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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
Everyone in the room is a representative of the world at large by Catherine Wagner
Things mean, and I can’t tell
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.
The Sea is History by Derek Walcott
Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
A Far Cry From Africa by Derek Walcott
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt...
The Fist by Derek Walcott
The fist clenched round my heart...
A Lesson for This Sunday by Derek Walcott
The growing idleness of summer grass
Es/chew by Liz Waldner
The better to hear
A Calculus of Readiness by Liz Waldner
I, too, come from the city of dolls.
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
Light Travels by Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop
common time I follow you un-
The Real Subject [Whir] by Keith Waldrop
Do not alarm yourself, I
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.
Evening Hawk by Robert Penn Warren
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
True Love by Robert Penn Warren
In silence the heart raves. It utters words
San Francisco Night Windows by Robert Penn Warren
So hangs the hour like fruit fullblown and sweet,
Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren
I saw the hawk ride updraft in the sunset over Wyoming.
Tell Me a Story by Robert Penn Warren
Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood
Tide Pickers by Rosanna Warren
E.W. by Rosanna Warren
Your purpled, parchment forearm
Day Lilies by Rosanna Warren
For six days, full-throated, they praised
From New Hampshire by Rosanna Warren
It's not your mountain
Song by Rosanna Warren
Wedding Dress by Michael Waters
That Halloween I wore your wedding dress
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,
Loving a House by Charles Harper Webb
Sandi doesn't like Dan much, but loves his house
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
Home by Bruce Weigl
I didn't know I was grateful
Dead Man, Thinking by Bruce Weigl
Snow geese in the light of morning sky
The Not-Yet Child by Joshua Weiner
Why won't you make me now who wants a life
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
Mongrel Death Blues by Joshua Weiner
What's that behind my back?
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
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
To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley
To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent
On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
A Farewell to America by Phillis Wheatley
Adieu, New-England's smiling meads
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth by Phillis Wheatley
HAIL, happy day, when, smiling like the morn
That Been to Me My Lives Light and Saviour by Susan Wheeler
Purse be full again, or else must I die
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
The Untold Want by Walt Whitman
The untold want, by life and land ne’er granted
Come Up From the Fields Father by Walt Whitman
Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete,
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Song of Myself, III by Walt Whitman
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end
Spontaneous Me by Walt Whitman
Spontaneous me, Nature
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking by Walt Whitman
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman
I sing the body electric,
A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman
I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
So Long by Walt Whitman
To conclude—I announce what comes after me
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days by Walt Whitman
As I walk these broad majestic days of peace
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The
To You by Walt Whitman
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
Passage to India by Walt Whitman
Singing my days
Song of Myself, I, II, VI & LII by Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself,
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,
Sometimes with One I Love by Walt Whitman
Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I
Among the Multitude by Walt Whitman
Among the men and women, the multitude
A Woman Waits for Me by Walt Whitman
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,
Spirit that Form'd this Scene by Walt Whitman
Spirit that form'd this scene,
A child said, What is the grass? by Walt Whitman
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full
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
O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
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, X by Walt Whitman
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] by Walt Whitman
In paths untrodden
Among the Hills: Prelude [excerpt] by John Greenleaf Whittier
No time is this for hands long overworn
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] by John Greenleaf Whittier
The sun that brief December day
The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun
The Mystic's Christmas by John Greenleaf Whittier
Blue Oxen by Dara Wier
(it’s scaffolding) (it’s supposed to be temporary)
Profile of the Night Heron by Anne Pierson Wiese
In the Brooklyn Botanic Garden the night
Mica Schist by Anne Pierson Wiese
St. Nicholas Park in Harlem is one of few spots
In the Beginning by Anne Pierson Wiese
There was the famous photographer, Walker Evans
Advice to a Prophet by Richard Wilbur
When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city,
The Prisoner of Zenda by Richard Wilbur
At the end a
The Writer by Richard Wilbur
In her room at the prow of the house
June Light by Richard Wilbur
Your voice, with clear location of June days
The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
He did not wear his scarlet coat
A Moth in the Projectorlight [excerpt] by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Even if only in photographs
Tar by C. K. Williams
The first morning of Three Mile Island: those first disquieting, uncertain,
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 Uses of Poetry by William Carlos Williams
I've fond anticipation of a day
Spring and All by William Carlos Williams
By the road to the contagious hospital
A Love Song by William Carlos Williams
What have I to say to you
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
Peace on Earth by William Carlos Williams
The Archer is wake
To a Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams
munching a plum on
To Elsie by William Carlos Williams
The pure products of America
Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams
If when my wife is sleeping
Tract by William Carlos Williams
I will teach you my townspeople
Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
According to Brueghel
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [excerpt] by William Carlos Williams
Of asphodel, that greeny flower,
The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams
Among the rain
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
Moon Gathering by Eleanor Wilner
And they will gather by the well,
Ars Poetica by Eleanor Wilner
They wanted from us
Hard Night by Christian Wiman
What words or harder gift
Grace by Terence Winch
Didn’t know if he was a retard or a drunk
Psalm by Jonah Winter
Emptying the trash,
A Christmas Carol by George Wither
So now is come our joyful feast
Spirit Cabinet [excerpt] by David Wojahn
& how, o spirits, shall I invoke you, who cannot count himself
Sawdust by David Wojahn
Coming always from below, blade wail & its pungency
Eminent Victorians by Rebecca Wolff
Half a day is dead already--
Mamma didn't raise no fools by Rebecca Wolff
He died before we could honor
Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong
Mama, come back.
Eden by David Woo
Yellow-oatmeal flowers of the windmill palms
The Reservoir by Marc Woodworth
The smell of the reservoir--
The World is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
Behold her, single in the field
The Daffodils by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold
Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth
Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
We Are Seven by William Wordsworth
--A simple child,
Perfect Woman by William Wordsworth
She was a phantom of delight
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
A slumber did my spirit seal;
The Kitten and The Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth
See the kitten on the wall, sporting with the leaves that fall
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Anecdotes by Baron Wormser
A moment from a life--a husband holding up
The Poetry Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does] by Baron Wormser
I rise before the sun does
Gnosis by Theodore Worozbyt
Turns out the radiologist didn't know thing one about radios
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
And It Came to Pass by C. D. Wright
This june 3
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] by Charles Wright
This is the bird hour, peony blossoms falling bigger than wren hearts
Words and the Diminution of All Things by Charles Wright
The brief secrets are still here,
Last Supper by Charles Wright
I seem to have come to the end of something, but don’t know what
Body and Soul II by Charles Wright
The structure of landscape is infinitesimal,
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
Northern Pike by James Wright
All right. Try this,
A Blessing by James Wright
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota
On the Skeleton of a Hound by James Wright
Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright
In the Shreve High football stadium,
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--
They flee from me by Thomas Wyatt
They flee from me, that sometime did me seek