Till I end my song: a gathering of last poems

Prothalamion / Edmund Spenser

from The ocean to Cynthia / Walter Ralegh

from Astrophil and Stella : "Who will in fairest book" / Philip Sidney

"Down in the depth of mine iniquity" / Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke

Last verses : "So well I love thee" / Michael Drayton

from Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe

from The tempest / William Shakespeare

A hymn to God the father / John Donne

from Pleasure reconciled to virtue / Ben Jonson

The white island, or place of the blest / Robert Herrick

Love (III) / George Herbert

Dirge / James Shirley

Of the last verses in the book / Edmund Waller

from Samson Agonistes / John Milton

On Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost / Andrew Marvell

The night / Henry Vaughan

from The secular masque / John Dryden

Upon nothing / John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The day of judgment / Jonathan Swift

from The dunciad (Book IV) / Alexander Pope

On the death of Dr. Robert Levet / Samuel Johnson

The cast-away / William Cowper

To the accuser who is the god of this world / William Blake

Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg / William Wordsworth

Epitaph / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Memory / Walter Savage Landor

On this day I complete by thirty-sixth year / George Gordon, Lord Byron

from The triumph of life / Percy Bysshe Shelley

This living hand / John Keats

Terminus / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elegiac verse / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

from The rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám / Edward Fitzgerald

Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

prologue from Asolando / Robert Browning

Last lines / Emily Jane Brontë

Night on the prairies / Walt Whitman

Shelley's vision / Herman Melville

Growing old / Matthew Arnold

A ballad of past meridian / George Meredith

Insomnia / Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Passing away / Christina Rossetti

The saddest noise / Emily Dickinson

from The story of Sigurd the Volsung / William Morris

Sonnet : between two seas / Algernon Charles Swinburne

He never expected much / Thomas Hardy

To R.B. / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Low barometer / Robert Bridges

Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson

from The ballad of Reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde

They say my verse is sad / A.E. Housman

The fabulists / Rudyard Kipling

Cuchulain comforted / William Butler Yeats

The dark angel / Lionel Johnson

Why he was there / Edwin Arlington Robinson

Monsieur qui passe / Charlotte Mew

One more brevity / Robert Frost

Liberty / Edward Thomas

The lonely death / Adelaide Crapsey

Of mere being / Wallace Stevens

The world contracted to a recognizable image / William Carlos Williams

Shadows / D.H. Lawrence

Ejaculation / Elinor Wylie

I have been warned / Robinson Jeffers

from Little Gidding / T.S. Eliot

Tetélestai / Conrad Aiken

A worm fed on the heart of Corinth / Isaac Rosenberg

To dear Daniel / Samuel Greenberg

Futility / Wilfred Owen

The dragonfly / Louise Bogan

Fish food : an obituary to Hart Crane / John Brooks Wheelwright

The broken tower / Hart Crane

Black March / Stevie Smith

Heart of autumn / Robert Penn Warren

Missing dates / William Empson

A lullaby / W.H. Auden

Charon / Louis MacNiece

In a dark time / Theodore Roethke

To Walker Evans / James Agee

Souls lake / Robert Fitzgerald

Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop

Grief was to go out, away / Jean Garrigue

Last poem / F.T. Prince

Bone-flower elegy / Robert Hayden

The first night of fall and falling rain / Delmore Schwartz

Space walking / R.S. Thomas

Staring at the sea on the day of the death of another / May Swenson

Poem on his birthday / Dylan Thomas

Henry's understanding / John Berryman

Thinking of the lost world / Randall Jarrell

Epilogue / Robert Lowell

Language ah now you have me / W.S. Graham

A silence / Amy Clampitt

Aristocrats / Keith Douglas

"The darkness and the light are both alike to thee" / Anthony Hecht

Proverb / Kenneth Koch

In view of the fact / A.R. Ammons

Days of 1994 / James Merrill

A winter daybreak above Vence / James Wright

News from the dogs / Vicki Hearne

The veiled suite / Agha Shahid Ali.