The Broadview Anthology of Poetry – Second Edition

Preface
Preface to the First Edition

Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343–1400)

• from The Canterbury Tales

English Ballads (Anonymous)

• Lord Rendal
  Sir Patrick Spens
  Barbara Allan

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)

• The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar
  Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde
  Ffarewell, love, and all thy lawes for ever
  They fle from me that sometyme did me seke

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey(c.1517–1547)

• The Soote Season
  Love, that Doth Reign and Live Within
  My Thought

Sir Walter Ralegh (c.1552–1618)

• The Nimphs Reply to the Sheepheard

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)

• from Amoretti
  Sonnet XXXVII
  Sonnet LXXV
  Sonnet LXXIX
  Sonnet LXXXI

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

• from Astrophil and Stella
  Leave me ô Love, which reachest but to dust

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

• The Passionate Sheepherd to his Love

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

• Sonnet 18
  Sonnet 29
  Sonnet 30
  Sonnet 55
  Sonnet 73
  Sonnet 106
  Sonnet 116
  Sonnet 129
  Sonnet 130
  Sonnet 146
  Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun
  O mistress mine, where are you roaming?

Thomas Campion (1567–1620)

• My Sweetest Lesbia
  When Thou Must Home
  There is a Garden in her face

John Donne (1572–1631)

• The Good-Morrow
  The Sunne Rising
  The Canonization
  The Flea
  A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  from: Holy Sonnets
  Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward

Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

• On my first Sonne
  Inviting a friend to supper
  Song. To Celia
  To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare: and what he hath left us

Lady Mary Wroth (1587–c.1652)

• from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
  When nights black mantle could most darknes prove
  Faulce hope which feeds butt to destroy, and spill
  Love a child is ever criing

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

• Corinna’s going a Maying
  Delight in Disorder
  Upon Julia’s Clothes
  To the Virgins, to make much of Time

George Herbert (1593–1633)

• Easter Wings
  Prayer (I)
  Jordan (I)
  The Collar
  The Pulley

John Milton (1608–1674)

• Lycidas
  On Shakespeare
  How Soon Hath Time
  L’Allegro
  Il Penseroso
  When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

Anne Bradstreet (1613?–1672)

• Prologue
  The Author to Her Book
  Before the Birth of One of Her Children
  To my Dear and Loving Husband
  A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
  Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

• The Coronet
  A Dialogue between the Soul and Body
  To his Coy Mistress
  The Definition of Love
  The Garden

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1674)

• The Poetresses Petition
  Natures Cook
  A Woman drest by Age

Katherine Philips (1631–1664)

• A marryd state affords but little Ease
  L’Amitie: To Mrs M. Awbrey
  Friendship’s Mysterys: to my dearest Lucasia

John Dryden (1631–1700)

• To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
  Mac Flecknoe; Or, a Satire upon the True-Blue Protestant Poet, T.S.

Aphra Behn (1640–1689)

• Love in fantastick Triumph sat
  The Disappointment
  To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition. Ode

Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710)

• To the Ladies
  The Resolve

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)

• The Introduction
  A Nocturnal Reverie
  The Unequal Fetters

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

• A Description of the Morning
  A Description of a City Shower
  The Lady’s Dressing-Room

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

• from The Rape of the Lock
  Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762)

• from Verses Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace
  The Resolve
  from Six Town Eclogues

Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

• Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes
  Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  Sonnet on the Death of Richard West

Christopher Smart (1722–1771)

• from Jubilate Agno (fragment B)

Mary Leapor (1722–1746)

• Strephon to Celia. A Modern Love-Letter
  An Essay on Woman
  The Epistle of Deborah Dough
  Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret

William Cowper (1731–1800)

• The Poplar-Field
  from The Task: Book II
  On The Death of Mrs. Throckmorton’s Bulfinch
  The Cast-Away

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)

• The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley
  The Rights of Woman
  Washing-Day

William Blake (1757–1827)

