There are 1410 Poems about Love & Desire

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

"Alas, so all things now do hold their peace!"
By Petrarch

"Are you the new person drawn toward me?"
By Walt Whitman

"As Love and I, late harbour'd in one inn"
By Michael Drayton

"Behold, the grave of a wicked man"
By Stephen Crane

"Dear, if you change, I'll never choose again"
By John Dowland

"Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short"
By Gaius Petronius

"Either she was foul, or her attire was bad"
By Ovid

"Go, lovely Rose"
By Edmund Waller

"How can I keep my maidenhead"
By Robert Burns

"I cry your mercy-pity-love! -aye, love!"
By John Keats

"I Have a Young Sister"
By Anonymous

"I know that all beneath the moon decays"
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

"I loved you first: but afterwards your love"
By Christina Rossetti

"I saw my Lady weep"
By Anonymous

"I wish I could remember that first day"
By Christina Rossetti

"I'm the pen your lover writes with"
By Bernadette Mayer

"It Was a Lover and His Lass"
By William Shakespeare

"John Anderson my jo, John"
By Robert Burns

"Kiss’d yestreen"
By Anonymous

"Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust"
By Philip Sidney

"Love of My Flesh, Living Death"
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

"Many in aftertimes will say of you"
By Christina Rossetti

"Now Goeth Sun Under Wood"
By Anonymous

"Out of the rolling ocean the crowd"
By Walt Whitman

"Rise up, rise up"
By Hilda Morley

"Shall I wasting in despair"
By George Wither

"Sigh No More"
By William Shakespeare

"The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!"
By John Keats

"This living hand, now warm and capable"
By John Keats

"Upon a day, came Sorrow in to me"
By Dante Alighieri

"Weep You No More, Sad Fountains"
By Anonymous

"Who is Silvia?"
By William Shakespeare

"Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant"
By William Wordsworth

“Feuerzauber”
By Louis Untermeyer

τεθνάκην δ’ ολίγω ’πιδεύης φαίνομ’ αλαία
By Allen Ginsberg

(“Come as you are...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

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

(“My soul is alight...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

(“Tell me if this is all true...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

(“With a glance of your eyes...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

from “The Octoroon”
By Albery Allson Whitman

La Belle et la Bête
By Mark Doty

Maud XVIII: I have led her Home, my love, my only friend
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Nimis Compos Mentis
By Leslie Monsour

The House of Life LIII: Without Her
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

from Troilus and Cressida
By John Dryden

VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster

A Ballad of Burdens
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp
By Thomas Moore

A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti

A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky
By Lewis Carroll

A Broken Appointment
By Thomas Hardy

A Cameo
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving
By Ben Jonson

A Celebration of Charis: IV. Her Triumph
By Ben Jonson

A Communication Which the Author Had to London, Before She Made Her Will
By Isabella Whitney

A Cooking Egg
By T. S. Eliot

A Coronet for his Mistress, Philosophy
By George Chapman

A Description of Such a One As He Would Love
By Thomas Wyatt

A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda
By Andrew Marvell

A Dirge
By Christina Rossetti

A Disappointment
By Joanna Baillie

A Fable
By Robert Kelly

A Face
By Robert Browning

A Farewell to False Love
By Sir Walter Ralegh

A Farewell to Tobacco
By Charles Lamb

A Fine, a Private Place
By Diane Ackerman

A Fixed Idea
By Amy Lowell

A Glimpse
By Walt Whitman

A Leave-Taking
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Lecture upon the Shadow
By John Donne

A Lesson in Geography
By Kenneth Rexroth

A Letter to Daphnis
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
By Anne Bradstreet

A Love Letter
By Russell Edson

A Love Letter to My Wife
By Henri Coulette

A Lover
By Amy Lowell

A Man's Requirements
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A Marriage
By Robert Creeley

A Maul for Bill and Cindy’s Wedding
By Gary Snyder

A Modest Love
By Sir Edward Dyer

A Moment
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

A Negro Love Song
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan

A Posy of Love Poems
By William Walden

A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns

A Regret
By David Trinidad

A Reverie
By Joanna Baillie

A Ring Presented to Julia
By Robert Herrick

A Roundelay between Two Shepherds
By Michael Drayton

A Serenade at the Villa
By Robert Browning

A Shropshire Lad LIII: The lad came to the door at night
By A. E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad XXVI: Along the field as we came by
By A. E. Housman

A Slow Fuse
By Theodore Weiss

A Song
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

A Song
By Helen Maria Williams

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

A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

A Song: Ask me no more where Jove bestows
By Thomas Carew

A Song: When June is past, the fading rose
By Thomas Carew

A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
By Ben Jonson

A Swimmer's Dream
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Tale
By Louise Bogan

A Thousand Martyrs
By Aphra Behn

A Token
By Robert Creeley

A True Maid
By Matthew Prior

A un Desconocido
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne

A Valediction: of Weeping
By John Donne

A Valentine for Ben Franklin Who Drives a Truck in California
By Diane Wakoski

A Version of Paolo and Francesca
By Peter Balakian

A View of the Sea
By J. D. McClatchy

A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
By Sir Walter Ralegh

A Wicker Basket
By Robert Creeley

A Woman's Looks
By Anonymous

A-
By Samuel Menashe

Across a Table
By Steven Cordova

Acting
By R. S. Thomas

Acts of Love
By Pam Rehm

Adam and Eve
By Marjorie Pickthall

Adam’s Curse
By William Butler Yeats

Advice to Her Son on Marriage
By Mary Barber

Ae Fond Kiss
By Robert Burns

After a God
By Jenny Browne

After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer

After Death
By Christina Rossetti

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell

After Metaphysics, or When the Fly Leaves the Flybottle
By Deborah Slicer

After Summer Fell Apart
By Yusef Komunyakaa

After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass

After the Pleasure Party: Lines Traces Under an Image of Amor Threatening
By Herman Melville

