There are 1113 Poems about Activities

Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker

"It's such a shock, I almost screech"
By William Cole

‘Out, Out—’
By Robert Frost

1492
By Emma Lazarus

1851: A Message to Denmark Hill
By Richard Howard

1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
By June Jordan

Fragments: Mrs. Reuben Chandler writes to her husband during a cholera epidemic
By Anne Stevenson

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

The Common Women Poems, II. Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
By Judy Grahn

V Mon. July [1747] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

VI Mon. August [1742] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

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

XI Mon. January [1736] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

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

A Ballad of Baseball Burdens
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Black Man Talks of Reaping
By Arna Bontemps

A Blessing
By James Wright

A Certain Village
By Theodore Weiss

A Channel Crossing
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport
By Sidney Wade

A Country Boy in Winter
By Sarah Orne Jewett

A Country Incident
By May Sarton

A Display of Mackerel
By Mark Doty

A Forsaken Garden
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Friendly Address
By Thomas Hood

A Good Fish
By Derek Sheffield

A Gothic Tale
By Theodore Weiss

A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

A Graveyard
By Marianne Moore

A Hairline Fracture
By Amy Clampitt

A Hot Day In Agrigento
By Molly Peacock

A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Leave-Taking
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Literalist
By Robin Blaser

A Local Doc, over Rocky Lunchtime Bourbon, Speaks of Barter and Hopeful Home Remedies
By R. T. Smith

A Lot
By Scott Cairns

A Mad Fight Song for William S. Carpenter, 1966
By James Wright

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

A Motor
By Marvin Bell

A Parable
By Arthur Conan Doyle

from A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman

A Pastoral
By Agha Shahid Ali

A Poem about Baseballs
By Denis Johnson

A Poet to His Baby Son
By James Weldon Johnson

A Position at the University
By Lydia Davis

A pot poured out
By Samuel Menashe

A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Pumpkin at New Year’s
By Sandra McPherson

A Report to an Academy
By Joel Brouwer

A Second Train Song for Gary
By Jack Spicer

A Sister on the Tracks
By Donald Hall

A Student’s Prayer
By Anonymous

A Supermarket in California
By Allen Ginsberg

A Thousand Words
By Daryl Hine

A Toast
By Peter Balakian

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

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

A Way of Being
By Barbara Guest

A Way to Make a Living
By James Wright

A Wicker Basket
By Robert Creeley

A Young Lady of Lynn
By Anonymous

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

AAA Vacation Guide
By Ernest Hilbert

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
By Charles Bukowski

Accountability
By William E. Stafford

Actaeon
By A.E. Stallings

Advice to the Good Traveler
By Victor Segalen

Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke

After Apple Picking
By Robert Frost

After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass

After working sixty hours again for what reason
By Bob Hicok

Afterthought
By Diane Ackerman

Against Nature
By Richard Emil Braun

Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell

Against Travel
By Charles Tomlinson

Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching
By Charles Simic

Alameda Street
By Douglas Kearney

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alcohol
By Franz Wright

Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden

All Wet
By Marie Ponsot

Alone with the Goddess
By Linda Gregg

Alone, Drinking With the Tickfaw River
By Alison Pelegrin

America
By Tony Hoagland

American Sketches
By Donald Justice

Amoretti LXVII: Like as a Huntsman
By Edmund Spenser

Ampersand
By John Reibetanz

An Ancient Degree
By Bernadette Mayer

An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert

An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi

An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi

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

An Interview
By Oskar Pastior

An old story
By Bob Hicok

Analysis of Baseball
By May Swenson

Another Insane Devotion
By Gerald Stern

Another Story with a Burning Barn in It
By Lisa Olstein

Apollo
By Elizabeth Alexander

Appetite
By Paulann Petersen

Application for a Grant
By Anthony Hecht

April Inventory
By W. D. Snodgrass

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
By Elizabeth Alexander

Art of the Haiku
By Irving Feldman

Asked to Recall a Moment of Pure Happiness
By Mary Kinzie

Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XLI
By Philip Sidney

At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy

At the California Institute of Technology
By Richard Brautigan

At the Fishhouses
By Elizabeth Bishop

At the San Francisco Airport
By Yvor Winters

At the Station
By Herbert Morris

Atlantic Oil
By Cesare Pavese

Aubade
By Edith Sitwell

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Authority
By W. S. Merwin

Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
By James Wright

Autumn Psalm
By Jacqueline Osherow

Ave Maria
By Frank O'Hara

Aviation
By Alice Fulton

Away to Canada
By Joshua McCarter Simpson

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

Baby Villon
By Philip Levine

Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s
By Eleanor Wilner

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

Banjo Dog Variations
By Donald Justice

Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
By Moira Egan

Barges on the Hudson
By Babette Deutsch

Baseball
By Gail Mazur

Baseball and Classicism
By Tom Clark

Baseball’s Sad Lexicon
By Franklin Pierce Adams

BEAM 30: The Garden
By Ronald Johnson

Beat! Beat! Drums!
By Walt Whitman

Beer
By George Arnold

Belle Isle, 1949
By Philip Levine

Bermudas
By Andrew Marvell

Beside the Broad Dordogne
By Alan Feldman

Between Assasinations
By Alan Shapiro

Blackened Rings
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Blasting from Heaven
By Philip Levine

Blind Curse
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Blues for Dante Alighieri
By Kim Addonizio

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Boston Year
By Elizabeth Alexander

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch

Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes

Breakfast
By Mary Lamb

Breughel
By Michael Collier

Brian Age Seven
By Mark Doty

from Briggflatts
By Basil Bunting

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Buckroe, After the Season, 1942
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Bungee Jumping
By William H. Dickey

Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Burning Trash
By John Updike

Bus Trip
By Susan Mitchell

Business
By A. F. Moritz

Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile

Butter
By Elizabeth Alexander

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus

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

Canned Food Drive
By Kathleen Lynch

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Carlos
By Theodore Deppe

Carpentry
By Carl Dennis

Casey at the Bat
By Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson

Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
By Cornelius Eady

Checklist
By Stephen Dunn

Chicago
By Paul Engle

Child on the Marsh
By Andrew Hudgins

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Childhood
By Margaret Walker

Childhood Ideogram
By Larry Levis

Chinese New Year
By Lynda Hull

Choosing A Profession
By Mary Lamb

Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall

Cleaning a Fish
By Dave Smith

Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Clothespins
By Stuart Dybek

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Cock
By Albert Goldbarth

Coda
By Basil Bunting

Come with Me
By Robert Bly

Confession
By Reginald Gibbons

Confession in a Booth at the Hollow Log Lounge
By R. T. Smith

Conrad Siever
By Edgar Lee Masters

Constantinople
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick

Corpus Medicum
By C. Dale Young

Corsons Inlet
By A. R. Ammons

Courtesy
By David Ferry

Crash
By Elizabeth Alexander

Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman

Crossing the Days
By James Scruton

Crossroads
By Mary Barnard

Cruising 99
By Garrett Hongo

Crusoe in England
By Elizabeth Bishop

Daily Bread
By John Reibetanz

Damon the Mower
By Andrew Marvell

Day and Night in Virginia and Boston
By Anne Winters

Day Job and Night Job
By Andrew Hudgins

Days of 1994: Alexandrians
By Marilyn Hacker

Deaf Night at O'Donnell's
By Art Nahill

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
By Richard F. Hugo

Dejection
By David Baker

Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser

Descriptive Jottings of London
By William McGonagall

Dickhead
By Michael Ryan

Digging
By Seamus Heaney

Diorama
By Atsuro Riley

Doctor Frolic
By Robert Pinsky

Dog Gospel
By Brian Barker

Don Juan: Canto the Second
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Don't Worry if Your Job Is Small
By Anonymous

Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass

Drake in the Southern Sea
By Ernesto Cardenal

Drill
By Michael Collier

Driving West in 1970
By Robert Bly

Dropping the euphemism
By Bob Hicok

Drunks in the Bass Boat
By David Bottoms

Dunk!
By Gregory K. Pincus

Durban, South Africa—Some Notations of Value
By Chris Abani

Dust to Dust
By David Baker

Early Cascade
By Lucia Perillo

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
By B. H. Fairchild

East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

East with Ibn Battuta
By Thomas James Merton

Eating Poetry
By Mark Strand

Eating the Pig
By Donald Hall

Eating Together
By Li-Young Lee

Eating Together
By Kim Addonizio

Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary
By Kevin Young

Eldorado
By Edgar Allan Poe

Ellen West
By Frank Bidart

Emergency Haying
By Hayden Carruth

En la Calle San Sebastián
By Martín Espada

England Finally, Like My Mother Always Said We Would
By Alberto Ríos

Ephemera
By Robin Becker

from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Epistle to J. Lapraik
By Robert Burns

Epistle to Mrs. Tyler
By Christopher Smart

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
By Karen Craigo

Esmiss Esmoor
By Ben Belitt

Etching of the Plague Years
By Mary Karr

Evening Practice
By D. Nurkse

Everyone Has a House
By Kate Gale

Ex-Basketball Player
By John Updike

Ex-Embassy
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Excelsior
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Excelsior Fashion Products, Easter
By D. Nurkse

Exegesis of the First Words Spoken (Ishmael)
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Exile
By George Elliott Clarke

