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.