After the Winter
By Claude McKay

Afton Water
By Robert Burns

Against His Quitting the Torn Field
By Carl Phillips

Against Naturism
By Roddy Lumsden

Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo

Air and Angels
By John Donne

Al Croom
By Walter McDonald

Alas Madam for Stealing of a Kiss
By Thomas Wyatt

Alla Breve Loving
By C. D. Wright

Allow Me
By Chungmi Kim

Alpine Wedding
By Ralph Angel

Altruism
By Molly Peacock

Always
By Rane Arroyo

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

American Odalisque
By Jane Miller

Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-ropes
By Andrew Marvell

Amor Mundi
By Christina Rossetti

Amor Vincit Omnia
By Edgar Bowers

Amoretti I: Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti III: The Sovereign Beauty
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti IV: "New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate"
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LIV: Of this worlds Theatre in which we stay
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LV: So oft as I her beauty do behold
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXII: "The weary yeare his race now having run"
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXVI: "To all those happy blessings which ye have"
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXX: Fresh spring the herald of loves mighty king
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXXI: I joy to see how in your drawen work
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXXIX: Men Call you Fair
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXXXI: Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti LXXXIX: Lyke as the Culver on the barèd bough
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti VIII: More then most faire, full of the living fire
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti XIII: "In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth"
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti XV: Ye tradefull Merchants that with every weary toyle
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti XXII: This Holy Season
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti XXIII: Penelope for her Ulisses sake
By Edmund Spenser

Amoretti XXX: My Love is like to ice, and I to fire
By Edmund Spenser

An American Affair
By Henri Coulette

An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage
By Katherine Philips

An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin

An Awful Story
By Michael Collier

An Elegy
By Ben Jonson

from An Explanation of America: A Love of Death
By Robert Pinsky

An Hymn In Honour Of Beauty
By Edmund Spenser

An Ode
By Matthew Prior

from Anactoria
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

And Day Brought Back My Night
By Geoffrey Brock

And If I Did, What Then?
By George Gascoigne

And Wilt thou Leave me Thus?
By Thomas Wyatt

Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning

Angellica’s Lament
By Aphra Behn

Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe

Anniversary
By Louise Glück

Another Insane Devotion
By Gerald Stern

Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
By A.E. Stallings

Aperture
By Jennifer Tonge

Aphrodite Metropolis (2)
By Kenneth Fearing

Approximately Forever
By C. D. Wright

April Treason
By John Crowe Ransom

Archaic Fragment
By Louise Glück

Ars Amoris
By J. V. Cunningham

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

Ashes of Life
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Astrophel and Stella CI: "Stella is sick, and in that sick-bed lies"
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella CII: "Where be the roses gone, which sweetened so our eyes?"
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella CVI: "O absent presence, Stella is not here"
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella CVII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella I
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella II: "Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot"
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella III
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella LII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella LXIII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella LXIV
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella LXXI
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella LXXII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella V: "It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve"
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella VII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XC
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XCII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XIV
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XLI
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XLIX
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XLVII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XLVIII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XV
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XX
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XXI
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XXIII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XXV
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XXX: "With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!"
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XXXI
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XXXIII
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XXXIX
By Philip Sidney

At a Solemn Musick
By Delmore Schwartz

At a Window
By Carl Sandburg

At Pegasus
By Terrance Hayes

At the Poetry Reading
By John Brehm

At the Telephone Club
By Henri Coulette

At the Wedding March
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Aubade
By Amber Flora Thomas

Aubade
By Dafydd ap Gwilym

Auld Robin Forbes
By Susanna Blamire

Avising the Bright Beams
By Thomas Wyatt

Away above a Harborful ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“As We Are So Wonderfully Done with Each Other”
By Kenneth Patchen

“Didn’t Sappho say her guts clutched up like this?”
By Marilyn Hacker

“I was passionate ...”
By Lal Ded

“If no love is, O God, what fele I so?”
By Petrarch

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

“O my Lord ...”
By Rabi'a

“Remember how close we sat...”
By Jane Miller

“What Do Women Want?”
By Kim Addonizio

“Womanhood, wanton, ye want”
By John Skelton

‘Be Music, Night’
By Kenneth Patchen

‘Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair’
By Philip Larkin

Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
By Moira Egan

Barbara Allen
By Anonymous

Beautiful Black Men
By Nikki Giovanni

Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
By Stephen C. Foster

Before Christmas
By Landis Everson

Before Parting
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Before Sextet
By Bernadette Mayer

Being in Love
By Chungmi Kim

Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski

Between Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night
By Roddy Lumsden

Bi-Focal
By William E. Stafford

Birches
By Robert Frost

Bird-Understander
By Craig Arnold

Black Mare
By Lynda Hull

Black Valentine
By Tess Gallagher

Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Blues for Dante Alighieri
By Kim Addonizio

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Break of Day
By John Donne

Bridal Song
By George Chapman

Briefly It Enters, Briefly Speaks
By Jane Kenyon

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

Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
By Robert Burns

Caelica 22
By Fulke Greville

Caelica IV
By Fulke Greville

Caelica XXIX
By Fulke Greville

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

Canary
By Rita Dove

Canicule Macaronique
By John Fuller

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Careless Perfection
By Daniel Halpern

Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson

Cascando
By Samuel Beckett

Cassandra
By H. D.

Cathedral
By Terence Winch

Cave Dwellers
By A. Poulin

Celebration for June 24
By Thomas McGrath

Chamber Thicket
By Sharon Olds

Chance Meeting
By Susan Browne

Changing What We Mean
By Eloise Klein Healy

Cherry-Ripe
By Thomas Campion

Cherrylog Road
By James L. Dickey

Chinese New Year
By Lynda Hull

from Chloe and Myra
By Sophia Burrell

Choice
By J. V. Cunningham

Choriambics
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Clarinet
By Terrance Hayes

Clorinda and Damon
By Andrew Marvell

Clouds
By Denise Levertov

Coda
By Marilyn Hacker

Colors passing through us
By Marge Piercy

Comin thro' the Rye
By Robert Burns

Complaint of the Absence of Her Love Being Upon the Sea
By Henry Howard, earl of Surrey

Confession of a Stolen Kiss
By Charles d'Orleans

Confessions
By Robert Browning

Confluence
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Consequences
By William Meredith

Constancy
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Contempt
By Elfriede Jelinek

continental divide
By D.A. Powell

Coquette et Froide
By Julia Ward Howe

Cortège
By Carl Phillips

corydon & alexis
By D.A. Powell

corydon & alexis, redux
By D.A. Powell

Country Love Song
By Melanie Almeder

courthouse steps
By D.A. Powell

Courtship
By Mark Strand

Covers
By Rae Armantrout

Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Cowgirl
By R. T. Smith

Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch

Cozy Apologia
By Rita Dove

Cracked Looking Glass
By Jean Garrigue

Credo
By Matthew Rohrer

Crepuscule with Muriel
By Marilyn Hacker

crossing into canaan
By D.A. Powell

Cruelty and Love / Love on the Farm
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Cuckoldom
By BJ Ward

