The making of a poem : a Norton anthology of poetic forms / edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland.

Introductory Statement
On Becoming a Poet / Mark Strand
Poetic Form : A Personal Encounter / Eavan Boland
Acknowledgments
I. Verse Forms
The Villanelle
Villanelle of His Lady's Treasures / Ernest Downson
The House on the Hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson
Missing Dates / William Empson
The Waking / Theodore Roethke
One Art / Elizabeth Bishop
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas
The World and the Child / James Merrill
Condemned Site / Mona Van Duyn
By the Sound / John Hollander
Saturday at the Border / Hayden Carruth
Under the Hill / Daryl Hine
Villanelle / Marilyn Hacker
Reading Scheme / Wendy Cope
Villanelle for the Middle of the Night / Jacqueline Osherow
Close-Up of a Villanelle : "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
The Sestina
Ye wastefull woodes, bear witness of my woe / Edmund Spenser
from Old Arcadia / Philip Sidney
Sestine 4 from Parthenophil and Parthenophe / Barnabe Barnes
Sestina : Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sestina / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sestina / Edmund Gosse
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal / Rudyard Kipling
Sestina : Altaforte / Ezra Pound
After the Trial / Weldon Kees
The Book of Yolek / Anthony Hecht
The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina / Miller Williams
Nani / Alberto Rios
Close-Up of a Sestina : "Sestina : Altaforte" by Ezra Pound
The Pantoum
In Town / Austin Dobson
Pantoum of the Great Depression / Donald Justice
Parents' Pantoum / Carolyn Kizer
Pantoum / John Ashbery
Grandmothers's Song / Nellie Wong
The Method / J. D. McClatchy
Close-Up of a Pantoum : "Pantoum of the Great Depression" by Donald Justice
The Sonnet
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare
Farewell to Love / Michael Drayton
from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus / Mary Wroth
Sonnet XXIII : Methought I saw my late espoused saint / John Milton
Holy Sonnet : At the round earth's imagined corners / John Donne
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 / William Wordsworth
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bright Star / John Keats
from Monna Innominata / Christina Rossetti
from Sonnets from the Portuguese (XLIII) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Carrion Comfort / Gerard Manley Hopkins
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay
From the Dark Tower / Countee Cullen
Epic / Patrick Kavanagh
from "Tulips and Chimneys" / E. E. Cummings
To My Mother / George Barker
After the Bomb Tests / Jane Cooper
A Game of Chess / Gwen Harwood
The Haw Lantern / Seamus Heaney
Heat / Denis Johnson
The Roman Baths at Nimes / Henri Cole
Half a Double Sonnet / Mary Jo Salter
Sonnet / Michael Palmer
Close-Up of a Sonnet : "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Ballad
The Cherry-tree Carol / Sir Patrick Spens
The Wife of Usher's Well
My Boy Willie
The Changeling / John Greenleaf Whittier
from The Ballad of Reading Gaol / Oscar Wilde
Peter and John / Elinor Wylie
Bagpipe Music / Louis MacNeice
Death in Leamington / John Betjeman
The Tale of Custard the Dragon / Ogden Nash
We Real Cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
Riverbank Blues / Sterling A. Brown
Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen / W. S. Merwin
Close-Up of a Ballad : "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Blank Verse
from his translation of The Aeneid / Henry Howard
from Tamburlaine the Great / Christopher Marlowe
from Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare
from Paradise Lost / John Milton
from Beachy Head / Charlotte Smith
from The Prelude / William Wordsworth
Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Rain / Edward Thomas
Directive / Robert Frost
Lying / Richard Wilbur
Stanzas in Bloomsbury / Richard Howard
Close-Up of Blank Verse : "Directive" by Robert Frost
The Heroic Couplet
from The Description of Cooke-ham / Aemilia Lanyer
The Author to Her Book / Anne Bradstreet
A Letter to Daphnis, April 2, 1685 / Anne Finch
from Absalom and Achitophel / John Dryden
from The Vanity of Human Wishes / Samuel Johnson
To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works / Phillis Wheatley
from The Deserted Village / Oliver Goldsmith
from An Essay on Criticism / Alexander Pope
My Last Duchess / Robert Browning
Strange Meeting / Wilfred Owen
The J Car / Thom Gunn
