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El Poema / The Poem by Homero Aridjis
El poema gira sobre la cabeza de un hombre / The poem spins over the head of a man
Posthumous Remorse by Charles Baudelaire
When you go to sleep, my gloomy beauty
Invitation to the Voyage by Charles Baudelaire
Child, Sister, think how sweet to go out there and live together
Ramallah by Bei Dao
in Ramallah the ancients play chess in the starry sky
Night on the Great River [three translations] by Meng Hao-jan
Steering my little boat towards a misty islet,
In the Greenhouse by Eugenio Montale
The lemon bushes overflowed
Belarusian I by Valzhyna Mort
even our mothers have no idea how we were born
The Inn by Emmanuel Moses
A little wine
Proem by Octavio Paz
At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death
Everyone in the room is a representative of the world at large by Catherine Wagner
Things mean, and I can’t tell
Air Envelope by Catherine Wagner
A skylight stippled
The Junior High School Band Concert by David Wagoner
When our semi-conductor
This is a Wonderful Poem by David Wagoner
Come at it carefully, don't trust it, that isn't its right name,
The Shooting of John Dillinger Outside the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934 by David Wagoner
Chicago ran a fever of a hundred and one that groggy Sunday.
A Lesson for This Sunday by Derek Walcott
The growing idleness of summer grass
A Far Cry From Africa by Derek Walcott
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt...
In the Village by Derek Walcott
I came up out of the subway and there were
The Sea is History by Derek Walcott
Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
The Fist by Derek Walcott
The fist clenched round my heart...
Alphabet of Mother Language by Anne Waldman
If Kali were a car, what kind of car would she be
Matriot Acts, Act I [History of Mankind] by Anne Waldman
you no longer believe in anything
A Calculus of Readiness by Liz Waldner
I, too, come from the city of dolls.
Behind Perfume, Only Solitude by Liz Waldner
Ink will come. Lamp lung
Prayer by Liz Waldner
If I were in a book it would be the book
Es/chew by Liz Waldner
The better to hear
Where, Broken (the darkness by Liz Waldner
Cows on the spine of the hill like the spine of a book are some letters
Witness by Liz Waldner
I saw that a star had broken its rope
Adjunct by Liz Waldner
On Moving Again by Liz Waldner
This evening, walking along the long field
What Is a Soprano by G. C. Waldrep
I call to you as a prism to its oracle
Light Travels by Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop
common time I follow you un-
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] by Keith Waldrop
things
The Real Subject [Whir] by Keith Waldrop
Do not alarm yourself, I
Below the Earth by Keith Waldrop
My first glance takes in
from genesis by Laura Walker
in the beginning the sound of holes, and the weight of treason and light paper streamers
Red and Blue Planets by Joni Wallace
What we're drawn to is proof enough
Literature in the 21st Century [excerpt] by Ronald Wallace
Sometimes I wish I drank coffee
Go, lovely rose! by Edmund Waller
Go, lovely rose!
My Soul by Ember Ward
Sometimes / When I feel like I'm going to fall apart
A Way to Love God by Robert Penn Warren
Here is the shadow of truth, for only the shadow is true.
True Love by Robert Penn Warren
In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Tell Me a Story by Robert Penn Warren
Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood
San Francisco Night Windows by Robert Penn Warren
So hangs the hour like fruit fullblown and sweet,
Evening Hawk by Robert Penn Warren
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren
I saw the hawk ride updraft in the sunset over Wyoming.
E.W. by Rosanna Warren
Your purpled, parchment forearm
From New Hampshire by Rosanna Warren
It's not your mountain
Tide Pickers by Rosanna Warren
Day Lilies by Rosanna Warren
For six days, full-throated, they praised
Song by Rosanna Warren
Man in Stream by Rosanna Warren
You stand in the brook, mud smearing
Hawk by Daniel Waters
All eyes are fearful of the spotted hawk
Wedding Dress by Michael Waters
That Halloween I wore your wedding dress
White Stork by Michael Waters
Such jazzy arrhythmia
How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts
How doth the little busy bee
My Father's Geography by Afaa M. Weaver
I was parading the Côte d'Azur,
What Elizabeth Bishop Could Not Know by Afaa M. Weaver
Black women keep secrets tied up in hankies
Rambling by Afaa M. Weaver
In general population, census
Loving a House by Charles Harper Webb
Sandi doesn't like Dan much, but loves his house
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 by Charles Harper Webb
May there be an afterlife
In Antigua by Kerri Webster
In Albuquerque, on the other hand, I am infamous
Uncertain Grace by Rebecca Wee
How can she be beautiful? Eyes, ribs, the slope
Appalachian Front by Robert Lewis Weeks
Panther lies next to Wharncliffe
Farewell to Yang, Who's Leaving for Kuo-chou by Wang Wei
Those canyons are too narrow to travel
Dead Man, Thinking by Bruce Weigl
Snow geese in the light of morning sky
Home by Bruce Weigl
I didn't know I was grateful
Mongrel Death Blues by Joshua Weiner
What's that behind my back?