Cups: 8
By Robin Blaser

Damon the Mower
By Andrew Marvell

Dark Harvest
By Joseph Millar

Dark Rosaleen
By Anonymous

Days of '74
By Mark Jarman

Days of 1964
By James Merrill

De Profundis
By Christina Rossetti

Dead Love
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dear Gonglya,
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Dear John, Dear Coltrane
By Michael S. Harper

Dear One Absent This Long While
By Lisa Olstein

Death, in a bull's pelt
By Miguel Hernández

Debt
By Sara Teasdale

Defeated
By Sophie Jewett

Delia I
By Samuel Daniel

Delia II
By Samuel Daniel

Delia L
By Samuel Daniel

Delia LIII
By Samuel Daniel

Delia XXXII
By Samuel Daniel

Delia XXXVI
By Samuel Daniel

Delia XXXVII
By Samuel Daniel

Delight in Disorder
By Robert Herrick

Denial
By George Herbert

Desire
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Desire’s Persistence
By Jay Wright

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

Disdain Returned
By Thomas Carew

from Doctor Drink, #1
By J. V. Cunningham

Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Domestic
By Carl Phillips

Domestic Situation
By Ernest Hilbert

Don Juan in Amsterdam
By Daryl Hine

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)

Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True
By Dinah Maria Craik

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

Down By the Salley Gardens
By William Butler Yeats

Draft of a Dream
By Steven Cramer

Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass

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

Drift
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Duncan Gray
By Robert Burns

During a War
By Naomi Shihab Nye

from Each in a Place Apart
By James McMichael

Early December in Croton-on-Hudson
By Louise Glück

Ebb
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Echo
By Christina Rossetti

Eclipsed
By Richard Meier

Eclogue
By John Crowe Ransom

Eden Tiresias
By Brian Teare

Eight O'Clock
By Sara Teasdale

Eight Variations
By Weldon Kees

Elegies, Book One, 5
By Christopher Marlowe

from Elegies, I.iv
By Tibullus

Elegy
By Miguel Hernández

Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne

Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne

Elena
By Irving Feldman

Eleventh Song
By Philip Sidney

Elms
By Louise Glück

Eloisa to Abelard
By Alexander Pope

Elusive Time
By James Laughlin

Embarrassment
By Brenda Shaughnessy

from Endymion
By John Keats

Enow
By Henri Coulette

Envoi
By Ezra Pound

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

Epilogue
By Robert Browning

Episode
By Zbigniew Herbert

Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Epistle to Augusta
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Epistle to Miss Blount, On Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation
By Alexander Pope

Epitaph for a Romantic Woman
By Louise Bogan

Epithalament
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Epithalamion
By David Jones

Eros
By Robert Bridges

Eros of Heroines
By Ange Mlinko

Eros Turannos
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Errata
By Kevin Young

Eve Considers the Possibility of Pardon
By John Engels

Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke

Ex Machina
By Linda Gregerson

Exclusion
By Emily Dickinson

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Faint Music
By Robert Hass

Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die
By John Dryden

False Flowers
By Anne Stevenson

Fancy
By John Keats

from Fanny
By Fitz-Greene Halleck

Farewell Love and all thy Laws for ever
By Thomas Wyatt

Fate
By Carolyn Wells

Faults
By Sara Teasdale

Faustine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

February Sky
By Bruce Smith

Field Guide
By Cynthia Zarin

Finale
By Pablo Neruda

Fire Season
By James Galvin

First Farewell to J.G.
By Ephelia

First Love
By John Clare

First Poem for You
By Kim Addonizio

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

Flirtation
By Rita Dove

Follow Thy Fair Sun
By Thomas Campion

Follow Your Saint
By Thomas Campion

For Annie
By Edgar Allan Poe

For Anybody’s Martyr’s Song
By Jean Garrigue

For Billy
By Jack Spicer

For Love
By Robert Creeley

For That He Looked Not upon Her
By George Gascoigne

Forget not Yet the Tried Intent
By Thomas Wyatt

Formerly Communist Love Sonnet
By Connie Deanovich

Fountains in the sea
By Marin Sorescu

Four Poems for Robin
By Gary Snyder

Four Sonnets (1922)
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Four Themes on a Variation
By G. E. Murray

Fourth Song
By Philip Sidney

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

Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

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

From the Dressing-Room
By Medbh McGuckian

From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren

Fruit-gathering LV
By Rabindranath Tagore

Fuck the Astronauts
By James Tate

Geology
By Bob King

from Georgics, III
By Virgil

Ghost Supper
By David Wojahn

Gifts
By Juliana Horatia Ewing

Give All to Love
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gloire de Dijon
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Glow Flesh
By Victor Hernández Cruz

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Going Back to Bed
By J. D. McClatchy

Grand Central, Track 23
By Elizabeth Skurnick

Green Groweth the Holly
By Henry VIII, king of England

Green Tea
By Dale Ritterbusch

Greeting Verses
By A. R. Ammons

Half Circle
By Ralph Angel

Half-Ourselves & Half-Not
By Colin Cheney

Hap
By Thomas Hardy

Happy Hour
By Alan Shapiro

Harlem Sweeties
By Langston Hughes

Having a Coke with You
By Frank O'Hara

Heat
By Jane Hirshfield

Hemachandra’s Grammar 418.1
By Anonymous

Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer

Her Face
By Arthur Gorges

Her my body
By Bob Hicok

Hero and Leander
By Christopher Marlowe

from Hero and Leander: "It lies not in our power to love or hate"
By Christopher Marlowe

Highland Mary
By Robert Burns

Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths
By Sean Nevin

hole
By Quraysh Ali Lansana

Hole, Where Once in Passion We Swam
By Dave Smith

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

Homo Will Not Inherit
By Mark Doty

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Hour
By Reginald Gibbons

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

How Things Fall
By Kevin Stein

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

Hyacinth
By Louise Glück

Hymn
By Carl Phillips

Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
By Wallace Stevens

I Am Offering this Poem
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

I Care Not for These Ladies
By Thomas Campion

I Dreamed That I Was Old
By Stanley Kunitz

I Fail As a Celibate
By Jerome Rothenberg

I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t
By Richard Brautigan

I Find no Peace
By Thomas Wyatt

I Hid my Love
By John Clare

I Knew a Woman
By Theodore Roethke

I Love You
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I Love Your Crazy Bones
By Barton Sutter

