Break of day / Galway Kinnell
Happiness / Raymond Carver
This morning / Jane Kenyon
Monks of St John's file in for prayer / Kilian McDonnell
Or death and December / George Garrett
Sonnet: Rarely, rarely comest thou, spirit of delight / Gavin Ewart
Little horse is newly1Y / EE cummings
Poem for Emily / Miller Williams
For a five-year old / Fleur Adcock
For my daughter in reply to a question / David Ignatow
Starting the Subaru at five below / Stuart Kestenbaum
Such As It Is More Or Less:
Dialogue of watching / Kenneth Rexroth
Thoughts in a garden / Andrew Marvell
Unharvested / Robert Frost
State of the economy / Louis Jenkins
At the arraignment / Debra Spencer
Song of myself (from) / Walt Whitman
Passengers / Billy Collins
Summer-camp bus pulls away from the curb / Sharon Olds
You can take it with you / Josephine Jacobsen
To David, about his education / Howard Nemerov
Calling him back from layoff / Bob Hicok
Working in the rain / Robert Morgan
My father's lunch / Erica Funkhouser
Happiest day / Linda Pastan
After dark vapours have oppressed our plains' / John Keats
Children's hospital, emergency room / Gregory Djanikian
Lonely-weds know / Leah Furnas
In answer to your query / Naomi Lazard
Detail waiting for a train / Stanley Plumly
September twelfth, 2001 / XJ Kennedy
Sonnet No-6: Dearest, I never knew such loving / Hayden Carruth
There comes the strangest moment / Kate Light
Somewhere I'll find you / Phebe Hanson
Feasting / Elizabeth W Garber
Dalliance of the eagles / Walt Whitman
After love / Maxine Kumin
Sonnet CVI: When in the chronicle of wasted time / William Shakespeare
Spiral notebook / Ted Kooser
What's in my journal / William Stafford
Why I take good care of my Macintosh / Gary Snyder
Ode to my 1977 Toyota / Barbara Hamby
Internal exile / Richard Cecil
Burma-shave / Traditional
Carnation milk / Anonymous
Brief lecture on door closers / Clemens Starck
Sonnet XII: Why are we by all creatures waited on? / John Donne
Passing through a small town / David Shumate
In Paris with you / James Fenton
Wedding poem for Schele and Phil / Bill Holm
Seven deadly sins / Virginia Hamilton Adair
Teaching a child the art of confession / David Shumate
Any prince to any princess / Adrian Henri
Courage that my mother had / Edna St Vincent Millay
Please Mrs Butler / Allan Ahlberg
To a frustrated poet / RJ Ellmann
Lesson of the moth / Don Marquis
Disappointment / Tony Hoagland
Upon hearing about the suicide of the daughter of friends / Jo McDougall
Con job / Charles Bukowski
Fareweel to A our Scottish fame / Robert Burns
Easter morning / Jim Harrison
Million young workmen, 1915 / Carl Sandburg
College colonel / Herman Melville
Ordinary life / Barbara Crooker
To fight aloud, is very brave / Emily Dickinson
Analysis of baseball / May Swenson
Ode to American English / Barbara Hamby
High water mark / David Shumate
After school on ordinary days / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Snow in the suburbs / Thomas Hardy
Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion
Happiness / Michael Van Walleghen
Tender buttons (from) / Gertrude Stein
Classic ballroom dances / Charles Simic
Theater / William Greenway
Ode on the whole duty of parents / Frances Cornford
Benefits of ignorance / Hal Sirowitz
Bunthorne's song / WS Gilbert
Rules of evidence / Lee Robinson
Courtesy / Hilaire Belloc
What the uneducated old woman told me / Christopher Reid
Proverbs of hell / William Blake
To a daughter leaving home / Linda Pastan
No longer a teenager / Gerald Locklin
Minnesota Thanksgiving / John Berryman
Mother, in love at sixty / Susanna Styve
Afraid so / Jeanne Marie Beaumont
High plains farming / William Notter
All the time / May Swenson
My husband discovers poetry / Diane Lockward
Poet's occasional alternative / Grace Paley
Snapshot of a lump / Kelli Russell Agodon
Hymn to God, my God, in my sickness / John Donne
Thelonious monk / Stephen Dobyns
Discovery of sex / Debra Spencer
Prodigal son's brother / Steve Kowit
Calling your father / Robert Bly
Al and Beth / Louis Simpson
Meeting / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing is lost / Noel Coward
Planet on the table / Wallace Stevens
It is raining on the house of Anne Frank / Linda Pastan
Sunlight on the garden / Louis MacNeice
Too sweet / Charles Bukowski
For my sister, emigrating / Wendy Cope
Three kings / Muriel Spark
Not only the Eskimos / Lisel Mueller
Where go the boats / Robert Louis Stevenson
Affirmation / Donald Hall
Singing voice / Kenneth Rexroth
Since you asked / Lawrence Raab
Inviting a friend to supper / Ben Jonson
Soda crackers / Raymond Carver
That silent evening / Galway Kinnell
This is how memory works / Patricia Hampl
Purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once / XJ Kennedy
Death mask / Edward Field
That's the sum of it / David Ignatow
Day the tree fell down / Jack LaZebnik
White Autumn / Robert Morgan
Naked / Jennifer Michael Hecht
Slow children at play / Cecilia Woloch
Driving to town late to mail a letter / Robert Bly
My brother's in Wyoming / Gary Young
My brother / Denver Butson
Still life / Carl Sandburg
Changing light / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
At the fish-houses / Elizabeth Bishop
Man in Maine / Philip Booth
War in the air / Howard Nemerov
In the middle / Barbara Crooker
Are you tired of me, my darling? / Traditional
On a night of snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth
Closing in on the harvest / Leo Dangel
Reconciliation / Walt Whitman
Tie the strings to my life, my lord / Emily Dickinson
Last waltz / Alden Nowlan
Rye whiskey / Traditional
Let old Nellie stay / Traditional
In praise of my bed / Meredith Holmes
Poem for the family / Susan Cataldo
In bed with a book / Mona Van Duyn
My father gets up in the middle of the night to watch an old movie / Dennis Trudell
Prayer in the prospect of death / Robert Burns
When death comes / Mary Oliver
At my funeral / Willis Barnstone
Wish to be generous (The) / Wendell Berry
Simpler Than I Could Find Words For:
Dawn revisited / Rita Dove
Crossing the bar / Alfred Lord Tennyson
Morning swim / Maxine Kumin
