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The Oxford book of American light verse

William Harmon (ed)

Harmon, William (ed);

The Oxford book of American light verse

Oxford University Press, 179, 540 pages

ISBN 0195025091, 9780195025095

topics: |  poetry | humour



David McCord (1897-1997) : The Axolotl


The axolotl
Looks a littl
Like the ozelotl,
Itl

"Drink a greatl
More than whatl
Fill the fatl
Whiskey bottl.

"The food it eatsl
Be no morsl:
Only meatsl
Drive its dorsl.

"Such an awfl
Fish to kettl!"
"You said a mawfl
Pop'epetl!"

David McCord : Gloss p.411


I know a little man both ept and ert.
An intro-? extro-? No, he's just a vert.
Sheveled and couth and kempt, pecunious, ane,
His image trudes upon the ceptive brain.

When life turns sipid and the mind is fraught,
The spirit soars as I would sist it ought.
Chalantly then, like any gainly goof,
My digent self is sertive, choate, loof.


David McCord : Epitaph on a Waiter 412


By and by
God caught his eye.

Contents

Charles Follen Adams, 1842-1918
   John Barley-corn, My Foe, John
   Misplaced Sympathy
   My Infundibuliform Hat
   Repartee
   To Barry Jade

Franklin Pierce Adams (F.P.A.), 1881-1960
   Composed In The Composing Room
   The Double Standard
   If -
   The Rich Man
   Where Beauty Lingers

John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848
   The Wants Of Man

George Ade, 1866-1944
   Il Janitoro
   The Microbe's Serenade
   R-e-m-o-r-s-e

Conrad Aiken, 1889-1973
   Animula Vagula Blandula
   Obitaury In Bitcherel
   Sighed A Dear Little Shipboard Divinity
   There Was Once A Wicked Young Minister

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1836-1907
   At A Reading
   Fannie

Archie Randolph Ammons, 1926-2001
   Auto Mobile
   Chasm
   Cleavage
   Coward
   First Carolina Said-song
   Needs
   Second Carolina Said-song

George Arnold, 1834-1865
   Beer

Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907-1973
   The Aesthetic Point Of View
   Henry Adams
   T.s. Eliot

Joel Barlow, 1754-1812
   Canto: 1
   Canto: 3. The Pudding Prepared And Eaten

John Barth, b.193O
   The Minstrel's Last Lay (from 'annonymiad')

Michael Benedikt, b.1935
   Fate In Incognito

Stephen Vincent Benet, 1898-943
   American Names
   Hymn In Columbus Circle
   A Nonsense Song

John Berryman, 1914-1972
   American Lights, Seen From Off Abroad
   The Dream Songs: 4

Helen Smith Bevington, 1906-2001
   Mr. Rockefeller's Hat
   Mrs. Trollope In America
   Penguins In The Home

Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914
   Body-snatcher
   Corporal
   Egotist
   Elegy
   Lead
   Nose
   Orthography
   Prospect
   Safety-clutch

Morris Gilbert Bishop, 1893-1973
   Bishop Orders His Tomb In St. Praxed's
   Gas And Hot Air
   How To Treat Elves
   Who'd Be A Hero (fictional)?

Roy Blount, Jr., b.1941
   For The Record
   Gryll's State
   Song Against Broccoli

Maxwell Bodenheim, 1893-1954
   Upper Family

Fred Emerson Brooks, 1850-1923
   Barnyard Melodies
   Foreigners At The Fair

Henry Cuyler Bunner, 1855-1896
   'home, Sweet Home' With Variations
   Poetry And The Poet

Robert Jones Burdette, 1844-1914
   Orphan Born
   'soldier, Rest!'

Frank Gelett Burgess, 1866-1951
   Cinq Ans Apres
   The Purple Cow

Kenneth Burke, 1897-1993
   Civil Defense
   Frigate Jones, The Pussyfooter
   Know Thyself
   Nursery Rhyme

Samuel C. Bushnell, 1852-193O
   Boston

William Allen Butler, 1825-1902
   Miss Flora Mcflimsey, Of Madison Square

Hughie Cannon, 1877-1912
   Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?

