| Preface | xi |
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| Western Wind | 1 |
| Sir Patrick Spence | 1 |
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| The Nymph's Reply | 3 |
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| Since There's No Help | 4 |
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| The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | 4 |
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| Sonnet 18 [Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?] | 5 |
| Sonnet 29 [When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes] | 6 |
| Sonnet 73 [That time of year thou mayst in me behold] | 6 |
| Sonnet 130 [My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun] | 7 |
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| There Is a Garden in Her Face | 8 |
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| Death Be Not Proud | 9 |
| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | 9 |
| Song | 11 |
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| On My First Son | 12 |
| To Celia | 12 |
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| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | 13 |
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| Easter Wings | 14 |
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| When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | 15 |
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| The Author to Her Book | 15 |
| To My Dear and Loving Husband | 16 |
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| To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars | 17 |
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| To His Coy Mistress | 17 |
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| A Description of the Morning | 19 |
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| From An Essay on Criticism | 20 |
| Epigram | 21 |
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| To the University of Cambridge, in New-England | 21 |
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| The Tyger | 22 |
| The Sick Rose | 23 |
| London | 23 |
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| Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey | 24 |
| Composed upon Westminster Bridge | 28 |
| The World Is Too Much with Us | 28 |
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| Kubla Khan | 29 |
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| When We Two Parted | 31 |
| She Walks in Beauty | 32 |
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| Ozymandias | 33 |
| Ode to the West Wind | 33 |
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| When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be | 36 |
| To Autumn | 36 |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | 37 |
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| How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways | 39 |
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| To Helen | 39 |
| The Raven | 40 |
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| Ulysses | 43 |
| Tears, Idle Tears | 45 |
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| My Last Duchess | 46 |
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| Song of Myself, 6 | 47 |
| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | 49 |
| Cavalry Crossing a Ford | 49 |
| A Noiseless Patient Spider | 50 |
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| Dover Beach | 50 |
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| Uphill | 51 |
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| Wild Nights--Wild Nights! | 52 |
| The Soul Selects Her Own Society | 53 |
| I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died | 53 |
| After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes | 54 |
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| Neutral Tones | 54 |
| The Man He Killed | 55 |
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| God's Grandeur | 56 |
| Pied Beauty | 56 |
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| To an Athlete Dying Young | 57 |
| Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now | 58 |
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| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | 58 |
| When You Are Old | 59 |
| The Second Coming | 59 |
| Sailing to Byzantium | 60 |
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| Richard Cory | 61 |
| Mr. Flood's Party | 62 |
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| We Wear the Mask | 63 |
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| Mending Wall | 64 |
| After Apple-Picking | 65 |
| Birches | 66 |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | 68 |
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| Patterns | 68 |
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| Fog | 71 |
| A Fence | 72 |
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| Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | 72 |
| The Snow Man | 75 |
| The Emperor of Ice-Cream | 75 |
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| To Waken an Old Lady | 76 |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | 76 |
| This Is Just to Say | 77 |
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| Wild Peaches | 77 |
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| The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | 79 |
| In a Station of the Metro | 80 |
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| Heat | 81 |
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| Poetry | 81 |
| A Grave | 83 |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | 84 |
| Preludes | 88 |
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| Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter | 90 |
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| America | 91 |
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| First Fig | 91 |
| What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why | 92 |
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| Ars Poetica | 92 |
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| Dulce et Decorum Est | 93 |
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| Resume | 95 |
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| Buffalo Bill's | 95 |
| in Just- | 96 |
| anyone lived in a pretty how town | 96 |
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| Song of the Son | 98 |
| Reapers | 99 |
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| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | 99 |
| Mother to Son | 100 |
| Harlem | 100 |
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| Incident | 101 |
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| Musee des Beaux Arts | 101 |
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| My Papa's Waltz | 102 |
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| The Fish | 103 |
| Sestina | 105 |
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| Those Winter Sundays | 106 |
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| Love Poem | 107 |
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| Traveling through the Dark | 108 |
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| Fern Hill | 109 |
| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | 110 |
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| The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | 111 |
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| Dream Song 4 | 112 |
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| We Real Cool | 113 |
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| For the Union Dead | 113 |
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| Love Calls Us to the Things of This World | 116 |
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| Aubade | 117 |
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| A Supermarket in California | 118 |
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| Paradoxes and Oxymorons | 119 |
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| A Blessing | 120 |
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| Cinderella | 121 |
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| A Walk | 124 |
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| Ethics | 125 |
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| Metaphors | 126 |
| Daddy | 126 |
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| The Tunnel | 128 |
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| The Storm | 130 |
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| Homage to My Hips | 130 |
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| Barbie Doll | 131 |
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| Siren Song | 132 |
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| Digging | 133 |
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| The One Girl at the Boys' Party | 134 |
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| The School Children | 135 |
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| Facing It | 136 |
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| Prayer to the Pacific | 137 |
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| An Aubade | 138 |
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| The Colonel | 139 |
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| Eagle Poem | 140 |
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| Daystar | 140 |
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| The Traveling Onion | 141 |
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| Oranges | 142 |
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| Bilingual Sestina | 144 |
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| Boulevard du Montparnasse | 145 |
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| Lost Sister | 146 |
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| Eating Together | 148 |
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| The Next Poem Could Be Your Last | 149 |
| Author Biographies | 151 |
| Acknowledgments | 183 |
| Historical Context for Poems | 187 |
| Index | 192 |