Includes indexes.

The Silken Tent / Robert Frost -- In Her Praise / Robert Graves -- Muse / Jo Shapcott -- To His Maistres / Alexander Montgomerie -- Maundy Thursday / Wilfred Owen -- 'Batter my heart, three-personed God' / John Donne -- Upon the Crucifix / William Alabaster -- Arsehole / Craig Raine -- Delight in Disorder / Robert Herrick -- An Enigma / Edgar Allan Poe -- 'The world is too much with us' / William Wordsworth -- "Two voices are there: one is of the deep' / J. K. Stephen -- 'Not the round natural world, not the deep mind' / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain / Wallace Stevens -- The Book of the World / William Drummond -- from Notes on the Use of the Library (Basement Annexe) / Sean O'Brien -- Regime de Vivre / John Wilmot -- Still-Life / Elizabeth Daryush -- 'If there were oh! an Hellespont of cream' / John Davies -- Guava Libra / Tony Harrison -- To a Goose / Robert Southey -- Fly / Christopher Reid -- Honey Cycle / Les Murray -- The Soote Season / Henry Howard -- Work without Hope / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The Melancholy Year / Trumbull Stickney -- Grief / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- 'Striving to sing glad songs, I but attain' / James Thomson -- Cheap Seats, the Cincinnati Gardens, Professional Basketball, 1959 / William Matthews -- Opera / Robert Crawford -- Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- To His Sonne / Walter Raleigh -- 'Long time a child' / Hartley Coleridge -- For My Daughter / Weldon Kees -- The Brother / Michael Donaghy -- The Bright Field / R. S. Thomas -- Noon / John Clare -- The Halted Moment / William Soutar -- 'A sonnet is a moment's monument' / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Ad Lectorem de Subiecto Operis Sui / Thomas Bastard -- Opening the Cage / Edwin Morgan -- Inniskeen Road: July Evening / Patrick Kavanagh -- The Laurel Axe / Geoffrey Hill -- In the Lost Province / Tom Paulin -- Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex / Charlotte Smith -- February Afternoon / Edward Thomas -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Mythology / Marilyn Hacker -- Leda and the Swan / W. B. Yeats -- She, to Him (iii) / Thomas Hardy -- 'Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part' / Michael Drayton -- 'You must not wonder though you think it strange' / George Gascoigne -- 'Their faces shone under some radiance' / Dylan Thomas -- Death / Thomas Hood -- After Death / Christina Rossetti -- Ye Who Enter In / Jamie McKendrick -- Karma / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Finding the Ox / Ciaran Carson -- Swineherd / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain -- 'I dreamt he drove me back to the asylum' / John Berryman -- My Turn / Glyn Maxwell -- Farewell to Juliet / Wilfrid Blunt -- 'When I have fears that I may cease to be' / John Keats -- 'I read my sentence - steadily' / Emily Dickinson -- To Night / Joseph Blanco White -- 'Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable Night' / Samuel Daniel -- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- The Princess and the Pea / Paul Muldoon -- 'I, being born a woman and distressed' / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- An Old Malediction / Anthony Hecht -- Elegy / Robert Garioch -- The Death of Peter Esson / George Mackay Brown -- The Fall / Richard Fanshawe -- Epitaph on the Monument of Sir William Dyer at Colmworth, 1641 / Catherine Dyer -- On His Deceased Wife / John Milton -- The Rites for Cousin Vit / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Poem / Simon Armitage -- Who's Who / W. H. Auden -- Grace Darling / Michael Longley -- 'One day I wrote her name upon the strand' / Edmund Spenser -- from Strugnell's Sonnets / Wendy Cope -- 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold' / William Shakespeare -- A Virginal / Ezra Pound -- 'Whoso list to hunt, I know where is a hind' / Thomas Wyatt -- 'To Speak of the Woe That is in Marriage' / Robert Lowell -- Modern Love / Douglas Dunn -- Lucifer in Starlight / George Meredith -- 'Satan, no woman, yet a wandering spirit' / Fulke Greville -- Sonet / Mark Alexander Boyd -- 'With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies' / Philip Sidney -- Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel / Philip Larkin -- Sunday Morning / Louis Macneice -- Prayer / Carol Ann Duffy -- Prayer / George Herbert -- 'A blast of wind, a momentary breath' / Barnabe Barnes -- Praise in Summer / Richard Wilbur -- Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop -- 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame' / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- To the Evening Star / William Blake -- Rag and Bone / Norman Maccaig -- The Skylight / Seamus Heaney.