There are 2886 Poems about Cycle of Life
= First appeared in Poetry magazine. Old Prairie House Between Tulsa
and Bartlesville on US 75
By Diane Glancy
Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker
"Fire and Sleet and Candle-Light" 
By Elinor Wylie
"It is the living who cannot"
By Hilda Morley
"Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust"
By Sir Philip Sidney
"Love of My Flesh, Living Death"
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
"Of": An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
"Rise up, rise up"
By Hilda Morley
"Wreck" and "rise above" 
By Eleanor Wilner
Étude Réaliste
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Birds small enough...” 
By Donald Revell
“Unreal precision of the houses...” 
By Donald Revell
‘One morn I left him in his bed’
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard
'Mid my Gold-brown Curls
By George Eliot
'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
(“Leave off your works, bride...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
(“Amidst the rush and roar of life...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
(“Come as you are...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
(“O you mad, you superbly drunk!...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
1851: A Message to Denmark Hill
By Richard Howard
1914 II. Safety
By Rupert Brooke
1914 IV. The Dead
By Rupert Brooke
1994
By Lucille Clifton
2212 West Flower Street
By Michael Collier
30th Birthday
By Alice Notley
35/10
By Sharon Olds
50-50
By Langston Hughes
III Mon. May [1734] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin
Song of Myself: 36
By Walt Whitman
V Mon. July [1747] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin
VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster
What is this about losing respect?
By Mark Rudman
X Mon. December [1744] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin
XI Mon. January [1733] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin
A Ballad of Burdens
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Ballad of Death
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
from A Ballad Upon A Wedding
By Sir John Suckling
A Barefoot Boy
By James Whitcomb Riley
A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti
A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky
By Lewis Carroll
A Burnt Ship
By John Donne
A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
By Ben Jonson
A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953
By Wyatt Prunty
A Cooking Egg
By T. S. Eliot
A Country Boy in Winter
By Sarah Orne Jewett
A Cure at Porlock
By Amy Clampitt
A Daughter of Eve
By Christina Rossetti
A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda
By Andrew Marvell
A Dirge 
By Thomas James Merton
A Dirge
By Felicia Dorothea Hemans
A Disappointment
By Joanna Baillie
A Dog's Life 
By Daniel Groves
A Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe
A Fable
By Louise Glück
A Favor of Love
By Molly Peacock
A Felicitous Life
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Few Rules for Beginners
By Katherine Mansfield
A Finished Man
By Richard Wilbur
A Good Fish 
By Derek Sheffield
A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning
A Hairline Fracture
By Amy Clampitt
A Happy Childhood
By William Matthews
A Hermit Thrush
By Amy Clampitt
A Hymn to Childhood
By Li-Young Lee
A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne
A January Dandelion
By George Marion McClellan
A Kind of Villanelle
By Joyce Sutphen
A Lament
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Lecture upon the Shadow
By John Donne
A Lesson in Geography
By Kenneth Rexroth
A Letter to Yvor Winters
By Kenneth Rexroth
A Local Doc, over Rocky Lunchtime Bourbon, Speaks of Barter and Hopeful Home Remedies
By R. T. Smith
A Locked House
By W. D. Snodgrass
A Love Letter to My Wife
By Henri Coulette
A Lyric of the Dawn
By Edwin Markham
A Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving
By Alberto Ríos
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 Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead 
By Kenneth Koch
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
By Joanna Baillie
A Muse of Water 
By Carolyn Kizer
A Name for All
By Hart Crane
A New York Child’s Garden of Verses
By Franklin Pierce Adams
A Newly Discovered ‘Homeric’ Hymn
By Charles Olson
A Night-Piece on Death
By Thomas Parnell
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack
By James Wright
A Note on My Son’s Face
By Toi Derricotte
A Note to La Fontaine
By Jean Garrigue
A Pastoral
By Agha Shahid Ali
A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary
By Gwendolyn Brooks
A Phonecall from Frank O’Hara
By Anne Waldman
A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan
A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
By Jupiter Hammon
A Poem for the Cruel Majority
By Jerome Rothenberg
A Poem Without a Single Bird in It
By Jack Spicer
A Poet to His Baby Son
By James Weldon Johnson
A Poet’s Death
By David Trinidad
A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Postcard from the Volcano
By Wallace Stevens
A Prayer for My Daughter 
By William Butler Yeats
A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys
By Francis Jammes
A Private Matter
By Carol Muske-Dukes
A Real-Life Drama
By Michael Collier
A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
A Reminiscence
By Anne Brontë
A Report to an Academy 
By Joel Brouwer
A Request
By Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Reverie
By Joanna Baillie
A Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser
A Route of Evanescence, (1489)
By Emily Dickinson
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
By Jonathan Swift
A Saxon Epitaph
By Marjorie Pickthall
A Secret Gratitude
By James Wright
A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Serenade at the Villa
By Robert Browning
A Short History of the Shadow
By Charles Wright
A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XII: When I watch the living meet
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXVI: Along the field as we came by
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXXI: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXXV: On the idle hill of summer
By A. E. Housman
A Sister on the Tracks
By Donald Hall
A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
By William Wordsworth
A Small Motor
By Alberto Ríos
A Song
By Helen Maria Williams
A Song from the Italian from Limberham: or, the Kind Keeper
By John Dryden
a song in the front yard
By Gwendolyn Brooks
A Song: When June is past, the fading rose
By Thomas Carew
A Story
By Colette Inez
A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks
A Tale
By Louise Bogan
A Tenth Anniversary Photograph, 1952
By Miller Williams
A Thought of the Nile
By Leigh Hunt
A Thousand Birds
By Hilda Morley
A Time Past
By Denise Levertov
A toad can die of light!
By Emily Dickinson
A Toccata of Galuppi's
By Robert Browning
A Tree Planted
By Hilda Morley
A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats 
By John Ciardi
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne
A Valediction: of Weeping
By John Donne
A View of the Sea
By J. D. McClatchy
A Virginal
By Ezra Pound
A Visit
By Tom Sleigh
A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clarke Moore
A Wedding
By James Tate
A Week Before Christmas 
By Ioanna Carlsen
A Winter Visit
By Dannie Abse
A World of Light
By John Reibetanz
A World to Do
By Theodore Weiss
A Youth Mowing
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Aaron
By George Herbert
About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
By Charles Bukowski
About Patti Boyd and Me
By Eleanor Lerman
Abraham Lincoln
By Abraham Lincoln
Abundance
By John Ciardi
Acceptance Speech
By Dean Young
Accidents of Birth
By William Meredith
Account
By Czeslaw Milosz
Acquainted with the Night
By Robert Frost
Across a Table
By Steven Cordova
Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett
Acts of Vexation
By Pam Rehm
Adam
By Federico García Lorca
Adam & Eve, Ltd.
By Henri Coulette
Addiction
By A. F. Moritz
Adding It Up
By Philip Booth
Adolescence-II
By Rita Dove
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Advertisement
By Wislawa Szymborska
Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur
Advice to a Writer Imagining Conception and Birth
By Colette Inez
Ae Fond Kiss
By Robert Burns
Affirmation
By Donald Hall
After Apple Picking
By Robert Frost
After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
By Emily Dickinson
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell
After One
By Tom Sleigh
After Su Tung P'o
By Heather McHugh
After Summer Fell Apart
By Yusef Komunyakaa
After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass
After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins
Against Nature
By Richard Emil Braun
Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell
Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching
By Charles Simic
Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo
Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid
By Elizabeth I
Air and Angels
By John Donne
Al Croom
By Walter McDonald
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
By Martín Espada
Alas, Kind Element!
By Léonie Adams
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alcohol
By Franz Wright
Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden
All My Pretty Ones
By Anne Sexton
All Reason and No Rhyme
By Joyce Sutphen
All the Dead Soldiers 
By Thomas McGrath
All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt
Along with Youth
By Ernest M. Hemingway
Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy
America
By Tony Hoagland
American Future 
By Peter Bethanis
American History
By Michael S. Harper
Amor Mundi
By Christina Rossetti
Amor Vincit Omnia
By Edgar Bowers
Amoretti LXXIX: Men Call you Fair
By Edmund Spenser
Amusing Our Daughters
By Carolyn Kizer
An “If” for Girls
By Elizabeth Lincoln Otis
An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan
An Afternoon at the Beach 
By Edgar Bowers
An Altogether Different Language
By Anne Porter
An American Affair
By Henri Coulette
An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne
An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi
An Arbor 
By Linda Gregerson
An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin
An Autograph
By John Greenleaf Whittier
An Elegy for Five Old Ladies
By Thomas James Merton
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne
By Thomas Carew
An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi
An Epitaph on S.P.
By Ben Jonson
from An Explanation of America: A Love of Death
By Robert Pinsky
An Instrument Also
By Donald Revell
An Offering
By John Reibetanz
An Old Malediction
By Anthony Hecht
An Old Man on the River Bank
By George Seferis
An Owl
By David Bottoms
An Unknown Friend
By Richard Emil Braun
An Urban Convalescence
By James Merrill
Ancestral
By Archibald MacLeish
And as in Alice 
By Mary Jo Bang
And If I Did, What Then?
By George Gascoigne
And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
And Soul
By Eavan Boland
And Still It Comes
By Thomas Lux
And the Grass Did Grow 
By Ralph Angel
And Then I Saw
By Alfred Corn
And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair
By Byron
And Wilt thou Leave me Thus?
By Thomas Wyatt
And You?
By R. S. Thomas
Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning
Androgyne, Mon Amour
By Tennessee Williams
Angels
By B. H. Fairchild
Animal Graves
By Chase Twichell
Anna Maria Is Coming, or Maybe Thomas Barton, or Max!
By Hilda Raz
Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Rutledge
By Edgar Lee Masters
Anniversaries
By Thomas McGrath
Annunciation 
By Shirley Kaufman
Another Lullaby for Insomniacs 
By A.E. Stallings
Anthem 
By Susan Hahn
Anthem for Doomed Youth
By Wilfred Owen
Antigua 
By Gary Soto
anyone lived in a pretty how town... 
By E. E. Cummings
Apple and Brute Stone
By Bei Dao
Apprehension
By Hannah F. Gould
Approximately Forever
By C. D. Wright
April Inventory
By W. D. Snodgrass
Ararat 
By Mark Doty
Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape
By Bin Ramke
Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Arion 
By David Wojahn
Arise, Go Down
By Li-Young Lee
Arms and the Boy
By Wilfred Owen
Arrowhead Hunting 
By A.E. Stallings
Arrows
By Tony Hoagland
Art thou pale for weariness
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
As
By Paul Muldoon
As Children Know
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
As Children Together
By Carolyn Forché
As You Both Shall Live
By Miller Williams
As You Came from the Holy Land (attributed)
By Sir Walter Ralegh
Ashes of Life
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Aside
By Karl Shapiro
Asked to Recall a Moment of Pure Happiness
By Mary Kinzie
Aspects of Robinson
By Weldon Kees
Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant 
By Jane Hirshfield
Astronomy Lesson
By Alan Shapiro
Astrophel and Stella XXXIII
By Sir Philip Sidney
At a Country Funeral
By Wendell Berry
At Darien Bridge
By James L. Dickey
At Dauphin Island, 1997 
By Wilmer Mills
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy
At Melville’s Tomb
By Hart Crane
At Night the States
By Alice Notley
At Pegasus
By Terrance Hayes
At Stanley Bay
By Gregory Djanikian
At the Beach 
By Elizabeth Alexander
At the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic
By Gail Mazur
At the Executed Murderer’s Grave 
By James Wright
At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
By Larry Levis
At the Grave of the Fourth Man
By Henri Coulette
At the Moment
By Joyce Sutphen
At the Movie: Virginia, 1956
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
At the San Francisco Airport
By Yvor Winters
At the Sea-Side
By Robert Louis Stevenson
At the Vietnam Memorial 
By George Bilgere
Atlantis
By Mark Doty
Aubade
By Philip Larkin
Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot
Aunt Madelyn At The White Sale
By Alice Fulton
Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Autumn Sky 
By Charles Simic
Autumn Song
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ave Atque Vale
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ave Maria
By Frank O'Hara
Avising the Bright Beams
By Thomas Wyatt
“A father tells his son the thing he regrets most about...”
By Claudia Rankine
“Alone”
By Edgar Allan Poe
“Although the wind ...”
By Izumi Shikibu
“Find Work” 
By Rhina P. Espaillat
“Himself let him unknown contain”
By Tom Clark
“How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school’s sway”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“I have been a stranger in a strange land” 
By Rita Dove
“In Kyoto ...”
By Bashō
“It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It.”
By Anthony Hecht
“Luckies”
By Reginald Gibbons
“No Thank You, I Don’t Care For Artichokes,”
By Sandra M. Gilbert
“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
“Yet, even ’mid merry boyhood’s tricks and scapes”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“Your Luck Is About To Change” 
By Susan Elizabeth Howe
Babies 
By Alice Fulton
Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke
Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
By W. S. Merwin
Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Barking 
By Jim Harrison
Bath
By Stuart Dybek
Bavarian Gentians
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Bears at Raspberry Time
By Hayden Carruth
Beauty
By Tony Hoagland
Because I could not stop for Death – (479)
By Emily Dickinson
Bed in Summer
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Bede's Death Song
By The Venerable Bede
Bedtime Story 
By Charles Wright
Bees and Morning Glories
By John Ciardi
Before Dawn on Bluff Road
By August Kleinzahler
Before I got my eye put out – (336)
By Emily Dickinson
Before the Birth of one of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet
Before the Mirror
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard
Bel Canto 
By Kenneth Koch
Believe It
By John Logan
Belle Isle, 1949
By Philip Levine
Belleau Wood
By Paul Engle
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom
Belly good
By Marge Piercy
Belongings
By Sandra M. Gilbert
Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright
Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters
Bereavement
By William Lisle Bowles
Berkeley in Time of Plague
By Jack Spicer
Bess
By William E. Stafford
Better Days 
By A. F. Moritz
Better Late than Never
By Bin Ramke
Between
By Marie Ponsot
Between Assasinations
By Alan Shapiro
Between Hovers
By Michael Longley
Between the Wars
By Robert Hass
Bewitched Playground
By David Rivard
Beyond Harm 
By Sharon Olds
Beyond the Stars 
By Charles Hanson Towne
Birches
By Robert Frost
Birthday Blues
By Mark Rudman
Bitch 
By Carolyn Kizer
Bitter Suite
By Henri Coulette
Black Mare
By Lynda Hull
Black Soap 
By Sandra McPherson
Black Swan
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Black Valentine
By Tess Gallagher
Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright
Blasting from Heaven
By Philip Levine
Blind Joy
By John Frederick Nims
Bloody Fate
By Miguel Hernández
Blue Juniata 
By Malcolm Cowley
Blue-Crested Cry 
By Jennifer Reeser
Bolero 
By Gerald Stern
Boleros 14
By Jay Wright
Border Crossings
By David Wojahn
Boy and Egg
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Boy and Father
By Carl Sandburg
Braid
By Susan Stewart
Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch
Break, Break, Break
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Breughel 
By Michael Collier
Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats
Broken Promises
By David Kirby
Brother
By Mary Ann Hoberman
Brother and Sister
By George Eliot
Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey
Buckroe, After the Season, 1942
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
Buffalo Bill 's
By E. E. Cummings
Burial Rites
By Philip Levine
Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler
Burning
By Galway Kinnell
Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Burning the Old Year
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Burning Trash
By John Updike
Bus Trip
By Susan Mitchell
Business
By A. F. Moritz
Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown
Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold
Calendar
By Janet Loxley Lewis
Call It Music 
By Philip Levine
Calm Down
By Gregory Orr
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
By Delmore Schwartz
Campo dei Fiori
By Czeslaw Milosz
Cancer and Complaint at Midsummer
By C. Dale Young
Cape Cod
By George Santayana
Capriccio of Roman Ruins
By A. F. Moritz
Captain Carpenter
By John Crowe Ransom
Captivity
By Louise Erdrich
Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson
Carrie Leigh’s Hugh Hefner Haikus
By Lynn Crosbie
Carrying a Ladder 
By Kay Ryan
Cartoon Physics, part 1
By Nick Flynn
Casey at the Bat
By Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson
Cave Dwellers
By A. Poulin
Celebration for June 24 
By Thomas McGrath
Champs d’Honneur
By Ernest M. Hemingway
Chance Meeting
By Susan Browne
Change
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy
Chaplinesque
By Hart Crane
Character of the Happy Warrior
By William Wordsworth
Charles Sumner
By Charlotte L. Forten Grimké
Charon’s Cosmology
By Charles Simic
Che Fece ... Il Gran Refiuto
By C. P. Cavafy
Cherrylog Road
By James L. Dickey
Chester
By John Koethe
Child of a Day
By Walter Savage Landor
Child on the Marsh
By Andrew Hudgins
Child on top of a Greenhouse
By Theodore Roethke
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third
By Byron
Childhood Ideogram
By Larry Levis
Childhood’s Retreat
By Robert Duncan
Choice
By J. V. Cunningham
Chomei at Toyama 
By Basil Bunting
Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
By Toi Derricotte
Cinema Verité
By Bin Ramke
City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz
Clan Meeting: Births and Nations: A Blood Song
By Michael S. Harper
Claribel
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cleaning an Attic 
By Brent Pallas
Cleanliness
By Charles Lamb
Cleon
By Robert Browning
Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth
Close Path
By Mary Kinzie
Clothespins
By Stuart Dybek
Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic
Cloudy Day
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Coda
By Marilyn Hacker
Cold Blooded Creatures
By Elinor Wylie
Cold Calls: War Music, Continued 
By Christopher Logue
Colors passing through us
By Marge Piercy
Come Up from the Fields Father
By Walt Whitman
Coming and Going 
By Pierre Martory
Coming to This
By Mark Strand
Commemoration
By Samuel Menashe
Comment in Passing
By Janet Loxley Lewis
Complete Destruction
By William Carlos Williams
Conclusion 
By John Frederick Nims
Confessions
By Robert Browning
Consecration 
By Susan Stewart
Consequences
By William Meredith
Consolation
By Matthew Arnold
Consolation
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Constancy
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
from constant change figures
By Lyn Hejinian
Constantinople
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet
Conversation
By Ai
Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz
Cool Tombs
By Carl Sandburg
Cor Cordium
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
CORIKOS 
By Richard Aldington
Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick
Corpus Medicum 
By C. Dale Young
Cortège
By Carl Phillips
Cottage Street, 1953
By Richard Wilbur
Cottonmouth Country
By Louise Glück
Counselors
By Robert Fitzgerald
Count Down 
By Robin Morgan
Country Burial
By Janet Loxley Lewis
Courtesy
By David Ferry
courthouse steps 
By D.A. Powell
Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot
Covenant
By Alan Shapiro
Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch
Cozy Apologia 
By Rita Dove
Credo
By Matthew Rohrer
Crepuscule with Muriel
By Marilyn Hacker
crossing into canaan 
By D.A. Powell
Crossing the Bar
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Crossing the Days 
By James Scruton
Crossing the Square
By Grace Schulman
Crossroads 
By Mary Barnard
Crusoe in England
By Elizabeth Bishop
Cuckoldom 
By BJ Ward
Cultural Stakes; or, How To Learn English as a Second Language
By Kevin A. González
Daily Bread
By John Reibetanz
Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Damon the Mower
By Andrew Marvell
Damp Rot
By John Engels
Damselfly, Trout, Heron
By John Engels
Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
By Diane Wakoski
Dangers
By Rodney Jones
Danny Deever
By Rudyard Kipling
Danse Macabre
By Norman Dubie
Darkness
By Byron
Dawn
By Ella Higginson
Day Room
By Tom Sleigh
Day-Old Bargain
By Hilda Raz
Days
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Days
By Philip Larkin
Days
By Janet Loxley Lewis
Days of '74 
By Mark Jarman
Days of 1964
By James Merrill
Days of 1994: Alexandrians
By Marilyn Hacker
Days of Our Years
By John Frederick Nims
Dead 
By Sarah C. Harwell
Dead Boy
By John Crowe Ransom
Dead Man’s Dump
By Isaac Rosenberg
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
By Michael S. Harper
Dear One Absent This Long While
By Lisa Olstein
Death
By Bill Knott
Death Is Not As Natural As You Fags Seem to Think
By Amiri Baraka
Death of an Infant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Death Snips Proud Men
By Carl Sandburg
Death the Mexican Revolutionary 
By Anthony Hecht
Death, in a bull's pelt
By Miguel Hernández
Deathfugue
By Paul Celan
Debridement
By Michael S. Harper
Debt 
By Sara Teasdale
December, 1919
By Claude McKay
Decline and Fall 
By John Frederick Nims
Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams
Defeated
By Sophie Jewett
Dejection
By David Baker
Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Deliberate
By Amy Uyematsu
Departure
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Depending on the Wind
By James Galvin
Depression
By Henry Carlile
Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser
Descending Theology: The Resurrection 
By Mary Karr
Destiny
By Sophie Jewett
Detroit, Tomorrow 
By Philip Levine
Digging in a Footlocker
By Walter McDonald
Dilemma
By David Ignatow
Dio ed Io 
By Charles Wright
Dirge at the Edge of Woods
By Léonie Adams
Dirge in Woods
By George Meredith
Disappointment
By August Kleinzahler
Discontents in Devon
By Robert Herrick
Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke
Disdain Returned
By Thomas Carew
Dismantling the House 
By Stephen Dunn
Do Not!
By Stevie Smith
Do You Love Me? 
By Robert Wrigley
Dockery and Son
By Philip Larkin
from Doctor Drink, #1
By J. V. Cunningham
Dog Biscuits
By Chase Twichell
Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
By Delmore Schwartz
Domes 
By John Koethe
Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland
Don Juan: Canto the First
By Byron
Don Juan: Canto the Fourth
By Byron
Don Juan: Canto the Twelfth
By Byron
Done
By Michelle Boisseau
Doot Dah Do
By Diane Glancy
Dora Williams
By Edgar Lee Masters
Double Elegy
By Michael S. Harper
Double Rainbow
By James Galvin
Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold
Dragging the Lake
By Thomas James
Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass
Drawings: For John Who Said to Write about True Love
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Dream Song 14
By John Berryman
Dreams
By Nikki Giovanni
Dreams of My Father
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Dressing My Daughters
By Mark Jarman
Drift
By Mary Kinzie
Drift
By Brenda Shaughnessy
Drill
By Michael Collier
Drizzle 
By William Matthews
Dropping the euphemism
By Bob Hicok
Drowning in Wheat
By John Kinsella
Duke
By Bob Hicok
Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen
During a War
By Naomi Shihab Nye
During the Service 
By Carrie Grabo
During the War
By Philip Levine
Duties of the Spirit
By Patricia Fargnoli
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
By Walter Savage Landor
from Each in a Place Apart
By James McMichael
Early Cascade 
By Lucia Perillo
Early June Meditation at Lakeside
By Colette Inez
Early Morning in Milwaukee
By John Koethe
Early Morning, Left-Handed
By Hilda Raz
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
By B. H. Fairchild
Easter in Pittsburgh 
By James Laughlin
Easter Wings
By George Herbert
Eating the Pig
By Donald Hall
Eating Together
By Li-Young Lee
Ebb
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Eclipsed
By Richard Meier
Eclogue
By John Crowe Ransom
Eden
By Thomas Traherne
Edge
By Sylvia Plath
Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room 
By Victoria Chang
Eight O'Clock
By Sara Teasdale
Eight Variations
By Weldon Kees
Electrocuting an Elephant
By George Bradley
Elegance
By Linda Gregg
Elegy
By Miguel Hernández
Elegy
By Anne Stevenson
Elegy 
By Pierre Martory
Elegy 1969
By Mark Strand
Elegy Asking That It Be the Last
By Norman Dubie
Elegy for Jane
By Theodore Roethke
from Elegy for My Sister
By Sherod Santos
Elegy for Peter
By Bruce Weigl
Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne
Elegy of Fortinbras
By Zbigniew Herbert
Elegy on Toy Piano 
By Dean Young
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
By Alexander Pope
Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne
Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It 
By Larry Levis
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
By Thomas Gray
Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By Mark Jarman
Eleventh Song
By Sir Philip Sidney
Ellen West
By Frank Bidart
Elms
By Louise Glück
Eloisa to Abelard
By Alexander Pope
Elusive Time
By James Laughlin
Embalming
By Scott Cairns
Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
By John Crowe Ransom
Emplumada
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Encounter
By Czeslaw Milosz
End of the Comedy 
By Louis Untermeyer
End of Winter
By Louise Glück
Endangered Species
By Eamon Grennan
Enow
By Henri Coulette
Ephemeroptera 
By Miriam Vermilya
Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson
Epilogue
By Robert Browning
Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Episode in a Library
By Zbigniew Herbert
Epitaph
By Katherine Philips
Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie
Epitaph
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Epitaph for a Romantic Woman
By Louise Bogan
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
By Ben Jonson
Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers
By Thomas Carew
Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died Before
By Aphra Behn
from Epitaphs 
By Abraham Sutzkever
Epithalamion
By Edmund Spenser
Epithalamion
By David Jones
Equinox 
By Elizabeth Alexander
Eros of Heroines 
By Ange Mlinko
Eros Turannos 
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Erotikos Logos
By George Seferis
Errata
By Kevin Young
Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist 
By Karen Craigo
Essay on Psychiatrists
By Robert Pinsky
Eternity
By Tom Clark
Eugenia Todd
By Edgar Lee Masters
Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake
Evening
By Gail Mazur
Ever After 
By Joyce Sutphen
Everything Good between Men and Women
By C. D. Wright
Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke
Evolution
By Jorie Graham
Ex-Basketball Player
By John Updike
Excelsior
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Exclusion
By Emily Dickinson
Exile
By George Elliott Clarke
Exile
By Marjorie Pickthall
Experience
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience
By Edith Wharton
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
By William Wordsworth
Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic
Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate
Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert
Faint Music
By Robert Hass
Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die
By John Dryden
Faith
By David Baker
Faith Healing
By Philip Larkin
Falling
By James L. Dickey
Falling From Us, Vanishings
By Alan Williamson
Family History
By Irving Feldman
Family Reunion
By Maxine W. Kumin
Family Romance
By Larry Levis
Fancy
By John Keats
Farewell Love and all thy Laws for ever
By Thomas Wyatt
Fate
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate
By Carolyn Wells
Father
By Edgar Albert Guest
Father and Son
By Delmore Schwartz
Father Son and Holy Ghost
By Audre Lorde
Father, Where Do the Wild Swans Go? 
