Includes index.

Ten Lessons Anthology Four Chinese Poems Five Japanese Poems Two African Tribal Poems Three American Indian Poems

William Blake / The tyger- Robert Herrick / The argument of his book- John Donne / A valediction: Forbidding mourning- William Shakespeare / Songs- Walt Whitman / Song of myself- Wallace Stevens / Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird- William Carlos Williams / This is just to say; The locust tree in flower; Between walls- Federico Garcia Lorca / Romance sonambulo; Arbole, Arbole- John Ashbery / Into the dusk-charged air- Arthur Rimbaud / Voyelles

Author Unknown / Cuckoo Song; The irish dancer- Dante Alighieri / Sonetto- Author Unknown / The demon lover- Lord Randal- Sir Philip Sidney / Sonnet- Christopher Marlowe / The passionate shepherd to his love- William Shakespeare / Over hill, over dale- Under the Greenwood Tree- Aubade- Orpheus with his lute- Sonnet- Robert Herrick / Delight in Disorder- How violets came blew- How roses came red- How marigolds came yellow- George Herbert / Heaven- Thomas Carew / A song- William Blake / The lamb- The sick rose- Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Kubla Khan- George Gordon, Lord Byron / From Childe Horold's Pilgrimage- Percy Bysshe Shelley / Ode to the west wind- John Keates / Ode on a grecian urn- Robert Browning / Home thoughts, from abroad- Walt Whitman / from Song of Myself, section 15 and section 26- Emily Dickinson / I never saw a moor- Gerald Manley Hopkins / God's Grandeur- Arthur Rimbaud / Fleurs/Flowers- William Butler Yeats / Who goes with Fergus- Guillame Apollinaire / Coeur Couronne et Miroir/ Heart Crown and Mirror- D. H. Lawrence / The white horse- Trees in the garden- Humming-bird- Rainer Maria Rilke/ Der Knabe/The boy- Aus einer Kindheit / From a Childhood- Wallace Stevens / Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks- Disillusionment of ten o'clock- Bantams in Pine-Woods- Marinne Moore / The Wood-Weasel- Leopold Sedar Senghor / Je veux dire ton nom/I want to say your name- Elizabeth Bishop / Cirque d'Hiver- Gabriel Okara / Piano and Drums- Frank O'Hara / Les Etiquettes Jaunes- A true account of talking to the sun at fire island- John Ashbery / The painter-

Ch'U Yuan / In praise of the orange tree- Oath of Friendship- Po Chu-I / Eating Bamboo Shoots- Han-Shan / Cold mountain poems

Shiki / What a wonderful day- Issa / Wild goose- Ryota / No one spoke- Basho / The old pond- Basho / With what voice

The Magnificcent Bull- Song for the sun that disappeared behind the rainclouds

Dawn Song- Love-charm song- The war god's horse song