Poems
- A Blessing James Wright
- A Dark Thing Inside The Day Linda Gregg
- A Dedication to my Wife T. S. Eliot
- A Dialogue of Watching Kenneth Rexroth
- A good traveler has no fixed plans Stephen Mitchell Lao Tzu
- A Map of Love Donald Justice
- A noiseless patient spider Walt Whitman
- A Prayer Sara Teasdale
- A Prayer Max Ehrmann
- A Primer of the Daily Round Howard Nemerov
- A Secret Life Stephen Dunn
- A Singing Voice Kenneth Rexroth
- A Strange Feather Hafiz
- A Woman Writer Does Laundry Anna Swir
- A Work of Artifice Marge Piercy
- Acquainted with the Night Robert Frost
- Affirmation Donald Hall
- Afraid So Jeanne Marie Beaumont
- After the Lunch Wendy Cope
- Afternoon on a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Ah, not to be cut off Rainer Maria Rilke
- An Old Whorehouse Mary Oliver
- And the Days Are Not Full Enough Ezra Pound
- Angels Maurya Simon
- Animals Frank O’Hara
- Another Spring Kenneth Rexroth
- anyone lived in a pretty how town e. e. cummings
- Autumn Leaves Marilyn Chin
- Balance Adam Zagajewski
- being to timelessness as it’s to time e. e. cummings
- Bladder Song Leonard Nathan
- Boulevard du Montparnasse Mary Jo Salter
- Brahma Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Buddha in Glory Rainer Maria Rilke
- Calling him back from layoff Bob Hicok
- Camomile Tea Katherine Mansfield
- Carmel Point Robinson Jeffers
- Carnation Milk Anonymous
- Cartography Louise Bogan
- Chemistry Steve Kronen
- Children in a Field Angela Shaw
- Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802 William Wordsworth
- Cosmetics Do No Good Steve Kowit
- Cremation Robinson Jeffers
- Da Capo Jane Hirshfield
- Daybreak Galway Kinnell
- Dilemma David Budbill
- Dirge Without Music Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas
- Do Not Make Things Too Easy Martha Baird
- Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Anonymous
- Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short Petronius Ben Jonson
- Dover Beach Matthew Arnold
- Dream Deferred Langston Hughes
- Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter Robert Bly
- Ecclesiastes 3:1–8 Anonymous
- Ed Louis Simpson
- Elvis Kissed Me T. S. Kerrigan
- Evening Concert, Sainte-Chapelle John Updike
- Fatigue Hillaire Belloc
- Film Noir Nicholas Christopher
- Four Very Fat Legs Anna Swir
- Friendship Elizabeth Jennings
- from “Song of the Open Road” Walt Whitman
- from “The Prophet” Kahlil Gilbran
- from “Tulips and Chimneys” e. e. cummings
- From Blossoms Li-Young Lee
- from Thoughts in a Garden Andrew Marvell
- Gas C.K. Williams
- Give Me Back My Rags Vasko Popa
- Giving Up Smoking Wendy Cope
- Going Blind Rainer Maria Rilke
- Grass Carl Sandberg
- Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors William Butler Yeats
- Habitation Margaret Atwood
- Half a Double Sonnet Mary Jo Salter
- Happiness Raymond Carver
- Happiness Mary Oliver
- Happiness Stephen Dunn
- He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven William Butler Yeats
- He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? A. E. Housman
- Here Grace Paley
- Home Sweet Home Kate Bingham
- Honey At The Table Mary Oliver
- Hope Langston Hughes
- How to Read a Poem: Beginner’s Manual Pamela Spiro Wagner
- I Am Completely Different Kuroda Saburo
- I Am Not Yours Sara Teasdale
- I Am The Poet Walt Whitman
- i carry your heart with me e. e. cummings
- I Go Back to May 1937 Sharon Olds
- I Knew a Woman Theodore Roethke
- I May Live On Fujiwara No Kiyosuke Kenneth Rexroth
- I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear Edna St. Vincent Millay
- I Stop Writing the Poem Tess Gallagher
- I Talk To My Body Leonard Nathan Anna Swir
- i thank You God for most this amazing e. e. cummings
- I, being born a woman and distressed Edna St. Vincent Millay
- I’m Really Very Fond Alice Walker
- In Paris with You James Fenton