100 poems to break your heart

Surprised by joy... impatient as the Wind / William Wordsworth --

This living hand / John Keats --

I am / John Clare --

In Memoriam, VII / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / Gerard Manley Hopkins --

The God Abandons Antony / Constantine Cavafy --

The Voice / Thomas Hardy --

The Owl / Edward Thomas --

The Pretty Redhead / Guillaume Apollinaire --

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay --

Song for a Dark Girl / Langston Hughes --

Rooms / Charlotte Mew --

Black Stone Lying on a White Stone / César Vallejo --

I'm Going to Sleep / Alfonsina Storni --

To Julia de Burgos / Julia de Burgos --

In Memory of M. B. / Anna Akhmatova --

The Fifth Eclogue / Miklós Radnóti --

Café / Czesław Miłosz --

Merciful God / Kadya Molodowsky --

Shemà / Primo Levi --

On Living / Nâzim Hikmet --

Aspects of Robinson / Weldon Kees --

The rites for Cousin Vit / Gwendolyn Brooks --

Not Waving but Drowning / Stevie Smith --

In the Midst of Life / Tadeusz Różewicz --

On the road at night there stands the man / Dahlia Ravikovitch --

Poem of the Gifts / Jorge Luis Borges --

In the Park / Gwen Harwood --

The Whipping / Robert Hayden --

Night Sweat / Robert Lowell --

Wanting to Die / Anne Sexton --

My Nightingale / Rose Ausländer --

Next Day / Randall Jarrell --

Montana Fifty Years Ago / J. V. Cunningham --

For the Anniversary of My Death / W. S. Merwin --

Poem / Muriel Rukeyser --

The Idea of Ancestry / Etheridge Knight --

Henry's Understanding / John Berryman --

A Deathplace / L. E. Sissman --

They Feed They Lion / Philip Levine --

The Small Square / Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen --

Under One Small Star / Wisława Szymborska --

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg / Richard Hugo --

On This Side of the River / Stephen Berg --

Aubade / Philip Larkin --

Parents / William Meredith --

Essay / Hayden Carruth --

Arches / James Schuyler --

Kindness / Naomi Shihab Nye --

The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River / Allen Grossman --

The Book of Yolek / Anthony Hecht --

Mr Cogito and the Imagination / Zbigniew Herbert --

From My Window / C. K. Williams --

Night Song / Louise Glück --

The Race / Sharon Olds --

In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn / Donald Justice --

The Dancing / Gerald Stern --

For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live) / Joy Harjo --

Mendocino Rose / Garrett Hongo --

(Dedications) / Adrienne Rich --

The Gas-poker / Thom Gunn --

What He Thought / Heather McHugh --

It Allows a Portrait in Line-Scan at Fifteen / Les Murray --

The People of the Other Village / Thomas Lux --

For the Taking / Linda Gregerson --

Terminus / Nicholas Christopher --

What the Living Do / Marie Howe --

The War Works Hard / Dunya Mikhail --

Halley's Comet / Stanley Kunitz --

Song / Brigit Pegeen Kelly --

Simile / Rosanna Warren --

In Memory of Joe Brainard / Frank Bidart --

jasper texas 1998 / Lucille Clifton --

The Rapture / Cynthia Huntington --

Elementary Principles at Seventy-Two / Richard Howard --

Quarantine / Eavan Boland --

Woman Martyr / Agi Mishol --

We Are Not Responsible / Harryette Mullen --

Shelley / Galway Kinnell --

Aphasia / Vijay Seshadri --

On Wanting to Tell [ ] About a Girl Eating Fish Eyes / Mary Szybist --

Lead / Mary Oliver --

Persimmon / Anya Krugovoy Silver --

Ethel's Sestina / Patricia Smith --

Woman, Mined / Carolyn Creedon --

Graveyard Blues / Natasha Trethewey --

Requiem / Camille Dungy --

Aubade in Autumn / Peter Everwine --

Barton Springs / Tony Hoagland --

Failure / Philip Schultz --

An Individual History / Michael Collier --

The Second Slaughter / Lucia Perillo --

Old School / Michael Waters --

Infinite Riches in the Smallest Room / Lucie Brock-Broido --

The African Burial Ground / Yusef Komunyakaa --

The Addict's Mother: Birth Story / Kate Daniels --

Spirit Boxing / Afaa Micahel Weaver --

Obit [The Blue Dress] / Victoria Chang --

Pantoum for the Broken / Toi Derricotte --

Krishna, 3:29 A.M. / Meena Alexander.