Good poems

O Lord

Day

Music

Scenes

Lovers

Day's work

Sons and daughters

Language

Good life

Beasts

Failture

Complaint

Trips

Snow

Yellow

Lives

Elders

End

Resurrection.

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

Biographies

Name index

Title index.