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• Category: Isaac Watts (continued)
  • Psalm II: Why Did the Nations
  • Psalm III: My God, How Many Are My Fears
  • Psalm LXXII: Great God
  • Psalm LXXIII: Now I'm Convinced the Lord Is Kind
  • Psalm LXXIV: Will God For Ever Cast Us Off?
  • Psalm VIII: O Lord, Our Lord
  • Psalm XIX: The Heavens Declare Thy Glory, Lord
  • Psalm XLVI: God Is the Refuge
  • Psalm XXXII: Happy the Man
  • Psalm XXXIII: Rejoice, Ye Righteous
  • Psalm XXXIV: Lord, I Will Bless Thee
  • Psalm XXXV: Now Plead My Cause, Almighty God
  • Psalm XXXVI: High in the Heav'ns
• Category: Ivan Donn Carswell
  • A catchy phrase
  • A Crystalline Awakening
  • A few kind words
  • A final journeying
  • A monument in words
  • Absorbed in familiar rhythms
  • Ad Invasions
  • Admire their style
  • After the rain
  • Ah, that Murphy girl
  • Almost taste the flavour
  • And The Piper Dreams
  • And you will claim
  • Another barbeque tonight
  • As much a part
  • At Feet Of Dogs
  • Athritic Fingers Have To Last
  • Baby waits alone
  • Before the arthritis set in
  • Being old in the game
  • Benefit of doubt
  • Beta Blogger Blues
  • Bitter sweet
  • Blame Katrina, or Larry
  • Bretton Wood
  • Camping in a kitchen
  • Cappuccino smile
  • Carbonara eyes
  • Cherry bomb
  • Clouded dreams
  • Colours in lamplight
  • Congratulations
  • Consciousness Of Our Return
  • Courage is a motherless lamb
  • Crying to be written
  • Days of the slow roll
  • Dead man's clothes
  • Dead poet
  • Dead thoughts of corpses
  • Desires that you can only tame to know
  • Do you know who is thinking of you?
  • Does the name toll a bell?
  • Does your semen smell like camembert?
  • Don't talk to me of War
  • Dreams of a lifetime
  • Dreams of better days
  • Echoes in an empty room
  • Ekka
  • Every Time I laugh Aloud (An Ode to Short People)
  • For Harry (My College Room-mate who Died)
  • For Siggy & Bill
  • For you secular needs
  • Forever Alight
  • Forsaken promises
  • Fountain of your rise
  • Free from intrusion
  • Frogmouth biker
  • Futurelessness
  • Gimme 'n F
  • Good neighbours
  • Gravestone
  • Growing Apart
  • Haircut today
  • Having each of you as friends
  • Her gentle hands
  • Hidden dangers
  • Hoping With Care
  • Hostel Beach, Oneroa
  • I cannot let the moment pass
  • I love you in the morning
  • I Mark Your Courage
  • I'll have to change my mind
  • If democratically elected
  • If it ever bloody rains
  • In soothing, sweetened words
  • In these quiet moments
  • It is a secular world
  • It is an abhorrent thing
  • It seldom snowed - Part II
  • It seldom snowed - Part III
  • It seldom snowed - Part IV
  • It seldom snowed, they said - Part I
  • It was your first outing
  • Jack's Legacy
  • Jessie of Gibraltar
  • Joys of the chase
  • Just wasn't right
  • Key economy
  • Lake Otamangakau
  • Lethargy of leaden wings
  • Love stopped before it began
  • Men with trivial scars
  • Moocooboola Dam
  • Morning's Reflections
  • Mountains of Delight
  • My enemy my friend
  • Night's sentinel
  • No conscience in escape
  • No further slice of me
  • No way of going back
  • None is spared your handsome smile
  • Nothing ever is the same
  • Of Such Simplicity
  • Olmecs rule
  • On The Death of a Father
  • On your birthday, today
  • Other side
  • Out of ideas
  • Out of The Annexe
  • Paper towel
  • Partisanship and politics
  • Pedestrian ambitions
  • Piscine kind of kinship
  • Political nonsense
  • Possums came at night
  • Puissant Morons
  • Pumpkins in our time
  • Rangipo Desert
  • Ready to step into life
  • Remember with affection
  • Sends the wrong message
  • Seven suits
  • Share of obligation
  • Shirley of Serendipity
  • Silvered In The Dying Light
  • Simple pleasures that you bring
  • So Let Us Dare
  • Something to shout about
  • Steve's tears
  • Still hear the waves
  • Strawberries again today
  • Sweetness Of The Decent Night
  • Tales in the beginning
  • Talk to me of love
  • Terra nullis ignorata
  • Thank you Ambrose
  • The beans were exciting
  • The Beer Was Cold Enough
  • The best days of my life
  • The Ease and Charm of You
  • The Hunt
  • The last excuse
  • The Last Unicorn
  • The light was always you
