe.".
- catalog description "CONCRETE POETRY : Bird-singing stream / Wang Wei -- The horizon of Holland / Ian Hamilton Finlay -- She loves me / Emmett Williams -- Siesta of a Hungarian snake / Edwin Morgan -- Concrete cat / Dorthi Charles.".
- catalog description "Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov -- The cauliflower / John Haines -- In Bertram's garden / Donald Justice -- Kore / Robert Creeley -- In back of the real / Allen Ginsberg -- The midnight snack / James Merrill -- The operation / W.D. Snodgrass -- For the anniversary of my death / W.S. Merwin -- A blessing / James Wright -- The insusceptibles / Adreinne Rich -- Milton by firelight / Gary Snyder -- Morning song / Sylvia Plath -- Before bed / Keith Waldrop -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / LeRoi Jones -- Have you ever had a witch bloom like a highway / Richard Brautigan -- Subterranean homesick blues / Bob Dylan -- Flight / James Tate.".
- catalog description "ENTRANCES -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Houseman -- Catch / Robert Frances -- In the morning, in the morning / A.E. Houseman -- It was not death, for I stood up / Emily Dickenson -- Hair poem / Saint Geraud -- Not marble nor the gilded monuments / William Shakespeare.".
- catalog description "Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- For I will consider my cat Jeoffry / Christopher Smart -- Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell / William Bake -- The sick rose / William Bake -- The tyger / William Bake -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth -- Ode: intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood / William Wordsworth -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Lines inscribed upon a cup formed from a skull / George Gordon, Lord Byron.".
- catalog description "England in 1819 / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Oft have I seen at some cathedral door / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister / Robert Browning -- The Berg / Herman Melville -- I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman -- The City dead-house / Walt Whitman -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith -- The woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- I started early -- took my dog / Emily Dickinson -- The soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson -- Channel firing / Thomas Hardy -- The convergence of the twain / Thomas Hardy -- During wind and rain / Thomas Hardy.".
- catalog description "FIGURES OF SPEECH : 1. Why Speak Figuratively? -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- 2. Metaphor and Simile: From the wash the laundress sends / A.E. Houseman -- Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tenmyson -- To see a world in a grain of sand / William Blake -- Metaphors / Sylvia Plaith -- It dropped so low -- in my regard / Emily Dickinson -- There was a man of double deed / Anonymous -- A civil servant / Robert Graves -- Very like a whale / Ogden Nash.".
- catalog description "FREEDOM AND PATTERN : 1. PATTERNS OF SOUND AND RHYTHM -- I remember / Stevie Smith -- On some South African novelists / Roy Campbell -- This living hand, now warm and capable / John Keats -- Song ("Go and catch a falling star") / John Donne -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- Proud Maisie / Sir Walter Scott -- Yield / Ronald Gross -- Miss Farrow just smiled / Ronald Gross.".
- catalog description "For Review and Further Study -- As bad as a mile / Philip Larkin -- The Lady who offers her looking glass to Venus / Matthew Prior -- Cupid and my Campaspe played / John Lyly -- To Daisies, not to shut so soon / Robert Herrrick -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls / E.E. Cummings.".
- catalog description "For Review and Further Study -- Fa, mi, fa, te, la, mi / Anonymous -- The Silver swan, who living had no note / Anonymous -- Rose-cheeked Laura, come / Thomas Campian -- Swinging chick / Ern Alpaugh and Dewey G. Pell -- Song: The figure in the carpet / James Camp -- Suzanne / Leonard Cohen.".
- catalog description "For Review and Further Study -- You all know the story of the other woman / Anne Sexton -- What guile is this, that those her golden tresses / Edmund Spenser -- Delay / Elizabeth Jennings -- The definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- The fortunes of war, I tell you plain / Anonymous -- On a waiter / Davie McCord -- A divine image / William Blake -- Utopians / Keith Waldrop -- I sing of a maiden that makeless / Anonymous -- This skin / Knute Skinner -- Epitaph for a light lady / John Frederick Nims -- Another / John Frederick Nims -- Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? / William Shakespeare.".
