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Introduction O Lord: Poem in thanks / Thomas Lux How many nights / Galway Kinnell Welcome morning / Anne Sexton Psalm 23 / Bay Psalm Book (from) At least / Raymond Carver Address to the Lord / John Berryman O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie / Philip Appleman Psalm / Reed Whittemore Psalm 121 / Michael Wigglesworth When on has lived a long time alone / Galway Kinnell Home on the range / Anonymous What I want is / C G Hanzlicek Day: Summer Morning / Charles Simic Otherwise / Jane Kenyon Poem about morning / William Meredith Living / Denise Levertov Another spring / Kenneth Rexroth Moring person / Vassar Miller Routine / Arthur Guiterman Life of a day / Tom Hennen For my son, Noah, ten years old / Robert Bly I've known a heaven, like a tent / Emily Dickinson Letter to NY / Elizabeth Bishop Dilemma / David Budbill Song of myself (from) / Walt Whitman New Yorkers / Edward Field Soaking up sun / Tom Hennen Late hours / Lisel Mueller Music: Scrambled eggs and whiskey / Hayden Carruth Mehitabel's song / Don Marquis Nightclub / Billy Collins Alley violinist / Robert Lax Cradle song / Jim Schley Her door / Mary Leader Pupil / Donald Justice Piano / D H Lawrence Instrument of choice / Robert Phillips Homage: doo-wop / Joseph Stroud Persistence of song / Howard Moss Ooly pop a cow / David Huddle Elevator music / Henry Taylor Grain of sound / Robert Morgan I will make you brooches / Robert Louis Stevenson Dance / C K Williams Investment / Robert Frost Dumka / B H Fairchild Green street mortuary Marching band / Lawrence Ferlinghetti Scenes: Poem to be read at 3 AM / Donald Justice Swimming pool / Thomas Lux Dostoevsky / Charles Bukowski After a movie / Henry Taylor Summer storm / Dana Gioia Woolworth's / Mark Irwin Worked late on a Tuesday night / Deborah Garrison Farmhouse / Reed Whittemore Wrist-wrestling father / Orval Lund Yorkshire men in pub gardens / Gavin Ewart Noah / Roy Daniells Lovers: Red, red rose / Robert Burns When I heard at the close of day / Walt Whitman First love / John Clare He wishes for the cloths of heaven / W B Yeats Sonnet / C B Trail Politics / W B Yeats Magellan street, 1974 / Maxine Kumin Animals / Frank O'Hara Lending out books / Hal Sirowitz Changed man / Robert Phillips Constant north / J F Hendry On the strength of all conviction and stamina of love / Jennifer Michael Hecht Loft / Richard Jones This is just to say / William Carlos Williams This is just to say / Erica-Lynn Gambino Venetian air / Thomas Moore Summer morning / Louis Simpson Comin thro' the rye / Robert Burns Topography / Sharon Olds Saturday morning / Hugo Williams Flight / Louis Jenkins At twenty-three weeks she can no longer see anything South of her belly / Thom Ward For the life of him and her / Reed Whittemore Romantics / Lisel Mueller Down in the valley / Anonymous Middle years / Walter McDonald Winter winds cold and blea / John Clare Since feeling is first / e e cummings Vergissmeinnichtps / Keith Douglas Sonnet XLIII: What lips my lips have kissed / Edna St Vincent Millay After the argument / Stephen Dunn Orange / Wendy Cope Susquehanna / Liz Rosenberg Farm wife / R S Thomas After forty years of marriage, she tries a new recipe for hamburger hot dish / Leo Dangel Those who love / Sara Teasdale Quietly / Kenneth Rexroth For CWB / Elizabeth Bishop Shorelines / Howard Moss Prayer for a marriage / Steve Scafidi Master speed / Robert Frost Bonnard's nudes / Raymond Carver Day's Work: Happiness / Raymond Carver Hoeing / John Updike Some details of Hebridean house construction / Thomas A Clark Relations / Philip Booth What I learned from my mother / Julia Kasdorf To be of use / Marge Piercy No tool or rope or pail / Bob Arnold Ox cart man / Donald Hall Girl on a tractor / Joyce Sutphen Soybeans / Thomas Alan Orr Landing pattern / Philip Appleman Mae West / Edward Field Hay for the horses / Gary Snyder Sons And Daughters: Masterworks of Ming / Kay Ryan Bess / Linda Pastan Little tooth / Thomas Lux Sonnet XXXVII / William Shakespeare Egg / C G Hanzlicek Rolls-Royce dreams / Ginger Andrews My life before I knew it / Lawrence Raab After work / Richard Jones I stop writing the poem / Tess Gallagher Franklin Hyde / Hilaire Belloc Manners / Elizabeth Bishop September, the first day of school / Howard Nemerov First lesson / Philip Booth Childhood / Barbara Ras Waving good-bye / Gerald Stern Family reunion / Maxine Kumin Language: Primer of the daily round / Howard Nemerov Possessive case / Lisel Mueller Icelandic language / Bill Holm Fantastic names of Jazz / Hayden Carruth Ode to the Medieval poets / W H Auden Sweater weather / Sharon Bryan
Good Life:
We grow accustomed to the dark / Emily Dickinson
Ritual to read to each other / William Stafford
Courage / Anne Sexton
Sometimes / Sheeagh Pugh
Leisure / W H Davies
Way it is now / Charles Bukowski
Secret life / Stephen Dunn
Lost / David Wagoner
Sonnet XXV / William Shakespeare