Close-Up of the Heroic Couplet : "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
The Stanza
from Troilus and Criseyde / Geoffrey Chaucer
from The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser
They Flee from Me / Thomas Wyatt
Easter Wings / George Herbert
The Tyger / William Blake
So We'll Go No More A-Roving / George Gordon, Lord Byron
I died for Beauty - but was scarce / Emily Dickinson
The Convergence of the Twain / Thomas Hardy
The Song of the Mad Prince / Walter de la Mare
A Quoi Bon Dire / Charlotte Mew
Song of the Son / Jean Toomer
The Tropics in New York / Claude McKay
Night Song at Amalfi / Sara Teasdale
Not Waving but Drowning / Stevie Smith
On Teaching the Young / Yvor Winters
Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
Yes / Muriel Rukeyser
Warming Her Pearls / Carol Ann Duffy
Epith / Carol Muske
Close-Up of a Stanza : "I died for Beauty - but was scarce" by Emily Dickinson
II. Meter
III. Shaping Forms
The Elegy
Lament for the Makaris / William Dunbar
If Ever Hapless Woman Had a Cause / Mary Sidney Herbert
On My First Son / Ben Jonson
Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred / Katherine Philips
Lycidas / John Milton
Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a Loose Paper / Anne Bradstreet
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard / Thomas Gray
R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida / Emily Bronte
O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman
Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
To His Love / Ivor Gurney
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter / John Crowe Ransom
Tears in Sleep / Louise Bogan
In Memory of W. B. Yeats / W. H. Auden
from The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket / Robert Lowell
Dream Song / John Berryman
To the Dead / Frank Bidart
In Memoriam Paul Celan / Edward Hirsch
The Legend / Garrett Hongo
The Elegy for New York / Douglas Carse
Tiara / Mark Doty
Supernatural Love / Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Mirror in February / Thomas Kinsella
Iris / David St. John
Child Burial / Paula Meehan
Song / Rosanna Warren
The Pastoral
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love / Christopher Marlowe
from Love's Labor's Lost / William Shakespeare
The Garden / Andrew Marvell
To My Sister / William Wordsworth
Ode on a Grecian Urn / John Keats
Loveliest of Trees / A. E. Housman
The Wife of Llew / Francis Ledwidge
Urban Pastoral / Babette Deutsch
Remembered Morning / Janet Lewis
The Thought-Fox / Ted Hughes
The Explosion / Philip Larkin
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota / James Wright
Midsummer, Tobago / Derek Walcott
The Bear / Galway Kinnell
Fog / Amy Clampitt
Let Evening Come / Jane Kenyon
Smoke / Philip Levine
Meditation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass
From the Porch / John Koethe
A Walrus Tusk from Alaska / Alfred Corn
Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night / Charles Wright
The Broad Bean Sermon / Les Murray
Of the Finished World / Lucie Brock-Broido
Tornados / Thylias Moss
Loss / C. K. Williams
Waiting for the Storm / Timothy Steele
An Engraving of Blake / Mary Kinzie
Pygmalion's Image / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Mock Orange / Louise Gluck
The Black Walnut Tree / Mary Oliver
Gateposts / Medbh McGuckian
Heart of the Matter / Susan Prospere
Shoeing the Currach / Mary O'Malley
The Ode
Ode to the West Wind / Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Autumn / John Keats
Ode / Henry Timrod
The Fire of Driftwood / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
from The Bridge / Hart Crane
The Paper Nautilus / Marianne Moore
Australia 1970 / Judith Wright
Miracle Glass Co. / Charles Simic
The Blue Swallows / Howard Nemerov
America / Robert Creeley
Ode to Meaning / Robert Pinsky
Perhaps the World Ends Here / Joy Harjo
IV. Open Forms
The Circus Animals' Desertion / W. B. Yeats
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot
I, Too / Langston Hughes
The Idea of Order at Key West / Wallace Stevens
Spring and All / William Carlos Williams
America / Allen Ginsberg
Ave Maria / Frank O'Hara
Uncertain Oneiromancy / Denise Levertov
Daddy / Sylvia Plath
Diving into the Wreck / Adrienne Rich
move / Lucille Clifton
The Language of the Brag / Sharon Olds
The Colonel / Carolyn Forche
The German Army, Russia, 1943 / Ai
Starlight Scope Myopia / Yusef Komunyakaa
Reading Plato / Jorie Graham
Close-Up of Open Forms : "Diving into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich.