There are 329 Poems about Companionship

Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker

(“Leave off your works, bride...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

(“Come as you are...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

1851: A Message to Denmark Hill
By Richard Howard

2212 West Flower Street
By Michael Collier

50-50
By Langston Hughes

III Mon. May [1734] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

XI Mon. January [1733] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

from A Ballad Upon A Wedding
By Sir John Suckling

A Disappointment
By Joanna Baillie

A Favor of Love
By Molly Peacock

A Lecture upon the Shadow
By John Donne

A Locked House
By W. D. Snodgrass

A Love Letter to My Wife
By Henri Coulette

A Marriage
By Robert Creeley

A Marriage in the Dolomites
By D. Nurkse

A Marriage Poem
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

A Maul for Bill and Cindy’s Wedding
By Gary Snyder

A Report to an Academy
By Joel Brouwer

A Tenth Anniversary Photograph, 1952
By Miller Williams

A Time Past
By Denise Levertov

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne

A Valediction: of Weeping
By John Donne

A Wedding
By James Tate

Abundance
By John Ciardi

Accidents of Birth
By William Meredith

Acting
By R. S. Thomas

Adam & Eve, Ltd.
By Henri Coulette

Affirmation
By Donald Hall

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell

Air and Angels
By John Donne

Al Croom
By Walter McDonald

Alpine Wedding
By Ralph Angel

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

An American Affair
By Henri Coulette

An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin

Anniversaries
By Thomas McGrath

Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
By A.E. Stallings

As
By Paul Muldoon

As Children Together
By Carolyn Forché

As You Both Shall Live
By Miller Williams

Asking About You
By Eloise Klein Healy

At Darien Bridge
By James L. Dickey

At Dauphin Island, 1997
By Wilmer Mills

Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot

Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet

Better Late than Never
By Bin Ramke

Black Valentine
By Tess Gallagher

Boleros 14
By Jay Wright

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats

Burning Trash
By John Updike

Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Carrie Leigh’s Hugh Hefner Haikus
By Lynn Crosbie

Cave Dwellers
By A. Poulin

Celebration for June 24
By Thomas McGrath

Chance Meeting
By Susan Browne

Choice
By J. V. Cunningham

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Colors passing through us
By Marge Piercy

Coming to This
By Mark Strand

Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

Credo
By Matthew Rohrer

Crossing the Square
By Grace Schulman

Cuckoldom
By BJ Ward

Days of '74
By Mark Jarman

Dear One Absent This Long While
By Lisa Olstein

Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

from Doctor Drink, #1
By J. V. Cunningham

Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland

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

Dora Williams
By Edgar Lee Masters

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

Drift
By Brenda Shaughnessy

During a War
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
By Victoria Chang

Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne

Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
By John Crowe Ransom

from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Epithalament
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Epithalamion
By Edmund Spenser

Epithalamion
By David Jones

Eros of Heroines
By Ange Mlinko

Everything Good between Men and Women
By C. D. Wright

Exclusion
By Emily Dickinson

Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Fate
By Carolyn Wells

Finale
By Pablo Neruda

Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
By William Meredith

For Love
By Robert Creeley

For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen
By Hart Crane

Fruit-gathering LV
By Rabindranath Tagore

Going Back to Bed
By J. D. McClatchy

Good Husbands Make Unhappy Wives
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Handsel
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Happiness
By Susan Griffin

Happy Hour
By Alan Shapiro

Having a Coke with You
By Frank O'Hara

Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
By John Donne

Homeland of the Foreign Tongue
By Scott Cairns

Honorary Jew
By John Repp

Horse
By Louise Glück

How Things Fall
By Kevin Stein

I Call Her My Jungle Gardenia
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
By Howard Nemerov

I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady

Idylls of the King: Song from The Marriage of Geraint
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If Ever There Was One
By Miller Williams

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 131
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

in the Catskills again
By Dick Lourie

In the House of the Latin Professor
By B. H. Fairchild

In the Park
By John Koethe

In Time
By W. S. Merwin

Incubus
By Craig Arnold

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Jack
By Carl Sandburg

Jacob
By Phoebe Cary

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

Jewel Box
By Eamon Grennan

Juggling Jerry
By George Meredith

Katie
By Henry Timrod

Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major

Laodamia
By William Wordsworth

Last May a Braw Wooer
By Robert Burns

Late at Night in Bed
By Gregory Djanikian

Late, Late, so Late
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Light Thickens
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Litany
By Billy Collins

Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love and a Question
By Robert Frost

Love Explained
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Love for a Hand
By Karl Shapiro

