There are 534 Poems about Men & Women

Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker

"'kitty'. sixteen,5'1",white,prostitute"
By E. E. Cummings

“Some motionless conflict in the sky...”
By Donald Revell

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

(“I found a few old letters...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

50-50
By Langston Hughes

from “The Octoroon”
By Albery Allson Whitman

a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore
By Charles Bukowski

from A Ballad Upon A Wedding
By Sir John Suckling

A Color of the Sky
By Tony Hoagland

A Deserter
By Charles Reznikoff

A Disappointment
By Joanna Baillie

A Double Standard
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

A Fixed Idea
By Amy Lowell

A Gallup Swill-Hole; Or, Cantina Blues
By Clarence Major

A Locked House
By W. D. Snodgrass

A Love Letter
By Russell Edson

A Love Letter to My Wife
By Henri Coulette

A Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving
By Alberto Ríos

A Marriage
By Robert Creeley

A Marriage in the Dolomites
By D. Nurkse

A Muse of Water
By Carolyn Kizer

A Negro Love Song
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

A Posy of Love Poems
By William Walden

A Prayer for My Daughter
By William Butler Yeats

A Reverie
By Joanna Baillie

A Song
By Helen Maria Williams

A Song from the Italian from Limberham: or, the Kind Keeper
By John Dryden

A Story
By Colette Inez

A Suckling Pig
By Chase Twichell

A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne

A Version of Paolo and Francesca
By Peter Balakian

A Virginal
By Ezra Pound

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

Acting
By R. S. Thomas

Adam & Eve, Ltd.
By Henri Coulette

Adam and Eve
By Marjorie Pickthall

Ae Fond Kiss
By Robert Burns

Affirmation
By Donald Hall

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell

After Summer Fell Apart
By Yusef Komunyakaa

After That
By Primus St. John

Afterthought
By Diane Ackerman

Against a Sickness: To the Female Double Principle God
By Alan Dugan

Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching
By Charles Simic

Air and Angels
By John Donne

All Reason and No Rhyme
By Joyce Sutphen

Allow Me
By Chungmi Kim

Alpine Wedding
By Ralph Angel

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman
By Edmund Spenser

Amusing Our Daughters
By Carolyn Kizer

An American Affair
By Henri Coulette

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin

An Awful Story
By Michael Collier

An Epiphany
By Ted Kooser

An old story
By Bob Hicok

Ancient Discipline
By Cesare Pavese

And Day Brought Back My Night
By Geoffrey Brock

And If I Did, What Then?
By George Gascoigne

Anniversary
By Louise Glück

Anniversary
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Another Insane Devotion
By Gerald Stern

Aphrodite Metropolis (1)
By Kenneth Fearing

Aphrodite Metropolis (2)
By Kenneth Fearing

April Treason
By John Crowe Ransom

Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape
By Bin Ramke

Arrowhead
By Robert Pack

Ars Amoris
By J. V. Cunningham

As
By Paul Muldoon

As You Both Shall Live
By Miller Williams

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

Asking About You
By Eloise Klein Healy

At the Poetry Reading
By John Brehm

Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot

“Lying in bed I think about you ...”
By Joshua Beckman

Babylon Revisited
By Amiri Baraka

Ballet
By Cesare Pavese

Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet

Being in Love
By Chungmi Kim

Belle Isle, 1949
By Philip Levine

Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski

Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Big City
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Bitch
By Carolyn Kizer

Black Valentine
By Tess Gallagher

Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Blues for Dante Alighieri
By Kim Addonizio

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

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

Cage
By Josephine Miles

Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
By John Dryden

Candles
By Carl Dennis

Casanova's Bossa Nova
By Rich Murphy

Catch
By Langston Hughes

Cathedral
By Terence Winch

Chance Meeting
By Susan Browne

Changing What We Mean
By Eloise Klein Healy

Cherrylog Road
By James L. Dickey

Choice
By J. V. Cunningham

Chokecherries
By Melissa Kwasny

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Consolation
By Matthew Arnold

Constancy
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick

Count Gismond—Aix in Provence
By Robert Browning

courthouse steps
By D.A. Powell

Courtship
By Mark Strand

Covers
By Rae Armantrout

Cowgirl
By R. T. Smith

Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch

Credo
By Matthew Rohrer

Crying in Front of a Man
By Kate Gale

Cuckoldom
By BJ Ward

Customs of the Barbarians
By Alan Williamson

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
By Diane Wakoski

Days of '74
By Mark Jarman

Dear One Absent This Long While
By Lisa Olstein

Delight in Disorder
By Robert Herrick

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

Disregard
By Ai

Dolls
By David St. John

Domestic Situation
By Ernest Hilbert

Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland

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

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

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

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

Dora Williams
By Edgar Lee Masters

Draft of a Dream
By Steven Cramer

Drawings: For John Who Said to Write about True Love
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Duncan Gray
By Robert Burns