By Ludwig Holstein
Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson
Faustine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
By William Shakespeare
February Evening in New York
By Denise Levertov
Feeding Our Ancient Ancestors 
By Pattiann Rogers
Feel Me
By May Swenson
Feeling Fucked Up
By Etheridge Knight
Felix Randal
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Fermanagh Cave
By Sherod Santos
Fever 103° 
By Sylvia Plath
Fie, Pleasure, Fie!
By George Gascoigne
Fields of Learning
By Josephine Miles
Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch 
By Alice Fulton
Fifteen
By Leslie Monsour
Fifteen Epitaphs I
By Louise Imogen Guiney
Final Section from "Eleven Eyes"
By Lyn Hejinian
Finale
By Pablo Neruda
Finis
By Marjorie Pickthall
First Coca-Cola
By Rodney Jones
First Fire
By Camille T. Dungy
First Grade Homework 
By D. Nurkse
First Job 
By Joseph Campana
First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald
Firstborn 
By Kurt S. Olsson
Firstlings
By Louise Imogen Guiney
Fish or Like Fish 
By Joel Brouwer
Fishing 
By A.E. Stallings
Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
By William Meredith
Fleshly Answers
By Rachel Hadas
Flight 
By B. H. Fairchild
Floating Houses
By David Wojahn
Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
By Galway Kinnell
Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Fog
By Mark Doty
Fog Horns 
By David Mason
Follow Thy Fair Sun
By Thomas Campion
Follow Your Saint
By Thomas Campion
Food
By Brenda Hillman
For 1939
By Paul Engle
For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman
By Miller Williams
For a Girl Killed at Sea 
By Calvin Thomas
For a War Memorial
By G. K. Chesterton
For Allen Ginsberg 
By X J Kennedy
For Annie
By Edgar Allan Poe
For Billy
By Jack Spicer
For C.
By Richard Wilbur
For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson
For Futures
By Josephine Miles
For H., Dead in a Car at Thirty-eight
By Michael C. Blumenthal
For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers
For Love 
By Robert Creeley
For Micha's Mother, Who Signs 
By Robert A. Fink
For My Daughter 
By Antonella Anedda
For once, then Something
By Robert Frost
For the Anniversary of My Death
By W. S. Merwin
For the Ex-Wife on the Occasion of Her Birthday
By Thomas P. Lynch
For the Last Wolverine
By James L. Dickey
For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen
By Hart Crane
For the Taking
By Linda Gregerson
For Virginia Chavez
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
For Weeks After the Funeral
By Andrea Hollander Budy
Forecast
By Josephine Miles
Foredoom
By Georgia Douglas Johnson
Forest Children
By Colette Inez
Forever and a Day
By Samuel Menashe
Forever – is composed of Nows – (690)
By Emily Dickinson
Forget not Yet the Tried Intent
By Thomas Wyatt
Forgetfulness 
By Billy Collins
Four and a Half Dancing Men
By Anne Stevenson
Four Fibs
By A.E. Stallings
from Four Good Things
By James McMichael
Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Four Portraits of Fire
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Four Themes on a Variation
By G. E. Murray
Fox Sleep 
By W. S. Merwin
Fragment
By Thomas Hardy
Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment of a Women from Kos
By Susan Mitchell
France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Free Verses 
By Sarah Kirsch
Friday Snow
By Reginald Gibbons
From a Daybook 
By David St. John
From Blossoms
By Li-Young Lee
From the House of Yemanjá
By Audre Lorde
From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren
From This Height
By Tony Hoagland
From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fruit-gathering LV
By Rabindranath Tagore
Full Fadom Fiue Thy Father Lies
By William Shakespeare
Funeral Music
By Geoffrey Hill
Funerals
By James Laughlin
Funny Strange 
By Jennifer Michael Hecht
Gascoigne’s Lullaby
By George Gascoigne
Gathering the Bones Together
By Gregory Orr
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven 
By Vachel Lindsay
Geometry
By Nancy Botkin
George Moses Horton, Myself
By George Moses Horton
Gerontion
By T. S. Eliot
Gethsemane
By Rudyard Kipling
Getting Information Out of Pa
By Anonymous
Getting Used to Your Name
By Marin Sorescu
Ghazal
By Agha Shahid Ali
Ghetto Funeral
By Charles Reznikoff
Ghost Supper
By David Wojahn
Girl in a Library
By Gail Mazur
Girlhood
By Jonathan Galassi
Glass-Bottom Boat
By Elizabeth Spires
Glucose Self-Monitoring
By Katy Giebenhain
Gnomic Verses
By Robert Creeley
Gnostic
By Honor Moore
Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti
God
By Isaac Rosenberg
God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
God’s Acre
By Conrad Aiken
Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
By Hilaire Belloc
Going Back
By Gregory Djanikian
Going Back to Bed
By J. D. McClatchy
Golden State
By Frank Bidart
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne
Good Husbands Make Unhappy Wives
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Good-Bye
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goofer-Dust
By Thomas Lux
Goose
By Richard Emil Braun
Government
By Carl Sandburg
Graceland
By Carl Sandburg
Graciela
By Gary Soto
Grafik
By Juan Felipe Herrera
Grand Central, Track 23
By Elizabeth Skurnick
Granddaughter
By Robinson Jeffers
Grandfather
By Andrei Guruianu
Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
By Lola Haskins
Granny
By James Whitcomb Riley
Granny Scarecrow
By Anne Stevenson
Grass
By Carl Sandburg
Gravepiece 
By Jean Garrigue
Graves
By Hayden Carruth
Gray Weather
By Robinson Jeffers
Greek
By T.R. Hummer
Green Groweth the Holly
By Henry VIII, king of England
Greeting Verses
By A. R. Ammons
Gretel in Darkness
By Louise Glück
Grief Was to Go Out, Away
By Jean Garrigue
Grimalkin
By Thomas P. Lynch
Growing Old
By Matthew Arnold
Grown about by Fragrant Bushes
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Half a hedgehog
By Miroslav Holub
Half Circle 
By Ralph Angel
Halley’s Comet
By Stanley Kunitz
Handle 
By J. Allyn Rosser
Handsel
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Hanging Fire
By Audre Lorde
Hap
By Thomas Hardy
Happiness 
By Jane Kenyon
Happiness
By Susan Griffin
Happy Hour
By Alan Shapiro
Hardware 
By Averill Curdy
Harriet Street
By Carol Frost
Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion
By William Cowper
Havana Birth
By Susan Mitchell
Have You Prayed
By Li-Young Lee
Having a Coke with You
By Frank O'Hara
Having My Cards Read 
By W. S. Di Piero
Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
By William Meredith
He Thinks of His Children
By Hittan of Tayyi
Headstone
By Ragan Fox
Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass
Heaven
By Cathy Song
Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty
Heaven to Be
By Sharon Olds
Heaven, 1963
By Kim Noriega
Hell
By Donald Justice
Her Garden
By Donald Hall
Her my body
By Bob Hicok
here is little Effie’s head
By E. E. Cummings
Here Where Coltrane Is
By Michael S. Harper
Heritage
By Paul Engle
High Windows
By Philip Larkin
Highland Mary
By Robert Burns
Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths
By Sean Nevin
His Stillness
By Sharon Olds
His Wish to God
By Robert Herrick
History of My Heart 
By Robert Pinsky
Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
By John Donne
Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake
Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see
By William Blake
Homage to Buck Cline
By David Bottoms
Home Again Home Again
By A. F. Moritz
Homeland of the Foreign Tongue
By Scott Cairns
Honey Dripper
By Clarence Major
Honorary Jew 
By John Repp
Hope
By Emily Jane Brontë
Hope: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
Horse
By Louise Glück
Horses
By Wendell Berry
Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Hospital parking lot, April 
By Laura Kasischke
Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Hour 
By Reginald Gibbons
Hour-glass
By Marin Sorescu
How Are You Doing?
By Rick Snyder
How It Adds Up
By Tony Hoagland
How It Is
By Maxine W. Kumin
How many times these low feet staggered
By Emily Dickinson
How Things Fall
By Kevin Stein
How Things Work
By Gary Soto
How to Continue
By John Ashbery
How to get RICHES
By Benjamin Franklin
How We Were Introduced
By Zbigniew Herbert
Howl
By Allen Ginsberg
Hugging the Jukebox
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Human Cylinders
By Mina Loy
Human Life
By Tom Clark
Hump
By Irving Feldman
Hunting, Hazards, and Holiness
By Henry Carlile
Hush
By David St. John
Hyacinth
By Louise Glück
Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne
Hymn to Life 
By James Schuyler
Hymn to the Comb-Over
By Wesley McNair
Hyperion
By John Keats
Hypocrite Auteur 
By Archibald MacLeish
Hysteria
By T. S. Eliot
I Abide and Abide and Better Abide
By Thomas Wyatt
I Am Learning To Abandon the World 
By Linda Pastan
I Am the Only Being Whose Doom
By Emily Jane Brontë
I Am!
By John Clare
I Call Her My Jungle Gardenia
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
i can't stay in the same room with that woman for five minutes
By Charles Bukowski
I Close My Eyes
By David Ignatow
I Could Not Tell
By Sharon Olds
I Dreamed That I Was Old
By Stanley Kunitz
I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris
By Louis Simpson
I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t
By Richard Brautigan
I felt a Funeral in my Brain
By Emily Dickinson
I Genitori Perduti
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591)
By Emily Dickinson
I Heard an Angel
By William Blake
I Hid my Love
By John Clare
I Killed a Fly
By David Ignatow
I know that He exists. (365)
By Emily Dickinson
I never hear the word “Escape” (144)
By Emily Dickinson
I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
By Howard Nemerov
I Remember, I Remember
By Thomas Hood
I Saw a Chapel
By William Blake
I Shall not Care
By Sara Teasdale
I Want You to See
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
I was made erect and lone
By Henry David Thoreau
I Will Not Save the World
By Jerome Rothenberg
I Wish I Want I Need
By Gail Mazur
I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
I would I might Forget that I am I
By George Santayana
I’m Here
By Theodore Roethke
I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady
Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea
By Walter Savage Landor
I’ll Open the Window
By Anna Swir
I’m thankful that my life doth not deceive
By Henry David Thoreau
I’uni Kwi Athi? Hiatho.
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Ice 
By Gail Mazur
Ice Child
By John Haines
Ichabod
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Idea LXI
By Michael Drayton
Ideas 
By Kathryn Starbuck
Idylls of the King: Song from The Marriage of Geraint
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
If Ever There Was One
By Miller Williams
If I Had Known
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
If It Should Ever Come
By Edward Dorn
If Love now Reigned as it hath been
By Henry VIII, king of England
If
By Rudyard Kipling
II-The Person That You Were Will Be Replaced
By Alice Notley
Imagined Room
By Barbara Guest
Imagining Their Own Hymns
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Imbiancato
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Immortal Autumn
By Archibald MacLeish
Immortal Sails
By Alfred Noyes
Immortality
By Matthew Arnold
Immortality Ode
By Bruce Smith
Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy
Impossible to Tell
By Robert Pinsky
In
By Andrew Hudgins
In a U-Haul North of Damascus 
By David Bottoms
In Black
By Joyce Sutphen
In Celebration
By Mark Strand
In Celebration of My Uterus
By Anne Sexton
In Her Absence I Created Her Image
By Mahmoud Darwish
in Just-
By E. E. Cummings
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII [all 133 poems]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 105
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 11
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 116
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 118
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 131
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 22
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 27
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 3
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 30
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 39
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 44
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 45
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 5
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 54
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 55
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 7
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 72
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 78
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 82
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 83
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 95
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 99
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: [Prelude]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memorium Mae Noblitt
By A. R. Ammons
In Memorium: Alphonse Campbell Fordham
By Mary Weston Fordham
In Memory of a Child
By Vachel Lindsay
In Memory of Jane Fraser
By Geoffrey Hill
In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn
By Donald Justice
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
In November
By Lisel Mueller
In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned
By James Wright
In School-days
By John Greenleaf Whittier
In Tenebris
By Thomas Hardy
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
By Ted Kooser
In The Black Rock Tavern
By Judith Slater
in the Catskills again
By Dick Lourie
In the Desert
By Stephen Crane
In the Elementary School Choir 
By Gregory Djanikian
In the House of the Latin Professor
By B. H. Fairchild
In the House of Wax
By John Haines
In the Kingdom of Pleasure
By Alan Shapiro
In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
In the Marble Quarry
By James L. Dickey
In the Mushroom Summer
By David Mason
In the Park
By John Koethe
In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
In the Theatre
By Dannie Abse
In the Tree House at Night
By James L. Dickey
In the Valley of Cauteretz
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the Winter of My Thirty-Eighth Year
By W. S. Merwin
In Winter
By Michael Ryan
Incident
By Eamon Grennan
Incubus 
By Craig Arnold
Infant Joy
By William Blake
Infant Sorrow
By William Blake
Infelix
By Adah Isaacs Menken
Infirmity
By Theodore Roethke
Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
By William Wordsworth
Inhibited
By Louis Untermeyer
Innocence
By Thomas Traherne
Insanity
By Calvin Thomas
Insect
By Annie Finch
Insect Life of Florida 
By Lynda Hull
Inside My Head
By Robert Creeley
Insomnia
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Instant Glimpsable Only for an Instant
By Jane Hirshfield
Interesting Times 
By Mark Jarman
Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass
Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren
Into Death Bravely
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
By William Blake
Introit & Fugue 
By D. Nurkse
Irish Prospects
By J. D. McClatchy
Ironing After Midnight
By Marsha Truman Cooper
Irony
By Louis Untermeyer
Is it Possible
By Thomas Wyatt
Isaiah’s Coal
By John Frederick Nims
It Couldn’t Be Done
By Edgar Albert Guest
It Didn’t Begin with Horned Owls
Hooting at Noon
By Kevin Stein
It Follows
By Ruth Stone
It Is Later Than You Think
By Robert W. Service
It Is There
By Babette Deutsch
It was not death, for I stood up
By Emily Dickinson
It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz
τεθνάκην δ’ ολίγω ’πιδεύης φαίνομ’ αλαία
By Allen Ginsberg
Jack
By Carl Sandburg
Jacob
By Phoebe Cary
Janet Waking
By John Crowe Ransom
January 22nd, Missolonghi
By Byron
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster
Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks
jesus knew
By Nick Flynn
Jet
By Tony Hoagland
Jewel Box
By Eamon Grennan
from John Brown's Body: "The years ride out from the world like couriers gone to a throne ..."
By Stephen Vincent Benét
John Lennon
By Mary Jo Salter
John Sutter
By Yvor Winters
Journey to the Place of Ghosts
By Jay Wright
Joy
By Alan Shapiro
Juggling Jerry
By George Meredith
July 4, 1974
By June Jordan
June Twenty, Three Days After
By Miller Williams
Just Having Owed
By Donald Revell
Just Think!
By Robert W. Service
Justice, Come Down
By Minnie Bruce Pratt
Kaddish
By Allen Ginsberg
Katie
By Henry Timrod
Keats
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Killing Chickens
By Bruce Weigl
Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major
Kneeling Down to Peer into a Culvert
By Robert Bly
Knucks
By Carl Sandburg
Kosmos
By Walt Whitman
Kwannon
By Marjorie Pickthall
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
By John Keats
Lady Lazarus
By Sylvia Plath
from Lalla Rookh
By Thomas Moore
Lambert Hutchins
By Edgar Lee Masters
Lament
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lament
By Thom Gunn
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
By Federico García Lorca
Landscape
By Thomas James Merton
Languages
By Carl Sandburg
Laodamia
By William Wordsworth
Large Intestine
By Anna Swir
Largesse
By J. D. McClatchy
Larkinesque 
By Michael Ryan
Last August Hours Before the Year 2000
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Last May a Braw Wooer
By Robert Burns
Last Words to Miriam
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Late at Night in Bed 
By Gregory Djanikian
Late February
By Ted Kooser
Late Night Ode
By J. D. McClatchy
Late Results
By Scott Cairns
Late Ripeness
By Czeslaw Milosz
Late, Late, so Late
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Latin 
By Herbert Morris
Laundry
By Bruce Smith
Le Secret
By Thomas James Merton
Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty
Learning to Talk
By Minnie Bruce Pratt
Leave him now Quiet by the Way
By Trumbull Stickney
Leave-Taking 
By Louise Bogan
Leaving the Island
By Sharon Olds
Legacies
By Nikki Giovanni
Lenox Hill
By Agha Shahid Ali
Les Luths
By Frank O'Hara
Let Evening Come
By Jane Kenyon
Let It Be Forgotten
By Sara Teasdale
Let Me Die on the Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne
Letter from a Distant Land 
By Philip Booth
Letter from the Mountains
By James K. Baxter
Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis
Letter to a Friend about Girls
By Philip Larkin
Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden 
By Major Jackson
Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
By Anne Sexton
Letters from an Institution
By Michael Ryan
Liberty
By Thomas P. Lynch
Library
By Brian Culhane
Life
By Edith Wharton
Life Story
By Tennessee Williams
Light and Dark
By Barbara Howes
Light Thickens 
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
Lightness in Autumn
By Robert Fitzgerald
Like a Scarf
By James Tate
Limbo: Altered States
By Mary Karr
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
By William Wordsworth
Lines for a Prologue
By Archibald MacLeish
Lines for an Album
By Weldon Kees
Lines On My Face
By J. D. McClatchy
Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve
By Carolyn Kizer
Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold
Lines Written Near San Francisco
By Louis Simpson
Lines: The cold earth slept below
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lisa
By David Hernandez
Listening 
By David Ignatow
Litany 
By Billy Collins
Little Brown Baby
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Little Elegy
By Elinor Wylie
Little Father
By Li-Young Lee
Little God Origami 
By Stefi Weisburd
Little Orphant Annie
By James Whitcomb Riley
Little Soul 
By Hadrian
Live Blindly and upon the Hour
By Trumbull Stickney
Living
By C. D. Wright
Locksley Hall
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Loiter
By Forrest Gander
Long Story Short
By G. E. Murray
Long time a child, and still a child, when years
By Hartley Coleridge
Look to the Future
By Ruth Stone
Looking In at Night
By Mary Kinzie
Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur
Losing the Game
By Diane Ackerman
Lost 
By Carl Sandburg
Louisiana Purchase
By Charlie Smith
Louse Hunting
By Isaac Rosenberg
Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love Again
By Philip Larkin
Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning
Love and Death
By Byron
Love and Life: A Song
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Love Explained
By Jennifer Michael Hecht
Love for a Hand
By Karl Shapiro
Love Letters
By Lynn Crosbie
Love Poem
By Miller Williams
Love Poem for an Enemy 
By Richard Katrovas
Love Recidivus 
By Lisa Barnett
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
Love’s Interest 
By Ioanna Carlsen
Lovers' Infiniteness
By John Donne
Luke Havergal
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Lullaby
By John Fuller
Lullaby 
By Amanda Jernigan
Lullaby of an Infant Chief
By Sir Walter Scott
Lullaby of the Onion
By Miguel Hernández
Lusty Youth should us ensue
By Henry VIII, king of England
Lycidas
By John Milton
Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
By Kenneth Rexroth
M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School
By Philip Levine
Madmen 
By Billy Collins
Madre Sofía
By Alberto Ríos
Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass
Makeup 
By Dora Malech
Making Money: Drought Year in Minkler, California
By Gary Soto
Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Man
By George Herbert
Manfred: Incantation
By Byron
Mansion Beach
By Elizabeth Spires
Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro
Map 
By Atsuro Riley
Maple Syrup
By Donald Hall
Marching
By Jim Harrison
Marco Polo at Finisterre 
By Matthew Brenneman
Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters
Mariana
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mariana in the South
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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
Mary Shelley in Brigantine 
By Stephen Dunn
Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Maternal
By Gail Mazur
Maternity
By Robert W. Service
Matinee
By Patrick Phillips
Matisse, Too 
By Alicia Ostriker
Maturity
By Philip Larkin
Maud; A Monodrama (from Part II)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
By Gail Mazur
Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass
Meditation at Sundown
By Frederick Morgan
Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Medusa
By Louise Bogan
Meeting the Mountains
By Gary Snyder
Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass
Memorial Day
By Michael Anania
Memorial Service 
By George Garrett
Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold
Memories of West Street and Lepke
By Robert Lowell
Memory As a Hearing Aid
By Tony Hoagland
Memory at These Speeds
By Jane Miller
Memphis Resurrection
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Men at Forty 
By Donald Justice
Men at My Father’s Funeral
By William Matthews
Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly
Menstruation at Forty
By Anne Sexton
Messenger
By Dave Smith
Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth
Michiko Dead
By Jack Gilbert
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
By Gary Snyder
Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden
Middle-Aged 
By Ezra Pound
Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan
Midstairs
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
Midsummer 
By Robert Fitzgerald
Midwinter
By Sophie Jewett
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
Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Minor Litany
By Stephen Vincent Benét
Minor Poet 
By Bill Sweeney
Mirabeau Bridge
By Guillaume Apollinaire
Mme. Sperides
By Gregory Djanikian
Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney
Mock Orange
By Louise Glück
Modern Love: I
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XVI
By George Meredith
Monet Refuses the Operation
By Lisel Mueller
Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass
Money
By Reginald Gibbons
Money
By Philip Larkin
Monody
By Herman Melville
Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan
from Monologues of the Son of Saul
By John Logan
Montparnasse
By Ernest M. Hemingway
Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party 
By William E. Stafford
Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen
Moonlight: Chickens On The Road
By Robert Wrigley
Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Morality
By Matthew Arnold
More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright
More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate
Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morning After
By Langston Hughes
Morning Song
By Sylvia Plath
Morningside Heights, July
By William Matthews
Mortal shower
By Bob Hicok
Mortal Sorrows 
By Rodney Jones
Morte d'Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Moss
By Bruce Guernsey
Most Like an Arch This Marriage
By John Ciardi
Motet
By Michael Anania
Mother and Child
By Louise Glück
Mother and Child, Body and Soul
By Jean Valentine
Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mother's Closet
By Maxine Scates
Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor
Mother/Child: Coda
By Alicia Ostriker
Motherhood
By May Swenson
Mothers
By Nikki Giovanni
Mountain Dulcimer 
By Robert Morgan
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
By Robert E. Hayden
Movement Song
By Audre Lorde
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell
Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mrs. Adam 
By Kathleen Norris
Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters
Mrs. Hill
By B. H. Fairchild
Mrs. Kessler
By Edgar Lee Masters
Mrs. Krikorian
By Sharon Olds
Muckraker 
By Cate Marvin
mulberry fields
By Lucille Clifton
Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James
Music Swims Back to Me
By Anne Sexton
Musical Moments 
By Dannie Abse
Mutability
By William Wordsworth
Mutability
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mutoscope
By Elizabeth Spires
My Brother, the Artist, at Seven 
By Philip Levine
My Century 
By Alan Feldman
My Daughter at the Gymnastics Party
By David Bottoms
My Father in the Night Commanding No
By Louis Simpson
My Father Photographed With Friends
By William Bronk
My Father’s Wedding
By Robert Bly
My Father's Diary 
By Sharon Olds
My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness
By Thomas Wyatt
My Grave
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow
By Robert Lowell
My Last Dance
By Julia Ward Howe
My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning
My Life
By Mark Strand
My Little Dreams
By Georgia Douglas Johnson
My Lost Youth
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My Lute Awake
By Thomas Wyatt
My Mother's Nipples
By Robert Hass
My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy
My Old Idols
By J. D. McClatchy
My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman
My Papa’s Waltz
By Theodore Roethke
My Picture Left in Scotland
By Ben Jonson
My Raptor
By Annie Finch
My Sad Captains
By Thom Gunn
My Second Marriage To My First Husband 
By Alice Fulton
My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
My skeleton, my rival
By David Ignatow
My Son the Man
By Sharon Olds
My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier
My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold
Narcolepsy
By Ann Lauterbach
Narrative Without People
By Hilda Raz
Natal Command
By Peter Sacks
Native Trees
By W. S. Merwin
Nature
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk
By Sir Walter Ralegh
Near Helikon
By Trumbull Stickney
Necropolitan
By Scott Cairns
Negotiation
By Lisa Olstein
Never Seek to Tell thy Love
By William Blake
Never the Time and the Place
By Robert Browning
Never to Dream of Spiders
By Audre Lorde
New Year
By Bei Dao
New York American Spell, 2001
By Tom Sleigh
Next Day
By Randall Jarrell
Night Ferry
By Peter Sacks
Night Images
By Robert Fitzgerald
Night Thoughts
By Mark Rudman
Nikki-Rosa
By Nikki Giovanni
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 Children, No Pets
By Sue Ellen Thompson
No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë
No One Goes to Paris in August
By Clarence Major
No Postmortems
By Gregory Orr
No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch
No Time 
By Billy Collins
Nocturne
By Dudley Randall
Nogi 
By Harriet Monroe
Nomadology 
By Alissa Leigh
None
By Hayden Carruth
Normalization 
By Czeslaw Milosz
North of Childhood
By Jonathan Galassi
North Point North
By John Koethe
Northern Farmer: New Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Nostalgia
By Billy Collins
Nostalgia and Complaint of the Grandparents
By Donald Justice
Nostalgia of the Lakefronts
By Donald Justice
Not Forgotten
By Toi Derricotte
Not That It Could Be Finished
By Ann Lauterbach
Not to Be Dwelled On 
By Heather McHugh
Not Waving but Drowning
By Stevie Smith
Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith
Nothing But Color
By Ai
Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost
Novelette 
By Adrian Blevins
Now
By Hilda Raz
Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
By Stanley Plumly
Nurture 
By Maxine W. Kumin
O Canada
By Thomas P. Lynch
O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman
O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
By William Shakespeare
O my pa-pa 
By Bob Hicok
Oaxacan Stories
By Deborah Digges
Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Ode
By Henry Timrod
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 Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray
Ode on the Spring
By Thomas Gray
Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market 
By Pablo Neruda
Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats
Ode to his Wife (Written in Patna, 1784)
By Warren Hastings
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd.
By Mark Twain
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
By William Wordsworth
from Odes: 10. Chorus of Furies
By Basil Bunting
from Odes: 15 ["Nothing"]
By Basil Bunting
Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso 
By Donald Revell
of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Of Memory and Distance
By Russell Edson
Of Some Renown
By Jean L. Connor
Of the Last Verses in the Book
By Edmund Waller
Of the Mean and Sure Estate
By Thomas Wyatt
Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne
Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)
By Thomas Moore
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
By Robert Duncan
Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster
Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster
Old Couple
By Charles Simic
Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster
Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro
Old Love and New 
By Sara Teasdale
Old Men Playing Basketball 
By B. H. Fairchild
Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie
Old Toys Come Back 
By Alan Williamson
Old Woman in a Housecoat
By Georgiana Cohen
Older Love
By Jim Harrison
Older, Younger, Both
By Joyce Sutphen
On a Dead Child
By Robert Bridges
On A Moonstruck Gravel Road
By Rodney Torreson
On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane 
By Donald Justice
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 an Old Woman Dying 
By Janet Loxley Lewis
On Being Twenty-six
By Philip Larkin
On Distinction
By A. F. Moritz
On Education
By Elizabeth Bentley
On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me 
By John Ciardi
On Marriage 
By Meghan O'Rourke
On Munsungun 
By Ethan Stebbins
On Quitting
By Edgar Albert Guest
On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper
On Shakespeare
By John Milton
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
By John Keats
On Teaching the Young
By Yvor Winters
On the Birth of a Son 
By Su Tung-Po
On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë
On the Death of Richard West
By Thomas Gray
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
By William Wordsworth
On the Eve of a Birthday 
By Timothy Steele
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
By William Wordsworth
On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
By William Lisle Bowles
On the Gift of a Book to a Child
By Hilaire Belloc
On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper
On the Metro 
By C. K. Williams
On the Preserved Body of an Inca Child Frozen to Death as a Sacrifice to the Sun
By A. F. Moritz
On the Screened Porch 
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
On the Seashore
By Rabindranath Tagore
On The Western Front
By Alfred Noyes
On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes 
By Mary Szybist
Once
By Henri Coulette
One Afternoon 
By Joanie V. Mackowski
One Angel: Palazzo Arian, at San Raffaele Arcangelo 
By Ann Snodgrass
One Art
By Elizabeth Bishop
One Love Story, Eight Takes
By Brenda Shaughnessy
One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker
One Possible Meaning 
By Charlie Smith
One Sung of thee who Left the Tale Untold
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
One With The Sun
By A. F. Moritz
Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Only a Dad
By Edgar Albert Guest
Only Child 
By D. Nurkse
Opals
By Robin Becker
Open, Time
By Louise Imogen Guiney
from Oracles for Youth
By Caroline Gilman
Origin
By Marie Ponsot
Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz
Orpheus in Hell
By Jack Spicer
Osage County Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma
By Diane Glancy
Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem 
By Yvonne Zipter
Our Family Tree
By Joseph Cephas Holly
Our Father
By Irving Feldman
Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life
By Mark Strand
Our Sun
By George Seferis
Our Willie
By Henry Timrod
Out
By Andrew Hudgins
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
By Walt Whitman
Out of Town 
By Piotr Sommer
Ovation
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Over the Roofs 
By Sara Teasdale
Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pa’s Soft Spot
By D. A. Ellsworth
Pacemaker 
By W. D. Snodgrass
Pacific Epitaphs
By Dudley Randall
Palais des Artes
By Louise Glück
Palladium
By Matthew Arnold
Parable of the Swans
By Louise Glück
Parental Recollections
By Charles Lamb
Parents
By Robert Wrigley
Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell
Part Elegy
By Robert Wrigley
Partial Resemblance
By Denise Levertov
Parting Song 
By Jill Alexander Essbaum
Parts of a Story 
By Mary Walker Graham
Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald
Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti
Passing Remark
By William E. Stafford
Passing Through
By Stanley Kunitz
Passtime with good company
By Henry VIII, king of England
Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic
Pastoral
By Bei Dao
Paths 
By John Montague
Patterns
By Amy Lowell
Pauline Is Falling 
By Jean Nordhaus
Peace
By Robert Wrigley
Pediatrics
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Peekaboo: Three Songs for the Nursery
By Anthony Hecht
Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke
Penumbra
By Amy Lowell
People Getting Divorced
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Perhaps
By Hilda Morley
Permanent Press 
By Alice Friman
Perseid
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee
Phases 
By Wallace Stevens
Philomela
By Matthew Arnold
Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968
By Cornelius Eady
Photograph from September 11
By Wislawa Szymborska
Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving
By Clarence Major
Piano
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Piazza Piece
By John Crowe Ransom
Picture of a Nativity
By Geoffrey Hill
Pity
By Camille T. Dungy
Playing Dead 
By Andrew Hudgins
Playroom
By Mary Barnard
Poem for Christian, My Student
By Gail Mazur
Poem for My Twentieth Birthday 
By Kenneth Koch
Politics
By William Meredith
Pomegranates
By Hilda Morley
Poor Old Lady
By Anonymous
Poppies in July
By Sylvia Plath
Poppies in October
By Sylvia Plath
Porphyria's Lover
By Robert Browning
Port of Aerial Embarkation
By John Ciardi
Portrait
By Louise Bogan
Portrait d'une Femme
By Ezra Pound
Portrait from the Infantry
By Alan Dugan
Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot
Posthumous 
By Jean Nordhaus
Postlude 
By William Carlos Williams
Postpartum Blues 
By Elton Glaser
Praise
By Stanley Moss
Praise
By Hilda Morley
Praise to the End!
By Theodore Roethke
Prayer
By Alan Dugan
Prayer
By Jorie Graham
Prayer (I)
By George Herbert
Prayer for an Irish Father
By Norman Williams
Prayer for My Father 
By Robert Bly
Pre-Dialogue, II
By Edmond Jabès
Pre-Text
By Marie Ponsot
Prehistoric 
By Claire Malroux
Preludes
By T. S. Eliot
from Preludes for Memnon
By Conrad Aiken
Preparation
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Preposition
By Sally Van Doren
Priceless Gifts
By Anna Swir
Prisoners
By Denise Levertov
Probation 
By Averill Curdy
Prodigal
By Bob Hicok
Prodigy
By Charles Simic
Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle
Progressive Health 
By Carl Dennis
Promises Are for Liars
By James Galvin
Prospice
By Robert Browning
Prothalamion
By Edmund Spenser
Prothalamion
By Michael Ryan
Prothalamion
By David Jones
Proud Maisie
By Sir Walter Scott
Proust’s Madeleine
By Kenneth Rexroth
Psychoanalysis of Water
By Forrest Gander
Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost
Quaker Meeting, The Sixties
By Robin Becker
from Quatrains: Second Hundred 
By Patrizia Valduga
Queer People
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
Quest
By Georgia Douglas Johnson
Quest of the Prell
By J. Allyn Rosser
Question
By May Swenson
Question for the Bride
By David Rivard
Question [1]
By Langston Hughes
Quickly Aging Here
By Denis Johnson
Rabbi Ben Ezra
By Robert Browning
Rag Rug
By Rachel Hadas
Rain
By Edward Thomas
Rainbow’s End
By Louis Untermeyer
Raking
By Tania Rochelle
Randall Jarrell
By Robert Lowell
Range-finding
By Robert Frost
Reading to the Children
By Herbert Morris
Reasons
By Thomas James
Rebus
By Jane Hirshfield
Recitative 
By A.E. Stallings
Recycling Center
By Brenda Hillman
Red Dust
By Philip Levine
Release
By Adelaide Crapsey
Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Remember
By Christina Rossetti
Remembrance
By Emily Jane Brontë
Requiem
By Bei Dao
Requiem
By Camille T. Dungy
Requiem for the First Half of Split
By Alice Notley
Requiem for the New Year
By Mary Karr
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill
Requiescat
By Matthew Arnold
Resum
By Dorothy Parker
Retirement
By Henry Timrod
Retrospect
By Emily Dickinson
Retrospect
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Return in Autumn
By Paul Engle
Return to Rome
By Stanley Moss
Reuben Bright
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Reunion
By Jeff Daniel Marion
Revelations in the Key of K 
By Mary Karr
Revenge
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
By T. S. Eliot
Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Rider
By Charlie Smith
Ring Out Your Bells
By Sir Philip Sidney
Rite of Passage
By Sharon Olds
from Rites of Passage
By Robert Duncan
River Road
By Stanley Kunitz
Robin Redbreast
By Stanley Kunitz
Robinson at Home
By Weldon Kees
Rock Me to Sleep
By Elizabeth Akers Allen
Romance of a Youngest Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom
Romantic
By Dara Wier
Romanticism
By David Baker
Rondeau
By Leigh Hunt
Rondeau Redoublé (and Scarcely Worth the Trouble, at That)
By Dorothy Parker
Roots 
By John Piller
Rose Aylmer
By Walter Savage Landor
Royalty 
By Lianne Spidel
Rue 
By Samuel Menashe
Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold
Running Away Together
By Maxine W. Kumin
Sad and Alone 
By Maurice Manning
Sad Boy's Sad Boy 
By Charles Bernstein
Sad Steps
By Philip Larkin
Sadness
By Donald Justice
Safari, Rift Valley
By Roy Jacobstein
Safe in their alabaster chambers
By Emily Dickinson
Sailing Home from Rapallo
By Robert Lowell
Sailing to America
By Gregory Djanikian
Sailing to Byzantium
By William Butler Yeats
Salomé
By Ai
Salt and Pepper
By Samuel Menashe
Salvation 
By James Kimbrell
San Sepolcro
By Jorie Graham
Sand Flesh and Sky
By Clarence Major
Santa Lucia
By Robert Hass
Sapphics Against Anger
By Timothy Steele
Sappho
By James Wright
Sarah Brown
By Edgar Lee Masters
Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull
By Hilaire Belloc
Saratoga Ending
By Weldon Kees
Saturday Night
By Alicia Ostriker
Saturday’s Child
By Countee Cullen
Saturn
By Cynthia Zarin
Saving Minutes
By Jonathan Galassi
Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children 
By John Updike
Séverine in Summer School 
By Rex Wilder
Scallop Song
By Anne Waldman
Scary Movies 
By Kim Addonizio
Scavenging the Wall 
By R. T. Smith
Scenes of Childhood 
By James Merrill
School of Flesh 
By Dana Levin
Scrapbook 
By George Scarbrough
Scree
By Alan Shapiro
Scree 
By Heidy Steidlmayer
Sea Urchin 
By J. Allyn Rosser
Searchers 
By D. Nurkse
Seeing It Through 
By Alice Friman
Seele im Raum 
By Randall Jarrell
Seizure
By Lynn Emanuel
Self-Pity
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Self-Portrait
By Robert Creeley
Self-Portrait at 38 
By Jennifer Tonge
Sence You Went Away
By James Weldon Johnson
Seniors
By Alberto Ríos
Separation 
By W. S. Merwin
Separation at Burnt Island 
By D. Nurkse
September Midnight 
By Sara Teasdale
September Song
By Geoffrey Hill
Service
By Trumbull Stickney
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
By Rudyard Kipling
Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman
Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary
Shale
By Anne Stevenson
Shame
By C. K. Williams
Shame 
By Joshua Weiner
Shapes
By Ruth Stone
Shawl
By Albert Goldbarth
She Considers the Dimensions of Her Soul 
By Young Smith
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
By William Wordsworth
Shell 
By Harriet Brown
Sherbourne Morning
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Ships that Pass in the Night
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Shiver & You Have Weather
By Matthea Harvey
Shore Scene
By John Logan
Shy Boy 
By Greg Sellers
Silence 
By Billy Collins
Silence
By Thomas Hood
Silent Film 
By Kurt Brown
Silent Music
By Floyd Skloot
Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman
By William Wordsworth
Simon Says
By Samuel Menashe
Sin (I)
By George Herbert
Since There Is No Escape
By Sara Teasdale
Since ye so Please
By Thomas Wyatt
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
Sire
By W. S. Merwin
Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sitting Outside at the End of Autumn
By Charles Wright
Skin Cancer
By Mark Jarman
Skirts and Slacks
By W. S. Di Piero
Slam, Dunk, & Hook
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Slant
By Suji Kwock Kim
Sleep Cycle
By Dean Young
Sleeping on Fists
By Alberto Ríos
Sloth 
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Small Elegy
By Reginald Gibbons
Small Woman on Swallow Street 
By W. S. Merwin
Smoke 
By Philip Levine
Snakeskin 
By Liz Beasely
Snow Signs
By Charles Tomlinson
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
By John Greenleaf Whittier
So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Byron
Solitude
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Some Boys are Born to Wander
By Walter McDonald
Some Words Inside of Words 
By Richard Wilbur
Something Childish, but Very Natural
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Son of Fog 
By Dean Young
Song
By W. D. Snodgrass
Song
By Sophie Jewett
Song
By Edmund Waller
Song
By Brenda Cárdenas
Song & Error 
By Averill Curdy
Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine)
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song After Campion
By Robert Fitzgerald
Song for the Last Act
By Louise Bogan
Song in a Minor Key
By Dorothy Parker
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
Song of Napalm
By Bruce Weigl
Song of Social Despair
By Marvin Bell
Song of the Little Cripple at the Street Corner 
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring
By John Dryden
Song: I once rejoiced, sweet evening gale...
By Amelia Opie
Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
By William Blake
Song: I prithee spare me gentle boy
By Sir John Suckling
Song: Memory, hither come
By William Blake
Song: My silks and fine array
By William Blake
Song: Out upon it, I have lov’d
By Sir John Suckling
Song: Rarely, rarely, comest thou
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Song: Sweetest love, I do not go
By John Donne
Sonnet
By Robert Hass
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 CXXIX: "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame"
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet for September 27th
By Jack Prelutsky
Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
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 LXVI: Tir'd with all these, for Restful Death
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXI: No Longer Mourn for me when I am Dead
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year thou mayst in me Behold
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXXIV
By Anna Seward
Sonnet Reversed
By Rupert Brooke
Sonnet VII: How soon hath Time, the Subtle Thief of Youth
By John Milton
Sonnet Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
By Charlotte Smith
Sonnet XCII
By Anna Seward
Sonnet XCVII: How like a Winter hath my Absence been
By William Shakespeare
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 XXI: In that time when it seemed the simple weight
By Paul Engle
Sonnet XXII: Her thin cheeks narrowed by November cold
By Paul Engle
Sonnet XXII: To Cyriack Skinner
By John Milton
Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint
By John Milton
Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXX: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXXII: If thou Survive my Well-contented Day
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a Glorious Morning have I Seen
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet. To Tell the Truth
By Alicia Ostriker
Sonnet: Grief Dies
By Henry Timrod
Sonnet: On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
By Charlotte Smith
Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 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
Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate
Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O'er
By Walter Savage Landor
Sorrow
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
sorrow song
By Lucille Clifton
Sorry
By Roddy Lumsden
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #17
By Marvin Bell
Space Station
By Tom Sleigh
Spaces We Leave Empty
By Cathy Song
Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy
By Lewis Carroll
Speckled Trout
By Ron Rash
Speculation
By Ruth Stone
Speed the Parting-
By Elinor Wylie
Spider Tumor
By Michael Collier
Spirits of the Dead
By Edgar Allan Poe
Spree
By Maxine W. Kumin
Spring
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Spring
By Karla Kuskin
Spring A. D.
By George Seferis
Spring and Fall
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring Letter 
By Carl Dennis
Spring Music 
By Frederick Feirstein
Squall
By Stanley Moss
St Vincent’s
By W. S. Merwin
St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte
Stalin's Library Card 
By David Wojahn
Stanzas
By Emily Jane Brontë
Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Starina
By Eleanor Lerman
Stars 
By Alice Friman
State's Attorney Fallas
By Edgar Lee Masters
Stationed 
By Albert Goldbarth
Statue
By Tom Clark
Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
By Jonathan Swift
Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
By Jonathan Swift
Still Water 
By Patricia Fargnoli
Still, Citizen Sparrow
By Richard Wilbur
Stink Eye
By Cathy Song
Stony Limits
By Hugh MacDiarmid
Stowaway
By Stanley Moss
Strange Meeting
By Wilfred Owen
Stranger at the Ashwood Threshold
By Sherod Santos
Strays
By Stanley Plumly
Street Boy 
By J. Allyn Rosser
String Quartet
By Babette Deutsch
Stump 
By Donald Hall
Styx
By Robert Duncan
Subject To Change 
By Marilyn Taylor
Suburban Pastoral 
By Dave Lucas
Success is counted sweetest (112)
By Emily Dickinson
Sudden Light
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sugar Dada 
By J. Allyn Rosser
Suicide's Note
By Langston Hughes
Suitcase Song 
By Albert Goldbarth
Summer
By Conrad Aiken
Sun and Moon
By Jane Kenyon
Sunday Morning 
By Wallace Stevens
Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro
Superbly Situated
By Robert Hershon
Supple Cord
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Suppose
By Phoebe Cary
Supremacy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Surgeons must be very careful (156)
By Emily Dickinson
Survival
By Primus St. John
Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love
By George Eliot
Sweet Machine
By Mark Doty
Sweet Will 
By Philip Levine
Sweetness 
By Stephen Dunn
Swells
By A. R. Ammons
Swifts 
By Gerald Stern
Switchblade
By Michael Ryan
Sylvester’s Dying Bed 
By Langston Hughes
Sympathy of Peoples
By Robert Fitzgerald
Synchronous Chronology
By Alice Notley
Synopsis for a German Novella
By John Fuller
Taking Down the Tree
By Jane Kenyon
Taking Notice
By Marilyn Hacker
Taking Time to Grow
By Mary Mapes Dodge
Talking among Ourselves
By Charlie Smith
Talking Richard Wilson Blues, by Richard Clay Wilson
By Denis Johnson
Tam O 'Shanter
By Robert Burns
Tarantula, or The Dance of Death 
By Anthony Hecht
Tatyana
By Thomas P. Lynch
Tell the Bees 
By Sarah Lindsay
Telling the Bees
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Telling the Bees
By Lizette Woodworth Reese
Temporarily in Oxford
By Anne Stevenson
Ten Moons 
By Sasha Dugdale
Tender Only to One
By Stevie Smith
Terminus
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Terms 
By Kevin Stein
Territories
By Gregory Djanikian
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski
That Child 
By David Wagoner
That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry
That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
That Pull from the Left
By Louise Erdrich
The Abandoned Farm 
By Mary Rose O'Reilley
The Academic Poet
By Henri Coulette
The Ache of Marriage
By Denise Levertov
The Affair
By David Baker
The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert
The Affliction of Richard
By Robert Bridges
The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill 
By Hayden Carruth
The Afternoon Sun
By C. P. Cavafy
The Age of Dinosaurs 
By James Scruton
The Air Base at Châteauroux, France
By Sherod Santos
The Amenities
By Heather McHugh
The Ancient World
By Mark Doty
The Answer
By Bei Dao
The Answering Machine 
By Linda Pastan
The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright
The Apparition
By John Donne
The Apples
By W. S. Di Piero
The Argument
By Jane Kenyon
The Art Room
By Shara McCallum
The Ashes
By Karin Gottshall
The Asians Dying
By W. S. Merwin
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke
The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
By Howard Nemerov
The Awkward Age
By Henri Coulette
The Baby's Dance
By Ann Taylor
The Babysitters
By Sylvia Plath
The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest
The Bad Mother
By Susan Griffin
The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth
The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
By Robert Herrick
The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
By Robert W. Service
The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
By Delmore Schwartz
The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
By Anne Sexton
The Barefoot Boy
By John Greenleaf Whittier
The Batture
By Dara Wier
The Bean Eaters 
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bear
By Galway Kinnell
The Beggars 
By Margaret Widdemer
The Bell from Europe
By Weldon Kees
The Bethlehem Nursing Home
By Rodney Torreson
The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson
The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
By Robert Browning
The Bistro Styx
By Rita Dove
The Bitterness of Children
By Thomas Lux
The Black Angel
By Henri Coulette
The Black Hose
By Bruce Weigl
The Black Swan
By James Merrill
The Blackstone Rangers
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blue Booby 
By James Tate
The Blue Robe
By Wendell Berry
The Blue Scarf
By Amy Lowell
The Boathouse 
By David St. John
The Body
By Frederick Morgan
The Bones of My Father
By Etheridge Knight
The Book of Phillip Sparrow
By John Skelton
The Book of the Dead Man (#15)
By Marvin Bell
The Book of the Dead Man (#3)
By Marvin Bell
The Book of the Deer, the Bear and the Elk
By Henry Carlile
The Book of Thel
By William Blake
The Boston Evening Transcript
By T. S. Eliot
The Bounty
By Derek Walcott
The Breathing Space
By Frederick Morgan
The Bride
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Bridge Builder
By Anonymous
from The Bridge: Atlantis
By Hart Crane
from The Bridge: Indiana
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 Burial of the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall
The Buried Life
By Matthew Arnold
The Burnt Child
By W. S. Merwin
The Bustle in a House (1108)
By Emily Dickinson
The Calm
By John Donne
The Calves Not Chosen
By Linda Gregg
The Campus on the Hill
By W. D. Snodgrass
The Cane-Bottom’d Chair
By William Makepeace Thackeray
The Canonization
By John Donne
The Castaway
By William Cowper
The Cave
By Michael Collier
The Caveman on the Train
By John Frederick Nims
The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández
The Chambered Nautilus
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Chant of the Vultures
By Edwin Markham
The Chariot
By Emily Dickinson
The Child
By Rabindranath Tagore
The Child’s Address to the Kentucky Mummy
By Hannah F. Gould
The Children
By Mark Jarman
The Children of Stare
By Walter De La Mare
The Children's Hour
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake
The Chocolate Infection
By G. E. Murray
The circle game
By Margaret Atwood
The Circuit Judge
By Edgar Lee Masters
The City
By C. P. Cavafy
The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War
By James Doyle
The Cloister
By William Matthews
The Closet
By Bill Knott
The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Cold Heaven
By William Butler Yeats
The Collar
By George Herbert
The Complaint of Lisa
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Complaint: or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
By Edward Young
The Constant Voice
By John Koethe
The Conversation in the Drawing Room
By Weldon Kees
The Corn Baby 
By Mark Wunderlich
The Corner Grocery Store
By Walter McDonald
The Cotter's Saturday Night
By Robert Burns
The Country of Marriage
By Wendell Berry
The County Jail
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
The Courtesy
By Alan Shapiro
The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service
The Cross of Snow
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Cruel Mother
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
The Crystal Lithium
By James Schuyler
The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth
The Cut
By Ann Taylor
The Day Before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959
By Thylias Moss
The Day is Done
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara
The Days Gone By
By James Whitcomb Riley
The Dead 
By Don Paterson
The Dead Man Walking
By Thomas Hardy
The Dead Never Fight Against Anything
By Pattiann Rogers
The Death of a Toad 
By Richard Wilbur
The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost
The Deathwatch Beetle
By Linda Pastan
The Debt
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
By Robinson Jeffers
The Delta Parade
By Susan Stewart
The Despairing Man Draws a Serpent
By Alfonso Cortes
The Dignity of Ushers 
By Al Maginnes
The Diner
By Richard Jones
The Disappointment
By Aphra Behn
The Distances
By Charles Olson
The Ditch
By Michael Ryan
The Doll Believers
By Clarence Major
The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I
The Dowser’s Ear 
By Wilmer Mills
The Dream
By Irving Feldman
The Dream of the Unified Field
By Jorie Graham
The Drowned Children
By Louise Glück
The Dust Covers My Shoes
By Hilda Morley
The Dying Child
By John Clare
The Dying Hunter to his Dog
By Susanna Moodie
The Eagle That Is Forgotten
By Vachel Lindsay
The Ecstasy
By John Donne
The Eemis Stane
By Hugh MacDiarmid
The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück
The End
By Mark Strand
The End of an Ethnic Dream
By Jay Wright
The End of Summer
By Rachel Hadas
The Enigma 
By Anne Stevenson
The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad which Villon Made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to be Hanged along with Them
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz
The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats
The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
By Henry Vaughan
The Executive’s Death
By Robert Bly
The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Extension of the Dead 
By Gary Fincke
The Fabric of Life 
By Kay Ryan
The Faithful
By Jane Cooper
The Fatal Sisters: An Ode
By Thomas Gray
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 Father
By Ronald Ross
The Father of My Country
By Diane Wakoski
The Fearful Child
By Carol Frost
The Fight in the Meadow
By Russell Edson
The Finality of a Poem
By Michael Anania
The Fire
By Deborah Parédez
The Fire of Drift-wood
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Fisherman 
By William Butler Yeats
The Flea
By John Donne
The Foggy, Foggy Blue
By Delmore Schwartz
The Forsaken Merman
By Matthew Arnold
The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly
The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet
The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
By Richard F. Hugo
The French Revolution
By William Blake
The Funeral
By John Donne
The Future
By Matthew Arnold
The Gaffe 
By C. K. Williams
The Garbo Cloth 
By Lucia Perillo
The Garden of Love
By William Blake
The Garden of Proserpine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Gate
By Marie Howe
The Ghost in the Martini
By Anthony Hecht
The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds
The Giant Slide
By Ted Kooser
The Gift
By Li-Young Lee
The Gift
By Richard Emil Braun
The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson
The Golden Schlemiel
By Irving Feldman
The Good Lunch of Oceans
By Alberto Ríos
The Good Man in Hell
By Mark Jarman
The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The Great Blue Heron 
By Carolyn Kizer
The Greatest Love
By Anna Swir
The Grey Monk
By William Blake
The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost
The Guards Came Through
By Arthur Conan Doyle
The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People
By David Ferry
The Halo That Would Not Light
By Lucie Brock-Broido
The Hammer 
By Carl Sandburg
The Hanging Man
By Sylvia Plath
The Harp
By Bruce Weigl
The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The heart asks pleasure first
By Emily Dickinson
The Heat of Autumn
By Jane Hirshfield
The Heaven of Animals
By James L. Dickey
The Hermit Crab 
By Mary Oliver
The Hidden Glacier
By Edwin Markham
The Hill
By Edgar Lee Masters
The Hitchhikers 
By Diane Wakoski
The Homer Mitchell Place
