There are 2144 Poems about Nature
= First appeared in Poetry magazine."Any fool can get into an ocean..." 
By Jack Spicer
"Fire and Sleet and Candle-Light" 
By Elinor Wylie
"I was one of the skunks"
By Bernadette Mayer
"Love of My Flesh, Living Death"
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
"Of": An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
"Sometimes a human mammal is not to be seen"
By Bernadette Mayer
"Wreck" and "rise above" 
By Eleanor Wilner
“Feuerzauber”
By Louis Untermeyer
“It's raining, it's pouring ... ”
By Anonymous
“Birds small enough...” 
By Donald Revell
‘The Opal Sea’
By Ella Higginson
τεθνάκην δ’ ολίγω ’πιδεύης φαίνομ’ αλαία
By Allen Ginsberg
'Mid my Gold-brown Curls
By George Eliot
(“Keep me fully glad...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
(“Over the green and yellow...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
(“We both live in the same village...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
1926
By Weldon Kees
An Agony. As Now.
By Amiri Baraka
Gloria Mundi
By Walter De La Mare
La Belle et la Bête
By Mark Doty
Song of Myself: 36
By Walt Whitman
VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster
XI Mon. January [1733] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin
A Barefoot Boy
By James Whitcomb Riley
A Blasphemy 
By Maurice Manning
A Blessing
By James Wright
A Boat
By Richard Brautigan
A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky
By Lewis Carroll
A Caged Bird
By Sarah Orne Jewett
A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon 
By Ron De Maris
A Certain Village
By Theodore Weiss
A Channel Crossing
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Chest of Angels
By John Reibetanz
A Clearing in the Woods
By Thomas P. Lynch
A Color of the Sky
By Tony Hoagland
A Country Boy in Winter
By Sarah Orne Jewett
A Day on the Big Branch 
By Howard Nemerov
A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning
A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body
By Andrew Marvell
A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda
By Andrew Marvell
A Divine Image
By William Blake
A Felicitous Life
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Few Days Ago
By Barbara Howes
A Fine, a Private Place
By Diane Ackerman
A Forsaken Garden
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Good Fish 
By Derek Sheffield
A Gothic Tale
By Theodore Weiss
A Graveyard
By Marianne Moore
A Hanging Screen 
By Michael Anania
A January Dandelion
By George Marion McClellan
A Kind of Meadow
By Carl Phillips
A Late History
By Weldon Kees
A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle
A Leak in the Dike
By Phoebe Cary
A Lesson in Geography
By Kenneth Rexroth
A Letter in October
By Ted Kooser
A Letter to Yvor Winters
By Kenneth Rexroth
A Literalist
By Robin Blaser
A Little Language
By Robert Duncan
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 Lyric of the Dawn
By Edwin Markham
A Magic Mountain
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Man Said to the Universe
By Stephen Crane
A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England 
By Denise Levertov
A Marriage in the Dolomites 
By D. Nurkse
A Message from the Wanderer
By William E. Stafford
A Name for All
By Hart Crane
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
By Emily Dickinson
A Noiseless Patient Spider
By Walt Whitman
A Note to La Fontaine
By Jean Garrigue
A Poem That Starts Out Wrong
By Landis Everson
A Poison Tree
By William Blake
A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys
By Francis Jammes
A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
A Pumpkin at New Year’s
By Sandra McPherson
A Quilled Quilt, a Needle Bed
By Brad Leithauser
A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
A Request
By Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Rhapsody of a Southern Winter Night
By Henry Timrod
A Season
By Cesare Pavese
A Serenade at the Villa
By Robert Browning
A Short History of the Shadow
By Charles Wright
A Shropshire Lad I: From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
By A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad XXXI: On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble
By A. E. Housman
A Song
By Helen Maria Williams
A Song on the End of the World
By Czeslaw Milosz
A Song: When June is past, the fading rose
By Thomas Carew
A Strategem
By Michael Anania
A Summer Shower
By Henry Timrod
A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks
A Swimmer's Dream
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Thought of the Nile
By Leigh Hunt
A toad can die of light!
By Emily Dickinson
A Toast 
By Peter Balakian
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
By Frank O'Hara
A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clarke Moore
A Winter Daybreak above Vence
By James Wright
A Winter Night
By Robert Burns
A Winter Visit
By Dannie Abse
A World of Light
By John Reibetanz
A.M. Fog
By Mark Jarman
Abandoned Farmhouse
By Ted Kooser
About the Teeth of Sharks
By John Ciardi
Abscess
By Forrest Gander
Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning
Abundance
By John Ciardi
Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor
Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett
Actaeon
By Frederick Morgan
Adam After the Ice Storm
By John Engels
Adam’s Task
By John Hollander
Address to A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening
By Dorothy Wordsworth
Address to the Devil
By Robert Burns
Address to the Migrations
By Jean Garrigue
Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur
Aesthetics
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke
After a God
By Jenny Browne
After Apple Picking
By Robert Frost
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
By Emily Dickinson
After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass
After the Rain
By Anthony Hecht
After the Winter
By Claude McKay
Aftermath
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Afton Water
By Robert Burns
Against His Quitting the Torn Field
By Carl Phillips
Against Nature
By Richard Emil Braun
Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching
By Charles Simic
Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake
Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun
By Emily Jane Brontë
Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo
Air and Angels
By John Donne
Alameda Street
By Douglas Kearney
Alas, Kind Element!
