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Works marked with a "*" are highly recommended.
Léonie Adams
- (1899 - 1958)
Suggested Poems:
- Song from a Country Fair
- This Measure
- The River in the Meadows
- Night-Piece
- The Mount
- Home-coming
- Early Waking
- Death and the Lady
- Country Summer
- Caryatid
Joseph Addison
- (1672 - 1719)
Suggested Poems:
- Cato
- The Campaign
- The Playhouse
George Ade
- (1866 - 1944)
Suggested Poems:
Peter Abelard
- (1079 - 1142)
Suggested Poems:
- David's Lament for Jonathan
- Hymn for the Close of the Week
Abutsu
- (ca 1280)
Suggested Poems:
- The Diary of the Waning Moon
J.R. Ackerley
- (1896 - 1967)
Suggested Poems:
Franklin Pierce Adams (F.P.A.)
- (1881 - 1960)
Suggested Poems:
- The Double Standard
- Composed in the Composing Room
- Lines where Beauty Lingers
- Such Stuff as Dreams
- To a Thesaurus
- The Rich Man
Jean Adams
- (1710 - 1765)
Suggested Poems:
- A Dream
- On the Phoenix
- To the Muse
John Coleman Adams
- (1849 - 1922)
Suggested Poems:
- We praise thee, God, for harvests earned
John Quincy Adams
- (1767 - 1848)
Suggested Poems:
- To Sally
- The Wants of Man
Friedrich Adler
- (? - ?)
Suggested Poems:
Lucille Adler
- (? - ?)
Suggested Poems:
- The Fox and the Flood
- Shipwreck
Mortimer J. Adler
- (1902 - ?)
Suggested Poems:
A.E. (George William Russel)
- (1867 - 1935) Irish Poet, Editor, and Playwright
Suggested Poems:
- The City
- Exiles
- Desire
- Germinal
- Dust * "...We are but embers wrapped in clay, A little nobler than the sod..."
- The Gift *
- By the Margin of the Great Deep
- Epilogue
- The Lonely
- A Mountain Wind
- The Place of Rest
- Truth
- The Secret
Selected Books of Poetry:
- Homeward: Songs by the Way [1894]
- The Earth Breath [1897]
- The Nuts of Knowledge [1903]
- The Divine Vision [1904]
- Vale and Other Poems [1931]
- House of the Titans and Other Poems [1934]
Aeschylus
- (525 - 456 BC)
Suggested Poems:
- Alone of gods death has no love of gifts
- The Wail of Prometheus Bound
Vittorio Aganoor [Pompilj]
- (1855 - 1910)
Suggested Poems:
Agathias
- (536 - 582)
Suggested Poems:
- The Astrologer
- A House in Byzantium
- Manifesto
- On Lots wife turned to salt
- Rhodanthe
- Troy
James Agee
- (1909 - 1955)
Suggested Poems:
- Red Sea
- Rapid Transit
- In Heavy Mind
- Song with Words
- Those former loves wherein our lives have run
Delmira Agustini
- (1886 - 1914)
Suggested Poems:
Conrad Aiken
- (1889 - 1973) American Poet
Suggested Poems:
- The Carver * "See, as the carver carves a rose, A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye,
In cruel granite, to disclose The soft things that in hardness lie..."
- Hatteras Calling * "...every weathervane shivers and moans upon its dripping pin..."
- Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise the Rain *
- Second Prelude * [1936](NM)
- Prelude VI * [1931] (NM)
- Blind Date * (NM)
Selected Books of Poetry:
- Earth Triumphant and Other Tales in Verse [1914]
- Turns and Movies and Other Tales in Verse [1916]
- The Jig of Forslin [1916,1921]
- Nocturne of Remembered Spring and Other Poems [1916]
- The Charnel Rose; Senlin: A Biography; and Other Poems * [1918]
- The House of Dust: A Symphony [1920]
- Punch: The Immortal Liar, Documents in His History [1921]
- The Pilgrimage of Festus [1924]
- Priapus and the Pool and Other Poems [1925]
- Prelude * [1929]
- Selected Poems [1929]
- Gehenna [1930]
- John Deth: A Metaphysical Legend and Other Poems [1930]
- The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones [1931]
- Preludes for Memnon * [1931]
- And in the Hanging Gardens [1933]
- Landscape West of Eden [1934,1935]
- Time in the Rock; Preludes to Definition * [1936]
- And in the Human Heart [1940]
- Brownstone Rcologues and Other Poems [1942]
- The Soldier: A Poem [1944]
- The Kid [1947]
- Skylight One: Fifteen Poems [1949]
- The Divine Pilgrim [1949]
- Collected Poems * [1953]
- A Letter from Li Po and Other Poems [1955]
- Sheepfold Hill: Fifteen Poems [1958]
- Selected Poems [1961]
- The Morning Song of Lord Zero and Other Stories [1963]
John Aikin
- (1747 - 1822)
Suggested Poems:
Lucy Aikin
- (1781 - 1864)
Suggested Poems:
Mark Akenside
- (1721 - 1770)
Suggested Poems:
- Amoret
- The Complaint
- The Creative Process
- Inscripition for a Grotto
- Ode to the Evening Star
- The Pleasures of Imagination
Elizabeth Chase Akers
- (1832 - 1911)
Suggested Poems:
- Endurance
- Rock me to sleep, Mother
- Sea-Birds
Zoë Akins
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Selected Books of Poetry:
- Interpretations [1912,1914]
Nannia Alba
- (1917 - 1968)
Suggested Poems:
Alcaeus
- (ca. 620 BC)
Suggested Poems:
- Philip of Macedon
- The Storm
- You who were once my friend
- And if the wine leaves him witless
Alcuin
- (735 - 804)
Suggested Poems:
- For His Friends
- A Night Prayer
- Written in Absence
Mary Alcock
- (1742 - 1798)
Suggested Poems:
- The Chimney-Sweeper's Complaint
- Written in Ireland
Louisa May Alcott
- (1832 - 1888)
Suggested Poems:
- A Little Kingdom I Possess
- Our Little Ghost
Richard Aldington
- (1892 - 1962)
Suggested Poems:
- At the British Museum
- Evening
- Field Manoevers
- Possession
- Images
Selected Books of Poetry:
- Images, Old and New [1915, 1916]
- Reverie [1917]
- War and Love [1919]
- Images of War [1919]
Dorothy Aldis
- (1896 - 1966)
Suggested Poems:
- The Clown
- Kick a Little Stone
- On an Snowy Day
- Seting the Table
- Supper for a Lion
Mary Aldis
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Selected Books of Poetry:
Sholom Alechem
- (1859 - 1916)
Suggested Poems:
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- (1836 - 1907)
Suggested Poems:
- Apparitions
- At a Reading
- Before the Rain
- The Bells at Midnight
- Maple Leaves
- By the Potomac
- Tiger Lillies
Cecil Frances Alexander
- (1818 - 1895)
Suggested Poems:
- All things bright and beautiful
- Evening Song
- The Fieldmouse
Lewis Alexander
- (1900 - 1945)
Suggested Poems:
- Day and Night
- Dream Song
- Enchantment
Henry Alford
- (1810 - 1871)
Suggested Poems:
Kenneth Slade Alling
- (1889 - ?) American
Suggested Poems:
- Beauty * "...Is she the universe or only An entity austere and lonely..."
William Allingham
- (1824 - 1899)
Suggested Poems:
- A Dream
- An Evening
- The Eviction
- Express
- Homeward Bound
- The Lion and the Wave
- A Mill
- Riding
- Tennants at Will
- Wild Rose
- Windlass Song
- Wishing
- Writing
- The Witch-Bride
Anakreon
- (570-? B.C.) Greek Lyric Poet
Suggested Poems:
- On Death * "...my teeth are the loose teeth of an old man..."
Laurie Anderson
- Musician, Poet, performance artist
Suggested Poems:
- From the Air from Big Science [1982]
Archilochos
- (8th Century B.C.) Greek Lyric Poet
Suggested Poems:
- Thasos *
- A Girl *"...And her hair fell as darkness on her back and her shoulders..."
- Love *
Walter Conrad Arensberg
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Selected Books of Poetry:
- Poems [1914]
- Idols [1916]
John Ashbery
- Musician, Poet, performance artist
Suggested Poems:
W.H.(Wystan Hugh) Auden
- (1907 - 1973) American
Suggested Poems:
- Funeral Blues * (used in Four Weddings and a Funeral)
- The Unknown Citizen, JS/07/M/378, This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State *"He was found by the bureau of statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint..."
- This Lunar Beauty *
- Their Lonely Betters * "...Words are for those with promises to keep."
- Villanelle * "Time can say nothing but I told you so..."
- "Look, Stranger" *
- Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love *
- Song: As I Walked Out One Evening * "...I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squaking Like geese about the sky..."