Explorers Cry Out Unheard
By Marie Ponsot

Eye on the Scarecrow
By Nathaniel Mackey

Eyes Fastened with Pins
By Charles Simic

Fable for Blackboard
By George Starbuck

Factory
By Charles Simic

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Fall River
By David Rivard

Family History
By Irving Feldman

Family Reunion
By Maxine W. Kumin

Family Reunion
By Catherine Barnett

Fanny
By Carolyn Kizer

Fast Break
By Edward Hirsch

Father
By Edgar Albert Guest

Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson

February
By Margaret Atwood

Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell

Fence Repair
By David Lee

Fields of Learning
By Josephine Miles

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Figures in the Carpets
By David Schloss

Filling Station
By Elizabeth Bishop

First Coca-Cola
By Rodney Jones

First Glance
By Susan Hutton

First Grade Homework
By D. Nurkse

First Job
By Joseph Campana

Fish or Like Fish
By Joel Brouwer

Fishing
By A.E. Stallings

Five Visions of Captain Cook
By Kenneth Slessor

Flight
By Linda Bierds

Flight to Limbo
By John Updike

Flounder
By Natasha Trethewey

Flying Home
By Rachel Hadas

Fog
By Mark Doty

Food
By Brenda Hillman

Foodcourt
By Tony Hoagland

For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
By David Wagoner

For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson

For Pharish Pinckney, Bindle-Stiff During the Depression
By Dudley Randall

For the young who want to
By Marge Piercy

Forest Children
By Colette Inez

Forgotten of the Foot
By Anne Stevenson

Fork
By Charles Simic

Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Four Postulates
By Michael Anania

Four Sandwiches
By Martín Espada

Fox Sleep
By W. S. Merwin

Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Blossoms
By Li-Young Lee

From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren

From the Wave
By Thom Gunn

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frying Trout While Drunk
By Lynn Emanuel

Fundamentals of Esperanto
By Srikanth Reddy

Funny Strange
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Garden
By H. D.

Georgia Dusk
By Jean Toomer

Ghana Calls
By W. E. B. Du Bois

Ghost Supper
By David Wojahn

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

Go Ahead, Seaver
By Phil Rizzuto

Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti

God of Roads
By Yvor Winters

Going to Connecticut
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Grace
By John Logan

Gravelly Run
By A. R. Ammons

Green Tea
By Dale Ritterbusch

Greenland’s Icy Mountains
By William McGonagall

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

Halley’s Comet
By Stanley Kunitz

Hammer
By Dean Young

Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani

Hangzhou, Lake of the Poets
By Marie Ponsot

Happy Hour
By Alan Shapiro

Hard Luck
By Edgar Albert Guest

Harvest Gathering
By Phoebe Cary

Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
By William Meredith

Hearing
By W. S. Merwin

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty

Hello, Willie Shoemaker
By Charles Bukowski

Her Garden
By Donald Hall

Hero
By Paul Engle

Hidden Harvest
By Rodrigo Toscano

His Farewell to Sack
By Robert Herrick

Homage to Buck Cline
By David Bottoms

Homage to H & the Speedway Diner
By Bernadette Mayer

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
By Robert Browning

Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
By Robert Browning

Homecoming
By Keith Althaus

Homecoming
By Jay Wright

Honorary Jew
By John Repp

Horses
By Wendell Berry

Hotel Showers of the World
By Roddy Lumsden

How Are You Doing?
By Rick Snyder

How I Discovered Poetry
By Marilyn Nelson

How She Went to Ireland
By Thomas Hardy

How Things Work
By Gary Soto

Humanities Lecture
By William E. Stafford

Hunting Manual
By Eleanor Wilner

Hunting, Hazards, and Holiness
By Henry Carlile

Hysteria
By Dionisio D. Martinez

I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51
By Edward Taylor

I am the People, the Mob
By Carl Sandburg

I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet
By Charles Bukowski

I Eat My Peas with Honey
By Anonymous

I Hear America Singing
By Walt Whitman

I Love to Do My Homework
By Anonymous

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

I Travelled among Unknown Men
By William Wordsworth

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

I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

Ice
By Gail Mazur

Ideas
By Kathryn Starbuck

If I Were Another
By Mahmoud Darwish

Ikebana
By Cathy Song

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

In
By Andrew Hudgins

In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
By Paul Engle

In a Science-Illustrator’s Apartment
By Diane Ackerman

In a U-Haul North of Damascus
By David Bottoms

In Cities, Be Alert
By Annie Finch

In Exile
By Emma Lazarus

In Kona, Thinking of the Elements
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 121
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 15
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In My Dreams
By Stevie Smith

In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned
By James Wright

In School-days
By John Greenleaf Whittier

In Spain
By Thomas Wyatt

In the Absence of Bliss
By Maxine W. Kumin

In the Armpit of the Hill
By Clarence Major

In The Black Rock Tavern
By Judith Slater

In the Cannery the Porpoise Soul
By Juan Felipe Herrera

In the Deep Channel
By William E. Stafford

In the Elementary School Choir
By Gregory Djanikian

In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Mushroom Summer
By David Mason