By Léonie Adams
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
All Hallows
By Louise Glück
All Summer Long
By Carol Frost
All Wet
By Marie Ponsot
Almond Blossom
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Alone, Drinking With the Tickfaw River 
By Alison Pelegrin
Alpine Wedding
By Ralph Angel
Alzuna
By Alfred Noyes
Amaze
By Adelaide Crapsey
America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
America Remembers
By Paul Engle
America: A Prophecy
By William Blake
American Sketches
By Donald Justice
Among the Rocks
By Robert Browning
Amor Mundi
By Christina Rossetti
An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan
An Afternoon at the Beach 
By Edgar Bowers
An Arbor 
By Linda Gregerson
An Epiphany
By Ted Kooser
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
from An Explanation of America: A Love of Death
By Robert Pinsky
An Introduction to My Anthology
By Marvin Bell
An Ocean Musing
By Henrietta Cordelia Ray
An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry
By William Collins
An Old Road
By Edwin Markham
An Owl
By David Bottoms
Anatomical Angel 
By Averill Curdy
Ancestral
By Archibald MacLeish
And Soul
By Eavan Boland
And Then I Saw
By Alfred Corn
from Anecdote of the Jar 
By Wallace Stevens
Animal Caution 
By Chase Twichell
Animal Graves
By Chase Twichell
Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe
Anniversary
By Louise Glück
Another Night in the Ruins
By Galway Kinnell
Another Story with a Burning Barn in It
By Lisa Olstein
Anthem 
By Susan Hahn
Ants on the Melon
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
ANWR
By Sherwin Bitsui
Aperture 
By Jennifer Tonge
Apollo 
By Elizabeth Alexander
Apollo Musagetes
By Matthew Arnold
April Rain Song
By Langston Hughes
April Treason
By John Crowe Ransom
Ararat 
By Mark Doty
Arcade: The Search for a Sufficient Landscape
By Bin Ramke
Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ardors
By Carol Frost
Arion 
By David Wojahn
ARK 99, Arches XXXIII
By Ronald Johnson
Arrowhead 
By Robert Pack
Arrowhead Hunting 
By A.E. Stallings
As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
By Walt Whitman
As imperceptibly as grief
By Emily Dickinson
Assault to Abjury
By Raymond McDaniel
Astronomy Lesson
By Alan Shapiro
Astrophel and Stella XXXI
By Philip Sidney
At a Window 
By Carl Sandburg
At Darien Bridge
By James L. Dickey
At Dauphin Island, 1997 
By Wilmer Mills
At Home from Church
By Sarah Orne Jewett
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy
At Melville’s Tomb
By Hart Crane
At Noon
By Reginald Gibbons
At Popham Beach 
By Thorpe Moeckel
At the Bomb Testing Site
By William E. Stafford
At the Fishhouses
By Elizabeth Bishop
At the Justice Department November 15, 1969
By Denise Levertov
At the Poetry Reading 
By John Brehm
At the Sea-Side
By Robert Louis Stevenson
At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
By William E. Stafford
At Thomas Merton’s Grave 
By Spencer Reece
Atlantis
By Mark Doty
Au Vieux Jardin 
By Richard Aldington
Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Authority
By W. S. Merwin
Autumn
By John Clare
Autumn
By T. E. Hulme
Autumn
By Grace Paley
Autumn
By Adam Zagajewski
Autumn
By Samuel Menashe
Autumn
By Alice Cary
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
By James Wright
Autumn Psalm
By Jacqueline Osherow
Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers
Autumn Sky 
By Charles Simic
Autumn Song
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Away above a Harborful ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ælla, a Tragical Interlude
By Thomas Chatterton
“Dank fens of cedar; hemlock-branches gray”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school’s sway”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“My Mother is a Fish”
By Peter Balakian
“Teach Us to Number Our Days”
By Rita Dove
“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville
“The Vision of Saint Augustine” 
By Beverley Bie
“What Do Women Want?”
