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Inferno, Canto XXXIV by Dante Alighieri
Towards us; therefore look in front of thee
Purgatorio, Canto X by Dante Alighieri
When we had crossed the threshold of the door
Inferno, Canto I by Dante Alighieri
Midway upon the journey of our life
Love Opened a Mortal Wound / Con el dolor de la mortal herida by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Love opened a mortal wound. / Con el dolor de la moral herida,
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You by Abdellatif Laâbi
The earth opens
What My Friend Says When She Gives Me a Persimmon by Melody Lacina
It tastes like your first kiss,
Poem With Wisteria Growing Along its Margin by Gerry LaFemina
The five cool stars above this town look down
Untitled [Mother and Dad are up] by Nancy Lagomarsino
Mother and Dad are up with the light
The Bearhug by Nick Laird
Forbidden Fruit by Michael Lally
all the forbidden fruit I ever
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] by Philip Lamantia
To see this evil from its core
Look How Far You've Come by Laurie Lamon
I gave you a tree
from Blue Dark by Deborah Landau
the moon might rise and it might not
Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor
Ah, what avails the sceptred race
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife
The Truth About the Present by John Lane
when rivers are intoxicated
The Marshes of Glynn by Sidney Lanier
GLOOMS of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven
The Song Of The Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier
Out of the hills of Habersham
Fork with Two Tines Pushed Together by Nick Lantz
It's fast and cool as running water, the way we forget
Ancient Theories by Nick Lantz
A horse hair falls into the water and grows into an eel
Afterlife by Joan Larkin
I’m older than my father when he turned
The Combo by Joan Larkin
In barlight alchemized: gold pate, the bellmouth
Flesh by Joan Larkin
Hooves were forbidden, but she fed us
Home is so Sad by Philip Larkin
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Ever Read a Book Called Awe by Dorothea Lasky
Ever Read a Book Called Awe
To be the thing by Dorothea Lasky
To be the name uttered, but not to have the burden to be
Tornado by Dorothea Lasky
I rember you as bent down like a whirlpool
Me and the Otters by Dorothea Lasky
Love makes you feel alive
Incantation by George Parsons Lathrop
When the leaves, by thousands thinned
Jellyfish by David Lau
Dear XXth century
Dawn by James Laughlin
Often now as an old man
Hum by Ann Lauterbach
The days are beautiful
Elegy for Sol LeWitt by Ann Lauterbach
The weather map today is pale. The lines on the map
On a Hanging Scroll By Shih K'ofa by Steve Lautermilch
the character / shu,
A Short History of the Apple by Dorianne Laux
Teeth at the skin. Anticipation
Bone Song by Tom Lavazzi
It doesn’t turn anymore
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is by D.H. Lawrence
How beastly the bourgeois is
Trees in the Garden by D. H. Lawrence
Ah in the thunder air
The White Horse by D. H. Lawrence
The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on
In a Boat by D.H. Lawrence
See the stars, love
Last Words to Miriam by D. H. Lawrence
Yours is the shame and sorrow
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree by D. H. Lawrence
You promised to send me some violets. Did you forget
Baby Tortoise by D. H. Lawrence
You know what it is to be born alone,
The Elephant is Slow to Mate by D.H. Lawrence
The elephant, the huge old beast,
Nothing to Save by D. H. Lawrence
There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
Whales Weep Not! by D. H. Lawrence
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
Piano by D. H. Lawrence
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me
Green by D. H. Lawrence
The dawn was apple-green
The Enkindled Spring by D. H. Lawrence
This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green
Voir Dire by Denise Liddell Lawson
Tell me about yourself.
The Feast of Lights by Emma Lazarus
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Long Island Sound by Emma Lazarus
I see it as it looked one afternoon
Age and Death by Emma Lazarus
Come closer, kind, white, long-familiar friend
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts by Sydney Lea
When was the last lobotomy, I wonder
Recession by Sydney Lea
A grotesquerie for so long we all ignored it
Madrigal by Mary Leader
How the tenor warbles in April!