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

I Shall Be Married on Monday Morning
By Anonymous

I Sing the Body Electric
By Walt Whitman

I started Early – Took my Dog – (656)
By Emily Dickinson

I think I should have loved you presently
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

I Want You to See
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

I Wish I Want I Need
By Gail Mazur

Iambicum Trimetrum
By Edmund Spenser

I’ll Open the Window
By Anna Swir

Idea LXI
By Michael Drayton

Idea XLIII: Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace
By Michael Drayton

Ideas
By Kathryn Starbuck

Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If Ever There Was One
By Miller Williams

If I Had Known
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love
By Dylan Thomas

If It Were Not for You
By Hayden Carruth

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

If Spirits Walk
By Sophie Jewett

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

In a Dark Time
By Theodore Roethke

In a Garden
By Amy Lowell

In Love with You
By Kenneth Koch

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: 27
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In School-days
By John Greenleaf Whittier

In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
By Mary Szybist

in the Catskills again
By Dick Lourie

In the Grand Manner
By Richard Emil Braun

In the Novel
By Susan Stewart

In the Orchard
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the Park
By John Koethe

In the Valley of Cauteretz
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Time
By W. S. Merwin

Incandescent War Poem Sonnet
By Bernadette Mayer

Incision
By Jillian Weise

Incubus
By Craig Arnold

Infidelity
By Louis Untermeyer

Infidelity
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
By Thomas Carew

Insomnia
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Invitation to Love
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Inviting a Friend to Supper
By Ben Jonson

Isaiah’s Coal
By John Frederick Nims

Isolation: To Marguerite
By Matthew Arnold

Jacob
By Phoebe Cary

Jealousy
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

Jenny Kiss’d Me
By Leigh Hunt

Jesus Comforts His Mother
By Anonymous

Jesus, My Sweet Lover
By Anonymous

Juan’s Song
By Louise Bogan

Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke

Judith of Bethulia
By John Crowe Ransom

Kalaloch
By Carolyn Forché

Katie
By Henry Timrod

Kind Are Her Answers
By Thomas Campion

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Kisses Desired
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

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

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
By John Keats

La Belle Juive
By Henry Timrod

Ladies
By Ezra Pound

from Lalla Rookh
By Thomas Moore

Land
By Agha Shahid Ali

Language of Love
By Rae Armantrout

Largesse
By J. D. McClatchy

Larkinesque
By Michael Ryan

Last May a Braw Wooer
By Robert Burns

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

Late Night Ode
By J. D. McClatchy

Laus Veneris
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Leave-Taking
By Louise Bogan

Les Luths
By Frank O'Hara

Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis

Letter to a Friend about Girls
By Philip Larkin

Life in a Love
By Robert Browning

Like cold air passing through lips
By Saradha Soobrayen

Like Rousseau
By Amiri Baraka

Lines Depicting Simple Happiness
By Peter Gizzi

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lisa
By David Hernandez

Listening
By David Ignatow

Lochinvar
By Sir Walter Scott

Lost Content
By A. F. Moritz

Lost Desire
By Meleager

Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love (II)
By George Herbert

Love (III)
By George Herbert

Love Again
By Philip Larkin

Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning

Love and a Question
By Robert Frost

Love and Death
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Love and Friendship
By Emily Jane Brontë

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

Love and Sleep
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love Armed
By Aphra Behn

Love at Thirty-two Degrees
By Katherine Larson

Love Explained
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Love for a Hand
By Karl Shapiro

Love in a Life
By Robert Browning

Love in the Valley
By George Meredith

Love in the Weather’s Bells
By Jay Wright

Love Is A Sickness Full of Woes
By Samuel Daniel

Love Letter (Clouds)
By Sarah Manguso

Love Letters
By Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard

Love Like Salt
By Lisel Mueller

Love Lives beyond the Tomb
By John Clare

Love Me Little, Love Me Long
By Anonymous

Love Pirates
By Joseph Millar

Love Poem
By Miller Williams

Love Poem with Harbor View
By Erica Funkhouser

Love Recidivus
By Lisa Barnett

Love Song
By Dorothy Parker

Love Song
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Love Song
By David P. Young

Love Song for Alex, 1979
By Margaret Walker

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 Good-Morrow
By Thomas Heywood

Love's Growth
By John Donne

Love's Nocturn
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Love's Witness
By Aphra Behn

Love-Lily
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Love’s Philosophy
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lovers' Infiniteness
By John Donne

Loves
By Scott Cairns

Lucifer in Starlight
By David St. John

Luciferin
By Dean Young

Lucinda Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters

Luke Havergal
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Lullaby of the Onion
By Miguel Hernández

Luna Moth
By Carl Phillips

Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
By Kenneth Rexroth

from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe

Madam, withouten many Words
By Thomas Wyatt

Madrigal: "Like the Idalian queen"
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

Magnificat in Little
By Léonie Adams

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
By John Skelton

Map
By Atsuro Riley

Mariana
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Mariana in the South
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Marriage
By Marianne Moore

Marriage
By Lawrence Raab

Marriage
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

Marriage Morning
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935
By Tyehimba Jess

Mary Morison
By Robert Burns

from Maud: O that 'twere possible
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Maud; A Monodrama (from Part I)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Maud; A Monodrama (from Part II)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Mediocrity in Love Rejected
By Thomas Carew

Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass

Meditations in an Emergency
By Frank O'Hara

Medley of the Cut
By John Peck

Meet Me in the Green Glen
By John Clare

Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning

from Merlin and Vivien
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Methought I saw my late espousèd saint
By John Milton

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Misery and Splendor
By Robert Hass

Mme. Sperides
By Gregory Djanikian

Mock Orange
By Louise Glück

Modern Love
By John Keats

Modern Love: IX
By George Meredith

Modern Love: L
By George Meredith

Modern Love: VIII
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XIV
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XLIX
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XLVI
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XVI
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XX
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XXII
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XXVI
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XXXIV
By George Meredith

