100 great poems of the twentieth century

Northern elegies / Anna Akhmatova

Buster Keaton looks in the woods for his love who is a real cow / Rafael Alberti

We have done our duty / Yehuda Amichai

The city limits / A.R. Ammons

Residue / Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Ode to the bourgeois gentleman / Mário de Andrade

Fatness / Alan Ansen

The pretty redhead / Guillaume Apollinaire

Syringa / John Ashbery

In memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden

To the sun / Ingeborg Bachmann

The moon and the night and the men / John Berryman

In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop

Evening in the sanitarium / Louise Bogan

In praise of darkness / Jorge Luis Borges

Waiting for the barbarians / C.P. Cavafy

Death fugue / Paul Celan

Menus / Blaise Cendrars

Batouque / Aimé Césaire

Poems on death / Inger Christensen

Marine surface, low overcast / Amy Clampitt

My grandmother's love letters / Hart Crane

Mid-way / Robert Desnos

The helmsman / H.D.

On an east wind from the wars / Alan Dugan

This place rumored to have been Sodom / Robert Duncan

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot

The mad pomegranate tree / Odysseus Elytis

An old man's winter night / Robert Frost

Prayer / Gloria Fuertes

A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg

Lament / Thom Gunn

The convergence of the Twain / Thomas Hardy

At Mornington / Gwen Harwood

Witch doctor / Robert Hayden

"More light! More light!" / Anthony Hecht

Mr. Cogito thinks about Hell / Zbigniew Herbert

Things I didn't know I loved / Nazim Hikmet

Translated from the German or the Bosnian / Max Jacob

A prayer to go to paradise with the donkeys / Francis Jammes

The deer lay down their bones / Robinson Jeffers

"Life draws a tree..." / Roberto Juarroz

Psalm and lament / Donald Justice

One train may hide another / Kenneth Koch

Next, please / Philip Larkin

The ship of death / D.H. Lawrence

The old man's monologue with death / Enrique Lihn

The big mystical circus / Jorge de Lima

The unfaithful married woman / Federico García Lorca

My last afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow / Robert Lowell.

The broken home / James Merrill

Vixen / W.S. Merwin

"I am writing to you from a far-off country" / Henri Michaux

The cameo / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz

Elegy for N.N. / Czeslaw Milosz

The eel / Eugenio Montale

The fish / Marianne Moore

The absent / Edwin Muir

Very like a whale / Ogden Nash

Ode to the seagull / Pablo Neruda

To the film industry in crisis / Frank O'Hara

The undertaking in New Jersey / George Oppen

Anthem for the doomed youth / Wilfred Owen

Ein Leben / Dan Pagis

The tunnel / Nicanor Parra

Winter night / Boris Pasternak

Morning star / Cesare Pavese

As one listens to the rain / Octavio Paz

The tobacco shop / Fernando Pessoa (Álvaro de Campos)

Water / Francis Ponge

The little box / Vasko Popa

Canto XLV / Ezra Pound

Barbara / Jacques Prévert

If you imagine / Raymond Queneau

Tombs of the Hetaerae / Rainer Maria Rilke

Miniature / Yannos Ritsos

Dolor / Theodore Roethke

In the middle of life / Tadeusz Rozewicz

Epiphany, 1937 / George Seferis

April inventor / W.D. Snodgrass

A postcard from the volcano / Wallace Stevens

That winter / Ruth Stone

Rain and the tyrants / Jules Supervielle

Question / May Swenson

The end and the beginning / Wislawa Szymborska

Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas

Rain / Edward Thomas

Track / Tomas Tranströmer

An attempt at jealousy / Marina Tsvetaeva

Rose nocturnal / Xavier Villaurrutia

The season of phantasmal peace / Derek Walcott

Lullaby: moonlight lingers / Robert Penn Warren

Advice to a prophet / Richard Wilbur

These / William Carlos Williams

The journey / James wright

I have seen black hands / Richard Wright

In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz / William Butler Yeats

That's how we are / Andrea Zanzotto

"A"-11 / Louis Zukofsky.