| A |
| Aesop |
"The Fox and the Grapes" |
| Jack Agueros |
"Sonnet for You, Familiar Famine" |
| Brian Aldiss |
"Flight 063" |
| Maya Angelou |
"My Arkansas" |
| Anonymous |
"Barbara Allan" |
| Anonymous |
"Bonny George Campbell" |
| Anonymous |
"Lord Randall" |
| Anonymous |
"Spun in High, Dark Clouds" |
| Anonymous |
"The Myth of Atlanta" |
| Anonymous |
The Visit to the Sepulchre (The Quem Quaeritis Trope) |
| Anonymous |
The Visit to the Sepulchre (The Quem Quaeritis Trope) |
| Gaius Petronius Arbiter |
"The Widow of Ephesus" |
| Margaret Atwood |
"Siren Song" |
| Margaret Atwood |
"Variations on the Word Sleep" |
| |
| B |
| Toni Cade Bambera |
"The Lesson" |
| Ambrose Bierce |
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
"The Fish" |
| William Blake |
"The Lamb" |
| William Blake |
"London" |
| William Blake |
"The Tyger" |
| Louise Bogan |
"Women" |
| Arna Bontemps |
"A Black Man Talks of Reaping" |
| Ray Bradbury |
"Zero Hour" |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
"We Real Cool" |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
"Primer for Blacks" |
| Robert Browning |
"Porphyria's Lover" |
| William Cullen Bryant |
"To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe" |
| Robert Burns |
"Green Grow the Rashes, O" |
| Robert Olen Butler |
"Snow" |
| |
| C |
| Thomas Campion |
"Cherry Ripe" |
| Lewis Carroll |
"Jabberwocky" |
| Hayden Carruth |
"An Apology for Using the Word "Heart" in Too Many Poems" |
| Jimmy Carter |
"I Wanted to Share My Father's World" |
| Raymond Carver |
"Neighbors" |
| Anton Chekhov |
The Bear |
| Anton Chekhov |
"Lady with Lapdog" |
| John Chioles |
"Before the Firing Squad" |
| Kate Chopin |
"The Story of an Hour" |
| Sandra Cisneros |
"The House on Mango Street" |
| Amy Clampitt |
"Beach Glass" |
| Amy Clampitt |
"Berceuse" |
| Walter Van Tilburg Clark |
"The Portable Phonograph" |
| Lucille Clifton |
"homage to my hips" |
| Lucille Clifton |
"the poet" |
| Anita Scott Coleman |
"Unfinished Masterpieces" |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridgee |
"Kubla Khan" |
| Billy Collins |
"Days" |
| Billy Collins |
"Schoolsville" |
| Laurie Colwin |
"An Old Fashioned Story" |
| William Cowper |
"The Poplar Field" |
| Stephen Crane |
"The Blue Hotel" |
| Robert Creeley |
"Do you think..." |
| e.e. cummings |
"next to of course god america i" |
| e.e. cummings |
"she being Brand/-new" |
| |
| D |
| Peter Davison |
"Delphi" |
| James Dickey |
"Kudzu" |
| Emily Dickinson |
"I Died for Beauty - but Was Scarce (Poem 449)" |
| |
"I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" |
| |
"I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died (Poem 465)" |
| |
"I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (Poem 214)" |
| |
"Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (Poem 435)" |
| |
"One Need Not Be a Chamber - To Be Haunted (Poem 670)" |
| |
"The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Poem 303)" |
| |
"This World Is Not Conclusion (Poem 501)" |
| |
"Wild Nights - Wild Nights! (Poem 249)" |
| Emily Dickinson |
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" |
| Stephen Dixon |
"All Gone" |
| John Donne |
Selected Works |
| Michael Drayton |
"Since There's No Help" |
| Andre Dubus |
"The Curse" |
| Stephen Dunn |
"Hawk" |
| Mona Van Duyn |
"Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri" |
| Mona Van Duyn |
"Leda" |
| |
| E |
| Richard Eberhart |
"The Fury of Aerial Bombardment" |
| T.S. Eliot |
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| T.S. Eliot |
"Macavity: The Mystery Cat" |
| T.S. Eliot |
"Preludes" |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
"Concord Hymn" |
| Mari Evans |
"I Am a Black Woman" |
| |
| F |
| John Chipman Farrar |
"Song for a Forgotten Shrine to Pan" |
| William Faulkner |
"Barn Burning" |
| William Faulkner |
"A Rose for Emily" |
| Carolyn Forche |
"The Colonel" |
| Robert Frost |
"The Silken Tent" |
| |
"Fire and Ice" |
| |
"A Line-Storm Song" |
| |
"Mending Wall" |
| |
Out,Out - '" |
| |
"The Road Not Taken" |
| Robert Frost |
"Desert Places" |
| Robert Frost |
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| |
| G |
| Ernest J. Gaines |
"The Sky is Gray" |
| Isabella Gardner |
"Collage of Echoes" |
| Isabella Gardner |
"At a Summer Hotel" |
| Ellen Gilchrist |
"The Song of Songs" |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
"The Yellow Wallpaper" |
| Allen Ginsberg |
"A Supermarket in California" |
| Nikki Giovanni |
"Nikki-Rosa" |