Incident
By Eamon Grennan

Independent Contractor
By Norman Williams

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
By Louise Erdrich

Industrial Lace
By Alice Fulton

Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
By William Wordsworth

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

It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

It's the Little Towns I Like
By Thomas Lux

It’s Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean
By June Jordan

It’s Like This
By Stephen Dobyns

Ithaka
By C. P. Cavafy

Itinerary
By James McMichael

Joe
By Emily Pauline Johnson

John Henry
By Anonymous

Johnson’s Cabinet Watched by Ants
By Robert Bly

Jottings of New York: A Descriptive Poem
By William McGonagall

Journey to the Place of Ghosts
By Jay Wright

Joy in the Woods
By Claude McKay

Jubilate Agno, 1975
By David Lee

Juggling Jerry
By George Meredith

Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Junk
By Richard Wilbur

Killary Harbor
By Peter Balakian

Korean mums
By James Schuyler

Kouign Amann
By Ange Mlinko

Landscape, Dense with Trees
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Last Call
By Randall Mann

Late Ripeness
By Czeslaw Milosz

Latin
By Herbert Morris

Laundry
By Bruce Smith

Laundry
By Ruth Moose

Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty

Learning the Trees
By Howard Nemerov

Learning to Read
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Leaving
By Cathy Song

Leaving Kansas City
By George Bradley

Lectures to Women on Physical Science
By James Clerk Maxwell

Left to Itself the Heart Could Almost Melt, Mend
By Jill Osier

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis

Limbo: Altered States
By Mary Karr

Lines
By John Ciardi

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
By William Wordsworth

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

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
By John Keats

Lines to Mr. Hodgson Written on Board the Lisbon Packet
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Lissadell
By Wendy Cope

Listen Carefully
By Philip Levine

Little Fugue
By John Peck

Little Orphant Annie
By James Whitcomb Riley

Living
By C. D. Wright

London
By William Blake

London’s Summer Morning
By Mary Robinson

Lonely Eagles
By Marilyn Nelson

Looking Around
By Charles Wright

Looking For Each of Us
By Linda Gregg

Losing the Game
By Diane Ackerman

Lost in the Forest
By Amy Gerstler

Love at Thirty-two Degrees
By Katherine Larson

Love in the Valley
By George Meredith

Love Poem
By Miller Williams

Love Song: I and Thou
By Alan Dugan

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

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

Machines
By Michael Donaghy

Madam’s Past History
By Langston Hughes

Magic
By Louis Untermeyer

Man
By George Herbert

Manifest
By Reginald Shepherd

Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro

Manufacturing
By Rae Armantrout

Map
By Atsuro Riley

Mapping the Genome
By Michael Symmons Roberts

Marathon
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Marco Polo at Finisterre
By Matthew Brenneman

Mary Shelley in Brigantine
By Stephen Dunn

Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Mathematics
By Jane Hirshfield

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Meditation at Fifty Yards, Moving Target
By Rita Dove

Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Mine own John Poynz
By Thomas Wyatt

Minnesota Fats Describes His Youth
By Elizabeth Alexander

Minuscule Things
By William Matthews

Miriam Tazewell
By John Crowe Ransom

Misreading Housman
By Linda Pastan

Molecular Evolution
By James Clerk Maxwell

Money Won’t Change It (but time will take you on)
By Cornelius Eady

Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan

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

Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Morality
By Matthew Arnold

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

Morning
By Billy Collins

Morning After
By Langston Hughes

Mosaic
By Linda Pastan

Most Sweet it is
By William Wordsworth

Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor

Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes

Mowing
By Robert Frost

Mowing
By Robert Wrigley

Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Mr. Luna’s Plum Tree
By Alberto Ríos

Mrs. Krikorian
By Sharon Olds

Much in Little
By Yvor Winters

Mushrooms
By Charles Tomlinson

Musical Moments
By Dannie Abse

My Autumn Leaves
By Bruce Weigl

My Father
By Jessie B. Rittenhouse

My Father Teaches Me to Dream
By Jan Beatty

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun (764)
By Emily Dickinson

My Mother's Nipples
By Robert Hass

Mythmaking on the Merritt Parkway
By G. E. Murray

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Nameless Pain
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Narrative: Ali
By Elizabeth Alexander

Neighbors in October
By David Baker

New Folk
By Terrance Hayes

New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman

New Year
By Bei Dao

News
By Thomas Traherne

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

No One Goes to Paris in August
By Clarence Major

North
By Seamus Heaney

Northern Exposures
By G. E. Murray

Numbers
By Mary Cornish

O Carib Isle!
By Hart Crane

O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
By William Shakespeare

Odd
By Dannie Abse

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
By Thomas Gray

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Ode to Big Trend
By Terrance Hayes

