There are 391 Poems about The Body

"Fire and Sleet and Candle-Light"
By Elinor Wylie

“Birds small enough...”
By Donald Revell

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

'Mid my Gold-brown Curls
By George Eliot

An Agony. As Now.
By Amiri Baraka

La Belle et la Bête
By Mark Doty

Song of Myself: 36
By Walt Whitman

A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body
By Andrew Marvell

A Divine Image
By William Blake

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

A Love Letter
By Russell Edson

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

A Season
By Cesare Pavese

A Short History of the Shadow
By Charles Wright

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

Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke

After a God
By Jenny Browne

After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
By Emily Dickinson

Against His Quitting the Torn Field
By Carl Phillips

Against Nature
By Richard Emil Braun

Air and Angels
By John Donne

Amaze
By Adelaide Crapsey

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
By Robert Browning

An Exchange between the Fingers and the Toes
By John Fuller

Anatomical Angel
By Averill Curdy

And Soul
By Eavan Boland

And Then I Saw
By Alfred Corn

Anniversary
By Louise Glück

Anthem
By Susan Hahn

Arion
By David Wojahn

At the Justice Department November 15, 1969
By Denise Levertov

At the Poetry Reading
By John Brehm

Atlantis
By Mark Doty

“What Do Women Want?”
By Kim Addonizio

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

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

Ballet
By Cesare Pavese

Before I got my eye put out – (336)
By Emily Dickinson

Before You
By Carl Rakosi

Believe It
By John Logan

Between Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night
By Roddy Lumsden

Black Earth
By Marianne Moore

Bleeding
By May Swenson

Bloody Fate
By Miguel Hernández

Blue
By Carl Phillips

Blue Monday
By Diane Wakoski

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Body
By Alissa Leigh

Body and Soul
By Sharon Bryan

Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Breughel
By Michael Collier

Bungee Jumping
By William H. Dickey

Burlesque
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Camouflage
By Henry Carlile

Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price
By William Byrd

Cassandra
By H. D.

Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson

Checklist
By Stephen Dunn

Cleanliness
By Charles Lamb

Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny

Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

CORIKOS
By Richard Aldington

Cortège
By Carl Phillips

corydon & alexis
By D.A. Powell

corydon & alexis, redux
By D.A. Powell

Country Love Song
By Melanie Almeder

Dawn
By Ella Higginson

December 30
By Richard Brautigan

Deer Skull
By Susan Griffin

Delight in Disorder
By Robert Herrick

Dialogue of Self and Soul
By William Butler Yeats

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

Doctor Frolic
By Robert Pinsky

Dream of the Huntress
By Robin Robertson

Drifting at Midday
By Malachi Black

Duke
By Bob Hicok

Eclipse with Object
By Ann Lauterbach

Eden Tiresias
By Brian Teare

Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne

Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne

Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie

Equinox
By Elizabeth Alexander

Eros
By Robert Bridges

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
By Karen Craigo

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Evolution from the Fish
By Robert Bly

Exile
By George Elliott Clarke

Eyes Like Leeks
By Linda Gregerson

Faith Healing
By Philip Larkin

Fake Tattoo
By Nikki Grimes

Fat
By Ioanna Carlsen

Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell

Feel Me
By May Swenson

Fever 103°
By Sylvia Plath

Fie, Pleasure, Fie!
By George Gascoigne

fire
By Nick Flynn

First Poem for You
By Kim Addonizio

Fleshly Answers
By Rachel Hadas

Flight
By Linda Bierds

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Fog
By Mark Doty

Foolish Questions
By William Cole

For Gustave Moreau
By Robin Blaser

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For the Taking
By Linda Gregerson

Found Parable
By J. D. McClatchy

Fountains in the sea
By Marin Sorescu

Four Themes on a Variation
By G. E. Murray

From the Wave
By Thom Gunn

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Full Moon
By Elinor Wylie

Gascoigne’s Lullaby
By George Gascoigne

Gathering the Bones Together
By Gregory Orr

Giving a Manicure
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Gnostic
By Honor Moore

