Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology, with DVD Book

	Introduction
	From "Discordants" (1)	3
	The sentence	4
	The great canzon	5
	Inside the apple	7
	In memoriam Mae Noblitt	8
	A blessing in disguise	10
	This room	10
	It is dangerous to read newspapers	12
	Lullaby	14
	The more loving one	14
	L'invitation au voyage	17
	Enueg 1	19
	Enueg 2	19
	From "Eleven addresses to our Lord" (3, 4)	23
	At the fishhouses	25
	A cold spring	25
	Some dreams they forgot	25
	The chimney sweeper (from Songs of innocence)	31
	The garden of love (from Songs of experience)	31
	The crows	33
	Dark summer	33
	The blossom	34
	We real cool	36
	When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story	36
	Strong men	38
	Two in the Campagna	41
	Ay, ay, ay de la Grifa Negra	43
	Is there for honest poverty	45
	John Anderson my Jo	45
	Deathfugue	48
	The Negro's complaint	50
	Sunday morning apples	52
	For a poet	54
	Song in spite of myself	54
	I carry your heart with me ...	56
	Ample make this bed	58
	The grass so little has to do	58
	I'm nobody! Who are you?	58
	One need not be a chamber - to be haunted	58
	Surgeons must be very careful	58
	To fight aloud, is very brave	58
	An epithalamion	62
	The good-morrow	62
	The elephant	67
	With no experience in such matters	70
	Journey of the Magi	72
	Seen through a window	74
	After apple-picking	75
	Directive	75
	An old man's winter night	75
	"Out, out -"	75
	The oven bird	75
	The pasture	75
	Transcription of organ music	82
	The school children	84
	The holy longing	85
	Ode on the death of a favorite cat	86
	The idea of trust	88
	Woolworth's	90
	Population	91
	Afterwards	93
	The man he killed	93
	Privilege of being	95
	The night-blooming Cereus	97
	From "Clearances" (3)	100
	Prospects	101
	The collar	102
	The envoy of Mr. Cogito	104
	Upon Julia's clothes	106
	Carrion comfort	107
	God's grandeur	107
	To seem the stranger lies my lot ...	107
	When I was one-and-twenty (A Shropshire Lad 13)	110
	The dream keeper	111
	Minstrel man	111
	Motto	111
	Degrees of gray in Philipsburg	113
	My real dwelling	115
	The islands	116
	The woman at the Washington Zoo	116
	The eye	118
	The song of the banana man	119
	Inviting a friend to supper	122
	Lovel's song	122
	Men at forty	124
	From Endymion	125
	On a leander which Miss Reynolds, my kind friend, gave me	125
	To sleep	125
	Finding a long gray hair	128
	The boiling water	129
	Facing it	134
	Thinking of death and dogfood	136
	Hornworm : autumn lamentation	138
	The layers	138
	An Arundel tomb	141
	The explosion	141
	Caedmon	144
	They feed they lion	146
	What work is	146
	The flower-fed buffaloes	149
	Still night thoughts	150
	River-snow	151
	A psalm of life	152
	To Althea, from prison	154
	Memories of West Street and Lepke	156
	The old flame	156
	Portrait	160
	Ars poetica	162
	Language lesson 1976	163
	The mad scene	164
	The shore	165
	On hearing a symphony of Beethoven	166
	Recuerdo	166
	You who wronged	168
	When I consider how my light is spent	169
	Piececitos	170
	A jellyfish	172
	What are years?	172
	The meeting of the waters	174
	The snow globe	175
	Absence of Joaquin	176
	He lived - childhood summers	177
	The day lady died	178
	Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)	178
	Poem (and tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock in Springfield, Massachusetts)	178
	The forms of love	181
	Psalm	181
	Dulce et decorum est	183
	At the new year	185
	Dawn	186
	Wind and water and stone	186
	When in the widening circle of rebirth	188
	Nick and the candlestick	189
	Alone	191
	Erat hora	192
	Meditatio	192
	The diamond cutters	193
	Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev	193
	Initiation	197
	Requiem for the death of a boy	197
	The sheaves	201
	The unforgiven	201
	I knew a woman	204
	In a dark time	204
	The sloth	204
	Effort at speech between two people	207
	With his venom	209
	Tired and unhappy, you think of houses	210
	Helvellyn	211
	The truth the dead know	213
	As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnets 23)	214
	That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnets 73)	214
	When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnets 29)	214
	When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (Sonnets 2)	214
	Love's philosophy	218
	Stanzas written in dejection - December 1818, near Naples	218
	Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere (Amoretti 26)	221
	The gift	222
	The shirt poem	223
	Disillusionment of ten o'clock	227
	A rabbit as king of the ghosts	227
	My shadow	229
	Keeping things whole	230
	The centaur	231
	Notes from a nonexistent Himalayan expedition	234
	From Gitanjali (35, 39)	236
	The sadness of my neighbors	237
	From In memoriam A.H.H. (54)	238
	Casey at the bat	239
	If I were tickled by the rub of love	241
	You shall not despair	241
	The evacuee	244
	Bent with worry	246
	Like city's rain, my heart	247
	Streams	248
	For my people	250
	Lineage	250
	Go lovely rose!	253
	Tell me a story	254
	Dirge for two veterans	255
	The runner	255
	From Song of myself (50, 52)	255
	Year that trembled and reel'd beneath me	255
	Patriots' day	259
	The Harlot's house	260
	The ivy crown	262
	Rain	262
	We are seven	268
	The world is too much with us; late and soon	268
	After reading Tu Fu, I go outside to the Dwarf Orchard	272
	Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota	273
	Whoso list to hunt	274
	A prayer for my daughter	275
	A prayer for old age	275
	Politics	275
	The lower leaves of the trees	279
	Attention	280
	The way of the water-hyacinth	281