Psalm by Joshua Weiner
When I sing to you I am alone these days
Art Pepper by Joshua Weiner
Scared boy, he even fled a cloud
The Not-Yet Child by Joshua Weiner
Why won't you make me now who wants a life
Ordinary Landscape by Jonathan Weinert
The Basic Con by Lew Welch
Those who can't find anything to live for
Less Music by Marjorie Welish
This freedom up.
Barrio with Sketchy Detail by Andrea Werblin
Except for the chickens humming to each other,
The Army of Truth by Henrik Wergeland
Words? Those sounds the world despises.
The Tapeworm Foundry [excerpt] by Darren Wershler-Henry
insinuate that much can be learned from the fact that jackson pollock is know to
MacDowell by Rachel Wetzsteon
For once I fought back
Sakura Park by Rachel Wetzsteon
The park admits the wind
At the Zen Mountain Monastery by Rachel Wetzsteon
A double line of meditators sits
Further Notice by Philip Whalen
I can't live in this world
On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth by Phillis Wheatley
HAIL, happy day, when, smiling like the morn
To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley
To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent
A Farewell to America by Phillis Wheatley
Adieu, New-England's smiling meads
His Excellency General Washington by Phillis Wheatley
Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light
Meeting Again, After Heine by Susan Wheeler
The moon rose like a blooming flower
Charity Must Abide Call for Ancient Occupation by Susan Wheeler
Red barn, still house, shimmering heat
The Green Stamp Book by Susan Wheeler
Child in the thick of yearning. Doll carted and pushed
That Been to Me My Lives Light and Saviour by Susan Wheeler
Purse be full again, or else must I die
Song For the Spirit of Natalie Going by Susan Wheeler
Small bundle of bones, small bundle of fingers, of plumpness, of heart
Shanked on the Red Bed by Susan Wheeler
The perch was on the roof, and the puck was in the air
Roanoke and Wampumpeag by Susan Wheeler
Child, entering Ye Olde Trading Post, takes the pegs upon the walls
Poem by Susan Wheeler
Green is the false nettle
Concerning the Angel at 5th & 53rd by J. P. White
Every city has them--pools of helmeted, stained men
America by James Monroe Whitfield
America, it is to thee
Spontaneous Me by Walt Whitman
Spontaneous me, Nature
I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman
I sing the body electric,
Passage to India by Walt Whitman
Singing my days
Song of Myself, I, II, VI & LII by Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself,
Sometimes with One I Love by Walt Whitman
Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I
A child said, What is the grass? by Walt Whitman
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days by Walt Whitman
As I walk these broad majestic days of peace
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman
I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman
Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer by Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
Song of Myself, XI by Walt Whitman
Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore
Miracles by Walt Whitman
Why, who makes much of a miracle
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman
When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
A noiseless patient spider by Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider
Song of Myself, III by Walt Whitman
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end
Come Up From the Fields Father by Walt Whitman
Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete,
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand by Walt Whitman
Whoever you are, holding me now in hand
Delicate Cluster by Walt Whitman
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life
Washington's Monument, February, 1885 by Walt Whitman
Ah, not this marble, dead and cold
The Indications [excerpt] by Walt Whitman
The words of the true poems give you more than poems
Continuities by Walt Whitman
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost
The Untold Want by Walt Whitman
The untold want, by life and land ne’er granted
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
So Long by Walt Whitman
To conclude—I announce what comes after me
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The
Among the Multitude by Walt Whitman
Among the men and women, the multitude
A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
To You by Walt Whitman
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
A Woman Waits for Me by Walt Whitman
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,
O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
Song of Myself, X by Walt Whitman
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking by Walt Whitman
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
The Sleepers by Walt Whitman
I wander all night in my vision
Spirit that Form'd this Scene by Walt Whitman
Spirit that form'd this scene,
Unfolded Out of the Folds by Walt Whitman
Unfolded out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded
World Below the Brine by Walt Whitman
The world below the brine
Come, said my Soul by Walt Whitman
Come, said my Soul
Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] by Walt Whitman
In paths untrodden
When I Heard at the Close of Day by Walt Whitman
When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd
On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman
On the beach at night alone
To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman
Thee for my recitative!
