There are 703 Poems about Time & Brevity

Old Prairie House Between Tulsa
and Bartlesville on US 75
By Diane Glancy

"Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust"
By Philip Sidney

"Wreck" and "rise above"
By Eleanor Wilner

“Birds small enough...”
By Donald Revell

“Four Quartets” Revisited
By Belle Randall

“Unreal precision of the houses...”
By Donald Revell

τεθνάκην δ’ ολίγω ’πιδεύης φαίνομ’ αλαία
By Allen Ginsberg

(“Amidst the rush and roar of life...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

1914 II. Safety
By Rupert Brooke

1914 IV. The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

1994
By Lucille Clifton

30th Birthday
By Alice Notley

35/10
By Sharon Olds

from Dante Études: Book Three: In My Youth Not Unstaind
By Robert Duncan

A Ballad of Burdens
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti

A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
By Ben Jonson

A Cooking Egg
By T. S. Eliot

A Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe

A Dream Within a Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe

A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

A Letter to Yvor Winters
By Kenneth Rexroth

A Lyric of the Dawn
By Edwin Markham

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne

A Note to La Fontaine
By Jean Garrigue

A Pastoral
By Agha Shahid Ali

A Postcard from the Volcano
By Wallace Stevens

A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns

A Reminiscence
By Anne Brontë

A Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser

A Route of Evanescence, (1489)
By Emily Dickinson

A Saxon Epitaph
By Marjorie Pickthall

A Shropshire Lad XXXI: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
By A. E. Housman

A Song: When June is past, the fading rose
By Thomas Carew

A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks

A Tale
By Louise Bogan

A Thought of the Nile
By Leigh Hunt

A Toccata of Galuppi's
By Robert Browning

A World of Light
By John Reibetanz

Acquainted with the Night
By Robert Frost

Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Affirmation
By Donald Hall

After One
By Tom Sleigh

Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
By Martín Espada

Along with Youth
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Amoretti LXXIX: Men Call you Fair
By Edmund Spenser

An Altogether Different Language
By Anne Porter

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin

An Autograph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

An Old Man on the River Bank
By George Seferis

And Still It Comes
By Thomas Lux

And the Grass Did Grow
By Ralph Angel

And You?
By R. S. Thomas

Androgyne, Mon Amour
By Tennessee Williams

Anniversaries
By Thomas McGrath

Anniversary
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Antigua
By Gary Soto

Apple and Brute Stone
By Bei Dao

Approximately Forever
By C. D. Wright

Arise, Go Down
By Li-Young Lee

Arrowhead Hunting
By A.E. Stallings

As You Came from the Holy Land (attributed)
By Sir Walter Ralegh

Asked to Recall a Moment of Pure Happiness
By Mary Kinzie

Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant
By Jane Hirshfield

At a Country Funeral
By Wendell Berry

At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy

At the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic
By Gail Mazur

At Thomas Merton’s Grave
By Spencer Reece

Aubade
By Philip Larkin

Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot

Autumn Sky
By Charles Simic

“oh antic God”
By Lucille Clifton

“The Dreadful Has Already Happened”
By Mark Strand

“There is a button on the remote control called FAV...”
By Claudia Rankine

Beauty
By Tony Hoagland

Bees and Morning Glories
By John Ciardi

Before Dawn on Bluff Road
By August Kleinzahler

Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet

Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright

Between
By Marie Ponsot

Big City
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Birches
By Robert Frost

Bitter Suite
By Henri Coulette

Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright

Blind Joy
By John Frederick Nims

Blue Juniata
By Malcolm Cowley

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Buckroe, After the Season, 1942
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Burning the Old Year
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown

Calm Down
By Gregory Orr

Cape Cod
By George Santayana

Capriccio of Roman Ruins
By A. F. Moritz

Cast Off
By Belle Randall

Chant:
By Chris Abani

Chester
By John Koethe

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Close Path
By Mary Kinzie

Coming and Going
By Pierre Martory

Conclusion
By John Frederick Nims

Consequences
By William Meredith

Consolation
By Matthew Arnold

Consolation
By Robert Louis Stevenson

from constant change figures
By Lyn Hejinian

Constantinople
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet

Cool Tombs
By Carl Sandburg

Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick

Counselors
By Robert Fitzgerald

courthouse steps
By D.A. Powell

Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot

Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch

Crossing the Days
By James Scruton

Crossroads
By Mary Barnard

Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Damp Rot
By John Engels

Dawn
By Ella Higginson

Days
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Days
By Philip Larkin

Days
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Days of 1964
By James Merrill