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Moraine for Bob
By Joanna Fuhrman

Motet
By Michael Anania

Moths
By Jennifer O'Grady

Mouth
By Robert Wrigley

Movement Song
By Audre Lorde

Murder
By David Baker

Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

My Boyfriend
By Camille Guthrie

My Dearest Dust
By Catherine Dyer

My Erotic Double
By John Ashbery

My Father's Diary
By Sharon Olds

My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My Life’s Delight
By Thomas Campion

My Love
By Don Paterson

My Lover Gave Me Green Leaves
By Josephine Dickinson

My Lute Awake
By Thomas Wyatt

My Old Idols
By J. D. McClatchy

My Picture Left in Scotland
By Ben Jonson

My Sad Captains
By Thom Gunn

My Sweetest Lesbia
By Thomas Campion

Mythmaking on the Merritt Parkway
By G. E. Murray

Nabokov’s Blues
By William Matthews

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Natural Law
By Babette Deutsch

Need
By Babette Deutsch

Negotiation
By Lisa Olstein

Neutral Tones
By Thomas Hardy

Never Love Unless
By Thomas Campion

Never Seek to Tell thy Love
By William Blake

Never the Time and the Place
By Robert Browning

New Magic
By Kenneth Slessor

No Platonic Love
By William Cartwright

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

Nocturne
By Dudley Randall

Now
By Robert Browning

Now Winter Nights Enlarge
By Thomas Campion

Nude Descending
By Alicia Ostriker

O Best of All Nights, Return and Return Again
By James Laughlin

O Donald! Ye Are Just the Man
By Susanna Blamire

O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
By William Shakespeare

O my pa-pa
By Bob Hicok

O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
By Walt Whitman

Ode 44
By Hafiz

Ode For Walt Whitman
By Jack Spicer

Ode I, 5: To Pyrrha
By Horace

Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats

Ode on Indolence
By John Keats

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy
By Donald Justice

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

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

Odes
By Fernando Pessoa

from Odes: 30. The Orotava Road
By Basil Bunting

Of Love
By Robert Herrick

Of Memory and Distance
By Russell Edson

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Oh, How the Hand the Lover Ought to Prize
By Aphra Behn

Old Love and New
By Sara Teasdale

Older Love
By Jim Harrison

On a Dream
By John Keats

On a Girdle
By Edmund Waller

On Marriage
By Meghan O'Rourke

On Monsieur’s Departure
By Elizabeth I

On Myself
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

On the Farm
By R. S. Thomas

On the Metro
By C. K. Williams

Once We Played
By Mathilde Blind

One Girl
By Sappho

One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
By Pablo Neruda

One Love Story, Eight Takes
By Brenda Shaughnessy

One Morning
By Emmy Pérez

One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker

Opera Bouffe
By Philip Gross

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Other Fugitives and Other Strangers
By Rigoberto González

Out of Catullus
By Richard Crashaw

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
By Walt Whitman

Out of Town
By Piotr Sommer

Over and Under
By John Brehm

Over the Roofs
By Sara Teasdale

Palais des Artes
By Louise Glück

Palms
By Gustaf Sobin

Parable of the Swans
By Louise Glück

Paris and Helen
By Judy Grahn

Parting at Morning
By Robert Browning

Parting Song
By Jill Alexander Essbaum

Passage over Water
By Robert Duncan

Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti

Passing Remark
By William E. Stafford

Passionata
By Lynn Crosbie

Pastoral Dialogue
By Anne Killigrew

Patience
By Katherine Larson

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Permanent Press
By Alice Friman

Perplexity: A Poem
By Elizabeth Hands

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Peter Quince at the Clavier
By Wallace Stevens

Piazza Piece
By John Crowe Ransom

Pied Booty
By Dabney Stuart

Platonic Love
By Curt Anderson

Platonic Love
By Abraham Cowley

Poem
By Thomas McGrath

Poem about People
By Robert Pinsky

Poem for My Love
By June Jordan

Poem [“At night Chinamen jump”]
By Frank O'Hara

Poem [“When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen”]
By Frank O'Hara

Porphyria's Lover
By Robert Browning

Portrait
By John Frederick Nims

Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot

Postlude
By Noelle Kocot

Postlude
By William Carlos Williams

Power in Silence
By Michael Field

Preposition
By Sally Van Doren

Probation
By Averill Curdy

Project for a Fainting
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Prothalamion
By David Jones

Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost

Queen-Anne’s Lace
By William Carlos Williams

Queens
By J. M. Synge

Rain on a Grave
By Thomas Hardy

Rainbow’s End
By Louis Untermeyer

Rapture
By Galway Kinnell

Reasons
By Thomas James

Recitative
By A.E. Stallings

Recreation
By Audre Lorde

Reluctance
By Robert Frost

Remember
By Christina Rossetti

Remembrance
By Emily Jane Brontë

Requiem Shark
By Rad Smith

Reserve
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Reunion
By Carolyn Forché

Revenge
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Rhapsody
By Frank O'Hara

Rhapsody
By David St. John

Rhode Island
By William Meredith

Riddle Song
By Anonymous

Riding Herd
By Walter McDonald

Ring Out Your Bells
By Philip Sidney

Romance
By Claude McKay

Romance
By Ruth Stone

Romance
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Romantic
By Dara Wier

Romantic Moment
By Tony Hoagland

Rondeau
By Leigh Hunt

Rondeau Redoublé (and Scarcely Worth the Trouble, at That)
By Dorothy Parker

Rosalind’s Madrigal
By Thomas Lodge

Rose-Cheeked Laura
By Thomas Campion

from Rubaiyat: "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough"
By Omar Khayaam

Runaways Café II
By Marilyn Hacker

Ruth
By Thomas Hood

Sad and Alone
By Maurice Manning

Sad Boy's Sad Boy
By Charles Bernstein

Salomé
By Ai

Santa Lucia
By Robert Hass

Sarah Brown
By Edgar Lee Masters

Séverine in Summer School
By Rex Wilder

Selective Service
By Carolyn Forché

Self-Portrait at Twenty
By Gregory Orr

Sence You Went Away
By James Weldon Johnson

Seniors
By Alberto Ríos

Separation
By W. S. Merwin

Sestina of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni
By Cino da Pistoia

seventh heaven
By Patti Smith

Seventh Song
By Philip Sidney

Sex and Taxes
By Kevin Cantwell

Shadow Play
By Ralph Angel

Shame
By C. K. Williams

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
By William Wordsworth

She Lay All Naked
By Anonymous

She Walks in Beauty
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

She Was a Phantom of Delight
By William Wordsworth

Sherbourne Morning
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Should the Wide World Roll Away
By Stephen Crane