  • The Logic Of This State
  • The perfect cup
  • The power of the Lake
  • The Price of Fame
  • The Price Of Parting
  • The Reason Why I'm Fat
  • The same embrace
  • The Waipakihi
  • Thinking of an Afterlife
  • This House Which Is Lived In
  • This Window is
  • Thought it was America
  • Tickets to the game
  • Time to play
  • To Henrietta Lyn
  • To keep the ambience alive
  • To let them die peace
  • To risk your Liberty
  • To win a game
  • Today
  • Tools for life
  • Touched my family
  • Travellers Whom We Met
  • Travelling on the thumb
  • Twenty Four Hour Embrace
  • Uncommon common sense
  • Water Babes
  • We reflect this day on the essence of intimacy
  • We, The Living
  • What a weekend
  • What does it take?
  • When I Close My Eyes
  • When We Were Young
  • Where The Creek Used To Run
  • Worthy Places
  • Your noble reign
  • Your Voices Joined Is All It Takes
• Category: J R r tolkien
  • All That is Gold Does Not Glitter
  • All Woods Must Fail
  • All Ye Joyful
  • Bath-Song
  • Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens)
  • Bregalad's Lament
  • Cat
  • Durin
  • Earendil
  • Elbereth
  • Finrod's Song
  • Gandalf's Song of Lorien
  • Gil-galad
  • I Sit and Think
  • Journey's End
  • Lament for Boromir
  • Lament for Eorl the Young
  • Lebennin
  • Namárië
  • Nimrodel
  • O! Where Are You Going?
  • One Ring
  • One White Tree
  • Over the Misty Mountains Cold
  • Roads Go Ever On
  • Seasons
  • Sing All Ye People!
  • The King
  • The Little House of Lost Play (Mar Vanwa Tyalieva)
  • The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
  • The Sea
  • Theoden
  • Theoden's Fall
  • Tinuviel
  • To the Bottle I Go
  • Troll Sat Alone on His Seat of Stone
• Category: Jack Gilbert
  • In Dispraise Of Poetry
  • In Umbria
  • Poetry Is A Kind Of Lying
  • Portrait Number Five: Against A New York Summer
  • Rain
  • Recovering Amid The Farms
  • Searching For Pittsburgh
  • Tear It Down
  • The Abnormal Is Not Courage
  • The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart
  • The Great Fires
• Category: Jack Prelutsky
  • As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed
  • Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
  • Bleezer's Ice Cream
  • Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens
  • Super Samson Simpson
  • The Visitor
• Category: Jack Spicer
  • A Red Wheelbarrow
  • Fifteen False Propositions Against God - Section XIII
  • Fifteen False Propositions Against God - Section XIV
  • For Mac
  • Thing Language
• Category: Jackie Kay
  • Baby Lazarus
  • Late Love
  • SOUND OF SLEAT
  • That Distance Apart
  • The Mother Poem (two)
• Category: James A Emanuel
  • " I'm A Jazz Singer, " She Replied
  • A Fool For Evergreen
  • Bojangles And Jo
  • Emmett Till *
  • False Notions, Fears, And Other Things Of Wood
  • Fishermen
  • For A Depressed Woman
  • Françoise And The Fruit Farmer
  • Jazzanatomy
  • Mahalia Jackson
  • Poet As Fisherman
  • The Treehouse
  • The Young Ones, Flip Side
  • Wishes, For Alix
• Category: James Dickey
  • FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE
  • The Lifeguard
  • The Shark's Parlor
• Category: James Henry Leigh Hunt
  • A Fish Answers
  • A Night-Rain in Summer
  • A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's
  • Abou Ben Adhem
  • An Angel in the House
  • Death
  • How Robin and His Outlaws Lived in The Woods
  • Jenny kiss'd Me
  • Jenny Kissed Me
  • May and the Poets
  • On Receiving a Crown of Ivy from John Keats
  • Robin Hood, A Child
  • Robin Hood, An Outlaw
  • Robin Hood's Flight
  • Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
  • Sudden Fine Weather
  • The Glove and The Lions
  • The Negro Boy
  • The Nile
  • To a Fish
  • To Robert Batty, M. D., on His Giving Me a Lock of Milton's Hair
  • To the Grasshopper and the Cricket
• Category: James Joyce
  • A Flower Given to My Daughter
  • A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
  • A Prayer
  • All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters
  • Alone
  • At That Hour
  • Bahnhofstrasse
  • Be Not Sad
  • Because Your Voice Was at My Side
  • Bid Adieu to Maidenhood
  • Bright Cap and Streamers
  • Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So?
