There are 2742 Poems about Relationships

Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker

"'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

"God Loves You, and So Do I"
By Michael C. Blumenthal

"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

"Quick! quick! ..."
By Anonymous

"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

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

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

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

‘One morn I left him in his bed’
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

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

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

(“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

1851: A Message to Denmark Hill
By Richard Howard

2212 West Flower Street
By Michael Collier

50-50
By Langston Hughes

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

What is this about losing respect?
By Mark Rudman

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

A Ballad of Burdens
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

from A Ballad Upon A Wedding
By Sir John Suckling

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

A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti

A Blessing
By James Wright

A Boat
By Richard Brautigan

A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky
By Lewis Carroll

A Broken Appointment
By Thomas Hardy

A Caged Bird
By Sarah Orne Jewett

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 Chapter from the Garden
By Diane Ackerman

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

A Color of the Sky
By Tony Hoagland

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

A Complaint
By William Wordsworth

A Cooking Egg
By T. S. Eliot

A Coronet for his Mistress, Philosophy
By George Chapman

A Country Incident
By May Sarton

A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov

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

A Deserter
By Charles Reznikoff

A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda
By Andrew Marvell

A Dirge
By Christina Rossetti

A Disappointment
By Joanna Baillie

A Divine Image
By William Blake

A Dog Has Died
By Pablo Neruda

A Dog's Life
By Daniel Groves

A Double Standard
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

A Fable
By August Kleinzahler

A Fable
By Robert Kelly

A Fable
By Louise Glück

A Face
By Robert Browning

A Farewell to False Love
By Sir Walter Ralegh

A Farewell to Tobacco
By Charles Lamb

A Favor of Love
By Molly Peacock

A Fine, a Private Place
By Diane Ackerman

A Fixed Idea
By Amy Lowell

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

A Glimpse
By Walt Whitman

A Happy Childhood
By William Matthews

A History of Sexual Preference
By Robin Becker

A Home
By Sarah C. Woolsey

A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Leave-Taking
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Lecture upon the Shadow
By John Donne

A Lesson in Geography
By Kenneth Rexroth

A Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai

A Letter to Daphnis
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

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

A Little Language
By Robert Duncan

A Locked House
By W. D. Snodgrass

A Love Letter
By Russell Edson

A Love Letter to My Wife
By Henri Coulette

A Lover
By Amy Lowell

A Man
By Louis Untermeyer

A Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving
By Alberto Ríos

A Man's Requirements
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A Marriage
By Robert Creeley

A Marriage in the Dolomites
By D. Nurkse

A Marriage Poem
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

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

A Modest Love
By Sir Edward Dyer

A Moment
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

A Mother to Her Waking Infant
By Joanna Baillie

A Muse of Water
By Carolyn Kizer

A Negative of Snow
By Chase Twichell

A Negro Love Song
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

A Note on My Son’s Face
By Toi Derricotte

A Pastoral
By Agha Shahid Ali

A Phonecall from Frank O’Hara
By Anne Waldman

A Pindaric Ode
By Ben Jonson

A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan

A Poet’s Death
By David Trinidad

A Poison Tree
By William Blake

A Posy of Love Poems
By William Walden

A Prayer for My Daughter
By William Butler Yeats

A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys
By Francis Jammes

A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
By Wallace Stevens

A Real-Life Drama
By Michael Collier

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 Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser

A Roundelay between Two Shepherds
By Michael Drayton

A Second Train Song for Gary
By Jack Spicer

A Secret Gratitude
By James Wright

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 Sister on the Tracks
By Donald Hall

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 in the front yard
By Gwendolyn Brooks

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 Story
By Colette Inez

A Suckling Pig
By Chase Twichell

A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks

A Swimmer's Dream
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Tale
By Louise Bogan

A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick

A Thousand Martyrs
By Aphra Behn

A Time Past
By Denise Levertov

A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest

A Token
By Robert Creeley

A Tree Planted
By Hilda Morley

A True Maid
By Matthew Prior

A Twenty-fourth Poem about Horses
By John Peck

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 Virginal
By Ezra Pound

A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
By Sir Walter Ralegh

A Wicker Basket
By Robert Creeley

A Winter Visit
By Dannie Abse

A Woman's Looks
By Anonymous

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

A-
By Samuel Menashe

Abandoned Farmhouse
By Ted Kooser

Abandoned Ranch, Big Bend
By Hayden Carruth

About Patti Boyd and Me
By Eleanor Lerman

About the Teeth of Sharks
By John Ciardi

Abscess
By Forrest Gander

Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor

Across a Table
By Steven Cordova

Acting
By R. S. Thomas

Acts of Love
By Pam Rehm

Adam & Eve, Ltd.
By Henri Coulette

Adam and Eve
By Marjorie Pickthall

Adam’s Curse
By William Butler Yeats

Adult
By Ray Gonzalez

Advent
By Mary Jo Salter

Advice to Her Son on Marriage
By Mary Barber

Ae Fond Kiss
By Robert Burns

Affirmation
By Donald Hall

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 That
By Primus St. John

After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass

After the Phone Call
By Robert VanderMolen

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

After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins

After the Winter
By Claude McKay

After Tonight
By Gary Soto

Afterthought
By Diane Ackerman

Afton Water
By Robert Burns

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

Against His Quitting the Torn Field
By Carl Phillips

Against Naturism
By Roddy Lumsden

Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell

Against Travel
By Charles Tomlinson

Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching
By Charles Simic

Agoraphobia
By Linda Pastan

Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo

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

Air and Angels
By John Donne

Al Croom
By Walter McDonald

Alas Madam for Stealing of a Kiss
By Thomas Wyatt

All My Pretty Ones
By Anne Sexton

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

All Reason and No Rhyme
By Joyce Sutphen

All Summer Long
By Carol Frost

All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

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

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

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

Amusing Our Daughters
By Carolyn Kizer

An “If” for Girls
By Elizabeth Lincoln Otis

An Afternoon at the Beach
By Edgar Bowers

An American Affair
By Henri Coulette

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Ancient Degree
By Bernadette Mayer

An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert

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

An Epiphany
By Ted Kooser

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

An Hymn In Honour Of Beauty
By Edmund Spenser

An Immigrant Woman
By Anne Winters

An Ode
By Matthew Prior

An Ode to Ben Jonson
By Robert Herrick

An Offering
By John Reibetanz

An old story
By Bob Hicok

from Anactoria
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Anasazi, Ancient Enemies
By John Peck

Ancestor
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Ancient Discipline
By Cesare Pavese

And Day Brought Back My Night
By Geoffrey Brock

And If I Did, What Then?
By George Gascoigne

And Soul
By Eavan Boland

And Wilt thou Leave me Thus?
By Thomas Wyatt

Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning

Androgyne, Mon Amour
By Tennessee Williams

Angellica’s Lament
By Aphra Behn

Animal Graves
By Chase Twichell

Animals Are Passing from Our Lives
By Philip Levine

Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe

Anniversary
By Marie Ponsot

Anniversary
By Louise Glück

Anniversary
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Another Insane Devotion
By Gerald Stern

Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
By A.E. Stallings

Another Night in the Ruins
By Galway Kinnell

Ants
By Joanie V. Mackowski

ANWR
By Sherwin Bitsui

Aperture
By Jennifer Tonge

Aphrodite Metropolis (1)
By Kenneth Fearing

Aphrodite Metropolis (2)
By Kenneth Fearing

Approximately Forever
By C. D. Wright

April Treason
By John Crowe Ransom

Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape
By Bin Ramke

Archaic Fragment
By Louise Glück

Arise, Go Down
By Li-Young Lee

Arrowhead
By Robert Pack

Ars Amoris
By J. V. Cunningham

As
By Paul Muldoon

As Children Together
By Carolyn Forché

As You Both Shall Live
By Miller Williams

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

Ashes of Life
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Asking About You
By Eloise Klein Healy

Astronomy Lesson
By Alan Shapiro

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 Stanley Bay
By Gregory Djanikian

At the Beach
By Elizabeth Alexander

At the Fishhouses
By Elizabeth Bishop

At the Poetry Reading
By John Brehm

At the Telephone Club
By Henri Coulette

At the Wedding March
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Atlantis
By Mark Doty

Aubade
By Amber Flora Thomas

Aubade
By Dafydd ap Gwilym

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

Auld Robin Forbes
By Susanna Blamire

Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot

Aunt Madelyn At The White Sale
By Alice Fulton

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autumn
By Grace Paley

Ave Maria
By Frank O'Hara

Avising the Bright Beams
By Thomas Wyatt

Away above a Harborful ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Away to Canada
By Joshua McCarter Simpson

