Topical Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
---One's Self I Sing
---I Hear America Singing
---As Adam Early in the Morning
---For You O Democracy
---I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
---A Glimpse
---Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
---Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
TOO-QUA-STEE/DEWITT CLINTON DUNCAN (1829-1909)
---The White Man's Burden
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
---49 (I never lost as much but twice)
---258 There's a certain Slant of light,)
---280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
---303 (The Soul selects her own Society)
---341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes--)
---435 (Much madness is divinest sense)
---465 (I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--)
---508 (I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs)
---520 (I started Early--Took my Dog--)
---585 (I like to see it lap the Miles--)
---601 (A still--Volcano--Life--)
---613 (They shut me up in Prose)
---657 (I dwell in Possibility--)
---712 (Because I could not stop for Death)
---754 (My Life had stood----a Loaded Gun--)
---1072 Title divine--is mine!)
---1129 (Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--)
---1705 (Volcanoes be in Sicily)
EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)
---The Man With the Hoe
---A Look Into the Gulf
---Outwitted
SADAKICHI HARTMANN (1867-1944)
---Cyanogen Seas Are Surging
---Tanka I
---Tanka III
EDGAR LEE MASTERS (1868-1950)
---Lucinda Matlock
---Petit, the Poet
---Seth Compton
---Trainor, the Druggist
---Minerva Jones
---Cleanthus Trilling
W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)
---The Song of the Smoke
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
---The House on the Hill
---Richard Cory
---The Clerks
---Miniver Cheevy
---The Mill
---Mr. Flood's Party
---The Tree in Pamela's Garden
---The Dark Hills
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
---In the Desert
---Many Red Devils Ran from My Heart
---A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices
---Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind
---Do not weep, babe, for war is kind
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)
---O Black and Unknown Bards
---The Creation
---The White Witch
---My City
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)
---We Wear the Mask
---When Malindy Sings
---Sympathy
---The Haunted Oak
ALEXANDER POSEY (1873-1908)
---The Decree
---On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January 1901
---The Fall of the Redskin
LOLA RIDGE (1873-1941)
---Stone Face
---from Ice Heart
AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)
---A Fixed Idea
---from Sea-Blue and Blood-Red
---------- The Mediterranean
---from Spring Day
---------- Midday and Afternoon
---Thompson's Lunch Room--Grand Central Station
---The Taxi
---September, 1918
---The Letter
---Venus Transiens
---Madonna of the Evening Flowers
---The Weather-Cock Points South
---Opal
---Wakefulness
---Grotesque`---------------------------------The Sisters
GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)
---Susie Asado
---Patriarchal Poetry
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
---The Mill City
---The Parlor Joke
---In Hardwood Groves
---Mending Wall
---Home Burial
---After Apple-Picking
---The Wood-Pile
---The Road Not Taken
---Birches
---The Death of the Hired Man
---The Vanishing Red
---Putting in the Seed
---Out, Out
---Hyla Brook
---The Oven Bird
---An Old Man's Winter Night
---The Hill Wife
---Fire and Ice
---Good-By and Keep Cold
---The Need of Being Versed In Country Things
---Design
---The Witch of Coös
---Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
----------Nothing Gold Can Stay
----------Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
---Provide, Provide
---Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
---The Gift Outright
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON (1875-1935)
---I Sit and Sew
CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
