Poetry

Most of these poems (and occasional short story) I have posted over the years on various blogs as I (re)discovered them. This will explain why the articles are dates, rather than the poems’ titles. Some of them even accompany those online musings still. Each has meant something to me at one time, and many continue to resonate. A few I teach.

Charles Meynier, Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry, ca. 1800.

Margaret Atwood

• “Circe, Mud Poems” (excerpt)

Gwendolyn Brooks

• “Primer For Blacks”
• “We Real Cool”

Constantine Cavafy

• “And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds”
• “Ithaka”

Lucille Clifton

• “homage to my hips”
• “seeker of visions”
• “won’t you celebrate with me”

Hart Crane

• “Exile”

John Donne

• “Song”

T. S. Eliot

• “Ash Wednesday VI”
• The Waste Land

Robert Frost

• “Dust of Snow”

Langston Hughes

• “Let America Be America Again”

Franz Kafka

• “Before the Law”

Philip Larkin

• “The Mower”

Andrew Marvell

• “To His Coy Mistress”

Ovid

• “Apollo and Daphne” (from the Metamorphoses, book 1)
• “Europa and Jove” (from the Metamorphoses, book 2)
• “Penelope to Ulysses”
• “Pygmalion” (from the Metamorphoses, book 10)

Edgar Allan Poe

• “Alone”
• “The Masque of the Red Death” (short story)

Carl Sandberg

• “Choose”

William Shakespeare

• “Sonnet 1”
• “Sonnet 2”
• “Sonnet 3”
• “Sonnet 4”
• “Sonnet 5”
• “Sonnet 6”
• “Sonnet 7”
• “Sonnet 8”
• “Sonnet 23”
• “Sonnet 116”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• “Good-Night”
• “Ozymandias”

Mark Strand

• “Keeping Things Whole”
• “Eating Poetry”

Derek Walcott

• “Journey”

William Butler Yeats

• “Sailing to Byzantium”