“A father tells his son the thing he regrets most about...”
By Claudia Rankine

“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

“Find Work”
By Rhina P. Espaillat

“I was passionate ...”
By Lal Ded

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

“In Kyoto ...”
By Bashō

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

“My Mother is a Fish”
By Peter Balakian

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

“O my Lord ...”
By Rabi'a

“oh antic God”
By Lucille Clifton

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

“The Dreadful Has Already Happened”
By Mark Strand

“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

Babylon Revisited
By Amiri Baraka

Baldwin
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
By W. S. Merwin

Ballet
By Cesare Pavese

Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
By Moira Egan

Barbara Allen
By Anonymous

Bath
By Stuart Dybek

Bats
By Amanda Jernigan

Bears at Raspberry Time
By Hayden Carruth

Beautiful Black Men
By Nikki Giovanni

Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
By Stephen C. Foster

Beautiful Wreckage
By W.D. Ehrhart

Becune Point
By Derek Walcott

Bedtime Story
By Charles Wright

Before Christmas
By Landis Everson

Before Parting
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Before Sextet
By Bernadette Mayer

Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet

Before the Rain
By Lianne Spidel

Being in Love
By Chungmi Kim

Bel Canto
By Kenneth Koch

Belief
By Josephine Miles

Belle Isle, 1949
By Philip Levine

Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom

Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Bending the Bow
By Robert Duncan

Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Beside the Broad Dordogne
By Alan Feldman

Between Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night
By Roddy Lumsden

Between Hovers
By Michael Longley

Beyond Harm
By Sharon Olds

Bi-Focal
By William E. Stafford

Big City
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Bilingual/Bilingüe
By Rhina P. Espaillat

Birches
By Robert Frost

Bird-Understander
By Craig Arnold

Birthday Blues
By Mark Rudman

Bitch
By Carolyn Kizer

Black Mare
By Lynda Hull

Black Soap
By Sandra McPherson

Black Valentine
By Tess Gallagher

Bleeding
By May Swenson

Blood
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Blowfly Grass
By Les Murray

Blue
By Carl Phillips

Blue Juniata
By Malcolm Cowley

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

Bolero
By Gerald Stern

Boy and Father
By Carl Sandburg

Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes

Break of Day
By John Donne

Break of Day in the Trenches
By Isaac Rosenberg

Breughel
By Michael Collier

Bridal Song
By George Chapman

Briefly It Enters, Briefly Speaks
By Jane Kenyon

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

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

Brock
By Paul Muldoon

Brother
By Mary Ann Hoberman

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey

Bungee Jumping
By William H. Dickey

Burning
By Galway Kinnell

Burning the Fields
By Linda Bierds

Burning Trash
By John Updike

Butter
By Connie Wanek

Butter
By Elizabeth Alexander

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus

Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
By Robert Burns

Cabezón
By Amy Beeder

Cabin
By Anne Waldman

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Caelica 22
By Fulke Greville

Caelica IV
By Fulke Greville

Caelica XXIX
By Fulke Greville

Cage
By Josephine Miles

Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou

Call It Music
By Philip Levine

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

Canary
By Rita Dove

Candles
By Carl Dennis

Canicule Macaronique
By John Fuller

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Careless Perfection
By Daniel Halpern

Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson

Carlos
By Theodore Deppe

Carolina Journal
By Nicole Pekarske

Casanova's Bossa Nova
By Rich Murphy

Cascando
By Samuel Beckett

Cassandra
By H. D.

Cat, Failing
By Robin Robertson

Catch
By Langston Hughes

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

Change
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Changing What We Mean
By Eloise Klein Healy

Cheer
By Stanley Plumly

Cherry-Ripe
By Thomas Campion

Cherrylog Road
By James L. Dickey

Chester
By John Koethe

Chez Jane
By Frank O'Hara

Chicken Pig
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Childhood Ideogram
By Larry Levis

Chinese New Year
By Lynda Hull

Chinoisserie
By Lynn Emanuel

from Chloe and Myra
By Sophia Burrell

Choice
By J. V. Cunningham

Chokecherries
By Melissa Kwasny

Choose
By Carl Sandburg

Choriambics
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Christmas Away from Home
By Jane Kenyon

Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall

Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
By Toi Derricotte

Clarinet
By Terrance Hayes

Cleaning an Attic
By Brent Pallas

Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth

Clorinda and Damon
By Andrew Marvell

Clouds
By Denise Levertov

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Cock
By Albert Goldbarth

Coda
By Marilyn Hacker

Colors passing through us
By Marge Piercy

Comin thro' the Rye
By Robert Burns

Commemoration
By Samuel Menashe

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

Complete Destruction
By William Carlos Williams

Confession of a Stolen Kiss
By Charles d'Orleans

Confessions
By Robert Browning

Confluence
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Consequences
By William Meredith

Consolation
By Matthew Arnold

Constancy
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Contempt
By Elfriede Jelinek

continental divide
By D.A. Powell

Contrary Theses (II)
By Wallace Stevens

Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

Cool Pastoral on Bloor Street
By John Reibetanz

Coquette et Froide
By Julia Ward Howe

Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick

Cortège
By Carl Phillips

corydon & alexis
By D.A. Powell

corydon & alexis, redux
By D.A. Powell

Count Gismond—Aix in Provence
By Robert Browning

Country Love Song
By Melanie Almeder

courthouse steps
By D.A. Powell

Courtship
By Mark Strand

Courtship
By Talvikki Ansel

Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot

Covenant
By Alan Shapiro

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

Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray

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

Crying in Front of a Man
By Kate Gale

Cuckoldom
By BJ Ward

Cups: 8
By Robin Blaser

Customs of the Barbarians
By Alan Williamson

Daddy
By Sylvia Plath

Damon the Mower
By Andrew Marvell

Damp Rot
By John Engels

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

Danse Russe
By William Carlos Williams

Dark Harvest
By Joseph Millar

Dark Rosaleen
By Anonymous

Darwin’s Bestiary
By Philip Appleman

Days of '74
By Mark Jarman

Days of 1964
By James Merrill

Days of 1994: Alexandrians
By Marilyn Hacker

De Profundis
By Christina Rossetti

Dead
By Sarah C. Harwell

Dead Doe
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Dead Love
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Dear Friend
By Dean Young

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

December, 1919
By Claude McKay

DECEMBER. [1757] XII Month.
By Benjamin Franklin

Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams

Deer Skull
By Susan Griffin

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

Depending on the Wind
By James Galvin

Depression
By Henry Carlile

Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser

Descent
By Samuel Menashe

Desire
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Desire’s Persistence
By Jay Wright

Dickhead
By Michael Ryan

Digging
By Seamus Heaney

Discontinuous Poems
By Fernando Pessoa

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

Disdain Returned
By Thomas Carew

Disregard
By Ai

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas

Do You Love Me?
By Robert Wrigley

Dockery and Son
By Philip Larkin

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

Dog
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Dog Biscuits
By Chase Twichell

Dog Music
By Paul Zimmer

Dog Woman
By Chris Abani

Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
By Delmore Schwartz

Doing Laundry on Sunday
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Dolls
By David St. John

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

Domes
By John Koethe

Domestic
By Carl Phillips

Domestic Situation
By Ernest Hilbert

Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland

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)

Done
By Michelle Boisseau

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

Dora Williams
By Edgar Lee Masters

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

Dreams of My Father
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Drift
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Drift-Raft
By Atsuro Riley

Driving West in 1970
By Robert Bly

Dropping the euphemism
By Bob Hicok

Duncan Gray
By Robert Burns

During a War
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Dusting
By Rita Dove

Each Defeat
By Eileen Myles

from Each in a Place Apart
By James McMichael

Eagle Plain
By Robert Francis

Early December in Croton-on-Hudson
By Louise Glück

Early Frost
By Scott Cairns

Easter in Pittsburgh
By James Laughlin

Eating the Pig
By Donald Hall

Eating Together
By Li-Young Lee

Eating Together
By Kim Addonizio

Ebb
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Echo
By Christina Rossetti

Eclipsed
By Richard Meier

Eclogue
By John Crowe Ransom

Eden Tiresias
By Brian Teare

Eden, Then and Now
By Ruth Stone

Edison in Love
By Robin Ekiss

Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
By Victoria Chang

Edwardian Christmas
By John Fuller

Eight O'Clock
By Sara Teasdale

Eight Variations
By Weldon Kees

Electrocuting an Elephant
By George Bradley

Elegies, Book One, 5
By Christopher Marlowe

from Elegies, I.iv
By Tibullus

Elegy
By Miguel Hernández

from Elegy for My Sister
By Sherod Santos

Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne

Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne

Elena
By Irving Feldman

Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By Mark Jarman

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

enuresis
By Cid Corman

Envoi
By Ezra Pound

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

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 J. Lapraik
By Robert Burns

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

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

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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
By Robert Bridges

Eros of Heroines
By Ange Mlinko

Eros Turannos
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Errata
By Kevin Young