- catalog description "For Review and Further Study : Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Metamorphosis / Wallace Stevens -- As I was lying on the green / Anonymous -- Voyages (II) / Hart Crane -- My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth -- Mutability / William Wordsworth -- Scottsboro / Anonymous.".
- catalog description "For Review and Further Study : Johnny, I hardly knew ye / Anonymous -- Secretary / Ted Hughes -- Life, friends, is boring, We must not say so / John Berryman -- The Chimney Sweeper / William Blake -- On the late massacre in Piemont / John Milton -- On Stella's Birthday / Jonathan Swift -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke.".
- catalog description "For Review and Further Study: Thirteen ways of looking at a black bird / Wallace Stevens -- Atticus / Alexander Pope -- Remembering Kevan MacKenzie / Henry Taylor -- in just- / E.E. Cummings -- Gesture / Donald Finkel -- La chute / Charles Olson.".
- catalog description "For review and further study : Departmental / Robert Frost -- Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- Lo, as careful housewife runs to catch / William Shakespeare -- Omen of victory / Mina Loy -- Night crow / Theodore Roethke -- A burnt ship / John Donne -- The silken tent / Robert Frost -- A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman.".
- catalog description "Full fathom five thy father lies / William Shakespeare -- When daisies pied and violets blue / William Shakespeare -- When icicles hang by the wall / William Shakespeare -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare -- Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth / William Shakespeare -- That time of year thou mayst in me behold / William Shakespeare.".
- catalog description "IMAGERY: In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound -- The piercing chill I feel / Taniguchi Buson -- Study of two peas / Wallace Stevens -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- Poem ("as the cat") / William Carolos Williams -- God's hands / Robert Herrick -- from Hitch Haiku / Snyder Gary -- Haiku Ambulance / Richard Brautigan -- Heat / H.D.".
- catalog description "KNOWING EXCELLENCE : Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- On the vanity of Earthly greatness / Arthur Gutterman -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Heraclitus / William Cory -- Elegy on Herakleitos / Dudley Fitts -- O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman -- The little Black boy / William Blake -- Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art / John Keats -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- For Review and Further Study : Rhapsody on a windy night / T.S. Eliot -- Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin / Mark Alexander Boyd -- Epitaph / J.V. Cunningham -- The preface / Edward Taylor -- Get up! / Joseph Skipsey -- Pat's opinion of flags / Fred Emerson Brooks -- Japan / Anthony Hecht.".
- catalog description "Love / George Herbert -- Go lovely rose / Edmond Waller -- When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- To the memory of Mr. Oldham / John Dryden -- A paraphrase from the French / Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset -- The day of judgment / Jonathan Swift -- Epigram Engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to his royal highness / Alexander Pope.".
- catalog description "METER : On the imprint of the first English edition of The works of Max Beerbohm / Max Beerbohm -- On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia / Walter Savage Landor -- For Review and Further Study -- They flee from me that sometime did me sekë / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Inversnaid / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Dark house, by which once more I stand / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- To freight cars in the air / William Carlos Williams -- Hot Sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air / George Peele -- Beat! Beat! Drums! / Walt Whitman -- The Gothic looks solemn / John Keats.".
- catalog description "MYTH : TRADITIONAL MYTH : Barvarian gentians / D.H. Lawrence -- The Oxen / Thomas Hardy -- The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth -- Sonnet : To science / Edgar Allan Poe -- PERSONAL MYTH : The Second Coming / William Butler Yeats -- A charm against the toothache / John Heath-Stubbs -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- Archtypes : The Rimer / Anonymous -- Le belle dame sans merci / John Keats -- For Review and Further Study : Lycidas / John Milton -- I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra / Ishmael Reed.".
- catalog description "OTHER FIGURES : The wind / James Stephens -- Elegy, written with his own hand in the tower before his execution / Chidiock Tichborne -- The pulley / George Herbert -- Tree at my window / Robert Frost -- On a girdle / Edmond Waller -- A hymn to God the Father / John Donne.".