Eel in the cave / Robert Bly
Wild geese / Mary Oliver
From the manifesto of the selfish / Stephen Dunn
Hope / Lisel Mueller
Three goals / David Budbill
Vermeer / Howard Nemerov
Repression / C K Williams
Weather / Linda Pastan
Moderation is not a negation of intensity, but helps avoid monotony / John Tagliabue
Tell all the truth but tell it slant / Emily Dickinson
Props assist the house / Emily Dickinson
Beasts:
Little citizen, little survivor / Hayden Carruth
Her first calf / Wendell Berry
Bats / Randal Jarrell
Riding lesson / Henry Taylor
Walking the dog / Howard Nemerov
Excrement poem / Maxine Kumin
Stanza IV from Coming of age / Ursula Leguin
Destruction / Joanne Kyger
How to see deer / Philip Booth
Dog's death / John Updike
Names of horses / Donald Hall
Bison crossing near Mt Rushmore / May Swenson
Failure:
Success is counted sweetest / Emily Dickinson
Solitude / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
First time I remember / Wendell Berry
Our lady of the snows / Robert Hass
British Museum reading room / Louis MacNeice
Bare arms of trees / John Tagliabue
Sailor / Geof Hewitt
Place for everything / Louis Jenkins
Feast / Robert Hass
Nobody knows you / Jimmie Cox
Last song / Charles Bukowski
Complaint:
Forsaken wife / Elizabeth Thomas
Confession / Stephen Dobyns
Living in the body / Joyce Sutphen
Tired as I can be / Bessie Jackson
Iceberg theory / Gerald Locklin
Manifesto: Mad farmer liberation front / Wendell Berry
Bookmark / Tom Disch
Poetry readings / Charles Bukowski
Publication-is the auction / Emily Dickinson
Trips:
Once in the 40s / William Stafford
Moby Dick (lines from) / Herman Melville
Rain travel / W S Merwin
Where we are / Gerald Locklin
Excelsior / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On a tree fallen across the road / Robert Frost
Walk along the old tracks / Robert Kinsley
Passengers / Billy Collins
Walloping window-blind / Charles Edward Carryl
Vacation / Wendell Berry
Directions / Joseph Stroud
Postscript / Seamus Heaney
Night journey / Theodore Roethke
Waiting / Raymond Carver
Snow:
New Hampshire / Howard Moss
To fight aloud / Emily Dickinson
December moon / May Sarton
Year's end / Richard Wilbur
Snow man / Wallace Stevens
January / Baron Wormser
In celebration of surviving / Chuck Miller
Her long illness / Donald Hall
Requiescat / Oscar Wilde
Sixth of January / David Budbill
Not only the Eskimos / Lisel Mueller
Boy at the window / Richard Wilbur
Winter poem / Frederick Morgan
Lester tells of Wanda and the big snow / Paul Zimmer
Old boards / Robert Bly
March blizzard / John Tagliabue
Yellow:
Elvis kissed me / T S Kerrigan
Stepping out of poetry / Gerald Stern
I shall keep singing! / Emily Dickinson
Songs to onions / Roy Blount, Jr
O luxury / Guy W Longchamps
Coming / Kenneth Rexroth
Light left on / May Sarton
Yellow slicker / Stuart Dischell
First kiss
Music one looks back on / Stephen Dobyns
Lives:
In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day / X J Kennedy
Who's who / W H Auden
Portrait / Stanley Kunitz
Parable of the four-poster / Erica Jong
Ed / Louis Simpson
Memory / Hayden Carruth
Lazy / David Lee
Testimonial / Harry Newman, Jr
Cathedral builders / John Ormond
Village burglar / Anonymous
Scandal / Robert Bly
At last the secret is out / W H Auden
Night light / Kate Barnes
Sir Patrick Spens / Anonymous
Elders:
I go back to May 1937 / Sharon Olds
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
Old liberators / Robert Hedin
To my mother / Wendell Berry
Working in the rain / Robert Morgan
Birthday card to my mother / Philip Appleman
Yesterday / W S Merwin
No map / Stephen Dobyns
My mother / Robert Mezey
When my dead father called / Robert Bly
August third / May Sarton
Terminus / Ralph Waldo Emerson
End:
Authorship / James B(all) Naylor
Young and old / Charles Kingsley
Shifting the sun / Diana Der
Hovanessian
My dad's wallet / Raymond Carver
When I am asked / Lisel Mueller
Dirge without music / Edna St Vincent Millay
My mother said / Donald Hall
Departures / Linda Pastan
As befits a man / Langston Hughes
Sunt Leones / Stevie Smith
Perfection wasted / John Updike
Eleanor's letters / Donald Hall
Death and the turtle / May Sarton
Four poems in one / Anne Porter
Titanic / David R Slavitt
Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna / Charles Wolfe
Kaddish / David Ignatow
Twilight: after haying / Jane Kenyon
For the anniversary of my death / W S Merwin
Old Italians dying (from) / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Street ballad / George Barker
Let evening come / Jane Kenyon
Resurrection:
Forty-five / Hayden Carruth
Blessing / James Wright
Holy Thursday / William Blake
Walden (lines from) / Henry David Thoreau
Peace of wild things / Wendell Berry
From blossoms / Li-Young Lee
First green of spring / David Budbill
Here / Grace Paley
Lives of the heart / Jane Hirshfield
Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Fishing in the keep of silence / Linda Gregg
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