There are 2886 Poems about Cycle of Life

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