Wed 6.17.09
As Compiled by Timothy-Green.org Readers, Slightly Edited By Me; Listed Alphabetically, Linked When Available, Sequences Excerpted; Leave a Comment to Suggest Your Own.
- “As I Walked Out One Evening” by W.H. Auden
- “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
- “Ars Poetica” by Jorge Luis Borges
- “How to Like It” by Stephen Dobyns
- “A Display of Mackerel” by Mark Doty
- “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
- “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot
- “Howl” by Alan Ginsberg
- “The Future of Terror/Terror of the Future” by Matthea Harvey
- “The Blue Terrance” by Terrance Hayes
- “Clearances” by Seamus Heaney
- “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell
- “Insomnia and poetry” by Erica Jong
- “Song” by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
- “Keeping Track” by Denise Levertov
- “They Feed They Lion” by Phil Levine
- “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias” by Federico García Lorca
- “For the Union Dead” by Robert Lowell
- “Skunk Hour” by Robert Lowell
- “First Thanksgiving” by Sharon Olds
- “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
- “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath
- “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath
- “Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Dinner at the Sea-View Inn” by Louis Simpson
- “Being A Person” by William Stafford
- “Spirit of Place: Great Blue Heron” by Williams Stafford
- “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens
- “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens
- “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
- “Flounder” by Natasha Trethewey
- “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams
- “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” by William Carlos Williams
Comment to suggest more, and I’ll add them to the list. If you have text of any of the poems I couldn’t find online, email it to me, and I will post it — all great poems should be online somewhere!
June 17th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Archais Torso of Apollo – Rainer Maria Rilke
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias – Federico García Lorca
Ars Poetica – Jorge Luis Borges
I’ll be back…
June 17th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Oh yeah, this list is completely American/British, but only because that’s what I was talking about in my post where I was asking people to suggest poems. Way to add some international flavor!
June 17th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Great list. Check out Irene Gulledge’s poetry too!
June 17th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Haha, nice try Irene!
June 18th, 2009 at 4:47 am
http://www.ericajong.com/poems/insomniapoetry.htm
The link for Insomnia and Poetry, Erica Jong
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Countee Cullen’s Sonnet