Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	My Father	3
	Sestina	4
	The Game	6
	Dreamtigers	8
	To My Dear Children	9
	Boy Breaking Glass	10
	Frost and Midnight	12
	My Grandmother's Love Letters	15
	Story for Margarita	17
	Coastal	21
	Little Brown Baby	23
	Once by the Pacific	25
	Time	26
	At the Railway Station, Upway	28
	The Self-Unseeing	28
	Follower	30
	Blackberry-Picking	31
	Spring and Fall	33
	Ode I.9 / To Thaliarchus	35
	Dreams	36
	A Flower Given to My Daughter	37
	You Were Wearing	38
	Venus's-flytraps	39
	The Catch	41
	The Piano	42
	My Childhood-Home I See Again	43
	Silence	47
	August, Los Angeles, Lullaby	48
	Adventures of Isabel	51
	Autobiographia Literaria	53
	Alicante Lullaby	54
	The Lice Seekers	55
	Child on Top of a Greenhouse	56
	The Land of Counterpane	57
	There Was a Child Went Forth	59
	On the Beach at Night	61
	The Turtle	63
	Night Light	65
	The Song of Wandering Aengus	66
	Just Walking Around	71
	To My Mother	72
	A Bouquet	73
	The Shampoo	75
	Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand: (Sonnets from the Portuguese 6)	76
	Now Winter Nights Enlarge	77
	The Bandaged Shoulder	78
	somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond	79
	Wild Nights - Wild Nights! (249)	80
	If you were coming in the Fall (511)	81
	Song	82
	Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee (Idea 30)	84
	The Love I Gave You Once	85
	To Earthward	87
	Dust of Snow	88
	A Broken Appointment	89
	Misery and Splendor	90
	Love (III)	91
	To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	92
	Oh, when I was in love with you (A Shropshire Lad 28)	93
	Life Is Fine	94
	His Excuse for Loving	96
	My Picture Left in Scotland	97
	Love Song	98
	The Definition of Love	99
	Ballad	101
	From the Journals of the Frog Prince	102
	Tonight I Can Write	104
	Steps	106
	Love Letter	108
	To Helen	110
	"No, Thank You, John"	111
	To Atthis	113
	Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnets 116)	115
	My true love hath my heart and I have his	116
	Love after Love	117
	Natural History	118
	I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	119
	Still Life	120
	The Act	122
	He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	123
	Thoughts of Death	127
	I have of sorwe so grete woon	128
	The Watch	129
	The Heart asks Pleasure - first - (536)	130
	I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - (465)	130
	Death, be not proud, though some have called thee (Holy Sonnets 10)	132
	The Poet Goes about Her Business	134
	You that seek what life is in death (Caelica 82)	136
	Death	137
	To Daffodils	138
	To an Athlete Dying Young	139
	The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	141
	A Contemplation upon Flowers	142
	The Bolt	143
	On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia	145
	Janet Waking	146
	Elegy for Jane	148
	Fear no more the heat o' the sun	149
	Question	150
	And Death Shall Have No Dominion	151
	The Death of a Toad	153
	The Last Words of My English Grandmother	154
	Mad Tom's Song	159
	As I Walked Out One Evening	162
	Nurse's Song (from Songs of Innocence)	165
	Nurse's Song (from Songs of Experience)	166
	The Grey Monk	166
	First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string ...	168
	Bitter Fruit of the Tree	169
	Waiting for the Barbarians	171
	Incident	173
	After great pain, a formal felling comes - (341)	174
	Belinda's Petition	175
	Nothing Gold Can Stay	176
	The Red Poppy	177
	Frederick Douglass	178
	Binsey Poplars	179
	90 North	181
	King of the River	183
	1910	186
	For the Union Dead	188
	Not to Be Spattered by His Blood	191
	Resume	194
	Storm Warnings	195
	Richard Cory	197
	Her Kind	199
	(1) Like This	200
	(2) Like This	200
	The Emperor of Ice-Cream	201
	Reapers	202
	By the road to the contagious hospital	203
	Filling Station	207
	Medusa	209
	at last we killed the roaches	211
	Pear Tree	212
	An Ox Looks at Man	213
	Plague of Dead Sharks	215
	Preludes	216
	Departmental	219
	In back of the real	221
	Yoko	223
	Considering the Snail	225
	The man pulling radishes	226
	To Autumn	227
	Let Evening Come	229
	First Sight	230
	In Houston	231
	Bring Me the Sunflower	233
	Those Various Scalpels	234
	The Village of Reason	236
	Archaic Torso of Apollo	238
	Ozymandias	239
	Spring	240
	Augusto Jandolo: On Excavating an Etruscan Tomb	241
	Five Dogs	243
	The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower	246
	The Yonder Tree	247
	Aboard at a Ship's Helm	250
	Incantation	317
	A Step Away from Them	318
	Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	320
	Eating Poetry	323
	Dream On	324
	A Coat	327
	Notes	329
	Permissions	333
	Index	343