Introduction to Spanish Poetry
These seventeen stories from the Caribbean and Central and South America encompass a tremendous variety of subjects, set
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English Year 2012
Table of contents :
Entrances: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Housman --
Catch / Robert Francis --
In the morning, in the morning / A.E. Housman --
It was not death, for I stood up / Emily Dickinson --
Hair poem / Saint Geraud --
Not marble nor the gilded monuments / William Shakespeare. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Word order: Anyone lived in a pretty how town / E.E. Cummings --
Carrion comfort / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Age / Walter Savage Landor. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 Carlos Williams --
God's hands / Robert Herrick --
from Hitch Haiku / Gary Snyder --
Haiku ambulance / Richard Brautigan --
Heat / H.D. Figures of speech: 1. Why speak figuratively?: The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
2. Metaphor and simile: From the wash the laundress sends / A.E. Housman --
Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
To see a world in a grain of sand / William Blake --
Metaphors / Sylvia Plath --
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. 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. 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. 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. Housman. 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) / Woody 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. 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. 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. Housman --
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton / Alexander Pope. 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. 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. Housman --
Winter ocean / John Updike --
Lullaby / Bert Meyers --
To close / William Carlos Williams. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Symbol 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 García Lorca --
Vorgefühl (Foreboding) / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Odes I / Horace --
Recueillement (meditations) / Charles Baudelaire --
What is poetry?: Air poetica / Archbald Macleish. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Housman --
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. 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. 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 --
Musée des beaux arts / W.H. Auden. 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. 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 / Adrienne 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.