During a War
By Naomi Shihab Nye

from Each in a Place Apart
By James McMichael

Eclogue
By John Crowe Ransom

Edison in Love
By Robin Ekiss

Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
By Victoria Chang

Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne

Elena
By Irving Feldman

Eleventh Song
By Philip Sidney

Eloisa to Abelard
By Alexander Pope

from Endymion
By John Keats

Epicoene, or the Silent Woman: Still to be neat, still to be drest
By Ben Jonson

from Epigrams: A Journal, #20
By J. V. Cunningham

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle II: To a Lady on the Characters of Women
By Alexander Pope

Epitaph for a Romantic Woman
By Louise Bogan

from Epitaphs
By Abraham Sutzkever

Epithalament
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Epithalamion
By David Jones

Eros Turannos
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Errata
By Kevin Young

Ever After
By Joyce Sutphen

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

Factory
By Charles Simic

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die
By John Dryden

Faith
By Linda Pastan

False Flowers
By Anne Stevenson

First turn to me. . . .
By Bernadette Mayer

Fish or Like Fish
By Joel Brouwer

Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
By William Meredith

Five Indiscretions,
By Alberto Ríos

For Annie
By Edgar Allan Poe

For Instance
By John Ciardi

For No Clear Reason
By Robert Creeley

Found Parable
By J. D. McClatchy

Four Sonnets (1922)
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Going to Connecticut
By Sandra M. Gilbert

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

Graciela
By Gary Soto

Group
By Marin Sorescu

Half Circle
By Ralph Angel

Half-Ourselves & Half-Not
By Colin Cheney

Harrison Street Court
By Carl Sandburg

Her Life Runs Like a Red Silk Flag
By Bruce Weigl

Highland Mary
By Robert Burns

hole
By Quraysh Ali Lansana

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

Homeland of the Foreign Tongue
By Scott Cairns

Homes
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Hotel François 1^er
By Gertrude Stein

How He Answered the Glossy Magazine’s Mate-Poaching Survey
By Kevin Stein

How Things Fall
By Kevin Stein

Human Cylinders
By Mina Loy

Hypocrite Women
By Denise Levertov

Hysteria
By T. S. Eliot

I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t
By Richard Brautigan

I Knew a Woman
By Theodore Roethke

I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves
By Colleen J. McElroy

i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife
By Charles Bukowski

I’m Over the Moon
By Brenda Shaughnessy

I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady

Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea
By Walter Savage Landor

If Ever There Was One
By Miller Williams

If I Had Known
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

If Love now Reigned as it hath been
By Henry VIII, king of England

Ignoramus
By Mina Loy

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland

In a Garden
By Amy Lowell

In Love with You
By Kenneth Koch

In the Grand Manner
By Richard Emil Braun

In the Middle of Dinner
By Chris Abani

In the Museum at Teheran
By James Laughlin

In the Novel
By Susan Stewart

In Winter
By Michael Ryan

Incubus
By Craig Arnold

Interview
By Dorothy Parker

Isolation: To Marguerite
By Matthew Arnold

Juan’s Song
By Louise Bogan

Judith of Bethulia
By John Crowe Ransom

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major

Knowing You Could Is Better Than Knowing You Will
By Mark Bibbins

Ladies
By Ezra Pound

Last Words to Miriam
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis

Letter to a Friend about Girls
By Philip Larkin

Like Rousseau
By Amiri Baraka

Lochinvar
By Sir Walter Scott

Loiter
By Forrest Gander

Lothar’s Wife
By Colleen J. McElroy

Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love and a Question
By Robert Frost

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

Love in the Valley
By George Meredith

Love Song
By Dorothy Parker

Love Song: I and Thou
By Alan Dugan

Love Worn
By Lita Hooper

Love's Alchemy
By John Donne

Love's Deity
By John Donne

Lucifer in Starlight
By David St. John

Madam, withouten many Words
By Thomas Wyatt

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Man in Space
By Billy Collins

Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters

Marriage
By Marianne Moore

Marriage
By Lawrence Raab

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935
By Tyehimba Jess

Mating Saliva
By Richard Brautigan

Maudlin; Or, The Magdalen’s Tears
By Linda Gregerson

Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass

Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass

Men Say Brown
By Henry M. Seiden

Modern Love: I
By George Meredith

Modern Love: II
By George Meredith

Modern Love: L
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XIV
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XLVI
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XVI
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XXII
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XXXIV
By George Meredith

Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

Morningside Heights, July
By William Matthews

Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor

Mouth
By Robert Wrigley

Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Muckraker
By Cate Marvin

My Father's Diary
By Sharon Olds

My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

My Life
By Mark Strand

My Picture Left in Scotland
By Ben Jonson

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Naming the Stars
By Joyce Sutphen

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

Normalization
By Czeslaw Milosz

Nude Descending
By Alicia Ostriker

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

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

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

Odes
By Fernando Pessoa

Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso
By Donald Revell

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Older Love
By Jim Harrison

from Omeros
By Derek Walcott

On a Girdle
By Edmund Waller

On Marriage
By Meghan O'Rourke

On the Farm
By R. S. Thomas

On the Metro
By C. K. Williams

from One Hundred Quatrains
By Patrizia Valduga

One Night Stand
By Jack Spicer

Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
By Colleen J. McElroy

Parable of the Swans
By Louise Glück

Paris and Helen
By Judy Grahn

Parting Song
By Jill Alexander Essbaum

Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti

Passing Remark
By William E. Stafford

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Perplexity: A Poem
By Elizabeth Hands

Piazza Piece
By John Crowe Ransom

Picture of Little Letters
By John Koethe

Pity
By Camille T. Dungy

Platonic Love
By Curt Anderson

Portrait d'une Femme
By Ezra Pound

Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot

Postfeminism
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Postlude
By Noelle Kocot

Prayer Rug
By Agha Shahid Ali

Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer

Probation
By Averill Curdy

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Prothalamion
By Michael Ryan

Prothalamion
By David Jones

from Quatrains: Second Hundred
By Patrizia Valduga

Queens
By J. M. Synge

Queer People
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Quest of the Prell
By J. Allyn Rosser

Radio
By Gottfried Benn

Reluctance
By Robert Frost

Requests for Toy Piano
By Tony Hoagland

Reserve
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Revenge
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Ring Out Your Bells
By Philip Sidney

Romantic
By Dara Wier

Romantic Moment
By Tony Hoagland

Séverine in Summer School
By Rex Wilder

Semblance: Screens
By Liz Waldner

seventh heaven
By Patti Smith

Shadow Play
By Ralph Angel

Sheep
By Judy Grahn

Since ye so Please
By Thomas Wyatt

Sleeping on Fists
By Alberto Ríos

Small Tantric Sermon
By Philip Whalen

Smoke
By Philip Levine

Snow Becoming Light by Morning
By Jill Osier

Snowflake
By William Baer

Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Song
By Edmund Waller

Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Song (“Love has crept...”)
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Song After Campion
By Robert Fitzgerald

Song from Arcadia: “My True Love Hath My Heart”
By Philip Sidney

Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring
By John Dryden

Song to Amarantha, that she would Dishevel her Hair
By Richard Lovelace

Song: A youth for Jane with ardour sighed...
By Amelia Opie

Song: I once rejoiced, sweet evening gale...
By Amelia Opie

Song: Go and catch a falling star
By John Donne

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

Sonnet 1: Dost see how unregarded now
By Sir John Suckling

Sonnet Reversed
By Rupert Brooke

South Carolina Morning
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Stolen Moments
By Kim Addonizio

Summer near the River
By Carolyn Kizer

Swapping Minds
By James Laughlin

Sway
By Louis Simpson

Sweeney among the Nightingales
By T. S. Eliot

Sweeney Erect
By T. S. Eliot

Talking Richard Wilson Blues, by Richard Clay Wilson
By Denis Johnson

Teodoro Luna Confesses After Years to His Brother, Anselmo the Priest, Who Is Required to Understand, But Who Understands Anyway, More Than People Think
By Alberto Ríos

Terms
By Kevin Stein

Territories
By Gregory Djanikian

The Ache of Marriage
By Denise Levertov

The Affair
By David Baker

The Albatross
By Kate Bass

The Apparition
By John Donne

The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
By Anne Sexton

The Betrothal
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Blue Booby
By James Tate

The Book of Hours
By B. H. Fairchild

The Brassiere Factory
By Kenneth Koch

The Canonization
By John Donne

The Cardinal
By Henry Carlile

The Coming Woman
By Mary Weston Fordham

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

The Cotter's Saturday Night
By Robert Burns

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Despairing Man Draws a Serpent
By Alfonso Cortes

The Diner
By Richard Jones

The Door (I)
By Robert Creeley

The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life
By Anthony Hecht

The Dream
By Irving Feldman

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The Fight
By Michael Collier

The friend
By Marge Piercy

The Gallery
By Andrew Marvell

The Garden by Moonlight
By Amy Lowell

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Good Wife Taught Her Daughter
By Medbh McGuckian

