This poem is based upon Poetry anthology index excerpts "announcing" their id entification of the book's contents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Anonymous, "Western wind." The meeting of visual and voice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Byron, translation of Dante, Inferno V, 11. 93-142. Published in Atticus Review 4, Winter 1983. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon William Alabaster (1567-1640), "Upon the Crucifix." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Blake, " Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon John Donne's (1573-1631), "Death Be Not Proud." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), "Sport." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Geirge Herbert's (1593-1633) poem, "The Quiddity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Michael Drayton (1563-1631). The first two and the last two lines of Poly-Olbion, Or a Chorographical Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forest and other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britain, with Intermixtureof the Most Remarkable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarities, Pleasures, and Commodities of the Same. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon the First Set of Madrigals of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), from The Lay of the Last Minstrel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Robert Herrick (1591-1674), "Delight in Disorder." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Air from Elizabethan songbook: "Every bush new springing" Every bush new springing, Every bird now singing, Merrily sat poor Nicho, Chanting troli lo loli lo, Till her he had espied On whom his hope relied, Down a down, with a frown, O she pulled him down. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Thomas Dekker (1570?-1632), from Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), "Nature." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Anonymous, 16th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Poem with rightful line: William Blake(1757-1827), Poem with fraudulent line: Abraham Cowley (1618-1667). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), "She Walks in Beauty." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day," early English song Spenser, "Epithalamion" Wyatt, "The Lover Complaynath the Unkindness of his Love" (1503 - 1549). Refrains from the three different poems ring out in repetition, print-interconnected, given in notation rather than full quote. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem appears to be a melange of Weiss' own poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.