There are 364 Poems about Home Life

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

2212 West Flower Street
By Michael Collier

A Chapter from the Garden
By Diane Ackerman

A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953
By Wyatt Prunty

A Happy Childhood
By William Matthews

A Home
By Sarah C. Woolsey

A Locked House
By W. D. Snodgrass

A Marriage Poem
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

A New York Child’s Garden of Verses
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser

A Secret Gratitude
By James Wright

A Sister on the Tracks
By Donald Hall

a song in the front yard
By Gwendolyn Brooks

A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks

A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick

A Time Past
By Denise Levertov

A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest

Abandoned Farmhouse
By Ted Kooser

Adult
By Ray Gonzalez

Advent
By Mary Jo Salter

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell

After Tonight
By Gary Soto

Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell

Against Travel
By Charles Tomlinson

Agoraphobia
By Linda Pastan

All overgrown by cunning moss, (146)
By Emily Dickinson

Amusing Our Daughters
By Carolyn Kizer

An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert

Anniversary
By Marie Ponsot

Another Insane Devotion
By Gerald Stern

Astronomy Lesson
By Alan Shapiro

At Stanley Bay
By Gregory Djanikian

Ave Maria
By Frank O'Hara

“I was passionate ...”
By Lal Ded

“In Kyoto ...”
By Bashō

“No Thank You, I Don’t Care For Artichokes,”
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Bedtime Story
By Charles Wright

Bel Canto
By Kenneth Koch

Bilingual/Bilingüe
By Rhina P. Espaillat

Black Soap
By Sandra McPherson

Blowfly Grass
By Les Murray

Bolero
By Gerald Stern

Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes

Breughel
By Michael Collier

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Burning Trash
By John Updike

Butter
By Connie Wanek

Cabin
By Anne Waldman

Cave Dwellers
By A. Poulin

Cheer
By Stanley Plumly

Choice
By J. V. Cunningham

Christmas Away from Home
By Jane Kenyon

Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall

Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
By Toi Derricotte

Cleaning an Attic
By Brent Pallas

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Contempt
By Elfriede Jelinek

Courtship
By Talvikki Ansel

Covenant
By Alan Shapiro

Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray

Customs of the Barbarians
By Alan Williamson

Damp Rot
By John Engels

Danse Russe
By William Carlos Williams

Days of 1964
By James Merrill

Dead
By Sarah C. Harwell

Depression
By Henry Carlile

Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser

Doing Laundry on Sunday
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Domestic
By Carl Phillips

Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland

Done
By Michelle Boisseau

Doppelte Nationaltätsmoral/Dual Nationality: A Moral Tale
By Zehra Çirac

Drift-Raft
By Atsuro Riley

During a War
By Naomi Shihab Nye

from Each in a Place Apart
By James McMichael

Early Frost
By Scott Cairns

Easter in Pittsburgh
By James Laughlin

Eden, Then and Now
By Ruth Stone

Edwardian Christmas
By John Fuller

enuresis
By Cid Corman

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
By Karen Craigo

Eve's Design
By Moira Linehan

Ever After
By Joyce Sutphen

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

Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Fallout
By David Bottoms

Family History
By Irving Feldman

Family Reunion
By Maxine W. Kumin

Family Reunion
By Catherine Barnett

Family Romance
By Larry Levis

Father
By Edgar Albert Guest

Fifteen
By Leslie Monsour

Firstborn
By Kurt S. Olsson

Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
By William Meredith

Fog
By Mark Doty

For the Sleepwalkers
By Edward Hirsch

Foster Care
By Terry Wolverton

Four Postulates
By Michael Anania

Frame, An Epistle
By Claudia Emerson

From the Dressing-Room
By Medbh McGuckian

From the House of Yemanjá
By Audre Lorde

Geometry
By Nancy Botkin

Granny
By James Whitcomb Riley

Grimalkin
By Thomas P. Lynch

Happiness
By Susan Griffin

Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
By William Meredith

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Heaven, 1963
By Kim Noriega

Hello
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Home
By Edgar Albert Guest

Home Fire
By Linda Parsons Marion

Homes
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

House: Some Instructions
By Grace Paley

Huswifery
By Edward Taylor

I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland

In a Science-Illustrator’s Apartment
By Diane Ackerman

In My Mother’s House
By Gloria g. Murray

In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Middle of Dinner
By Chris Abani

