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The Giant Book of Poetry

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by William H. Roetzheim, Editor


  Eating Poetry

  519

  Keeping Things Whole

  519

  Reading In Place

  520

  Suckling, Sir John

  Song: Why So Pale And Wan,

  Fond Lover?

  58

  Sutphen, Joyce

  Living In The Body

  619

  Swenson, May

  Couple, A

  448

  Teasdale, Sara

  There Will Come Soft Rains

  404

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

  Charge Of The Light Brigade, The

  182

  Come Not, When I Am Dead

  181

  Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead

  181

  Vivien’s Song

  184

  Thomas, Dylan

  Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good

  Night

  453

  Ting, Shu

  Assembly Line

  634

  Turpin, Mark

  Before Groundbreak

  641

  Don Fargo & Sons

  641

  Jobsite Wind

  643

  Pickwork

  644

  Poem

  647

  Waiting For Lumber

  647

  Untermeyer, Louis

  Long Feud

  414

  Wakoski, Diane

  George Washington And The Loss

  Of His Teeth

  527

  Walcott, Derek

  Love After Love

  502

  Wallace, Ronald

  Thirteen

  598

  Walsh, William

  Love And Jealousy

  60

  Wayman, Tom

  Did I Miss Anything?

  599

  Weigl, Bruce

  What Saves Us

  620

  Whitman, Walt

  Darest Thou Now O Soul

  208

  I Saw In Louisiana A Live Oak Growing

  208

  My Legacy

  210

  O Captain! My Captain

  210

  Song Of Prudence

  211

  This Compost

  215

  When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer

  217

  Whittier, John Greenleaf

  Autumn Thoughts

  167

  By Their Works

  168

  Forgiveness

  168

  Trust

  169

  Wilbur, Richard

  Summer Morning, A

  463

  Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

  Solitude

  286

  Williams, C.K.

  Dance, The

  524

  My Fly

  523

  Williams, Miller

  Listen

  502

  Williams, William Carlos

  Act, The

  398

  Danse Russe

  396

  Last Words Of My English

  Grandmother, The

  399

  Red Wheelbarrow, The

  400

  This Is Just To Say

  402

  Three Graces, The

  400

  To Mark Anthony In Heaven

  401

  Tract

  402

  Wordsworth, William

  I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

  70

  Nuns Fret Not At Their Convent’s

  Narrow Room

  71

  Solitary Reaper, The

  71

  We Are Seven

  72

  Wotton, Sir Henry

  Upon The Death Of Sir Albert

  Morton’s Wife

  51

  Wright, James

  Beginning

  486

  Blessing, A

  485

  Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy’s

  Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota

  486

  Yeats, William Butler

  Ballad Of Father Gilligan, The

  299

  A Dream of Death

  298

  Indian Upon God, The

  301

  Politics

  298

  Sad Shepherd, The

  301

  Young, Dean

  Only One Of My Deaths

  655

  Yuan-ming, Tao

  Unmoving Cloud, The

  36

  Zabajewski, Adam

  Electric Elegy

  600

  Moment

  601

  Zawgee,

  Way Of The Water-Hyacinth, The

  438

  Zimmer, Paul

  Zimmer’s Head Thudding Against

  The Blackboard

  521

  Index by Title

  Title

  Page

  11 (XI)

  39

  23 (XXIII)

  39

  28 (XXVIII)

  39

  51 (LI)