Bliss Carman, 1861-1929
   A More Ancient Mariner

Charles Edward Carryl, 1841-192O
   A Nautical Ballad

Guy Wetmore Carryl, 1873-1904
   The Domineering Eagle And The Inventive Bratling
   How Girl Was Too Reckless Of Grammar

Phoebe Cary, 1824-1871
   The Day Is Done
   Jacob
   Samuel Brown

Thomas Holley Chivers, 1809-1858
   Lily Adair
   The Moon Of Mobile

John Ciardi, b.1916
   Ballad Of The Icondic
   Dawn Of The Space Age
   Goodnight
   On Evolution
   To A Reviewer Who Admired My Book

Charles Heber Clark ("Max Adeler"), 1841-1915
   Mr. Slimmer's Funeral Verses ...: Alexander Mcglue
   Mr. Slimmer's Funeral Verses ...: Johnny Smith
   Mr. Slimmer's Funeral Verses ...: Mrs. Macfadden
   Obituary

Samuel Langhorne Clemens ("MARK TWAIN"), 1835-1910
   The Aged Pilot Man
   Emmeline Grangerford's 'ode To Stephen Dolwing Bots, Dec'd'
   Imitation Of Julia A. Moore

J. Gordon Coogler, 1865-19O1
   Alas! Carolina!
   Alas! For The South!
   Byron
   In Memorial
   A Mustacheless Bard
   A Pretty Girl
   To Amy

Gregory Corso, b . 193O
   Marriage

Stephen Crane, 1871-19OO
   Tell Me Not In Joyous Numbers
   War Is Kind: 21

Robert Creeley, b.1926
   Ballad Of The Despairing Husband
   The Man
   She Went To Stay

Countee Cullen, 1903-1946
   For A Lady I Know
   For A Mouthy Woman

Edward Estlin Cummings, 1894-1962
   1x1 (one Times One): 10
   50 Poems: 6
   New Poems: 6
   One: 20
   Poem, Or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal
   Sonnet - Realities: 1
   Two: 10
   Xaipe: 47

James Vincent Cunningham, 1911–1985
   Doctor Drink: 3
   Doctor Drink: 4. Epitaph For Someone Or Other
   Epigram: 2
   Epigram: 5
   Epigram: 9

Thomas Augustine Daly, 1871-1948
   Pennsylvania Places

Peter De Vries, 1910-1993
   Beth Appleyard's Verses: Bacchanal
   Beth Appleyard's Verses: Loveliest Of Pies
   Beth Appleyard's Verses: Psychiatrist

Reuel Denney, b.1915
   Fixer Of Midnight

Emily Dickinson, 183O-1886
   His Mansion In The Pool
   In The Garden (1)
   The Railway Train

Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, 1831–1905
   The Zealless Xylographer

Alan Dugan, b.1923
   On A Seven-day Diary

Richard Ghormley Eberhart, 1904–2005
   I Went To See Irving Babbitt

Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888-1965
   Aunt Helen
   Cousin Nancy
   Lines For Cuscuscaraway And Mirza Murad Ali Beg
   Lines To Ralph Hodgson, Esqre.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
   Fable: The Mountain And The Squirrel
   Prudence
   Solution
   The Test

Anthony Euwer, 1877-1955
   The Face
   The True Facts Of The Case

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, b.1919
   Underwear

Eugene Field, 1850-1895
   The Duel
   Little Boy Blue
   The Little Peach
   Wynken, Blynken And Nod

James Thomas Fields, 1817-1881
   Jupiter And Ten
   The Owl Critic

Richard Harter Fogle, b.1911
   A Hawthorn Garland; Scarlet Letter

Sam Walter Foss, 1 8 5 8 - l OH
   Husband And Heathen
   A Philosopher

Stephen Collins Foster, 1826-1864
   Gwine To Run All Night; or, De Camptown Races p.104
   Oh! Susanna!

Robert Frost, 1874-1963
   A Considerable Speck
   Departmental
   For Travelers Going Sidereal
   The Hardship Of Accounting
   Pride Of Ancestry
   The Rose Family

Hamlin Garland, 1860-1940
   Goin' Back T'morrer; In The City

Ira Gershwin, b.1896
   Blah, Blah, Blah
   It Ain't Necessarily So

Allen Ginsberg, b.1926
   Bop Lyrics (1)
   Bop Lyrics (2)
   Bop Lyrics (3)
   Bop Lyrics (4)
   Bop Lyrics (5)
   Bop Lyrics (6)


Yolande Cornelia (Nikki) Giovanni, b.1943
   Master Charge Blues
   Poem For Unwed Mothers

Edward Gorey, b.1925
   The Babe, With A Cry Brief And Dismal
   From The Bathing Machine Came A Din
   A Lady Who Signs Herself 'vexed'
   Some Harvard Men, Stalwart And Hairy
   There Was A Young Woman Named Plunnery