To Think of Time by Walt Whitman
To think of time—of all that retrospection
The Mystic's Christmas by John Greenleaf Whittier
Among the Hills: Prelude [excerpt] by John Greenleaf Whittier
No time is this for hands long overworn
Brown of Ossawatomie by John Greenleaf Whittier
John Brown of Ossawatomie spake on his dying day
Abraham Davenport [excerpt] by John Greenleaf Whittier
In the old days (a custom laid aside
The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] by John Greenleaf Whittier
The sun that brief December day
Blue Oxen by Dara Wier
(it’s scaffolding) (it’s supposed to be temporary)
The Pressure of the Moment by Dara Wier
The pressure of the moment can cause someone to kill someone or something
Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog by Dara Wier
How many seasons are there
Incident on the Road to the Capital by Dara Wier
A wolf had grown tired of his character and sought
In the Beginning by Anne Pierson Wiese
There was the famous photographer, Walker Evans
Mica Schist by Anne Pierson Wiese
St. Nicholas Park in Harlem is one of few spots
Profile of the Night Heron by Anne Pierson Wiese
In the Brooklyn Botanic Garden the night
The Prisoner of Zenda by Richard Wilbur
At the end a
June Light by Richard Wilbur
Your voice, with clear location of June days
The House by Richard Wilbur
Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes
Advice to a Prophet by Richard Wilbur
When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city,
The Writer by Richard Wilbur
In her room at the prow of the house
The Reader by Richard Wilbur
She is going back these days
The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
He did not wear his scarlet coat
from The Dogs by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
But the moths find you, phantom
A Moth in the Projectorlight [excerpt] by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Even if only in photographs
deer & salt block by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
One boy is a liar & says there's a block of salt
Tar by C. K. Williams
The first morning of Three Mile Island: those first disquieting, uncertain,
The Gaffe by C. K. Williams
If that someone who's me yet not me yet who judges me is always with me
from People Close To You by Crystal Williams
She asks if she can sit on the bench &
Coming Up Into the Light by Julie Williams
You can only hunker down so long & then the wind dies
The Fish by Lisa Williams
How they appear: tunneled vision
The Wine-Drinkers by Tennessee Williams
The wine-drinkers sit on the porte cochère in the sun.
This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams
If when my wife is sleeping
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [excerpt] by William Carlos Williams
Of asphodel, that greeny flower,
Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
According to Brueghel
The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams
Among the rain
The Uses of Poetry by William Carlos Williams
I've fond anticipation of a day
Peace on Earth by William Carlos Williams
The Archer is wake
Summer Song by William Carlos Williams
Wanderer moon
The Hurricane by William Carlos Williams
The tree lay down
Poem [on getting a card] by William Carlos Williams
on getting a card
Approach of Winter by William Carlos Williams
The half-stripped trees
Complaint by William Carlos Williams
They call me and I go
Complete Destruction by William Carlos Williams
It was an icy day
For the Poem Paterson [1. Detail] by William Carlos Williams
Her milk don't seem to
Details for Paterson by William Carlos Williams
I just saw two boys
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] by William Carlos Williams
By the road to the contagious hospital
To Elsie by William Carlos Williams
The pure products of America
Tract by William Carlos Williams
I will teach you my townspeople
To a Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams
munching a plum on
A Love Song by William Carlos Williams
What have I to say to you
The Descent by William Carlos Williams
The descent beckons
Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
All the complicated details
Spring and All, XIV by William Carlos Williams
Of death
Poem [Daniel Boone] by William Carlos Williams
Daniel Boone, the father of Kentucky
Marriage by William Carlos Williams
So different, this man
Queen-Anne's-Lace by William Carlos Williams
Her body is not so white as
The Widow's Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams
Sorrow is my own yard
For the Poem Paterson [3. St. Valentine] by William Carlos Williams
A woman's breasts
The Steam Engine by Elizabeth Willis
I came back to the meadow an unsuspecting hart
Return by John Wilmot
Absent from thee, I languish still
Ars Poetica by Eleanor Wilner
They wanted from us
Moon Gathering by Eleanor Wilner
And they will gather by the well,
Pastoral by Emily Wilson
The mordants in their noise
Small Study by Emily Wilson
Sparrows swiveling the feeder
Red-Legged Kittiwake by Emily Wilson
Native it seems to no part
Hard Night by Christian Wiman
What words or harder gift
