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Poetry Index 1 - 100

Statistics: 120 Poets, 200 Poems, One Big Book! Poet with largest number of poems: Philip Larkin (12)

Akhmatova	Anna	I don't know if you're alive or dead
		You Will Hear Thunder

Ali	Agha Shahid	From In Search of Evanescence
		I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror
		The Country Without a Post Office
		The Floating Post Office

Amichai	Yehuda	I Have Become Very Hairy
		Quick and Bitter
		Temporary Poem Of My Time
		Try To Remember Some Details

Ammons	A.R.	from A Tape For The Turn Of The Year
		Hymn

Angel	Ralph	Even Because
		This

Appleman	Philip	Credo

Auden	W. H.	Stop All The Clocks, Cut Off The Telephone

Bai	Li	Night Thoughts

Basho	Matsuo	Haiku

Berry	Wendell	The Country Of Marriage

Brautigan	Richard	30 Cents, Two Transfers, Love
		The Wait

Bukowski	Charles	beerbottle
		Bluebird
		Sway With Me

Carver	Raymond	Happiness

Cohen	Leonard	Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye

Dacey	Philip	The New Love Poem

Dahl	Roald	Hot And Cold

Dao	Bei	We

Doty	Mark	Everywhere

Emanuel	James A.	Jazzanatomy

Empson	William	Let It Go

Faiz	Faiz Ahmad	Don’t Ask Me for That Love Again

Ferlinghetti	Lawrence	Sandinista Avioncitos

Galeano	Eduardo	from The Book of Embraces

Gilbert	Jack	Dante Dancing

Ginsberg	Allen	Howl

Giovanni	Nikki	Resignation

Gluck	Louise	The White Lilies

Guest	Harry	Death of a Friendship

Hauss	Sandra Sturtz	These Are My Wishes For You

Hecht	Anthony	A Letter

Henley	William Earnest	Invictus

Hikmet	Nazim	Things I Didn't Know I Loved

Hughes	Ted	Hawk Roosting

Kilmer	Joyce	Trees

Kunitz	Stanley	Touch Me

Larkin	Phillip	Love, We Must Part Now
		Morning At Last: There In The Snow
		Morning Has Spread Again
		No Road
		Since The Majority Of Me
		This Be The Verse
		Whatever Happened?
		When First We Faced, And Touching Showed
		Why Did I Dream Of You Last Night?

Longfellow	Henry Wadsworth	A Psalm of Life

Lorca	Federico Garcia	Romance Sonambulo

Maginnes	Al	For a Glass of Red Wine

Marks	Leo	A Code Poem For The French Resistance

Merrill	James	A Renewal

Milosz	Czeslaw	Conversation with Jeanne

Moore	Jim	You and Snow

Neruda	Pablo	If You Forget Me
		Love

Nordbrandt	Henrik	Pragmatic
		Sailing

Parra	Nicanor	Young Poets

Patten	Brian	Sometimes it Happens

Paz	Octavio	Between what I see and what I say
		Coda
		Sunstone (Fragments)
		There is a motionless tree
		Touch
		Trawl Bridge Street
		Wind and Water and Stone
		With Eyes Closed

Porter	Peter	Japanese Jokes

Pound	Ezra	And the days are not full enough

Pryor	Richard	Poetry

Rilke		Live My Life
		Slumber Song

Roethke	Theodore	I Knew a Woman

Sandburg	Carl	Dust

Satchidanandan	K	In You

Seth	Vikram	Unclaimed

Snyder	Gary	Riprap

Szymborska	Wislawa	Under One Small Star

Tafdrup	Pia	Tabernacles

Teasdale	Sara	Morning

Thomas	John	By Heart

Thomas	Dylan	Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

Thomsen	Søren Ulrik	Reverted
		The Shaking of Creation

Wanek	Connie	Daisies

Weores	Sandor	Rain

Williams	William Carlos	This Is Just To Say

Yakamochi	Otomo No	Two Tanka

Young	Dean	The Illusion

Young Lee	Li	Persimmons

Big Book of Poetry Index

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Poetry Index 101 -

Akhmatova	Anna	Twenty first. Night. Monday.

Aleixandre	Vicente	Face through the Glass (An Old Man Gazes)

Ali	Agha Shahid	Ghazal
		Not All, Only A Few Return

Allen	Dick	This Far

Berry	Wendell	The Peace of Wild Things
		The Wild Geese

Bly	Robert	Bad People

Campo	Rafael	The Distant Moon

Cohen	Leonard	Gift

Collins	Billy	I Ask You
		Litany

Cooper	Jane	Rent

Crane	Hart	Exile
		Forgetfulness

cummings	e.e.	may i feel said he
		love is a place
		Introduction from Collected Poems

Curbelo	Silvia	Drinking Song

Dunn	Stephen	The Unsaid
		John & Mary
		Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry

Ehrlich	Gretel	This Cold Heaven

Faiz	Faiz Ahmed	Before You Came

Fenton	James	In Paris with You

Field	Edward	The Farewell

Flynn	Nick	Emptying Town

Forché	Carolyn	Poem For Maya

Gluck	Louise	April
		First Memory

Hikmet	Nazim	It's This Way
		Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison
		On Living
		A Fable of Fables

Hoagland	Tony	America
		Adam and Eve
		Self-Improvement

Ignatow	David	A First on TV

Jiles	Paulette	She Writes in Spanish to Someone She Knew

Kamienska	Anna	A Prayer That Will Be Answered

Kerouac	Jack	from On The Road

Kim	Chungmi	A Girl on the Swing

Kingsolver	Barbara	Daily Bread

Koch	Kenneth	You Want a Social Life, with Friends

Larkin	Philip	Is it for now or for always
		Talking in Bed
		Ignorance
		Annus Mirabilis
		The Trees
		Deceptions
		The Mower

Lazard	Naomi	Ordinance On Arrival

Levertov	Denise	Zeroing In

Ling	Lan	A Melody

Martory	Pierre	Blues

Maxwell	Glyn	from Time's Fool

Merriam	Eve	Lullaby

Merwin	W.S.	Separation

Mew	Charlotte	I So Liked Spring

Mistral	Gabriela	Wall

Mora	Pat	In the Blood/En la Sangre

Myers	Jack	Limits

Nash	Ogden	I Do, I Will, I Have

Neruda	Pablo	Ode to the Moment
		Leaning Into The Afternoons
		The Me Bird

Nye	Naomi Shihab	Kindness

Oliver	Mary	WEST WIND #2

Ondaatje	Michael	The Cinnamon Peeler

Patten	Brian	And nothing is ever as you want to be

Pavese	Cesare	Nocturne

Pessoa	Fernando	Untitled

Rich	Adrienne	Stepping Backward
		In Those Years
		From a Survivor
		From an Atlas of the Difficult World
		Love Poem 2

Rukeyser	Muriel	This Place in the Ways
		Waiting for Icarus

Seth	Vikram	Protocols
		At Evening

Smith	Stevie	Not Waving but Drowning

Sodergran	Edith	Hope

Stafford	William	Ask Me

Stevenson	Anne	The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument

Stone	Ruth	Good Advice

Strand	Mark	Keeping Things Whole
		The Remains

Tate	James	Teaching the Ape to Write Poems

Thomas	R. S.	Song at the Year's Turning

Viorst	Judith	Learning

Walcott	Derek	Codicil

Zagajewski	Adam	Try to Praise the Mutilated World

Big Book of Poetry Index

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