---Chicago
---Subway
---Muckers
---Child of the Romans
---Nigger
---Buttons
---Planked Whitefish
---Cool Tombs
---Grass
---Fog
---Gargoyle
---Elizabeth Umpstead
---Man, The Man-Hunter
---Two Humpties
VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931)
---The Congo
---The Child-heart in the Mountains
---Celestial Flowers of Glacier Park
---The Virginians Are Coming Again
---Words About An Ancient Queen
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
---Domination of Black
---Sea Surface Full of Clouds
---Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
---Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
---Floral Decoration for Bananas
---Anecdote of the Jar
---Disillusionment of Ten O'clock
---A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
---The Snow Man
---The Emperor of Ice-Cream
---Peter Quince at the Clavier
---Sunday Morning
---The Death of a Soldier
---The Idea of Order at Key West
---Mozart, 1935
---A Postcard from the Volcano
---Study of Two Pears
---Of Modern Poetry
---The Course of a Particular
---Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
---The Plain Sense of Things
---As You Leave the Room
---A Clear Day and No Memories
---Of Mere Being
ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ (1880-1958)
---The Black Finger
---Tenebris
---A Mona Lisa
---Fragment
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON (1880-1966)
---The Heart of a Woman
---Common Dust
---Motherhood
---My Little Dreams
MINA LOY (1882-1966)
---(There is No Life or Death)
---O Hell
---Songs to Joannes
ANNE SPENCER (1882-1975)
---White Things
---Lady, Lady
---(God never planted a garden)
---Dunbar
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
---The Young Housewife
---Portrait of a Lady
---Queen-Anne's-Lace
---The Widow's Lament in Springtime
---The Great Figure
---Spring and All
---To Elsie
---The Red Wheelbarrow
---Young Sycamore
---The Descent of Winter
---This is Just to Say
---Proletarian Portrait
---The Yachts
---The Dance
---The Descent
---Asphodel, That Greeny Flower, Book I
---Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
ARSENIUS CHALECO (1884-1939)
---The Indian Requiem
SARA TEASDALE (1884-1933)
---I Shall Not Care
---Enough
---Spring in the Naugatuck Valley
---There Will Come Soft Rains
---The Unchanging
ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)
---The Eagle and the Mole
---August
---Sanctuary
---Sonnet
---Self-Portrait
---Let No Charitable Hope
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
---A Pact
---In a Station of the Metro
---The Rest
---Portrait d'une Femme
---The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
---from THE CANTOS:
------I (And then went down to the ship)
------IX (One year floods rose)
------XLV (With Usura)
------LXXXI (Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom)
------CXVI (Came Neptunus)
------Notes for CXVII (I have tried to write paradise)
H. D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961)
---The Pool
---Oread
---Mid-day
---Sea Rose
---Garden
---The Helmsman
---Eurydice
---Helen
---from The Walls Do Not Fall
------1
------6
------39
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
---Shine, Perishing Republic
---Fawn's Foster-Mother
---Hurt Hawks
---November Surf
---The Purse-Seine
---Fantasy
---Cassandra
---Vulture
----------Birds and Fishes
---Fire on the Hills
---Antrim
---(I saw a regiment of soldiers)
---An Extinct Vertebrate
---(I walk on my cliff)
---The Epic Stars
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
---Black Earth
---Poetry
----------An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish
---The Fish
----------Sojourn in the Whale
---A Graveyard
---Silence
---Peter
---Marriage
---An Octopus
---No Swan So Fine
---The Pangolin
---Bird-Witted
---The Paper Nautilus
---Spenser's Ireland
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
---The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
---Preludes
---Gerontion
---The Waste Land
---The Hollow Men
---Journey of the Magi
---from Four Quartets:
------Burnt Norton
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
---Sonnets of a Selfish Lover
---Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
CLAUDE McKAY (1889-1948)
---The Harlem Dancer
---To The White Fiends
---If We Must Die
---The Lynching
---The Tropics in New York
---The White City
---America
---Outcast
---Mulatto
---The Negro's Tragedy
---Look Within
---Tiger
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
---First Fig
---Second Fig
---Recuerdo
---Grown-Up
---Spring
---I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed
---Love is not blind
---Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
---Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree
---Justice Denied in Massachusetts
---Say That We Saw Spain Die
ARCHIBALD MacLEISH (1892-1982)
---Ars Poetica
---The Silent Slain
---The End of the World
DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)
---Unfortunate Coincidence
---Résumé
---One Perfect Rose
---Thomas Carlyle
---Walter Savage Landor
---News Item
---The Dark Girl's Rhyme
GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948)
---Everyday Alchemy
---With Child
---Up State
---Mill Town
---Ode in Time of Crisis
---To the Negro People
---To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
---Thy fingers make early flowers of
---in Just-
---O sweet spontaneous
---Buffalo Bill's
---Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal
---"next to of course god america i
---my sweet old etcetera
---i sing of Olaf glad and big
---Space being(don't forget to remember)Curved
---r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
---anyone lived in a pretty how town
JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)
---from Cane:
------Reapers
------November Cotton Flower
------Portrait in Georgia
------Her Lips Are Copper Wire
CHARLES REZNIKOFF (1894-1976)
---April
---Aphrodite Vraina
---(On Brooklyn Bridge, I Saw a Man Drop Dead)
---(I Walked through the Lonely Marsh)
---from Testimony: The United States (1885-1915):
------Negroes
---from Holocaust:
------Massacres
HERMAN SPECTOR (1895-1959)
---Wiseguy Type
V. J. JEROME (1896-1965)
---A Negro Mother to Her Child
JOHN WHEELWRIGHT (1897-1940)
---Plantation Drouth
---Cross Questions
JOSEPH FREEMAN (1897-1965)
---Our age has Caesars
LUCIA TRENT (1897-1977)
---Breed, Women, Breed
---Black Men
---Parade the Narrow Turrets
LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)
---Medusa
---The Crows
---Women
---The Alchemist
---The Dragonfly
---Cassandra
RUTH MARGARET MUSKRAT (1897-1982)
---Songs of the Spavinaw
---Sentenced
HARRY CROSBY (1898-1929)
---Photoheliograph (For Lady A.)
---Pharmacie Du Soleil
---Tattoo
---from Short Introduction to the Word
HART CRANE (1899-1932)
---October-November
---Black Tambourine
---Chaplinesque
----------Episode of Hands
----------Porphyro in Akron
---Voyages I
---from The Bridge
------Poem: to Brooklyn Bridge
--------------------I Ave Maria
--------------------from II (Powhatan's Daughter): The River
--------------------IV Cape Hatteras
--------------------from V (Three Songs): Southern Cross
--------------------VI Quaker Hill
--------------------VIII Atlantis
---The Mango Tree
LYNN RIGGS (1899-1954)
---The Corrosive Season
---Footprints
ALLEN TATE (1899-1979)
---Ode to the Confederate Dead
MELVIN B. TOLSON (1900?-1966)
---Dark Symphony
---Libretto for the Republic of Liberia
YVOR WINTERS (1900-1968)
---Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
---Vacant Lot
STERLING A. BROWN (1901-1989)
---Southern Road
---Scotty Has His Say
---Memphis Blues
---Slim in Atlanta
---Slim in Hell
---Rent Day Blues
---Old Lem
---Sharecroppers
---Southern Cop
---Choices
LAURA (RIDING) JACKSON (1901-1991)
---Helen's Burning
---The Wind Suffers
---Elegy in a Spider's Web
---The Map of Places
KENNETH FEARING (1902-1961)
---Dear Beatrice Fairfax
---$2.50
---Dirge
---Denouement
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
---Question
---Negro
---The Negro Speaks of Rivers
---The Weary Blues
---The Cat and the Saxophone (2 a.m.)
