There are 240 Poems about Friends & Enemies

“I never seen such days as this”
By Sholeh Wolpé

2212 West Flower Street
By Michael Collier

A Caged Bird
By Sarah Orne Jewett

A Complaint
By William Wordsworth

A Country Incident
By May Sarton

A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov

A Divine Image
By William Blake

A Fable
By August Kleinzahler

A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Pastoral
By Agha Shahid Ali

A Phonecall from Frank O’Hara
By Anne Waldman

A Pindaric Ode
By Ben Jonson

A Poet’s Death
By David Trinidad

A Poison Tree
By William Blake

A Second Train Song for Gary
By Jack Spicer

About Patti Boyd and Me
By Eleanor Lerman

Affirmation
By Donald Hall

After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins

Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid
By Elizabeth I

An Afternoon at the Beach
By Edgar Bowers

An Immigrant Woman
By Anne Winters

An Ode to Ben Jonson
By Robert Herrick

As Children Together
By Carolyn Forché

At the Beach
By Elizabeth Alexander

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

Beautiful Wreckage
By W.D. Ehrhart

Bending the Bow
By Robert Duncan

Between Hovers
By Michael Longley

Bitch
By Carolyn Kizer

Bleeding
By May Swenson

Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Cabezón
By Amy Beeder

Call It Music
By Philip Levine

Carlos
By Theodore Deppe

Change
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Choose
By Carl Sandburg

Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth

Count Gismond—Aix in Provence
By Robert Browning

Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Days of 1994: Alexandrians
By Marilyn Hacker

Dear Friend
By Dean Young

DECEMBER. [1757] XII Month.
By Benjamin Franklin

Dickhead
By Michael Ryan

Discontinuous Poems
By Fernando Pessoa

Dockery and Son
By Philip Larkin

Each Defeat
By Eileen Myles

Eating Together
By Kim Addonizio

Elegy
By Miguel Hernández

Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By Mark Jarman

Epistle to J. Lapraik
By Robert Burns

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
By Alexander Pope

Et Quidquid Aspiciebam Mors Erat
By Robert Fitzgerald

Exclusion
By Emily Dickinson

Felix Crow
By Kay Ryan

Fence Repair
By David Lee

Flammonde
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For Virginia Chavez
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

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

Fresh Air
By Kenneth Koch

Friendship’s Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia
By Katherine Philips

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Gin
By David St. John

Going to Connecticut
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Greeting Verses
By A. R. Ammons

Gretel in Darkness
By Louise Glück

Half Circle
By Ralph Angel

Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani

Having a Coke with You
By Frank O'Hara

Homage to H & the Speedway Diner
By Bernadette Mayer

Hotel François 1^er
By Gertrude Stein

How It Is
By Maxine W. Kumin

I Know a Man
By Robert Creeley

I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
By Walt Whitman

Ichabod
By John Greenleaf Whittier

If You Said You Would Come With Me
By John Ashbery

In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
By Paul Engle

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII [all 133 poems]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 116
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 126
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: [Prelude]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the Valley of Cauteretz
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Interview by a Guggenheim Recipient
By Charles Bukowski

Invitation To JBC
By Matilda Bethem

Invocation to the Social Muse
By Archibald MacLeish

James Schuyler
By David Trinidad

Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Korean mums
By James Schuyler

Letter from the Mountains
By James K. Baxter

Letter to a Friend about Girls
By Philip Larkin

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Lines from a Plutocratic Poetaster to a Ditch-digger
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Lines on Locks (or Jail and the Erie Canal)
By John Logan

Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Love Poem for an Enemy
By Richard Katrovas

Luciferin
By Dean Young

Many Scientists Convert to Islam
By Nomi Stone

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Memorial Service
By George Garrett

Mending Wall
By Robert Frost

Mine own John Poynz
By Thomas Wyatt

Monody
By Herman Melville

Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
By William E. Stafford

My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman

My Shadow
By Robert Louis Stevenson

My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Negotiation
By Lisa Olstein

Nights of 1964—1966: The Old Reliable
By Marilyn Hacker

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Not to Be Dwelled On
By Heather McHugh