In the Secular Night
By Margaret Atwood

In the Tree House at Night
By James L. Dickey

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
By Louise Erdrich

Insect Life of Florida
By Lynda Hull

Insomnia
By Dana Gioia

Interior at Petworth: From Turner
By Rosanna Warren

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Ironing After Midnight
By Marsha Truman Cooper

It’s Like This
By Stephen Dobyns

Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Jewel Box
By Eamon Grennan

kitchenette building
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Lament
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Last Month
By John Ashbery

Late at Night in Bed
By Gregory Djanikian

Laundry
By Ruth Moose

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Learning to Talk
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Less Than Two Minutes
By W. S. Di Piero

Letter For Emily Dickinson
By Annie Finch

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Liberty
By Thomas P. Lynch

Light Thickens
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

Lions Are Interesting
By Joel Brouwer

Living
By C. D. Wright

Love for a Hand
By Karl Shapiro

Love in a Life
By Robert Browning

Love Poem
By Miller Williams

Lucinda Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters

Maple Syrup
By Donald Hall

Maternal
By Gail Mazur

Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
By Gail Mazur

Maze Without a Minotaur
By Dana Gioia

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

Men at Forty
By Donald Justice

Mississippi
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Mongrel Heart
By David Baker

Morning
By Billy Collins

Mothers
By Nikki Giovanni

Mr. Nobody
By Anonymous

Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things
By Gregory Djanikian

Muckraker
By Cate Marvin

My Brother, the Artist, at Seven
By Philip Levine

My Father in the Night Commanding No
By Louis Simpson

My Life
By Mark Strand

My Sin
By Chungmi Kim

Mysteries of Small Houses
By Alice Notley

Nameless Pain
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Never the Time and the Place
By Robert Browning

Night Said
By Franz Wright

Nomadology
By Alissa Leigh

Nostalgia and Complaint of the Grandparents
By Donald Justice

Not Here
By Jane Kenyon

Novelette
By Adrian Blevins

O my pa-pa
By Bob Hicok

Odd
By Dannie Abse

Ode to Suburbia
By Eavan Boland

Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro

Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie

Old Toys Come Back
By Alan Williamson

Older Love
By Jim Harrison

On An Unsociable Family
By Elizabeth Hands

On Marriage
By Meghan O'Rourke

On the Screened Porch
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

One Home
By William E. Stafford

Onions
By William Matthews

Our Father
By Irving Feldman

Our Hired Girl
By James Whitcomb Riley

Out of Town
By Piotr Sommer

Ox Cart Man
By Donald Hall

Paean to Place
By Lorine Niedecker

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Passing Remark
By William E. Stafford

Paths
By John Montague

Perhaps the World Ends Here
By Joy Harjo

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Playing Dead
By Andrew Hudgins

Politics
By William Meredith

Prayer Rug
By Agha Shahid Ali

Preparation
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Quickly Aging Here
By Denis Johnson

Rag Rug
By Rachel Hadas

Rage for Order
By David Lunde

raise the shade
By E. E. Cummings

Real Estate: Kripplebush, New York
By Marie Ponsot

Recitative
By A.E. Stallings

Requiem for a Nest
By Wanda Coleman

River Road
By Stanley Kunitz

Robinson
By Weldon Kees

Robinson at Home
By Weldon Kees

Romantic
By Dara Wier

Sabbath lie
By Yehuda Amichai

Sadie and Maud
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Sailing to America
By Gregory Djanikian

Salomé
By Ai

Sapphics Against Anger
By Timothy Steele

Sappho
By James Wright

Scavenging the Wall
By R. T. Smith

Scenes of Childhood
By James Merrill

Seele im Raum
By Randall Jarrell

Separation at Burnt Island
By D. Nurkse

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Situation Comedy
By Henri Coulette

Slow Dreams
By Robert Wrigley

Small Moth
By Sarah Lindsay

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Some Words Inside of Words
By Richard Wilbur

Somewhere
By Robert Creeley

Song and Dance
By Alan Shapiro

Sonnet Reversed
By Rupert Brooke

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

Space Station
By Tom Sleigh

Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone
By Bob Hicok

Spree
By Maxine W. Kumin

Stargnoc Caz!
By Bernadette Mayer

Storm Windows
By Howard Nemerov

Suburban Pastoral
By Dave Lucas

Sugar Cane
By Alfred Corn

Sugar Dada
By J. Allyn Rosser

Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro

Supple Cord
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Switchblade
By Michael Ryan