Days of 1994: Alexandrians
By Marilyn Hacker

Days of Our Years
By John Frederick Nims

Debt
By Sara Teasdale

Decline and Fall
By John Frederick Nims

Destiny
By Sophie Jewett

Detroit, Tomorrow
By Philip Levine

Dilemma
By David Ignatow

Dirge in Woods
By George Meredith

Dismantling the House
By Stephen Dunn

Domes
By John Koethe

Don Juan: Canto the Twelfth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Early Cascade
By Lucia Perillo

Early Morning in Milwaukee
By John Koethe

Eclogue
By John Crowe Ransom

Eden
By Thomas Traherne

Eight O'Clock
By Sara Teasdale

Elegance
By Linda Gregg

Elegy 1969
By Mark Strand

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
By Alexander Pope

Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It
By Larry Levis

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
By Thomas Gray

Eleventh Song
By Philip Sidney

Elusive Time
By James Laughlin

Emplumada
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Encounter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Ephemeroptera
By Miriam Vermilya

Episode in a Library
By Zbigniew Herbert

Erotikos Logos
By George Seferis

Eternity
By Tom Clark

Evolution
By Jorie Graham

Experience
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience
By Edith Wharton

Family History
By Irving Feldman

Fancy
By John Keats

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
By William Shakespeare

Final Section from "Eleven Eyes"
By Lyn Hejinian

Finis
By Marjorie Pickthall

First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Fog Horns
By David Mason

For 1939
By Paul Engle

For Annie
By Edgar Allan Poe

For Billy
By Jack Spicer

For Futures
By Josephine Miles

For H., Dead in a Car at Thirty-eight
By Michael C. Blumenthal

For the Anniversary of My Death
By W. S. Merwin

For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen
By Hart Crane

Forecast
By Josephine Miles

Forever – is composed of Nows – (690)
By Emily Dickinson

Four Themes on a Variation
By G. E. Murray

Fragment of a Women from Kos
By Susan Mitchell

From Blossoms
By Li-Young Lee

From This Height
By Tony Hoagland

Funny Strange
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

George Moses Horton, Myself
By George Moses Horton

Gerontion
By T. S. Eliot

Ghazal
By Agha Shahid Ali

Glass-Bottom Boat
By Elizabeth Spires

Gnomic Verses
By Robert Creeley

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Going Back
By Gregory Djanikian

Good-Bye
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grass
By Carl Sandburg

Grief Was to Go Out, Away
By Jean Garrigue

Grown about by Fragrant Bushes
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness
By Jane Kenyon

Having My Cards Read
By W. S. Di Piero

Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass

Heaven to Be
By Sharon Olds

Hell
By Donald Justice

Heritage
By Paul Engle

Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths
By Sean Nevin

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne

Home Again Home Again
By A. F. Moritz

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Hospital parking lot, April
By Laura Kasischke

Hour
By Reginald Gibbons

Hour-glass
By Marin Sorescu

How to Continue
By John Ashbery

How to get RICHES
By Benjamin Franklin

Human Life
By Tom Clark

Hymn to Life
By James Schuyler

I Am Learning To Abandon the World
By Linda Pastan

I Am the Only Being Whose Doom
By Emily Jane Brontë

I Close My Eyes
By David Ignatow

I Remember, I Remember
By Thomas Hood

I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
By Yehuda Amichai

I’m thankful that my life doth not deceive
By Henry David Thoreau

I’uni Kwi Athi? Hiatho.
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Ice Child
By John Haines

Ideas
By Kathryn Starbuck

Imagined Room
By Barbara Guest

Immortal Autumn
By Archibald MacLeish

Immortal Sails
By Alfred Noyes

Immortality Ode
By Bruce Smith

In Celebration
By Mark Strand

In Her Absence I Created Her Image
By Mahmoud Darwish

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 118
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 22
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memorium Mae Noblitt
By A. R. Ammons

In November
By Lisel Mueller

In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet

In School-days
By John Greenleaf Whittier

In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
By Ted Kooser

In the Green Morning, Now, Once More
By Delmore Schwartz

In the House of Wax
By John Haines

In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Valley of Cauteretz
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Time
By W. S. Merwin