Edgar Albert Guest, 1881-1959
   Home (2)
   Lemon Pie
   Sausage

Arthur Guiterman, 1871-1943
   Brief Essay On Man
   Everything In Its Place
   Heredity
   Song Of Hate For Eels

Donald Hall, b.1928
   Breasts
   Professor Gratt
   To A Waterfowl

Fitz-greene Halleck, 179O-1867
   Fanny: 137
   Fanny: 138
   Fanny: 46
   Fanny: 47
   Fanny: 48
   Fanny: 49
   Fanny: 50
   Fanny: 51
   Fanny: 52
   Fanny: 53
   Fanny: 54
   Fanny: 55
   Fanny: 56
   Fanny: 57
   Fanny: 58
   Fanny: 59
   Fanny: 60
   Fanny: 61
   Fanny: 62
   Fanny: 63
   Fanny: 64
   Fanny: 65
   Fanny: 66
   Fanny: 67
   Fanny: 68
   Song

Oscar Hammerstein 11, 1895-1960
   Kansas City
   Money Isn't Everything
   There's Nothin' Like A Dame

William Harmon, b.1938
   Bureaucratic Limerick

Ben Harney, 1872-1938
   Mister Johnson
   You've Been A Good Old Wagon, But You've Done Broke Down

Lorenz Milton Hart, 1895-1943
   The Blue Room
   The Lady Is A Tramp
   Manhattan
   The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
   Mountain Greenery

Francis Bret Harte, 1836-1902
   Colenso Rhymes For Orthodox Children
   Plain Language From Truthful James
   Schemmelfennig
   The Society Upon The Stanislaus

John Milton Hay, 1838-1905
   The Pledge At Spunky Point
   Good And Bad Luck (after Heinrich Heine)

Anthony Hecht, b.1923
   The Dover Bitch; A Criticism Of Life
   Firmness
   From The Grove Press
   Improvisations On Aesop
   Vice

Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961
   The Ernest Liberal's Lament
   Neo-thomist Poem
   Valentine; For Lee Wilson Dodd And Any Of His Friends

Oliver Brook Herford, 1863-1935
   Eve (2)

Robert Silliman Hillyer, 1895-1961
   Moo!

George Parks Hitchcock, b.1914
   Three Found Poems: 1. Distinquishing Rhu From Chu
   Three Found Poems: 2. The Call Of The Eastern Quail
   Three Found Poems: 3. What To Say To The Pasha

Samuel Hoffenstein, 189O-1947
   Love-songs, At Once Tender And Informative

John Hollander, b.1929
   Appearance And Reality
   Heliogabalus
   Historical Reflections
   Last Words
   No Foundation
   To The Lady Portrayed By Margaret Dumont

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1899
   Aestivation
   The Deacon's Masterpiece
   The Height Of The Ridiculous
   Ode For A Social Meeting
   A Sea Dialogue

Francis Hopkinson, 1737-1791
   The Battle Of The Kegs

George Moses Horton, ?1797-?1883
   New Fashions
   Snaps For Dinner, Snaps For Breakfast, And Snaps For Supper

Richard Hovey, 1864-19OO
   Barney Mcgee
   Eleazar Wheelock

James Langston Hughes, 1902-1967
   Bad Morning
   Ennui
   Hope
   Little Lyric (of Great Importance)
   Situation
   Wake
   What?

Wallace Irwin, 1876-1959
   The Constant Cannibal Maiden

Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965
   The Blind Sheep

X. J. Kennedy, b.1929
   In A Prominent Bar In Secaucus One Day
   Japanese Beetles (1)
   Japanese Beetles (10). To A Young Poet
   Japanese Beetles (2)
   Japanese Beetles (4). Parody: Herrick
   Japanese Beetles (5). The Minotaur's Advice
   Japanese Beetles (7). Translator
   Japanese Beetles (8). To A Now-type Poet
   Japanese Beetles (9). At A Sale Of A Manuscript
   Last Lines: 1. From The Greek Anthology
   Last Lines: 2. On A Boxer
   Last Lines: 3. On A Wrestler
   Last Lines: 4. Teutonic Scholar
   Last Lines: 5

Francis Scott Key, 1780-1843
   To My Cousin Mary, For Mending My Tobacco Pouch
   Written At The White Sulphur Springs

Benjamin Franklin King (Ben King), 1857-1894
   The Cultured Girl Again
   The Hair-tonic Bottle
   If I Should Die Tonight
   The Mermaid
   The Pessimist