By Kim Addonizio
Backdrop addresses cowboy
By Margaret Atwood
Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke
Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
By W. S. Merwin
Ballet
By Cesare Pavese
Banneker
By Rita Dove
Bat
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Bat Cave
By Eleanor Wilner
Bath
By Amy Lowell
Bavarian Gentians
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Beach Glass
By Amy Clampitt
from Beachy Head
By Charlotte Smith
Beauty and the Illiterate
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis
Becoming a Redwood
By Dana Gioia
Becune Point 
By Derek Walcott
Bed in Summer
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Beech 
By Kevin McFadden
Bees and Morning Glories
By John Ciardi
Before I got my eye put out – (336)
By Emily Dickinson
Before the Rain 
By Lianne Spidel
Before You 
By Carl Rakosi
Beginning
By James Wright
Believe It
By John Logan
Below the Coast
By John Koethe
Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright
Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson
By Jay Wright
Bermudas
By Andrew Marvell
Better Days 
By A. F. Moritz
Between Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night 
By Roddy Lumsden
Between the Wars
By Robert Hass
Beyond the Red River
By Thomas McGrath
Binsey Poplars
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Birches
By Robert Frost
Bixby’s Landing
By Robinson Jeffers
Black Earth
By Marianne Moore
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
By Sylvia Plath
Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright
Blackberrying
By Sylvia Plath
Blackened Rings
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
Bleeding
By May Swenson
Blind Curse
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Blizzard
By William Carlos Williams
Bloody Fate
By Miguel Hernández
Blowfly Grass
By Les Murray
Blue
By Carl Phillips
Blue Juniata 
By Malcolm Cowley
Blue Monday
By Diane Wakoski
Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke
Body 
By Alissa Leigh
Body and Soul 
By Sharon Bryan
Bowl
By Valerie Martínez
Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Break of Day
By John Donne
Break, Break, Break
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Breakage 
By Mary Oliver
Breughel 
By Michael Collier
Brick
By Robert Creeley
from Briggflatts 
By Basil Bunting
Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats
Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg
Brother and Sister
By George Eliot
Brought from Beyond
By Amy Clampitt
Buckroe, After the Season, 1942
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
Bungee Jumping
By William H. Dickey
Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler
Burlesque
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Burning Island
By Gary Snyder
Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Burning the Fields
By Linda Bierds
Busman's Honeymoon 
By A. F. Moritz
Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile
Butter 
By Connie Wanek
Cædmon's Hymn
By Cædmon
Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
By Robert Burns
Cadillac Moon
By Kevin Young
Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold
Cage
By Josephine Miles
Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou
Calendar
By Janet Loxley Lewis
Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning
Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
By John Dryden
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
By Delmore Schwartz
Camouflage 
By Henry Carlile
Camouflaging the Chimera
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Canada Anemone 
By Fleda Brown
Canned Food Drive 
By Kathleen Lynch
Cape Cod
By George Santayana
Captivity
By Louise Erdrich
Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price
By William Byrd
Carmel Highlands 
By Janet Loxley Lewis
Carmel Point
By Robinson Jeffers
Carolina Journal 
By Nicole Pekarske
Cassandra
By H. D.
Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson
Checklist
By Stephen Dunn
Cheer
By Stanley Plumly
Chicago and December 
By W. S. Di Piero
Childhood’s Retreat
By Robert Duncan
Choices
By Tess Gallagher
Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christmas Away from Home
By Jane Kenyon
Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall
Christmas Tree
By John Frederick Nims
Christmas Tree Lots 
By Chris Green
Cinema Verité
By Bin Ramke
City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz
Claribel
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cleaning a Fish
By Dave Smith
Cleanliness
By Charles Lamb
Clear Night
By Charles Wright
Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth
Clorinda and Damon
By Andrew Marvell
Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic
Cloudy Day
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Cock 
By Albert Goldbarth
Cold Blooded Creatures
By Elinor Wylie
Cold Spring
By Lawrence Raab
Cold Turkey 
By Joshua Mehigan
Colophon
By Dean Young
Color
By Christina Rossetti
Color in American History: An Essay 
By Tom Disch
Come into Animal Presence 
By Denise Levertov
Come with Me 
By Robert Bly
Comin thro' the Rye
By Robert Burns
Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
By William Wordsworth
Conches on Christmas 
By Mike Chasar
Concord Hymn
By Jack Spicer
Confluence
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Conrad Siever
By Edgar Lee Masters
Consecration 
By Susan Stewart
Considering the Snail
By Thom Gunn
Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Constantinople
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet
Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz
Cool Pastoral on Bloor Street
By John Reibetanz
CORIKOS 
By Richard Aldington
Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick
Corsons Inlet
By A. R. Ammons
Cortège
By Carl Phillips
corydon & alexis 
By D.A. Powell
corydon & alexis, redux 
By D.A. Powell
Country Love Song 
By Melanie Almeder
Country Summer
By Léonie Adams
Courtesy
By David Ferry
Courtship 
By Talvikki Ansel
Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Coyote, with Mange 
By Mark Wunderlich
Crane and Hawk
By John Kinsella
Credo
By Robinson Jeffers
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman
Crossing the Atlantic
By Anne Sexton
Crossing the Bar
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Crossing the Square
By Grace Schulman
Crown
By Kay Ryan
Crows in a Strong Wind
By Cornelius Eady
Cruelty and Love / Love on the Farm
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Cups: 1
By Robin Blaser
Cyclopean
By G. K. Chesterton
Daddy Longlegs
By Ted Kooser
Daisy Time
By Marjorie Pickthall
Damon the Mower
By Andrew Marvell
Damselfly, Trout, Heron
By John Engels
Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
By Delmore Schwartz
Darwin’s Bestiary
By Philip Appleman
Davy Jones' Door-Bell 
By Vachel Lindsay
Dawn
By Ella Higginson
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree
By P. K. Page
Dear One Absent This Long While
By Lisa Olstein
Death, in a bull's pelt
By Miguel Hernández
December 30
By Richard Brautigan
Dedication for a Plot of Ground
By William Carlos Williams
Deep South 
By Thomas McGrath
Deer Skull
By Susan Griffin
Definition of the Frontiers
By Archibald MacLeish
Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Delight in Disorder
By Robert Herrick
Dialogue of Self and Soul
By William Butler Yeats
Dirge at the Edge of Woods
By Léonie Adams
Dirge in Woods
By George Meredith
Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke
Disgraceland 
By Mary Karr
Doctor Frolic
By Robert Pinsky
Dog Gospel 
By Brian Barker
Doing Laundry on Sunday 
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Domes 
By John Koethe
Don Juan: Canto the Second
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Double
By Rae Armantrout
Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold
Down Stream
By Louise Imogen Guiney
Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass
Drake in the Southern Sea
By Ernesto Cardenal
Dream Land
By Christina Rossetti
Dream of the Huntress 
By Robin Robertson
Dream-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe
Drifting at Midday 
By Malachi Black
Driving through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings
By Robert Bly
Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River
By Robert Bly
Duke
By Bob Hicok
During Wind and Rain
By Thomas Hardy
Dusk
By Rae Armantrout
Dust of Snow
By Robert Frost
Each and All
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eagle Poem
By Joy Harjo
Early December in Croton-on-Hudson
By Louise Glück
Early Frost
By Scott Cairns
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
By B. H. Fairchild
Earth's Answer
By William Blake
Earthly Meditations 
By Robert Wrigley
East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers
Easter Week
By Joyce Kilmer
Easy as Falling Down Stairs 
By Dean Young
Eclipse with Object
By Ann Lauterbach
Eclogue of the Shepherd and the Townie
By Anthony Hecht
Eden Tiresias
By Brian Teare
Egg 
By Brian Swann
Elegance
By Linda Gregg
Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
By William Wordsworth
Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne
Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne
Elm
By Sylvia Plath
Elms
By Louise Glück
Encounter 
By Thomas McGrath
Encounter in Buffalo
By Mary Barnard
from Endymion
By John Keats
Envy
By Mary Lamb
Ephemera
By Robin Becker
Ephemeroptera 
By Miriam Vermilya
from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Evening
By William Lisle Bowles
Evening
By H. D.
Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke
Everything that Acts Is Actual
By Denise Levertov
Evolution
By Jorie Graham
Evolution from the Fish
By Robert Bly
Ex Libris
By Eleanor Wilner
Exegesis of the First Words Spoken (Ishmael)
By Dan Beachy-Quick
Exile
By George Elliott Clarke
Exile
By Conrad Aiken
Explorers Cry Out Unheard
By Marie Ponsot
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
By William Wordsworth
Extinction of Silence 
By A.E. Stallings
Eyes Like Leeks
By Linda Gregerson
Fable for Blackboard
By George Starbuck
Fable of the Ant and the Word 
By Mary Barnard
Facing into It
By Eleanor Wilner
Fairy-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe
Faith Healing
By Philip Larkin
Fake Tattoo
By Nikki Grimes
Fall, leaves, fall
By Emily Jane Brontë
Falling From Us, Vanishings
By Alan Williamson
Family Reunion
By Louise Erdrich
Fancy
By John Keats
Far Company 
By W. S. Merwin
Farewell to Florida
By Wallace Stevens
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
By John Ashbery
Fat 
By Ioanna Carlsen
Fawn
By Mary Barnard
Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor
February
By Margaret Atwood
February 
By Bill Christophersen
February Evening in New York
By Denise Levertov
February Sky
By Bruce Smith
Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell
Feel Me
By May Swenson
Fern Hill
By Dylan Thomas
Fever 103° 
By Sylvia Plath
Fie, Pleasure, Fie!
