To the sun-dial / John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) --
On the Luxembourg Gallery / Washington Allston (1779-1843) --
November / William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) --
To an American painter departing for Europe / William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) --
Mezzo Cammin / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) --
From Divina Commedia I "Oft have I seen at some cathedral door" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) --
Sound of the sea / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) --
Nature / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) --
Harvest moon / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) --
Cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) --
To science / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --
Columbine / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
New birth / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Garden / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Latter rain / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Dead / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Brother's blood / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Nature / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Autumn leaves / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Barberry bush / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Hand and foot / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Yourself / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
Lost / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
From The Origin of Man I "Man has forgot his origin; in vain" / Jones Very (1813-1880) --
From A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers "This is my Carnac, whose unmeasured dome" / Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) --
Street / James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) --
From Sonnets, first series VII "Dank fens of cedar, hemlock branches gray" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
X "An upper chamber in a darkened house" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
XXVIII "Not the round natural world, not the deep mind" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
From Sonnets, second series VII "His heart was in his garden; but his brain" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
XV "Gertrude and Gulielma, sister-twins" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
XVI "Under the mountain, as when first I knew" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
XVIII "And change with hurried hand has swept these scenes" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
XXIX "How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school's sway" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
XXX "Yet even mid merry boyhood's tricks and scapes" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
XXXII "O for the face and footstep! woods and shore" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
From Sonnets, third series IV "Thin little leaves of wood fern, ribbed and toothed" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
VI "I looked across the rollers of the deep" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
VII "O rest divine! O golden certainty" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
IX "But into order falls our life at last" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
X "Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
From Sonnets, fourth series I "Still, like a city, seated on a height" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
VIII "Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bonds" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
From Sonnets, fifth series III "And yet tonight, when summer daylight dies" / Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
XVI "Let me give something!
Frederick goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873) --
Crossed threads / Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) --
New Colossus / Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) --
Long Island Sound / Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) --
In Death Valley / Edwin Markham (1852-1940) --
April in Town / Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935) --
Lights of London / Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) --
From Sonnets, 1883-1893 III "O world, thou choosest not the better part!" / George Santayana (1863-1952) --
XVI "Thousand beauties that have never been" / George Santayana (1863-1952) --
From To W. P. II "With you a part of me hath passed away" / George Santayana (1863-1952) --
From Sonnets, 1895 XXIX "What riches have you that you deem me poor" / George Santayana (1863-1952) --
Accident in art / Richard Hovey (1864-1900) --
Dear Friends / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
Clerks / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
George Crabbe / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
On the night of a friend's wedding / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
Pity of the leaves / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
L'Envoi / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
Lost anchors / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
Many are called / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
From Not Always II "There were long days when there was nothing said" / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
New England / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
Reunion / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) --
Into my own / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Mowing / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Meeting and passing / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Oven bird / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Putting in the seed / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Investment / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Master speed / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Design / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
On a bird singing in its sleep / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Unharvested / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Silken tent / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Never again would birds' song be the same / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
"Your image walks not in my common way" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) --
"Tho' lack of laurels and of wreaths not one" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) --
"Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) --
"Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) --
"The melancholy year is dead with rain" / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) --
From Sonnets from Greece Near Helikon / Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904) --
Autumn refrain / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) --
Wild peaches / Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) --
Unfinished portrait / Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) --
False Prophet / Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) --
Good ships / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) --
Parting at dawn / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) --
Piazza piece / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) --
From And in the Human Heart X "If we must speak, then let us humbly speak" / Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) --
XXXIX "Bird's eye or snake's eye, bright through leaves; the leaf" / Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) --
Dawn in New York / Claude McKay (1889-1948) --
Outcast / Claude McKay (1889-1948) --
"If I should learn, in some quite casual way" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
"I think I should have loved you presently" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
"I shall forget you presently, my dear" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
"Love is not blind. I see with single eye" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
"Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
Sonnet to Gath / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
From Fatal Interview VII "Night is my sister, and how deep in love" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
XXXIII "Sorrowful dreams remembered after waking" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
XXXV "Clearly my ruined garden as it stood / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
XLVI "Even in the moment of earliest kiss" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
I too beneath your moon, almighty Sex / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
From Sonnets of Apology XXVII Immortality / Samuel greenberg (1893-1917) --
"Wind has blown the rain away and blown" / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
"'Next to of course God America I'" / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
"If I have made, my lady, intricate" / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
"He does not have to feel because he thinks" / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
Pity this busy monster, manunkind" / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
"Why must itself up every of a park" / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
"From spiralling ecstatically this" / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
"All worlds have halfsight, seeing either with" / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
From On Drink II "Strong drink goes to the soul and sets it free" / Phelps Putnam (1894-1948) --
Sonnet ("Since you would claim the sources of my thought") / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) --
Simple Autumnal / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) --
Single Sonnet / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) --
From Mirrors of Venus VII Sanct / John Wheelright (1897-1940) --
XII Mother / John Wheelright (1897-1940) --
XIII Father / John Wheelright (1897-1940) --
XXIX Phallus / John Wheelright (1897-1940) --
Twilight of the Wood / Leonie Adams (1899-1988) --
Alas, Kind Element / Leonie Adams (1899-1988) --
To Emily Dickinson / Hart Crane (1899-1932) --
Subway / Allen Tate (1899-1979) --
From Sonnets at Christmas II "Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky" / Allen Tate (1899-1979) --
From More Sonnets at Christmas II "Day's at end and there's nowhere to go" / Allen Tate (1899-1979) --
Prince / Yvor Winters (1900-1965) --
Pasellus Ille / R. P. Blackmur (1904-1965) --
From Dedications II Wind and weather / R. P. Blackmur (1904-1965) --
Burden / Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) --
Petit Jour / Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) --
Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) --
Aged lover discourses in the Flat Style / J. V. Cunningham (1911-1985) --
Beautiful American word, sure / Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) --
Christmas Eve: Australia / Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) --
Full Moon: New Guinea / Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) --
From Berryman's Sonnets XI "I expect you from the North. The path winds in" / John Berryman (1914-1972) --
To build a quiet city in his mind / Weldon Kees (1914-1955)
North Sea Undertaker's Complaint / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) --
Inauguration Day: January 1953 / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) --
Illiterate / William Meredith (1919-2007) --
This present past / Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) --
Miltonic Sonnet for Mr. Johnson on his refusal of Peter Hurd's official protrait / Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) --
Fifth Avenue Parade / Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) --
Summer storm / Louis Simpson (b. 1923) --
Virgin Mary / Edgar Bowers (1924-2000) --
Astronomers of Mont Blanc / Edgar Bowers (1924-2000) --
Poet at seven / Donald Justice (1925-2004) --
Artist Orpheus / Donald Justice (1925-2004) --
Marsyas / James Merrill (1926-1995) --
Broken home / James Merrill (1926-1995) --
Saint Judas / James Wright (1927-1980) --
Jefferson Valley / John Hollander (b.1929) --
Insusceptibles / Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) --
Owl / Robert Mezey (b. 1935).