Stoddard King, 1889-1933
   Breakfast Song In Time Of Diet
   The Difference
   Hearth And Home

Carolyn Kizer, b.1925
   One To Nothing

Kenneth Koch, b.1925
   A Poem Of The Forty-eight States

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz, b.1905
   The Summing-up

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (Ring Lardner), 1885-19 3 3
   Abner Silver's 'pu-leeze! Mr. Hemingway!'
   Hail To Thee, Blithe Owl
   Hardly A Man Now Alive
   Parodies Of Cole Porter's 'night And Day'
   Quiescent, A Person Sits Heart And Soul

Charles Godfrey Leland, 1824-1903
   Breitmann In Politics: 7
   Hans Breitmann's Party

Newman Levy, 1888-1966
   Rigoletto
   Tannhauser

(Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay, 1879-1931
   The Little Turtle
   Two Old Crows

Frank Loesser, t>. 1910
   Guys And Dolls

Russell Hillard Loines, 1874-1922
   On A Magazine Sonnet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
   The Children's Hour
   Tales Of A Wayside Inn: 1. Paul Revere's Ride
   The Village Blacksmith

Amy Lowell, 1874-1925
   Epitaph On A Young Poet Who Died Before ... Achieved Success
   The Painted Ceiling

James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
   The Biglow Papers. 2d Series: Rev. H. Wilbur's Festina Lente
   The Boss
   In An Album
   A Misconception

Archibald Macleish, b.1892
   Corporate Entity
   Critical Observations
   The End Of The World
   Mother Goose's Garland

Norman Mailer, b.1923
   Devils

Donald Robert Perry Marquis (Don Marquis), 1878-1937
   Archy At The Zoo
   Certain Maxims Of Archy (1)

Thomas Lansing Masson, 1866-1943
   He Took Her
   My Poker Girl
   State For State, With All Attendants, Who Would Change? Not
   A Tragedy

Edgar Lee Masters, 1868-1950
   Spoon River Anthology: Jonathan Swift Somers
   Spoon River Anthology: The Spooniad

David Mccord, b.1897
   The Axolotl
   Gloss
   To A Certain Most Certainly Certain Critic
   Mantis
   Baccalaureate
   History Of Education
   Epitaph On A Waiter

Phyllis Mcginley, 1905-1978
   About Children
   Evening Musicale
   Publisher's Party

Herman Melville, 1819-1891
   The Attic Landscape
   The Bench Of Boors
   In A Garret
   The Lover And The Syringa Bush
   The New Ancient Of Days

John H. Mercer (Johnny Mercer), 19O9-1976
   The Glow-worm
   1'm An Old Cowhand
   Jubilation T. Cornpone

James Ingram Merrill, b.1926
   Tomorrows

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-195O
   From A Very Little Sphinx: 1
   From A Very Little Sphinx: 2
   From A Very Little Sphinx: 3
   From A Very Little Sphinx: 4
   From A Very Little Sphinx: 5
   From A Very Little Sphinx: 6
   From A Very Little Sphinx: 7

Clement Clarke Moore, 1779-1863
   A Visit From St. Nicholas

Julia A. Moore (from Following the Equator), 1847-1920
   The Ashtabula Disaster
   Grand Rapids
   Little Libbie
   Sketch Of Lord Byron's Life

Marianne Moore, 1887-1972
   Hometown Piece For Messrs. Alston And Reese
   I May, I Might, I Must
   W.s. Landor

Christopher Darlington Morley, 189O-1957
   Elegy Written In A Country Coal-bin
   Forever Ambrosia

Howard Moss, b.1922
   Cats And Dogs

Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977
   A Literary Dinner

Ogden Nash, 19O2-1971
   Adventures Of Isabel
   The Ant
   Genealogical Reflection
   Invocation
   Lines To A World-famous Poet Who Failed To Complete ... Poem
   The Panther
   Reflections On Ice-breaking
   The Rhinoceros
   Song Of The Open Road
   They Don't Speak English In Paris
   The Turtle

Howard Nemerov, b . 192O
   Epigram: 1. Invocation
   Epigram: 2. Lucilius
   Epigram: 3. An Old Story
   Epigram: 4. Mythological Beast
   Epigram: 5. The Hunt Goes By
   Epigram: 6. Political Reflexion
   Epigram: 7. A Spiral Shell
   Epigram: 8. April
   Epigram: 9. Absent-minded Professor

