Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Robert Pinsky -- There was a child went forth: My father / Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) -- Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Game / Eavan Boland (B. 1944) -- Dreamtigers / Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) -- To my dear children / Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) -- Boy breaking glass / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Frost at midnight / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -- My grandmother's love letters / Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- Story for Margarita / Ruben Dario (1867-1916) -- Coastal / Mark Doty (B. 1953) -- Little brown baby / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Once by the Pacific -- Time / Louise Gluck (B. 1943) -- At the railway station, Upway; Self-unseeing / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Follower; Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney (B. 1939) -- Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -- Ode 1.9 / To Thaliarchus / Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) -- Dreams / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Flower given to my daughter / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- You were wearing / Kenneth Koch (B. 1925) -- Venus's-flytraps / Yusef Komunyakaa (B. 1947) -- Catch / Stanley Kunitz (B. 1905) -- Piano / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -- My childhood-home I see again / Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Silence / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- August, Los Angeles, Lullaby / Carol Muske (B. 1945) -- Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- Autobiographia literaria / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- Alicante lullaby / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Lice seekers / Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) -- Child on top of a greenhouse / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- There was a child went forth; On the beach at night / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Turtle / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Night light / Ann Winters (B. 1939) -- Song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Either whom to love or how: Just walking around / John Ashbery (B. 1927) -- To my mother / George Barker (1913-1991) -- Bouquet / Bei Dao (B. 1949) -- Shampoo / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand (sonnets from the Portuguese 6) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -- Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion (1567-1620) -- Bandaged shoulder / C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933).

Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Wild nights-wild nights! (249); If you were coming in the fall (511) / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Song / John Donne (1572-1631) -- Three sorts of serpents do resemble thee (idea 30) / Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- Love I gave you once / Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) -- To earthward; Dust of snow / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Broken appointment / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Misery and splendor / Robert Hass (B. 1941) -- Love (III) / George Herbert (1593-1633) -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- Oh, when I was in love with you (Shropshire lad 28) / A.E. Housman (1859-1936) -- Life is fine / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- His excuse for loving; My picture left in Scotland / Ben Jonson (1572-1637) -- Love Song / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) -- Definition of love / Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) -- Ballad / Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) -- From the journals of the Frog Prince / Susan Mitchell (B. 1944) -- Tonight I can write / Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) -- Steps / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- Love letter / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- "No, thank you, John" / Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) -- To Atthis / Sappho (612 B.C.E.-?) -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds (sonnets 116) / William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- My true love hath my heart and I have his / Sir Philip Sidney -- Love after love / Derek Walcott (B. 1930) -- Natural history / E.B. White (1899-1985) -- I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Still life / C.K. Williams (B. 1936) -- Act / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Forgetful kingdom of death: Thoughts of death / Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) -- I have of sorwe so grete woon / Geoffrey Chaucer (CA. 1343-1400) -- Watch / Frances Cornford (1886-1960) -- Heart asks pleasure-first-(536); I heard a fly buzz-when I died-(465) / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Death, be not proud, though some have called thee (holy sonnets 10) / John Donne (1572-1631) -- Poet goes about her business / Linda Gregg (B. 1942) -- You that seek what life is in death (Caelica 82) / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628) -- Death / George Herbert (1593-1633).

To daffodils / Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman (1859-1936) -- Death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- Contemplation upon flowers / Henry King (1592-1669) -- Bolt / Mary Kinzie (B. 1944) -- On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia / Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- Janet Waking / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Fear no more the heat 'o the sun / William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Question / May Swenson (1919-1989) -- And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- Death of a toad / Richard Wilbur (B. 1921) -- Last words of my English grandmother / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- In durance soundly caged: Mad Tom's song -- As I walked out one evening / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Nurse's song (from songs of Innocence); Nurse's song (from songs of experience); Grey monk / William Blake (1757-1827) -- First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string ... / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Bitter fruit of the tree / Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) -- Waiting for the barbarians / C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) -- Incident / Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- After great pain, a formal feeling comes-(341) / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Belinda's petition / Rita Dove (B. 1952) -- Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Red poppy / Louise Gluck (B. 1943) -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) / Binsey Poplars -- 90 North / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- King of the river / Stanley Kunitz (B. 1905) -- 1910 / Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) -- For the union dead / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Not to be spattered by his blood / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Resume / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- Storm warnings / Adrienne Rich (B. 1929) -- Richard Cory / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Her kind / Anne Sexton (1928-1974) -- (1) Like this; (2) Like this / Stevie Smith (1902-1971) -- Emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens (1879-1975) -- Reapers / Jean Toomer (1894-1967) -- By the road to the contagious hospital / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Curled around these images: Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Medusa / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- At last we killed the roaches / Lucille Clifton (B. 1936) -- Pear tree / H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961).

Ox looks at man / Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987) -- Plague of dead sharks / Alan Dugan (B. 1923) -- Preludes / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Departmental / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- In back of the real / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- Yoko; Considering the snail / Thom Gunn (B. 1929) -- Man pulling radishes / Issa (1763-1827) -- To autumn / John Keats (1795-1821) -- Last evening come / Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) -- First sight / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) -- In Houston / Gail Mazur (B. 1937) -- Bring me the sunflower / Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) -- Those various scalpels / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- Village of reason / Michael Palmer (B. 1943) -- Archaic torso of apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) -- Spring / Charles Simic (B. 1938) -- Augusto Jandolo: On excavating an etruscan tomb / Tom Sleigh (B. 1953) -- Five dogs / Mark Strand (B. 1934) -- Force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) -- Yonder tree / Joshua Weiner (B. 1963) -- Aboard at a ship's helm / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Alive with many separate meanings: Path to the white moon / John Ashbery (B. 1927) -- Dream song 14 / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- To F-; Smile; To see a world in a grain of sand / William Blake (1757-1827) -- "Do not be afraid of no" / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Ithaka / C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) -- Geometry / Rita Dove (B. 1952) -- How we heard the name / Alan Dugan (B. 1923) -- Gascoigne's lullaby / George Gascoigne (1539-1577) -- from Faust, part 2 / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) -- Prayer / Jorie Graham (B. 1951) -- When all this all doth pass from age to age (caelica 69) / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628) -- Seventh / Attila Jozsef (1905-1937) -- On my own / Philip Levine (B. 1928) -- Years of solitude / Dionisio Martinez (B. 1956) -- Pretty blue apron / James McMichael (B. 1939) -- Field of light / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Quietness / Jalal al-din Rumi (1207-1273) -- Proverbs from purgatory / Lloyd Schwartz (B. 1941) -- Old joke / Alan Shapiro (B. 1952) -- Pleasures of merely circulating; Of mere being / Wallace Stevens (1879-1975) -- Contribution to statistics / Wislawa Szymborska (B. 1923) -- from Gitanjali (35 & 39) / Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) -- Personals / C.D. Wright (B. 1949).

I made my song a coat: from Requiem / Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) -- Lament for the makers / Frank Bidart (B. 1939) -- Ars poetica / Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) -- To John Keats, poet, at spring time / Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- We play at paste-(320); There is no frigate like a book (1263); Word is dead (1212) / Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- Get it again / Mark Halliday (B. 1949) -- Theme for English B / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Secret / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) -- What he thought / Heather McHugh (B. 1948) -- Incantation / Czeslaw Milosz (B. 1911) -- Step away from them / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens (1879-1975) -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand (B. 1934) -- Dream on / James Tate (B. 1943) -- Coat / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Notes -- Permissions -- Index.