| Nikki Giovanni |
"Woman" |
| Susan Glaspell |
"A Jury of Her Peers" |
| Susan Glaspell |
Trifles |
| Louise Glück |
"Penelope's Song" |
| Louise Glück |
"Snowdrops" |
| Jorie Graham |
"The Geese" |
| Joanne Greenberg |
"And Sarah Laughed" |
| Susan Griffin |
"Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields" |
| |
| H |
| Marilyn Hacker |
"Sonnet Ending with a Film Subtitle" |
| John Haines |
"Little Cosmic Dust Poem" |
| Daniel Halpern |
"Summer in the Middle Class" |
| H.S. (Sam) Hamod |
"Leaves" |
| Thomas Hardy |
"The Convergence of the Twain" |
| Thomas Hardy |
"The Man He Killed" |
| Thomas Hardy |
"The Ruined Maid" |
| Joy Harjo |
"Remember" |
| Frances E.W. Harper |
"She's Free!" |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
"Young Goodman Brown" |
| Robert Hayden |
"Those Winter Sundays" |
| Seamus Heaney |
"Mid-term Break" |
| Ernest Hemingway |
"Soldier's Home" |
| Beth Henley |
Am I Blue |
| Robert Herrick |
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" |
| Jack Hodgins |
"The Concert Stages of Europe" |
| A.D. Hope |
"Advice to Young Ladies" |
| Carolina Hospital |
"Dear Tia" |
| Langston Hughes |
"Harlem" |
| Langston Hughes |
"Let America Be America Again" |
| Langston Hughes |
Mulatto |
| Langston Hughes |
"Negro" |
| Langston Hughes |
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" |
| Langston Hughes |
"Theme for English B" |
| |
| I |
| Henrik Ibsen |
A Dollhouse |
| Henrik Ibsen |
An Enemy of the People |
| John Hall Ingham |
"George Washington" |
| |
| J |
| Shirley Jackson |
"The Lottery" |
| Randall Jarrell |
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" |
| Robinson Jeffers |
"The Answer" |
| Ben Jonson |
"Drink to Me, Only, with Thine Eyes" |
| Ben Jonson |
"To Celia" |
| James Joyce |
"Araby" |
| |
| K |
| Stanley Kauffmann |
The More the Merrier |
| John Keats |
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" |
| John Keats |
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
| John Keats |
Selected Works |
| Betty Keller |
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| Jane Kenyon |
"Portrait of a Figure Near Water" |
| Jamaica Kincaid |
"What I Have Been Doing Lately" |
| Galway Kinnell |
"After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" |
| Carolyn Kizer |
"Night Sounds" |
| Maxine Kumin |
"Hello, Hello Henry" |
| Maxine Kumin |
"Woodchucks" |
| |
| L |
| Margaret Laurence |
"The Loons" |
| Arthur Laurents |
A Scene from The Turning Point |
| D.H. Lawrence |
"The Horse Dealer's Daughter" |
| Denise Levertov |
"Of Being" |
| Denise Levertov |
"A Time Past" |
| C. Day Lewis |
"Song" |
| Alan P. Lightman |
"In Computers" |
| Abraham Lincoln |
"My Childhood's Home" |
| Audre Lorde |
"Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem" |
| Amy Lowell |
"Patterns" |
| Saint Luke |
"The Parable of the Prodigal Son" |
| |
| M |
| Archibald MacLeish |
"Ars Poetica" |
| Guy de Maupassant |
"The Necklace" |
| Heather McHugh |
"Lines" |
| Claude McKay |
"In Bondage" |
| Claude McKay |
"The White City" |
| Herman Melville |
"Shiloh: A Requiem" |
| Eve Merriam |
"Reply to the Question..." |
| W.S. Merwin |
"Listen" |
| W.S. Merwin |
"Odysseus" |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay |
"What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" |
| Author Miller |
Death of a Salesman |
| Judith Minty |
"Conjoined" |
| Molière |
Love Is the Doctor (L'Amour Médecin) |
| Lorrie Moore |
"How to Become a Writer" |
| Alice Munro |
"Meneseteung" |
| Alice Munro |
"The Found Boat" |
| |
| N |
| Jim Northrup |
"wahbegan" |
| Naomi Shihab Nye |
"Where Children Live" |
| |
| O |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
"Loving" |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
"Shopping" |
| Tim O'Brien |
"The Things They Carried" |
| Frank O'Connor |
"First Confession" |
| Sharon Olds |
"35/10" |
| Sharon Olds |
"The Planned Child" |
| Mary Oliver |
"Wild Geese" |
| Tillie Olsen |
"I Stand Here Ironing" |
| Eugene O'Neill |
Before Breakfast |
| Michael O'Siadaihl |
"Abundance" |
| Cynthia Ozick |
"The Shawl" |
| |
| P |
| P.K. Page |
"Photos of a Salt Mine" |
| Americo Paredes |
"The Hammon and the Beans" |
| Dorothy Parker |
"Penelope" |
| Linda Pastan |
"Ethics" |
| Linda Pastan |
"Marks" |
| Linda Pastan |
"The Suitor" |
| Molly Peacock |
"Desire" |
| Marge Piercy |
"The Secretary Chant" |
| Marge Piercy |
"Wellfleet Sabbath" |
| Sylvia Plath |
"Mirror" |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
