There are 166 Poems about Coming of Age

"Fire and Sleet and Candle-Light"
By Elinor Wylie

A Country Boy in Winter
By Sarah Orne Jewett

A Good Fish
By Derek Sheffield

A Reverie
By Joanna Baillie

A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
By A. E. Housman

A Youth Mowing
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Adolescence-II
By Rita Dove

Adult
By Ray Gonzalez

Against Nature
By Richard Emil Braun

An “If” for Girls
By Elizabeth Lincoln Otis

An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi

Angels
By B. H. Fairchild

Apprehension
By Hannah F. Gould

Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape
By Bin Ramke

As Children Together
By Carolyn Forché

At Pegasus
By Terrance Hayes

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

At the Movie: Virginia, 1956
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Alone”
By Edgar Allan Poe

“How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school’s sway”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

“Luckies”
By Reginald Gibbons

“Yet, even ’mid merry boyhood’s tricks and scapes”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

Belle Isle, 1949
By Philip Levine

Better Days
By A. F. Moritz

Between
By Marie Ponsot

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Change
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Character of the Happy Warrior
By William Wordsworth

Child on the Marsh
By Andrew Hudgins

Cinema Verité
By Bin Ramke

Consolation
By Matthew Arnold

Cozy Apologia
By Rita Dove

Cultural Stakes; or, How To Learn English as a Second Language
By Kevin A. González

Dangers
By Rodney Jones

Dilemma
By David Ignatow

Dio ed Io
By Charles Wright

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

Dreams
By Nikki Giovanni

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
By B. H. Fairchild

Easter Wings
By George Herbert

Eden
By Thomas Traherne

Father and Son
By Delmore Schwartz

Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson

Fields of Learning
By Josephine Miles

Fifteen
By Leslie Monsour

First Job
By Joseph Campana

Firstborn
By Kurt S. Olsson

For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman
By Miller Williams

from Four Good Things
By James McMichael

Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Girl in a Library
By Gail Mazur

Girlhood
By Jonathan Galassi

Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
By Hilaire Belloc

Golden State
By Frank Bidart

History of My Heart
By Robert Pinsky

Horses
By Wendell Berry

Howl
By Allen Ginsberg

If—
By Rudyard Kipling

In
By Andrew Hudgins

in Just-
By E. E. Cummings

Latin
By Herbert Morris

Legacies
By Nikki Giovanni

Library
By Brian Culhane

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
By William Wordsworth

Lusty Youth should us ensue
By Henry VIII, king of England

Maturity
By Philip Larkin

Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Mothers
By Nikki Giovanni

Mrs. Hill
By B. H. Fairchild

Mrs. Krikorian
By Sharon Olds

My Father Photographed With Friends
By William Bronk

My Old Idols
By J. D. McClatchy

Negotiation
By Lisa Olstein

Nikki-Rosa
By Nikki Giovanni

Normalization
By Czeslaw Milosz

North of Childhood
By Jonathan Galassi

Nostalgia of the Lakefronts
By Donald Justice

Not That It Could Be Finished
By Ann Lauterbach

Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
By Thomas Gray

On Being Twenty-six
By Philip Larkin

Opals
By Robin Becker

from Oracles for Youth
By Caroline Gilman

Out
By Andrew Hudgins

Palais des Artes
By Louise Glück

Parents
By Robert Wrigley

Parts of a Story
By Mary Walker Graham

Passtime with good company
By Henry VIII, king of England

Pity
By Camille T. Dungy

Playroom
By Mary Barnard

Poem for Christian, My Student
By Gail Mazur

Poem in October
By Dylan Thomas

Port of Aerial Embarkation
By John Ciardi

Prodigal
By Bob Hicok

Quaker Meeting, The Sixties
By Robin Becker

Rite of Passage
By Sharon Olds

Royalty
By Lianne Spidel

Salvation
By James Kimbrell

Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull
By Hilaire Belloc

Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children
By John Updike

Séverine in Summer School
By Rex Wilder

Seniors
By Alberto Ríos

Shawl
By Albert Goldbarth

Sidewalk Games
By Colleen J. McElroy

Sin (I)
By George Herbert

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

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Slam, Dunk, & Hook
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Song: I prithee spare me gentle boy
By Sir John Suckling

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

Spring and Fall
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
By Jonathan Swift

Street Boy
By J. Allyn Rosser

Subject To Change
By Marilyn Taylor

Suburban Pastoral
By Dave Lucas

Tam O 'Shanter
By Robert Burns

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

The Abandoned Farm
By Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert

The Age of Dinosaurs
By James Scruton

The Ancient World
By Mark Doty

The Beggars
By Margaret Widdemer

The Corner Grocery Store
By Walter McDonald

The Ditch
By Michael Ryan

The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück

The Father
By Ronald Ross

The Fearful Child
By Carol Frost

The Gaffe
By C. K. Williams

The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds

The Gift
By Richard Emil Braun

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Human Seasons
By John Keats

The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos

The Men
By B. H. Fairchild

The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch

The Month of June: 13 1/2
By Sharon Olds

The Old Front Gate
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Poet at Seventeen
By Larry Levis

from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
By William Wordsworth

The Problem of Fiction
By Marie Ponsot

The Prodigal Son
By James Weldon Johnson

The Proximate Shore
By John Koethe

The School Where I Studied
By Yehuda Amichai

The Testing-Tree
By Stanley Kunitz

The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
By Bernadette Mayer

Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes

They shut me up in Prose – (445)
By Emily Dickinson

Those Winter Sundays
By Robert E. Hayden

To an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman

To My Brother
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

To My Father's Business
By Kenneth Koch

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

Translation
By Deirdre O'Connor

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Twenty-third
By Christina Pugh

Washington Square
By Frederick Morgan

Wax Lips
By Cynthia Rylant

Webs and Weeds
By Colleen J. McElroy

Weighing In
By Rhina P. Espaillat

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What Is Impossible
By A. F. Moritz

When I Was One-and-Twenty
By A. E. Housman

Yellow Dog Café
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Young Love
By Andrew Marvell

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