Poetry Corner

Favourites

No matter how hip I pretend to be, Mark Van Doren made me a romantic at heart.

Ovid, "Baucis and Philemon" (tr. Dryden)

Ciullo d'Alcamo, "Dialogue: Lover and Lady" (tr. Rossetti)

Trad., "The Bridge of Death" (tr. Andrew Lang)

Petrach, "Visions" (tr. Spenser)

Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

Blake, "The Tiger"

de Musset, "Souvenir" (tr. Santayana)

Browning, "My Last Dutchess"

Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

Mallarme, "A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance" (tr. Aldan)

Bialik, "The Dead of the Desert" (I'm used to the Samuel translation)

Andre Spire, "Lonely" (tr. Bithell)

Rilke, "Abishag" (tr. Bithell)

Eliot, "The Waste Land"

Anatol Stern, "Europa" (tr. Themerson & Horowitz)

Michael Palmer, "Sun"