Shy Boy
By Greg Sellers

from Silent is the House
By Emily Jane Brontë

Since There Is No Escape
By Sara Teasdale

Since ye so Please
By Thomas Wyatt

Six Poems for Poetry Chicago
By Jack Spicer

Sleeping on Fists
By Alberto Ríos

Slow Dancing on the Highway:
the Trip North
By Elizabeth Hobbs

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
By Ben Jonson

Snowflake
By William Baer

So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Solar
By Robin Becker

Solo R&B Vocal Underground
By W. S. Di Piero

Something Childish, but Very Natural
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sometimes Never
By Joyce Sutphen

Sometimes with One I Love
By Walt Whitman

Somewhere or Other
By Christina Rossetti

Sonata
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Song
By Sophie Jewett

Song
By Marjorie Pickthall

Song
By Robert Browning

Song
By Edmund Waller

Song
By Cynthia Zarin

Song
By Aphra Behn

Song
By Lady Mary Chudleigh

Song
By Dorothea Du Bois

Song
By Brenda Cárdenas

Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

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

Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine)
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Song After Campion
By Robert Fitzgerald

Song for Ishtar
By Denise Levertov

Song for the Last Act
By Louise Bogan

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

Song in a Minor Key
By Dorothy Parker

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Song of the Sea to the Shore
By Robert Fanning

Song of Three Smiles
By W. S. Merwin

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 to Celia
By Ben Jonson

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

Song: “Why should a foolish marriage vow”
By John Dryden

Song: Go and catch a falling star
By John Donne

Song: I prithee spare me gentle boy
By Sir John Suckling

Song: If you refuse me once, and think again
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: Sweetest love, I do not go
By John Donne

Song: To Celia
By Ben Jonson

Song: Why so pale and wan fond lover?
By Sir John Suckling

Songs from The Beggar’s Opera: Air IV-Cotillion
By John Gay

Sonnet
By Robert Hass

Sonnet #10
By Hayden Carruth

Sonnet 16
By Richard Barnfield

Sonnet 17
By Richard Barnfield

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

Sonnet CIV: To me, fair friend, you never can be old
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CIX: O! never say that I was false of heart
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CVII: Not mine own Fears, nor the Prophetic Soul
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CX: Alas, 'tis True I have Gone here and there
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXLI: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXLIV: Two loves I have of comfort and despair
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXLVI: Poor Soul, the Centre of my Sinful Earth
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 CXXVI: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow’r
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXXXV: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXXXVIII: When my love swears that she is made of truth
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet II: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet III: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LIII: "What is your substance, whereof are you made"
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LVII: Being your slave, what should I do but tend
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXIV: When I have Seen by Time's Fell Hand Defaced
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXV: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
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 LXXVI: Why is my verse so barren of new pride
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXXVII: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XCVIII: From you have I been absent in the spring
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XII: "When I do count the clock that tells the time"
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XIX: Devouring Time, Blunt thou the Lion's Paws
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XL: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XX
By Pablo Neruda

Sonnet XX: "A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted"
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXV: Let those who are in Favour with their Stars
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 XXXV: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
By William Shakespeare

Sonnets from the Portuguese 14: If Thou
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 1: I Thought how Theocritus
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 20: Beloved, my Beloved
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 22: When our Two Souls
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 26: I Lived with Visions
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 28: My Letters!
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Sonnets from the Portuguese 38: First time he kissed me
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 44: Beloved, thou has brought me many flowers
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 5: I lift my heavy heart up solemnly
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O'er
By Walter Savage Landor

Sorrow
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sotto Voce
By C. Dale Young

South Carolina Morning
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Spectral Lovers
By John Crowe Ransom

Stanzas for Music
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Stanzas ["Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!"]
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Stolen Moments
By Kim Addonizio

Stolen Pleasure
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

Strangers
By Annie Finch

Study/Trees
By Leonard Gontarek

Sublimation Point
By Jason Schneiderman

Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing
By Robert Duncan

Sudden Light
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Summer
By John Clare

Summer near the River
By Carolyn Kizer

Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro

Sunflower
By André Breton

Superbly Situated
By Robert Hershon

Surface Translations
By Lisa Fishman

Surprised by Joy
By William Wordsworth

Sway
By Louis Simpson

Sweeney Erect
By T. S. Eliot

Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love
By George Eliot

sweet reader, flanneled and tulled
By Olena Kalytiak Davis

Sylvester’s Dying Bed
By Langston Hughes

Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away
By William Shakespeare

Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away
By John Fletcher

Taking Notice
By Marilyn Hacker

Taking Off My Clothes
By Carolyn Forché

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

Tam Glen
By Robert Burns

Tatyana
By Thomas P. Lynch

Tenderness and Rot
By Kay Ryan

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

Thamar and Amnon
By Federico García Lorca

Thanatopsis
By William Cullen Bryant

The Abandoned Farm
By Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Ache of Marriage
By Denise Levertov

The Affair
By David Baker

The Affliction of Richard
By Robert Bridges

The Afternoon Sun
By C. P. Cavafy

The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
By Thomas Lord Vaux

The Anniversary
By John Donne

The Artist
By Amy Lowell

The Bait
By John Donne

The Ballad of Sally in our Alley
By Henry Carey

The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
By Anne Sexton

The Ballad of Villon and Fat Madge
By François Villon

The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner

The Betrothal
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Blue Robe
By Wendell Berry

The Blue Scarf
By Amy Lowell

from The Book of Funnels
By Christian Hawkey

The Bride
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Bridge
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

from The Bridge: Southern Cross
By Hart Crane

The Brief Journey West
By Howard Nemerov

The Canonization
By John Donne

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Cap and Bells
By William Butler Yeats

The Caution
By Catherine Cockburn

The Chosen
By Thomas Hardy

The Clod and the Pebble
By William Blake

The Cloister
By William Matthews

The Complaint of Lisa
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Consolations of Sociobiology
By Bill Knott