Love Letters
By Lynn Crosbie

Love Song for Alex, 1979
By Margaret Walker

Love Song: I and Thou
By Alan Dugan

Love Worn
By Lita Hooper

Love's Alchemy
By John Donne

Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love's Deity
By John Donne

Lovers' Infiniteness
By John Donne

Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters

Marriage
By Marianne Moore

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

Marrying the Hangman
By Margaret Atwood

martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935
By Tyehimba Jess

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Matinee
By Patrick Phillips

Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass

Michiko Dead
By Jack Gilbert

Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan

Morning After
By Langston Hughes

Most Like an Arch This Marriage
By John Ciardi

Movement Song
By Audre Lorde

Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

My Father’s Wedding
By Robert Bly

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

My Life
By Mark Strand

My Second Marriage To My First Husband
By Alice Fulton

Negotiation
By Lisa Olstein

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

Northern Farmer: New Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

O Canada
By Thomas P. Lynch

Ode to his Wife (Written in Patna, 1784)
By Warren Hastings

Old Couple
By Charles Simic

Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro

Older Love
By Jim Harrison

On Marriage
By Meghan O'Rourke

Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life
By Mark Strand

Parable of the Swans
By Louise Glück

Passing Remark
By William E. Stafford

Passing Through
By Stanley Kunitz

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Penumbra
By Amy Lowell

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Pity
By Camille T. Dungy

Politics
By William Meredith

Portrait from the Infantry
By Alan Dugan

Prayer
By Alan Dugan

Probation
By Averill Curdy

Prothalamion
By Edmund Spenser

Prothalamion
By Michael Ryan

Prothalamion
By David Jones

Psychoanalysis of Water
By Forrest Gander

Queer People
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Quest of the Prell
By J. Allyn Rosser

Question for the Bride
By David Rivard

Recitative
By A.E. Stallings

Retrospect
By Arthur Conan Doyle

River Road
By Stanley Kunitz

Romance of a Youngest Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom

Romantic
By Dara Wier

Romanticism
By David Baker

Running Away Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Sapphics Against Anger
By Timothy Steele

Sarah Brown
By Edgar Lee Masters

Separation at Burnt Island
By D. Nurkse

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Silent Music
By Floyd Skloot

Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Song & Error
By Averill Curdy

Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine)
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Song of Napalm
By Bruce Weigl

Song: Sweetest love, I do not go
By John Donne

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

Sonnet Reversed
By Rupert Brooke

Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint
By John Milton

Sonnets from the Portuguese 35: If I Leave all for thee
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I Love thee? Let me Count the Ways
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 6: Go from me
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Stranger at the Ashwood Threshold
By Sherod Santos

Sugar Dada
By J. Allyn Rosser

Superbly Situated
By Robert Hershon

Taking Notice
By Marilyn Hacker

Territories
By Gregory Djanikian

The Ache of Marriage
By Denise Levertov

The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
By Howard Nemerov

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
By Anne Sexton

The Bean Eaters
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Blue Booby
By James Tate

The Blue Robe
By Wendell Berry

The Bride
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Canonization
By John Donne

The circle game
By Margaret Atwood

The Cloister
By William Matthews

The Cotter's Saturday Night
By Robert Burns

The Country of Marriage
By Wendell Berry

The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Ecstasy
By John Donne

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The Flea
By John Donne

The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Illiterate
By William Meredith

The Indifferent
By John Donne

The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski

The Lady's Yes
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos

The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass
By Michael S. Harper

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell

The Man Who Married Magdalene
By Louis Simpson

The Marriage
By Henri Coulette

The Marriage
By Mark Strand

The Metaphysical Amorist
By J. V. Cunningham

The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Obligation to Be Happy
By Linda Pastan

The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Package
By Rodney Jones

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe

The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos

The Princess: As thro' the Land
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Promise
By Sharon Olds

The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück

The Relic
By John Donne

The Revelation
By Coventry Patmore

The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound

The Road
By Herbert Morris

The Sensible Girlfriend
By Terry Wolverton

The Ship Pounding
By Donald Hall

The Shipfitter’s Wife
By Dorianne Laux

The Shipman's Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Simulacra
By D. Nurkse

The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Sun Rising
By John Donne

The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov

The Wedding Vow
By Sharon Olds

The Whitsun Weddings
By Philip Larkin

The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
By William Carlos Williams

The Widower’s Courtship
By Elizabeth Hands

The Wife
By Marjorie Pickthall

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife Speaks
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

The Wounded Bullfighter
By Clarence Major

They
By Wendell Berry

They are hostile nations
By Margaret Atwood

They eat out
By Margaret Atwood

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

To a Husband
By Amy Lowell

To a Wedding
By William Logan

To Mary
By William Cowper

To My Daughter On Being Separated from Her on Her Marriage
By Anne Hunter

To My Dear and Loving Husband
By Anne Bradstreet

To My Wife
By J. V. Cunningham

To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday
By Wendell Berry

To the Ladies
By Lady Mary Chudleigh

Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Together
By R. S. Thomas

Togetherness
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

Tree Marriage
By William Meredith

Triolet
By Sandra McPherson

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book I
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book II
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

True Love
By Sharon Olds

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Twenty-year Marriage
By Ai

Two in August
By John Crowe Ransom

Two Portraits
By Henry Timrod

Uncouplings
By Craig Arnold

Untitled Poem [“Why feel guilty because the death of a lover causes lust?”]
By Alan Dugan

Vandergast and the Girl
By Louis Simpson

Venetian Candy
By John Updike

Wallpapering
By Sue Ellen Thompson

Warm Summer Sun
By Mark Twain

Wedding Dress
By Michael Waters

When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue
By William Shakespeare

When You Are Old
By William Butler Yeats

Wild Peaches
By Elinor Wylie

Win-Win
By Ange Mlinko

Windchime
By Tony Hoagland

Words for a Young Widow in Maine
By Norman Williams

Work
By Sherod Santos

You Love, You Wonder
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun

Young Woman
By Howard Nemerov

Zeus to Juno
By Fiona Sampson

Zucchini Shofar
By Sarah Lindsay

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

[I married]
By Lorine Niedecker