Poetry Out Loud

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Poetry Out Loud You must choose a poem/poet from this list.

Sherman Alexie: The Powwow at the End of the World

Maya Angelou: “Awaking in New York,” “Caged Bird,” or “Mothering Blackness”

Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”

Margaret Atwood: “Backdrop Addresses Cowboy”

Charles Bernstein: Sad Boy's Sad Boy

Elizabeth Bishop: “Filling Station” or “One Art”

William Blake: “The Chimney Sweeper: A Little Black Thing Among the Snow,”“ The Chimney Sweeper: When my Mother Died I was Very Young,” “Introduction to the Songs of Innocence,” “London,” “Mad Song,” “A Poison Tree,” or “The Tyger”

Robert Bly: Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River, Prayer for My Father, Waking from Sleep

Anne Bradstreet: “The Author to Her Book,” “Before the Birth of One of Her Children,” “A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment,” “To Her Father with Some Verses,” “To My Dear and Loving Husband”

Charlotte Bronte: “On the Death of Anne Brontë”

Emily Bronte: “Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun, No Coward Soul Is Mine['Often rebuked, yet always back returning'],Shall earth no more inspire thee

Gwendolyn Brooks: “The Blackstone Rangers,” “The Children of the Poor,” “Kitchenette building,” “Sadie and Mauda”, “Song in the front yard,” and “Truth”

Eilzabeth Barrett Browning: Grief Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

Robert Browning  Confessions  Epilogue

 _{Life in a Love}  _{Meeting at Night}

Robert Burns

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Lord Byron

 _{The Destruction of Sennacherib}  She Walks in Beauty

 _{So We'll Go No More a Roving}

Thomas Carew

 _{Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers}  _{The Spring}

Lewis Carroll

 A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky

Samuel Taylor Coleridge  Constancy to an Ideal Object  _{Kubla Khan}

 _{Work without Hope}

 _{Billy Collins}

 The Death of Allegory  _{Fishing on the Susquehanna in July}  _{Snow Day}

Hart Crane

 _{At Melville’s Tomb}

 My Grandmother’s Love Letters  _{O Carib Isle!}

eecummings

 _{[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]}  [in Just-]

 Poems

HD  _Garden  Helen  _Leda

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Emily Dickinson

 How many times these low feet staggered (238)  _{I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, (340)}

 _{I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - (591)}  It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (291)  _{It was not Death, for I stood up, (355)}  _{“Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)}  Much Madness is divinest Sense - (620)  _{A narrow fellow in the grass (1096)}  The Poets light but Lamps — (930)  _{Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (124)}  _{There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House}

James Dickey

 _{The Heaven of Animals}  The Hospital Window  _{The Strength of Fields}

John Donne  _{Break of Day}  _{The Canonization}  The Good-Morrow

 _{Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God}  _{Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud}

 A Hymn to God the Father

 _{Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness}  Lovers' Infiniteness

 _{Song: Go and catch a falling star}  _{The Sun Rising}

 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

Rita Dove

 _{American Smooth}  Banneker

 _Flirtation

 Reverie in Open Air  _{The Secret Garden}  _Testimonial

Michael Drayton

 _{Idea 20: An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still}

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 _{Idea 61: Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part}

John Dryden

 _{To the Memory of Mr. Oldham}

 Song: “You charm'd me not with that fair face”

Stuart Dybeck  _Chord

 _Clothespins  Their Story  _{Windy City}

T.S. Eliot

 La Figlia che Piange

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 _{Concord Hymn}  _Experience  _{Give All to Love}  The Snow-Storm

Paul Engle

 Hero

Robert Frost

 _{After Apple-Picking}  Mending Wall  _Mowing

 _{The Road Not Taken}

 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

 _{Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15)}  I Genitori Perduti

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Robert Graves

 _{The Kiss}

 Vain and Careless

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 “Oh could I raise the darken’d veil”  _{The Ocean}

Robert Hayden

 _{Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday}  _{Those Winter Sundays}

Seamus Heaney

 _{Blackberry-Picking}  _{Death of a Naturalist}  Digging

 _{The Grauballe Man}

George Herbert

 The Collar  _{Love (III)}  _{The Pulley}

Robert Herrick

 _{To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time}

Gerard Manly Hopkins  _{As Kingfishers Catch Fire}  God's Grandeur

 _Spring

 Spring and Fall  _{The Windhover}

A.E. Housman

 _{Is My Team Ploughing}

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Langston Hughes  I, Too

 _{The Negro Speaks of Rivers}

Randall Jarrell

 The Woman at the Washington Zoo

Ben Johnson

 _{A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving}  _{A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme}