By George Gascoigne
Field Burning: A Full Moon
By Robert Wrigley
Figures in the Carpets 
By David Schloss
Fire
By Francis Ponge
fire
By Nick Flynn
Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost
Firefly Under the Tongue 
By Coral Bracho
First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald
First Poem for You
By Kim Addonizio
First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert
Firstlings
By Louise Imogen Guiney
Fish of the Flood 
By Emilia Stuart Lorimer
Fishing 
By A.E. Stallings
Five Visions of Captain Cook
By Kenneth Slessor
Flamingos Have Arrived in Ashtabula
By Andrew Hudgins
Fleshly Answers
By Rachel Hadas
Flight 
By Linda Bierds
Floating Houses
By David Wojahn
Floating Island
By Dorothy Wordsworth
Floating Trees
By C. D. Wright
Flood
By Jorie Graham
Flounder
By Natasha Trethewey
Flow
By Jonathan Galassi
Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
By Galway Kinnell
Flowers by the Sea
By William Carlos Williams
Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Fog
By Carl Sandburg
Fog
By Mark Doty
Fog Horns 
By David Mason
Foolish Questions
By William Cole
For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis
For Grant Wood 
By Margaret Mackinnon
For Gustave Moreau
By Robin Blaser
For John Muir, a Century and More After His Time
By Janet Loxley Lewis
For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers
For once, then Something
By Robert Frost
For the Animals
By Lawrence Raab
For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
By Fleda Brown
For the Last Wolverine
By James L. Dickey
For the Taking
By Linda Gregerson
For You O Democracy
By Walt Whitman
Forecast
By Josephine Miles
Fortuna
By Thomas Carlyle
Found Parable
By J. D. McClatchy
Fountains in the sea
By Marin Sorescu
Four Appaloosas
By Stanley Plumly
from Four Good Things
By James McMichael
Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Four Poems for Robin
By Gary Snyder
Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals
By Susan Stewart
Four Themes on a Variation
By G. E. Murray
Four-Leaf Clover
By Ella Higginson
Fox Sleep 
By W. S. Merwin
Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 9: The Netherlands
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frère Jacques, Frère Antoine
By John Peck
Freeway 280
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Frenzy
By Clarence Major
From a Daybook 
By David St. John
From Lines to William Simson
By Robert Burns
From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren
From the Wave
By Thom Gunn
From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Full Fadom Fiue Thy Father Lies
By William Shakespeare
Full Moon
By Elinor Wylie
Gairmscoile
By Hugh MacDiarmid
Garden 
By H. D.
Gascoigne’s Lullaby
By George Gascoigne
Gathering the Bones Together
By Gregory Orr
Georgia Dusk
By Jean Toomer
Ghost Supper
By David Wojahn
Giving a Manicure
By Minnie Bruce Pratt
Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney
Glass-Bottom Boat
By Elizabeth Spires
Glazunoviana
By John Ashbery
Gloire de Dijon
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Gnomic Verses
By Robert Creeley
Gnostic
By Honor Moore
Good-Bye
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost
Grace
By John Logan
Grace 
By Wendell Berry
Graciela
By Gary Soto
Grain Field
By Adelaide Crapsey
Gravelly Run 
By A. R. Ammons
Gravepiece 
By Jean Garrigue
Gray Weather
By Robinson Jeffers
Great As You Are
By Susan Griffin
Greenland’s Icy Mountains
By William McGonagall
Grown about by Fragrant Bushes
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulls
By Jorie Graham
Guysborough Road Church
By George Elliott Clarke
Halley’s Comet
By Stanley Kunitz
Hand Defined
By Cole Swensen
Hands
By Robinson Jeffers
Hangzhou, Lake of the Poets
By Marie Ponsot
Hardware 
By Averill Curdy
Harp Trees
By Robin Blaser
Harvest Gathering
By Phoebe Cary
He Said Turn Here
By Dean Young
Hearing
By W. S. Merwin
Hearke, Hearke, the Larke at Heauens Gate Sings
By William Shakespeare
Heat
By Jane Hirshfield
Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty
Heaven to Be
By Sharon Olds
Height Is the Distance Down 
By Mary Barnard
Helsinki Window
By Robert Creeley
Hendecasyllabics
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Her Garden
By Donald Hall
Her my body
By Bob Hicok
Here I Am, Lord 
By Michael Chitwood
Here Where Coltrane Is
By Michael S. Harper
Heroic Simile
By Robert Hass
Hesitation Theory
By Reginald Shepherd
Himalayan Balsam
By Anne Stevenson
Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths
By Sean Nevin
Hole, Where Once in Passion We Swam
By Dave Smith
Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
By John Donne
Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see
By William Blake
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
By Robert Browning
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
By Robert Browning
Homo Will Not Inherit
By Mark Doty
Hooded Night
By Robinson Jeffers
Horses
By Wendell Berry
Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Horses on the Grass
By Grace Schulman
How Doth the Little Crocodile
By Lewis Carroll
How It Was
By Czeslaw Milosz
How to Accompany the Moon Without Walking
By Conrad Aiken
How We Heard the Name 
By Alan Dugan
Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings
Hundreds of Fireflies
By Brad Leithauser
Hurt Hawks
By Robinson Jeffers
Hyacinth
By Louise Glück
Hymn
By Carl Phillips
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hymn of Pan
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne
Hymn to Life 
By James Schuyler
Hyperion
By John Keats
I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied
By Henry David Thoreau
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 Hear a River thro’ the Valley Wander
By Trumbull Stickney
I Heard an Angel
By William Blake
I Hid my Love
By John Clare
I Knew a Woman
By Theodore Roethke
I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
By Hayden Carruth
I Love Your Crazy Bones
By Barton Sutter
I Need Help
By Edward Hirsch
I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
By Howard Nemerov
I Remember Galileo 
By Gerald Stern
I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
By Walt Whitman
I Shall not Care
By Sara Teasdale
I Sing the Body Electric
By Walt Whitman
I started Early – Took my Dog – (656)
By Emily Dickinson
I Used to Think
By Trumbull Stickney
I Walk’d the Other Day
By Henry Vaughan
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
By William Wordsworth
I was made erect and lone
By Henry David Thoreau
I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move
By Louise Erdrich
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
I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson
I’uni Kwi Athi? Hiatho.