Grace
By John Logan

Graciela
By Gary Soto

Gravepiece
By Jean Garrigue

Hand Defined
By Cole Swensen

Hands
By Robinson Jeffers

Hardware
By Averill Curdy

Heaven to Be
By Sharon Olds

Her my body
By Bob Hicok

Hesitation Theory
By Reginald Shepherd

Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
By John Donne

Homo Will Not Inherit
By Mark Doty

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

Hymn
By Carl Phillips

Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne

I Am But A Traveler in This Land & Know Little of Its Ways
By Dean Young

I Am Learning To Abandon the World
By Linda Pastan

I Dreamed That I Was Old
By Stanley Kunitz

I Knew a Woman
By Theodore Roethke

I Love Your Crazy Bones
By Barton Sutter

I Need Help
By Edward Hirsch

I Sing the Body Electric
By Walt Whitman

I Used to Think
By Trumbull Stickney

I was made erect and lone
By Henry David Thoreau

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

I’m Over the Moon
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Ikebana
By Cathy Song

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of what was in his Mind to Write after Section
By James Clerk Maxwell

In Praise of Pain
By Heather McHugh

In the Goddess’s Name I Summon You. . .
By George Seferis

In the Grand Manner
By Richard Emil Braun

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

In the Theatre
By Dannie Abse

Incision
By Jillian Weise

Inside the Blues Whale
By Afaa Michael Weaver

Insomnia & So On
By Malachi Black

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke

July in Washington
By Robert Lowell

Keeping Things Whole
By Mark Strand

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Lament
By Thom Gunn

Large Intestine
By Anna Swir

Largesse
By J. D. McClatchy

Larkinesque
By Michael Ryan

Late Night Ode
By J. D. McClatchy

Letters to a Stranger
By Thomas James

Letters to Walt Whitman
By Ronald Johnson

Lines On My Face
By J. D. McClatchy

Lions Are Interesting
By Joel Brouwer

Lisa
By David Hernandez

Living
By C. D. Wright

Living in the Body
By Joyce Sutphen

Long Finger Poem
By Jin Eun-Young

Loves
By Scott Cairns

Luna Moth
By Carl Phillips

Madre Sofía
By Alberto Ríos

Makeup
By Dora Malech

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Man
By George Herbert

Manifest
By Reginald Shepherd

Marching
By Jim Harrison

Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Mind | Body
By Gregory Djanikian

Mirror Image
By Samuel Menashe

Moly
By Thom Gunn

Momus
By Carl Sandburg

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

Mortal shower
By Bob Hicok

Mr. Luna’s Plum Tree
By Alberto Ríos

Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James

Murder
By David Baker

My Body
By William Jay Smith

My Boyfriend
By Camille Guthrie

My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy

My Raptor
By Annie Finch

My skeleton, my rival
By David Ignatow

Myself and My Person
By Anna Swir

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Narrative Without People
By Hilda Raz

Natal Command
By Peter Sacks

Necropolitan
By Scott Cairns

No Comfort To Be Had
By Sidney Wade

Normalization
By Czeslaw Milosz

Not That It Could Be Finished
By Ann Lauterbach

Nothing New
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nude Descending a Staircase
By X J Kennedy

Nullaby
By Atsuro Riley

October
By May Swenson

Ode For Walt Whitman
By Jack Spicer

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

On a Girdle
By Edmund Waller

On the Preserved Body of an Inca Child Frozen to Death as a Sacrifice to the Sun
By A. F. Moritz

One Afternoon
By Joanie V. Mackowski

One's-Self I Sing
By Walt Whitman

Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem
By Yvonne Zipter

Over and Over Stitch
By Jorie Graham

Pacemaker
By W. D. Snodgrass

Palms
By Gustaf Sobin

Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell

Parthenogenesis
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Pied Booty
By Dabney Stuart

Poem by the Charles River
By Robin Blaser

Poor Angels
By Edward Hirsch

Portrait
By Louise Bogan

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Prison Song
By Alan Dugan

Probation
By Averill Curdy

Progressive Health
By Carl Dennis

Provinces
By C. D. Wright

from Quatrains: Second Hundred
By Patrizia Valduga

Queen-Anne’s Lace
By William Carlos Williams

Question
By May Swenson

Reasons
By Thomas James

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Requiem Shark
By Rad Smith

Retrospect
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Romans Angry about the Inner World
By Robert Bly

Séverine in Summer School
By Rex Wilder

School of Flesh
By Dana Levin

Searchers
By D. Nurkse

self-exam (my body is a cage)
By Nick Flynn

Self-Portrait
By Afaa Michael Weaver

seventh heaven
By Patti Smith

Sex and Taxes
By Kevin Cantwell

Since There Is No Escape
By Sara Teasdale

Skirts and Slacks
By W. S. Di Piero

Sleeping on Fists
By Alberto Ríos

Small Tantric Sermon
By Philip Whalen

Small Woman on Swallow Street
By W. S. Merwin

Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
By Alberto Ríos

Some Last Questions
By W. S. Merwin

Song
By Brenda Cárdenas

Song & Error
By Averill Curdy

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Song: If you refuse me once, and think again
By Sir John Suckling