Innocence
By Thomas Traherne

Instant Glimpsable Only for an Instant
By Jane Hirshfield

Interesting Times
By Mark Jarman

Irish Prospects
By J. D. McClatchy

Ironing After Midnight
By Marsha Truman Cooper

Irony
By Louis Untermeyer

Isaiah’s Coal
By John Frederick Nims

It Is Later Than You Think
By Robert W. Service

It Is There
By Babette Deutsch

It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Jet
By Tony Hoagland

from John Brown's Body: "The years ride out from the world like couriers gone to a throne ..."
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Juggling Jerry
By George Meredith

June Twenty, Three Days After
By Miller Williams

Just Having Owed
By Donald Revell

Just Think!
By Robert W. Service

Kosmos
By Walt Whitman

Kwannon
By Marjorie Pickthall

Land’s End
By Weldon Kees

Languages
By Carl Sandburg

Largesse
By J. D. McClatchy

Last August Hours Before the Year 2000
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Late Ripeness
By Czeslaw Milosz

Le Secret
By Thomas James Merton

Leave him now Quiet by the Way
By Trumbull Stickney

Leave-Taking
By Louise Bogan

Let Evening Come
By Jane Kenyon

Let It Be Forgotten
By Sara Teasdale

Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis

Life
By Edith Wharton

Light and Dark
By Barbara Howes

Lightness in Autumn
By Robert Fitzgerald

Lines for a Prologue
By Archibald MacLeish

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

Live Blindly and upon the Hour
By Trumbull Stickney

Long time a child, and still a child, when years
By Hartley Coleridge

Look to the Future
By Ruth Stone

Louisiana Purchase
By Charlie Smith

Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning

Love and Life: A Song
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Love Poem
By Miller Williams

Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
By Kenneth Rexroth

M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School
By Philip Levine

Mansion Beach
By Elizabeth Spires

Marathon
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Mary Shelley in Brigantine
By Stephen Dunn

Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass

Medusa
By Louise Bogan

Memorandum
By W. S. Merwin

Memory As a Hearing Aid
By Tony Hoagland

Memory at These Speeds
By Jane Miller

Midsummer
By Robert Fitzgerald

Mild is the Parting Year
By Walter Savage Landor

Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los
By William Blake

Mine eyes have seen the glory of ...
By Eleanor Wilner

Mirabeau Bridge
By Guillaume Apollinaire

Morality
By Matthew Arnold

Motet
By Michael Anania

Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

mulberry fields
By Lucille Clifton

Mutability
By William Wordsworth

Mutability
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mutoscope
By Elizabeth Spires

My Lost Youth
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold

Narcolepsy
By Ann Lauterbach

Natal Command
By Peter Sacks

Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk
By Sir Walter Ralegh

Never the Time and the Place
By Robert Browning

Never to Dream of Spiders
By Audre Lorde

New Year
By Bei Dao

Night Images
By Robert Fitzgerald

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen
By Charles Wright

Nineteen-Fourteen: Peace
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier
By Rupert Brooke

No Postmortems
By Gregory Orr

Nocturne
By Dudley Randall

North Point North
By John Koethe

Nostalgia
By Billy Collins

Nostalgia and Complaint of the Grandparents
By Donald Justice

Nostalgia of the Lakefronts
By Donald Justice

Not to Be Dwelled On
By Heather McHugh

Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost

O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
By William Shakespeare

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Ode I. 11
By Horace

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
By Thomas Gray

Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode on the Spring
By Thomas Gray

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Odes
By Fernando Pessoa

from Odes: 15 ["Nothing"]
By Basil Bunting

Of the Last Verses in the Book
By Edmund Waller

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)
By Thomas Moore

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Love and New
By Sara Teasdale

On a Dead Child
By Robert Bridges

On a Raised Beach
By Hugh MacDiarmid

On an Anniversary
By J. M. Synge

On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born
By Charles Lamb

On Being Twenty-six
By Philip Larkin

On Distinction
By A. F. Moritz

On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me
By John Ciardi

On the Eve of a Birthday
By Timothy Steele

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
By William Wordsworth

Once
By Henri Coulette

One Afternoon
By Joanie V. Mackowski

One Sung of thee who Left the Tale Untold
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Open, Time
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Our Sun
By George Seferis

