Poetry
From Gerald R. Lucas
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.
Margaret Atwood
- “Circe, Mud Poems” (excerpt)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Constantine Cavafy
Lucille Clifton
Hart Crane
- “Exile”
John Donne
- “Song”
T. S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Franz Kafka
Philip Larkin
Andrew Marvell
Ovid
- “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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “Good-Night”
- “Ozymandias”
Mark Strand
Derek Walcott
- “Journey”
William Butler Yeats