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Ice 
By Gail Mazur
Ice Bound
By Walter Bargen
Ikebana
By Cathy Song
Il Penseroso
By John Milton
Illinois: At Night, Black Hawk's Statue Broods 
By J. W. Rivers
Imagined Room
By Barbara Guest
Immortal Autumn
By Archibald MacLeish
Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy
Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland
In
By Andrew Hudgins
In a Dark Time
By Theodore Roethke
In a Garden
By Amy Lowell
In Death Valley
By Edwin Markham
In Exile
By Emma Lazarus
In Harvest
By Sophie Jewett
in Just-
By E. E. Cummings
In Kona, Thinking of the Elements 
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
In Love with You 
By Kenneth Koch
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 11
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 116
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 15
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 2
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 30
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 72
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 78
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 83
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 95
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 99
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of what was in his Mind to Write after Section
By James Clerk Maxwell
In Memory of Jane Fraser
By Geoffrey Hill
In November
By Lisel Mueller
In Perpetual Spring
By Amy Gerstler
In Praise of Pain
By Heather McHugh
In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned
By James Wright
In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
By Mary Szybist
In the Bay
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
In the Cold Country 
By Barbara Howes
In the Goddess’s Name I Summon You. . .
By George Seferis
In the Grand Manner
By Richard Emil Braun
In the Midwest
By Edward Hirsch
In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
In the Theatre
By Dannie Abse
In the Tree House at Night
By James L. Dickey
In the Tunnel of Summers
By Anne Stevenson
In Winter
By Michael Ryan
Incident
By Eamon Grennan
Incision
By Jillian Weise
Indian Names
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Indistinguishable from the Darkness
By Charlie Smith
Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
By William Wordsworth
Information
By David Ignatow
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Insect
By Annie Finch
Insect Life of Florida 
By Lynda Hull
Inside My Head
By Robert Creeley
Inside the Blues Whale
By Afaa Michael Weaver
Insomnia & So On 
By Malachi Black
Interesting Times 
By Mark Jarman
Interior at Petworth: From Turner
By Rosanna Warren
Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass
Into Death Bravely
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Introduction to the Songs of Experience
By William Blake
Inverkirkaig
By Anne Stevenson
Invitation To JBC
By Matilda Bethem
Irish Prospects
By J. D. McClatchy
Ishmael, or The Orphan
By Dan Beachy-Quick
Israfel
By Edgar Allan Poe
It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz
Itinerary
By James McMichael
Itylus
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster
Jet
By Tony Hoagland
John James Audobon
By Stephen Vincent Benét
John Sutter
By Yvor Winters
Joy in the Woods
By Claude McKay
from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart
Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke
Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
July
By Kazim Ali
July in Washington
By Robert Lowell
Justice, Come Down
By Minnie Bruce Pratt
Kalaloch
By Carolyn Forché
Keeping Things Whole
By Mark Strand
King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke
Korean mums 
By James Schuyler
Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kwannon
By Marjorie Pickthall
L'Allegro
By John Milton
Lake Echo, Dear
By C. D. Wright
Lament
By Thom Gunn
Land’s End
By Weldon Kees
Landscape
By Samuel Menashe
Landscape, Dense with Trees
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Large Intestine
By Anna Swir
Largesse
By J. D. McClatchy
Larkinesque 
By Michael Ryan
Last August Hours Before the Year 2000
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Last May a Braw Wooer
By Robert Burns
Late February
By Ted Kooser
Late Night Ode
By J. D. McClatchy
Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Leaping Clear
By Irving Feldman
Learning the Trees 
By Howard Nemerov
Leaving
By Cathy Song
Leda
By H. D.