  40

  A Blessing

  485

  A Brook in the City

  321

  A Carrion

  218

  A Couple

  448

  A Decade

  351

  A deed knocks first at thought

  231

  A Ditty 3

  40

  A Dream of Death

  298

  A Dream of Jealousy

  537

  A Dream Pang

  321

  A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears,

  and Some Books

  322

  A Late Walk

  327

  A lost child crying

  61

  A Nameless Grave

  147

  A narrow fellow in the grass

  232

  A Pact

  410

  A Place for Everything

  583

  A Poetry Reading at West Point

  583

  A Presentiment

  107

  A Puppy Called Puberty

  507

  A Rudimentary Explanation of an Ideal Poem

  504

  A Song in the Front Yard

  456

  A Summer Morning

  463

  A Toccata of Galuppi’s

  185

  A Very Valentine

  390

  A Walk Along the Old Tracks

  640

  A word is dead

  233

  Address of Ruth to Naomi

  32

  After Apple-Picking

  327

  After Blenheim

  96

  After great pain a formal feeling comes

  233

  Ah! I intended

  61

  Alexander Throckmorton

  303

  All the World’s a Stage

  44

  Allen Ginsberg

  570

  Alley Violinist

  454

  Amaryllis

  307

  American History

  668

  American Sketches

  478

  An Argument

  101

  An Arundel Tomb

  464

  An Exchange of Gifts

  508

  An Obstacle

  292

  An Old Man’s Winter Night

  329

  An Old Story

  307

  Aner Clute

  303

  Annabel Lee

  170

  Any movement kills something

  477

  Apparently with no surprise

  233

  Ark

  660

  Ars Poetica

  427

&nb
sp; Assembly Line

  634

  At the Office Early

  540

  Authorship

  291

  Autumn Thoughts

  167

  Axe Handles

  500

  Badger

  106

  Bats

  449

  Be Your Words Made, Good Sir of Indian Ware

  41

  Because I could not stop for death

  234

  Before Groundbreak

  641

  Beginning

  486

  Belle Isle, 1949

  492

  Beyond Recall

  595

  Binsey Poplars

  278

  Birches

  329

  Birth Stone

  605

  Bitch

  479

  Blackberries

  607

  Brass Knuckles

  577

  Budapest

  562

  By that fallen house

  302

  By their Works

  168

  Camouflaging the Chimera

  608

  Carrion Comfort

  279

  Ceist na Teangan (The Language Issue)

  632

  Certain People

  636

  Channel firing

  267

  Clearances

  538

  Come Not, When I am Dead

  181

  Community

  51

  Confined Love

  52

  Conrad Siever

  303

  Consulting the Oracle

  472

  Content

  42

  Conversation

  499

  Country Fair

  529

  Cubist Portrait

  396

  Danse Russe

  396

  Darest Thou Now O Soul

  208

  Daydreaming on the Trail

  431

  Days

  141

  Dead Water

  433

  Death

  53

  Death of the Hired Man

  331

  Defense of the meek

  602

  Detail

  572

  Dichtung and Wahrheit

  437

  Did I Miss Anything?

  599

  Dilemma

  542

  Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

  453

  Documentary

  621

  Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short

  35

  Don Fargo & Sons

  641

  Dream Deferred: Harlem

  434

  Drinking

  59

  Driving Lesson

  627

  Dulce et Decorum Est

  430

  Eating Poetry

  519

  Eating Together

  660

  Electric Elegy

  600

  Epitaph for James Smith

  64

  Epitaph on a Henpecked SQuire

  65

  Epitaph on William Muir

  65

  Everything the Power of the World Does is done in a circle

  294

  Evil

  435

  Facing It

  609

  Fading into Background

  653

  False though she be to me and love

  61

  Fawn’s Foster-Mother

  416

  Fiddler Jones

  304

  Filling Station

  439

  Fire and Ice

  336

  First Fig

  429

  Five Lives

  281

  For Annie

  172

  For Once, Then, Something

  336

  Forgetfulness

  562

  Forgiveness

  168

  Fork

  530

  Francesca

  410

  Free

  669

  From a Plane

  472

  from Beginning and End—Knowledge

  432

  from Fuses I – on Art

  221

  from Fuses I – on God

  221

  from Fuses I – on Love

  220

  from Idem the Same, A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson,

  390

  From My Father’s Death

  506

  From Selected Shorts

  437

  from The Death of the Fathers: 2. How We Danced

  495

  from The Longbeards’ Saga

  35

  From The Ship of Death

  405

  from Wanderings — Chapter Heading

  433

  from With Silence My Companion

  505

  Geese

  656

  George Washington and the Loss of His Teeth

  527

  Get It Again

  614

  Goblin Market

  246

  God Says Yes to Me

  606

  Good-by and Keep Cold

  337

  Gyroscope

  459

  Hamatreya

  141

  Haunted House

  308

  Heautontimoroumenos

  221

  Heaven

  481

  Her Kind

  495

  Holes Commence Falling

  582

  Home Burial

  338

  Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead

  181

  Hope is the thing with feathers

  235

  How We Heard the Name

  470

  Hysteria

  426

  I am the Only Being Whose Doom

  206

  I felt a funeral in my brain

  236

  I Go Back to May 1937

  586

  I had been hungry all the years

  236

  I heard a fly buzz when I died

  237

  I Know a Man

  482

  I like to see it lap the miles

  238

  I look into my glass

  269

  I May, I Might, I Must

  417

  I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

  208

  I taste a liQuor never brewed

  239

  I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

  70

  I will not crush the world’s corolla of wonders

  431

  If

  295

  I’ll Win

  482

  I’m nobody! Who are you?

 

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