  • Ecce Puer
  • Flood
  • From Dewy Dreams
  • Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing
  • Go Seek Her Out
  • He Who Hath Glory Lost
  • I Hear an Army Charging Upon the Land
  • I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be
  • In the Dark Pine-Wood
  • Lean Out of the Window
  • Lightly Come or Lightly Go
  • Love Came to Us
  • My Dove, My Beautiful One
  • My Love Is in a Light Attire
  • Nightpiece
  • Now, O Now in This Brown Land
  • O Cool Is the Valley Now
  • O Sweetheart, Hear You
  • O, It Was Out by Donnycarney
  • Of That So Sweet Imprisonment
  • On the Beach at Fontana
  • Rain Has Fallen All the Day
  • She Weeps over Rahoon
  • Silently She's Combing
  • Simples
  • Sleep Now, O Sleep Now
  • Strings in the Earth and Air
  • The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly
  • The Twilight Turns
  • This Heart that Flutters Near My Heart
  • Thou Leanest to the Shell of Night
  • Though I Thy Mithridates Were
  • Tilly
  • Tutto è Sciolto
  • Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba
  • What Counsel Has the Hooded Moon
  • When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven
  • Who Goes Amid the Green Wood
  • Winds of May
• Category: James Lee Jobe
  • Eternity
  • Moon In Virgo
  • Quietly
  • Redbud Trail - Winter
  • Richard
  • SPROUT
  • WHAT I DID IN THE MOONLIGHT
• Category: James Merrill
  • The Victor Dog
• Category: James Schuyler
  • Closed Gentian Distances
  • Faure's Second Piano Quartet
  • Korean Mums
  • October
  • Salute
  • Sunday
• Category: James Stephens
  • Hate
  • I heard a bird at dawn
  • In The Cool Of The Evening
  • In The Poppy Field
  • The Ancient Elf
  • The Lonely God
• Category: James Thomson
  • A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton
  • Fareweel, ye bughts
  • Farewell to Ravelrig
  • Gifts
  • Hymn on Solitude
  • In the Train
  • Rule Britannia
  • Sunday up the River
  • The Seasons: Winter
  • The Vine
• Category: James Weldon Johnson
  • Go Down, Death
  • Lift Every Voice and Sing
  • Listen, Lord: A Prayer
  • The Creation
• Category: James Whitcomb Riley
  • A Barefoot Boy
  • A Life-Lesson
  • A Noon Interval
  • A Parting Guest
  • A Passing Hail
  • A Poet's Wooing
  • A Song of the Road
  • A Summer Afternoon
  • Almost Beyond Endurance
  • At Broad Ripple
  • Granny
  • Ike Walton's Prayer
  • Knee-Deep in June
  • Liberty
  • Little Orphant Annie
  • Nine Little Goblins
  • Orlie Wilde
  • Our Hired Girl
  • The Bumblebee
  • The Harper
  • The Merman
  • The Old Guitar
  • The Old Swimmin'-Hole
  • The Old Times Were the Best
  • The Raggedy Man
  • The Rapture of the Year
  • The Ripest Peach
  • The Rival
  • The Song of Yesterday
  • The Willow
  • There Was a Cherry-Tree
  • To a Boy Whistling
  • Unless
  • We to Sigh Instead of Sing
  • Wet-weather Talk
  • When the Frost is on the Punkin
  • Who Bides His Time
  • Ylladmar
• Category: James Wright
  • A Blessing
  • A Note Left In Jimmy Leonard's Shack
  • A Poem About George Doty In The Death House
