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Inferno, Canto I by Dante Alighieri
Midway upon the journey of our life
Purgatorio, Canto X by Dante Alighieri
When we had crossed the threshold of the door
Inferno, Canto XXXIV by Dante Alighieri
Towards us; therefore look in front of thee
Aurora [excerpt] by Pura López-Colomé
This world.
Fons by Pura López-Colomé
Reanimated, spirit restored,
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You by Abdellatif Laâbi
The earth opens
What My Friend Says When She Gives Me a Persimmon by Melody Lacina
It tastes like your first kiss,
Poem With Wisteria Growing Along its Margin by Gerry LaFemina
The five cool stars above this town look down
Untitled [Mother and Dad are up] by Nancy Lagomarsino
Mother and Dad are up with the light
The Bearhug by Nick Laird
Forbidden Fruit by Michael Lally
all the forbidden fruit I ever
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] by Philip Lamantia
To see this evil from its core
Look How Far You've Come by Laurie Lamon
I gave you a tree
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife
Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor
Ah, what avails the sceptred race
The Marshes of Glynn by Sidney Lanier
GLOOMS of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven
The Song Of The Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier
Out of the hills of Habersham
Afterlife by Joan Larkin
I’m older than my father when he turned
Home is so Sad by Philip Larkin
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Incantation by George Parsons Lathrop
When the leaves, by thousands thinned
Jellyfish by David Lau
Dear XXth century
Dawn by James Laughlin
Often now as an old man
Elegy for Sol LeWitt by Ann Lauterbach
The weather map today is pale. The lines on the map
Hum by Ann Lauterbach
The days are beautiful
On a Hanging Scroll By Shih K'ofa by Steve Lautermilch
the character / shu,
Bone Song by Tom Lavazzi
It doesn’t turn anymore
In a Boat by D.H. Lawrence
See the stars, love
Whales Weep Not! by D.H. Lawrence
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
Nothing to Save by D. H. Lawrence
There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
The Elephant is Slow to Mate by D.H. Lawrence
The elephant, the huge old beast,
Baby Tortoise by D.H. Lawrence
You know what it is to be born alone,
Last Words to Miriam by D. H. Lawrence
Yours is the shame and sorrow
The White Horse by D.H. Lawrence
The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on
Trees in the Garden by D. H. Lawrence
Ah in the thunder air
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is by D.H. Lawrence
How beastly the bourgeois is
Piano by D. H. Lawrence
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me
Voir Dire by Denise Liddell Lawson
Tell me about yourself.
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
Long Island Sound by Emma Lazarus
I see it as it looked one afternoon
The Feast of Lights by Emma Lazarus
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Age and Death by Emma Lazarus
Come closer, kind, white, long-familiar friend
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts by Sydney Lea
When was the last lobotomy, I wonder
Madrigal by Mary Leader
How the tenor warbles in April!
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo by Edward Lear
On the Coast of Coromandel
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
Book of Nonsense, 1, 10 & 11 by Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a beard
Free Again [excerpt] by Joseph Lease
Why don't people
That Everything's Inevitable by Katy Lederer
That everything's inevitable
Driving and Drinking [North to Parowan Gap] by David Lee
North to Parowan Gap
Parowan Canyon by David Lee
When granite and sandstone begin to blur
Loading a Boar by David Lee
We were loading a boar, a goddam mean big sonofabitch
In the Black Kitchen by David Dodd Lee
It begins early, arc crumbling over the yard with its salt bird baths.
The Black Bass by David Dodd Lee
My hand became my father's hand
Bloody Bill by Dennis Lee
You say you want to fight me?
What Will You Be? by Dennis Lee
They never stop asking me
Thinking in Bed by Dennis Lee
I'm thinking in bed,
The Hour and What Is Dead by Li-Young Lee
Tonight my brother, in heavy boots, is walking
Immigrant Blues by Li-Young Lee
People have been trying to kill me since I was born
A Table in the Wilderness by Li-Young Lee
I draw a window
Pillow by Li-Young Lee
There's nothing I can't find under there
The Cleaving by Li-Young Lee
He gossips like my grandmother, this man
Black Petal by Li-Young Lee
I never claimed night fathered me
Caribbean Marsh by Muna Lee
Acres of mangrove, crowding the sea-streaked marsh
Operation Memory by David Lehman
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when
Shake the Superflux! by David Lehman
I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one
A Quick One Before I Go by David Lehman
There comes a time in every man's life
When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman
When she says margarita she means daiquiri
A Little History by David Lehman
Some people find out they are Jews.