• How sweet I roam’d from field to field
  from Songs of Innocence
  The Lamb
  The Chimney Sweeper
  Holy Thursday
  The Little Black Boy
  from Songs of Experience
  London
  The Tyger
  The Chimney-Sweeper
  Holy Thursday
  from Milton

Robert Burns (1759–1796)

• To a Louse
  Holy Willie’s Prayer
  The Banks O Doon
  A Red, Red Rose

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

• Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour
  Strange fits of passion have I known
  She dwelt among the untrodden ways
  Three years she grew in sun and shower
  A slumber did my spirit seal
  I travelled among unknown men
  Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
  It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
  London, 1802
  Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room
  Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

• Frost At Midnight
  Dejection: An Ode
  Kubla Khan

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824)

• She Walks in Beauty
  from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
  The Prisoner of Chillon
  On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
  So We’ll Go No More A-Roving
  Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

• Mont Blanc
  Ozymandias
  Ode to the West Wind
  Sonnet: England in 1819

John Keats (1795–1821)

• On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
  La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
  Ode to a Nightingale
  Ode on a Grecian Urn
  Ode on Melancholy
  To Autumn
  When I have fears that I may cease to be
  If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

• The Snow-Storm
  Blight
  Terminus

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

• from Sonnets from the Portuguese
  Sonnet XXII
  Sonnet XLIII
  A Musical Instrument
  from Aurora Leigh: Book I
  from Aurora Leigh: Book V

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

• Snow-Flakes
  In the Churchyard at Cambridge
  My Lost Youth
  Divina Commedia
  The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

• The City in the Sea
  To Helen
  The Sleeper
  Dream-Land
  The Haunted Palace
  The Raven

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)

• Morte d’Arthur
  The Lady of Shalott
  Ulysses
  Break, Break, Break
  from In Memoriam A.H.H.
  Obiit MDCCCXXXIII
  Crossing the Bar

Robert Browning (1812–1889)

• Porphyria’s Lover
  Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
  My Last Duchess
  The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
  Fra Lippo Lippi

Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

• The Old Stoic
  Shall Earth no more inspire thee
  Remembrance
  No Coward Soul
  Often rebuked, yet always back returning

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)

• Say not the Struggle nought Availeth
  The Latest Decalogue
  from Dipsychus

Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

• from Song of Myself
  When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
  Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
  When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
  A Noiseless Patient Spider
  Cavalry Crossing a Ford
  To a Locomotive in Winter

Herman Melville (1819–1891)

• The House-top
  The Maldive Shark
  Art

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

• Shakespeare
  The Buried Life
  Isolation. To Marguerite
  To Marguerite—Continued
  Dover Beach

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)

• The Blessed Damozel
  The Card-Dealer
  from The House of Life
  Sonnet
  Silent Noon
  A Superscription
  The One Hope

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

• 214: I taste a liquor never brewed
  241: I like a look of Agony
  258: There’s a certain Slant of light
  303: The Soul selects her own Society
  341: After great pain, a formal feeling comes
  449: I died for Beauty
  465: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
  585: I like to see it lap the Miles
  640: I cannot live with You
  712: Because I could not stop for Death
  986: A narrow Fellow in the Grass
  1227: My triumph lasted till the Drums

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)

• Goblin Market

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)

• Jabberwocky
  The White Knight’s Song

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

• Hap
  Nature’s Questioning
  Drummer Hodge
  The Darkling Thrush
  The Convergence of the Twain
  Channel Firing
  In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”
  Transformations

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

• God’s Grandeur
  The Windhover: to Christ our Lord
  Pied Beauty
  Spring and Fall: to a Young Child
  I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
  No Worst, There is None
  Carrion Comfort

Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887)

• The Camp of Souls
  The City Tree
  The Dark Stag

A.E. Housman (1859–1936)

• Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
  To an Athlete Dying Young
  Is my team ploughing
  On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble
  Terence, this is stupid stuff
  The chestnut casts his flambeaux
  The night is freezing fast