Robert Henry Newell ("ORPHEUS C. KERR"), 1 8 3 6 - 1 9 O1
   The American Traveller
   Columbia's Agony, By Martin Farquhar Tup-r
   Dear Father, Look Up
   The Editor's Wooing
   National Anthem, By Dr. Oliver Wendell H---.
   National Anthem, By General George P. M---.
   National Anthem, By H.w.l. Of Cambridge
   National Anthem, By John Greenleaf W---.
   National Anthem, By N.p.w.
   National Anthem, By The Hon. Edward E--, Of Boston
   The Neutral British Gentleman
   O, Be Not Too Hasty, My Dearest
   Tuscaloosa Sam
   When Your Cheap Divorce Is Granted

Kathleen Norris, b.1947
   Memorandum - The Accountant's Notebook
   Stomach

Jack Norworth, 1879-1959
   Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Frank O'Hara, 1926-1966
   To The Film Industry In Crisis

Elder James Olson, b.1909
   Childe Roland, Etc.

John F. Palmer, ?1870-?
   The Band Played On

Dorothy Parker
   Comment
   News Item
   One Perfect Rose
   Partial Comfort
   Resume

Samuel Minturn Peck
   A Kiss In The Rain

Edgar Allan Poe
   The Bells

Cole Porter
   Anything Goes
   Brush Up Your Shakespeare
   Let's Do It
   My Heart Belongs To Daddy
   Well, Did You Evah?
   You're The Top

Ezra Pound
   Ancient Music
   Cantico Del Sole
   An Immorality
   Meditatio
   Tame Cat

Keith Preston
   Effervescence And Evansescence
   Lapsus Linguae

Quintus Horatius Flaccus
   To Sally

Innes Randolph
   The Rebel

John Crowe Ransom
   Amphibious Crocodile
   Dog
   Her Eyes
   Our Two Worthies
   Philomela
   Survey Of Literature

Kenneth Rexroth
   Aarvark
   Ant
   Bear
   Cat
   Coney
   Cow
   Deer
   Eagle
   Fact
   Fox
   Goat
   Herring
   Horse
   1
   Jackal
   Kangaroo
   Lion
   Man
   Mantis
   Monkey
   N
   Observations In A Cornish Teashop
   Okapi
   Quagga
   Raccoon
   Seal
   Trout
   Uncle Sam
   Unicorn
   Vulture
   Wolf
   You
   Zebra

James Whitcomb Riley, 1849-1916
   Craqueodoom
   Little Orphant Annie
   A Rose In October
   A Session With Uncle Sidney
   When The Frost Is On The Punkin

Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869-1935
   Variations Of Greek Themes: 2. A Mighty Runner
   Variations Of Greek Themes: 3. The Raven
   Variations Of Greek Themes: 4. The Raven

Theodore Roethke, 1908-1963
   Academic
   The Cow
   Dinky
   A Rouse For Stevens
   The Sloth

Billy Rose, 1899-1966
   Barney Google
   Does The Spearmint Lose It Flavor On My Bedpost Overnight?

Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967
   The People, Yes: 32
   The People, Yes: 42
   On A Flimmering Floom You Shall Ride
   One Modern Poet

Max Shulman, b.1919
   Honest Abe Lincoln

Lydia Huntley Sigourney, 1791-1865
   God Save The Plough

Charles Simic, b.1938
   Watermelons

Louis Simpson, b.1923
   New Lines For Cuscuscaraway And Miza Murad Ali Beg
   On The Lawn At The Villa

Elizabeth Smith (Bessie Smith), 1894-1937
   Empty Bed Blues

William Jay Smith, b.1918
   Dachshunds
   Random Generation Of English Sentences Or, Revenge Of Poets

Stephen Sondheim, b . 193O
   Gee, Officer Krupke

John Philip Sousa, 1854-1932
   The Feast Of The Monkeys
   Have You Seen The Lady?

William Edgar Stafford, b.1914
   Religion Back Home

George Starbuck, b.1931
   Chip
   High Renaissance
   Monarch Of The Sea
   On First Looking In On Blogett's Keats's 'chapman's Homer'.
   Said (J. Alfred Prufrock)  p.517
   Said (Agatha Christie) p.517
   Sonnet With A Different Letter At The End Of Every Line

Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1833-1908
   The Ballad Of Lager Bier

Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946
   Sacred Emily

Andrew B. Sterling, 1874-1955
   Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis
   Under The Anheuser Bush
   What You Goin' To Do When The Rent Comes 'round?

Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955
   Depression Before Spring
   The Pleasures Of Merely Circulating

Joseph W. Stilwell, 1883-1946
   Lyric To Spring

Ruth Mcenery Stuart, ?1849-1917
   The Endless Song

Robert Sward, b.1933
   American Heritage

John Banister Tabb, 1845-19O9
   Foot-soldiers
   Bicycles, Tricycles!
   Close Quarters
   A Rub
   The Tryst

James Tate, b.1943
   Conjuring Roethke
   My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry
   The President Slumming

Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878
   The Ballad Of Hiram Hover
   Nauvoo
   Palabras Grandiosas

Bert Leston Taylor (B.L.T.), 1866-1921
   Aprilly
   Doxology
   Upon Julia's Arctics

Ernest Lawrence Thayer, 1 8 6 3 - 1 9 4O
   Casey At The Bat (2)

John Townsend Trowbridge, 1827-1916
   Darius Green And His Flying Machine
   Filling An Order
   Recollections Of 'lalla Rookh'

St. George Tucker, 1752-1827
   The Cynic
   The Discontented Student; A True Story
   The Judge With The Sore Rump

Royall Tyler, 1757-1826
   Anacreontic To Flip
   Original Epitaph On A Drunkard
   The Widower

Anonymous
   Yankee Doodle

   The Little Brown Jug
   Sweet Betsy [or Betsey] From Pike
   Clementine
   Starving To Death On A Government Claim (2)
   The Factory Girl's Come-all-ye
   An Ode On Gas

   The Young Woman from Aenos p.145

   Two Appeals To John Harralson: 1
   Two Appeals To John Harralson: 2. A Yankee View

   Willie The Weeper
   No More Booze
   The Drunkard And The Pig

   Kentucky Moonshiner
   Roy Bean

   The Big Rock Candy Mountains (3)
   The Four Nights' Drunk
   The Frozen Logger

   Mademoiselle From Armentieres

   The Heavyweight Champ Of Seattle
   The Virtues Of Carnation Milk

Louis Untermeyer, 1885-1977
   Edgar A. Guest
   Song Tournament: New Style

John Updike, b.1932
   The Amish
   I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name
   Recital; Roger Bobo Gives Recital On Tuba

Peter Viereck, b.1916
   1912-1952, Full Cycle: 1. Love Song Of Prufrock Junior
   1912-1952, Full Cycle: 2. Inscribed For Bedside Glossary ...
   1912-1952, Full Cycle: 3. From Sublime To The Meticulous ...
   1912-1952, Full Cycle: 4. Epitaph For Nouveaux New Critics

Robert Penn Warren, b.1905
   Garland For You: 3. Man In The Street

Nixon Waterman, 1859-1944
   Cheers For The Consumer
   If We Didn't Have To Eat

Charles Henry Webb ("John Paul"), 1834-1905
   At The Ball!
   Autumn Leaves

Carolyn Wells, 1869-1942
   Diversions Of The Re-echo Club

Elwyn Brooks White (E. B. White), b.1899
   Marble-top
   Window Ledge In The Atom Age

John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892
   Barbara Frietchie
   The Barefoot Boy
   The Haschish
   Skipper Ireson's Ride

Jonathan Williams, b.1929
   The anthropophagites see a sign on NC highway 177 that looks like heaven
   The hermit Cackleberry Brown, on human vanity
   Mrs. Sadie Grindstaff, weaver & factotum, explains
   Three sayings from highlands, North Carolina:
   Uncle iv Surveys His Domain From His Rocker...

Tennessee Williams, b.1914
   Carrousel Tune
   Gold Tooth Blues
   Kitchen Door Blues
   Sugar In The Cane

William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963
   Apres Le Bain
   Ballad Of Faith
   The Intelligent Sheepman And The New Cars
   Proletarian Portrait
   These Purists
   To
   To A Poor Old Woman
   To Greet A Letter-carrier

Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1806-1867
   1, 19
   1, 20
   1, 21
   1, 22
   1, 91
   To Helen In A Huff
   To The Lady In The Chimsette With Black Buttons

Edmund Wilson, 1895-1972
   Drafts For A Quatrain
   Fun In The Balkans
   Something For My Russian Friends

Septimus Winner, 1827-1902
   The Coolie Chinese
   Lilliputian's Beer Song
   Ten Little Injuns

James Wright, b.1927
   Love In A Warm Room In Winter

Elinor Wylie, 1885-1928
   Simon Gerty


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