With Tenure by David Lehman
If Ezra Pound were alive today
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke by David Lehman
Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat
To the Author of Glare by David Lehman
There comes a time when the story turns into twenty
Sexism by David Lehman
The happiest moment in a woman's life
North-Looking Room by Brad Leithauser
In a seldom-entered attic
Tiger Shark by Hailey Leithauser
Fear streamlined to elegance
Angel Shark by Hailey Leithauser
Wan oxymoron of a fish, dotted
Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds by Eleanor Lerman
This is what she says about Russia, in the year 2000, in
That Sure is My Little Dog by Eleanor Lerman
Yes, indeed, that is my house that I am carrying around
Starfish by Eleanor Lerman
This is what life does. It lets you walk up to
The Mystery of Meteors by Eleanor Lerman
I am out before dawn, marching a small dog through a meager park
Arthur's Anthology of English Poetry by Laurence Lerner
To be or not to be, that is the question
Hallow-E'en, 1914 by Winifred M. Letts
Why do you wait at your door, woman
Hallow-E'en, 1915 by Winifred M. Letts
Will you come back to us, men of our hearts, to-night
Lullaby by Lyubomir Levchev
The boy was standing at the exit
The Secret by Denise Levertov
Two girls discover
Losing Track by Denise Levertov
Long after you have swung back
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell by Denise Levertov
Down through the tomb's inward arch
The Great Black Heron by Denise Levertov
Since I stroll in the woods more often
The Métier of Blossoming by Denise Levertov
Fully occupied with growing--that's
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus [excerpt] by Denise Levertov
Praise the wet snow
When We Look Up by Denise Levertov
He had not looked
The Mutes by Denise Levertov
Those groans men use
St. Peter and the Angel by Denise Levertov
Delivered out of raw continual pain,
In California During the Gulf War by Denise Levertov
Among the blight-killed eucalypts, among
The Broken Sandal by Denise Levertov
Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke
The Sharks by Denise Levertov
Well then, the last day the sharks appeared
Sojourns in the Parallel World by Denise Levertov
We live our lives of human passions,
Zozo-ji by Dana Levin
One cry from a lone bird over a misted river
Bardo by Dana Levin
Ars Poetica (cocoons) by Dana Levin
Six monarch butterfly cocoons
Styx by Dana Levin
You put a bag around your head and walked into the river
In the Surgical Theatre by Dana Levin
In the moment between
Letter to GC by Dana Levin
I say most sincerely and desperately, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Part by Phillis Levin
Of something, separate, not
May Day by Phillis Levin
I've decided to waste my life again,
Ontario by Mark Levine
Beauty in its winter slippers
Coming Close by Philip Levine
Take this quiet woman, she has been
Drum by Philip Levine
In the early morning before the shop
On 52nd Street by Philip Levine
Down sat Bud, raised his hands,
The Two by Philip Levine
When he gets off work at Packard, they meet
Gospel by Philip Levine
The new grass rising in the hills,
In a Country by Larry Levis
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can
The Clearing of the Land: An Epitaph by Larry Levis
The trees went up the hill
Anastasia & Sandman by Larry Levis
The brow of a horse in that moment when
Those Graves in Rome by Larry Levis
There are places where the eye can starve,
The Widening Spell of the Leaves by Larry Levis
Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill.
Readings in French by Larry Levis
Looking into the eyes of Gerard de Nerval
4/7/85 by Walter K. Lew
Children shone in the front gate and put their hands together in the
Leaving Seoul: 1953 by Walter K. Lew
We have to bury the urns,
The Menders and the Breakers by Lesle Lewis
The rain does not cool and is a sticky one to the present and the place.
Change in the Grove of Chickadees by Lesle Lewis
Happy for nothing, we could be with no dinner to cook
The Vampire Bride [I am come—I am come!] by Henry Thomas Liddell
I am come—I am come! once again from the tomb
My Sin by M. L. Liebler
He came to me
Being Jewish in a Small Town by Lyn Lifshin
Someone writes kike on
Unmarked Grave by Gary Lilley
Old man, if it’ll help you rest, the shotgun
Alpha Zulu by Gary Lilley
I know more people dead than people alive
An Obscure Meadow Lures Me by José Lezama Lima
An obscure meadow lures me
The Correction by Frannie Lindsay
When I got it wrong at school—missed
Mound Digger by Sarah Lindsay
This mound of dirt and the summer are heirs to transfer
Visiting Pai-an Pavilion by Hsieh Ling-yun
Beside this dike, I shake off the world's dust,
Screening Desire by R. Zamora Linmark
Sunday after Mass the priest behind
3 Men: Portraits Without the Human Figure by Deena Linnett
Hotel-casino: lights flash, crowds tread
Surf Buddha by Matthew Lippman
There is a sandalwood Buddha on the desk that has my stomach
On Halloween by Janet Little
Some folk in courts for pleasure sue
Hard Evidence by Timothy Liu
A room walled-in by books where the hours withdraw.