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

from Odes: 14. Gin the Goodwife Stint
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 30. The Orotava Road
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 6. What the Chairman Told Tom
By Basil Bunting

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary
By John Lyly

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Men Playing Basketball
By B. H. Fairchild

from Omeros
By Derek Walcott

On A Diet
By William Matthews

On Antiphon Island
By Nathaniel Mackey

On Donne's Poetry
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On Education
By Elizabeth Bentley

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats

On Hurricane Jackson
By Alan Dugan

On Monsieur’s Departure
By Elizabeth I

On Munsungun
By Ethan Stebbins

On Pickiness
By Rodney Jones

On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt

On Quitting
By Edgar Albert Guest

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On Teaching the Young
By Yvor Winters

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

On the Road
By John Updike

On the Screened Porch
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

On the Subject of Doctors
By James Tate

On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes
By Mary Szybist

Once the Dream Begins
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana
By Susan Mitchell

One Possible Meaning
By Charlie Smith

Onions
By William Matthews

Osage County Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma
By Diane Glancy

Otranto
By Barbara Guest

Our Father
By Irving Feldman

Our Hired Girl
By James Whitcomb Riley

Our Motorbike
By Elfriede Jelinek

Outside
By Mark Jarman

Over the Sea our Galleys Went
By Robert Browning

Ox Cart Man
By Donald Hall

Oxford Stroud Recollects Fishing with Electricity
By R. T. Smith

Oystering
By Richard Howard

Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pa’s Soft Spot
By D. A. Ellsworth

Pamet Harbor
By Gerald Stern

Parable of the Desultory Slut
By Tony Barnstone

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell

Parthenogenesis
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Parting: 1940
By John Frederick Nims

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Paths
By John Montague

Peach
By Jennifer Tonge

Peddler
By Sandra McPherson

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Picasso
By E. E. Cummings

Pick Me Up
By William Jay Smith

Pickers
By John Haines

Planting the Meadow
By Mary Makofske

Plowing through Ashes
By Walter McDonald

Poem
By Thomas McGrath

Poem for Christian, My Student
By Gail Mazur

Poet’s work
By Lorine Niedecker

Politics
By William Meredith

Poppies on the Wheat
By Helen Hunt Jackson

Port-Au-Prince
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Praise Song for the Day
By Elizabeth Alexander

Prayer
By Alan Dugan

Praying Drunk
By Andrew Hudgins

Primitive Road
By Lucas Howell

Private Eye Lettuce
By Richard Brautigan

Prodigy
By Charles Simic

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Pronouns
By Cole Swensen

Provo
By Mark Rudman

Pullman Porter
By Robert W. Service

Pure Conversation with a Chinese Character
By Marin Sorescu

Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost

Quaker Meeting, The Sixties
By Robin Becker

Quivira
By Ronald Johnson

Radio
By Gottfried Benn

Radio
By Tom Clark

Rag Rug
By Rachel Hadas

Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez

Rain along Shore
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Rain Gauge
By John Kinsella

Raking
By Tania Rochelle

Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Reading to the Children
By Herbert Morris

Reapers
By Jean Toomer

Recuerdo
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Regarding Chainsaws
By Hayden Carruth

Remarks on Poetry and the Physical World
By Mary Barnard

Remembering an Account Executive
By Alan Dugan

Repose of Rivers
By Hart Crane

Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry
By Sandra McPherson

Resolution and Independence
By William Wordsworth

Rest before you sleep
By Dionisio D. Martinez

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Return to Rome
By Stanley Moss

Reuben Bright
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Revelations in the Key of K
By Mary Karr

Riding Herd
By Walter McDonald

River Road
By Herbert Morris

River Road
By Stanley Kunitz

Road Report
By Kurt Brown

Roadblock
By Rachel Hadas

Rogue Russets
By R. T. Smith

Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold

Ruined Tunnel
By Forrest Gander

Runagate Runagate
By Robert E. Hayden

Runaways Café II
By Marilyn Hacker

Running Away Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Russell Market
By Maurya Simon

Safari, Rift Valley
By Roy Jacobstein

Saguaro
By Brenda Hillman

Sailing Home from Rapallo
By Robert Lowell

Sailing to America
By Gregory Djanikian

Sailing to Byzantium
By William Butler Yeats

Salvation
By James Kimbrell

San Onofre, California
By Carolyn Forché

Sanctuary
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Sand Flesh and Sky
By Clarence Major

Santa Fe Trail
By Barbara Guest

Santo Domingo Feast Day
By Robin Becker

Saturn
By Cynthia Zarin

from Saying Grace
By Kevin Young

Séverine in Summer School
By Rex Wilder

School of Flesh
By Dana Levin

Schools
By Paula Tatarunis

Scrabble with Matthews
By David Wojahn

Scrapbook
By George Scarbrough

Sea Rose
By H. D.

