She Walks In Beauty 1(2)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
Introduction 3(6)
Falling In Love
A Very Valentine
9(1)
Gertrude Stein
Song
10(1)
John Keats
Do Not Love Thee
11(1)
Hon. Caroline Norton
From Hero And Leander
12(1)
Christopher Marlowe
Love's Philosophy
13(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Having A Coke With You
14(2)
Frank O'Hara
Symptom Recital
16(1)
Dorothy Parker
To Aphrodite Of The Flowers, At Knossos
17(1)
Sappho
Come To The Orchard In Spring
18(1)
Rumi
Little Clown, My Heart
19(4)
Sandra Cisneros
Making Love
Don't Try To Rush Things—from Poem 41
23(1)
Antonio Machado
From, From June To December
24(1)
Wendy Cope
Wild Nights—wild Nights!
25(1)
Emily Dickinson
May I Feel Said Be
26(2)
E.E. Cummings
When He Pressed His Lips
28(1)
Steve Kowit
Corinna's Going A-Maying
29(3)
Robert Herrick
The Weather-Cock Points South
32(1)
Amy Lowell
To His Mistress Going To Bed
33(2)
John Donne
The Song Of Solomon 2:1-17, 3:1-5
35(3)
Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour
38(1)
Wallace Stevens
Variation On The Word Sleep
39(2)
Margaret Atwood
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
41(1)
Galway Kinnell
It Is Marvellous...
42(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
White Heliotrope
43(1)
Arthur Symons
Youth
44(3)
Osip Mandelstam
Breaking Up
Lilacs
47(1)
Katherine Garrison Chapin
Unfortunate Coincidence
48(1)
Dorothy Parker
The Philosopher
49(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Summer With Monika
50(1)
Roger McGough
I'm Going To Georgia
51(1)
Folk Song
A Type Of Loss
52(1)
Ingeborg Bachmann
On Monsieur's Departure
53(1)
Queen Elizabeth I
The Eaten Heart—from The Knight of Curtesy
54(4)
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
58(1)
Emily Dickinson
When We Two Parted
59(2)
George Gordon
Lord Byron
Well, I Have Lost You
61(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why (Sonnet XLIII)
62(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"No, Thank You, John"
63(2)
Christina Rossetti
When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story
65(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The End
67(6)
Elizabeth Alexander
Marriage
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
73(1)
Christopher Marlowe
Marriage
74(4)
Gregory Corso
From The Countess Of Pembroke's Arcadia
78(1)
Sir Philip Sidney
I Carry Your Heart With Me; I Carry It In
79(1)
E.E. Cummings
To My Dear And Loving Husband
80(1)
Anne Bradstreet
Tb Margo
81(1)
Gavin Ewart
A Word To Husbands
82(1)
Ogden Nash
To The Ladies
83(1)
Lady Mary Chudleigh
The Female Of The Species
84(3)
Rudyard Kipling
From Paradise Lost
87(4)
John Milton
The Good Wife
91(3)
Proverbs 31:10-31
My Last Duchess
94(2)
Robert Browning
To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage
96(1)
Robert Lowell
From A Survivor
97(2)
Adrienne Rich
Letter from My Wife
99(2)
Nazim Hikmet
To Paula In Late Spring
101(1)
W.S. Merwin
A Farmer's Calendar
102(3)
Vietnamese Folk Poem
Love Itself
A birthday
105(1)
Christina Rossetti
June Light
106(1)
Richard Wilbur
Protocols
107(1)
Vikram Seth
Jamesian
108(1)
Thom Gunn
From Proverbs And Song Verse
109(1)
Antonio Machado
Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee?
110(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
XLIV: You Must Know, That I Do Not Love And That I Love You
111(1)
Pablo Neruda
Code Poem for The French Resistance
112(1)
Leo Marks
The Smaller Orchid
113(1)
Amy Clampitt
Sonnet 116
114(1)
William Shakespeare
Out Beyond Ideas Of wrongdoing
115(1)
Rumi
The Emperor
116(1)
Matthew Rohrer
Late Fragment
117(1)
Raymond Carver
From The First Morning Of The Second World
118(3)
Delmore Schwartz
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
121(4)
Work
Weaponed Woman
125(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Night Waitress
126(3)
Lynda Hull
In An Iridescent Time
129(1)
Ruth Stone
Madam And Her Madam
130(1)
Langston Hughes
Letters From Storyville
131(3)
Natasha Trethewey
Lineage
134(1)
Margaret Walker
I Want You Women Up North To Know
135(4)
Tillie Olsen
P.S. Education
139(2)
Ellen Hagan
At The Cafe
141(1)
Patricia Kirkpatrick
Worked Late On A Tuesday Night
142(52)
Deborah Garrison
The Age Of Great Vocations
194
Alane Rollings
Defining Worlds
147(2)
G.Y. Baxter
What's That Smell In The Kitchen?
149(1)
Marge Piercy
Father Grumble
150(2)
Folk Song
Epitaph
152(5)
Anonymous
Beauty, Clothes, And Things Of This World
Antony And Cleopatra, II, ii, 191-232
157(3)
William Shakespeare
What Do Women Want?
