There are 142 Poems about School & Learning

from Dante Études, Book One: We Will Endeavor
By Robert Duncan

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

A Friendly Address
By Thomas Hood

A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

A Parable
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Student’s Prayer
By Anonymous

A Vision of a Wrangler, of a University, of Pedantry, and of Philosophy
By James Clerk Maxwell

Accountability
By William E. Stafford

America
By Tony Hoagland

Ampersand
By John Reibetanz

An Ancient Degree
By Bernadette Mayer

An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi

April Inventory
By W. D. Snodgrass

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
By Elizabeth Alexander

Art of the Haiku
By Irving Feldman

At the California Institute of Technology
By Richard Brautigan

Ave Maria
By Frank O'Hara

Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch

Brian Age Seven
By Mark Doty

Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
By Delmore Schwartz

Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
By Cornelius Eady

Childhood Ideogram
By Larry Levis

Choosing A Profession
By Mary Lamb

Corpus Medicum
By C. Dale Young

Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray

Crossing the Days
By James Scruton

Day Job and Night Job
By Andrew Hudgins

Diorama
By Atsuro Riley

Drill
By Michael Collier

Epistle to J. Lapraik
By Robert Burns

Fable for Blackboard
By George Starbuck

Fields of Learning
By Josephine Miles

First Grade Homework
By D. Nurkse

For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
By David Wagoner

For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson

For the young who want to
By Marge Piercy

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Halley’s Comet
By Stanley Kunitz

Hammer
By Dean Young

Homecoming
By Keith Althaus

How I Discovered Poetry
By Marilyn Nelson

Humanities Lecture
By William E. Stafford

I Love to Do My Homework
By Anonymous

Ideas
By Kathryn Starbuck

In School-days
By John Greenleaf Whittier

In the Absence of Bliss
By Maxine W. Kumin

In the Elementary School Choir
By Gregory Djanikian

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
By Louise Erdrich

Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
By William Wordsworth

Internal Migration: On Being on Tour
By Alan Dugan

Introduction to Poetry
By Billy Collins

Latin
By Herbert Morris

Learning the Trees
By Howard Nemerov

Learning to Read
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Lectures to Women on Physical Science
By James Clerk Maxwell

Lines written under the conviction that it is not wise to read Mathematics in November after one’s fire is out
By James Clerk Maxwell

Linnaeus in Lapland
By Lorine Niedecker

Little Orphant Annie
By James Whitcomb Riley

Living
By C. D. Wright

Love at Thirty-two Degrees
By Katherine Larson

Love Poem
By Miller Williams

Lusty Youth should us ensue
By Henry VIII, king of England

M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School
By Philip Levine

Misreading Housman
By Linda Pastan

Molecular Evolution
By James Clerk Maxwell

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

Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mrs. Krikorian
By Sharon Olds

Musical Moments
By Dannie Abse

Numbers
By Mary Cornish

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
By Thomas Gray

On Education
By Elizabeth Bentley

On Teaching the Young
By Yvor Winters

Parable of the Desultory Slut
By Tony Barnstone

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Poem for Christian, My Student
By Gail Mazur

Prodigy
By Charles Simic

Quaker Meeting, The Sixties
By Robin Becker

Radio
By Gottfried Benn

Reading to the Children
By Herbert Morris

Revelations in the Key of K
By Mary Karr

Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold

Séverine in Summer School
By Rex Wilder

School of Flesh
By Dana Levin

Schools
By Paula Tatarunis

Scrapbook
By George Scarbrough

Seniors
By Alberto Ríos

Sentimental
By Albert Goldbarth

Shakespeare
By Matthew Arnold

Sin (I)
By George Herbert

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Snow Day
By Billy Collins

St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte

Subject To Change
By Marilyn Taylor

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Summer Downpour on Campus
By Juliana Gray

Teaching English from an Old Composition Book
By Gary Soto

The Academic Poet
By Henri Coulette

The Academic Sigh
By Russell Edson

The Ancient World
By Mark Doty

from The Botanic Garden, “The Economy of Vegetation”: Canto I
By Erasmus Darwin

The Campus on the Hill
By W. D. Snodgrass

The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
By Galway Kinnell

The Desk
By David Bottoms

The Ditch
By Michael Ryan

The Dunciad: Book IV
By Alexander Pope

The Erotic Philosophers
By Carolyn Kizer

The Fabric of Life
By Kay Ryan

The Gift
By Richard Emil Braun

The Hook
By Theodore Weiss

The Life of Lincoln West
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Month of June: 13 1/2
By Sharon Olds

The Naughty Boy
By John Keats

The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House
By Howard Nemerov

The Poet at Seventeen
By Larry Levis

The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical Academics
By W. D. Snodgrass

from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time
By William Wordsworth

from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
By William Wordsworth

The Properly Scholarly Attitude
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The School Where I Studied
By Yehuda Amichai

The So-called Singer of Nab
By Sarah Lindsay

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

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

The Way I Learned to Write
By Kate Gale

The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
By Bernadette Mayer

Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

To a Young Writer
By Yvor Winters

To David, About His Education
By Howard Nemerov

To Yvor Winters, 1955
By Thom Gunn

Two Tales of Clumsy
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

University
By Karl Shapiro

Upon the Vine-tree
By John Bunyan

Urban Renewal XVIII.
By Major Jackson

Vitamins and Roughage
By Kenneth Rexroth

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

Winter Campus: Ann Arbor
By Dudley Randall

Workshop
By Billy Collins

Writing in the Afterlife
By Billy Collins

[Response to the Loyalty Oath]
By Jack Spicer