By John Engels
The Hospital Window
By James L. Dickey
The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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: 72. The Choice, II
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 73. The Choice, III
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 97. A Superscription
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House on the Hill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Housewife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
The Human Seasons
By John Keats
The Icehouse in Summer
By Howard Nemerov
The Idea of Ancestry
By Etheridge Knight
The Illiterate
By William Meredith
The Indian Burying Ground
By Philip Morin Freneau
The Indifferent
By John Donne
The Inheritance
By Stanley Moss
The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer
The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
By William Meredith
The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski
The Jester 
By Margaret Widdemer
The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
By Li Po
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Journey
By David Ignatow
The Journey
By James Wright
The Key to the City
By Anne Winters
The Key to the Kingdom 
By Philip Gross
The Kid
By Ai
The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song
The King of Asini
By George Seferis
The King’s Question
By Brian Culhane
The Kingfisher
By Amy Clampitt
The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo
The Lady's Yes
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Lamb
By William Blake
The Lamp of Poor Souls
By Marjorie Pickthall
The Land of Counterpane
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land We Did Not Know
By Jean Garrigue
The Larger 
By Joanie V. Mackowski
The Last Day
By George Seferis
The Last Laugh
By Wilfred Owen
The Last Leaf
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Last Man’s Club
By James Galvin
The Last Movie
By Rachel Hadas
The Last Scene
By Alan Shapiro
The Late Wisconsin Spring
By John Koethe
The Lay for the Troubled Golfer
By Edgar Albert Guest
The Leaf Pile
By Alicia Ostriker
The Legend
By Garrett Hongo
The Lesson
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Letter Scale 
By Jacques Réda
The Life of Lincoln West
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Lifeguard
By James L. Dickey
The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos
The List
By A. F. Moritz
The Little Black Boy
By William Blake
The Little Book of Hand Shadows
By Deborah Digges
The Little Boy Lost
By William Blake
The Little Match Girl
By William McGonagall
The Little Orphan
By Edgar Albert Guest
The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz
The Little White Hearse
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Living End
By Samuel Menashe
The Lonely Death
By Adelaide Crapsey
The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour
By Thomas Wyatt
The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs
By Charles Olson
The Lost Land
By Eavan Boland
The Lost Pilot
By James Tate
The Lost Son
By Theodore Roethke
The Lotos-eaters
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass
By Michael S. Harper
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot
The Lowering
By May Swenson
The Maid’s Lament
By Walter Savage Landor
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 Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham
The Marriage
By Henri Coulette
The Marriage
By Mark Strand
The Marriage in the Trees
By Stanley Plumly
The Masked Face
By Thomas Hardy
The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada
The Measure
By Robert Creeley
The Men
By B. H. Fairchild
The Men 
By Pablo Neruda
The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch
The Metaphysical Amorist
By J. V. Cunningham
The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Minister
By Anne Stevenson
The Minks
By Toi Derricotte
The Misanthropist
By James Monroe Whitfield
The Miscarriage 
By Amit Majmudar
The Month of June: 13 1/2 
By Sharon Olds
The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
the mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Mother’s Charge
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons 
By A.E. Stallings
The Mother’s Return
By Dorothy Wordsworth
The Mount
By Léonie Adams
The Mountain
By A. M. Klein
The Mountain Cemetery
By Edgar Bowers
The Mower
By Philip Larkin
The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell
The Nails
By W. S. Merwin
The Natural Child
By Helen Leigh
The Naughty Boy
By John Keats
The Net 
By Babette Deutsch
from The Next Clause 
By Fleda Brown
The Night Would Grow Like a Telescope Pulled Out
By Alberto Ríos
The Ninth of July
By John Hollander
The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell
The Nuns Assist at Childbirth 
By Barbara Howes
The Nursery
By Fanny Howe
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
By Andrew Marvell
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
By Sir Walter Ralegh
The Obligation to Be Happy 
By Linda Pastan
The Odd Last Thing She Did 
By Brad Leithauser
The Old Clock on the Stairs
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Old Codger’s Lament
By Carl Rakosi
The Old Cumberland Beggar
By William Wordsworth
The Old Familiar Faces
By Charles Lamb
The Old Front Gate
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale
The Old Man Drew the Line
By Carl Rakosi
The Old Swimmin' Hole
By James Whitcomb Riley
The Old World
By Charles Simic
The One I Think of Now
By Wesley McNair
The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill
The Orient
By Thomas P. Lynch
The Other Place 
By William Logan
The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear
The Package 
By Rodney Jones
The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Panther
By Edwin Markham
The Parade 
By Billy Collins
The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
By Sir Walter Ralegh
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe
The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued
By Trumbull Stickney
The Past
By Henry Timrod
The Past
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry
The Penitent
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Perfect Life 
By John Koethe
The Perfect Mother
By Susan Griffin
The Performance 
By James L. Dickey
The Phoenix and the Turtle
By William Shakespeare
The Photos
By Diane Wakoski
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
By Andrew Marvell
The Poet at Seventeen
By Larry Levis
The Poet Orders His Tomb
By Edgar Bowers
The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos
The Pond at Dusk
By Jane Kenyon
The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers
The Precincts of Moonlight
By David Wojahn
The Prediction
By Mark Strand
from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time
By William Wordsworth
from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
By William Wordsworth
The Presence
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis
The Priest
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Prince's Progress
By Christina Rossetti
The Princess: As thro' the Land
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess: Sweet and Low
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Prisoner of Chillon
By Byron
The Problem of Fiction
By Marie Ponsot
The Prodigal Son
By James Weldon Johnson
The Promise
By Sharon Olds
The Prospector
By Robert W. Service
The Proximate Shore
By John Koethe
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell
The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück
The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück
The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley
The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley
The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert
The Rain Poured Down
By Dan Gerber
The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe
The Reason
By Stevie Smith
The Reckoning
By Robert W. Service
The Redbreast
By Charlotte Richardson
The Relic
By John Donne
The Retreat
By Henry Vaughan
The Return
By Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Revelation
By Coventry Patmore
The Revisionist Dream
By Maxine W. Kumin
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
the rites for Cousin Vit
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine
The River of Bees
By W. S. Merwin
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound
The Road
By Herbert Morris
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
The Role of Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang
The Room in Which My First Child Slept 
By Eavan Boland
The Root 
By Helen Hoyt
The Saginaw Song
By Theodore Roethke
The Sailor's Grave at Clo-oose, V.I.
By Marjorie Pickthall
The Same City
By Terrance Hayes
The Same Old Jazz
By Philip Whalen
The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold
The School Where I Studied 
By Yehuda Amichai
The Sea of Death
By Thomas Hood
The Search Party
By William Matthews
The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove
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 Shadow on the Stone
By Thomas Hardy
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 Ships Move On
By Hilda Morley
The Shoes 
By Brent Pallas
The Shopping-Bag Lady
By Linda Gregg
The Shrubbery
By William Cowper
The Sick Rose
By William Blake
The Silver Lily
By Louise Glück
The Simulacra 
By D. Nurkse
The Singers 
By Todd Hearon
The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Sleeper
By Edgar Allan Poe
The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye
The Smell of Rat Rubs Off 
By J. Allyn Rosser
The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling
The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens
The Sound of One Fork
By Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Spanish Hour
By J. D. McClatchy
The Spell of the Yukon
By Robert W. Service
The Spire
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
from The Spleen
By Matthew Green
The Star
By Henry Vaughan
The Starry Night
By Anne Sexton
The Step Mother
By Susanna Moodie
The Story of the End of the Story
By James Galvin
The Strange People
By Louise Erdrich
The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Strife between the Poet and Ambition
By Thomas James Merton
The Sun Rising
By John Donne
The Sun-Struck Eagle
By Eleanor Percy Lee, Catherine Ana Warfield
The Surrealist Learns To Fly 
By Jennifer O'Grady
The Swing
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The Sympathizers
By Josephine Miles
The Task: from Book I: The Sofa
By William Cowper
The Task: from Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper
The Task: from Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper
The Temper (I)
By George Herbert
from The Testament of John Lydgate
By John Lydgate
The Testing-Tree
By Stanley Kunitz
The Third Hour of the Night 
By Frank Bidart
The Thought of Something Else
By Wendell Berry
The Three-Legged Dog at the Heart of Our Home 
By Linda Gregerson
The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
By Thomas Moore
The Time of Youth is to be Spent
By Henry VIII, king of England
The To-be-forgotten
By Thomas Hardy
The Triple Fool
By John Donne
The Triumph of Time
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Tropics in New York
By Claude McKay
The Troubles That Women Start Are Men
By Rodney Jones
The Truth the Dead Know
By Anne Sexton
The Tummy Beast
By Roald Dahl
The Two Children
By Emily Jane Brontë
The Undead
By Richard Wilbur
The Unfortunate Lover
By Andrew Marvell
The Unknown
By Edgar Lee Masters
The Unknown Dead
By Henry Timrod
The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy
By G. E. Murray
The Untrustworthy Speaker
By Louise Glück
The Unveiling
By Jane Miller
The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan
The Vacuum
By Howard Nemerov
The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song
The Verification of Vulnerability: Bog Turtle 
By Pattiann Rogers
The Victory
By Anne Stevenson
The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov
The Visit 
By Carole Bernstein
The Visitation
By Samuel Menashe
The Voice
By Thomas Hardy
The Waking
By Theodore Roethke
The Want of Peace
By Wendell Berry
The War in the Air
By Howard Nemerov
The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot
The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan
The Watergaw
By Hugh MacDiarmid
The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
By Bernadette Mayer
The Weakness
By Toi Derricotte
the weather is hot on the back of my watch
By Charles Bukowski
The Wedding Vow
By Sharon Olds
The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth
The White City
By Claude McKay
The White Porch
By Cathy Song
The Whitsun Weddings
By Philip Larkin
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime 
By William Carlos Williams
The Widower’s Courtship
By Elizabeth Hands
The Widows’ House
By Sarah Orne Jewett
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 Wild Old Wicked Man
By William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole
By William Butler Yeats
The Wind Chimes
By Shirley Buettner
The Window 
By Robert Creeley
The Window Just Over the Street
By Alice Cary
The Wires of the Night
By Billy Collins
The Wonder of the World
By Janet Loxley Lewis
The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost
The Wooden Toy 
By Charles Simic
The Woodspurge
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Words Under the Words
By Naomi Shihab Nye
The Work
By Tom Sleigh
The World 
By Robert Creeley
The World
By Henry Vaughan
The Wound
By Ruth Stone
The Wounded Bullfighter
By Clarence Major
The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith
The Wreckage Entrepreneur
By Alice Fulton
The Writer
By Richard Wilbur
The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song
Their Bodies 
By David Wagoner
Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes
Theme in Yellow
By Carl Sandburg
Then and Now
By Babette Deutsch
Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz
There Came a Soul
By Rita Dove
There Is No Age
By Eva Gore-Booth
There may be Chaos still around the World
By George Santayana
There was a Boy
By William Wordsworth
There was a little girl
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There was a Young Lady Whose Eyes
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of Calcutta
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of New York
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear
There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House
By Emily Dickinson
They
By Wendell Berry
They are hostile nations
By Margaret Atwood
They eat out
By Margaret Atwood
They Flee From Me
By Thomas Wyatt
They shut me up in Prose – (445)
By Emily Dickinson
They Sit Together on the Porch
By Wendell Berry
They Will Say
By Carl Sandburg
Things We Dreamt We Died For 
By Marvin Bell
Think Also of Horseshoes
By Miller Williams
Third Avenue in Sunlight
By Anthony Hecht
Thirty Years Later I Meet Your Seventeen-Year-Old Daughter the Poet
By Sandra M. Gilbert
Thirty-Eight. To Mrs ____y
By Charlotte Smith
This 
By Ralph Angel
This Be the Verse
By Philip Larkin
This blue belongs to no one.