Charles G.D. Roberts (1860–1943)

• Tantramar Revisited
  The Potato Harvest
  The Solitary Woodsman
  The Skater

Bliss Carman (1861–1929)

• Low Tide on Grand Pré
  The Eavesdropper
  The World Voice
  Vestigia

Archibald Lampman (1861–1899)

• Heat
  Morning on the Lièvre
  The City of the End of Things
  Winter Evening

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947)

• The Onondaga Madonna
  Watkwenies
  On the Way to the Mission
  The Forsaken

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)

• Recessional
  Cities and Thrones and Powers
  The Way through the Woods
  The Hyaenas

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

• The Sorrow of Love
  When You Are Old
  Easter 1916
  An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
  A Prayer for my Daughter
  The Second Coming
  Leda and the Swan
  Sailing to Byzantium
  Among School Children
  Lapis Lazuli(For Harry Clifton)
  The Circus Animals’ Desertion

Robert Frost (1874–1963)

• Mending Wall
  After Apple-Picking
  The Road not Taken
  Birches
  Fire and Ice
  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  Acquainted with the Night
  Once by the Pacific
  Desert Places
  Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
  Design
  The Silken Tent

Robert Service (1874–1958)

• The Shooting of Dan McGrew
  Only a Boche

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
  The Emperor of Ice-Cream
  Anecdote of the Jar
  The Idea of Order at Key West
  The Motive for Metaphor

E.J. Pratt (1882–1964)

• The Shark
  From Stone to Steel
  The Highway
  The Prize Cat
  from Towards the Last Spike

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

• Queen-Anne’s-Lace
  The Red Wheelbarrow
  At the Ball Game
  This is Just to Say
  The Yachts
  The Dance
  Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)

• Piano
  After The Opera
  Snake
  How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
  Bavarian Gentians
  The Ship of Death

Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

• Portrait d’une Femme
  The Garden
  The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
  In a Station of the Metro
  Commission
  Canto I

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)

• Conscripts
  A Night Attack
  Base Details

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)

• Leda
  Oread
  Helen
  Fragment Thirty-six
  Fragment Forty

Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

• Poetry
  Poetry (Revised version)
  The Fish
  Critics and Connoisseurs
  No Swan So Fine

Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

• The Swans
  Still Falls the Rain
  Two Songs of Queen Anne Boleyn
  The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

• Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
  Blue Girls
  Jack’s Letter

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)

• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  Preludes
  from The Waste Land
  Journey of the Magi

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

• Journey
  Elegy Before Death
  Dirge Without Music
  Love is Not All
  Menses

Hugh Macdiarmid (1892–1978)

• In the Children’s Hospital
  We Must Look at the Harebell
  In Memoriam Dylan Thomas

Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

• The Silent Slain
  The End of the World
  Ars Poetica
  You, Andrew Marvell
  “Dover Beach” — A Note to that Poem

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

• Arms and the Boy
  Insensibility
  Dulce et Decorum Est
  Anthem for Doomed Youth
  Strange Meeting

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

• Bohemia
  A Pig’s-Eye View of Literature
  On Being a Woman
  Sonnet For the End of a Sequence

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962)

• the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished soul
  goodby Betty, don’t remember me
  somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
  i sing of Olaf glad and big
  anyone lived in a pretty how town
  i thank You God for most this amazing day

Robert Graves (1895–1985)

• The Cool Web
  Down, Wanton, Down!
  Recalling War

F.R. Scott (1899–1984)

• The Canadian Authors Meet
  Trans Canada
  Lakeshore
  Laurentian Shield
  Last Rites
  W. L. M. K.

Basil Bunting (1900–1985)

• Personal Column
  I am agog for foam
  Nothing
  What the Chairman Told Tom

Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

• The Weary Blues
  Trumpet Player
  Harlem

A.J.M. Smith (1902–1980)

• The Lonely Land
  News of the Phoenix
  Prothalamium
  The Archer

Stevie Smith (1902–1971)

• Mother, Among the Dustbins
  The River God
  Away, Melancholy
  The Blue from Heaven
  Not Waving but Drowning

Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

• Yet Do I Marvel
  From the Dark Tower
  To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time

Earle Birney (1904–1991)

• Anglosaxon Street
  Vancouver Lights
  From the Hazel Bough
  Bushed
  El Greco: Espolio
  The Bear on the Delhi Road

John Betjeman (1906–1984)

• The Cottage Hospital
  Late-Flowering Lust
  A Subaltern’s Love-song

W.H. Auden (1907–1973)

• Funeral Blues
  Lay your sleeping head, my love
  Musée des Beaux Arts
  In Memory of W. B. Yeats
  September 1, 1939
  The Unknown Citizen
  Our Bias

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

• My Papa’s Waltz
  The Waking
  Dolor
  Elegy for Jane
  I Knew a Woman

A.D. Hope (1907–2000)

• Australia
  Imperial Adam
  The Return of Persephone
  The Pleasure of Princes
  Meditation on a Bone
  Parabola

A.M. Klein (1909–1972)

• Psalm VI: A Psalm of Abraham, Concerning That Which He Beheld Upon The Heavenly Scarp
  Autobiographical
  Montreal
  The Rocking Chair
  Political Meeting
  For the Sisters of the Hotel Dieu

Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996)

• The Difference
  The Three Emily’s
  Bartok and the Geranium
  Lament
  On Looking into Henry Moore
  The Unquiet Bed

Anne Wilkinson (1910–1961)

• Lens
  In June and Gentle Oven
  Tigers Know from Birth
  On a Bench in a Park
  Nature be Damned

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

• The Fish
  The Armadillo
  Sestina
  In the Waiting Room
  One Art

Allen Curnow (1911–2001)

• House and Land
  The Unhistoric Story
  Out of Sleep
  The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
  You Will Know When You Get There

Irving Layton (1912–2006)

• The Birth of Tragedy
  The Cold Green Element
  The Bull Calf
  From Colony to Nation
  Cain
  Butterfly on Rock

Henry Reed (1914–1986)

• from Lessons of the War

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

• The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
  Losses
  The Woman at the Washington Zoo

William Stafford (1914-1993)

• Traveling through the Dark
  A Message from the Wanderer
  At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border

John Berryman (1914–1972)

• A Professor’s Song
  Desires of Men and Women
  from The Dream Songs

Douglas LePan (1914-1998)

• Coureurs de Bois
  A Country Without A Mythology
  An Incident

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

• And Death Shall Have No Dominion
  The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
  After the Funeral
  Fern Hill
  A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
  In My Craft or Sullen Art
  Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Judith Wright (1915–2000)

• The Bull
  Request to a Year
  Song
  At Cooloola

P.K. Page (b.1916)

• The Stenographers
  The Landlady
  Stories of Snow
  Young Girls
  The Permanent Tourists
  The Metal and the Flower
  T-bar
  After Rain

Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

• As a Plane Tree by the Water
  Skunk Hour
  For the Union Dead
  The Public Garden

Miriam Waddington (1917–2004)

• Thou Didst Say Me
  Sea Bells
  Ten Years and More

Margaret Avison (1918–2007)

• The Butterfly
  Voluptuaries and Others
  Butterfly Bones OR Sonnet Against Sonnets
  The Swimmer’s Moment
  The Dumbfounding
  A Nameless One
  Rising Dust

Al Purdy (1918–2000)

• On the Decipherment of “Linear B”
  Remains of an Indian Village
  The Cariboo Horses
  The Country North of Belleville
  Wilderness Gothic
  Lament For the Dorsets

Richard Wilbur (b.1921)

• Digging For China
  Love Calls Us to the Things of this World
  Beasts
  The Pardon
  The Death of a Toad
  A Late Aubade
  This Pleasing Anxious Being

