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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| William Blake 1757-1827 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Lamb | |
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| The Tyger | |
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| Chimney Sweeper | |
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| The Little Boy Lost | |
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| Holy Thursday | |
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| Infant Joy | |
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| Infant Sorrow | |
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| London | |
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| Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 | |
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| Heart! We will forget him! | |
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| Just lost, when I was saved! | |
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| I taste a liquor never brewed-- | |
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| Safe in their Alabaster Chambers | |
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| He put the Belt around my life | |
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| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | |
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| There came a Day at Summer's full | |
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| I heard a Fly buzz--when I died-- | |
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| Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? | |
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| Because I could not stop for Death-- | |
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| I felt a Cleaving in my Mind-- | |
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| What mystery pervades a well! | |
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| As imperceptibly as Grief | |
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| William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 | |
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| A Cradle Song | |
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| The Sorrow of Love | |
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| A Dream of Death | |
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| The Hosting of the Sidhe | |
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| The Two Trees | |
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| The Cap and Bells | |
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| Wilfred Owen 1893-1918 | |
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| Anthem for Doomed Youth | |
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| The Send-Off | |
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| The Last Laugh | |
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| The Dead-Beat | |
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| S. I. W. | |
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| Smile, Smile, Smile | |
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| Inspection | |
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| Soldier's Dream | |
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| To My Friend | |
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| 1914 | |
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| W.H. Auden 1907-1973 | |
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| Taller To-day | |
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| Consider | |
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| At the Grave of Henry James | |
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| In Memory of W.B. Yeats | |
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| Dylan Thomas 1914-1953 | |
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| The Hunchback in the Park | |
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| If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love | |
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| Especially When the October Wind | |
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| The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower | |
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| P.K. Page 1916- | |
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| The Hidden Room | |
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| Single Traveller | |
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| The New Bicycle | |
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| Hologram | |
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| The Gold Sun | |
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| Lily on the Patio | |
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| Philip Larkin 1922-1985 | |
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| At Grass | |
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| Deceptions | |
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| Coming | |
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| Reasons for Attendance | |
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| How | |
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| Days | |
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| Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 | |
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| Burning the Letters | |
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| Lady Lazarus | |
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| Medusa | |
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| Ariel | |
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| Edge | |
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| Words | |
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| Stephen Watson 1954- | |
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| Rainmaking with a Bow-String | |
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| The Lost Tobacco Pouch: A Song | |
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| Sorcerers Are Like Lions | |
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| Presentiments | |
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| The Rain That is Male | |
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| The Abandoned Old Woman | |
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| Three Poets | |
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| Robert Frost 1874-1963 | |
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| In White | |
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| Design | |
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| William Carlos Williams 1883-1963 | |
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| The Locust Tree in Flower | |
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| Young Woman at a Window | |
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| Robert Lowell 1917-1977 | |
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| Water | |
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| John Keats 1795-1821 | |
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| The Eve of St. Agnes | |
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| Miscellany of Poets | |
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| William Shakespeare 1564-1616 | |
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| Sonnet 129 | |
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| Matthew Arnold 1822-1888 | |
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| Quiet Work | |
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| Philomela | |
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| Dover Beach | |
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| Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889 | |
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| The Windhover | |
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| D.H. Lawrence 1885-1930 | |
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| Renascence | |
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| Violets | |
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| The Piano | |
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| Man's Image | |
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| Bavarian Gentians | |
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| Marianne Moore 1887-1972 | |
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| Poetry | |
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| James Emanuel 1921- | |
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| Bill Clinton | |
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| Tina Turner | |
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| Alicia Ostriker 1937- | |
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| The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz | |
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| The Kiss of Judas | |
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| Stan Rogal 1950- | |
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| Sub Rosa Transformation: 4 | |
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| Jill Battson 1958- | |
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| Parasites of Age and History | |
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| Desert Woman | |
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| Translations | |
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| The Holy Bible | |
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| Psalm 15 (1611) | |
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| Psalm 15: A Psalm of David (1917) | |
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| A Psalm of David: 15 (1952) | |
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| Homer | |
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| Odyssey XI (1616) | |
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| Odyssey XI (1673) | |
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| Odyssey XI (c. 1673-1677) | |
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| Odyssey XI (1897) | |
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| Catullus | |
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| Caeli, Lesbia nostra (1931) | |
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| Caeli, Lesbia nostra (c. 1949) | |
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| Lesbia me dicit (c. 1735) | |
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| Lesbia me dicit (1931) | |
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| Petrarch | |
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| Sonetto in Vita 91 (1557) | |
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| Sonetto in Vita 91 (1557) | |
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| Sonetto in Vita 91 (1892) | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Editors | |