- Musée des Beaux Arts *
- Base Words are Uttered
- Behold the Manly Mesomorph *
- At the Party
- Herman Melville * (LAG)
- Epitaph on a Tyrant "...When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets." (LAG)
Bakchylides
- (6th century B.C.) Greek Lyric poet
Suggested Poems:
- Peace * "...In the iron-covered shield the brown spider hangs his web..."
Karle Wilson Baker
- (1878-?) American
Suggested Poems:
- Let Me Grow Lovely *
- I Shall be loved as Quiet Things * "...Curled yellow leaves that whisper down One after one..."
- Morning Song *
Charles Ballard
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Suggested Poems:
- Sand Creek "...Nothing lives long But the earth and the mountain..."
Hoseph Warren Beach
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Selected Books of Poetry:
- Sonnets of the Head and Heart [1903]
[Joseph] Hilaire [Pierre René] Belloc
- (1870 - 1953) English
Suggested Poems:
- The South Country (BB)
- Ha'nacker Mill (BB)
- Tarantela (BB)
Stephen Vincent Benét
- (1898- 1943) American Poet and Novelist
Selected Books of Poetry:
- Five Men and Pompey [1915]
- Young Adventure * [1918]
- Ballad of William Sycamore 1790-1880 [1923]
- Tiger Joy [1925]
- John Brown's Body [1928] - won the Pulitzer Prize
- A Book of Americans [1933]
- Western Star [1943] - won the Pulitzer Prize
William Rose Benét
- (1886 - 1950) American Poet and Editor, Brother of Stephen Vincent Benét
Suggested Poems:
- The Woodcutter's Wife * "...in her hands my will is twisted wax..." -- thought to be written about his wife, the poet Elinor Wylie(NM)
Selected Books of Poetry:
- Merchants from Cathay [1913]
- The Falconer of God [1914]
- The Great White Wall [1916]
- The Burgaler of the Zodiac [1918]
- Perpetual Light [1919]
- Starry Harness [1933]
- Golden Fleece [1935]
- The Dust Which Is God [1941] - won the Pulitzer Prize
Arthur Christopher Benson
- English Poet
Suggested Poems:
[Robert] Laurence Binyon
- (1863 - 1943) English Poet and Art Historian
Suggested Poems:
- The Little Dancers *
- The House That Was *
- In Misty Blue * (BB)
- A Song * (BB)
- Magnets * (BB)
Selected Books of Poetry:
- The Secret [1920]
- The Sirens [1924]
- The Idols [1928]
- Collected Poems * [1931]
- The North Star [1941]
John Peale Bishop
- (1892 - 1944) American Writer and Editor
Suggested Poems:
Selected Books of Poetry:
- Green Fruit [1917]
- Now with His Love [1933]
- Minute Particulars [1935]
Maxwell Bodenheim
- (1892 - 1954) American Poet
Suggested Poems:
- To An Enemy * (MS)
- Advice to a Street Pavement * (MS)
- Definitions (MS)
- The Miner
Selected Books of Poetry:
- Minna and Myself [1918]
- Against This Age [1925]
- Bringing Jazz [1930]
Louise Bogan
- (1897 - 1970) American Poet
Suggested Poems:
- Night *
- Song for the Last Act *
- Knowledge *
- the Dragonfly * (NM)
Selected Books of Poetry:
- Body of this Death [1923]
- Dark Summer [1929]
Cassandra
Old Countryside
- The Sleeping Fury [1937]
- Collected Poems [1954]
- Blue Estuaries [1968]
- A Poet's Alphabet [1970]
Gordon Bottomley
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Selected Books of Poetry:
- Chambers of Imagery [1912]
- Laodice and Danaë [1916]
Gamaliel Bradford
- (1863-1932) American Biographer and Poet
Suggested Poems:
J. Keirn Brennan
- (1873 - 1948) American Lyricist
Suggested Songs:
- Let the Rest of the World Go By *
Rupert Brooke
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Selected Books of Poetry:
- The Colelcted Poems of Rupert Brooke [1915]
- Selected Poems [1917]
William Bynner
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Selected Books of Poetry:
- An Ode to Harvard and Other Poems [1907]
- Tiger [1913]
- The Little King [1914]
- The New World [1914]
- Iphigenia in Tauris [1916]
- Grenstone Poems [1917]
- A Canticle of Praise [1919]
- The Beloved Stranger [1919]
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