"The Masque of the Red Death" |
| Katha Pollitt |
"Archaeology" |
| Alexander Pope |
"Eigram from the French" |
| Alexander Pope |
"From 'An Essay on Man', Epistle I, lines 17-90" |
| Katherine Anne Porter |
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" |
| Ezra Pound |
"The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" |
| |
| Q |
| |
| R |
| Sir Walter Raleigh |
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" |
| Adrienne Rich |
"Diving into the Wreck" |
| Theodore Roethke |
"Dolor" |
| Theodore Roethke |
"My Papa's Waltz" |
| Muriel Rukeyser |
"Looking at Each Other" |
| Muriel Rukeyser |
"Myth" |
| |
| S |
| Luis Omar Salinas |
"In a Farmhouse" |
| Siegfried Sassoon |
"Dreamers" |
| Virginia Scott |
"Snow" |
| Anne Sexton |
"To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph" |
| William Shakespeare |
Hamlet |
| William Shakespeare |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| William Shakespeare |
"Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes" |
| William Shakespeare |
"Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou May'st in Me Behold" |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
"Ozymandias" |
| Leslie Marmon Silko |
"Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer" |
| Dave Smith |
"Bluejays" |
| Cathy Song |
"Lost Sister" |
| Sophocles |
Oedipus the King |
| Gary Soto |
"Oranges" |
| Stephen Spender |
"Icarus" |
| John Steinbeck |
"The Chrysanthemums" |
| Wallace Stevens |
"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" |
| Anne Stevenson |
"The Spirit is Too Blunt an Instrument" |
| May Swenson |
"Question" |
| May Swenson |
"Women" |
| Wallace Stevens |
"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" |
| |
| T |
| Amy Tan |
"Two Kinds" |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
"Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur" |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
"Ulysses" |
| Elaine Terranova |
"Rush Hour" |
| Dyaln Thomas |
"A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" |
| Dylan Thomas |
"Do Not go Gentle into That Good Night" |
| Jean Toomer |
"Reapers" |
| Michel Tremblay |
"The Thimble" |
| Mark Twain |
"Luck" |
| |
| U |
| Peter Ulisse |
"Odyssey: 20 Years Later" |
| John Updike |
"A & P" |
| John Updike |
"Perfection Wasted" |
| |
| V |
| Judith Viorst |
"True Love" |
| Judith Viorst |
"A Wedding Sonnet for the Next Gerneration" |
| |
| W |
| The Wakefield Master |
The Second Shepherd's Play |
| Alice Walker |
"Everyday Use" |
| Alice Walker |
"Revolutionary Petunias" |
| Phyllis Webb |
"Poetics Against the Angel of Death" |
| Bruce Weigl |
"Song of Napalm" |
| Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz |
Shot 71 from the Shooting Script of Citizen Kane |
| Eudora Welty |
"A Worn Path" |
| Edith Wharton |
"The Muse's Tragedy" |
| Edith Wharton |
"The Other Two" |
| Edith Wharton |
"Pomegrantate Seed" |
| Edith Wharton |
"Roman Fever" |
| Phillis Wheatley |
"On Being Brought from Africa to America" |
| Tom Whitecloud |
"Blue Winds Dancing" |
| Walt Whitman |
"Reconciliation" |
| Walt Whitman |
Selected Works |
| Cornelius Whur |
"The First-Rate Wife" |
| Richard Wilbur |
"April 5, 1974" |
| Richard Wilbur |
"Year's End" |
| Thorton Wilder |
Our Town |
| C.K. Williams |
"Dimensions" |
| Joy Williams |
"Taking Care" |
| Tennessee Williams |
The Glass Menagerie |
| William Carlos Williams |
"The Red Wheelbarrow" |
| William Carlos Williams |
"The Dance" |
| William Carlos Williams |
"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" |
| William Wordsworth |
"Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tinturn Abbey" |
| |
"Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)" |
| |
"Lines Written in Early Spring" |
| |
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" |
| |
"Stepping Westward" |
| |
"The Solitary Reaper" |
| |
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" |
| |
"It Is a Beauteous Evening" |
| |
"On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic" |
| |
"Scorn Not the Sonnet" |
| James Wright |
"A Blessing" |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt |
"I Find No Peace" |
| |
| X |
| |
| Y |
| William Butler Yeats |
"Leda and the Swan" |
| William Butler Yeats |
"The Second Coming" |
| William Butler Yeats |
"When You Are Old" |
| William Butler Yeats |
"The Wild Swans at Coole" |
| |
| Z |
| Irene Zabytko |
"Home Soil" |
| Paul Zimmer |
"The Day Zimmer Lost Religion" |