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
By Karen Craigo

Et Quidquid Aspiciebam Mors Erat
By Robert Fitzgerald

Eve Considers the Possibility of Pardon
By John Engels

Eve's Design
By Moira Linehan

Evening
By Gail Mazur

Evening Practice
By D. Nurkse

Ever After
By Joyce Sutphen

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

Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke

Ex Machina
By Linda Gregerson

Exclusion
By Emily Dickinson

Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic

Fabrication of Ancestors
By Alan Dugan

Factory
By Charles Simic

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Faint Music
By Robert Hass

Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die
By John Dryden

Faith
By David Baker

Faith
By Linda Pastan

Fall River
By David Rivard

Fallout
By David Bottoms

False Flowers
By Anne Stevenson

Family
By Josephine Miles

Family
By Marilyn Nelson

Family History
By Irving Feldman

Family Reunion
By Louise Erdrich

Family Reunion
By Maxine W. Kumin

Family Reunion
By Catherine Barnett

Family Romance
By Larry Levis

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

Father
By Edgar Albert Guest

Father Son and Holy Ghost
By Audre Lorde

Father, Where Do the Wild Swans Go?
By Ludwig Holstein

Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson

Faults
By Sara Teasdale

Faustine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

February
By Margaret Atwood

February Sky
By Bruce Smith

Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell

Feel Me
By May Swenson

Felix Crow
By Kay Ryan

Fence Repair
By David Lee

Fiduciary
By Randall Mann

Field Guide
By Cynthia Zarin

Fifteen
By Leslie Monsour

Finale
By Pablo Neruda

Fire Season
By James Galvin

First Farewell to J.G.
By Ephelia

First Grade Homework
By D. Nurkse

First Job
By Joseph Campana

First Love
By John Clare

First Poem for You
By Kim Addonizio

First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert

First turn to me. . . .
By Bernadette Mayer

Firstborn
By Kurt S. Olsson

Fish or Like Fish
By Joel Brouwer

Fishing
By A.E. Stallings

Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
By William Meredith

Five Indiscretions,
By Alberto Ríos

Flamingo Watching
By Kay Ryan

Flamingos Have Arrived in Ashtabula
By Andrew Hudgins

Flammonde
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Flirtation
By Rita Dove

Flounder
By Natasha Trethewey

Fog
By Carl Sandburg

Fog
By Mark Doty

Follow Thy Fair Sun
By Thomas Campion

Follow Your Saint
By Thomas Campion

For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman
By Miller Williams

For Annie
By Edgar Allan Poe

For Anybody’s Martyr’s Song
By Jean Garrigue

For Billy
By Jack Spicer

For Instance
By John Ciardi

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For Love
By Robert Creeley

For My Daughter
By Weldon Kees

For My Daughter
By Antonella Anedda

For My People
By Margaret Walker

For No Clear Reason
By Robert Creeley

For That He Looked Not upon Her
By George Gascoigne

For the Last Wolverine
By James L. Dickey

For the Sleepwalkers
By Edward Hirsch

For the Taking
By Linda Gregerson

For Virginia Chavez
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Forest Dwellers
By R. S. Thomas

Forget not Yet the Tried Intent
By Thomas Wyatt

Formerly Communist Love Sonnet
By Connie Deanovich

Foster Care
By Terry Wolverton

Found Parable
By J. D. McClatchy

Fountains in the sea
By Marin Sorescu

Four Poems for Robin
By Gary Snyder

Four Postulates
By Michael Anania

Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals
By Susan Stewart

Four Sonnets (1922)
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Four Themes on a Variation
By G. E. Murray

Fourth Song
By Philip Sidney

Fox Sleep
By W. S. Merwin

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

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

Frame, An Epistle
By Claudia Emerson

Frère Jacques, Frère Antoine
By John Peck

Fresh Air
By Kenneth Koch

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 House of Yemanjá
By Audre Lorde

From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fruit-gathering LV
By Rabindranath Tagore

Fuck the Astronauts
By James Tate

Gathering the Bones Together
By Gregory Orr

Geology
By Bob King

Geometry
By Nancy Botkin

from Georgics, III
By Virgil

Getting Information Out of Pa
By Anonymous

Ghost Supper
By David Wojahn

Gifts
By Juliana Horatia Ewing

Gin
By David St. John

Ginger
By Carl Rakosi

Give All to Love
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

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

Glow Flesh
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Going Back
By Gregory Djanikian

Going Back to Bed
By J. D. McClatchy

Going to Connecticut
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Golden Retrievals
By Mark Doty

Golden State
By Frank Bidart

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

Goose
By Richard Emil Braun

Grace
By John Logan

Graciela
By Gary Soto

Grand Central, Track 23
By Elizabeth Skurnick

Granddaughter
By Robinson Jeffers

Grandfather
By Michael S. Harper

Grandfather
By Andrei Guruianu

Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
By Lola Haskins

Granny
By James Whitcomb Riley

Greek
By T.R. Hummer

Green Groweth the Holly
By Henry VIII, king of England

Green Tea
By Dale Ritterbusch

Greeting Verses
By A. R. Ammons

Gretel in Darkness
By Louise Glück

Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World
By Sherman Alexie

Grimalkin
By Thomas P. Lynch

Group
By Marin Sorescu

Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races
By Stephen C. Foster

Half Circle
By Ralph Angel

Half-Ourselves & Half-Not
By Colin Cheney

Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani

Hap
By Thomas Hardy

Happiness
By Susan Griffin

Happy Hour
By Alan Shapiro

Harlem Sweeties
By Langston Hughes

Harrison Street Court
By Carl Sandburg

Have You Prayed
By Li-Young Lee

Having a Coke with You
By Frank O'Hara

Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
By William Meredith

He Thinks of His Children
By Hittan of Tayyi

Headstone
By Ragan Fox

Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass

Heat
By Jane Hirshfield

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Heaven, 1963
By Kim Noriega

Hedgehog
By Paul Muldoon

Heirloom
By A. M. Klein

Hello
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Hemachandra’s Grammar 418.1
By Anonymous

Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer

Her Face
By Arthur Gorges

Her Life Runs Like a Red Silk Flag
By Bruce Weigl

Her my body
By Bob Hicok

here rests
By Lucille Clifton

Heritage
By Paul Engle

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

His Stillness
By Sharon Olds

History Lesson
By Natasha Trethewey

History of My Heart
By Robert Pinsky

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

Homage to Buck Cline
By David Bottoms

Homage to H & the Speedway Diner
By Bernadette Mayer

Home
By Edgar Albert Guest

Home Again Home Again
By A. F. Moritz

Home Burial
By Robert Frost

Home Fire
By Linda Parsons Marion

Homeland of the Foreign Tongue
By Scott Cairns

Homes
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Homo Will Not Inherit
By Mark Doty

Honorary Jew
By John Repp

Horse
By Louise Glück

Horses
By Wendell Berry

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Hotel François 1^er
By Gertrude Stein

Hour
By Reginald Gibbons

House: Some Instructions
By Grace Paley

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

How It Is
By Maxine W. Kumin

How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate

How Things Fall
By Kevin Stein

Hugging the Jukebox
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Human Cylinders
By Mina Loy

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

Hump
By Irving Feldman

Hunting, Hazards, and Holiness
By Henry Carlile

Hush
By David St. John

Huswifery
By Edward Taylor

Hyacinth
By Louise Glück

Hymn
By Carl Phillips

Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
By Wallace Stevens

Hypocrite Women
By Denise Levertov

Hysteria
By T. S. Eliot

I Am Merely Posing for a Photograph
By Juan Felipe Herrera

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 Genitori Perduti
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I Hid my Love
By John Clare

I Knew a Woman
By Theodore Roethke

I Know a Man
By Robert Creeley

I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
By Hayden Carruth

I Love You
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I Love Your Crazy Bones
By Barton Sutter

I Saw a Chapel
By William Blake

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

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

I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
By Yehuda Amichai

I Wish I Want I Need
By Gail Mazur

I’m Over the Moon
By Brenda Shaughnessy

I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady

Iambicum Trimetrum
By Edmund Spenser

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

I’ll Open the Window
By Anna Swir

I’uni Kwi Athi? Hiatho.
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Ice
By Gail Mazur

Ice Bound
By Walter Bargen

Ichabod
By John Greenleaf Whittier

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 an Elephant
By N. M. Bodecker

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

If You Said You Would Come With Me
By John Ashbery

Ignoramus
By Mina Loy

Immigrant Blues
By Li-Young Lee

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland

In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
By Paul Engle

In a Dark Time
By Theodore Roethke

In a Garden
By Amy Lowell

In a Science-Illustrator’s Apartment
By Diane Ackerman

In Black
By Joyce Sutphen

In Houston
By Gail Mazur

In Love with You
By Kenneth Koch

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: 27
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 My Mother’s House
By Gloria g. Murray

In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet

In School-days
By John Greenleaf Whittier

In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
By Mary Szybist

In the Armpit of the Hill
By Clarence Major

in the Catskills again
By Dick Lourie

In the Days of Awe
By Robin Becker

In the Grand Manner
By Richard Emil Braun

In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Middle of Dinner
By Chris Abani

In the Museum at Teheran
By James Laughlin

In the Novel
By Susan Stewart

In the Orchard
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the Park
By John Koethe

In the Secular Night
By Margaret Atwood

In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Tree House at Night
By James L. Dickey

In the Valley of Cauteretz
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Time
By W. S. Merwin

In Winter
By Michael Ryan

Incandescent War Poem Sonnet
By Bernadette Mayer

Incision
By Jillian Weise

Incubus
By Craig Arnold

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
By Louise Erdrich

Industrial Lace
By Alice Fulton

Infant Sorrow
By William Blake

Infidelity
By Louis Untermeyer

Infidelity
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Ingrateful Beauty Threatened
By Thomas Carew

