An invitation to poetry : a new Favorite Poem Project anthology / edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz with the editorial assistance of Rosemarie Ellis.
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from "Discordants" (1) / Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) -- The sentence / Anna Akhmatov (1899-1966) -- The great Canzon / Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) -- Inside the apple / Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) -- In memoriam Mae Noblitt / A.R. Ammons (1926-2001) -- A blessing in disguise ; This room / John Ashbery (b. 1927) -- It is dangerous to read newspapers / Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) -- Lullaby ; The more loving one / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- L'Invitation au voyage / Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) -- Enueg 1 ; Enueg 2 / Samuel Becket (1906-1989) -- from "Eleven addresses to Our Lord" / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- At the fishhouses ; A cold spring ; Some dreams they forgot / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- The chimney sweeper (from Songs of innocence) ; The garden of love (from Songs of experience) / William Blake (1757-1827) -- The crows ; Dark summer / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- The blossom / Eavan Boland (b. 1944) -- We real cool ; When you have forgotten Sunday : the love story / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Strong men / Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) -- Two in the Campagna / Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Ay, ay, ay de la Grifa Negra / Julia de Burgos (1914-1953) --

Is there for honest poverty ; John Anderson my jo / Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Deathfugue / Paul Celan (1920-1970) -- The Negro's complaint / William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Sunday morning apples / Hart Crane (1899-1933) -- For a poet ; Song in spite of myself / Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- I carry your heart with me... / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Ample make this bed ; The grass so little has to do ; I'm nobody! Who are you? ; One need not be a chamber, to be haunted ; Surgeons must be very careful ; To fight aloud, is very brave / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- An epithalamion ; The good-morrow / John Donne (1572-1631) -- The elephant / Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987) -- With no experience in such matters / Stephen Dunn (b. 1939) -- Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Seen through a window / David Ferry (b. 1924) -- After apple-picking ; Directive ; An old man's winter night ; "Out, out" ; The oven bird ; The pasture / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Transcription of organ music / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- The school children / Louise Glück (b. 1943) -- The holy longing / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1842) -- Ode on the death of a favorite cat / Thomas Gray (1916-1771) -- The idea of trust / Thom Gunn (b. 1929) -- Woolworth's / Donald Hall (b. 1928) -- Population / Mark Halliday (b. 1949) -- Afterwards ; The man he killed / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Privilege of being / Robert Hass (b. 1941) --