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| from A Century of Epigrams | J. V. Cunningham |
| A Sort of a Song | William Carlos Williams |
| The Ache of Marriage | Denise Levertov |
| After great pain, a formal feeling comes | Emily Dickinson |
| The Anecdote of the Jar | Wallace Stevens |
| Ariel | Sylvia Plath |
| The Assassination | Donald Justice |
| Beggars and Kings | W. S. Merwin |
| Beginning | James Wright |
| The Blindman's Song | Ranier Maria Rilke |
| Choosing to Think of It | Stephen Dunn |
| Concerning the Stone | Gregory Orr |
| Cool Tombs | Carl Sandburg |
| Daddy | Sylvia Plath |
| Death | W. B. Yeats |
| Design | Robert Frost |
| Desire | Mary Mackey |
| Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock | Wallace Stevens |
| from The Dream Song | John Berryman |
| Eating Poetry | Mark Strand |
| Edge | Sylvia Plath |
| Elm | Sylvia Plath |
| The Emperor of Ice-Cream | Wallace Stevens |
| The End of the World | Archibald MacLeish |
| An Everlasting Once | Theodore Weiss |
| Everywoman Her Own Theology | Alicia Ostriker |
| from The Female Man | Joanna Russ |
| Fever 103 deg | Sylvia Plath |
| Fire and Ice | Robert Frost |
| For the Anniversary of My Death | W. S. Merwin |
| For the Dead | Adrienne Rich |
| From An Atlas of a Difficult World | Adrienne Rich |
| From a Survivor | Adrienne Rich |
| Giving Myself Up | Mark Strand |
| Habitation | Margaret Atwood |
| The Having to Love Something Else | Russell Edson |
| He Held Radical Light | A. R. Ammons |
| Her Kind | Anne Sexton |
| The Hollow Men | T. S. Eliot |
| How Many Devils Can Dance on the Point | D. J. Enright |
| The Human Animal | Jane Mayhall |
| The Idea of Order at Key West | Wallace Stevens |
| The Illiterate | William Meredith |
| In a Classroom | Adrienne Rich |
| In a Dark Time | Theodore Roethke |
| In a Station of the Metro | Ezra Pound |
| In those years | Adrienne Rich |
| Intrusion | Denise Levertov |
| Lady Lazarus | Sylvia Plath |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | T. S. Eliot |
| Lullaby | W. H. Auden |
| Meditations in an Emergency | Frank O'Hara |
| the mirror poems | Toi Derricotte |
| Morning Song | Sylvia Plath |
| My Friend, My Friend | Anne Sexton |
| My life closed twice before its close | Emily Dickinson |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes |
| Next Day | Randall Jarrell |
| Not Waving But Drowning | Stevie Smith |
| Objets D'Art | C. Macdonald |
| Piano | D. H. Lawrence |
| Poetry | Marianne Moore |
| Poppies in October | Sylvia Plath |
| Prospective Immigrants Please Note | Adrienne Rich |
| The Rat's Tight Schedule | Russell Edson |
| The Real Inspector | John Allman |
| Recipe for an Ocean in the Absence of the Sea | Richard Howard |
| A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, | Dylan Thomas |
| The Remains | Mark Strand |
| The Room | Mark Strand |
| The Second Coming | W. B. Yeats |
| The Snow Man | Wallace Stevens |
| Some Last Questions | W. S. Merwin |
| Song of Myself | Walt Whitman |
| Success is counted sweetest | Emily Dickinson |
| A Supermarket in California | Allen Ginsberg |
| Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | Wallace Stevens |
| To My Wife | J. V. Cunningham |
| Tract | William Carlos Williams |
| The Truth the Dead Know | Anne Sexton |
| from Two Songs | Adrienne Rich |
| Wait | Galway Kinnell |
| The Waking | Theodore Roethke |
| We Real Cool | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| The Whale in the Blue Washing Machine | John Haines |
| Why I Am Not a Painter | Frank O'Hara |
| winter solstice | Unknown |
| Untitled | ASB |
| Variation on a Theme by Rilke | Denise Levertov |
| Zeroing In | Denise Levertov |