Insect Life of Florida
By Lynda Hull

Insomnia
By Dana Gioia

Insomnia
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Intaglio
By Henri Coulette

Interior at Petworth: From Turner
By Rosanna Warren

Interview
By Dorothy Parker

Interview by a Guggenheim Recipient
By Charles Bukowski

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Introit & Fugue
By D. Nurkse

Invitation To JBC
By Matilda Bethem

Invitation to Love
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Inviting a Friend to Supper
By Ben Jonson

Invocation to the Social Muse
By Archibald MacLeish

Ironing After Midnight
By Marsha Truman Cooper

Isaiah’s Coal
By John Frederick Nims

Isolation: To Marguerite
By Matthew Arnold

It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
By William Wordsworth

It’s Like This
By Stephen Dobyns

Jack
By Carl Sandburg

Jacob
By Phoebe Cary

James Schuyler
By David Trinidad

Janet Waking
By John Crowe Ransom

Jealousy
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

Jenny Kiss’d Me
By Leigh Hunt

Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Jesus Comforts His Mother
By Anonymous

Jesus, My Sweet Lover
By Anonymous

Jewel Box
By Eamon Grennan

Joe
By Emily Pauline Johnson

Juan’s Song
By Louise Bogan

from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

Jubilate Agno, 1975
By David Lee

Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke

Judith of Bethulia
By John Crowe Ransom

Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kaddish
By Allen Ginsberg

Kalaloch
By Carolyn Forché

Katie
By Henry Timrod

Killing Chickens
By Bruce Weigl

Kind Are Her Answers
By Thomas Campion

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Kisses Desired
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

Kissing a Horse
By Robert Wrigley

Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major

kitchenette building
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Kneeling Down to Peer into a Culvert
By Robert Bly

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

Korean mums
By James Schuyler

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

Lament
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Lament
By Thom Gunn

Land
By Agha Shahid Ali

Landscape, Dense with Trees
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Language of Love
By Rae Armantrout

Largesse
By J. D. McClatchy

Larkinesque
By Michael Ryan

Last May a Braw Wooer
By Robert Burns

Last Month
By John Ashbery

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

Late at Night in Bed
By Gregory Djanikian

Late Night Ode
By J. D. McClatchy

Late Results
By Scott Cairns

Laughing Time
By William Jay Smith

Laundry
By Bruce Smith

Laundry
By Ruth Moose

Laus Veneris
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Lawyer and Child
By James Whitcomb Riley

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Learning to Talk
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Leave-Taking
By Louise Bogan

Legacies
By Nikki Giovanni

Lenox Hill
By Agha Shahid Ali

Les Luths
By Frank O'Hara

Less Than Two Minutes
By W. S. Di Piero

Letter For Emily Dickinson
By Annie Finch

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Letter from the Mountains
By James K. Baxter

Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis

Letter to a Friend about Girls
By Philip Larkin

Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden
By Major Jackson

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Liar
By Charlie Smith

Liberty
By Thomas P. Lynch

Library
By Brian Culhane

Life in a Love
By Robert Browning

Life Story
By Tennessee Williams

Life with Mother
By Henri Coulette

Light Thickens
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Like cold air passing through lips
By Saradha Soobrayen

Like Rousseau
By Amiri Baraka

Lines Depicting Simple Happiness
By Peter Gizzi

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

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines——
By Hartley Coleridge

Lions Are Interesting
By Joel Brouwer

Lisa
By David Hernandez

Listen Carefully
By Philip Levine

Listening
By David Ignatow

Little Brown Baby
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Little Father
By Li-Young Lee

Little Robin Redbreast
By Anonymous

Living
By C. D. Wright

Living Here Now
By Eloise Klein Healy

Lochinvar
By Sir Walter Scott

Loiter
By Forrest Gander

Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Lost Content
By A. F. Moritz

Lost Desire
By Meleager

Lothar’s Wife
By Colleen J. McElroy

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 for an Enemy
By Richard Katrovas

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 Song: I and Thou
By Alan Dugan

Love the Wild Swan
By Robinson Jeffers

Love Worn
By Lita Hooper

Love's Alchemy
By John Donne

Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love's Deity
By John Donne

Love's 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

Lui et Elle
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

Madre Sofía
By Alberto Ríos

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

Magnificat in Little
By Léonie Adams

Making Quiltwork
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Man in Space
By Billy Collins

Man with a Black Dog
By Richard Emil Braun

Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
By John Skelton

Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro

Many Scientists Convert to Islam
By Nomi Stone

Map
By Atsuro Riley

Maple Syrup
By Donald Hall

Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters

Mariana
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Mariana in the South
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Marriage
By Marianne Moore

Marriage
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

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Maternal
By Gail Mazur

Mating Saliva
By Richard Brautigan

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

Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
By Gail Mazur

Maze Without a Minotaur
By Dana Gioia

Mediocrity in Love Rejected
By Thomas Carew

Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass

Meditations in an Emergency
By Frank O'Hara

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

Medley of the Cut
By John Peck

Meet Me in the Green Glen
By John Clare

Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning

Meeting the Mountains
By Gary Snyder

Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass

Memorandum
By W. S. Merwin

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memorial Service
By George Garrett

Men at Forty
By Donald Justice

Men at My Father’s Funeral
By William Matthews

Men Say Brown
By Henry M. Seiden

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Mending Wall
By Robert Frost

from Merlin and Vivien
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Messenger
By Dave Smith

Methought I saw my late espousèd saint
By John Milton

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Mighty Forms
By Brenda Hillman

Milk
By Shirley Kaufman

Mine own John Poynz
By Thomas Wyatt

Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger

Misery and Splendor
By Robert Hass

Mississippi
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Mme. Sperides
By Gregory Djanikian

Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney

Mock Orange
By Louise Glück

Modern Love
By John Keats

Modern Love: I
By George Meredith

Modern Love: II
By George Meredith

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

Moly
By Thom Gunn

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

Mongrel Heart
By David Baker

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

Monody
By Herman Melville

from Monologues of the Son of Saul
By John Logan

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

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

Moon
By William Jay Smith

Moonlight: Chickens On The Road
By Robert Wrigley

Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Moraine for Bob
By Joanna Fuhrman

More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Morning
By Billy Collins

Morning Talk
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Morningside Heights, July
By William Matthews

Motet
By Michael Anania

Mother and Child
By Louise Glück

Mother to Son
By Langston Hughes

Mother's Closet
By Maxine Scates

Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor

Mothers
By Nikki Giovanni

Moths
By Jennifer O'Grady

Mountain Dulcimer
By Robert Morgan

Mouth
By Robert Wrigley

Movement Song
By Audre Lorde

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

Mr. Nobody
By Anonymous

Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things
By Gregory Djanikian

Muckraker
By Cate Marvin

Muier
By William Carlos Williams

Murder
By David Baker

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

My Boyfriend
By Camille Guthrie

My Brother, the Artist, at Seven
By Philip Levine

My Dearest Dust
By Catherine Dyer

My Dog Practices Geometry
By Cathryn Essinger

My Erotic Double
By John Ashbery

My Father
By Jessie B. Rittenhouse

My Father in the Night Commanding No
By Louis Simpson

My Father Photographed With Friends
By William Bronk

My Father’s Wedding
By Robert Bly

My Father's Diary
By Sharon Olds

My Father’s Closet
By D. Nurkse

My Grandmother’s Love Letters
By Hart Crane

My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow
By Robert Lowell

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

My Life
By Mark Strand

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 mother’s body
By Marge Piercy

My Old Idols
By J. D. McClatchy

My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman

My Picture Left in Scotland
By Ben Jonson

My Sad Captains
By Thom Gunn

My Shadow
By Robert Louis Stevenson

My Shoes
By Charles Simic

My Sin
By Chungmi Kim

My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My Sweetest Lesbia
By Thomas Campion

My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Mysteries of Small Houses
By Alice Notley

Mythmaking on the Merritt Parkway
By G. E. Murray

Nabokov’s Blues
By William Matthews

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Nameless Pain
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Naming the Stars
By Joyce Sutphen

Napa Valley
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Native Trees
By W. S. Merwin

Natural Law
By Babette Deutsch

Need
By Babette Deutsch

Negotiation
By Lisa Olstein

from Nettles: Lies
By Jane Miller

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

Next Day
By Randall Jarrell

Night Said
By Franz Wright

Night Singing
By W. S. Merwin

Nightmare Begins Responsibility
By Michael S. Harper

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

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Nikita
By Alberto Ríos

No Children, No Pets
By Sue Ellen Thompson

No Platonic Love
By William Cartwright

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

No Time
By Billy Collins

Nocturne
By Dudley Randall

Nomadology
By Alissa Leigh

Normalization
By Czeslaw Milosz

Nostalgia and Complaint of the Grandparents
By Donald Justice

Not Forgotten
By Toi Derricotte

Not Here
By Jane Kenyon

Not to Be Dwelled On
By Heather McHugh

Novelette
By Adrian Blevins

Now
By Robert Browning

Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
By Stanley Plumly

Now Winter Nights Enlarge
By Thomas Campion

Nude Descending
By Alicia Ostriker

Nurture
By Maxine W. Kumin

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

Oaxacan Stories
By Deborah Digges

October
By May Swenson

October Arriving
By Charles Simic

Odd
By Dannie Abse

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 on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray

Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy
By Donald Justice

Ode to Big Trend
By Terrance Hayes

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

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

Ode to Suburbia
By Eavan Boland

Odes
By Fernando Pessoa

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 30. The Orotava Road
By Basil Bunting

Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso
By Donald Revell

Of Love
By Robert Herrick

Of Memory and Distance
By Russell Edson

Of the Mean and Sure Estate
By Thomas Wyatt

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

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

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

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro

Old Love and New
By Sara Teasdale

Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie

Old Toys Come Back
By Alan Williamson

Older Love
By Jim Harrison

from Omeros
By Derek Walcott

On a Dream
By John Keats

On a Girdle
By Edmund Waller

On A Moonstruck Gravel Road
By Rodney Torreson

On a View of Pasadena from the Hills
By Yvor Winters

On An Unsociable Family
By Elizabeth Hands

On Marriage
By Meghan O'Rourke

On Monsieur’s Departure
By Elizabeth I

On Mother’s Day
By Grace Paley

On Munsungun
By Ethan Stebbins

On Myself
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

On Pickiness
By Rodney Jones

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On the Beach at Night
By Walt Whitman

On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë

On the Death of Richard West
By Thomas Gray

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
By William Wordsworth

On the Farm
By R. S. Thomas

On the Great Atlantic Rainway
By Kenneth Koch

On the Metro
By C. K. Williams

On the Screened Porch
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Once the Dream Begins
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Once We Played
By Mathilde Blind

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

One Girl
By Sappho

One Home
By William E. Stafford

One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
By Pablo Neruda

from One Hundred Quatrains
By Patrizia Valduga

One Love Story, Eight Takes
By Brenda Shaughnessy

One Morning
By Emmy Pérez

One Night Stand
By Jack Spicer

One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker

Onions
By William Matthews

Only Child
By D. Nurkse

Opera Bouffe
By Philip Gross

Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Other Fugitives and Other Strangers
By Rigoberto González

Our Family Tree
By Joseph Cephas Holly

Our Father
By Irving Feldman

Our Hired Girl
By James Whitcomb Riley

Out
By Andrew Hudgins

Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
By Colleen J. McElroy

Out of Catullus
By Richard Crashaw

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
By Walt Whitman

Out of Town
By Piotr Sommer

Over and Over Tune
By Ioanna Carlsen

Over and Under
By John Brehm

Over the Roofs
By Sara Teasdale

Ox Cart Man
By Donald Hall

Pa’s Soft Spot
By D. A. Ellsworth

Paean to Place
By Lorine Niedecker

Paired Things
By Kay Ryan

Palais des Artes
By Louise Glück

Palladium
By Matthew Arnold

Palms
By Gustaf Sobin

Pamet Harbor
By Gerald Stern

Pangur Bán
By Anonymous

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Parable of the Swans
By Louise Glück

Parental Recollections
By Charles Lamb

Parents
By Robert Wrigley

Paris and Helen
By Judy Grahn

Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell

Part Elegy
By Robert Wrigley

Parting at Morning
By Robert Browning

Parting Song
By Jill Alexander Essbaum

Passage over Water
By Robert Duncan

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti

Passing Remark
By William E. Stafford

Passing Through
By Ai

Passionata
By Lynn Crosbie

Passtime with good company
By Henry VIII, king of England

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Pastoral Dialogue
By Anne Killigrew

Paths
By John Montague

Patience
By Katherine Larson

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Pauline Is Falling
By Jean Nordhaus

Pentecost
By David Wojahn

Perhaps the World Ends Here
By Joy Harjo

Permanent Press
By Alice Friman

Perplexity: A Poem
By Elizabeth Hands

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Peter
By Marianne Moore

Peter Quince at the Clavier
By Wallace Stevens

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Philomela
By Matthew Arnold

Piazza Piece
By John Crowe Ransom

Picture of Little Letters
By John Koethe

Pied Booty
By Dabney Stuart

Pig Song
By Margaret Atwood

Pink Slip at Tool & Dye
By Dave Smith

Pity
By Camille T. Dungy

Platonic Love
By Curt Anderson

Platonic Love
By Abraham Cowley

Playing Dead
By Andrew Hudgins

Please
By Yusef Komunyakaa

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

Politics
By William Meredith

Pop
By Elinor Maxwell

Porphyria's Lover
By Robert Browning

Portrait
By John Frederick Nims

Portrait d'une Femme
By Ezra Pound

Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot

Postfeminism
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Postlude
By Noelle Kocot

Postlude
By William Carlos Williams

Power in Silence
By Michael Field

Praise
By Stanley Moss

Prayer for My Father
By Robert Bly

Prayer Rug
By Agha Shahid Ali

Pre-Text
By Marie Ponsot

Preparation
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Preposition
By Sally Van Doren

Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer

Probation
By Averill Curdy

Prodigal
By Bob Hicok

Progressive Health
By Carl Dennis

Project for a Fainting
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale
By Edmund Spenser

Prothalamion
By Michael Ryan

Prothalamion
By David Jones

Proust’s Madeleine
By Kenneth Rexroth

Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost

from Quatrains: Second Hundred
By Patrizia Valduga

Queen-Anne’s Lace
By William Carlos Williams

Queens
By J. M. Synge

Queer People
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Quest of the Prell
By J. Allyn Rosser

Quickly Aging Here
By Denis Johnson

Rabbits and Fire
By Alberto Ríos

Radio
By Gottfried Benn

Rag Rug
By Rachel Hadas

Rage for Order
By David Lunde

Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez

Rain on a Grave
By Thomas Hardy

Rainbow’s End
By Louis Untermeyer

raise the shade
By E. E. Cummings

Rapture
By Galway Kinnell

Rarefied
By Albert Goldbarth

Rat Song
By Margaret Atwood

Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Read to the Animals, or Orpheus at the SPCA
By Irving Feldman

Real Estate: Kripplebush, New York
By Marie Ponsot

Reasons
By Thomas James

Recitative
By A.E. Stallings

Recreation
By Audre Lorde

Reflections on History in Missouri
By Constance Urdang

Reluctance
By Robert Frost

Remember
By Christina Rossetti

Remembrance
By Emily Jane Brontë

Report to Crazy Horse
By William E. Stafford

Requests for Toy Piano
By Tony Hoagland

Requiem for a Nest
By Wanda Coleman

Requiem Shark
By Rad Smith

Reserve
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Retrospect
By Emily Dickinson

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

Rider
By Charlie Smith

Riding Herd
By Walter McDonald

Ring Out Your Bells
By Philip Sidney

from Rites of Passage
By Robert Duncan

River Road
By Stanley Kunitz

Robert Duncan
By Robin Blaser

Robin Redbreast
By Stanley Kunitz

Robinson
By Weldon Kees

Robinson at Home
By Weldon Kees

Rock Me to Sleep
By Elizabeth Akers Allen

Romance
By Claude McKay

Romance
By Ruth Stone

Romance
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Romance of a Youngest Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom

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

Roosters
By Elizabeth Bishop

Rosalind’s Madrigal
By Thomas Lodge

Rose Aylmer
By Walter Savage Landor

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

Sabbath lie
By Yehuda Amichai

Sad and Alone
By Maurice Manning

Sad Boy's Sad Boy
By Charles Bernstein

Sadie and Maud
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Sadness
By Donald Justice

Saguaro
By Brenda Hillman

Sailing Home from Rapallo
By Robert Lowell

Sailing to America
By Gregory Djanikian

Saint Francis and the Sow
By Galway Kinnell

Salomé
By Ai

Sandra: At the Beaver Trap
By Michael S. Harper

Santa Lucia
By Robert Hass

Sapphics Against Anger
By Timothy Steele

Sappho
By James Wright

Sarah Brown
By Edgar Lee Masters

Saturday’s Child
By Countee Cullen

Séverine in Summer School
By Rex Wilder

Scavenging the Wall
By R. T. Smith

Scenes of Childhood
By James Merrill

Scrabble with Matthews
By David Wojahn

Scrapbook
By George Scarbrough

Scree
By Alan Shapiro

Searchers
By D. Nurkse

Seele im Raum
By Randall Jarrell

Seizure
By Lynn Emanuel

Selective Service
By Carolyn Forché

Self-Portrait at Twenty
By Gregory Orr

Semblance: Screens
By Liz Waldner

Sence You Went Away
By James Weldon Johnson

Seniors
By Alberto Ríos

Separation
By W. S. Merwin

Separation at Burnt Island
By D. Nurkse

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

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Shamanism 101
By Dean Young

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

Sheep
By Judy Grahn

Shell
By Harriet Brown

Sherbourne Morning
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Should the Wide World Roll Away
By Stephen Crane

Shy Boy
By Greg Sellers

Sideshow
By Mark Doty

Sidewalk Games
By Colleen J. McElroy

Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

from Silent is the House
By Emily Jane Brontë

Since There Is No Escape
By Sara Teasdale

Since ye so Please
By Thomas Wyatt

Sire
By W. S. Merwin

Situation Comedy
By Henri Coulette

Six Poems for Poetry Chicago
By Jack Spicer

Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman

Skin Cancer
By Mark Jarman

Skirts and Slacks
By W. S. Di Piero

Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell

Sleeping on Fists
By Alberto Ríos

Sleeping with Boa
By May Swenson

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

Slow Dreams
By Robert Wrigley

Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
By Ben Jonson

Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman
By Judy Grahn

Small Moth
By Sarah Lindsay

Small Tantric Sermon
By Philip Whalen

Smoke
By Philip Levine

Snake
By Dannie Abse

Snow Becoming Light by Morning
By Jill Osier

Snow on the Desert
By Agha Shahid Ali

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Snowflake
By William Baer

Snowmen
By Agha Shahid Ali

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

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

Solar
By Robin Becker

Solitude
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

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

Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
By Alberto Ríos

Some Words Inside of Words
By Richard Wilbur

Something Childish, but Very Natural
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sometimes Never
By Joyce Sutphen

Sometimes with One I Love
By Walt Whitman

Somewhere
By Robert Creeley

Somewhere or Other
By Christina Rossetti

Sonata
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

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 and Dance
By Alan Shapiro

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 the Witches
By William Shakespeare

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

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

Song: Go and catch a falling star
By John Donne

Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
By William Blake

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

Song: 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 CXI: O, for my Sake do you with Fortune Chide
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 Reversed
By Rupert Brooke

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 XXII: To Cyriack Skinner
By John Milton

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

Sonnet: I Thank You
By Henry Timrod

Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate

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

Sophia Nichols,
By Robin Blaser

Sorrow
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sorrow Home
By Margaret Walker

Sotto Voce
By C. Dale Young

South Carolina Morning
By Yusef Komunyakaa

South Seas
By Cesare Pavese

Space Station
By Tom Sleigh

Spectral Lovers
By John Crowe Ransom

Sphere
By Kate Gale

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

Spree
By Maxine W. Kumin

Stanzas for Music
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

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

Star
By W. S. Merwin

Stargnoc Caz!
By Bernadette Mayer

Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou

Stink Eye
By Cathy Song

Stolen Moments
By Kim Addonizio

Stolen Pleasure
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

Stony Limits
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Stories Are Made of Mistakes
By James Galvin

Storm Windows
By Howard Nemerov

Strangers
By Annie Finch

Strays
By Stanley Plumly

Street Boy
By J. Allyn Rosser

Study/Trees
By Leonard Gontarek

Sublimation Point
By Jason Schneiderman

Suburban Pastoral
By Dave Lucas

Subway Seethe
By J. Allyn Rosser

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

Sudden Light
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Sugar Cane
By Alfred Corn

Sugar Dada
By J. Allyn Rosser

Suitcase Song
By Albert Goldbarth

Summer
By John Clare

Summer near the River
By Carolyn Kizer

Sunday Brunch at the Old Country Buffet
By Anne Caston

Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro

Sunflower
By André Breton

Sunflower Sutra
By Allen Ginsberg

Superbly Situated
By Robert Hershon

Supernatural Love
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Superstition
By Marin Sorescu

Supple Cord
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Surface Translations
By Lisa Fishman

Surprised by Joy
By William Wordsworth

Swapping Minds
By James Laughlin

Sway
By Louis Simpson

Sweeney among the Nightingales
By T. S. Eliot

Sweeney Erect
By T. S. Eliot

Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love
By George Eliot

sweet reader, flanneled and tulled
By Olena Kalytiak Davis

Sweetness
By Stephen Dunn

Swerve
By Kelle Groom

Switchblade
By Michael Ryan

Swordfish
By Andrew Hudgins

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 Down the Tree
By Jane Kenyon

Taking Notice
By Marilyn Hacker

Taking Off My Clothes
By Carolyn Forché

Taking the Thought for the Dog
By Katharine Auchincloss Lorr

Talking among Ourselves
By Charlie Smith

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

Tam Glen
By Robert Burns

Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
By Thomas Lux

Tatyana
By Thomas P. Lynch

Tea Party
By Joanie V. Mackowski

Tell the Bees
By Sarah Lindsay

Telling the Bees
By John Greenleaf Whittier

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

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

Thanksgiving
By Edgar Albert Guest

That Country
By Grace Paley

That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry

That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

That Pull from the Left
By Louise Erdrich

The Abandoned Farm
By Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Ache of Marriage
By Denise Levertov

The Advance of the Father
By Fanny Howe

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 Albatross
By Kate Bass

The Alpaca
By Gabriela Mistral

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Animals
By W. S. Merwin

The animals in that country
By Margaret Atwood

The Anniversary
By John Donne

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Apparition
By John Donne

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Art Room
By Shara McCallum

The Artist
By Amy Lowell

The Astronomical Hen
By Cynthia Zarin

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

The Babysitters
By Sylvia Plath

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Bait
By John Donne

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Ballad of Sally in our Alley
By Henry Carey

The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
By Delmore Schwartz

The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
By Anne Sexton

The Ballad of Villon and Fat Madge
By François Villon

The Bath
By Gary Snyder

The Beach at Sunset
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Bean Eaters
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bear Hunt
By Abraham Lincoln

The Beasts' Confession
By Jonathan Swift

The Beautiful Animal
By Geoffrey Brock

The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner

The Betrothal
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Bison
By Hilaire Belloc

The Black Hose
By Bruce Weigl

The Black Swan
By James Merrill

The Black-Faced Sheep
By Donald Hall

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Blue Booby
By James Tate

The Blue Robe
By Wendell Berry

The Blue Scarf
By Amy Lowell

The Blue-Eyed Precinct Worker
By Henri Coulette

from The Book of Funnels
By Christian Hawkey

The Book of Hours
By B. H. Fairchild

The Book of Phillip Sparrow
By John Skelton

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

The Bounty
By Derek Walcott

The Brassiere Factory
By Kenneth Koch

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

The Bridge
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Bridge Builder
By Anonymous

from The Bridge: Southern Cross
By Hart Crane

The Brief Journey West
By Howard Nemerov

The Broken Home
By James Merrill

The Bumblebee
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity
By Mary Ruefle

The Calves Not Chosen
By Linda Gregg

The Cane-Bottom’d Chair
By William Makepeace Thackeray

The Canonization
By John Donne

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Cap and Bells
By William Butler Yeats

The Cardinal
By Henry Carlile

The Castaway
By William Cowper

The cat’s song
By Marge Piercy

The Caution
By Catherine Cockburn

The Cave
By Michael Collier

The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Children of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Children's Hour
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Chosen
By Thomas Hardy

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The Cities Inside Us
By Alberto Ríos

The Cleaving
By Li-Young Lee

The Clod and the Pebble
By William Blake

The Cloister
By William Matthews

The Closet
By Bill Knott

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Coming Woman
By Mary Weston Fordham

The Complaint of Lisa
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Considerate Soft-Shelled Phizzint
By Shel Silverstein

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 Courtesy
By Alan Shapiro

The Cover of Mars
By Jane Miller

The Cows on Killing Day
By Les Murray

The Cruel Mother
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The Curse
By J. M. Synge

The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth

The Daring One
By Edwin Markham

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

The Death of Antinoüs
By Mark Doty

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Definition of Love
By Andrew Marvell

The Delicacy
By Sandra McPherson

The Desk
By David Bottoms

The Despairing Man Draws a Serpent
By Alfonso Cortes

The Diner
By Richard Jones

The Disappointment
By Aphra Behn

The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
By Alicia Ostriker

The Dome of Sunday
By Karl Shapiro

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Donkey
By G. K. Chesterton

The Door (I)
By Robert Creeley

The Double Leash
By Katharine Coles

The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life
By Anthony Hecht

The Dowser’s Ear
By Wilmer Mills

The Dragon
By Henri Coulette

The Dream
By Irving Feldman

The Dream
By John Donne

The Dream
By Aphra Behn

The Dream of a Lover
By Anonymous

The Duel
By Eugene Field

The Dying Hunter to his Dog
By Susanna Moodie

The Echo Elf Answers
By Thomas Hardy

The Ecstasy
By John Donne

The Elephant
By Dan Chiasson

The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück

The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska

The Enigma
By Anne Stevenson

The Eolian Harp
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Expiration
By John Donne

The Fair Singer
By Andrew Marvell

The Farm
By David Lee

The Farm on the Great Plains
By William E. Stafford

The Father
By Ronald Ross

The Father of My Country
By Diane Wakoski

The Feed
By M.L. Smoker

The Fight
By Michael Collier

The Fight in the Meadow
By Russell Edson

The Fire
By Deborah Parédez

The Fire of Drift-wood
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Flaming Heart
By Richard Crashaw