  • A Winter Daybreak Above Vence
  • As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor
  • At The Executed Murderer's Grave
  • Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio
  • Beginning
  • Depressed By A Book Of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward An Unused Pasture And Invite The Insects To Join Me
  • Fear Is What Quickens Me
  • Goodbye To The Poetry Of Calcium
  • Having Lost My Sons, I Confront The Wreckage Of The Moon: Christmas, 1960
  • Hook
  • In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse In Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned
  • Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota
  • May Morning
  • Northern Pike
  • On The Skeleton Of A Hound
  • Outside Fargo, North Dakota
  • Rip
  • Saint Judas
  • Small Frogs Killed On The Highway
  • The Jewel
  • The Journey
  • To A Blossoming Pear Tree
  • To The Muse
  • Trying To Pray
• Category: Jane Austen
  • Happy the Lab'rer
  • I've a Pain in my Head
  • Miss Lloyd has now went to Miss Green
  • Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend
  • My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy
  • Ode to Pity
  • Of A Ministry Pitiful, Angry, Mean
  • Oh! Mr Best You're Very Bad
  • See they come, post haste from Thanet
  • This Little Bag
  • To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy who died Dec:r 16 my Birthday
  • When Stretch'd on One's Bed
  • When Winchester races
• Category: Jane Kenyon
  • Biscuit
  • Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
  • Dutch Interiors
  • February: Thinking of Flowers
  • Finding A Long Gray Hair
  • Happiness
  • Having it Out with Melancholy
  • Let Evening Come
  • Notes from the Other Side
  • Otherwise
  • The Blue Bowl
  • The Suitor
  • Twilight: After Haying
  • Wash
• Category: Jane Taylor
  • Come and Play in the Garden
  • Finery
  • Greedy Richard
  • Little Girls Must Not Fret
  • Mischief
  • Sleepy Harry
  • The Apple-Tree
  • The Disappointment
  • The Good-Natured Girls
  • The Holidays
  • The Orphan
  • The Spider
  • The Village Green
  • The Violet
• Category: Jean Cocteau
  • Preamble (A Rough Draft For An Ars Poetica)
• Category: Jean De la Fontaine
  • A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem
  • Alice Sick
  • An Imitation Of Anacreon
  • Another Imitation Of Anacreon
  • Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay
  • Epitaph Of La Fontaine Made By Himself
  • Feronde
  • Friar Philip's Geese
  • Joconde
  • King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws
  • Neighbour Peter's Mare
  • Nicaise
  • Richard Minutolo
  • Sister Jane
  • St. Julian's Prayer
  • The Amorous Courtesan
  • The Avaricious Wife And Tricking Gallant
  • The Bucking-Tub
  • The Case Of Conscience
  • The Clyster
  • The Cobbler
  • The Contract
  • The Convent Gardener Of Lamporechio
  • The Country Justice
  • The Countryman Who Sought His Calf
  • The Cradle
  • The Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold
  • The Devil In Hell
  • The Dog