Sea-Map
By Hilda Morley

Self-Employed
By David Ignatow

Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview
By Gary Soto

Seniors
By Alberto Ríos

Sent with a Flower-Pot Begging a Slip of Geranium
By Christian Milne

Sentimental
By Albert Goldbarth

Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
By Rudyard Kipling

Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman

Shakespeare
By Matthew Arnold

Shell
By Terry Wolverton

Sheltered Garden
By H. D.

Sheriff Matt Whitlock Confesses to a Lesson in Zen after Hours
By R. T. Smith

Shirt
By Robert Pinsky

Shore Scene
By John Logan

Simone Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934-1935)
By Edward Hirsch

Sin (I)
By George Herbert

Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman

Skipper Ireson’s Ride
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Skywriting
By Charles Tomlinson

Slam, Dunk, & Hook
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Sleep Cycle
By Dean Young

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

Smoke
By Philip Levine

Snow Day
By Billy Collins

Snowflake
By William Baer

So they stood
By Samuel Menashe

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

Sober Song
By Barton Sutter

Solar
By Robin Becker

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

Some Boys are Born to Wander
By Walter McDonald

Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco

Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Song of the Andoumboulou: 55
By Nathaniel Mackey

Song of the Open Road
By Walt Whitman

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

Sorrow Home
By Margaret Walker

Sparrow Trapped in the Airport
By Averill Curdy

St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte

Stacking the Straw
By Amy Clampitt

Star
By W. S. Merwin

Stargnoc Caz!
By Bernadette Mayer

Stolen Moments
By Kim Addonizio

Stomackes
By Albert Goldbarth

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost

from Stops Along the Western Bank of the Missouri River: Of the River Itself
By Michael Anania

Storming Toward a Precipice
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Stranger at the Ashwood Threshold
By Sherod Santos

Strawberrying
By May Swenson

Subject To Change
By Marilyn Taylor

Subway Seethe
By J. Allyn Rosser

Sugar Cane
By Alfred Corn

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Summer Downpour on Campus
By Juliana Gray

Summer Images
By John Clare

Susie Asado
By Gertrude Stein

Sweat
By Miguel Hernández

Sweet Will
By Philip Levine

Swordfish
By Andrew Hudgins

Symphony of a Mexican Garden
By Grace Hazard Conkling

Synopsis for a German Novella
By John Fuller

Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers
By John Updike

Tar
By C. K. Williams

Tea-Strainer
By Joyelle McSweeney

Teaching English from an Old Composition Book
By Gary Soto

Tent Caterpillars
By Susan Mitchell

Terms
By Philip Booth

Thanksgiving Magic
By Rowena Bastin Bennett

That Pull from the Left
By Louise Erdrich

The Academic Poet
By Henri Coulette

The Academic Sigh
By Russell Edson

The Ancient World
By Mark Doty

The Armada
By Anne Winters

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Avenues
By David St. John

The Barefoot Boy
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Battle of the Bulge
By Robert W. Service

The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees

The Bear
By Galway Kinnell

The Bear Hunt
By Abraham Lincoln

The Beggars
By Margaret Widdemer

The Bell Buoy
By Rudyard Kipling

The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson

The Bistro Styx
By Rita Dove

The Body
By Marianne Boruch

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

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

The Book of Urizen
By William Blake

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

The Boundary
By Bei Dao

The Bridge of Change
By John Logan

from The Bridge: Southern Cross
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: The Tunnel
By Hart Crane

The Building of the Ship
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Bustle in a House (1108)
By Emily Dickinson

The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off
By Cornelius Eady

The Calm
By John Donne

The Campus on the Hill
By W. D. Snodgrass

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Catalpa
By John Ciardi

The Cave
By Michael Collier

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Chariot
By Emily Dickinson

The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young
By William Blake

The Chocolate Infection
By G. E. Murray

The circle game
By Margaret Atwood

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson

The Constant Voice
By John Koethe

The Convergence of the Twain
By Thomas Hardy

The Corner Grocery Store
By Walter McDonald

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

The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service

The crowd at the ball game
By William Carlos Williams

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Definition of Gardening
By James Tate

The Delta Parade
By Susan Stewart

The Depot
By Anne Winters

The Desk
By David Bottoms

the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck
By Charles Bukowski

The Diner
By Richard Jones

The Dirt-Eaters
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Ditch
By Michael Ryan

The Diving Apprentices
By Christopher Middleton

The Doors
By David St. John

The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
By Richard Brautigan

The Duffel Bag
By David Harsent

The Dunciad: Book IV
By Alexander Pope

The Dying Hunter to his Dog
By Susanna Moodie

The Elements of San Joaquin
By Gary Soto

The Elixir
By George Herbert

The Emperor of Ice-Cream
By Wallace Stevens

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Erotic Philosophers
By Carolyn Kizer

