CONTENTS
Introduction 23
Yamabe no Akahito 25 THE MISTS RISE OVER
William Allingham 25 WRITING
Yehuda Amichai 26 MY FATHER
A R Ammons 26 COWARD
Anon. 27 'AT SIXTY I, DIONYSIOS'
Anon. 27 PRAYER
Anon. 28 THE DISTRACTED CENTIPEDE
Anon. 28 'QUIETLY SITTING'
Anon. 29 ANGELICA THE DOORKEEPER
Anon. 29 ICE Guillaume Apollinaire 30 MOUSE
W. H. Auden 30 THE AESTHETIC POINT OF VIEW
Roy Baume 31 MENU
Ambrose Bierce 31 WITH A BOOK
Barbara Balch 32 PROBLEM
Matsuo Basho 32 THE SUMMER GRASSES
HilaireBelloc 33 JULIET
E. Clerihew Bentley 33 THE PEOPLE OF SPAIN THINK CERVANTES
John Betjeman 34 THE LAST LAUGH
Bhartrihari 34 SHE WHO IS ALWAYS IN MY THOUGHTS
William Blake ETERNITY 35 Richard Brautigan 35 PLEASE
Joseph Brodsky 36 To A FELLOW POET
BertoltBrecht 36 SEND ME A LEAF
Tom Brown 37 I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell
Robert Browning 37 RHYME FOR A CHILD
John William Burgon 38 PETRA
Robert Burns 38 THE BOOK-WORMS
Yosa Buson 39 THE WINTER RIVER
Mairead Byrne 39 MAHI-MAHI
George Gordon, Lord Byron 40 ENDORSEMENT TO THE DEED OF SEPARATION, IN THE APRIL OF 1816
John Cage 40 1 HAVE NOTHING TO SAY' Catullus 41 I LOVE, HATE, HATE LOVE
Constantine P Cavafy 41 HE VOWS
Ho Chih-Chang 42 WRITTEN ON RETURN HOME
Chong Choi 42 SHIJO
John Ciardi 43 DAWN OF THE SPACE AGE
J. Gordon Coogler 43 A PRETTY GIRL
Wendy Cope 44 Two CURES FOR LOVE
Cid Corman 44 UNTITLED
Stephen Crane 45 TELL ME NOT IN JOYOUS NUMBERS
Robert Creeley 45 MORNING
Countee Cullen 46 FOR A MOUTHY WOMAN John Cunningham 46 ON ALDERMAN W -
Elaine Cusack 47 SHORT THOUGHT
Barbara Daniels 47 TROPHY
J P Das 48 BEGINNING
Charles de lint 48 THE PUPPET
Thomas Parke D'Invilliers 49 THEN WEAR THE GOLD HAT
John Donne 49 A LAME BEGGAR
Carol Ann Duffy 50 MRS DARWIN
Richard Eberhart 50 THE ECLIPSE
Richard Edwards 51 WHEN I WAS THREE
Paul Eluard 51 THE RIVER Marjorie M. Evasco 52 THIRD WORLD MUSIC ON THE 23RD DAY OF RAIN
Gavin Ewart 52 A GREAT POEM
Faiz Ahmad Faiz 53 LONELINESS
George Farewell 53 QUERY
Joe Fazio 54 FRIEND
Duncan Forbes 54 BLURB
Zymunt Frankel 55 WAKING UP IN THE MORNING
Robert Frost 55 THE SECRET SITS
John Fuller 56 THE BUTTERFLY
Michael P. Garofalo 56 HAIKU
Orlando Gibbons 57 THE SILVER SWAN Jack Gilbert 57 DIVORCE
W. S. Gilbert 58 To SIT IN SOLEMN SILENCE...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 58 WHEN SPRING'S GOLD
Simon Goodway 59 OCTOPUSSES
Harry Graham 59 WASTE
Mark Granier 60 GIRL IN A WHEELCHAIR
Robert Graves 60 TWINS
Olav H. Hauge 61 DON'T COME TO ME
Satavahana Hala 61 'LOVE'S LIKE STRETCHING OUT'
Donald Hall 62 BREASTS
Michael Hamburger 62 PROGRESS Ian Hamilton 63 NATURE
Thomas Hardy 63 EPITAPH ON A PESSIMIST
Seamus Heany 64 THE RESCUE
PietHein 64 WHAT LOVE IS LIKE
Robert A. Heinlein 65 ALMIGHTY RULER OF THE ALL
Ernest Hemingway 65 CHAPTER HEADING
Zbigniew Herbert 66 OBJECTS
Robert Herrick 66 DREAMS
Prescott Hoard 67 SKY LINE
Friedrich Holderlin 67 THE TREE
Langston Hughes 68 BAD MORNING Ho Xuan Huong 68 THE CAKE THAT DRIFTS IN WATER
David Ignatow 69 A FIRST ON TV
Issa 69 NOW LISTEN
Rolf Jacobsen 70 LIGHT POLE
Juan Ramon Jimenez 70 Music
Donald Justice 71 LORCAESQUES
A.W Kayper-Mensah 71 MY HAIR-CUT