  • The Dress-Maker
  • The Ear-Maker And The Mould-Mender
  • The Eel Pie
  • The Falcon
  • The Gascon
  • The Glutton
  • The Hermit
  • The Husband-Confessor
  • The Impossible Thing
  • The Jealous Husband
  • The Kiss Returned
  • The Little Bell
  • The Magic Cup
  • The Magnificent
  • The Mandrake
  • The Monks Of Catalonia
  • The Muleteer
  • The Nightingale
  • The Old Man's Calendar
  • The Pack-Saddle
  • The Picture
  • The Pitcher
  • The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba
  • The Progress Of Wit
  • The Psalter
  • The Rhemese
  • The River Scamander
  • The Sick Abbess
  • The Spectacles
  • The Truckers
  • The Two Friends
  • To Promise Is One Thing To Keep It, Another
• Category: Jean Hans Arp
  • Kaspar Is Dead
• Category: Jean Toomer
  • A Certain Man
  • A Portrait in Georgia
  • Conversion
  • Cotton Song
  • Evening Song
  • For M. W
  • Georgia Dusk
  • Harvest Song
  • Her Lips Are Copper Wire
  • November Cotton Flower
  • People
  • Reapers
  • Song of the Son
  • Tell Me
  • The Lost Dancer
• Category: Jean Valentine
  • Dream Barker
  • Elegy For Jane Kenyon
  • Late
  • To Plath, To Sexton
• Category: Jennifer Reeser
  • Blue-Crested Cry
  • By This Pitch And Motion
  • Civic Centre (for Kathryn)
  • Civilization
  • Compass Rose
  • Elizabeth Leaves A Letter For Dr. Frankenstein
  • French Quarter Singer
  • Good Friday 2001, Riding North
  • Imagining you'd come to say goodbye
  • Leaning Over Eros
  • Miscarriage
  • Renunciation
  • Sapphics For Celebrity
  • Should You Ask At Midnight
  • The Neighborhood
  • This Night Slip, In His Honor (after Komachi)
• Category: Jenny Joseph
  • The sun has burst the sky
  • Warning
• Category: Jerome Rothenberg
  • A MISSAL LIKE A BONE
  • FECKLESS WITH DISGUST
  • I AM NOT A NATIVE OF THIS PLACE
  • I EXCEED MY LIMITS
  • I VENT MY WRATH ON ANIMALS
  • I WILL NOT EAT MY POEM
• Category: Jessie Redmon Fauset
  • Lolotte, Who Attires My Hair
• Category: Jim Carroll
  • 8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain
• Category: Jiri Mordecai Langer
  • The poem
• Category: Joaquin Miller
  • BYRON
  • SEA-BLOWN
  • THE YUKON
• Category: Joel Barlow
  • Psalm CXXXVII The Babylonian Captivity
• Category: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  • A PARABLE
  • A PLAN THE MUSES ENTERTAINED
  • A SYMBOL
  • AFTER-SENSATIONS
  • ANACREON'S GRAVE
  • ANNIVERSARY SONG
  • ANOTHER
  • ANSWERS IN A GAME OF QUESTIONS
  • APPARENT DEATH
  • APRIL
  • AT MIDNIGHT HOUR
  • AUTHORS
  • AUTUMN FEELINGS
  • BALLAD OF THE BANISHED AND RETURNING COUNT
  • BEFORE A COURT OF JUSTICE
  • BLINDMAN'S BUFF
  • BURIAL
  • BY THE RIVER
  • CALM AT SEA
  • CAT-PIE
  • CELEBRITY
  • CHARADE
  • CHRISTEL
  • COMFORT IN TEARS
  • CONSTANCY IN CHANGE
  • COPTIC SONG
  • COURAGE
  • DEATH-LAMENT OF THE NOBLE WIFE OF ASAN AGA
  • DECLARATION OF WAR
  • DEDICATION
  • DEPARTURE
  • DIFFERENT EMOTIONS ON THE SAME SPOT
  • DIFFERENT THREATS
  • DISTICHS
  • EFFECTS AT A DISTANCE
  • EPIPHANIAS
  • EPITAPH
  • ERGO BIBAMUS!