Sonnet CXLVI: Poor Soul, the Centre of my Sinful Earth
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
By Charlotte Smith

Sonnet XX
By Pablo Neruda

Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate

Spider Tumor
By Michael Collier

Stone
By Charles Simic

Stowaway
By Stanley Moss

Suitcase Song
By Albert Goldbarth

Superhero Pregnant Woman
By Jessy Randall

Sweat
By Miguel Hernández

Sweet Machine
By Mark Doty

Sweet Tooth
By Russell Edson

Synchronous Chronology
By Alice Notley

Taking Off My Clothes
By Carolyn Forché

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

That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry

The Academic Sigh
By Russell Edson

The Amenities
By Heather McHugh

The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke

The Barber's Fountain
By Henry Carlile

The Bath
By Gary Snyder

The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees

The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner

The Bodies
By Elizabeth Spires

The Body
By Marianne Boruch

The Body to the Soul
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Burial of the Dead
By Sidney Wade

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The cat’s song
By Marge Piercy

The Cleaving
By Li-Young Lee

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Death of Antinoüs
By Mark Doty

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Ecstasy
By John Donne

The Eden of the Author of Sleep
By Brian Teare

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
By Henry Vaughan

The Face
By Franz Wright

The friend
By Marge Piercy

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

The Gift
By Richard Emil Braun

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Guards Came Through
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People
By David Ferry

The hand and foot
By Jones Very

The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Larger
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The Lonely Death
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Man with Night Sweats
By Thom Gunn

The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch

The Mermaid in the Hospital
By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

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

The Nail
By C. K. Williams

The New Religion
By Chris Abani

The Nuns Assist at Childbirth
By Barbara Howes

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

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

The Photos
By Diane Wakoski

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
By Richard Brautigan

The Presence
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

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

The Rose
By Jean Valentine

The Same Old Jazz
By Philip Whalen

The Shampoo (From The Nightingales)
By David Wojahn

The Shipman's Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument
By Anne Stevenson

The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods
By Rigoberto González

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

The Surrealist Learns To Fly
By Jennifer O'Grady

from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper

The Third Hour of the Night
By Frank Bidart

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

The Visitation
By Samuel Menashe

The Waking
By Theodore Roethke

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

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

The Wild Old Wicked Man
By William Butler Yeats

The Woman at the Washington Zoo
By Randall Jarrell

The Woman Who Laughed on Calvary
By Heather McHugh

The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández

The Wounded Bullfighter
By Clarence Major

The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song

Their Bodies
By David Wagoner

There was a Young Lady Whose Eyes
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear

Thoughts on One’s Head
By William Meredith

Time to Come
By Walt Whitman

To a Lady, Who Sent the Author a Present of a Fashionable Bonnet
By Elizabeth Moody

To Fishermen
By Carol Frost

To Mary
By William Cowper

To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Tor House
By Robinson Jeffers

Tossing and Turning
By John Updike

True Love
By Sharon Olds

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Tulips
By Sylvia Plath

Turkish Bath
By Sidney Wade

Twilight Blues
By Samuel Menashe

Two Bodies
By Annie Finch

Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen

Uninvited Reader
By A. F. Moritz

Video Cuisine
By Maxine W. Kumin

Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia
By Irene McKinney

Waking from Sleep
By Robert Bly

Washing My Hair
By Anne Stevenson

Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert

Watching Television
By Robert Bly

Waterwings
By Cathy Song

Webs and Weeds
By Colleen J. McElroy

Weighing In
By Rhina P. Espaillat

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What Is Impossible
By A. F. Moritz

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

What You Pray Toward
By Patricia Smith

What’s Written on the Body
By Peter Pereira

When All My Five and Country Senses See
By Dylan Thomas

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr

Whispers of Immortality
By T. S. Eliot

Win-Win
By Ange Mlinko

Wish for an Overcoat
By Alfred Islay Walden

wishes for sons
By Lucille Clifton

Woman Unborn
By Anna Swir

Written in her French Psalter
By Elizabeth I

Xylem
By Talvikki Ansel

You know where you did despise
By Alexander Pope

Zeus to Juno
By Fiona Sampson

[dear dusty moth]
By Robin Blaser

[morning green through ivy]
By Dan Beachy-Quick