A very valentine / Gertrude Stein --
I do not love thee / Caroline Norton --
from Hero and Leander / Christopher Marlowe --
Love's philosophy / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Having a coke with you / Frank O'Hara --
Symptom recital / Dorothy Parker --
To Aphrodite of the flowers, at Knossos / Sappho --
Come to the orchard in spring / Rumi --
Little clown, my heart / Sandra Cisneros --
Don't try to rush things / Antonio Machado --
from From June to December / Wendy Cope --
Wild nights, wild nights / Emily Dickinson --
May I feel said he / E.E. Cummings --
When he pressed his lips / Steve Kowit --
Corinna's going-a-Maying / Robert Herrick --
The weather-cock points south / Amy Lowell --
To his mistress going to bed / John Donne --
Final soliloquy of the interior paramour / Wallace Stevens --
Variation on the word sleep / Margaret Atwood --
After making love we hear footsteps / Galway Kinnell --
It is marvellous / Elizabeth Bishop --
White heliotrope / Arthur Symons --
Youth / Osip Mandelstam --
Lilacs / Katherine Garrison Chapin --
Unfortunate coincidence / Dorothy Parker --
The philosopher / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
from Summer with Monika / Roger McGough --
A type of loss / Ingeborg Bachmann --
On Monsieur's departure / Queen Elizabeth I --
The eaten heart from The Knight of Curtesy --
My life closed twice before its close / Emily Dickinson --
When we two parted / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
Well, I have lost you / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
No, thank you, John / Christina Rossetti --
When you have forgotten Sunday, the love story / Gwendolyn Brooks --
The end / Elizabeth Alexander --
The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe --
Marriage / Gregory Corso --
from The countess of Penbroke's Arcadia / Sir Philip Sidney --
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in / E.E. Cummings --
To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet --
To Margo / Gavin Ewart --
A word to husbands / Ogden Nash - To the ladies / Lady Mary Chudleigh --
The female of the species / Rudyard Kipling --
from Paradise lost / John Milton --
The good wife / Proverbs --
My last duchess / Robert Browning --
To speak of woe that is in marriage / Robert Lowell --
From a survivor / Adrienne Rich --
Letter from my wife / Nazim Hikmet --
To Paula in late spring / W.S. Merwin --
A farmer's calendar / Vietnamese folk poem --
A birthday / Christina Rossetti --
June light / Richard Wilbur --
Protocols / Vikram Seth --
from Proverbs and song verse / Antonio Machado --
Sonnet XLIII: How do I love thee / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
You must know that I do not love and that I love you / Pablo Neruda --
Code poem for the French Resistance / Leo Marks --
The smaller orchid / Amy Clampitt --
Sonnett 116 / William Shakespeare --
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing / Rumi --
The Emperor / Matthew Rohrer --
Late fragment / Raymond Carver --
from The first morning of the second world / Delmore Schwartz --
Weaponed woman / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Night waitress / Lynda Hull --
In an iridescent time / Ruth Stone --
Madam and her madam / Langston Hughes --
Letters from Storyville / Natasha Trethewey --
Lineage / Margaret Walker --
I want you women up north to know / Tillie Olsen --
PS education / Ellen Hagan --
At the cafe / Patricia Kirkpatrick --
Worked late on a Tuesday night / Deborah Garrison --
The age of great vocations --
Defining worlds / G.Y. baxter --
What's that smell in the kitchen / Marge Piercy --
Father Grumble / Folk song --
Antony and Cleopatra / William Shakespeare --
What do women want / Kim Addonizio --
The catch / Richard Wilbur --
Cosmetics do no good / Steve Kowit --
Face lift / Sylvia Plath --
Fatigue / Hilaire Belloc --
The great lover / Rupert Brooke --
Crocheted bag / Rosemary Catacalos --
Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick --
The rhodora / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Roses only / Marianne Moore --
Eagle poem / Joy Harjo --
A cradle song / W.B. Yeats --
Notes from the delivery room / Linda Pastan --
High school senior / Sharon Olds --
Nobody knows but mother / Mary Morrison --
from Clearances, in memoriam M.K.H. (1911-1984) / Seamus Heaney --
Woman's work / Julia Alvarez --
If there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have / E.E. Cummings --
Somebody's mother / Mary Dow Brine --
The dream that I told my mother-in-law / Elizabeth Alexander --
Mother's closet / Maxine Scates --
Ode / Elizabeth Alexander --
Vietnam / Wislawa Szymborska --
Blessing the boats / Lucille Clifton --
I'm happiest when most away / Emily Bronte --
Keeping things whole / Mark Strand --
We all know it / Marianne Moore --
As much as you can / Constantine P. Cavafy --
The heart of a woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
Sense of something coming / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Death, etc. / Maxine Kumin --
from When one has lived a long time alone / Galway Kinnell --
Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain / Li Po --
The poems of our climate / Wallace Stevens --
You begin / Margaret Atwood --
Grown-up / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Puberty, with capital letters / Ellen Hagan --
Bra shopping / Parneshia Jones --
Hairwashing / Julia Alvarez --
The summer day / Mary Oliver --
Living / Denise Levertov --
I stepped from plank to plant / Emily Dickinson --
To my last period / Lucille Clifton --
Lumpectomy eve / Lucille Clifton --
Older, younger, both / Joyce Sutphen --
Survivor / Roger McGough --
You can't have it all / Barbara Ras --
The greatest love / Anna Swir --
Time / Mary Ursula Bethell --
Going blind / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Old woman / Elizabeth Jennings --
Let it be forgotten / Sara Teasdale --
We know this much / Sappho --
The bustle in a house / Emily Dickinson --
Never more will the wind / H.D. --
Grief / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
The widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams --
Companion / Jo McDougall --
Remember / Christina Rossetti --
from To W.P. / George Santayana --
To death / Oliver St. John Gogarty --
That it is a road / Ariwara No Narihara --
from In memoriam A.H.H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Reconciliation / Walt Whitman --
A poem of friendship / Nikki Giovanni --
Letter to N.Y. / Elizabeth Bishop --
On gifts for grace / Bernadette Mayer --
To Hayley / William Blake --
A poison tree / William Blake --
Summer at the beach / Louise Gluck --
Girlfriends / Ellen Dore Watson --
Woman friend / Julia Alvarez --
My friend's divorce / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Magnificat / Michele Roberts --
Secret lives / Barbara Ras --
To Flush, my dog / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
From a letter to his daughter / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
To be of use / Marge Piercy --
Leap before you look / W.H. Auden --
Try to praise the mutilated world / Adam Zagajewski --
The waking / Theodore Roethke --
September 1918 / Amy Lowell --
6 A.M. thoughts / Dick Davis --
A minor bird / Robert Frost --
May today there be peace within / St. Teresa of Avila --
The Bacchae chorus / Euripides --
All things pass / Lao-Tzu --
Simple gifts / Shaker hymn --
24th September 1945 / Nazim Hikmet --
The journey / Mary Oliver --
Ithaka / Constantine P. Cavafy --
The colder the air / Elizabeth Bishop.