  • EVER AND EVERYWHERE
  • EXPLANATION OF AN ANTIQUE GEM
  • FAITHFUL ECKART
  • FAREWELL
  • FINNISH SONG
  • FIRST LOSS
  • FLOWER-SALUTE
  • FOOD IN TRAVEL
  • FOR EVER
  • FORTUNE OF WAR
  • FOUND
  • FROM 'THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER.&#039
  • FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604
  • FROM THE MOUNTAIN
  • GANYMEDE
  • GENERAL CONFESSION
  • GENIAL IMPULSE
  • GIPSY SONG
  • GROWTH
  • HANS SACHS' POETICAL MISSION
  • HAPPINESS AND VISION
  • HUMAN FEELINGS
  • I. THE PARIAH'S PRAYER
  • IDYLL
  • III. THE PARIAH'S THANKS
  • IN A WORD
  • IN SUMMER
  • JOHANNA SEBUS
  • JOY
  • JOY AND SORROW
  • JUNE
  • LEGEND
  • LEOPOLD, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK
  • LIKE AND LIKE
  • LILY'S MENAGERIE
  • LINES ON SEEING SCHILLER'S SKULL
  • LIVING REMEMBRANCE
  • LONGING
  • LOVE AS A LANDSCAPE PAINTER
  • LOVE'S DISTRESSES
  • LOVER IN ALL SHAPES
  • MAHOMET'S SONG
  • MAIDEN WISHES
  • MARCH
  • MAY
  • MAY SONG
  • MEASURE OF TIME
  • MIGNON
  • MISCHIEVOUS JOY
  • MORNING LAMENT
  • MOTIVES
  • MY GODDESS
  • MY ONLY PROPERTY
  • NEITHER THIS NOR THAT
  • NEMESIS
  • NEW LOVE, NEW LIFE
  • NEXT YEAR'S SPRING
  • NIGHT SONG
  • NIGHT THOUGHTS
  • NOVEMBER SONG
  • OLD AGE
  • ON THE DIVAN
  • ON THE LAKE
  • ON THE NEW YEAR
  • OPEN TABLE
  • ORIGINAL PREFACE
  • PAULO POST FUTURI
  • PETITION
  • PHOEBUS AND HERMES
  • PLAYING AT PRIESTS
  • POETRY
  • PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  • PREMATURE SPRING
  • PRESENCE
  • PRESERVATION
  • PROCEMION
  • PROMETHEUS
  • PROVERBS
  • PROXIMITY
  • PROXIMITY OF THE BELOVED ONE
  • RECIPROCAL
  • RECIPROCAL INVITATION TO THE DANCE
  • RESTLESS LOVE
  • RHYMED DISTICHS
  • RINALDO.*
  • ROLLICKING HANS
  • ROYAL PRAYER
  • RULES FOR MONARCHS
  • SAKONTALA
  • SELF-DECEIT
  • SHE CANNOT END
  • SHOULD E'ER THE LOVELESS DAY
  • SICILIAN SONG
  • SIR CURT'S WEDDING-JOURNEY
  • SOLITUDE
  • SONG OF FELLOWSHIP
  • SONGS
  • SOUND, SWEET SONG
  • SPIRIT SONG OVER THE WATERS
  • SUCH, SUCH IS HE WHO PLEASETH ME
  • SWISS SONG
  • SYMBOLS
  • TABLE SONG
  • TAME XENIA
  • THE BEAUTEOUS FLOWER
  • THE BEAUTIFUL NIGHT
  • THE BLISS OF ABSENCE
  • THE BLISS OF SORROW
  • THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY
  • THE BRETHREN
  • THE BRIDE OF CORINTH
  • THE BRIDEGROOM.*
  • THE BUYERS
  • THE CHOSEN CLIFF
  • THE CHRISTMAS-BOX
  • THE CONSECRATED SPOT
  • THE CONVERT
  • THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER
  • THE COY ONE
  • THE CRITIC
  • THE DANCE OF DEATH
  • THE DEATH OF THE FLY
  • THE DESTRUCTION OF MAGDEBURG
  • THE DILETTANTE AND THE CRITIC
  • THE DOUBTERS AND THE LOVERS
  • THE DROPS OF NECTAR
  • THE EAGLE AND DOVE
  • THE EPOCHS
  • THE ERL-KING
  • THE EXCHANGE
  • THE FAITHLESS BOY
  • THE FAREWELL
  • THE FIRST WALPURGIS-NIGHT
  • THE FISHERMAN
  • THE FOOL'S EPILOGUE
  • THE FOX AND CRANE
  • THE FOX AND HUNTSMAN
  • THE FREEBOOTER
  • THE FRIENDLY MEETING
  • THE FROGS
  • THE GARLANDS
  • THE GERMAN PARNASSUS
  • THE GOBLET