from One Time by Christian Wiman
But the world is more often refuge
Grace by Terence Winch
Didn’t know if he was a retard or a drunk
Q & A by Terence Winch
How important is theory in this poem
Psalm by Jonah Winter
Emptying the trash,
A Christmas Carol by George Wither
So now is come our joyful feast
At Dusk, the Catbird by George Witte
Twitched in the forsythia
Gas Star by George Witte
Something coming down at night
Sawdust by David Wojahn
Coming always from below, blade wail & its pungency
Spirit Cabinet [excerpt] by David Wojahn
& how, o spirits, shall I invoke you, who cannot count himself
August, 1953 by David Wojahn
A nurse gathers up the afterbirth. My mother
Mamma didn't raise no fools by Rebecca Wolff
He died before we could honor
Lost in thought, the baby by Rebecca Wolff
Primarily
Eminent Victorians by Rebecca Wolff
Half a day is dead already--
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again by Rebecca Wolff
I stopped by to see you but you were not home
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea by Cecilia Woloch
I was leaving a country of rain for a country of apples
Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong
Mama, come back.
Eden by David Woo
Yellow-oatmeal flowers of the windmill palms
Daily Life by Susan Wood
A parrot of irritation sits
The Reservoir by Marc Woodworth
The smell of the reservoir--
Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
The World is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
The Daffodils by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
from The Kitten and Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth
See the kitten on the wall, sporting with the leaves that fall
We Are Seven by William Wordsworth
--A simple child,
The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
Behold her, single in the field
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
A slumber did my spirit seal;
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
Perfect Woman by William Wordsworth
She was a phantom of delight
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold
Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth
Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind
Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth
I heard a thousand blended notes
Travelling by William Wordsworth
This is the spot:—how mildly does the sun
She dwelt among the untrodden ways by William Wordsworth
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth
The sun has long been set
The Poetry Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does] by Baron Wormser
I rise before the sun does
Anecdotes by Baron Wormser
A moment from a life--a husband holding up
Gnosis by Theodore Worozbyt
Turns out the radiologist didn't know thing one about radios
The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton
How happy is he born and taught
One With Others [Not the mental lethargy in which the days enveloped her] by C. D. Wright
Not the mental lethargy in which the days enveloped her
One With Others [It was hotter then] by C. D. Wright
It was hotter then
And It Came to Pass by C. D. Wright
This june 3
Tours by C. D. Wright
A girl on the stairs listens to her father
Personals by C. D. Wright
Some nights I sleep with my dress on. My teeth
One With Others [I take one more drive across town thinking] by C. D. Wright
I take one more drive across town thinking
Body and Soul II by Charles Wright
The structure of landscape is infinitesimal,
Little Ending by Charles Wright
Bowls will receive us
Words and the Diminution of All Things by Charles Wright
The brief secrets are still here,
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] by Charles Wright
This is the bird hour, peony blossoms falling bigger than wren hearts
Last Supper by Charles Wright
I seem to have come to the end of something, but don’t know what
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard by Charles Wright
East of me, west of me, full summer.
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear by David Wright
Avoid storms. And retirement parties
Wheeling Motel by Franz Wright
The vast waters flow past its back yard
The Secret of Light by James Wright
I am sitting contented and alone in a little park near the Palazzo Scaligere...
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright
In the Shreve High football stadium,
Northern Pike by James Wright
All right. Try this,
On the Skeleton of a Hound by James Wright
Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain by James Wright
I had no idea the elf owl
A Blessing by James Wright
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota
The Healing Improvisation of Hair by Jay Wright
If you undo your do you wóuld
Difficult Body by Mark Wunderlich
A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi--
My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness by Thomas Wyatt
My galley charged with forgetfulness
They flee from me by Thomas Wyatt
They flee from me, that sometime did me seek

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