Raymond Souster (b.1921)

• Young Girls
  Memory of Bathurst Street
  Queen Anne’s Lace
  Words Before a Statue of Champlain

Philip Larkin (1922–1985)

• Poetry of Departures
  Church Going
  Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album
  Ambulances
  An Arundel Tomb
  Sad Steps
  The Explosion
  Aubade

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

• Laying the Dust
  The Jacob’s Ladder
  The Dog of Art
  Matins
  The Novel
  Caedmon
  The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why

Nissim Ezekiel (1924–2004)

• Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
  In India
  Night of the Scorpion
  The Company I Keep
  In The Garden

Carolyn Kizer (b.1925)

• from Pro Femina Three
  The Ungrateful Garden
  The Copulating Gods
  Parents’ Pantoum
  Second Time Around
  The Oration

James Merrill (1926–1995)

• After Greece
  Angel
  The Broken Home

Robert Creeley (1926–2005)

• The Hill
  The Rain
  The Door for Robert Duncan

W.D. Snodgrass (b.1926)

• April Inventory
  The Mother
  Diplomacy: The Father
  The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical
  Academics

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)

• A Supermarket in California
  My Sad Self

James K. Baxter (1926–1972)

• The Bay
  The Homecoming
  Elegy for an Unknown Soldier
  My Love Late Walking

Phyllis Webb (b.1927)

• Patience
  Marvell’s Garden
  A Tall Tale
  Breaking

Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

• Her Kind
  In the Deep Museum
  Cinderella

Maya Angelou (b.1928)

• Caged Bird
  Our Grandmothers

Adrienne Rich (b.1929)

• Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
  Orion
  Planetarium
  A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
  Final Notations
  Diving into the Wreck
  Take
  Late Ghazal

Peter Porter (b.1929)

• Annotations of Auschwitz
  Soliloquy at Potsdam
  Sydney Cove, 1788
  An Australian Garden

Derek Walcott (b.1930)

• A Far Cry from Africa
  Ruins of a Great House
  A Letter from Brooklyn
  Map of Europe
  The Sea Is History
  Menelaus

Ted Hughes (1930–1998)

• The Jaguar
  The Thought-Fox
  Hawk Roosting
  Pike
  Second Glance at a Jaguar
  Wodwo

Edward Kamau Brathwaite (b.1930)

• Wings of a Dove
  Calypso

Jay Macpherson (1931–2007)

• The Boatman
  The Fisherman
  A Lost Soul
  The Well

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

• The Colossus
  Crossing the Water
  Face Lift
  Ariel
  Daddy
  Edge
  Black Rook in Rainy Weather
  Last Words

Alden Nowlan (1933–1983)

• Warren Pryor
  The Execution
  I, Icarus
  In Those Old Wars
  The Word
  The Bull Moose

Leonard Cohen (b.1934)

• Elegy
  You Have the Lovers
  A Kite is a Victim
  I Have Not Lingered In European Monasteries
  Suzanne Takes You Down
  Nightingale

Amiri Baraka (b.1934)

• Ostriches & Grandmothers!
  I Substitute For The Dead Lecturer
  Three Modes of History and Culture
  The Golgotha Local

Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

• Outside
  Hanging Fire
  Stations
  The Art of Response

Fleur Adcock (b.1934)

• Wife to Husband
  Unexpected Visit
  Below Loughrigg
  Leaving the Tate

Kofi Awoonor (b.1935)

• On the Way to Durham, N.C.
  The First Circle
  I Rejoice

George Bowering (b.1935)

• The Swing
  Grandfather
  The Kingdome 1974
  My Father in New Zealand
  Dancing Bones
  Leaves Flipping

Marge Piercy (b.1936)

• I will not be your sickness
  Barbie Doll
  The secretary chant
  The cat’s song

Daryl Hine (b.1936)

• Point Grey
  Northwest Passages
  Tabula Rasa?