By Jean-Michel Maulpoix
This Day after Yesterday
By Philip Booth
This Hour and What Is Dead
By Li-Young Lee
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This Room and Everything in It
By Li-Young Lee
This Swallows’ Empire 
By Jean Garrigue
Tho’ Lack of Laurels and of Wreaths Not One
By Trumbull Stickney
Those Winter Sundays
By Robert E. Hayden
Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth
Though some Saith that Youth Ruleth me
By Henry VIII, king of England
Thoughtless Cruelty
By Charles Lamb
Thoughts of a Solitary Farmhouse
By Franz Wright
Three Songs at the End of Summer 
By Jane Kenyon
Three Sonnets
By James Galvin
Three Years She Grew
By William Wordsworth
Through a Glass Eye, Lightly
By Carolyn Kizer
Through these Pale Cold Days
By Isaac Rosenberg
Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
By Matthew Arnold
Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
By Emily Dickinson
Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun
Tiger Butter
By Diane Glancy
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
Time Done Is Dark 
By Michelle Boisseau
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's Train 
By Wyatt Prunty
Tithonus
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To -
By Sarah Helen Whitman
To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe
To a Child
By Sophie Jewett
To a Child in Heaven
By Richard Emil Braun
To a Dead Lover 
By Louise Bogan
To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl
By Hartley Coleridge
To a Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks on His Barbed Wire
By David Wagoner
To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, Aged One Year
By Phillis Wheatley
To a Greek Marble 
By Richard Aldington
To a Highland Girl
By William Wordsworth
To a Husband 
By Amy Lowell
To a Lady, Who Sent the Author a Present of a Fashionable Bonnet
By Elizabeth Moody
To a Marsh Hawk in Spring
By Henry David Thoreau
To a Mountain Daisy
By Robert Burns
To a Mouse
By Robert Burns
To a Noisy Contemporary
By Weldon Kees
To a Wedding 
By William Logan
To a Wren on Calvary
By Larry Levis
To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer
To an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman
To Any Reader
By Robert Louis Stevenson
To Aunt Rose
By Allen Ginsberg
To Autumn
By Louise Glück
To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr
To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand 
By Howard Nemerov
To Daffodils
By Robert Herrick
To E. T.
By Robert Frost
To Failure
By Philip Larkin
To Her Father with Some Verses
By Anne Bradstreet
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 Kill a Deer
By Carol Frost
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 Brother
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
To My Daughter in a Red Coat
By Anne Stevenson
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 Father on His Birthday
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To My Father's Business 
By Kenneth Koch
To My Wife
By J. V. Cunningham
To Myself
By Franz Wright
To Night
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
To One Unknown 
By Helen Dudley
To Rosa
By Abraham Lincoln
To Sleep
By John Keats
To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday
By Wendell Berry
To the Consolations of Philosophy 
By W. S. Merwin
To the Cuckoo
By William Wordsworth
To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey
To the Executive Director of the Actual:
By Bruce Smith
To the Ladies
By Lady Mary Chudleigh
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden
To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
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
To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber) 
By Averill Curdy
To Theodore
By George Marion McClellan
To You 
By Kevin A. González
To. W. P.
By George Santayana
Today
By Thomas Carlyle
Together
By Maxine W. Kumin
Together
By R. S. Thomas
Togetherness 
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Tokens
By William Barnes
Too Many Daves
By Theodor Geisel
Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Toth Farry 
By Sharon Olds
Touch 
By Trevor West Knapp
Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz
Tourists
By Lynn Emanuel
Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement 
By Pierre Martory
Toys in a Field
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Tracings
By Michael Anania
Tract
By William Carlos Williams
Tradition
By Lorine Niedecker
Translation 
By Deirdre O'Connor
Trapped
By Adelaide Crapsey
Traveling Light 
By Dabney Stuart
Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford
Tree Ferns
By Stanley Plumly
Tree Marriage
By William Meredith
Triad
By Adelaide Crapsey
Trillium
By Louise Glück
Triolet 
By Sandra McPherson
Triolets in the Argolid 
By Rachel Hadas
Trip to Delphi 
By Alice Friman
Tritina for Susannah 
By David Yezzi
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
Trollius and trellises
By Charles Bukowski
Troop Train
By Karl Shapiro
trouble with spain
By Charles Bukowski
Troubled with the Itch and Rubbing with Sulphur
By George Moses Horton
True Love
By Sharon Olds
Truly Pathetic 
By Neal Bowers
Trust
By Lizette Woodworth Reese
Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer
Truth-Taking Stare
By David Wojahn
Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Tulips
By Sylvia Plath
Tulips 
By A.E. Stallings
Turning Forty
By Jonathan Galassi
Turning Forty
By Kevin Griffith
Tutelary 
By Michael Ryan
Twelfth Birthday 
By Rachel Hadas
Twenty-third 
By Christina Pugh
Twenty-year Marriage
By Ai
Twilight Blues
By Samuel Menashe
Two in August
By John Crowe Ransom
Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning
Two Portraits
By Henry Timrod
Ultima Thule: Dedication to G. W. G.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Un citadin / A City Dweller 
By Jacques Réda
Uncle's First Rabbit
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Uncouplings 
By Craig Arnold
Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen
Uninvited Reader
By A. F. Moritz
United Jewish Appeal
By Michael C. Blumenthal
Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward
By Anne Sexton
Unstable Dream
By Thomas Wyatt
Untitled
By Bei Dao
Untitled Poem [“Why feel guilty because the death of a lover causes lust?”]
By Alan Dugan
Update on the Last Judgment 
By Ellen Hinsey
Upon the Disobedient Child
By John Bunyan
Upon Time and Eternity
By John Bunyan
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor
Vacant Lot
By Dudley Randall
Vacating an Apartment
By Agha Shahid Ali
Valentine
By Elinor Wylie
Valentine
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Vandergast and the Girl
By Louis Simpson
Variations of Greek Themes. I. A Happy Man
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Variations on a Text by Vallejo
By Donald Justice
vegas
By Charles Bukowski
Venetian Candy 
By John Updike
Venice, Unaccompanied
By Monica Youn
Verities 
By Kim Addonizio
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
By Jonathan Swift
Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666
By Anne Bradstreet
Very Strong February
By Bernadette Mayer
Vesper Sparrows
By Deborah Digges
Vespers ["Once I believed in you..."]
By Louise Glück
Vespers [In your extended absence, you permit me]
By Louise Glück
Veteran’s Hospital
By Ben Belitt
Victory
By Fanny Howe
Video Cuisine
By Maxine W. Kumin
Vietnam
By Michael Collier
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
By Walt Whitman
Villanelle of Change
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Villon 
By Basil Bunting
Virtue
By George Herbert
Visitation
By Jeffrey Harrison
Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy
Vita Nova
By Louise Glück
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
Wake Me in South Galway 
By Richard Tillinghast
Walking West
By William E. Stafford
Wallpapering
By Sue Ellen Thompson
Wanting to Die
By Anne Sexton
from War Is Kind
By Stephen Crane
Warm Summer Sun
By Mark Twain
Was He Married?
By Stevie Smith
Washington McNeely
By Edgar Lee Masters
Washington Square
By Frederick Morgan
Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert
Wasteful Gesture Only Not
By Tony Hoagland
Watch Repair
By Charles Simic
Waterwings
By Cathy Song
wax job
By Charles Bukowski
Wax Lips
By Cynthia Rylant
Way Out West
By Amiri Baraka
Ways of Talking 
By Ha Jin
We Are Seven
By William Wordsworth
We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa
We Old Dudes 
By Joan Murray
We Real Cool 
By Gwendolyn Brooks
We Tend to Sleep Better When the Clock Is Wound 
By Todd Boss
We Wear the Mask
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Weather
By Clarence Major
Wedding Dress
By Michael Waters
Weighing In
By Rhina P. Espaillat
Well, You Needn’t
By William Matthews
Wellfleet: The House 
By Richard Wilbur
West Topsham
By John Engels
What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy
What Became 
By Wesley McNair
What Grieving Was
By Lynn Emanuel
What I Learned From My Mother
By Julia Kasdorf
What I Saw
By Robert Duncan
What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
What Is Impossible
By A. F. Moritz
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
What loves, takes away 
By Eleanor Wilner
What Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert
What should I Say
By Thomas Wyatt
What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay
When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue
By William Shakespeare
When I Am Asked 
By Lisel Mueller
When I am dead, my dearest
By Christina Rossetti
When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton
When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
By John Keats
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
By Walt Whitman
When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I
When I Was One-and-Twenty
By A. E. Housman
When Life
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman
When the Gods Go, Half-Gods Arrive
By Lucie Brock-Broido
When We Two Parted
By Byron
When You Are Not Surprised
By Conrad Aiken
When You Are Old
By William Butler Yeats
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
By Mark Strand
Where I’ll Be Good
By Michael Ryan
Where They Lived
By Marge Saiser
Whispers of Immortality
By T. S. Eliot
White Apples
By Donald Hall
White Darkness
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
White hair does not weigh
By Samuel Menashe
White Head
By Sophie Jewett
Whoso List to Hunt, I Know where is an Hind
By Thomas Wyatt
Why Are Your Poems So Dark? 
By Linda Pastan
Why I Might Go to the Next Football Game
By Denis Johnson
Widow McFarlane
By Edgar Lee Masters
Wild Oats
By Philip Larkin
Wildflowers
By Richard Howard
Win-Win 
By Ange Mlinko
Windchime
By Tony Hoagland
Winesaps
By Dave Smith
Wingfoot Lake
By Rita Dove
Winter
By Marie Ponsot
Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz
Winter Love
By Linda Gregg
Winter Stars
By David St. John
With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath
By Linda Gregerson
Without Toys at the Home
By Colette Inez
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
Woods Burial
By John Peck
Woodstock
By Peter Balakian
Words for a Young Widow in Maine
By Norman Williams
Work
By Sherod Santos
Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday
By Gregory Corso
Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem
By Gregory Corso
Writing in the Afterlife 
By Billy Collins
from Writing Is an Aid to Memory: 16.
By Lyn Hejinian
Writing Letters to My Mother
By Colette Inez
Written for my Son, and Spoken by Him at his First Putting on Breeches
By Mary Barber
Written on a Wall at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I
Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I
X Minus X
By Kenneth Fearing
x-pug
By Charles Bukowski
Yarrow Revisited
By William Wordsworth
Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
By Robert Burns
Ye Old Mule
By Thomas Wyatt
Year’s End
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Yee Bow
By Edgar Lee Masters
Yellow Dog Café
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Yellow Dress 
By Amy Beeder
Yellow Glove
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Yesterdays
By Robert Creeley
You are Old, Father William
By Lewis Carroll
You Can Have It
By Philip Levine
You charm'd me not with that fair face
By John Dryden
You Goatherd Gods
By Sir Philip Sidney
You Got a Song, Man
By Martín Espada
You Say, Columbus with his Argosies
By Trumbull Stickney
You That I Loved 
By A. F. Moritz
You were like the young fig tree
By Miguel Hernández
You Were You Are Elegy 
By Mary Jo Bang
You Would Know
By Marvin Bell
Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun
Young Love
By Andrew Marvell
Young Man
By John Haines
Young Woman
By Howard Nemerov
Younger Woman Shopping for a Blouse
By Laura Kasischke
Your Clothes 
By Judith Kroll
Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz
Yourself
By Jones Very
Youth
By James Wright
Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Youth and Art
By Robert Browning
Youth and Calm
By Matthew Arnold
Zeus to Juno 
By Fiona Sampson
Zucchini Shofar 
By Sarah Lindsay
[I married]
By Lorine Niedecker
[if mama / could see]
By Lucille Clifton
[It's been two thousand years now] 
By Marie-Claire Bancquart
[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]
By D.A. Powell
[Long Neglect Has Worn Away]
By Emily Jane Brontë
[My mother saw the green tree toad]
By Lorine Niedecker
[Old Mother turns blue and from us]
By Lorine Niedecker
[Over a cup of coffee] 
By Stephen Dobyns
[Sonnet] name address date
By Bernadette Mayer
[What horror to awake at night]
By Lorine Niedecker
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