160(1)
Kim Addonizio
The Catch
161(2)
Richard Wilbur
Cosmetics Do No Good
163(1)
Steve Kowit
Face Lift
164(2)
Sylvia Plath
Fatigue
166(1)
Hilaire Belloc
The Great Lover
167(3)
Rupert Brooke
Patterns
170(4)
Amy Lowell
Crocheted Bag
174(1)
Rosemary Catacalos
Delight In Disorder
175(1)
Robert Herrick
The Rhodora
176(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Roses Only
177(1)
Marianne Moore
Eagle Poem
178(3)
Joy Harjo
Motherhood
A Cradle Song
181(1)
W.B. Yeats
Notes from The Delivery Room
182(2)
Linda Pastan
Socks
184(1)
Sharon Olds
High School Senior
185(1)
Sharon Olds
Nobody Knows But Mother
186(2)
Mary Morrison
From "Clearances," In Memoriam M.K.H. (1911-1984)
188(1)
Seamus Heaney
Woman's Work
189(1)
Julia Alvarez
If There Are Any Heavens My Mother Will (All By Herself) have
190(1)
E.E. Cummings
Somebody's Mother
191(2)
Mary Dow Brine
The Book Of Ruth 2:16-17
193(1)
The Dream That I Told My Mother-In-Law
194(2)
Elizabeth Alexander
Mother's Closet
196(2)
Maxine Scates
Ode
198(1)
Elizabeth Alexander
Vietnam
199(1)
Wislawa Szymborska
A Child
200(1)
Mary Lamb
Blessing The Boats
201(4)
Lucille Clifton
Silence And Solitude
I'm Happiest When Most Away
205(1)
Emily Bronte
Keeping Things Whole
206(1)
Mark Strand
We All Know It
207(2)
Marianne Moore
As Much As You Can
209(1)
Constantine P. Cavafy
The Heart Of a Woman
210(1)
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Sense Of Something Coming
211(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Death, Etc.
212(3)
Maxine Kumin
From When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone
215(2)
Galway Kinnell
Zazen On Ching-Ping Mountain
217(1)
Li Po
The Poems Of Our Climate
218(3)
Wallace Stevens
Growing Up And Growing Old
You Begin
221(2)
Margaret Atwood
Grown-Up
223(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Puberty—With Capital Letters
224(1)
Ellen Hagan
Bra Shopping
225(4)
Parneshia Jones
Hairwashing
229(1)
Julia Alvarez
The Summer Day
230(1)
Mary Oliver
Living
231(1)
Denise Levertov
I Stepped From Plank To Plank
232(1)
Emily Dickinson
To My Last Period
233(1)
Lucille Clifton
Lumpectomy Eve
234(1)
Lucille Clifton
Older, Younger, Both
235(1)
Joyce Sutphen
Survivor
236(1)
Roger McGough
You Can't Have It All
237(2)
Barbara Ras
Sign
239(1)
Marge Piercy
The Greatest Love
240(1)
Anna Swir
Time
241(1)
Mary Ursula Bethell
Going Blind
242(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Old Woman
243(1)
Elizabeth Jennings
Let It Be Forgotten
244(1)
Sara Teasdale
Courage
245(4)
Anne Sexton
Death And Grief
We Know This Much
249(1)
Sappho
The Bustle In A House
250(1)
Emily Dickinson
Never More Will The Wind
251(1)
H.D.
Grief
252(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Widow's Lament In Springtime
253(1)
William Carlos Williams
Companion
254(1)
Jo McDougall
Remember
255(1)
Christina Rossetti
From To W.P.
256(1)
George Santayana
To Death
257(1)
Oliver St. John Gogarty
That It Is A Road
258(1)
Ariwara No Narihara
From In Memoriam A.H.H.
259(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Reconciliation
260(3)
Walt Whitman
Friendship
A Poem of Friendship
263(1)
Nikki Giovanni
Letter To N.Y.
264(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
On Gifts for Grace
266(1)
Bernadette Mayer
Love
267(2)
Roy Croft
To Hayley
269(1)
William Blake
A Poison Tree
270(1)
William Blake
August
271(2)
Louise Glück
Summer At The Beach
273(2)
Louise Glück
Girlfriends
275(1)
Ellen Doré Watson
Woman Friend
276(2)
Julia Alvarez
My Friend's Divorce
278(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Chocolate
279(1)
Rita Dove
Magnificat
280(2)
Michele Roberts
Secret Lives
282(2)
Barbara Ras
To Flush, My Dog
284(9)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How To Live
May 2
293(1)
David Lehman
From A Letter To His Daughter
294(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be of use
295(1)
Marge Piercy
Leap Before You Look
296(1)
W.H. Auden
Try To Praise The Mutilated World
297(1)
Adam Zagajewski
Leisure
298(1)
W.H. Davies
The Waking
299(1)
Theodore Roethke
September, 1918
300(1)
Amy Lowell
6 A.M. Thoughts
301(1)
Dick Davis
A Minor Bird
302(1)
Robert Frost
May Today There Be Peace Within
303(2)
St. Teresa Of Avila
The Bacchae Chorus
305(2)
Euripides
The Dawn
307(1)
W.B. Yeats
Don't Quit
308(1)
Unknown
All Things Pass
309(1)
Lao-Tzu
Simple Gifts
310(1)
Anonymous (Shaker Hymn)
24th September 1945
311(1)
Nazim Hikmet
The Journey
312(2)
Mary Oliver
Ithaka
314(2)
Constantine P. Cavafy
The Colder The Air
316(3)
Elizabeth Bishop
Acknowledgments 319(2)
Credits 321