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An asterix indicates poems that have an online component at the Hudson Book of Poetry website: www.mhhe.com/hudson150Anonymous*Western Wind ([c. 1500])*Sir Patrick Spence Sir Walter Ralegh (c. 1552-1618) *The Nymphs Reply (1600)Michael Drayton (1563-1631)*Since Theres No Help (1619)Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)*The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599)William Shakespeare (1564-1616)*Sonnet 18 [Shall I compare thee to a summers day?] (1609)*Sonnet 29 [When, in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes] (1609)*Sonnet 73 [That time of year thou mayst in me behold] (1609)*Sonnet 130 [My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun] (1609)Thomas Campion (1567-1620)*There is a Garden in Her Face (1617)John Donne (1572-1631)*Death Be Not Proud ([c. 1610])*A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ([1611])* Song (1633)Ben Jonson (1573-1637)*On My First Son ([1603])* To Celia (1616)Robert Herrick (1591-1674)*To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time (1648)George Herbert (1593-1633)*Easter Wings (1633)John Milton (1608-1674)*When I Consider How My Light is Spent ([1655?])Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)*The Author to Her Book (1678)*To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678)Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)*To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars (1649)Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)*To His Coy Mistress (1681)Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)*A Description of the Morning (1711)Alexander Pope (1688-1744)*From An Essay on Criticism (1711)*Epigram (1738)Phyllis Wheatley (1753?-1784)*To the University of Cambridge (1773)William Blake (1757-1827)*The Tyger (1794)*The Sick Rose (1794)*London (1794)William Wordsworth (1770-1850)*Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)*Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (1807)*The World is Too Much with Us (1807)Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)*Kubla Khan ([1797-8])George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)* When We Two Parted (1813)*She Walks in Beauty (1814)Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)*Ozymandias (1818)*Ode to the West Wind (1820)John Keats (1795-1821)*When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be ([1818])*To Autumn (1820)*Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)*How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways (1850)Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)*To Helen (1831)*The Raven (1845)Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)*Ulysses ([1833])*Tears, Idle Tears (1847)Robert Browning (1812-1889)*My Last Dutchess (1842)Walt Whitman (1819-1892)*Song of Myself, 6 (1855)*When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer (1865)*Cavalry Crossing a Ford ([1865])*A Noiseless Patient Spider ([1876])Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)*Dover Beach (1867)Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)*Uphill (1862)Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)*Wild Nights – Wild Nights! ([c. 1861])The Soul Selects Her Own Society ([c. 1862])I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died- ([c. 1862])After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes ([1862]) Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)*Neutral Tones (1898)*The Man He Killed (1909)Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)*God's Grandeur ([1877])*Pied Beauty ([1877])A.E. Housman (1859-1936)*To an Athlete Dying Young (1896)*Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now (1896)William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)*The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1892)*When You Are Old (1893) *The Second Coming (1921)Sailing to Byzantium (1927)Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)*Richard Cory (1897)*Mr. Floods Party (1921)Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)*We Wear the Mask (1896)Robert Frost (1874-1963)*Mending Wall (1914)*After Apple-Picking (1914)*Birches (1916)Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)* Fog (1916)* A Fence (1916) Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)* 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1917)*The Snow Man (1921)*Emperor of Ice Cream (1922)William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)*To Waken an Old Lady (1920)The Red Wheelbarrow (1923)This is Just to Say (1934)Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)* Wild Peaches (1921)Ezra Pound (1885-1972)*The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter (1915)*In a Station of the Metro (1916)Amy Lowell (1874-1925)*Patterns (1916)H.D.(Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)*Heat (1916)Marianne Moore (1887-1972)*A Graveyard (1921)*Poetry (1921)T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)*The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917)*Preludes (1917)John Crow Ransom (1888-1974)Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter (1924)Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)*First Fig (1920)What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why (1923)Archibald Macleish (1892-1982)Ars poetica (1926)Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)*Dulce et Decorum Est (1920)Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)Résumé (1926)E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)*[Buffalo Bills] (1920)*in Just- (1920)Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (1940)Jean Toomer (1894-1967)*Song of the Son (1922)Reapers (1923)Claude McKay (1889-1948)*America (1921)Langston Hughes (1902-1967)*The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1921)*Mother to Son (1922)Harlem (Dream Deferred) (1951)Countee Cullen (1903-1946)Incident (1924)W.H. Auden (1907-1973)Musée des Beaux Arts (1940)Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)My Papa's Waltz (1948)Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)The Fish (1946)Sestina (1965)Robert Hayden (1913-1980)Those Winter Sundays (1962)William Stafford (1914-1993)Traveling through the Dark (1962)Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)Fern Hill (1946)Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night (1952)Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (1945)John Frederick Nims (1913-1999)Love Poem (1947)John Berryman Dream Song #4 (1964)Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- )We Real Cool (1960)Robert Lowell (1917-1977)For the Union Dead (1959)Richard Wilbur (1921- )Love Calls Us to the Things of This World (1956)Philip Larkin (1922-1985)Aubade (1977)Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)A Supermarket in California (1955)John Ashbery (1927- )Paradoxes and Oxymorons (1981)James Wright (1927-1980)A Blessing (1961)Anne Sexton (1928-1974)Cinderella (1970)Adrienne Rich (1929- )Aunt Jennifers Tigers (1951)Diving into the Wreck (1972)Gary Snyder (1930- ) A Walk (1968)Linda Pastan (1932- )Ethics (1980)Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)Metaphors (1960)Daddy (1965)Mark Strand (1934- )The Tunnel (1968)Mary Oliver (1935- )The Storm (1999)Lucille Clifton (1936- )Homage to My Hips (1991)Margaret Atwood (1939- )Siren Song (1974)Seamus Heaney (1939- )Digging (1966)Sharon Olds (1942- )The One Girl at the Boys Party (1983)Louise Glück (1943- )The School Children (1971)Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- )Facing It (1988)Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )Prayer to the Pacific (1981)Timothy Steele (1948- )Aubade (1986)Carolyn Forché (1950- )The Colonel (1978)Joy Harjo (1951- )Eagle Poem (1990)Rita Dove (1952- )