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“Introduction to Poetry” p. 722 (Billy Collins, 1988)
“Snapping Beans” p. 741 (Lisa Parker, 1998)
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” p. 766 (Robert Herrick, 1648)
“To His Coy Mistress” p. 768 (Andrew Marvell, 1681)
“She being Brand” p. 761 (e.e. cumming, 1926)
“Bored” p. 775 (Atwood, 1995)
“Dover Beach” p. 797 (Arnold, 1867) / “Dover Bitch” p. 1202
“London’s Summer Morning” p. 800 (Mary Robinson, 1806)
“London” p. 802 (Blake, 1794)
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” p. 906 (Tennyson, 1855)
“Dulce et Decorum Est” p. 803 (Wilfred Owen, 1920)
“What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (for Those of You Who Aren’t)” p. 804 (Patricia Smith, 1991)
“February” p. 826 (Atwood, 1995)
“Mirror” p. 828 (Plath, 1963)
“Execution” p. 829 (E. Hirsch, 1989)
“Schizophrenia” p. 831 (Jim Stevens, 1992)
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” p. 833 (John Donne, 1611)
“Building an Outhouse” p. 833 (Ronald Wallace, 1991)
“Out, Out” p. 1040 (Frost, 1916)
“My Last Duchess” p. 857 (Browning, 1842)
“The Chimney Sweeper” p. 858 (Blake, 1789)
“Mushrooms” p. 877-78 (Plath, 1960)
“From An Essay on Criticism” p. 881 (Pope, 1711)
“The Foot” p. 898 (Alice Jones, 1993)
“Still to be Neat” p. 902 (Ben Jonson, 1609)
“The Lamb”, “The Tyger” p. 904 (Blake, 1789)
“My Papa’s Waltz” p. 908 (Roethke, 1948)
Sonnets: pp. 918-919 (Shakespeare, St. Vincent Millay)
“Desire” p. 920 (Molly Peacock, 1984)
“Unholy Sonnet” p. 921 (Mark Jarman, 1993)
“Do not go gentle into that good night” p. 922 (Dylan Thomas, 1952)
“Mid-term Break” p. 931 (Heaney, 1966)
“In Medias Res” p. 936 (Michael McFee, 1985)
“First Party at Ken Kesey’s with Hell’s Angels” p. 955 (Ginsberg, 1965)
“Death Be Not Proud” p. 963 (Donne, 1611)
“I dwell in Possibility” p. 994 (Dickinson, 1862)
“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—“ (Dickinson, 996)
“Because I could not stop for Death” p. 998 (Dickinson, 1863)
“Mending Wall” p. 1031 (Frost, 1914)
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” p. 1043 (Frost, 1923)
“Mother to Son” p. 1071 (Hughes, 1922)
“Cross” p. 1075 (Hughes, 1925)
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” p. 1135 (Marlowe, 1599) / “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” p. 1221
44. “Jabberwocky” p. 877 (Lewis Carroll, 1871)