The Errancy
By Jorie Graham

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Fabric of Life
By Kay Ryan

The Fact of the Garden
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Farm
By David Lee

The Farmer’s Soliloquy
By Robert Charles O’Hara Benjamin

The Feed
By M.L. Smoker

The Flashboat
By Jane Cooper

The Flower Path
By Arthur Sze

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
By Richard F. Hugo

The French Girl
By Ann Lauterbach

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

The Future
By Neal Bowers

The Garden
By Andrew Marvell

The Garden
By Mark Strand

The Gardener 66
By Rabindranath Tagore

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

The Ghost in the Martini
By Anthony Hecht

The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds

The Gift
By Richard Emil Braun

The Good Lunch of Oceans
By Alberto Ríos

The Good Man in Hell
By Mark Jarman

The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Grand Canyon
By Jean Garrigue

The Great Palaces of Versailles
By Rita Dove

The Great Society
By Robert Bly

The Hero on His Way Home
By Lawrence Raab

The Hitchhikers
By Diane Wakoski

The Holy Fair
By Robert Burns

The Homecoming
By Barbara Howes

The Hook
By Theodore Weiss

The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll

The Iliad
By Alexander Pope

The Invention of Cuisine
By Carol Muske-Dukes

The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell

The Jaunt
By Alfred Corn

The Journey
By Eavan Boland

The Journey
By Yvor Winters

The Journey
By James Wright

The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song

The King and Queen of Hearts
By Charles Lamb

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Lay for the Troubled Golfer
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Life of Lincoln West
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Listeners
By Walter De La Mare

The Little Vagabond
By William Blake

The Loneliness of the Military Historian
By Margaret Atwood

The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling

The Love Cook
By Ron Padgett

The Luggage
By Constance Urdang

The Magnets
By Ray Gonzalez

The Mailman
By Franz Wright

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham

The Map
By Larry Levis

The March� aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes
By Daryl Hine

The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada

The Memory of Elena
By Carolyn Forché

The Men
By B. H. Fairchild

The Men
By Pablo Neruda

The Messenger
By Eleanor Wilner

The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Mill-Race
By Anne Winters

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

The Moment When Your Name is Pronounced
By Forrest Gander

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

The Moose
By Elizabeth Bishop

The Motorcyclists
By James Tate

The Mount
By Léonie Adams

The Mower
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower against Gardens
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower to the Glow-Worms
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell

The Nail
By C. K. Williams

The Naughty Boy
By John Keats

The Newspaper
By Penina Moise

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The Old Swimmin' Hole
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Old World
By Charles Simic

The Orange
By Wendy Cope

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

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

The Pasture
By Robert Frost

The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Phyllis
By R. T. Smith

The Pilgrim
By Sophie Jewett

The Pilgrim
By John Bunyan

The Pilgrims
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Pilot in the Jungle
By John Ciardi

The Poet at Seventeen
By Larry Levis

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

The Poetry Bus
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos

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

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

The Priest
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Princess: Sweet and Low
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Principles of Concealment
By David Wagoner

The Properly Scholarly Attitude
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Props assist the House (729)
By Emily Dickinson

The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Railway Train
By Emily Dickinson

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

The Road and the End
By Carl Sandburg

The Rolling English Road
By G. K. Chesterton

The Runners
By Irving Feldman

The Sévres Road
By Susan Donnelly

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The School Where I Studied
By Yehuda Amichai

The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott

The Seafarer
By Ezra Pound

The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove

The Seekonk Woods
By Galway Kinnell

The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
By Bob Hicok

The Seventh Inning
By Donald Hall

The Shoes
By Brent Pallas

from The Shrubberies [“quincunx of succulents”]
By Ronald Johnson

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada

The Simplon Pass
By William Wordsworth

The Simulacra
By D. Nurkse

The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Sleigh-Bells
By Susanna Moodie

The Snowmass Cycle
By Stephen Dunn

The So-called Singer of Nab
By Sarah Lindsay

The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling

The Song of the Traveller
By Thomas James Merton

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

The Spire
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

The Strange People
By Louise Erdrich

The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Thought of Something Else
By Wendell Berry

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Tourist From Syracuse
By Donald Justice

the trash men
By Charles Bukowski

The Truth about Small Towns
By David Baker

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Tummy Beast
By Roald Dahl

The Tunning of Elenor Rumming
By John Skelton

The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Uniform
By Marvin Bell

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

The Untamed
By R. S. Thomas

The Vagrant’s Romance
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The Vegetables
By James McMichael