The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams

The Flea
By John Donne

The Fly
By Karl Shapiro

The Fly
By Lynn Crosbie

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

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
By Richard F. Hugo

The French Revolution
By William Blake

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

The friend
By Marge Piercy

The Frog
By Hilaire Belloc

The Funeral
By John Donne

The Gallery
By Andrew Marvell

The Garbo Cloth
By Lucia Perillo

The Garden
By Andrew Marvell

The Garden
By Mark Strand

The Garden by Moonlight
By Amy Lowell

The Garden of Love
By William Blake

The Gardener 38
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Gate
By Marie Howe

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 Gift
By Li-Young Lee

The Gift
By Richard Emil Braun

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Glove and the Lions
By Leigh Hunt

The God of Inattention
By Averill Curdy

The God Who Loves You
By Carl Dennis

The Good
By Michelle Boisseau

The Good Lunch of Oceans
By Alberto Ríos

The Good Wife Taught Her Daughter
By Medbh McGuckian

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Good-Morrow
By John Donne

The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov

The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Great Blue Heron
By Carolyn Kizer

The Greatest Love
By Anna Swir

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Guild
By Sharon Olds

The Guinea Pig and the Green Balloon
By Oni Buchanan

The Harp
By Bruce Weigl

The Harriers
By Mary Kinzie

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 Heaven of Animals
By James L. Dickey

The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
By Delmore Schwartz

The Hidden Glacier
By Edwin Markham

The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes

The Hitchhikers
By Diane Wakoski

The Holy Fair
By Robert Burns

The Home
By Herbert Morris

The Homer Mitchell Place
By John Engels

The Horse
By Philip Levine

The Horse Fell Off the Poem
By Mahmoud Darwish

The Horses Run Back To Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson

The Hospital Window
By James L. Dickey

The House Gift
By Joanie V. Mackowski

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

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 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 Hush of the Very Good
By Todd Boss

The Idea of Ancestry
By Etheridge Knight

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 Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin
By Ann Yearsley

The Inheritance
By Stanley Moss

The Inkspots
By Gerald Stern

The Intellectual
By Karl Shapiro

The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer

The Invisible Birds of Central America
By Craig Arnold

The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
By Li Po

The Journey
By Eavan Boland

The Journey
By David Ignatow

The Journey
By James Wright

The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song

The Kiss
By Kirmen Uribe

The Laboratory
By Robert Browning

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 Lamb
By William Blake

The Language
By Robert Creeley

The Last Scene
By Alan Shapiro

The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson

The Letter Scale
By Jacques Réda

The Life and Letters
By Irving Feldman

The Life of Lincoln West
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Light the Dead See
By Frank Stanford

The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos

The Little Black Boy
By William Blake

The Little Boy Lost
By William Blake

The Little Turtle
By Vachel Lindsay

The Lonely Pipefish
By Barbara Howes

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

The Look
By Sara Teasdale

The Lost Mistress
By Robert Browning

The Lost Pilot
By James Tate

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 Lovers of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mad Scene
By James Merrill

The Magic of Numbers
By Kenneth Koch

The Magnets
By Ray Gonzalez

The Maid’s Lament
By Walter Savage Landor

The Mailman
By Franz Wright

The Maldive Shark
By Herman Melville

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell

The Man Who Married Magdalene
By Louis Simpson

The Map
By Larry Levis

The Marriage
By Henri Coulette

The Medium
By Robin Blaser

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 Miscarriage
By Amit Majmudar

The Mock Song
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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

The Moss of His Skin
By Anne Sexton

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

The Mother’s Charge
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Mother’s Return
By Dorothy Wordsworth

The Mower
By Philip Larkin

The Mower to the Glow-Worms
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell

The Natives of America
By Ann Plato

The Natural Child
By Helen Leigh

The neighbor
By Marge Piercy

The Night Piece, to Julia
By Robert Herrick

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

The Nightingale
By Philip Sidney

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
By Andrew Marvell

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

The Oblation
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Obligation to Be Happy
By Linda Pastan

The Old Familiar Faces
By Charles Lamb

The Old Front Gate
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale

The Old Man Drew the Line
By Carl Rakosi

The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
By Larry Levis

The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill

The Order In Which Things Are Broken
By Desirée Alvarez

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Package
By Rodney Jones

The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Palace of Art
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Panther
By Edwin Markham

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

The Paris Mouse
By Sandra M. Gilbert

The Parlement of Fowls
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe

The Pasture
By Robert Frost

The Pearl
By George Herbert

The Penitent
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Performance
By James L. Dickey

The Phantom Horsewoman
By Thomas Hardy

The Phoenix and the Turtle
By William Shakespeare

The Photos
By Diane Wakoski

The Pig
By Roald Dahl

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 Potato Eaters
By Leonard E. Nathan

The Priest
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Prince's Progress
By Christina Rossetti

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

The Princess: Sweet and Low
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Thy Voice is Heard
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Promise
By Sharon Olds

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear

The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück

The Quiet World
By Jeffrey McDaniel

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Rain
By Robert Creeley

The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Rain Poured Down
By Dan Gerber

from The Rape of Lucrece
By William Shakespeare

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 Razor-Tailed Wren
By Shel Silverstein

The Real and True and Sure
By Robert Browning

The Red Wheelbarrow
By William Carlos Williams

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 Rescue
By Robert Creeley

The Retired Cat
By William Cowper

The Revelation
By Coventry Patmore

the rites for Cousin Vit
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The River
By Gregory Orr

The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine

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

The Road
By Herbert Morris

The Room of My Life
By Anne Sexton

The Root
By Helen Hoyt

The Safecracker
By Linda Pastan

The Same City
By Terrance Hayes

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 Self-Unseeing
By Thomas Hardy

The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
By Bob Hicok

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

The Sensible Girlfriend
By Terry Wolverton

The Seventeenth Book Of Homer's Odysseys
By George Chapman

The Sheep Child
By James L. Dickey

The Sheep Who Fastened the Sky to the Ground
By Oni Buchanan

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 Shore
By David St. John

The Sick Rose
By William Blake

The Sickness of Friends
By Henri Coulette

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada

The Siller Croun
By Susanna Blamire

The Silver Lily
By Louise Glück

The Simulacra
By D. Nurkse

The Slave Auction
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Slave Mother
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Sleigh-Bells
By Susanna Moodie

The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Smell of Rat Rubs Off
By J. Allyn Rosser

The Smile
By William Blake

The Snail
By Richard Lovelace

The Snail
By Marin Sorescu

The Snow Is Deep on the Ground
By Kenneth Patchen

The Snow Leopard
By Jason Gray

from The Song of Solomon, Chapter 2
By Solomon

The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
By Mina Loy

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Sound of One Fork
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Spanish Hour
By J. D. McClatchy

The Spider and the Fly
By Mary Howitt

The Spider and the Fly
By Mary Howitt

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

The Spring
By Thomas Carew

The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray

The Step Mother
By Susanna Moodie

The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker

The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
By Edmund Waller

The Story of the End of the Story
By James Galvin

The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods
By Rigoberto González

The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold

The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

The Sun Rising
By John Donne

The Sun-Struck Eagle
By Eleanor Percy Lee, Catherine Ana Warfield

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Taxi
By Amy Lowell

The Things in Black Men’s Closets
By E. Ethelbert Miller

The Third Hour of the Night
By Frank Bidart

The Three-Legged Dog at the Heart of Our Home
By Linda Gregerson

The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
By Thomas Moore

The Tragedy of Hats
By Clarinda Harriss

The Triumph of Time
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Troubles That Women Start Are Men
By Rodney Jones

The Trout
By James Laughlin

The Truth
By Carl Phillips

The Truth Is Laughter 10
By Robin Blaser

The Truth the Dead Know
By Anne Sexton

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Tummy Beast
By Roald Dahl

The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Twins
By Robert W. Service

The Unfortunate Damsel
By Fleetwood Habergham

The Unfortunate Lover
By Andrew Marvell

The Unknown
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Unquiet Grave
By Anonymous

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

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 Vain Advice
By Catherine Cockburn

The Victor Dog
By James Merrill

The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov

The Vine
By Robert Herrick

The Visit
By Carole Bernstein

The Voice
By Thomas Hardy

The Wabash Cannonball
By Richard Emil Braun

The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll

The Warning
By Robert Creeley

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Weakness
By Toi Derricotte

The Wedding Vow
By Sharon Olds

The Weight
By Linda Gregg

The West Window in Moveen
By Thomas P. Lynch

The Western Emigrant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

The Whale
By Hilaire Belloc

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

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

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 Woman at the Washington Zoo
By Randall Jarrell

The Woman Who Loved Worms
By Colette Inez

The Words Under the Words
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Work
By Tom Sleigh

The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández

The Wounded Cupid. Song
By Anacreon

The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Yak
By Hilaire Belloc

The Yellow Bicycle
By Robert Hass

The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song

Then
By Roddy Lumsden

Then Another Petal
By Hilda Morley

Then too there is this
By J. Allyn Rosser

There Is A Garden In Her Face
By Thomas Campion

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear

These Poems, She Said
By Robert Bringhurst

They
By Wendell Berry

They Flee From Me
By Thomas Wyatt

They Sit Together on the Porch
By Wendell Berry

Things of the Past
By Theodore Weiss

Thinking About the Enemy
By J. P. White

Thinking and Feeling
By Cole Swensen

Third Avenue in Sunlight
By Anthony Hecht

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

This
By Ralph Angel

This Can’t Be
By Bruce Smith

This Hour and What Is Dead
By Li-Young Lee

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This Room and Everything in It
By Li-Young Lee

