Hymn to the sun / Fang people
Poems to the sun / Ancient Egypt
Song for the sun that disappeared behind the rainclouds / Hottentot people
Five ghost songs / Ambo people
Beauteous one / Ancient Egypt
Here are no people song / Navaho Indians
Song of the flood / Navaho Indians
Approach of the storm / Chippewa Indians
House song to the east / Navaho Indians
Come Unto These Yellow Sands:
Come unto these yellow sands / William Shakespeare
Spring, the sweet spring / Thomas Nashe
Under the greenwood tree / William Shakespeare
How marigolds came yellow / Robert Herrick
How violets came blue / Robert Herrick
Argument of his book / Robert Herrick
Daffodils / Robert Herrick
Locust tree in flower / William Carlos Williams
Another Sarah / Anne Porter
We like March / Emily Dickinson
All The Pretty Little Horses:
All the pretty little horses / Anonymous
Song of parents who want to wake up their son / Kwakiutl Indians
Puva, puva, puva / Hopi Indians
Song of kuk-ook, the bad boy / Eskimo
Mistress Isabel Pennell / John Skelton
Cottager to her infant / Dorothy Wordsworth
Minnie and Winnie / Alfred Lord Tennyson
From a childhood / Rainer Maria Rilke
Silly song / Federico Garcia Lorca
Miss blues'es child / Langston Hughes
Poem for Shane on her brother's birthday / Donald T Sanders
Autobiographia literaria / Frank O'Hara
Come Live With Me And Be My Love:
Passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe
Although I conquer all the earth / Ancient India
River-merchant's wife: A letter / Ezra pound (after Li Po)
Oath of friendship / Anonymous
Phillida and Coridon / Nicholas Breton
It was a lover and his lass / William Shakespeare
Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick
Ternary of littles, upon a pipkin of jelly sent to a lady / Robert Herrick
I have lived and I have loved / Anonymous
Indian serenade / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Birthday / Christina Rossetti
To an isle in the water / William Butler Yeats
Letter / Alfred; Lord Tennyson
Oh, when I was in love with you / A E Housman
I want to say your name Leopold Sedar Senghor
Juke box love song / Langston Hughes
When The Green Woods Laugh:
When the green woods laugh / William Blake
If all the world were paper / Anonymous
Nut tree / Anonymous Meet-on-the-road / Anonymous
I'll sail upon the dog-star / Thomas Durfey
Humpty Dumpty's recitation / Lewis Carroll
Big rock candy mountains / American folksong
Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
Owl and the pussy / Edward Lear
I am cherry alive, the little girl sang / Delmore Schwartz
Counting-out rhyme / Edna St Vincent Millay
Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts:
Rabbit as king of the ghosts / Wallace Stevens
Magnificent bull / Dinka people
Ground-squirrel song / Navaho Indians
I sing for the animals / Teton Sioux Indians
War god's horse song / Navaho Indians
I stood in the Maytime meadows / Anonymous
From the unicorn / Rainer Maria Rilke
Engraved on the collar of a dog, which to his royal highness / Alexander Pope
Here's a little mouse / EE Cummings
Fallow deer at the lonely house / Thomas Hardy
Poem / William Carlos Williams
From jubilate agno / Christopher Smart
Wild goose, wild goose / Issa
Cat and the moon / William Butler Yeats
Meditations of a parrot / John Ashbery
They look/like newlyweds / Ryota
Where the bee sucks / William Shakespeare
Grasshoppers / John Clare
Bee! I'm expecting you! / Emily Dickinson
On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats
Three animals / Ron Padgett
Little fish / DH Lawrence
How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll
From elephant / Pablo Neruda
World's wanderers / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Still night thoughts / Li Po
Spring night in lo-yang-hearing a flute / Li Po
They say you're staying in a mountain temple / Tu Fu
Thinking of east mountain / Li Po
Viewing the waterfall at Mount Lu / Li Po
So, we'll go no more a-roving / Lord Byron
To the moon / Giacomo Leopardi
To the moon / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Waiting both / Thomas Hardy
Moon rises / Federico Garcia Lorca
Silver / Walter De La Mare
I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth
From to a skylark / William Wordsworth
Wind took up the northern things / Emily Dickinson
Sensation / Arthur Rimbaud
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert frost
Waking / Theodore Roethke
Afternoon on a hill / Edna St Vincent Millay
For the moment / Pierre Reverdy
On the temple bell / Buson
How cool it feels / Basho
From song of myself / Walt Whitman
To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams
Cuckoo / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
Some good things to be said for the iron age / Gary Snyder
Chocolate milk / Ron Padgett
Ballad of the morning streets / Amiri Baraka
Convalescence / Noel Coward
Wind is blowing west / Joseph Ceravolo
Sleeping on the ceiling / Elizabeth Bishop
Who is the east? / Emily Dickinson
Most beautiful / Guido Gozzano
Song of wandering aengus /William Butler Yeats
Rose, Oh pure contradiction / Rainer Maria Rilke
Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens
Great figure / William Carlos Williams
From free union / Andre Breton
Bavarian gentians / DH Lawrence
From liberty / Paul Eluard
Mr Lizard is crying / Federico Garcia Lorca
Narcolepsy / Maureen Owen
From tender buttons / Gertrude Stein
Heart crown and mirror / Guillaume Apollinaire
It's raining / Guillaume Apollinaire
Ploughing on Sunday / Wallace Stevens
Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Up into the silence the green / EE Cummings
Sporting goods / Philippe Soupault
Thinnest shadow / John Ashbery
True account of talking to the sun at Fire Island / Frank O'Hara
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