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The Giant Book of Poetry (2006)

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by William H. Roetzheim


  Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

  287

  Loving in Truth

  41

  Luck in Sarajevo

  499

  Lustra (from the Introduction)

  411

  Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

  486

  Manet’s Olympia

  533

  Marginalia (Extracts)

  437

  Maroon

  579

  Maybe

  435

  Meeting at Night

  188

  Mending Wall

  343

  Metamorphoses of the Vampire

  222

  Misgiving

  344

  Miss July Grows Older

  534

  Moment

  601

  Money

  460

  Mr. Flood’s Party

  310

  Music

  103

  Mutability

  104

  Mutation

  108

  My Fly

  523

  My Last Duchess

  188

  My Legacy

  210

  My life closed twice before its close

  241

  My Madonna

  362

  My mother said

  488

  Names of Horses

  489

  Nature

  151

  Natzweiler

  517

  Never the Time and the Place

  190

  New Heavens for Old

  352

  New Year’s Eve

  405

  Next Day

  450

  Nightclub

  564

  Northern Exposure

  530

  Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments

  428

  Not Touching

  565

  Not Waving but Drowning

  435

  Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room

  71

  O Blush Not So

  137

  O Captain! My Captain

  210

  Ode on a Grecian Urn

  139

  Ode to the Maggot

  610

  Of Time and the Line

  624

  Old Days

  483

  On a Tree Fallen Across the Road

  345

  On His Blindness

  58

  On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

  100

  On the Disinclination to Scream

  650

  On the Wire

  362

  Once

  587

  One Art

  443

  One fallen flower

  40

  Onions

  584

  Only One of My Deaths

  655

  Opera Season

  654

  Out, Out—

  320

  Ozymandias

  106

  Party Piece

  604

  Passengers

  566

  Patterns

  353

  Persimmons

  661

  Pickwork

  644

  Place (“There’s a Way out”)

  483

  Poem

  647

  Poetry

  417

  Politics

  298

  Population

  616

  Porphyria’s Lover

  191

  Prodigy

  531

  Pulling a Pig’s Tail

  593

  Punishment

  538

  Purity

  567

  Quake Theory

  587

  Questions About Angels

  568

  Rain

  632

  Reader

  474

  Reading in Place

  520

  Reading Myself

  458

  Remember

  262

  Requiem

  286

  ReQuiem – Instead of a Preface2

  426

  ReQuiem for the Croppies

  540

  Response to Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”

  652

  Reuben Bright

  312

  Rhapsody on a Windy Night

  418

  Richard Cory

  312

  Salmon

  625

  Salutation

  412

  Satan Says

  588

  Selecting a Reader

  541

  Sestina

  444

  Shadow Friends

  655

  She Walks in Beauty

  102

  Shirt

  560

  Silas Dement

  305

  Silence and Dancing

  475

  Snake

  407

  Snow

  667

  Snowflakes

  462

  So, we’ll go no more a-roving

  103

  Soaking Up Sun

  581

  Solitude

  286

  Song

  263

  Song from Charles the First

  105

  Song of Prudence

  211

  Song: Why so pale and wan, fond lover?

  58

  Sonnet CXLIII

  48

  Sonnet CXLVII

  49

  Sonnet CXXX

  47

  Sonnet CXXXVIII

  47

  Sonnet LV

  46

  Sonnet XVII

  45

  Sonnet XVIII

  45

  Sonnet XXXII

  46

  Sonnets from the Portuguese – I

  145

  Sonnets from the Portuguese – XIV

  146

  Sonnets from the Portuguese – XLIII

  147

  Sonnets from the Portuguese – XX

  146

  Souvenir

  313

  Spleen

  223

  Spring and Fall

  280

  St. Francis and the Sow

  484

  Still Life

  498

  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  345

  Storm Fear

  346

  Stretch Marks

  653

  Style

  657

  Suicide’s Note

  435

  Sun and Shadow

  169

  Sunt Leones

  436

  Supremacy

  313

  Sweet Will

  493

  Talking In Bed

  465

  Tame Cat

  411

  Terence, This is Stupid Stuff

  288

  Thanatopsis

  109

  Thanksgiving’s Done

  484

  The Act

  398

  The Aim was Song

  347

  The Answering Machine

  596

  The Anvil—God’s Word

  434

  The Armadillo

  446

  The Ashes

  480

  The Bagel

  448

  The Ballad of Father Gilligan

  299

  The Ballad of Pious Pete

  365

  The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin

  370

  The Beautiful Toilet

  33

  The Beleaguered City

  152

  The Bell

  638

  The Bible

  32

  The Boy Di
ed in my Alley

  456

  The Bus to Veracruz

  511

  The Cardinal Detoxes: A Play in One Act

  543

  The Charge of the Light Brigade

  182

  The Computation

  53

  The Confessional

  193

  The Cremation of Sam McGee

  377

  The Curse

  54

  The Dacca Gauzes

  613

  The Dance

  524

  The Dead Village

  314

  The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

  452

  The Dream

  487

  The Dry Tortugas

  651

  The Dumka

  579

  The Eyes

  412

  The Fire of Drift-Wood

  153

  The First Day

  264

  The Flask

  224

  The Garden

  413

  The Garden of Love

  62

  The Ghostly Visitant

  226

  The Growth of “Lorraine”

  314

  The Haw Lantern (Dedication)

  540

  The Heaven of Animals

  467

  The Horrid Voice of Science

  392

  The House that Fear Built: Warsaw, 1943

  670

  The Hurricane

  111

  The Idea of Ancestry

  503

  The Indian upon God

  301

  The Jar

  231

  The Junk Man

  391

  The Landlord’s Tale

  155

  The Last Night

  241

  The Last Words of My English Grandmother

  399

  The Life of a Day

  581

  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  421

  The Mill

  316

  The Murdered Traveler

  112

  The Murderer’s Wine

  226

  The Naif

  506

  The Need of Being Versed in Country

  Things

  347

  The Old Liberators

  618

  The Old World

  532

  The Onset

  348

  The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

  205

  The oxen

  269

  The Phantom Ship

  159

  The Pied Piper of Hamelin

  196

  The Pit

  228

  The Pity of the Leaves

  317

  The Plunge

  413

  The Poem You Asked For

  603

  The Poet

  114

  The Poet’s Fate

  141

  The Pope’s Penis

  590

  The Porcelain Couple

  491

  The Potter’s Wheel

  161

  The Promise

  590

  The Props Assist the House

  242

  The Rainy Day

  164

  The Raven1

  175

  The Reassurance

  498

  The Red Wheelbarrow

  400

  The Revenge of Hamish

  271

  The Rhodora

  143

  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  75

  The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

  38

  The Road Not Taken

  349

  The Room

  649

  The Ruined Maid

  270

  The Sad Shepherd

  301

  The Scholar

  99

  The Sheaves

  318

  The Sheep Child

  468

  The Shooting of Dan McGrew

  380

  The Sick Rose

  63

  The Smoking Frog

  384

  The Snow Man

  393

  The Snow-Storm

  144

  The Soldier

  415

  The Soldier of Fortune

  385

  The Solitary Reaper

  71

  The Space Heater

  591

  The Stones

  515

  The Story

  476

  The Strange Lady

  115

  The Swan at Edgewater Park

  665

  The Tavern

  318

  The Three Goals

  542

  The Three Graces

  400

  The Three Silences of Molinos

  164

  The Tiger

  63

  The Toys

  230

  The Tree

  414

  The Unmoving Cloud

  36

  The Vampire

  229

  The Vantage Point

  350

  The Walrus and the Carpenter

  264

  The Warden Said to Me the Other Day

  504

  The Waving of the Corn

  277

  The way I read a letter’s this

  242

  The Way of the Water-Hyacinth

  438

  The Way Through the Woods

  296

  The Wee Shop

  388

  The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery

  629

  The Windhover

  281

  The Wood-Pile

  350

  The young bloods come less often now

  33

  There came a wind like a bugle

  243

  There will come soft rains

  404

  There’s a certain slant of light

  244

  They say my Verse is Sad: No Wonder

  290

  Thirteen

  598

  Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

  393

  This Be the Verse

  466

  This Compost

  215

  This is Just to Say

  402

  This living hand, now warm and capable1

  138

  ‘Tis the Last Rose of Summer

  101

  Titanic

  522

  To A Louse

  66

  To A Mountain Daisy

  68

  To a Steam Roller

  418

  To a Waterfowl

  118

  To an Athlete Dying Young

  290

  To Know Silence Perfectly

  392

  To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars

  60

  To make a prairie it takes a clover

  245

  To Mark Anthony in Heaven

  401

  To Nannette Falk-Auerbach

  278

  To See a World in a Grain of Sand

  64

  To Sleep

  42

  To the Virgins

  55

  Tom Beatty

  306

  Tomatoes

  571

  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  49

  Tract

  402

  Transformatrix

  666

  Traveling Through the Dark

 

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