Love and/or(?) Romantic Love Donne “The Flea” (807) Rich “Living in Sin” (991) Auden “[Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]” (837) Marvell “To His Coy Mistress” (808) Pound “The River Merchant’s Wife” (1157) Parker “A Certain Lady” (776) Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1139) Rich “[My mouth hovers across your breasts]” (998) Millay “I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed” (973) Shakespeare “[Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?]” (878) Work and Life Smith “The Business” (852) Heaney “Digging” (1144) Wagoner “My Father’s Garden” (787) Whitman “I Hear America Singing” (938) Hughes “I, Too” (1075) Cofer “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica” (825) Bontemps “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” (1070) Baca “Green Chile” (850) Hughes “The Weary Blues” (1073) McKay “Harlem Shadows” (1076) Poems About Poets and Poetry Jordan “Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley” (974) Collins “Sonnet” (974) Crane “To Emily Dickinson” (1026) Collins “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes” (1027) Mullen “Dim Lady” (974) Millay “I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines” (972) Hicok “O My Pa-pa” (791) Moore “Poetry” (765) Alvarez “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen”? (766) Auden “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (1041) Family Grosholz “Eden” (848) Pastan “To a Daughter Leaving Home” (1151) Cherry “Alzheimer’s” (1133) Hudgins “Begotten” (853) Espada “Of the Threads that Connect the Stars” (848) Ortiz “My Father’s Sons” (845) Mora “Elena” (1048) Hicok “O My Pa-pa” (791) Death and Mourning Auden “[Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone]” (837) Stevens “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” (1172) Dickey “The Leap” (885) Nemerov “The Vacuum” (893) Mora “Gentle Communion” (1049) Randall “Ballad of Birmingham” (922) Dickinson “I Heard a Fly Buzz–When I Died” (1024 Johnson “On My First Son” (1146) Toplady “A Prayer, Living and Dying” (923) History/War Owen “Disabled” (785) Kumin “Woodchucks” (832) Espada “Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass” (806) Owen “Dulce et Decorum Est” (913) Lovelace “Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” (784) Brooks “First Fight. Then Fiddle” (973) Yeats “Easter 1916” (1035) McKay “If We Must Die” (1077) Pope “The Call” (912) Jarrell “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (879) Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1074) Beauty/Literature/Art (and the Kitchen Sink) Whitman “[I celebrate myself, and sing myself]” (777) Heaney “Digging” (1144) Stevens “The Anecdote of the Jar” (1171) Pope “Sound and Sense” (903) Lee “Persimmons” (801) Wordsworth “Nuns Fret Not” (969) Rossetti “In the Artists’ Studio” (970) Collins “Sonnet” (974) Moore “Poetry” (765) Su “On Writing” (835)