The Healing Improvisation of Hair
By Jay Wright

The Holy Fair
By Robert Burns

The Hush of the Very Good
By Todd Boss

The Indifferent
By John Donne

The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin
By Ann Yearsley

The Intellectual
By Karl Shapiro

The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
By Li Po

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Lady's Yes
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Lake in Central Park
By Jay Wright

The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos

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

The Lover: A Ballad
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The Maid’s Lament
By Walter Savage Landor

The Man Who Married Magdalene
By Louis Simpson

The Map
By Larry Levis

The Marriage
By Henri Coulette

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

The Miscarriage
By Amit Majmudar

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

The Night Piece, to Julia
By Robert Herrick

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale

The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill

The Order In Which Things Are Broken
By Desirée Alvarez

The Package
By Rodney Jones

The Penitent
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
By Richard Brautigan

The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos

The Pool
By Robert Creeley

The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Prince's Progress
By Christina Rossetti

The Promise
By Sharon Olds

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5
By Alexander Pope

The Rattling Boy from Dublin
By William McGonagall

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

The Relic
By John Donne

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

The Road
By Herbert Morris

The Safecracker
By Linda Pastan

The Same Old Jazz
By Philip Whalen

The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man
By Wallace Stevens

The Shipfitter’s Wife
By Dorianne Laux

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

The Shirt
By Jane Kenyon

The Shore
By David St. John

The Simulacra
By D. Nurkse

The Smell of Rat Rubs Off
By J. Allyn Rosser

The Spanish Hour
By J. D. McClatchy

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray

The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
By Edmund Waller

The Story of the End of the Story
By James Galvin

The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Taxi
By Amy Lowell

The Troubles That Women Start Are Men
By Rodney Jones

The Trout
By James Laughlin

The Truth Is Laughter 10
By Robin Blaser

The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Voice
By Thomas Hardy

The Wabash Cannonball
By Richard Emil Braun

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Widower’s Courtship
By Elizabeth Hands

The Widows’ House
By Sarah Orne Jewett

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

They Flee From Me
By Thomas Wyatt

They Sit Together on the Porch
By Wendell Berry

Though that Men do Call it Dotage
By Henry VIII, king of England

Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

To a Husband
By Amy Lowell

To a Wren on Calvary
By Larry Levis

To Anthea, who may Command him Anything
By Robert Herrick

To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell

To Mary
By William Cowper

To My Wife
By J. V. Cunningham

To R.D., March 4th 1988
By Denise Levertov

To Rosa
By Abraham Lincoln

To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer

To You
By Kenneth Koch

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

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

Town Eclogues: Thursday; the Bassette-Table
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Tuesday; St. James's Coffee-House
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Wednesday; The Tête à Tête
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book I
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book II
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

True Love
By Sharon Olds

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Tuesdays
By Kate Gale

Twenty-year Marriage
By Ai

Two Bodies
By Annie Finch

Two in August
By John Crowe Ransom

Two Portraits
By Henry Timrod

Two Quits and a Drum, and Elegy for Drinkers
By Alan Dugan

Uncouplings
By Craig Arnold

Uneasy Rider
By Diane Wakoski

Union Square
By Sara Teasdale

Upon Julia's Clothes
By Robert Herrick

Upon the Loss of his Mistresses
By Robert Herrick

Urban Renewal XVIII.
By Major Jackson

Valentine To RR Written Extempore Feb. 14 1802
By Charlotte Richardson

Vandergast and the Girl
By Louis Simpson

Video Blues
By Mary Jo Salter

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

Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes
By Bernadette Mayer

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

Wavelength
By David St. John

We were Two Rooms of One Timber, But I Left that Place Alone
By Camille T. Dungy

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What are the Days?
By Colette Inez

What Kind of Mistress He would Have
By Robert Herrick

What should I Say
By Thomas Wyatt

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

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

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
By Oliver Goldsmith

Which Has More Patience -- Man or Woman?
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

who in the hell is Tom Jones?
By Charles Bukowski

Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun

Wild Oats
By Philip Larkin

Windchime
By Tony Hoagland

Woman to Man
By Ai

Woman’s Rights
By Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman

Words for a Girlfriend
By Cesare Pavese

Yesterday
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

You know where you did despise
By Alexander Pope

You Love, You Wonder
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun

Young Woman
By Howard Nemerov

Youth and Art
By Robert Browning

Yowr Yen Two Woll Sle me Sodenly
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Zeus to Juno
By Fiona Sampson

Zucchini Shofar
By Sarah Lindsay

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

[Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up
By Bernadette Mayer

[The wild and wavy event]
By Lorine Niedecker