Out of Town
By Piotr Sommer

Over the Roofs
By Sara Teasdale

Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Palladium
By Matthew Arnold

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti

Passtime with good company
By Henry VIII, king of England

Pastoral
By Bei Dao

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Perhaps
By Hilda Morley

Permanent Press
By Alice Friman

Perspectives
By R. S. Thomas

Phases
By Wallace Stevens

Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving
By Clarence Major

Piano
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Poem for My Twentieth Birthday
By Kenneth Koch

Poem in October
By Dylan Thomas

Portrait
By Louise Bogan

Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot

Poste Restante
By R. S. Thomas

Postlude
By William Carlos Williams

Prayer
By Jorie Graham

Pre-Text
By Marie Ponsot

Prehistoric
By Claire Malroux

from Preludes for Memnon
By Conrad Aiken

Priceless Gifts
By Anna Swir

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Rabbi Ben Ezra
By Robert Browning

Rag Rug
By Rachel Hadas

Rain
By Edward Thomas

Rainbow’s End
By Louis Untermeyer

Recycling Center
By Brenda Hillman

Red Dust
By Philip Levine

Requiem
By Bei Dao

Return in Autumn
By Paul Engle

Return to Rome
By Stanley Moss

Reunion
By Jeff Daniel Marion

Rhapsody on a Windy Night
By T. S. Eliot

Roots
By John Piller

Sad Steps
By Philip Larkin

Sadness
By Donald Justice

Safari, Rift Valley
By Roy Jacobstein

Safe in their alabaster chambers
By Emily Dickinson

San Sepolcro
By Jorie Graham

Sand Flesh and Sky
By Clarence Major

Saving Minutes
By Jonathan Galassi

Sea Urchin
By J. Allyn Rosser

Seeing It Through
By Alice Friman

Sence You Went Away
By James Weldon Johnson

September Midnight
By Sara Teasdale

Service
By Trumbull Stickney

Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
By Rudyard Kipling

Shale
By Anne Stevenson

Silence
By Thomas Hood

Silent Film
By Kurt Brown

Simon Says
By Samuel Menashe

Since There Is No Escape
By Sara Teasdale

Sing a While Longer
By Edwin Markham

Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Slant
By Suji Kwock Kim

Sleep Cycle
By Dean Young

Sloth
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman
By Judy Grahn

Snakeskin
By Liz Beasely

Snow Signs
By Charles Tomlinson

So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Some Are Dead and Some Are Living
By Colleen J. McElroy

Song
By Edmund Waller

Song
By Brenda Cárdenas

Song After Campion
By Robert Fitzgerald

Song in a Minor Key
By Dorothy Parker

Song of the Andoumboulou: 60
By Nathaniel Mackey

Song: Out upon it, I have lov’d
By Sir John Suckling

Sonnet CVI: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CVII: Not mine own Fears, nor the Prophetic Soul
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LX: Like as the Waves Make towards the Pebbled Shore
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXIV: When I have Seen by Time's Fell Hand Defaced
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year thou mayst in me Behold
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXXIV
By Anna Seward

Sonnet VII: How soon hath Time, the Subtle Thief of Youth
By John Milton

Sonnet XCII
By Anna Seward

Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time, Blunt thou the Lion's Paws
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXX: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a Glorious Morning have I Seen
By William Shakespeare

Sonnets from the Portuguese 1: I Thought how Theocritus
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 22: When our Two Souls
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate

Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O'er
By Walter Savage Landor

Space Station
By Tom Sleigh

Speckled Trout
By Ron Rash

Speed the Parting-
By Elinor Wylie

Spring A. D.
By George Seferis

Squall
By Stanley Moss

String Quartet
By Babette Deutsch

Stump
By Donald Hall

Sudden Light
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Summer
By Conrad Aiken

Sunday Morning
By Wallace Stevens

Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love
By George Eliot

Sweet Will
By Philip Levine

Swells
By A. R. Ammons

Sympathy of Peoples
By Robert Fitzgerald

Tatyana
By Thomas P. Lynch

Telling the Bees
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Ten Moons
By Sasha Dugdale

The Abandoned Farm
By Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Age of Dinosaurs
By James Scruton