The Veggie Life
By Michael Steffen

The Voyage Home
By Philip Appleman

The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll

The Way I Learned to Write
By Kate Gale

The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
By Bernadette Mayer

The Way to the River
By W. S. Merwin

The West Country
By Alice Cary

The Western Emigrant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

The Whitsun Weddings
By Philip Larkin

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

The Witnesses
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

from The Woman’s Labor. An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck
By Mary Collier

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

The Workforce
By James Tate

The Wounded Bullfighter
By Clarence Major

The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Yellowhammer's Nest
By John Clare

The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song

Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes

There was an Old Man of Calcutta
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear

They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni

They eat out
By Margaret Atwood

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

This Can’t Be
By Bruce Smith

Thompson’s Lunch Room—Grand Central Station
By Amy Lowell

Three Italian Pictures
By Mina Loy

Three Six Five Zero
By Conor O'Callaghan

Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe

To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams

To a Young Writer
By Yvor Winters

To an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman

To Autumn
By John Keats

To Bessie Drennan
By Mark Doty

To David, About His Education
By Howard Nemerov

To Fishermen
By Carol Frost

To Go to Lvov
By Adam Zagajewski

To Helen
By Edgar Allan Poe

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

To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden

To Myself
By Franz Wright

To the Executive Director of the Actual:
By Bruce Smith

To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman

To the Negro Farmers of the United States
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To the Returned Girls
By Franklin Pierce Adams

To the Virginian Voyage
By Michael Drayton

To Yvor Winters, 1955
By Thom Gunn

Tom Deadlight (1810)
By Herman Melville

Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer

Torque
By David Rivard

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

Tourist
By Paul Engle

Tourists
By Lynn Emanuel

Tracings
By Michael Anania

Train Above Pedestrians
By Reginald Gibbons

Translator's note
By Bob Hicok

Traveling dream
By Marge Piercy

Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford

Triolets in the Argolid
By Rachel Hadas

Trip to Delphi
By Alice Friman

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Two Songs from a Car
By Ioanna Carlsen

Two Tales of Clumsy
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Ultima Thule: Dedication to G. W. G.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Uneasy Rider
By Diane Wakoski

Unholy Sonnet 13
By Mark Jarman

University
By Karl Shapiro

Untitled
By Bei Dao

Up-Hill
By Christina Rossetti

Upon the Vine-tree
By John Bunyan

Urban Renewal XVIII.
By Major Jackson

Vacant Lot
By Dudley Randall

Vacating an Apartment
By Agha Shahid Ali

Vagabonds
By Arthur Rimbaud

Vandergast and the Girl
By Louis Simpson

vegas
By Charles Bukowski

Venetian Candy
By John Updike

Venetian Coda
By John Koethe

Venice, Unaccompanied
By Monica Youn

Vespers [In your extended absence, you permit me]
By Louise Glück

Video Cuisine
By Maxine W. Kumin

Vietnam
By Michael Collier

Vitamins and Roughage
By Kenneth Rexroth

Voyage
By Samuel Menashe

Voyages
By Hart Crane

Wake Me in South Galway
By Richard Tillinghast

Wales Visitation
By Allen Ginsberg

Walking
By Thomas Traherne

Waring
By Robert Browning

Washing Day
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Washington Square
By Frederick Morgan

Waterwings
By Cathy Song

Waving Goodbye
By Gerald Stern

wax job
By Charles Bukowski

Way-Station
By Archibald MacLeish

We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

What Is Impossible
By A. F. Moritz

What the Birds Said
By John Greenleaf Whittier

What Work Is
By Philip Levine

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

When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

When in Wisconsin Where I Once Had Time
By John Engels

When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley

Where the Blue Begins
By George Bradley

Who Am I, Without Exile?
By Mahmoud Darwish

Why I Might Go to the Next Football Game
By Denis Johnson

Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun

Why They Turned Back/Why They Went On
By Constance Urdang

Willowspout
By R. T. Smith

Wine
By David Wojahn

Wine
By Pierre Martory

Winesaps
By Dave Smith

Wingfoot Lake
By Rita Dove

Winter Campus: Ann Arbor
By Dudley Randall

Winter promises
By Marge Piercy

Wonderbread
By Alfred Corn

Wood
By Reginald Gibbons

Woods Burial
By John Peck

Woodstock
By Peter Balakian

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Workshop
By Billy Collins

Writing in the Afterlife
By Billy Collins

X-Ray
By Dannie Abse

XXVIII
By Clarence Major

Yellow Dog Café
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Yesterday
By Edgar Albert Guest

You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill at Ease
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

You Can Have It
By Philip Levine

You, Andrew Marvell
By Archibald MacLeish

Youth
By James Wright

[His father carved umbrella handles...]
By Charles Reznikoff

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

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

[Letter to Gary Bottone]
By Jack Spicer

[Response to the Loyalty Oath]
By Jack Spicer