Les Murray (b.1938)

• The Instrument
  The Disorderly
  Reclaim the Sites
  Post Mortem

W. H. New (b.1938)

• Fissures
  Pacific Rim
  Figure-Eights
  Safety

Seamus Heaney (b.1939)

• Personal Helicon
  Poor Women in a City Church
  Docker
  The Grauballe Man
  The Railway Children
  From the Frontier of Writing
  Anything Can Happen
  Helmet

Margaret Atwood (b.1939)

• This Is a Photograph of Me
  Journey to the Interior
  At the Tourist Centre in Boston
  from The Journals of Susanna Moodie
  Further Arrivals
  Death of a Young Son by Drowning
  Dream 1: The Bush Garden
  Thoughts from Underground
  Waiting
  Marsh Languages
  Girl without Hands
  Poetry Reading
  The Door

Dennis Lee (b.1939)

• from Civil Elegies

Patrick Lane (b.1939)

• Pissaro’s Tomb
  Winter 6
  Winter 9
  Winter 40
  The Old Ones
  Family
  Teaching Poetry

Michael Longley (b.1939)

• Wounds
  Wreaths
  The Linen Workers
  Aubade
  The Butchers
  Ceasefire
  The War Graves
  The Bullet Hole
  Scrap Metal

Robert Pinsky (b.1940)

• From the Childhood of Jesus
  The Night Game
  Avenue
  Vessel
  Ode to Meaning
  Autumn Quartet
  Jersey Rain

Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987)

• Eden, Eden
  Inside the Great Pyramid
  Dark Pines Under Water
  The Discovery
  Letter to a Future Generation
  The Child Dancing

Billy Collins (b.1941)

• My Number
  The Death of Allegory
  Directions
  Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey
  Sonnet
  Rooms
  Nine Horses
  The Peasants’ Revolt

Daphne Marlatt (b.1942)

• Ghost
  in the dark of the coast

Sharon Olds (b.1942)

• The Promise
  The Elopement
  Culture and Religion
  What It Meant

Don McKay (b.1942)

• Night Skating on the Little Paddle River
  To Speak of Paths
  Sometimes a Voice (1)
  Finger Pointing at the Moon
  The Canoe People

Louise Glück (b.1943)

• Gretel in Darkness
  Widows
  Celestial Music
  Parable of the Hostages
  Telemachus’ Fantasy
  Circe’s Torment
  A Myth of Innocence
  A Myth of Devotion

Michael Ondaatje (b.1943)

• Henri Rousseau and Friends
  Dates
  King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens

Tom Wayman (b.1945)

• Long Beach Suite
  The Astonishing Weight of the Dead

Eavan Boland (b.1944)

• The Emigrant Irish
  The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me
  On the Gift of “The Birds of America” by John James Audubon
  The Making of an Irish Goddess
  That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
  Emigrant Letters
  Quarantine

Paul Durcan (b.1944)

• The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious
  Poem Not Beginning with a Line by Pindar
  Notes Towards a Necessary Suicide
  Torn in Two

David Kirby (b.1944)

• At the Grave of Harold Goldstein
  Dear Derrida

Wendy Cope (b.1945)

• Engineers’ Corner
  Reading Scheme
  A Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by William Wordsworth
  A Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by T.S. Eliot
  Triolet
  Emily Dickinson
  Lonely Hearts
  Being Boring
  The Sitter

Alice Notley (b.1945)

• What’s Suppressed
  There Was Also Valium in the Drink, Placed There by Two Other People

Sharon Thesen (b.1946)

• Hello Goodbye
  Doubletalk
  Biography of a Woman

Wanda Coleman (b.1946)

• Coffee
  Three Trees
  Voices
  Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead
  Poetry Lesson Number Two
  Sex and Politics in Fairyland
  Busted on My Watch

Robert Bringhurst (b.1946)

• Deuteronomy
  The Beauty of the Weapons
  These Poems, She Said
  Leda and the Swan

Yusef Komunyakaa (b.1947)