The Answer
By Bei Dao

The Babysitters
By Sylvia Plath

The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
By Delmore Schwartz

The Barefoot Boy
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees

The Black Angel
By Henri Coulette

The Blue Scarf
By Amy Lowell

The Boathouse
By David St. John

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

from The Bridge: Atlantis
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Quaker Hill
By Hart Crane

The Brief Journey West
By Howard Nemerov

The Broken Home
By James Merrill

The Buffalo Coat
By Thomas McGrath

The Buried Life
By Matthew Arnold

The Calves Not Chosen
By Linda Gregg

The Caveman on the Train
By John Frederick Nims

The Chambered Nautilus
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Child’s Address to the Kentucky Mummy
By Hannah F. Gould

The Children
By Mark Jarman

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The City
By C. P. Cavafy

The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Complaint: or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
By Edward Young

The Corn Baby
By Mark Wunderlich

The Days Gone By
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Dead Man Walking
By Thomas Hardy

The Deathwatch Beetle
By Linda Pastan

The Delta Parade
By Susan Stewart

The Dignity of Ushers
By Al Maginnes

The Double Fortress
By Alfred Noyes

The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I

The Eemis Stane
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The End of Summer
By Rachel Hadas

The Enigma
By Anne Stevenson

The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
By Henry Vaughan

from The Fatalist: Come October, it's the lake not the border
By Lyn Hejinian

from The Fatalist: Home whose names are produced by motion
By Lyn Hejinian

from The Fatalist: Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now
By Lyn Hejinian

The Finality of a Poem
By Michael Anania

The Flash Reverses Time
By A. Van Jordan

The Flea
By John Donne

The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
By Dylan Thomas

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

The French Revolution
By William Blake

The Future
By Matthew Arnold

The Garden by Moonlight
By Amy Lowell

The Gate
By Marie Howe

The Giant Slide
By Ted Kooser

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Hammer
By Carl Sandburg

The Hermit Crab
By Mary Oliver

The Hidden Glacier
By Edwin Markham

The Homer Mitchell Place
By John Engels

The House of Life: 66. The Heart of the Night
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 73. The Choice, III
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House on the Hill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Human Seasons
By John Keats

The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens

The King of Asini
By George Seferis

The Land We Did Not Know
By Jean Garrigue

The Last Day
By George Seferis

The Last Leaf
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Late Wisconsin Spring
By John Koethe

The Letter Scale
By Jacques Réda

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Lotos-eaters
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

The Magic of Numbers
By Kenneth Koch

The Magnets
By Ray Gonzalez

The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell

The Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham

The Measure
By Robert Creeley

The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons
By A.E. Stallings

The Mount
By Léonie Adams

The Net
By Babette Deutsch

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The Old Clock on the Stairs
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Old Front Gate
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Old World
By Charles Simic

The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill

The Order In Which Things Are Broken
By Desirée Alvarez

The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost

The Parade
By Billy Collins

The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Past
By Henry Timrod

The Past
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Phoenix and the Turtle
By William Shakespeare

The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers

The Prediction
By Mark Strand

The Reckoning
By Robert W. Service

The Redbreast
By Charlotte Richardson

The Retreat
By Henry Vaughan

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

The Same Old Jazz
By Philip Whalen

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The School Where I Studied
By Yehuda Amichai

The Secular Masque
By John Dryden

The Seekonk Woods
By Galway Kinnell

The Self Banished
By Edmund Waller

The Self-Unseeing
By Thomas Hardy

The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
By Bob Hicok

The Shadow
By Hilda Morley

The Ships Move On
By Hilda Morley

The Shoes
By Brent Pallas

The Simulacra
By D. Nurkse

The Singers
By Todd Hearon

The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling

The Sound of Trees
By Robert Frost

The Spanish Hour
By J. D. McClatchy

The Spire
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

The Star
By Henry Vaughan

The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Thought of Something Else
By Wendell Berry

The To-be-forgotten
By Thomas Hardy

The Town Dump
By Howard Nemerov

The Treasure
By Robinson Jeffers

The Triumph of Time
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Two Children
By Emily Jane Brontë

The Waking
By Theodore Roethke

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The Wife Speaks
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