Thomas Jefferson
By Lorine Niedecker

Those Winter Sundays
By Robert E. Hayden

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell
By Ben Jonson

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

Thoughtless Cruelty
By Charles Lamb

Thoughts in a Zoo
By Countee Cullen

Three Men Walking, Three Brown Silhouettes
By Alicia Ostriker

Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes
By Thomas Campion

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

Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke

Tides
By Helen Hunt Jackson

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

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

Time Done Is Dark
By Michelle Boisseau

Tintype on the Pond, 1925
By J. Lorraine Brown

To -
By Sarah Helen Whitman

To -
By John Keats

To ----
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Cat
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

To a Child
By Sophie Jewett

To a Dead Lover
By Louise Bogan

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

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 Wedding
By William Logan

To a Wren on Calvary
By Larry Levis

To a Young Lady, With Some Lampreys
By John Gay

To Alexander Graham
By W. S. Graham

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 Aunt Rose
By Allen Ginsberg

To Cupid
By Joanna Baillie

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To Fanny
By John Keats

To Flush, My Dog
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To Helen
By Edgar Allan Poe

To Her Father with Some Verses
By Anne Bradstreet

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. S.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

To Jane: The Invitation
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To John Clare
By John Clare

To Kill a Deer
By Carol Frost

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 Mr. Lawrence
By John Milton

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

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

To My Daughter On Being Separated from Her on Her Marriage
By Anne Hunter

To My Dear and Loving Husband
By Anne Bradstreet

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

To My Father on His Birthday
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To My Father's Business
By Kenneth Koch

To My Husband
By Eliza

To my Inconstant Mistress
By Thomas Carew

To My Mother
By Wendell Berry

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

To Our Land
By Mahmoud Darwish

from To Priapus: Elegies 1.iv
By Tibullus

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

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 Destroyers of Ballots
By Donald Revell

To the Executive Director of the Actual:
By Bruce Smith

To the Fair Clorinda
By Aphra Behn

To the Harbormaster
By Frank O'Hara

To The Indifferent Women
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden

To the Quarry and Back
By Katia Kapovich

To the Young Wife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

To Wordsworth
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To You
By Kenneth Koch

To Yvor Winters, 1955
By Thom Gunn

To. W. P.
By George Santayana

Toad dreams
By Marge Piercy

Togetherness
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Tom O’ Bedlam among the Sunflowers
By Thomas James

Too Many Daves
By Theodor Geisel

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Too Much of a Good Thing
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

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

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

Toth Farry
By Sharon Olds

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

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

Tracings
By Michael Anania

Traveling dream
By Marge Piercy

Tree Marriage
By William Meredith

Triolet
By Sandra McPherson

Triolets in the Argolid
By Rachel Hadas

Trip to Delphi
By Alice Friman

Triptych
By Samuel Menashe

Tritina for Susannah
By David Yezzi

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book I
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book II
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

True Confessions Variations
By Lynn Crosbie

True Love
By Sharon Olds

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Tuesdays
By Kate Gale

Tuning
By Diane Glancy

Turtle
By Kay Ryan

Tutelary
By Michael Ryan

Tutto è Sciolto
By James Joyce

Twelfth Birthday
By Rachel Hadas

Twenty Below
By Paul Engle

from Twenty-One Love Poems: XIII
By Adrienne Rich

Twenty-year Marriage
By Ai

Twilight Train
By Eileen Myles

Two Aunts
By Thomas James

Two Bodies
By Annie Finch

Two in August
By John Crowe Ransom

Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning

Two Old Crows
By Vachel Lindsay

Two Poems from “The Day”
By Kenneth Goldsmith

Two Portraits
By Henry Timrod

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

Two Views of Buson
By Robert Hass

Uncouplings
By Craig Arnold

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

United Jewish Appeal
By Michael C. Blumenthal

Unreliable Narration
By Sarah Lindsay

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

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor

Urban Renewal XVIII.
By Major Jackson

Vacant Lot
By Dudley Randall

Vacating an Apartment
By Agha Shahid Ali

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

Venetian Candy
By John Updike

Venice, Unaccompanied
By Monica Youn

Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare

Venus of the Louvre
By Emma Lazarus

Venus Transiens
By Amy Lowell

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

Vesper Sparrows
By Deborah Digges

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

Video Blues
By Mary Jo Salter

Virginity
By Anna Swir

Visitation
By Jeffrey Harrison

Vita Nova
By Louise Glück

Vixen
By W. S. Merwin

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

Vuillard: “The Mother and Sister of the Artist”
By W. D. Snodgrass

Waiting
By Nikki Grimes

Waking
By Carol Frost

Walking on Tiptoe
By Ted Kooser

Wallpapering
By Sue Ellen Thompson

Walsinghame
By Sir Walter Ralegh

Want Song
By Lance Larsen

Waring
By Robert Browning

Washington McNeely
By Edgar Lee Masters

Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert

Wasteful Gesture Only Not
By Tony Hoagland

Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes
By Bernadette Mayer

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

Waterwings
By Cathy Song

Wavelength
By David St. John

Waving Goodbye
By Gerald Stern

Wax Lips
By Cynthia Rylant

We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

We Had Seen a Pig
By Marvin Bell

We Had Words
By Vona Groarke

We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa

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 are the Days?
By Colette Inez

What Became
By Wesley McNair

What For
By Garrett Hongo

What Grieving Was
By Lynn Emanuel

What I Learned From My Mother
By Julia Kasdorf

What I Saw
By Robert Duncan

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What 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 Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert

What should I Say
By Thomas Wyatt

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

What Work Is
By Philip Levine

What You Pray Toward
By Patricia Smith

When ’Midst the Gay I Meet
By Thomas Moore

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

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 Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
By Oliver Goldsmith

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

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 I’ll Be Good
By Michael Ryan

Where They Lived
By Marge Saiser

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

White Oxen
By Louis Simpson

White Rose
By Tom Pickard

Who Am I, Without Exile?
By Mahmoud Darwish

who in the hell is Tom Jones?
By Charles Bukowski

Who Steals My Good Name
By W. D. Snodgrass

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
By Walt Whitman

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

Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo
By John Ciardi

Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

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

Wild Oats
By Philip Larkin

Wild Peaches
By Elinor Wylie

Wildflowers
By Richard Howard

Windchime
By Tony Hoagland

Windigo
By Louise Erdrich

Wine
By David Wojahn

Winesaps
By Dave Smith

Winter
By Marie Ponsot

Winter Dusk
By Walter De La Mare

Winter Love
By Linda Gregg

Winter promises
By Marge Piercy

Winter Stars
By Larry Levis

wishes for sons
By Lucille Clifton

Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress
By Richard Crashaw

With Mercy for the Greedy
By Anne Sexton

Without Toys at the Home
By Colette Inez

Woman to Man
By Ai

Woman’s Rights
By Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman

Woman's Constancy
By John Donne

Wonder as Wander
By Sharon Olds

Words for a Girlfriend
By Cesare Pavese

Worms
By Carl Dennis

Worth
By Marilyn Nelson

Wrestling
By Louisa S. Bevington

Wyatt Resteth Here
By Henry Howard, earl of Surrey

X Minus X
By Kenneth Fearing

X-Ray
By Dannie Abse

Yarrow Revisited
By William Wordsworth

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

Yesterdays
By Robert Creeley

Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico
By Robin Becker

You and I Saw Hawks Exchanging the Prey
By James Wright

You and Me and Veronica Lake
By Colleen J. McElroy

You Can Have It
By Philip Levine

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

You Goatherd Gods
By Philip Sidney

You know where you did despise
By Alexander Pope

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 Would Know
By Marvin Bell

You! Inez!
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

You, Therefore
By Reginald Shepherd

You’re
By Sylvia Plath

Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun

Young Woman
By Howard Nemerov

Your Clothes
By Judith Kroll

Yours & Mine
By Alice Fulton

Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Youth and Art
By Robert Browning

Yowr Yen Two Woll Sle me Sodenly
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Zen Living
By Dick Allen

Zeus to Juno
By Fiona Sampson

Zucchini Shofar
By Sarah Lindsay

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

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

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

[even with insects]
By Kobayashi Issa

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

[goes out comes back]
By Kobayashi Issa

[if mama / could see]
By Lucille Clifton

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

[Leaving the beach on a Sunday in a streetcar]
By Charles Reznikoff

[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]
By Juan Felipe Herrera

[Letter to Gary Bottone]
By Jack Spicer

[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]
By D.A. Powell

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

[morning green through ivy]
By Dan Beachy-Quick

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

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

[Record no oiled tongue]
By Dan Beachy-Quick

[Sonnet] name address date
By Bernadette Mayer

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

[The wild and wavy event]
By Lorine Niedecker

[under the evening moon]
By Kobayashi Issa