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

The Copper Beech
By Daryl Hine

The Cotter's Saturday Night
By Robert Burns

The Country of Marriage
By Wendell Berry

The Cover of Mars
By Jane Miller

The Death of Antinoüs
By Mark Doty

The Definition of Love
By Andrew Marvell

The Diner
By Richard Jones

The Disappointment
By Aphra Behn

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Door (I)
By Robert Creeley

The Dream
By Irving Feldman

The Dream
By John Donne

The Dream
By Aphra Behn

The Dream of a Lover
By Anonymous

The Echo Elf Answers
By Thomas Hardy

The Ecstasy
By John Donne

The Eolian Harp
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The Expiration
By John Donne

The Fair Singer
By Andrew Marvell

The Fire
By Deborah Parédez

The Flaming Heart
By Richard Crashaw

The Flea
By John Donne

The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
By Dylan Thomas

The friend
By Marge Piercy

The Funeral
By John Donne

The Gallery
By Andrew Marvell

The Garden
By Andrew Marvell

The Garden of Love
By William Blake

The Gardener 38
By Rabindranath Tagore

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Geranium
By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Ghost in the Martini
By Anthony Hecht

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Glove and the Lions
By Leigh Hunt

The God of Inattention
By Averill Curdy

The Good-Morrow
By John Donne

The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov

The Greatest Love
By Anna Swir

The Haunter
By Thomas Hardy

The Healing Improvisation of Hair
By Jay Wright

The Heart and Service
By Thomas Wyatt

The Hearts
By Robert Pinsky

The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes

The Hitchhikers
By Diane Wakoski

The Holy Fair
By Robert Burns

The Home
By Herbert Morris

The Horse Fell Off the Poem
By Mahmoud Darwish

The House of Life: 22. Heart's Haven
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

The Hush of the Very Good
By Todd Boss

The Illiterate
By William Meredith

The Imperfect Enjoyment
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The Indian Serenade
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Indifferent
By John Donne

The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
By Li Po

The Kiss
By Kirmen Uribe

The Laboratory
By Robert Browning

The Lady's Yes
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Lake in Central Park
By Jay Wright

The Language
By Robert Creeley

The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson

The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos

The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour
By Thomas Wyatt

The Look
By Sara Teasdale

The Lost Mistress
By Robert Browning

The Love Cook
By Ron Padgett

The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass
By Michael S. Harper

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

The lover
By Sina Queyras

The Lover: A Ballad
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The Magic of Numbers
By Kenneth Koch

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Man Who Married Magdalene
By Louis Simpson

The Memory of Elena
By Carolyn Forché

The Metaphysical Amorist
By J. V. Cunningham

The Microcosm
By Giovanni Battista Guarini

The Milkmaid’s Epithalamium
By Thomas Randolph

The Miller's Daughter
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

The Mock Song
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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

The Mower to the Glow-Worms
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell

The Night Piece, to Julia
By Robert Herrick

The Nightingale
By Philip Sidney

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

The Oblation
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Old Familiar Faces
By Charles Lamb

The Old Front Gate
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale

The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Parlement of Fowls
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe

The Pearl
By George Herbert

The Phantom Horsewoman
By Thomas Hardy

The Phoenix and the Turtle
By William Shakespeare

The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos

The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Priest
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Princess: Come down, O Maid
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: O Swallow
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück

The Quiet World
By Jeffrey McDaniel

The Rain
By Robert Creeley

from The Rape of Lucrece
By William Shakespeare

The Rattling Boy from Dublin
By William McGonagall

The Real and True and Sure
By Robert Browning

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

The Relic
By John Donne

The Request of Alexis
By Sarah Dixon

The Revelation
By Coventry Patmore

The River
By Gregory Orr

The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine

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

The Root
By Helen Hoyt

The Safecracker
By Linda Pastan

The Same Old Jazz
By Philip Whalen

The Scrutinie
By Richard Lovelace

The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove

The Self Banished
By Edmund Waller

The Sheep Child
By James L. Dickey

The Sheets
By Anonymous

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 Sick Rose
By William Blake

The Siller Croun
By Susanna Blamire

The Silver Lily
By Louise Glück

The Smell of Rat Rubs Off
By J. Allyn Rosser

The Smile
By William Blake

The Snow Is Deep on the Ground
By Kenneth Patchen

from The Song of Solomon, Chapter 2
By Solomon

The Spanish Hour
By J. D. McClatchy

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

The Spring
By Thomas Carew

The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
By Edmund Waller

The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods
By Rigoberto González

The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Sun Rising
By John Donne

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Taxi
By Amy Lowell

The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
By Thomas Moore

The Triumph of Time
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Truth
By Carl Phillips

The Unfortunate Damsel
By Fleetwood Habergham

The Unfortunate Lover
By Andrew Marvell

The Unquiet Grave
By Anonymous

The Untrustworthy Speaker
By Louise Glück

The Vain Advice
By Catherine Cockburn

The Vine
By Robert Herrick

The Voice
By Thomas Hardy

The Warning
By Robert Creeley

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Wedding Vow
By Sharon Olds

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

The Wild Old Wicked Man
By William Butler Yeats

The Willing Mistriss
By Aphra Behn

The Wind at the Door
By William Barnes

The Wine of Love
By James Thomson

The Wish
By Lady Mary Chudleigh

The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández

The Wounded Cupid. Song
By Anacreon

The Yellow Bicycle
By Robert Hass

Then
By Roddy Lumsden

Then Another Petal
By Hilda Morley

There Is A Garden In Her Face
By Thomas Campion

These Poems, She Said
By Robert Bringhurst

They
By Wendell Berry

They Flee From Me
By Thomas Wyatt

This
By Ralph Angel

Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell
By Ben Jonson

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

Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes
By Thomas Campion

Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke

Tides
By Helen Hunt Jackson

Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

To -
By Sarah Helen Whitman

To -
By John Keats

To ----
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Dead Lover
By Louise Bogan

To a Greek Marble
By Richard Aldington

To a Highland Girl
By William Wordsworth

To a Husband
By Amy Lowell

To a Lady that Desired I Would Love Her
By Thomas Carew

To a Young Lady, With Some Lampreys
By John Gay

from To Alexis In Answer to His Poem Against Fruition
By Aphra Behn

To Althea, from Prison
By Richard Lovelace

To Anthea
By Robert Herrick

To Anthea, who may Command him Anything
By Robert Herrick

To Asra
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To Cupid
By Joanna Baillie