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
Nonsense Alphabet by Edward Lear
A was an ant
Alphabet Poem by Edward Lear
A tumbled down, and hurt his Arm, against a bit of wood
Book of Nonsense, 1, 10 & 11 by Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a beard
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo by Edward Lear
On the Coast of Coromandel
Free Again [excerpt] by Joseph Lease
Why don't people
America [Try saying wren] by Joseph Lease
in my body, 4 a.m. in my body, breading and olives and
That Everything's Inevitable by Katy Lederer
That everything's inevitable
Love by Katy Lederer
We go back to our house. We are lovers
Loading a Boar by David Lee
We were loading a boar, a goddam mean big sonofabitch
Parowan Canyon by David Lee
When granite and sandstone begin to blur
Driving and Drinking [North to Parowan Gap] by David Lee
North to Parowan Gap
Psalm of Home Redux by David Lee
Okay then, right here
Born Late by David Dodd Lee
A block of soap
In the Black Kitchen by David Dodd Lee
It begins early, arc crumbling over the yard with its salt bird baths.
The Black Bass by David Dodd Lee
My hand became my father's hand
Thinking in Bed by Dennis Lee
I'm thinking in bed,
What Will You Be? by Dennis Lee
They never stop asking me
Bloody Bill by Dennis Lee
You say you want to fight me?
Black Petal by Li-Young Lee
I never claimed night fathered me
The Hour and What Is Dead by Li-Young Lee
Tonight my brother, in heavy boots, is walking
The Cleaving by Li-Young Lee
He gossips like my grandmother, this man
Pillow by Li-Young Lee
There's nothing I can't find under there
A Table in the Wilderness by Li-Young Lee
I draw a window
Immigrant Blues by Li-Young Lee
People have been trying to kill me since I was born
The Children's Hour by Li-Young Lee
Soldiers with guns are at our door again
Caribbean Marsh by Muna Lee
Acres of mangrove, crowding the sea-streaked marsh
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke by David Lehman
Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat
With Tenure by David Lehman
If Ezra Pound were alive today
A Little History by David Lehman
Some people find out they are Jews.
When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman
When she says margarita she means daiquiri
Autumn Evening by David Lehman
The yellow pears hang in the lake
French Movie by David Lehman
I was in a French movie
Shake the Superflux! by David Lehman
I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one
Operation Memory by David Lehman
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when
Sexism by David Lehman
The happiest moment in a woman's life
To the Author of Glare by David Lehman
There comes a time when the story turns into twenty
A Quick One Before I Go by David Lehman
There comes a time in every man's life
North-Looking Room by Brad Leithauser
In a seldom-entered attic
Tiger Shark by Hailey Leithauser
Fear streamlined to elegance
Angel Shark by Hailey Leithauser
Wan oxymoron of a fish, dotted
operation:
get down by Alex Lemon
It is very
Footprint on Your Heart by Gary Lenhart
Someone will walk into your life,
from Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
That Sure is My Little Dog by Eleanor Lerman
Yes, indeed, that is my house that I am carrying around
Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds by Eleanor Lerman
This is what she says about Russia, in the year 2000, in
The Mystery of Meteors by Eleanor Lerman
I am out before dawn, marching a small dog through a meager park
Small Talk by Eleanor Lerman
It is a mild day in the suburbs
Starfish by Eleanor Lerman
This is what life does. It lets you walk up to
Mean Free Path [excerpt] by Ben Lerner
For the distances collapsed
Arthur's Anthology of English Poetry by Laurence Lerner
To be or not to be, that is the question
Hallow-E'en, 1914 by Winifred M. Letts
Why do you wait at your door, woman
Hallow-E'en, 1915 by Winifred M. Letts
Will you come back to us, men of our hearts, to-night
Lullaby by Lyubomir Levchev
The boy was standing at the exit
The Métier of Blossoming by Denise Levertov
Fully occupied with growing--that's
The Great Black Heron by Denise Levertov
Since I stroll in the woods more often
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell by Denise Levertov
Down through the tomb's inward arch
Losing Track by Denise Levertov
Long after you have swung back
The Secret by Denise Levertov
Two girls discover
The Broken Sandal by Denise Levertov
Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke
Sojourns in the Parallel World by Denise Levertov
We live our lives of human passions,
In California During the Gulf War by Denise Levertov
Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among
St. Peter and the Angel by Denise Levertov
Delivered out of raw continual pain,
The Mutes by Denise Levertov
Those groans men use
When We Look Up by Denise Levertov
He had not looked
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus [excerpt] by Denise Levertov
Praise the wet snow
The Sharks by Denise Levertov
Well then, the last day the sharks appeared
Styx by Dana Levin
You put a bag around your head and walked into the river
Ars Poetica (cocoons) by Dana Levin
Six monarch butterfly cocoons
Letter to GC by Dana Levin
I say most sincerely and desperately, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
In the Surgical Theatre by Dana Levin
In the moment between
Bardo by Dana Levin
Zozo-ji by Dana Levin
One cry from a lone bird over a misted river
Ghosts That Need Reminding by Dana Levin
Through shattered glass and sheeted furniture, chicken
May Day by Phillis Levin
I've decided to waste my life again,
Part by Phillis Levin
Of something, separate, not
Ontario by Mark Levine
Beauty in its winter slippers
On 52nd Street by Philip Levine
Down sat Bud, raised his hands,
Drum by Philip Levine
In the early morning before the shop
Coming Close by Philip Levine
Take this quiet woman, she has been
Gospel by Philip Levine
The new grass rising in the hills,
The Two by Philip Levine
When he gets off work at Packard, they meet
Our Valley by Philip Levine
We don't see the ocean, not ever, but in July and August
A Story by Philip Levine
Everyone loves a story. Let's begin with a house
Readings in French by Larry Levis
Looking into the eyes of Gerard de Nerval
The Widening Spell of the Leaves by Larry Levis
Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill.
Those Graves in Rome by Larry Levis
There are places where the eye can starve,
Anastasia & Sandman by Larry Levis
The brow of a horse in that moment when
The Clearing of the Land: An Epitaph by Larry Levis
The trees went up the hill
In a Country by Larry Levis
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can
Leaving Seoul: 1953 by Walter K. Lew
We have to bury the urns,
4/7/85 by Walter K. Lew
Children shone in the front gate and put their hands together in the
The Menders and the Breakers by Lesle Lewis
The rain does not cool and is a sticky one to the present and the place.
Change in the Grove of Chickadees by Lesle Lewis
Happy for nothing, we could be with no dinner to cook
Red Bank by Lesle Lewis
I wanted a horse
The Vampire Bride [I am come—I am come!] by Henry Thomas Liddell
I am come—I am come! once again from the tomb
My Sin by M. L. Liebler
He came to me
Being Jewish in a Small Town by Lyn Lifshin
Someone writes kike on
Alpha Zulu by Gary Lilley
I know more people dead than people alive
Unmarked Grave by Gary Lilley
Old man, if it’ll help you rest, the shotgun
An Obscure Meadow Lures Me by José Lezama Lima
An obscure meadow lures me
Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón
We'll say unbelievable things
RPT MC-60 00.27 8 by Tan Lin
What is the relation between a fruit and a vegetable
Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Postcard from Rockport by April Lindner
Cold as a slap, this indigo sea
The Correction by Frannie Lindsay
When I got it wrong at school—missed
Mound Digger by Sarah Lindsay
This mound of dirt and the summer are heirs to transfer
Friends, I Will Not Cease by Vachel Lindsay
Friends, I will not cease hoping though you weep
The Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay
O dandelion, rich and haughty
The Horrid Voice of Science by Vachel Lindsay
There's machinery in the butterfly
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay
It is portentous, and a thing of state
Visiting Pai-an Pavilion by Hsieh Ling-yun
Beside this dike, I shake off the world's dust,
Screening Desire by R. Zamora Linmark
Sunday after Mass the priest behind
3 Men: Portraits Without the Human Figure by Deena Linnett
Hotel-casino: lights flash, crowds tread
Surf Buddha by Matthew Lippman
There is a sandalwood Buddha on the desk that has my stomach
On Halloween by Janet Little
Some folk in courts for pleasure sue
An Evening Train by Timothy Liu
whistles past hacked-down fields of corn,
Hard Evidence by Timothy Liu
A room walled-in by books where the hours withdraw.
Almost There by Timothy Liu
Hard to imagine getting
Exsultate Jubilate by Timothy Liu
fire in that square floodlit by crimson
Absence by Luljeta Lleshanaku
The moon / nicotine of a kiss. . .
Three Moves by John Logan
Three moves in sixth months and I remain
Complaint by William Logan
The faucets squeeze
The Ship by William Logan
The sunlight burned like wire on the water,
All Day Permanent Red [To welcome Hector to his death] by Christopher Logue
To welcome Hector to his death
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] by Christopher Logue
Down on your knees, Achilles. Farther down.
Tell Me by Sara London
In my country
Daphnis and Chloe by Haniel Long
You found it difficult to woo
Orion by James Longenbach
Stars rising like something said, something never
Second Draft by James Longenbach
As an older man
Lake on the Hill by James Longenbach
Often I walk the dog at night
The Cross of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the long, sleepless watches of the night
My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Often I think of the beautiful town
The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Between the dark and the daylight,
Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Out of the bosom of the Air
Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Song of the Owl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The owl
Woods in Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When winter winds are piercing chill
A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The day is done, and the darkness
Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
The Song of Hiawatha [excerpt] by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All day long roved Hiawatha
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All houses wherein men have lived and died
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The tide rises, the tide falls
The Harvest Moon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
Introduction to Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Today We Make the Poet's Words Our Own by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To-day we make the poet's words our own
Wheatear by Michael Longley
Brown lark beside the sun
Heron by Michael Longley
You died the day I was driving to Carrigskeewaun
Deer Hit by Jon Loomis
You're seventeen and tunnel-vision drunk,
The Last Slow Days of Summer by Phillip Lopate
BE YOUR OWN MASTER! says the Vedanta Society sign
We Who Are Your Closest Friends by Phillip Lopate
we who are
Snowball Journal by Phillip Lopate
Our room, says the lady of the house
The Ecstasy by Phillip Lopate
You are not me, and I am never you
Allende by Phillip Lopate
In 200 years they won't remember me, Salvador
Numbness by Phillip Lopate
I have not felt a thing for weeks
Indigestible by Phillip Lopate
A friend called up saying he was in a pre-suicidal mood
Fons by Pura López-Colomé
Reanimated, spirit restored,
Aurora [excerpt] by Pura López-Colomé
This world.
The Guitar by Federico García Lorca
The weeping of the guitar
The Old Lizard by Federico García Lorca
In the parched path
Arbolé, Arbolé . . . by Federico García Lorca
Tree, tree
City That Does Not Sleep by Federico García Lorca
In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody.
The Little Mute Boy by Federico García Lorca
The little boy was looking for his voice
Romance Sonambulo by Federico García Lorca
Green, how I want you green.
Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico García Lorca
I want to sleep the sleep of the apples,
Dressmaker by Éireann Lorsung
Nothing touches like tan velvet touches
The Reservation by Adrian C. Louis
How do you
If the Delta Was the Sea by Dick Lourie
"if the river was whiskey" Big T sings
To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace
When Love with unconfinéd wings
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind
The Taxi by Amy Lowell
When I go away from you
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. by Amy Lowell
They have watered the street,
Astigmatism by Amy Lowell
The Poet took his walking-stick
Superstition by Amy Lowell
I have painted a picture of a ghost
Red Slippers by Amy Lowell
Red slippers in a shop-window; and outside in the street
Opal by Amy Lowell
You are ice and fire,
The Letter by Amy Lowell
Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper
Spring Day [Bath] by Amy Lowell
The day is fresh-washed and fair
The Congressional Library [excerpt] by Amy Lowell
Where else in all America are we so symbolized
Carrefour by Amy Lowell
O You
Summer by Amy Lowell
Some men there are who find in nature all
Autumn by Amy Lowell
They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia
A Lover by Amy Lowell
If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly
The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell
The snow had begun in the gloaming,
The Sirens by James Russell Lowell
The sea is lonely, the sea is dreary
The Present Crisis by James Russell Lowell
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide
from The Vision of Sir Launfal by James Russell Lowell
And what is so rare as a day in June?
Man and Wife by Robert Lowell
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed;
Home After Three Months Away by Robert Lowell
Gone now the baby's nurse,
History by Robert Lowell
History has to live with what was here,
Epilogue by Robert Lowell
Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme--
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket by Robert Lowell
A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket--
Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell
Nautilus Island's hermit
Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming
"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" by Robert Lowell
The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open
Waking in the Blue by Robert Lowell
The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore
Dolphin by Robert Lowell
My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise,
Homecoming by Robert Lowell
What was is . . . since 1930;
The Drunken Fisherman by Robert Lowell
Wallowing in this bloody sty,
For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
The old South Boston Aquarium stands
Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy
A silver Lucifer
The Dead by Mina Loy
We have flowed out of ourselves
Moreover, the Moon --- by Mina Loy
Face of the skies
The Black Virginity by Mina Loy
Baby Priests
Render, Render by Thomas Lux
Boil it down: feet, skin, gristle,
A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux
Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
Dead Horse by Thomas Lux
At the fence line, I was about to call him in when
Your Brain Is Yours by Natalie Lyalin
I am baptized by coins with a faint smell of elderflower
Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets by Thomas Lynch
It came to him that he could nearly count
Retšepile, Ausi oa ka by Jacqueline Lyons
I wake up with bits of Africa on me, in my pockets folded maloti

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