Swordfish
By Andrew Hudgins

Taking Down the Tree
By Jane Kenyon

Taking Notice
By Marilyn Hacker

Taking the Thought for the Dog
By Katharine Auchincloss Lorr

Telling the Bees
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

Thanksgiving
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Albatross
By Kate Bass

The Babysitters
By Sylvia Plath

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Bean Eaters
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Blue Robe
By Wendell Berry

The Book of the Deer, the Bear and the Elk
By Henry Carlile

The Broken Home
By James Merrill

The Cane-Bottom’d Chair
By William Makepeace Thackeray

The Cave
By Michael Collier

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Children's Hour
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Cotter's Saturday Night
By Robert Burns

The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth

The Day Before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959
By Thylias Moss

The Dome of Sunday
By Karl Shapiro

The Dragon
By Henri Coulette

The Dream
By Irving Feldman

The Father of My Country
By Diane Wakoski

The Fight
By Michael Collier

The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
By Richard F. Hugo

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The God Who Loves You
By Carl Dennis

The Harriers
By Mary Kinzie

The Home
By Herbert Morris

The Homer Mitchell Place
By John Engels

The House Gift
By Joanie V. Mackowski

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

The House on the Hill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The house was just twinkling in the moon light
By Gertrude Stein

The Housewife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Idea of Ancestry
By Etheridge Knight

The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer

The Journey
By Eavan Boland

The Journey
By David Ignatow

The Life and Letters
By Irving Feldman

The Life of Lincoln West
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Lovers of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mad Scene
By James Merrill

The Mailman
By Franz Wright

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Mother’s Charge
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Night Would Grow Like a Telescope Pulled Out
By Alberto Ríos

The Obligation to Be Happy
By Linda Pastan

The Old Front Gate
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Package
By Rodney Jones

The Palace of Art
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Potato Eaters
By Leonard E. Nathan

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Rain Poured Down
By Dan Gerber

The Room of My Life
By Anne Sexton

The Self-Unseeing
By Thomas Hardy

The Sensible Girlfriend
By Terry Wolverton

The Shipfitter’s Wife
By Dorianne Laux

The Sleigh-Bells
By Susanna Moodie

The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Sound of One Fork
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Step Mother
By Susanna Moodie

The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker

The Untrustworthy Speaker
By Louise Glück

The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan

the vacant lot
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Vacuum
By Howard Nemerov

The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov

The Western Emigrant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

Then too there is this
By J. Allyn Rosser

They Sit Together on the Porch
By Wendell Berry

This Room and Everything in It
By Li-Young Lee

Those Winter Sundays
By Robert E. Hayden

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

To a Wren on Calvary
By Larry Levis

To Aunt Rose
By Allen Ginsberg

To The Indifferent Women
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

To the Young Wife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Toad dreams
By Marge Piercy

Too Many Daves
By Theodor Geisel

Too Much of a Good Thing
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Toth Farry
By Sharon Olds

Traveling dream
By Marge Piercy

True Confessions Variations
By Lynn Crosbie

Tuesdays
By Kate Gale

Twilight Train
By Eileen Myles

Vacating an Apartment
By Agha Shahid Ali

Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666
By Anne Bradstreet

Vespers ["Once I believed in you..."]
By Louise Glück

Wallpapering
By Sue Ellen Thompson

Waterwings
By Cathy Song

When de Co'n Pone's Hot
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
By Mark Strand

Where Did I Leave Off?
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Where They Lived
By Marge Saiser

Wild Peaches
By Elinor Wylie

Windigo
By Louise Erdrich

Winter Dusk
By Walter De La Mare

Winter promises
By Marge Piercy

Winter Stars
By Larry Levis

wishes for sons
By Lucille Clifton

Without Toys at the Home
By Colette Inez

Wonder as Wander
By Sharon Olds

Yellow Dog Café
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun

Zen Living
By Dick Allen

[if mama / could see]
By Lucille Clifton

[My mother saw the green tree toad]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Old Mother turns blue and from us]
By Lorine Niedecker