John Keats 72 GIVE ME WOMEN, WINE, AND SNUFF
Ronald Keen 72 'REACH OUT*
Omar Khayyam 73 NEITHER YOU NOR I
Kikaku 73 A BUND CHILD Stephen King 74 YOUR HAIR IS WINTER FIRE
Fujiwara no Kiyosuke 74 I MAY LIVE ON UNTIL
R. D. Laing 75 *WHY DID THE PEACOCK SCREAM'
Walter Savage Landor 75 THE GEORGES
Frederick Langbridge 76 PHILOSOPHY
Ring Lardner 76 QUIESCENT, A PERSON SITS
Philip Larkin 77 DAWN
D. H. Lawrence 77 SELF-PITY
Christopher Logue 78 To A FRIEND
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 78 THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL
Amy Lowell 79 A LOVER Lucilius 79 'MEAN OLD HERMON'
Antonio Machado 80 CLOSE TO THE ROAD
Jayant Mahapatra 80 SONG OF THE RIVER
Stephane Mallarme 81 GRASS AND BONE
Anne Malcolm 81 UNTITLED
Osip Mandelstam 82 THE SHY SPEECHLESS SOUND'
Harry Martinson 82 CREATION NIGHT
Martial 83 EPIGRAM
David McCord 83 To A CERTAIN MOST CERTAINLY CERTAIN CRITIC
Roger McGough 84 CAKE
Paula Meehan 84 IN MEMORY, JOHN BORROWMAN William Michaelian 85 HOPE
Edna St. Vincent Millay 85 GROWN-UP
Spike Milligan 86 HAMLET
Andrew Motion 86 CAUSA BELU
Paul Muldon 87 Tract
Les Murray 87 VISITOR
Howard Nemerov A MALE CHAUVINIST MERMAID
B P Nichol LANDSCAPE: I
Grace Nichols 89 EPILOGUE
George Gordon Noel 89 EPITAPH FOR LORD CASTLEREAGH
Alden Nowlan 90 IN THE GARDEN Ogden Nash 90 REFLECTIONS ON ICE-BREAKING
Dorothy Parker 91 EXPERIENCE
D. D. Perrin 91 A MOSQUITO WAS HEARD TO COMPLAIN
Fernando Pessoa 92 WANT LITTLE: YOU'LL HAVE EVERYTHING
Plato 92 STAR OF MY LIFE
IiPo 93 ALONE LOOKING AT THE MOUNTAIN
Peter Porter 93 INSTANT FISH
Ezra Pound 94 FAN-PIECE, FOR HER IMPERIAL LORD
Matthew Prior 94 HUMAN LIFE
Tjipoetat Quill 95 LAST NIGHT'S ENCONTER
Walter Raleigh 95 FROM CATULLUS V A. K. Ramanujan 96 EXCERPTS FROM A FATHER'S WISDOM
Peter Reading 96 FOUND
Mary Repard 97 To EVERY TIDE
Lewis F. Richardson 97 BIG WHORLS HAVE LITTLE WHORLS
Rainer Maria Rilke 98 ROSE, OH PURE CONTRADICTION, JOY
Jalaluddin Rumi 98 THE BIRDS HAVE FLOWN TO FREEDOM
Salman Rushdie 99 DEDICATION
J. D. Salinger 99 JOHN KEATS
Carl Sandburg 100 CHOOSE
Sappho 100 THE MOON IS DOWN
F.R. Scott 101 ECLIPSE George Seferis 101 THE JASMINE
Percy Bysshe Shelley 102 ONE SUNG OF THEE WHO LEFT THE TALE UNTOLD
Izumi Shikibu 102 'ON NIGHTS WHEN HAIL'
ShelSilverstein 103 STUPID PENCIL MAKER
Charles Simic 103 EVENING CHESS
Stevie Smith 104 THE PAST
Piotr Sommer 104 DAYS OF THE WEEK
Nikos Stangos 105 DISCURSIVE VISIBILITY
Anne Stevenson 105 THE MOTHER
R. L. Stevenson 106 AUNTIE'S SKIRTS
Trumbull Stickney 106 I HEAR A RIVER THRO' THE VALLEY WANDER Rabindranath Tagore 107 STRAY BIRDS
Sarah Teasdale 107 FAULTS
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 108 THE EAGLE (A FRAGMENT)
JRRTolkien 108 TALL SHIPS AND TALL KINGS
C Torian 109 ONE SENTENCE POEM
Tukaram 109 A GOOD POEM
Judith Viorst 110 SECRETS
Wang Wei 110 LADY XI
John Hall Wheelock 111 EARTH
SivWiderberg 111 NOT BEING ABLE TO SLEEP
Hugo Williams 112 LIGHTS OUT JohnWilmot 112 EPITAPH ON CHARLES II
MJ Wilson 113 DIARY
WB Yeats 113 ON BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM
Adam Zagajewski 114 THIS DAY'S NOTHINGNESS