  • THE GOD AND THE BAYADERE
  • THE GODLIKE
  • THE GOLDSMITH'S APPRENTICE
  • THE HAPPY COUPLE
  • THE HEATHROSE
  • THE HUNTER'S EVEN-SONG
  • THE INSTRUCTORS
  • THE KING OF THULE.*
  • THE LEGEND OF THE HORSESHOE
  • THE LOVING ONE ONCE MORE
  • THE LOVING ONE WRITES
  • THE MAGIC NET
  • THE MAID OF THE MILL'S REPENTANCE
  • THE MAID OF THE MILL'S TREACHERY
  • THE MAIDEN SPEAKS
  • THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PLANTS
  • THE MINSTREL
  • THE MISANTHROPE
  • THE MOUNTAIN CASTLE
  • THE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
  • THE MUSAGETES
  • THE MUSE'S MIRROR
  • THE MUSES' SON
  • THE NEW AMADIS
  • THE NEW AMOR
  • THE PAGE AND THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER
  • THE PROSPEROUS VOYAGE
  • THE PUPIL IN MAGIC
  • THE RAT-CATCHER
  • THE RECKONING
  • THE RULE OF LIFE
  • THE SAME
  • THE SAME, EXPANDED
  • THE SEA-VOYAGE
  • THE SHEPHERD'S LAMENT
  • THE SPINNER
  • THE SPIRIT'S SALUTE
  • THE SPRING ORACLE
  • THE STORK'S VOCATION
  • THE SWISS ALPS
  • THE TRAVELLER AND THE FARM~MAIDEN
  • THE TREASURE-DIGGER
  • THE VIOLET
  • THE VISIT
  • THE WALKING BELL
  • THE WANDERER
  • THE WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONG
  • THE WANDERER'S STORM-SONG
  • THE WARNING
  • THE WAY TO BEHAVE
  • THE WEDDING
  • THE WEDDING NIGHT
  • THE WRANGLER
  • THE YELPERS
  • THE YOUTH AND THE MILLSTREAM
  • THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL
  • THREATENING SIGNS
  • THREE ODES TO MY FRIEND
  • THREE PALINODIAS
  • TO A GOLDEN HEART THAT HE WORE ROUND HIS NECK
  • TO BELINDA
  • TO CHARLOTTE
  • TO FATHER* KRONOS
  • TO HIS COY ONE
  • TO LIDA
  • TO LINA
  • TO LUNA
  • TO MIGNON
  • TO ORIGINALS
  • TO THE COUNTESS GRANVILLE
  • TO THE DISTANT ONE
  • TO THE GRASSHOPPER
  • TO THE HUSBANDMAN
  • TO THE KIND READER
  • TO THE MOON
  • TO THE RISING FULL MOON
  • Trilogy of Passion: I. TO WERTHER
  • Trilogy of Passion: II. ELEGY
  • Trilogy of Passion: III. ATONEMENT
  • TRUE ENJOYMENT
  • VALEDICTION
  • VANITAS! VANITATUM VANITAS!
  • WARNING
  • WEDDING SONG
  • WELCOME AND FAREWELL
  • WHEN THE FOX DIES, HIS SKIN COUNTS.*
  • WHO'LL BUY GODS OF LOVE?
  • WINTER JOURNEY OVER THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS
  • WITH A GOLDEN NECKLACE
  • WITH A PAINTED RIBBON
  • WONT AND DONE
• Category: John Ashbery
  • Daffy Duck In Hollywood
  • Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
  • For John Clare
  • Glazunoviana
  • Into the Dusk-Charged Air
  • Just Walking Around
  • My Philosophy of Life
  • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  • Syringa
• Category: John Berryman
  • Dream Song 1: Huffy Henry hid the day
  • Dream Song 10: There were strange gatherings. A vote would come
  • Dream Song 100: How this woman came by the courage
  • Dream Song 101: A shallow lake, with many waterbirds
  • Dream Song 102: The sunburnt terraces which swans make home
  • Dream Song 103: I consider a song will be as humming-bird
  • Dream Song 104: Welcome, grinned Henry, welcome, fifty-one!
