William Shakespeare
Lucille Clifton, in the inner city 892 Judith Ortiz Cofer, My Father in the Navy 893 John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 893 John Donne, The Flea 894 John Donne, Death be not proud 895 Rita Dove, Daystar 896 Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’ 896 T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 898 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord Hymn 902 Martín Espada, Bully 902 Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California 903 Nikki Giovanni, Master Charge Blues 904 Louise Glück, The School Children 905 H. D., Helen 906 Thomas Hardy, Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? 906 Joy Harjo, Vision 907 Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays 908 Anthony Hecht, The Dover Bitch 909 Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder 910 Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur 910 Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty 911 A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young 911 A. E. Housman, When I Was One-and-Twenty 912 A. E. Housman, Loveliest of Trees 912 James Weldon Johnson, To America 913 Ben Jonson, On My First Son 913 Ben Jonson, Still to Be Neat 914 John Keats, To Autumn 914 X. J. Kennedy, For Allen Ginsberg 916 Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It 916 Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica 918 Claude McKay, America 919 Herman Melville, Misgivings 919 Herman Melville, The Tuft of Kelp 919 Pat Mora, Illegal Alien 920 Pat Mora, Legal Alien 920 Carol Muske, Chivalry 921 Sharon Olds, Rite of Passage 922 Linda Pastan, Love Poem 923 Marge Piercy, To be of use 923 Sylvia Plath, Daddy 924 Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro 927 Wyatt Prunty, Learning the Bicycle 927
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Dudley Randall, The Melting Pot 928 Adrienne Rich, For the Felling of an Elm in the Harvard
Yard 928 Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin 929 Anne Sexton, Her Kind 930 William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 (“When, in disgrace with
Fortune and men’s eyes”) 930 William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 (“Let me not to the
marriage of true minds”) 931 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses 932 Kitty Tsui, A Chinese Banquet 933 John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player 935 Derek Walcott, A Far Cry from Africa 936 Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America
938 Walt Whitman, Reconciliation 938 Walt Whitman, A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray
and Dim 938 Walt Whitman, The Dalliance of the Eagles 939 William Carlos Williams, Spring and All 939 William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us
940 William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 941 William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper 941 James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s
Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota 942 William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium 943
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