Ode to Big Trend
By Terrance Hayes

Of the Mean and Sure Estate
By Thomas Wyatt

Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)
By Thomas Moore

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

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 Great Atlantic Rainway
By Kenneth Koch

Once the Dream Begins
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Palladium
By Matthew Arnold

Pamet Harbor
By Gerald Stern

Passtime with good company
By Henry VIII, king of England

Please
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Progressive Health
By Carl Dennis

Robert Duncan
By Robin Blaser

Rose Aylmer
By Walter Savage Landor

Scrabble with Matthews
By David Wojahn

Sidewalk Games
By Colleen J. McElroy

Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman

Skin Cancer
By Mark Jarman

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

Solitude
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Some Are Dead and Some Are Living
By Colleen J. McElroy

Song
By Brenda Cárdenas

Song of the Witches
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXI: O, for my Sake do you with Fortune Chide
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXII: To Cyriack Skinner
By John Milton

Sonnet: I Thank You
By Henry Timrod

Stargnoc Caz!
By Bernadette Mayer

Stink Eye
By Cathy Song

Stony Limits
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Street Boy
By J. Allyn Rosser

Subway Seethe
By J. Allyn Rosser

Sunflower Sutra
By Allen Ginsberg

Sweetness
By Stephen Dunn

Taking the Thought for the Dog
By Katharine Auchincloss Lorr

Tea Party
By Joanie V. Mackowski

Tenderness and Rot
By Kay Ryan

That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry

That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The Beach at Sunset
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Castaway
By William Cowper

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Courtesy
By Alan Shapiro

The Curse
By J. M. Synge

The Delicacy
By Sandra McPherson

The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück

The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Farm
By David Lee

The Fire of Drift-wood
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The French Revolution
By William Blake

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

The Garbo Cloth
By Lucia Perillo

The Gift
By Richard Emil Braun

The Good
By Michelle Boisseau

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Hidden Glacier
By Edwin Markham

The Laboratory
By Robert Browning

The Letter Scale
By Jacques Réda

The Magic of Numbers
By Kenneth Koch

The Medium
By Robin Blaser

The neighbor
By Marge Piercy

The Old Familiar Faces
By Charles Lamb

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

The Performance
By James L. Dickey

The Pool
By Robert Creeley

The Princess: Our Enemies Have Fall'n
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear

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 Sickness of Friends
By Henri Coulette

The Smell of Rat Rubs Off
By J. Allyn Rosser

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

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy
By G. E. Murray

The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan

The Woman Who Loved Worms
By Colette Inez

Thinking About the Enemy
By J. P. White

Third Avenue in Sunlight
By Anthony Hecht

Thirty Years Later I Meet Your Seventeen-Year-Old Daughter the Poet
By Sandra M. Gilbert

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

Three Men Walking, Three Brown Silhouettes
By Alicia Ostriker

Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
By Matthew Arnold

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
By William Butler Yeats

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To J. S.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To Mr. Lawrence
By John Milton

To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris
By Helen Maria Williams

To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy Call'd the Double Dealer
By John Dryden

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden

To Wordsworth
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To. W. P.
By George Santayana

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

Twenty Below
By Paul Engle

Two Poems from “The Day”
By Kenneth Goldsmith

Unreliable Narration
By Sarah Lindsay

Urban Renewal XVIII.
By Major Jackson

Vacant Lot
By Dudley Randall

Vagabonds
By Arthur Rimbaud

Waring
By Robert Browning

Wax Lips
By Cynthia Rylant

We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa

who in the hell is Tom Jones?
By Charles Bukowski

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

Wildflowers
By Richard Howard

Winter
By Marie Ponsot

With Mercy for the Greedy
By Anne Sexton

Worms
By Carl Dennis

Yarrow Revisited
By William Wordsworth

Yesterdays
By Robert Creeley

You and Me and Veronica Lake
By Colleen J. McElroy

You charm'd me not with that fair face
By John Dryden

You know where you did despise
By Alexander Pope

Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Sonnet] name address date
By Bernadette Mayer