Left to Itself the Heart Could Almost Melt, Mend 
By Jill Osier
Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton
Les Très Riches Heures de Florida
By Debora Greger
Let Me Die on the Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne
Letter from a Distant Land 
By Philip Booth
Letter from Swan’s Island
By Elizabeth Spires
Letter to the Local Police
By June Jordan
Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
By Anne Sexton
Letters to a Stranger
By Thomas James
Letters to Walt Whitman 
By Ronald Johnson
Li Hua's Messenger 
By Peter Bethanis
Lightness in Autumn
By Robert Fitzgerald
Lilacs
By Amy Lowell
Limits
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 for a Prologue
By Archibald MacLeish
Lines for Winter
By Mark Strand
Lines on Locks (or Jail and the Erie Canal)
By John Logan
Lines On My Face
By J. D. McClatchy
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 in Early Spring
By William Wordsworth
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold
Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines: The cold earth slept below
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lioness Asleep
By Babette Deutsch
Lions
By Sandra McPherson
Lions Are Interesting 
By Joel Brouwer
Lisa
By David Hernandez
Lissadell 
By Wendy Cope
little tree
By E. E. Cummings
Living
By C. D. Wright
Living in the Body
By Joyce Sutphen
Loiter
By Forrest Gander
London Snow
By Robert Bridges
Long Finger Poem 
By Jin Eun-Young
Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Long Island Sound
By Emma Lazarus
Looking Around 
By Charles Wright
Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur
Lost 
By Carl Sandburg
Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning
Love at Thirty-two Degrees 
By Katherine Larson
Love in the Valley
By George Meredith
Love in the Weather’s Bells
By Jay Wright
Love Song 
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Love the Wild Swan
By Robinson Jeffers
Love's Nocturn
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Loves
By Scott Cairns
Low Barometer
By Robert Bridges
Lucifer in Starlight
By George Meredith
Luciferin 
By Dean Young
Luke Havergal
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Lullaby 
By Amanda Jernigan
Lullabye for the Second Millennium 
By J. Allyn Rosser
Luna Moth
By Carl Phillips
Lunar Baedeker
By Mina Loy
Lycidas
By John Milton
Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
By Kenneth Rexroth
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
By James Wright
Mad Song
By William Blake
Madre Sofía
By Alberto Ríos
Magic 
By Louis Untermeyer
Magnum Mysterium
By Lucie Brock-Broido
Makeup 
By Dora Malech
Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Man
By George Herbert
Manfred: Incantation
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Manifest
By Reginald Shepherd
Manitoba Childe Roland
By Carl Sandburg
Map 
By Atsuro Riley
Mapping the Genome 
By Michael Symmons Roberts
March: An Ode
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Marching
By Jim Harrison
Marco Polo at Finisterre 
By Matthew Brenneman
Marshlands
By Emily Pauline Johnson
Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Maud; A Monodrama (from Part I)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Maud; A Monodrama (from Part II)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson
Maximus, to himself
By Charles Olson
May
By Jonathan Galassi
Measure
By Robert Hass
Meditation under Stars
By George Meredith
Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning
Meg Merrilies
By John Keats
Memorabilia
By Robert Browning
Memorial Day
By Michael Anania
Men Say Brown 
By Henry M. Seiden
Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly
Mending Wall
By Robert Frost
from Mercian Hymns
By Geoffrey Hill
Merlin
By Henry Carlile
Messenger
By Dave Smith
Messengers
By Louise Glück
Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
By Gary Snyder
Mid-March
By Lizette Woodworth Reese
Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden
Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan
Midsummer 
By Robert Fitzgerald
Midwinter
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Midwinter
By Sophie Jewett
Milton
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mind | Body 
By Gregory Djanikian
Mine eyes have seen the glory of ... 
By Eleanor Wilner
Miniature
By Brad Leithauser
Minor Poet 
By Bill Sweeney
Miriam Tazewell
By John Crowe Ransom
Mirror Image
By Samuel Menashe
Misgivings
By Herman Melville
Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney
Moby Dick
By Dan Beachy-Quick
Mock Orange
By Louise Glück
Moly
By Thom Gunn
Momus 
By Carl Sandburg
Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti
Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan
Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Monuments
By Myra Sklarew
Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen
More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright
More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate
More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy
Morning Talk
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Morningside Heights, July
By William Matthews
Mortal shower
By Bob Hicok
Mother Carey's Hen 
By David Yezzi
Motherhood
By May Swenson
Moths 
By Jennifer O'Grady
Mount Angel 
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes
Mowing
By Robert Frost
Mr. Luna’s Plum Tree
By Alberto Ríos
Much in Little
By Yvor Winters
Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James
Murder
By David Baker
Mushrooms
By Charles Tomlinson
Music 
By George Scarbrough
Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
My Autumn Leaves
By Bruce Weigl
My Body
By William Jay Smith
My Boyfriend
By Camille Guthrie
My Brother, the Artist, at Seven 
By Philip Levine
My Dog Practices Geometry 
By Cathryn Essinger
My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness
By Thomas Wyatt
My Lost Youth
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My Mother's Nipples
By Robert Hass
My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy
My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman
My Raptor
By Annie Finch