- catalog description "PARODY : My garden / T.E. Brown -- My garden / J.A. Lindon -- What, still alive at twenty-two / Hugh Kingsmill -- The sun has long been set / William Wordsworth -- A sonnet / J.K. Stephen -- Mending Sump / Kenneth Koch -- For Review and Further Study : Little Libbie / Julia A. Moore -- Henry King / Hilaire Belloc -- Thoughts on capital punishment / Rod McKuen -- Traveling through the dark / William Stafford -- Mary and her dead canary / Alexander Kerr, Litt D. -- Janet waking / John Crowe Ransom -- Spring and Fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins.".
- catalog description "POEMS FOR THE EYE: WORD SHAPES -- Easter wings / George Herbert -- Skeleton key / John Hollander -- Death of the day / Walter Savage Landor -- R-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / E.E. Cummings -- Stone gullets / May Swenson -- Ascension hymn / Henry Vaughan -- Upon Prew his maid / Robert Herrick.".
- catalog description "Pied Beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The windhoover / Gerard Maile Hopkins -- The old filthy beer pail / Katie V. Hall -- The harlot's house / Oscar Wilde -- Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Houseman -- Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop / William Butler Yeats -- Easter 1916 / William Butler Yeats -- Long legged fly / William Butler Yeats -- The Magi / William Butler Yeats -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson.".
- catalog description "RHYTHM : 1. STRESSES AND PAUSES -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Never again would bird's song be the same / Robert Frost -- Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears / Ben Jonson -- At the altar / Robert Lowell -- With serving still / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Résumé / Dorothy Parker.".
- catalog description "SAYING AND SUGGESTING : 1. DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION -- London / William Blake -- A short song of congratulation / Samuel Johnson -- Disillusionment of 10 o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- Upon Julia's voice / Robert Herrick -- The white stallion / Guy Owen -- Motto for a sun dial / J.V. Cunningham -- The jewel stairs' grievance / Ezra Pound.".
- catalog description "SONG : 1. SINGING AND SAYING : To Celia / Ben Johnson -- The Cruel mother / Anonymous -- Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting / Anonymous -- Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Richard Cory / Paul Simon -- On top of Old Smoky / Anonymous -- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Houseman.".
- catalog description "SOUND: 1. SOUND AS MEANING -- Who goes with Fergus? / William Butler Yeats -- Rain / Emanuel diPasquale -- The watch / Frances Cornford -- How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted / Charles Reznikoff -- 2. ALLITERATION and ASSONANCE : Lullay / John Skelton -- The splendor falls on castle walls / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Eight o'clock / A.E. Houseman -- Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton / Alexander Pope.".
- catalog description "SPEECH AND POETIC DICTION : Reason / Josephine Miles -- Wheesht, wheesht / Hugh MacDiarmid -- Cobb would have caught it / Robert Fitzgerald -- The ruined maid / Thomas Hardy -- The fury of aerial bombardment / Richard Eberhart.".
- catalog description "SYMBOLE AND ALLEGORY : SYMBOL -- The Boston Evening Transcript / T.S. Eliot -- The lightning is a yellow fork / Emily Dickinson -- I heard a fly buzz -- when I died / Emily Dickinson -- The boarder / Louis Simpson -- Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy -- ALLEGORY: The parable of the good Seed / Matthew 13:24-30 -- What is our life? A play of passion / Sir Walter Raleigh -- You that with allegory's curious frame / Sir Philip Sidney -- Redemption / George Herbert.".
- catalog description "TELLING GOOD FROM BAD : IMPRECISIONS : O moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face / Anonymous -- Life / Grace Treasone -- Madam life's a piece in bloom / William Ernest Henley -- My wife is my shirt / Stephen Troop -- SENTIMENTALITY : John Anderson my jo, John / Robert Burns -- Love poems / John Frederick -- Betrothal / J.W. Scholl -- The bull calf / Irving Layton -- The old arm-chair / Eliza Cook -- Piano / D.H. Lawrence -- Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean / Alfred, Lord Tennyson.".
