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Neil Astley 8 Introduction Mary Oliver 11 Wild Geese Doris Kareva 12 from Shape of Time Rumi 13 The Guest House Fernando Pessoa 14 'To be great, be whole...' Denise Levertov 14 Living Edip Cansever 15 Table Ruth Stone 16 Second-Hand Coat Wislawa Szymborska 17 Could Have Rita Dove 18 Dawn Revisited Miroslav Holub 19 The door Jane Kenyon 20 Otherwise Langston Hughes 21 Harlem [2] Rainer Maria Rilke 22 Archaic Torso of Apollo Mary Oliver 22 The Journey James Wright 24 Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Nina Cassian 25 Temptation Brendan Kennelly 26 Begin Julius Chingono 27 As I Go C.P. Cavafy 28 Ithaka Stanley Kunitz 29 The Layers Robert Frost 31 The Road Not Taken William Stafford 32 The Way It Is Toon Tellegen 32 I drew a line Robert Frost 33 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Mark Doty 34 Migratory Tomas Tranströmer 36 Alone Czeslaw Milosz 38 Encounter Elizabeth Bishop 38 At the Fishhouses Louis MacNeice 41 Snow Derek Mahon 42 A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford John Burnside 44 Unwittingly Lars Gustafsson 45 The Girl Ken Smith 46 Being the third song of Urias Philip Levine 47 Starlight Seamus Heaney 48 from Clearances Anne Stevenson 49 Poem for a Daughter Kate Clanchy 50 Love Anne Stevenson 51 The Victory Anna T. Szabó 52 She Leaves Me Thomas Lux 53 A Little Tooth Galway Kinnell 54 After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Alden Nowlan 55 Great Things Have Happened Sharon Olds 56 This Hour Gjertrud Schnackenberg 57 Snow Melting Helen Dunmore 58 Wild strawberries Edwin Morgan 59 Strawberries Kim Addonizio 60 For Desire Kim Addonizio 61 You Don't Know What Love Is U.A. Fanthorpe 62 Atlas Alan Dugan 63 Love Song: I and Thou Alice Oswald 64 Wedding Philip Larkin 64 An Arundel Tomb Derek Walcott 66 Love After Love Dennis O'Driscoll 67 Missing God Kerry Hardie 70 Sheep Fair Day John Burnside 72 from Of Gravity and light R.S. Thomas 73 The Bright Field Agha Shahid Ali 73 Stationery T.S. Eliot 74 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Czeslaw Milosz 78 A Confession Denise Levertov 79 O Taste and See Li-Young Lee 80 From Blossoms Philip Levine 81 The Simple Truth Pablo Neruda 82 Sweetness, Always Jane Kenyon 84 Happiness Edwin Morgan 85 Trio Michael Donaghy 86 The Present Jaan Kaplinski 87 'The washing never gets done...' Yehuda Amichai 88 A Man in His Life Louis MacNeice 89 Entirely Les Murray 90 An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow Naomi Shihab Nye 91 Kindness Elizabeth Bishop 93 One Art Dana Gioia 94 Nothing Is Lost Jane Hirsh?eld 95 The Weighing Jane Hirsh?eld 96 Burlap Sack Mourid Barghouti 96 Silence Jack Gilbert 97 A Brief for the Defense W.H. Auden 98 Musée des Beaux Arts Miroslav Holub 98 The ?y Yehuda Amichai 100 The Place Where We Are Right Yehuda Amichai 101 The Diameter of the Bomb Geoffrey Hill 102 September Song Michael Longley 103 All of These People Norman MacCaig 104 The Red and the Black Adam Zagajewski 105 Try to Praise the Mutilated World Stephen Dunn 106 Sweetness Michael Coady 107 Though There Are Torturers Nâzim Hikmet 108 It's This Way Mohja Kahf 109 Hijab Scene #7 Imtiaz Dharker 109 They'll say, 'She must be from another country' Philip Larkin 112 Aubade David Constantine 114 Common and Particular W.H. Auden 115 Funeral Blues Norman MacCaig 116 Memorial Jackie Kay 117 Darling Charles Causley 118 Eden Rock Raymond Carver 119 Gravy Arundhathi Subramaniam 120 Prayer T.S. Eliot 121 from Four Quartets Seamus Heaney 124 Postscript Raymond Carver 124 Late Fragment 126 Notes on poems and poets 156 Acknowledgements 158 Index of writers 159 Index of titles

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