An Evening Train by Timothy Liu
whistles past hacked-down fields of corn,
Exsultate Jubilate by Timothy Liu
fire in that square floodlit by crimson
Absence by Luljeta Lleshanaku
The moon / nicotine of a kiss. . .
Three Moves by John Logan
Three moves in sixth months and I remain
The Ship by William Logan
The sunlight burned like wire on the water,
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] by Christopher Logue
Down on your knees, Achilles. Farther down.
All Day Permanent Red [To welcome Hector to his death] by Christopher Logue
To welcome Hector to his death
Daphnis and Chloe by Haniel Long
You found it difficult to woo
Second Draft by James Longenbach
As an older man
Orion by James Longenbach
Stars rising like something said, something never
My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Often I think of the beautiful town
Woods in Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When winter winds are piercing chill
The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Between the dark and the daylight,
The Harvest Moon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The day is done, and the darkness
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The tide rises, the tide falls
A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All houses wherein men have lived and died
Introduction to Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
The Cross of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the long, sleepless watches of the night
The Song of Hiawatha [excerpt] by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All day long roved Hiawatha
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Out of the bosom of the Air
Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Wheatear by Michael Longley
Brown lark beside the sun
Heron by Michael Longley
You died the day I was driving to Carrigskeewaun
Deer Hit by Jon Loomis
You're seventeen and tunnel-vision drunk,
The Ecstasy by Phillip Lopate
You are not me, and I am never you
Snowball Journal by Phillip Lopate
Our room, says the lady of the house
We Who Are Your Closest Friends by Phillip Lopate
we who are
The Last Slow Days of Summer by Phillip Lopate
BE YOUR OWN MASTER! says the Vedanta Society sign
Indigestible by Phillip Lopate
A friend called up saying he was in a pre-suicidal mood
Numbness by Phillip Lopate
I have not felt a thing for weeks
Allende by Phillip Lopate
In 200 years they won't remember me, Salvador
The Little Mute Boy by Federico García Lorca
The little boy was looking for his voice
City That Does Not Sleep by Federico García Lorca
In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody.
The Old Lizard by Federico García Lorca
In the parched path
Arbolé, Arbolé . . . by Federico García Lorca
Tree, tree
Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico García Lorca
I want to sleep the sleep of the apples,
The Guitar by Federico García Lorca
The weeping of the guitar
Romance Sonambulo by Federico García Lorca
Green, how I want you green.
Dressmaker by Éireann Lorsung
Nothing touches like tan velvet touches
The Reservation by Adrian C. Louis
How do you
If the Delta Was the Sea by Dick Lourie
"if the river was whiskey" Big T sings
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind
To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace
When Love with unconfinéd wings
The Letter by Amy Lowell
Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper
Opal by Amy Lowell
You are ice and fire,
Red Slippers by Amy Lowell
Red slippers in a shop-window; and outside in the street
Astigmatism by Amy Lowell
The Poet took his walking-stick
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. by Amy Lowell
They have watered the street,
The Taxi by Amy Lowell
When I go away from you
The Congressional Library [excerpt] by Amy Lowell
Where else in all America are we so symbolized
Bath by Amy Lowell
The day is fresh-washed and fair
The Sirens by James Russell Lowell
The sea is lonely, the sea is dreary
The Present Crisis by James Russell Lowell
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide
The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell
The snow had begun in the gloaming,
Homecoming by Robert Lowell
What was is . . . since 1930;
Dolphin by Robert Lowell
My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise,
Waking in the Blue by Robert Lowell
The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore
"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" by Robert Lowell
The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open
For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
The old South Boston Aquarium stands
The Drunken Fisherman by Robert Lowell
Wallowing in this bloody sty,
Epilogue by Robert Lowell
Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme--
History by Robert Lowell
History has to live with what was here,
Home After Three Months Away by Robert Lowell
Gone now the baby's nurse,
Man and Wife by Robert Lowell
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed;
Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming
Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell
Nautilus Island's hermit
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket by Robert Lowell
A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket--
Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy
A silver Lucifer
Moreover, the Moon --- by Mina Loy
Face of the skies
Render, Render by Thomas Lux
Boil it down: feet, skin, gristle,
A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux
Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
Retšepile, Ausi oa ka by Jacqueline Lyons
I wake up with bits of Africa on me, in my pockets folded maloti

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