- catalog description "THE PERSON IN THE POEM : 1. THE POET'S "I" -- The end of the world / Archibald MacLeish -- Sir, say no more / Trumbull Stickney -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth -- The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden -- Resurrection song / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams.".
- catalog description "The Listeners / Walter De La Mare -- Finnegan's wake / Anonymous -- John Henry / Anonymous -- Design / Robert Frost -- Provide, provide / Robert Frost -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens -- Peter Quince at the clavier / Wallace Stevens -- I hear an army charging upon the land / James Joyce -- Danse Russe / William Carlos Williams -- To awaken an old lady / William Carlos Williams.".
- catalog description "The brides / A.D. Hope -- Dolor / Theodore Roethke / Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartz / Theodore Roethke -- The dirty word / Karl Shapiro -- Get the gasworks / David Ignatow -- The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell -- Naming of parts / Henry Reed -- Written on the stub of the first paycheck / William Stafford -- After the funeral / Dylan Thomas -- Recruiting drive / Charles Causley -- Skunk hour / Robert Lowell -- American primitive / William Jay Smith -- The Goose fish / Howard Nemerov -- Junk / Richard Wilbur -- Church going / Philip Larkin -- Cherry log road / James Dickey.".
- catalog description "The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Ezra Pound -- The eye / Robinson Jeffers -- A grave / Marianne Moore -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- Sweeney among the nightingales / T.S. Eliot -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom -- All in green when my love riding / E.E. Cummings -- when serpents bargain for the right to squirm / E.E. Cummings -- "next to of course god America I" / E.E. Cummings -- Black tambourine / Hart Crane -- At the San Francisco airport / Yvor Winters -- Dirge / Kenneth Fearing -- Dream deferred / Langston Hughes -- Saturday's child / Countee Cullen -- In Westminster Abbey / John Betjeman -- Legal fiction / William Empson -- As I walked out one evening / W.H. Auden -- Mus ́ee des beaux arts / W.H. Auden.".
- catalog description "There is a garden in her face / Thomas Campian -- A lecture upon the shadow / John Donne -- A valedicition : forbidding mourning / John Donne -- Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You / John Donne -- To everlasting oblivion / John Marston -- Madrigal / William Drummond of Hawthornden -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick.".
- catalog description "WORD ORDER : anyone lived in a pretty how town / E.E. Cummings -- Carrion comfort / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Age / Walter Savage Landor.".
- catalog description "WORDS AND THEIR ORDER : 1. THE RIGHT WORD -- Mother, I cannot mind my wheel, Walter Savage Landor -- In the elegy season / Richard Wilbur -- Mouse's nest / John Clare -- The last word / Peter Davison.".
- catalog extent "xlvi, 480 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Introduction to poetry.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Introduction to poetry.".
- catalog issued "1971".
- catalog issued "[1971]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston, Little, Brown".
- catalog relation "Introduction to poetry.".
- catalog subject "808.1".
- catalog subject "American poetry.".
- catalog subject "English poetry.".
- catalog subject "PN1042 .K39 1971".
- catalog subject "Poetics.".
- catalog subject "Poetry Study and teaching.".
- catalog tableOfContents "2. ALLUSION -- Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead / J.V. Cunningham -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats -- Lines printed under the engraved portrait of Milton / John Dryden -- The tortoise / Cid Corman.".
- catalog tableOfContents "2. BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS TO SING : Bonny Barbara Allan / Anonymous -- Still Growing / Anonymous -- Squire and milkmaid, or, Blackberry fold / Anonymous -- Plane wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) / Woddy Guthrie -- Good mornin', Blues / Anonymous -- Fear no more the heat o' th' sun / William Shakespeare -- The year's at the Spring / Robert Browning -- The unquiet grave / Anonymous -- The Cherry-Tree carol / Anonymous -- Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous.".
- catalog tableOfContents "2. SUBJECT, THEME AND TONE : The television / Anne Stevenson -- The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- To a locomotive in Winter / Walt Whitman -- I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson -- The fall of the House of Usher / Reed Whittemore -- to Lucasta / Richard Lovelace -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen.".
- catalog tableOfContents "2. THE SONNET AND OTHER FIXED FORMS : My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare -- Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part / Michael Drayton -- Grief / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Cloë / George Granville, Lord Lansdowne -- You serve the best wines always, my dear Sir / Martial -- Of treason / Sir, John Harrington -- Antiquary / John Donne -- Impromptu on Charles II / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- An empty house / Alexander Pope -- Her whole life is an epigram / William Blake -- a politician / E.E. Cummings -- Visiting poet / John Frederick Nims -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- Petit, the poet / Edgar Lee Masters.".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. FREE VERSE: Six variations (part iii) Denise Levertov -- Buffalo Bill's / E.E. Cummings -- Victory comes late / Emily Dickinson -- The dance / William Carlos Williams -- Upon a child that died / Robert Herrick -- Poem ("the only response") / Saint Geraud -- The heart / Stephen Crane -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- First practice / Gary Gildner.".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. LYRIC AND DIDACTIC : For a lady I know / Countee Cullen -- Art / Ambrose Bierce -- 4. Mask and Irony : Another grace for a child / Robert Herrick -- Oh no / Robert Creeley -- The workbox / Thomas Hardy -- Letter to accompany a submission of verse to Carave / Knute Skinner.".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. RIME : Julius Caesar / Anonymous -- The angel that presided o'er my birth / William Blake -- The hippopotamus / Hilaire Belloc -- Song for strangers in Wales / John Malcolm Brinnin -- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Opus 6 / Emanuel Morgan.".
- catalog tableOfContents "4. READING POEMS ALOUD : For Review and Further Study -- It was a lover and his lass / William Shakespeare -- Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick -- Rivers arise; whether thou be the son / John Milton -- Rondeau ("Jenny kissed me") / Leigh Hunt -- With rue my heart is laden / A.E. Houseman -- Winter ocean / John Updike -- Lullaby / Bert Meyers -- To close / William Carlos Williams.".
- catalog tableOfContents "ALTERNATIVES: The Poet 's Revisions : The old pensioner / William Butler Yeats -- The lamentation of the old pensioner / William Butler Yeats -- My son, my executioner / Donald Hall -- Translation : La Guitarra (Guitar) / Federico Garc ́́ia Lorca -- Vorgefühl (Foreboding) / Rainer Maria rilke -- Odes I / Horace -- Recueillement (Meditations) / Charles Baudelaire -- WHAT IS POETRY? : Air poetica / Archbald Macleish.".
- catalog tableOfContents "ANTHOLOGY : Western wind / Anonymous -- I have a young sister / Anonymous -- Edward / Anonymous -- Sir Patrick Spence / Anonymous -- The three ravens / Anonymous -- The twa corbies / Anonymous -- The complaint of Chaucer to his purse / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- With how and steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies / Sir Philip Sidney -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe.".
- catalog tableOfContents "CONCRETE POETRY : Bird-singing stream / Wang Wei -- The horizon of Holland / Ian Hamilton Finlay -- She loves me / Emmett Williams -- Siesta of a Hungarian snake / Edwin Morgan -- Concrete cat / Dorthi Charles.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov -- The cauliflower / John Haines -- In Bertram's garden / Donald Justice -- Kore / Robert Creeley -- In back of the real / Allen Ginsberg -- The midnight snack / James Merrill -- The operation / W.D. Snodgrass -- For the anniversary of my death / W.S. Merwin -- A blessing / James Wright -- The insusceptibles / Adreinne Rich -- Milton by firelight / Gary Snyder -- Morning song / Sylvia Plath -- Before bed / Keith Waldrop -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / LeRoi Jones -- Have you ever had a witch bloom like a highway / Richard Brautigan -- Subterranean homesick blues / Bob Dylan -- Flight / James Tate.".
- catalog tableOfContents "ENTRANCES -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Houseman -- Catch / Robert Frances -- In the morning, in the morning / A.E. Houseman -- It was not death, for I stood up / Emily Dickenson -- Hair poem / Saint Geraud -- Not marble nor the gilded monuments / William Shakespeare.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- For I will consider my cat Jeoffry / Christopher Smart -- Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell / William Bake -- The sick rose / William Bake -- The tyger / William Bake -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth -- Ode: intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood / William Wordsworth -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Lines inscribed upon a cup formed from a skull / George Gordon, Lord Byron.".
- catalog tableOfContents "England in 1819 / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Oft have I seen at some cathedral door / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister / Robert Browning -- The Berg / Herman Melville -- I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman -- The City dead-house / Walt Whitman -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith -- The woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- I started early -- took my dog / Emily Dickinson -- The soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson -- Channel firing / Thomas Hardy -- The convergence of the twain / Thomas Hardy -- During wind and rain / Thomas Hardy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "FIGURES OF SPEECH : 1. Why Speak Figuratively? -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- 2. Metaphor and Simile: From the wash the laundress sends / A.E. Houseman -- Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tenmyson -- To see a world in a grain of sand / William Blake -- Metaphors / Sylvia Plaith -- It dropped so low -- in my regard / Emily Dickinson -- There was a man of double deed / Anonymous -- A civil servant / Robert Graves -- Very like a whale / Ogden Nash.".
- catalog tableOfContents "FREEDOM AND PATTERN : 1. PATTERNS OF SOUND AND RHYTHM -- I remember / Stevie Smith -- On some South African novelists / Roy Campbell -- This living hand, now warm and capable / John Keats -- Song ("Go and catch a falling star") / John Donne -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- Proud Maisie / Sir Walter Scott -- Yield / Ronald Gross -- Miss Farrow just smiled / Ronald Gross.".
- catalog tableOfContents "For Review and Further Study -- As bad as a mile / Philip Larkin -- The Lady who offers her looking glass to Venus / Matthew Prior -- Cupid and my Campaspe played / John Lyly -- To Daisies, not to shut so soon / Robert Herrrick -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls / E.E. Cummings.".
- catalog tableOfContents "For Review and Further Study -- Fa, mi, fa, te, la, mi / Anonymous -- The Silver swan, who living had no note / Anonymous -- Rose-cheeked Laura, come / Thomas Campian -- Swinging chick / Ern Alpaugh and Dewey G. Pell -- Song: The figure in the carpet / James Camp -- Suzanne / Leonard Cohen.".
- catalog tableOfContents "For Review and Further Study -- You all know the story of the other woman / Anne Sexton -- What guile is this, that those her golden tresses / Edmund Spenser -- Delay / Elizabeth Jennings -- The definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- The fortunes of war, I tell you plain / Anonymous -- On a waiter / Davie McCord -- A divine image / William Blake -- Utopians / Keith Waldrop -- I sing of a maiden that makeless / Anonymous -- This skin / Knute Skinner -- Epitaph for a light lady / John Frederick Nims -- Another / John Frederick Nims -- Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? / William Shakespeare.".
- catalog tableOfContents "For Review and Further Study : Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Metamorphosis / Wallace Stevens -- As I was lying on the green / Anonymous -- Voyages (II) / Hart Crane -- My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth -- Mutability / William Wordsworth -- Scottsboro / Anonymous.".
- catalog tableOfContents "For Review and Further Study : Johnny, I hardly knew ye / Anonymous -- Secretary / Ted Hughes -- Life, friends, is boring, We must not say so / John Berryman -- The Chimney Sweeper / William Blake -- On the late massacre in Piemont / John Milton -- On Stella's Birthday / Jonathan Swift -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke.".
- catalog tableOfContents "For Review and Further Study: Thirteen ways of looking at a black bird / Wallace Stevens -- Atticus / Alexander Pope -- Remembering Kevan MacKenzie / Henry Taylor -- in just- / E.E. Cummings -- Gesture / Donald Finkel -- La chute / Charles Olson.".
- catalog tableOfContents "For review and further study : Departmental / Robert Frost -- Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- Lo, as careful housewife runs to catch / William Shakespeare -- Omen of victory / Mina Loy -- Night crow / Theodore Roethke -- A burnt ship / John Donne -- The silken tent / Robert Frost -- A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Full fathom five thy father lies / William Shakespeare -- When daisies pied and violets blue / William Shakespeare -- When icicles hang by the wall / William Shakespeare -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare -- Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth / William Shakespeare -- That time of year thou mayst in me behold / William Shakespeare.".
- catalog tableOfContents "IMAGERY: In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound -- The piercing chill I feel / Taniguchi Buson -- Study of two peas / Wallace Stevens -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- Poem ("as the cat") / William Carolos Williams -- God's hands / Robert Herrick -- from Hitch Haiku / Snyder Gary -- Haiku Ambulance / Richard Brautigan -- Heat / H.D.".
- catalog tableOfContents "KNOWING EXCELLENCE : Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- On the vanity of Earthly greatness / Arthur Gutterman -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Heraclitus / William Cory -- Elegy on Herakleitos / Dudley Fitts -- O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman -- The little Black boy / William Blake -- Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art / John Keats -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- For Review and Further Study : Rhapsody on a windy night / T.S. Eliot -- Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin / Mark Alexander Boyd -- Epitaph / J.V. Cunningham -- The preface / Edward Taylor -- Get up! / Joseph Skipsey -- Pat's opinion of flags / Fred Emerson Brooks -- Japan / Anthony Hecht.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Love / George Herbert -- Go lovely rose / Edmond Waller -- When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- To the memory of Mr. Oldham / John Dryden -- A paraphrase from the French / Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset -- The day of judgment / Jonathan Swift -- Epigram Engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to his royal highness / Alexander Pope.".
- catalog tableOfContents "METER : On the imprint of the first English edition of The works of Max Beerbohm / Max Beerbohm -- On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia / Walter Savage Landor -- For Review and Further Study -- They flee from me that sometime did me sekë / Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Inversnaid / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Dark house, by which once more I stand / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- To freight cars in the air / William Carlos Williams -- Hot Sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air / George Peele -- Beat! Beat! Drums! / Walt Whitman -- The Gothic looks solemn / John Keats.".
- catalog tableOfContents "MYTH : TRADITIONAL MYTH : Barvarian gentians / D.H. Lawrence -- The Oxen / Thomas Hardy -- The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth -- Sonnet : To science / Edgar Allan Poe -- PERSONAL MYTH : The Second Coming / William Butler Yeats -- A charm against the toothache / John Heath-Stubbs -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- Archtypes : The Rimer / Anonymous -- Le belle dame sans merci / John Keats -- For Review and Further Study : Lycidas / John Milton -- I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra / Ishmael Reed.".
- catalog tableOfContents "OTHER FIGURES : The wind / James Stephens -- Elegy, written with his own hand in the tower before his execution / Chidiock Tichborne -- The pulley / George Herbert -- Tree at my window / Robert Frost -- On a girdle / Edmond Waller -- A hymn to God the Father / John Donne.".
- catalog tableOfContents "PARODY : My garden / T.E. Brown -- My garden / J.A. Lindon -- What, still alive at twenty-two / Hugh Kingsmill -- The sun has long been set / William Wordsworth -- A sonnet / J.K. Stephen -- Mending Sump / Kenneth Koch -- For Review and Further Study : Little Libbie / Julia A. Moore -- Henry King / Hilaire Belloc -- Thoughts on capital punishment / Rod McKuen -- Traveling through the dark / William Stafford -- Mary and her dead canary / Alexander Kerr, Litt D. -- Janet waking / John Crowe Ransom -- Spring and Fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins.".
- catalog tableOfContents "POEMS FOR THE EYE: WORD SHAPES -- Easter wings / George Herbert -- Skeleton key / John Hollander -- Death of the day / Walter Savage Landor -- R-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / E.E. Cummings -- Stone gullets / May Swenson -- Ascension hymn / Henry Vaughan -- Upon Prew his maid / Robert Herrick.".