---To the Dark Mercedes of "El Palacio de Amor"
---Mulatto
---Justice
---Fire
---White Shadows
---Christ in Alabama
---Three Songs About Lynching:
------Silhouette
------Flight
------Lynching Song
---Come to the Waldorf-Astoria
---Goodbye Christ
---Ballad of Roosevelt
---Park Bench
---Let America Be America Again
---Letter from Spain
---The Bitter River
---Ku Klux
---Shakespeare in Harlem
---Madam and the Phone Bill
---Ballad of the Landlord
---Harlem
---Late Corner
---Dinner Guest: Me
---The Backlash Blues
---Bombings in Dixie
ARNA BONTEMPS (1902-1973)
---A Black Man Talks of Reaping
---Southern Mansion
---Miracles
GWENDOLYN BENNETT (1902-1981)
---To a Dark Girl
---Heritage
---Street Lamps in Early Spring
---Dirge for a Free Spirit
---I Build America
---(Rapacious women who sit on steps at night)
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)
---Christ Recrucified
----------In Praise of Boys
---Incident
---For a Lady I Know
---Yet Do I Marvel
---Near White
---Tableau
---Heritage
---From the Dark Tower
LORINE NIEDECKER (1903-1970)
---Well, Spring Overflows the Land
---Paean to Place
---Poet's work
KAY BOYLE (1903-1993)
---A Communication to Nancy Cunard
CARL RAKOSI (1903-2004)
---The Menage
AQUA LALUAH (1904-1950)
---The Serving Girl
---Lullaby
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (1904-1978)
---To My Wash Stand
---"Mantis"
---A Song for the Year's End
---Because Tarzan Triumphs (from Light)
---Non Ti Fidar
JOHN BEECHER (1904-1980)
---Report to the Stockholders
---Beaufort Tides
---Engagement at the Salt Fork
---A Veteran's Day of Recollection
KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982)
---The Love Poems of Marichiko
ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)
---Genealogy
---Bearded Oaks
---Mother Makes the Biscuits
---Chain Saw at Dawn in Vermont in Time of Drouth
---Natural History
---Evening Hawk
---Heart of Autumn
STANLEY KUNITZ (1905-2006)
---The Wellfleet Whale
---The Snakes of September
---Day of Foreboding
---Touch Me
JOSEPH KALAR (1906-1972)
---Papermill
---Prosperity Blues: Minnesota
W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
---Musée des Beaux Arts
---In Memory of W. B. Yeats
---September 1, 1939
---The Shield of Achilles
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)
---Cuttings
---Cuttings (later)
---Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze
---from The Lost Son:
------The Flight
---My Papa's Waltz
---I Knew a Woman
---North American Sequence:
------The Longing
------Meditation at Oyster River
------Journey to the Interior
------The Long Waters
------The Far Field
------The Rose
GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984)
---Image of the Engine
---Survival: Infantry
---In Alsace
---Exodus
EDWIN ROLFE (1909-1954)
---Asbestos
---Season of Death
---First Love
---Elegia
---After Tu Fu (A.D. 713-770)
---Now the Fog
---A Letter to the Denouncers
---Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
---A Poem to Delight My Friends Who Laugh at Science-Fiction
---In Praise Of
---June 19,1953
---Pastoral--1954
---Little Ballad for Americans----1954
SOL FUNAROFF (1911-1942)
---Unemployed: 2 A.M.
---The Man At The Factory Gate
----------The Bull in the Olive Field
---Goin Mah Own Road
MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)
---The Book of the Dead
---The Minotaur
---(To be a Jew in the Twentieth century)
---Rite
---The Poem As Mask
---Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
---Poem White Page/ White Page Poem
ANGEL ISLAND: POEMS BY CHINESE IMMIGRANTS (1910-1940)
---Instead of remaining a citizen of China
---The seascape, resembling lichen, undulates endlessly
---Putting away my books and my inkstone
---Drifting like duckweed
---I write this poem to let my dear wife know
---The silver-red shirt is half covered with dust
---Over a hundred poems are on the walls
---What have I done that I must sit in jail?
---Unoccupied, I opened the window of the wooden building
---Angel Island's three-beamed building shields only the body
---Twice I have crossed the blue ocean
---The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants
---The Flowery Flag will be taken down for ours to hoist
---I advise you never to sneak across the border for America
---The blue ocean surrounds a lone mountain
---America has power, but not justice
WWI in Britain and Ireland:
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)
---An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
---The Second Coming
EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)
---Rain
---February Afternoon
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
---The Rear Guard
---Dreamers
---Repression of War Experience
---The General
ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890-1918)
---Break of Day in the Trenches
---Dead Man's Dump
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)
---Anthem for Doomed Youth
---Dulce et Decorum Est
GRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS:
EDWIN MARKHAM
---The Man With the Hoe
VACHEL LINDSAY
---Drink for Sale
---The Virginians Are Coming Again
LANGSTON HUGHES
---Christ in Alabama
---Come to the Waldorf-Astoria