• Starlight Scope Myopia
  Communiqué
  Facing It
  Nude Interrogation
  Once the Dream Begins
  NJ Transit

David Lehman (b.1948)

• The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke
  First Offense

Lorna Crozier (b.1948)

• Inventing the Hawk
  The Memorial Wall
  Sturgeon
  The Swan Girl
  Le Feu-Cracher in Montpellier

James Fenton (b.1949)

• A German Requiem
  Lines for Translation into Any Language
  In Paris with You

John Agard (b.1949)

• Listen Mr Oxford Don
  How Aunty Nansi Reshuffled Prospero’s Books
  The Embodiment

Charles Bernstein (b.1950)

• The Kiwi Bird in the Kiwi Tree
  Verdi and Postmodernism
  Being a Statement on Poetics for the New Poetics Colloquium of the Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 1985
  Of Time and the Line

Anne Carson (b.1950)

• Audubon
  Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
  Interview with Hara Tamiki (1950)
  Tango IX. But What Word Was It

Susan Musgrave (b.1951)

• At Nootka Sound
  Exchange of Fire
  Things That Keep and Do Not Change

Paul Muldoon (b.1951)

• Good Friday, 1971. Driving Westward
  The Upriver Incident
  Meeting the British
  Errata
  The Misfits

Rita Dove (b.1952)

• Parsley
  Lady Freedom Among Us
  The Bistro Styx
  I Cut My Finger Once on Purpose

Dionne Brand (b.1953)

• Canto I
  Canto II
  from Land to Light On
  V i
  V ii
  V iii
  V iv
  V v
  V vi

Patricia Young (b.1954)

• Three Point Five Nine
  The Third Sex
  Photograph, 1958
  Choosing a Picture to Live With
  The Picnic

Louise Erdrich (b.1954)

• Dear John Wayne
  Indian Boarding School: The Runaways

Vijay Seshadri (b.1954)

• Divination in the Park
  Party Girl
  Lifeline

Jan Zwicky (b.1955)

• Border Station
  Bone Song
  Nostalgia

Carol Ann Duffy (b.1955)

• Litany
  Confession
  Valentine
  Poet for Our Times
  Little Red-Cap
  Answer
  The Love Poem

Amy Gerstler (b.1956)

• The Unforeseen
  Sculpture/The Impatience of Youth
  Around the Block in Eighty Days
  Suffering in the Old Testament
  Lost in the Forest
  Scorched Cinderella

Jacqueline Osherow (b.1956)

• Phantom Haiku/Silent Film
  Sonnet
  Ghazal: Comet
  Villanelle from a Sentence in a Poet’s Brief Biography

Debra Allbery (b.1957)

• Sherwood Anderson Walks Out
  Offering
  A Little Blessing

Elise Partridge (b.1959)

• Everglades
  In the Barn
  Caught
  A Valediction
  Ways of Going

George Elliott Clarke (b.1960)

• Primitivism
  Coming into Intelligence
  En Lutte!
  Halifax Blues
  Ballad of a Hanged Man

Connie Fife (b.1961)

• and dance they will
  This is not a metaphor
  i have become so many mountains
  dear walt
  she who remembers

Karen Solie (b.1966)

• Signs Taken for Wonders
  Sturgeon
  Days Inn
  Dear Heart
  Flashpoint
  The Bends
  Lines Compose a Few Miles Above Duncairn Dam

Christian Bök (b.1966)

• from Eunoia
  Chapter E

Sherman Alexie (b.1966)

• Economics of the Tribe
  Poem
  After the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994
  Soon to be a National Geographic Special

Stephanie Bolster (b.1969)

• Many have Written Poems about Blackberries
  Aperture, 1856
  Still Life
  Natal
  Virginia Woolf’s Mother in the Blurred Garden
  Fargo in Flood

Reading Poetry
Glossary: Poetic and Literary Terms
Sources
Index of Authors and Titles
Index of First Lines