  • Dream Song 105: As a kid I believed in democracy: I
  • Dream Song 106: 28 July
  • Dream Song 107: Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross
  • Dream Song 108: Sixteen below. Our care like stranded hulls
  • Dream Song 109: She mentioned 'worthless' & he took it in
  • Dream Song 11: His mother goes. The mother comes & goes
  • Dream Song 110: It was the blue & plain ones. I forget all that
  • Dream Song 111: I miss him. When I get back to camp
  • Dream Song 112: My framework is broken, I am coming to an end
  • Dream Song 113: or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld
  • Dream Song 114: Henry in trouble whirped out lonely whines
  • Dream Song 115: Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new
  • Dream Song 116: Through the forest, followed, Henry made his silky way
  • Dream Song 117: Disturbed, when Henry's love returned with a hubby
  • Dream Song 118: He wondered: Do I love? all this applause
  • Dream Song 119: Fresh-shaven, past months & a picture in New York
  • Dream Song 12: Sabbath
  • Dream Song 120: Foes I sniff, when I have less to shout
  • Dream Song 121: Grief is fatiguing. He is out of it
  • Dream Song 122: He published his girl's bottom in staid pages
  • Dream Song 123: Daples my floor the eastern sun, my house faces north
  • Dream Song 124: Behold I bring you tidings of great joy
  • Dream Song 125: Bards freezing, naked, up to the neck in water
  • Dream Song 126: A Thurn
  • Dream Song 127: Again, his friend's death made the man sit still
  • Dream Song 128: A hemorrhage of his left ear of Good Friday
  • Dream Song 129: Thin as a sheet his mother came to him
  • Dream Song 13: God bless Henry
  • Dream Song 130: When I saw my friend covered with blood, I thought
  • Dream Song 131: Come touch me baby in his waking dream
  • Dream Song 132: A Small Dream
  • Dream Song 133: As he grew famousâ€"ah, but what is fame?
  • Dream Song 134: Sick at 6 & sick again at 9
  • Dream Song 135: I heard said 'Cats that walk by their wild lone&#039
  • Dream Song 136: While his wife earned the living, Rabbi Henry
  • Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring
  • Dream Song 15: Let us suppose, valleys & such ago
  • Dream Song 16: Henry's pelt was put on sundry walls
  • Dream Song 17: Muttered Henry:â€"Lord of matter, thus
  • Dream Song 171: Go, ill-sped book, and whisper to her or
  • Dream Song 172: Your face broods
  • Dream Song 176: All that hair flashing over
  • Dream Song 18: A Strut for Roethke
  • Dream Song 19: Here, whence
  • Dream Song 2: Big Buttons, Cornets: the advance
  • Dream Song 20: The Secret of the Wisdom
  • Dream Song 21: Some good people, daring & subtle voices
  • Dream Song 22: Of 1826
  • Dream Song 224: Lonely in his great age
  • Dream Song 23: The Lay of Ike
  • Dream Song 24: Oh servant Henry lectured till
  • Dream Song 25: Henry, edged, decidedly, made up stories
  • Dream Song 26: The glories of the world struck me
  • Dream Song 265: I don't know one damned butterfly from another
  • Dream Song 27: The greens of the Ganges delta foliate
  • Dream Song 28: Snow Line
  • Dream Song 29: There sat down, once, a thing
  • Dream Song 3: A Stimulant for an Old Beast
  • Dream Song 30: Collating bones: I would have liked to do
  • Dream Song 31: Henry Hankovitch, con guítar
  • Dream Song 32: And where, friend Quo, lay you hiding
  • Dream Song 324: An Elegy for W. C. W., the lovely man
  • Dream Song 33: An apple arc'd toward Kleitos; whose great King
  • Dream Song 34: My mother has your shotgun. One man, wide
  • Dream Song 35: MLA
  • Dream Song 36: The high ones die, die. They die
  • Dream Song 37: Three around the Old Gentleman
  • Dream Song 38: The Russian grin bellows his condolence
  • Dream Song 39: Goodbye, sir, & fare well. You're in the clear
  • Dream Song 4: Filling her compact & delicious body
  • Dream Song 40: I'm scared a lonely. Never see my son
  • Dream Song 41: If we sang in the wood (and Death is a German expert)
  • Dream Song 42: O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane
  • Dream Song 43: 'Oyez, oyez!' The Man Who Did Not Deliver
  • Dream Song 44: Tell it to the forest fire, tell it to the moon