The Wild Old Wicked Man
By William Butler Yeats

The Wild Swans at Coole
By William Butler Yeats

The Window
By Robert Creeley

The Wonder of the World
By Janet Loxley Lewis

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

The World
By Robert Creeley

The World
By Henry Vaughan

The Wreckage Entrepreneur
By Alice Fulton

Then and Now
By Babette Deutsch

There Is No Age
By Eva Gore-Booth

There may be Chaos still around the World
By George Santayana

Think Also of Horseshoes
By Miller Williams

Thirty-Eight. To Mrs ____y
By Charlotte Smith

This
By Ralph Angel

This blue belongs to no one.
By Jean-Michel Maulpoix

This Swallows’ Empire
By Jean Garrigue

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

Thoughtless Cruelty
By Charles Lamb

Thoughts of a Solitary Farmhouse
By Franz Wright

Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke

Time
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

from Time in the Rock
By Conrad Aiken

Time Long Past
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time Passes
By Cesare Pavese

Time Problem
By Brenda Hillman

Time to Come
By Walt Whitman

Time's Train
By Wyatt Prunty

To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe

To a Child in Heaven
By Richard Emil Braun

To a Dead Lover
By Louise Bogan

To a Lady, Who Sent the Author a Present of a Fashionable Bonnet
By Elizabeth Moody

To an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman

To Aunt Rose
By Allen Ginsberg

To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr

To Daffodils
By Robert Herrick

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell

To His Watch, When He Could Not Sleep
By Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury

To J. S.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses
By Robert Herrick

To Mary
By William Cowper

To Mr. Lawrence
By John Milton

To My Wife
By J. V. Cunningham

To Rosa
By Abraham Lincoln

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden

To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
By William Butler Yeats

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
By Robert Herrick

Today
By Thomas Carlyle

Tokens
By William Barnes

Toth Farry
By Sharon Olds

Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Trapped
By Adelaide Crapsey

Traveling Light
By Dabney Stuart

Triolets in the Argolid
By Rachel Hadas

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Trust
By Lizette Woodworth Reese

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Tulips
By A.E. Stallings

Turning Forty
By Jonathan Galassi

Twelfth Birthday
By Rachel Hadas

Twilight Blues
By Samuel Menashe

Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Un citadin / A City Dweller
By Jacques Réda

Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen

Untitled
By Bei Dao

Update on the Last Judgment
By Ellen Hinsey

Upon Time and Eternity
By John Bunyan

Vacating an Apartment
By Agha Shahid Ali

Venetian Candy
By John Updike

Very Strong February
By Bernadette Mayer

Villanelle of Change
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia
By Irene McKinney

Volpone: Come my Celia, let us prove
By Ben Jonson

Vowel Movements
By Daryl Hine

Voyages
By Hart Crane

Waiting
By Nikki Grimes

Waiting for Sweet Betty
By Clarence Major

Walking West
By William E. Stafford

Walter Llywarch
By R. S. Thomas

Watch Repair
By Charles Simic

We Tend to Sleep Better When the Clock Is Wound
By Todd Boss

Weather
By Clarence Major

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What Became
By Wesley McNair

What I Saw
By Robert Duncan

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

What loves, takes away
By Eleanor Wilner

What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay

When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
By John Keats

When the Gods Go, Half-Gods Arrive
By Lucie Brock-Broido

When We Two Parted
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

When You Are Not Surprised
By Conrad Aiken

Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
By Mark Strand

Where They Lived
By Marge Saiser

White Darkness
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

White Head
By Sophie Jewett

Woman Unborn
By Anna Swir

Women in Profile: Bas-Relief, Left Section Missing
By Susan Mitchell

Wonder
By Thomas Traherne

Wonder as Wander
By Sharon Olds

from Writing Is an Aid to Memory: 16.
By Lyn Hejinian

X Minus X
By Kenneth Fearing

You Can Have It
By Philip Levine

You Say, Columbus with his Argosies
By Trumbull Stickney

You That I Loved
By A. F. Moritz

Younger Woman Shopping for a Blouse
By Laura Kasischke

Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz

Youth and Calm
By Matthew Arnold

Zucchini Shofar
By Sarah Lindsay

[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
By E. E. Cummings

[as freedom is a breakfastfood]
By E. E. Cummings

[It's been two thousand years now]
By Marie-Claire Bancquart

[Long Neglect Has Worn Away]
By Emily Jane Brontë

[My mother saw the green tree toad]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Over a cup of coffee]
By Stephen Dobyns

[What horror to awake at night]
By Lorine Niedecker