 _{Song: to Celia [“Drink to me only with thine eyes”]}  Song: to Celia [Come, my Celia, let us prove]

Thomas Hardy

 _{Channel Firing}

 The Convergence of the Twain  _{The Darkling Thrush}

 _Hap

 The Man He Killed

Phillip Larkin  _{An Arundel Tomb}  _{The Mower}

Denise Levertov

 _{Come into Animal Presence}

 In California: Morning, Evening, Late January  _Pleasures

 Prisoners

 _{Robert Lowell}  _Epilogue

 July in Washington  _{Skunk Hour}

Christopher Marlowe

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Andrew Marvell

 _Epilogue

 July in Washington  _{Skunk Hour}

Edgar Lee Masters  _{Anne Rutledge}  Lucinda Matlock  _{Mrs. Kessler}

Claude McKay  _America  Romance  _{The White City}

Herman Melville  _{The Maldive Shark}

 _{Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862)}

Edna St. Vincent Millay  Dirge Without Music  _Ebb

 _{“I think I should have loved you presently”}  Recuerdo

 _{“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied”}  _{“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”}

John Milton

 On Shakespeare. 1630

 _{Sonnet 23: Methought I saw my late espoused saint}  _{Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent}

Marianne Moore

 _{A Graveyard}  _{Those Various Scalpels}

Howard Numerov  _{The Consent}

 _{Life Cycle of Common Man}  _Magnitudes

 To David, About His Education  _{The Vacuum}

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 _Writing

Pablo Neruda  _Finale

 One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII

Wilfred Owen

 Anthem for Doomed Youth  _{The Last Laugh}

 _{Strange Meeting}

Dorthy Parker

 _{Love Song}

 _{Song in a Minor Key}

Marge Piercy

 For the young who want to

Robert Pinsky  Poem about People

Sylvia Plath

 The Applicant

 Blackberrying

Edgar Allan Poe

 The Conqueror Worm  _Israfel

 To Helen

Alexander Pope  _{Ode on Solitude}

Ezra Pound  _Envoi

 _{Portrait d'une Femme}

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John Crowe Ransom

 _{Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter}  Winter Remembered

Adrienne Rich  _Planetarium

 _{What Kind of Times Are These}

Edwin Arlington Robinson  Eros Turannos  _{Luke Havergal}  _{Miniver Cheevy}  Richard Cory

Theodore Roethke  I Knew a Woman  _{In a Dark Time}  My Papa’s Waltz  _{The Waking}

Christina Rossetti  Amor Mundi  _{A Birthday}  _Echo  Up-Hill

Dante Gabriel Rossetti  Insomnia

Carl Sandburg  _{Cool Tombs}  _Knucks

 The People, Yes

Anne Sexton  Her Kind

William Shakespeare

 _{Song: “Blow, blow, thou winter wind”}

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 _{Sonnet 55: Not marble nor the gilded monuments}  Sonnet 15: When I consider everything that grows  _{Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?}  _{Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes}  Spring

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 England in 1819  _{Love’s Philosophy}  Ozymandias

Phillip Sidney  _{Sonnet 1}

Stevie Smith  Do Not!

 _{The Heavenly City}

 _{Not Waving but Drowning}

W.D. Snodgrass  The Campus on the Hill  _{A Locked House}

Gary Soto

 Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview

Edmund Spenser

 _{['Joy of my life, full oft for loving you']}

Gertrude Stein

 _{Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza 83}  _{Susie Asado}

Wallace Stevens  Anecdote of the Jar  _{The Emperor of Ice-Cream}  _{The Snow Man}

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

 _{Break, Break, Break}

 The Charge of the Light Brigade  _{Crossing the Bar}

 The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Henry David Thoreau  Break, Break, Break

 _{The Charge of the Light Brigade}  _{Crossing the Bar}

 The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

 Jean Toomer  _{Break, Break, Break}

 _{The Charge of the Light Brigade}  Crossing the Bar

 _{The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal}

Derek Walcott

The season of Phantasmal Peace

Walt Whitman

 I Hear America Singing

 _{A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown}  A Noiseless Patient Spider

 _{Song of Myself}_{: 35}

 _{When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer}

William Carlos Williams  _{Danse Russe}  Queen-Anne’s Lace  _{To Elsie}

 The Widow’s Lament in Springtime

Dorothy Wordsworth  Floating Island

William Wordsworth

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 _{Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room}  Surprised by Joy

 _{The Tables Turned}

 _{The World Is Too Much With Us}

Sir Thomas Wyatt  I Find no Peace  _{They Flee From Me}

William Butler Yeats  _{Adam's Curse}