To Fanny
By John Keats

To Helen
By Edgar Allan Poe

To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell

To His Mistress
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

To His Mistress Going to Bed
By John Donne

To J.G. On the News of His Marriage
By Ephelia

To Jane: The Invitation
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
By Richard Lovelace

To Lysander
By Aphra Behn

To Marguerite: Continued
By Matthew Arnold

To Mary
By William Cowper

To Mistress Margaret Hussey
By John Skelton

To Mrs. M. A. Upon Absence
By Katherine Philips

To My Dear and Loving Husband
By Anne Bradstreet

To My Husband
By Eliza

To my Inconstant Mistress
By Thomas Carew

To My Rival
By Ephelia

To My Wife
By J. V. Cunningham

To My Young Lover
By Jane Barker

To One in Paradise
By Edgar Allan Poe

To One That Asked Me Why I Lov’d J.G.
By Ephelia

To One Unknown
By Helen Dudley

To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
By John Keats

from To Priapus: Elegies 1.iv
By Tibullus

To Rosa
By Abraham Lincoln

To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer

To Sir Henry Cary
By Ben Jonson

To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday
By Wendell Berry

To the Fair Clorinda
By Aphra Behn

To the Harbormaster
By Frank O'Hara

To You
By Kenneth Koch

Togetherness
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Tom O’ Bedlam among the Sunflowers
By Thomas James

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Tortoise Gallantry
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Tortoise Shout
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

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

Tree Marriage
By William Meredith

Triolet
By Sandra McPherson

Triolets in the Argolid
By Rachel Hadas

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

Tutto è Sciolto
By James Joyce

from Twenty-One Love Poems: XIII
By Adrienne Rich

Twenty-year Marriage
By Ai

Two Bodies
By Annie Finch

Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning

Two Views of Buson
By Robert Hass

Under Stars
By Tess Gallagher

Under Two Windows
By Schuyler Van Rensselaer

Undone Song at Neap Tide
By Kathryn Starbuck

Uneasy Rider
By Diane Wakoski

Union Square
By Sara Teasdale

Unromantic Love
By J. V. Cunningham

Unstable Dream
By Thomas Wyatt

Untitled Poem [“Why feel guilty because the death of a lover causes lust?”]
By Alan Dugan

Upon Julia's Clothes
By Robert Herrick

Upon Julia’s Breasts
By Robert Herrick

Upon My Lady Carlisle’s Walking in Hampton Court Garden
By Sir John Suckling

Upon the Loss of his Mistresses
By Robert Herrick

Vagabonds
By Arthur Rimbaud

Valentine
By Elinor Wylie

Valentine
By Tom Pickard

Valentine
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

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

Valentine's Afternoon
By Michael McFee

Vandergast and the Girl
By Louis Simpson

Vasectomy
By Philip Appleman

Venice, Unaccompanied
By Monica Youn

Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare

Venus of the Louvre
By Emma Lazarus

Venus Transiens
By Amy Lowell

Video Blues
By Mary Jo Salter

Virginity
By Anna Swir

Vita Nova
By Louise Glück

Vobiscum Est Iope
By Thomas Campion

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

VooDoo/Love Magic
By Angela Jackson

Voyages
By Hart Crane

Walsinghame
By Sir Walter Ralegh

Want Song
By Lance Larsen

Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert

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 Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

We Had Words
By Vona Groarke

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

Wedding Dress
By Michael Waters

Wedding Hymn
By Sidney Lanier

Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee
By Grizel Baillie

West Topsham
By John Engels

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What Became
By Wesley McNair

What Kind of Mistress He would Have
By Robert Herrick

What Length of Verse?
By Philip Sidney

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

What loves, takes away
By Eleanor Wilner

What Needeth these Threat'ning Words
By Thomas Wyatt

What should I Say
By Thomas Wyatt

What to Eat, What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison
By Camille T. Dungy

What You Pray Toward
By Patricia Smith

When ’Midst the Gay I Meet
By Thomas Moore

When Father Decided He Did Not Love Her Anymore
By Lynn Emanuel

When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
By John Keats

When I Heard at the Close of the Day
By Walt Whitman

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

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

When Last We Parted
By Catherine Maria Fanshawe

When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr

When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground
By Thomas Campion

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
By Thomas Campion

When We Two Parted
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

When You Are Old
By William Butler Yeats

Where I’ll Be Good
By Michael Ryan

White Rose
By Tom Pickard

who in the hell is Tom Jones?
By Charles Bukowski

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
By Walt Whitman

Whoso List to Hunt, I Know where is an Hind
By Thomas Wyatt

Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)
By Emily Dickinson

Wild Oats
By Philip Larkin

Wild Peaches
By Elinor Wylie

Windchime
By Tony Hoagland

Winter Love
By Linda Gregg

Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress
By Richard Crashaw

Woman to Man
By Ai

Woman's Constancy
By John Donne

Words for a Girlfriend
By Cesare Pavese

Wrestling
By Louisa S. Bevington

Wyatt Resteth Here
By Henry Howard, earl of Surrey

X Minus X
By Kenneth Fearing

Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
By Robert Burns

Ye Old Mule
By Thomas Wyatt

Yellow Dog Café
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Yesterday
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

You and I Saw Hawks Exchanging the Prey
By James Wright

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

You Goatherd Gods
By Philip Sidney

You left me – Sire – two Legacies – (713)
By Emily Dickinson

You Love, You Wonder
By Brenda Shaughnessy

You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed
By Walter Savage Landor

You That I Loved
By A. F. Moritz

You were like the young fig tree
By Miguel Hernández

You! Inez!
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

You, Therefore
By Reginald Shepherd

You’re
By Sylvia Plath

Young Woman
By Howard Nemerov

Yours & Mine
By Alice Fulton

Youth and Art
By Robert Browning

Yowr Yen Two Woll Sle me Sodenly
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Zeus to Juno
By Fiona Sampson

[Adieu, Farewell, Earth’s Bliss]
By Thomas Nashe

[as freedom is a breakfastfood]
By E. E. Cummings

[Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love]
By Sir Walter Ralegh

[love is more thicker than forget]
By E. E. Cummings

[morning green through ivy]
By Dan Beachy-Quick

[Record no oiled tongue]
By Dan Beachy-Quick

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