The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

Edward Taylor (1645-1729)
The Preface
Our Insufficiency to Praise God Suitably for His Mercy
Housewifery
Am I Thy Gold? Or Purse, Lord, for Thy Wealth
Thy Human Frame, My Glorious Lord, I Spy
I Kenning through Astronomy Divine
The Accusation of the Inward Man
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
The Outward Man Accused
The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended
An Address to the Soul Occasioned by a Rain
Stupendous Love! All Saints' Astonishment!
Oh! What a Thing Is Man? Lord, Who Am I?
Still I Complain; I Am Complaining Still
Should I with Silver Tools Delve through the Hill
The Reflection

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Concord Hymn
Brahma
The Rhodora
The Humblebee
Each and All
The Problem
Woodnotes
The Snowstorm
Fable
Days
Saadi
Hamatreya
Experience
Compensation
Forbearance
The Past
Ode
Give All to Love
Terminus
Good-bye

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Hymn to the Night
The Day Is Done
Curfew
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
My Lost Youth
The Birds of Killingworth
Divina Commedia
The Fire of Driftwood
Chaucer
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
The Cross of Snow
The Bells of San Blas
The Arrow and the Song
Possibilities
The Ropewalk
from Evangeline
from The Song of Hiawatha

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Dreams
A Dream within a Dream
"The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour"
Sonnet - To Science
Romance
To Helen
Israfel
The City in the Sea
The Sleeper
To One in Paradise
The Haunted Palace
Sonnet - Silence
The Conqueror Worm
Dreamland
The Raven
The Bells
Ulalume - A Ballad
Eldorado
For Annie
Annabel Lee
The Lake: To --
Alone

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Song of Myself (Complete)
Native Moments
Earth, My Likeness
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
I Sit and Look Out
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Reconciliation
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
O Captain! My Captain!
To Think of Time
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
Good-bye My Fancy!

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Success Is Counted Sweetest
One Dignity Delays for All
New Feet within My Garden Go
Surgeons Must Be Very Careful
Faith Is a Fine Invention
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
There's a Certain Slant of Light
I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
I'm Nobody. Who Are You?
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
I Should Have Been Too Glad, I See
Before I Got My Eye Put Out
A Bird Came Down the Walk
I Dreaded That First Robin So
No Rack Can Torture Me
There's Been a Death in the Opposite House
What Soft Cherubic Creatures
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man
This Is My Letter to the World
I Died for Beauty
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
It Was Not Death, for I Stood Up
I Started Early, Took My Dog
The Heart Asks Pleasure First
I Had Been Hungry All the Years
I Laughed a Crumbling Laugh
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean
I Never Saw a Moor
The Last Night That She Lived
While We Were Fearing It, It Came
There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
Of God We Ask One Favor
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
The Distance That the Dead Have Gone
The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise

Edwin Arlington Robison (1869-1935)
Flammonde
Luke Havergal
Charles Carville's Eyes
Reuben Bright
Richard Cory
John Evereldown
Aaron Stark
Fleming Helphenstine
Cliff Klingenhagen
George Crabbe
Credo
Bewick Finzer
Many Are Called
New England
The Miller's Wife
As It Looked Then
Another Dark Lady
"If the Lord Would Make Windows in Heaven"
Recalled
Haunted House
A Mighty Runner
The Story of the Ashes and the Flame
Hillcrest
Eros Turannos
Mr. Flood's Party
Cassandra

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
In the Desert
A God in Wrath
I Saw a Man Pursuing
Behold, the Grave
Many Workmen
A Learned Man Came to Me Once
There Was Set beore Me a Mighty Hill
A Youth in Apparel That Glittered
There Was One I Met
A Man Saw a Ball of Gold
On the Horizon
I Walked in a Desert
Tradition, Thou Art for Suckling Children
Many Red Devils
You Say You Are Holy
"It Was Wrong to Do This"
A Man Feared
The Sage Lectured
God Lay Dead
War Is Kind
A Little Ink More or Less
Fast Rode the Knight
A Newspaper
The Wayfarer
A Slant of Sun
The Impact of a Dollar
Ay, Workman
There Was a Man with Tongue of Wood
I Stood upon a High Place

Robert Frost (b. 1874)
Mending Wall
After Apple Picking
The Oven Bird
Birches
The Subverted Flower
The Gift Outright
To Earthward
Tree at My Window
Two Tramps in Mud Time
The Witch of Coös
Once by the Pacific
Acquainted with the Night
On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Neither Out Far nor in Deep
The Vantage Point
The Tuft of Flowers
Directive

Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
The Leaden-Eyed
The Unpardonable Sin
Simon Legree - A Negro Sermon
The Eagle That Is Forgotten
The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken
The Ghosts of the Buffaloes
Factory Windows Are Always Broken
The Pontoon-Bridge Miracle
Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan
General William Booth Enters into Heaven
The Congo
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Sunday Morning
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
Flyer's Fall
Men Made Out of Words
The Glass of Water
Anecdote of the Jar
The Emperor of Ice Cream
Dry Loaf
To the One of Fictive Music
Bantams in Pine Woods
The Idea of Order at Key West
A Postcard from the Volcano
Cuisine Bourgeoisie
Poetry Is a Destructive Force
The Poems of Our Climate
Martial Cadenza
The Dwarf
No Possum, No Sop, No Taters
Esthétique du Mal
The Good Man Has No Shape
Credences of Summer
Two Things of Opposite Natures Seem to Depend
To an Old Philosopher in Rome
Not Ideas about the Thing But the Thing Itself
Crude Foyer

William Carlos Williams (b. 1883)
The Yachts
To a Poor Old Woman
The Sea Elephant
Lear
These
Burning the Christmas Greens
The Dance
On Gay Wallpaper
The Pure Products of America
By the Road to the Contagious Hospital
Queen-Ann's-Lace
Tract
Six Poems from Paterson

Ezra Pound (b. 1885)
Na Audiart
Ballad of the Goodly Fere
Portrait d'une Femme
A Virginal
The Return
Tenzone
Salutation
A Pact
The Rest
The Temperaments
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
from Homage to Sextus Propertius
Canto I
Canto II
Canto III
Canto XVII
Canto XLV
Canto LXXXI

Marianne Moore (b. 1887)
No Swan So Fine
The Fish
In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance is Good and
Critics and Connoisseurs
The Monkeys
In the Days of Prismatic Colour
England
A Grave
The Labours of Hercules
To a Steam Roller
To a Snail
To the Peacock of France
The Past Is the Present
What Are Years?
Spenser's Ireland
Nevertheless
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
In Distrust of Merits

John Crowe Ransom (b. 1888)
Winter Remembered
Necrological
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Dead Boy
Good Ships
Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
Here Lies a Lady
Conrad in Twilight
Armageddon
Judith of Bethulia
Blue Girls
Old Man Playing with Children
Captain Carpenter
Old Mansion
Piazza Piece
Vision by Sweetwater
Her Eyes
Parting, without a Sequel
Janet Waking
Two in August
Our Two Worthies
Man without Sense of Direction
Survey of Literature
The Equilibrists
Painted Head
Address to the Scholars of New England

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Renascence
Dirge without Music
Spring
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Moriturus
Recuerdo
The Cameo
Lament
Elegy Before Death
The Return
Conscientious Objector
Oh, Think Not I Am Faithless to a Vow!
I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear
Not with Libations, But with Shouts and Laughter
And You As Well Must Die, Beloved Dust
Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day
I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare
To Jesus on His Birthday
On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink

Archibald MacLeish (b.1892)
The Silent Slain
Eleven
Ars Poetica
You, Andrew Marvell
The End of the World
Memorial Rain
"Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments"
Pony Rock
Pole Star for This Year
Poem in Prose
What Any Lover Learns
The Steamboat Whistle
Starved Lovers
What the Serpent Said to Adam
Vicissitudes of the Creator
My Naked Aunt
The Genius
Reasons for Music

e. e. cummings (b. 1894)
Spring is like a perhaps hand
darling!because my blood can sing
when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
i thank You God for most this amazing
all ignorance toboggans into know
maggie and milly and molly and may
so shy shy shy(and with a
in time of daffodils(who know
if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
Mouse)Won
that melancholy
Thanksgiving
whatever's merely wilful
stand with your lover on the ending earth
i am a little church(no great cathedral)
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
if up's the word;and a world grows greener
what if a much of a which of a wind
no man,if men are gods;but if gods must
i sing of Olaf glad and big
a man who had fallen among thieves
"next to of course god america i
anyone lived in a pretty how town
pity this busy monster,manunkind
my father moved through dooms of love

Hart Crane (1899-1932)
The Bridge (Complete)
Black Tambourine
Emblems of Conduct
Praise for an Urn
Garden Abstract
Stark Major
Voyages, I to VI
The Broken Tower
Repose of Rivers

W. H. Auden (b.1907)
Musée des Beaux Arts
The Unknown Citizen
Petition
The Composer
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Herman Melville
Something Is Bound to Happen
The Diaspora
The Novelist
The Climbers
Another Time
Who's Who
Macao
O What Is That Sound
O Where Are You Going
Mundus et Infans
The Chimeras
Words
Epitaph on a Tyrant
Narrator

Notes on the Poets
Index