My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
My skeleton, my rival
By David Ignatow
My Star
By Robert Browning
Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold
Myself and My Person
By Anna Swir
N 
By Randall Mann
Nabokov’s Blues 
By William Matthews
Naima
By George Elliott Clarke
Naming the Stars 
By Joyce Sutphen
Napa Valley 
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Narcolepsy
By Ann Lauterbach
Narrative Without People
By Hilda Raz
Natal Command
By Peter Sacks
Native Trees
By W. S. Merwin
Near Helikon
By Trumbull Stickney
Near the Docks
By Dave Smith
Necropolitan
By Scott Cairns
Neighbors in October
By David Baker
Nether 
By Leila Wilson
Never the Time and the Place
By Robert Browning
New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman
Niagara
By Adelaide Crapsey
Night
By Lucy Maud Montgomery
Night Ferry
By Peter Sacks
Night Images
By Robert Fitzgerald
Night Said
By Franz Wright
Night Singing
By W. S. Merwin
Night Without Sleep
By Robinson Jeffers
Nights on Planet Earth 
By Campbell McGrath
Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen 
By Charles Wright
No Buyers
By Thomas Hardy
No Comfort To Be Had
By Sidney Wade
No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night
By Etheridge Knight
Nomadology 
By Alissa Leigh
Normalization 
By Czeslaw Milosz
North
By Seamus Heaney
North of Childhood
By Jonathan Galassi
North of Mist 
By Wendy Videlock
Northern Exposures 
By G. E. Murray
Not Forgotten
By Toi Derricotte
Not Here
By Jane Kenyon
Not That It Could Be Finished
By Ann Lauterbach
Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith
Notes from the City of the Sun
By Bei Dao
Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost
Nothing New
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
November Cotton Flower
By Jean Toomer
November Night
By Adelaide Crapsey
Nude Descending a Staircase 
By X J Kennedy
Nullaby 
By Atsuro Riley
O Carib Isle! 
By Hart Crane
O Heart Uncovered
By Joseph Ceravolo
O sweet spontaneous
By E. E. Cummings
Obbligato 
By Bruce Smith
Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold
Ocean City: Early March
By Elizabeth Spires
October
By May Swenson
October 
By Jacob Polley
October
By Robert Frost
October 10
By Wendell Berry
October Arriving
By Charles Simic
Ode For Walt Whitman
By Jack Spicer
Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats
Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats
Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude
By Thomas Gray
Ode on the Spring
By Thomas Gray
Ode to a Blizzard 
By Tom Disch
Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market 
By Pablo Neruda
Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats
Ode to Evening
By William Collins
Ode to Psyche
By John Keats
Ode to the West Wind
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
By William Wordsworth
Odes 
By Fernando Pessoa
from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry 
By Basil Bunting
OEnone
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Of Forced Sightes and Trusty Ferefulness
By Jorie Graham
Of Some Renown
By Jean L. Connor
Of the Mean and Sure Estate
By Thomas Wyatt
Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne
Oh Lovely Rock
By Robinson Jeffers
Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster
Old Couple
By Charles Simic
Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster
Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
On a Girdle
By Edmund Waller
On a Raised Beach
By Hugh MacDiarmid
On a View of Pasadena from the Hills
By Yvor Winters
On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats
On Hearing a Description of a Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne
On Inhabiting an Orange 
By Josephine Miles
On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me 
By John Ciardi
On Munsungun 
By Ethan Stebbins
On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt
On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper
On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell 
By Geoffrey Hill
On Summer
By George Moses Horton
On the Beach at Night
By Walt Whitman
On the Beach at Night Alone
By Walt Whitman
On the Departure of the Nightingale
By Charlotte Smith
On the Island
By Lawrence Raab
On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper
On the Preserved Body of an Inca Child Frozen to Death as a Sacrifice to the Sun
By A. F. Moritz
On the Screened Porch 
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
On the Seashore
By Rabindranath Tagore
On the water meadows
By Saradha Soobrayen
Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana
By Susan Mitchell
Ondine
By Mary Barnard
Ondine 
By Mary Barnard
One Afternoon 
By Joanie V. Mackowski
One Home
By William E. Stafford
One Morning
By Emmy Pérez
One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker
One Possible Meaning 
By Charlie Smith
One With The Sun
By A. F. Moritz
One's-Self I Sing
By Walt Whitman
Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Oread
By H. D.
Origin
By Marie Ponsot
Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke
Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz
Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
By William Shakespeare
Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem 
By Yvonne Zipter
Our Valley 
By Philip Levine
Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
By Colleen J. McElroy
Out of Metropolis
By Lynn Emanuel
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
By Walt Whitman
Out of Town 
By Piotr Sommer
Over and Over Stitch
By Jorie Graham
Over the Sea our Galleys Went
By Robert Browning
Oystering
By Richard Howard
Pacemaker 
By W. D. Snodgrass
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
Parents
By Robert Wrigley
Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell
Part Elegy
By Robert Wrigley
Parthenogenesis
By Brenda Shaughnessy
Parting at Morning
By Robert Browning
Parts of a Story 
By Mary Walker Graham
Pass It On, III
By Rachel Hadas
Passage over Water
By Robert Duncan
Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald
Passing the Frontier 
By Pierre Martory
Pastoral
By William Carlos Williams
Pastoral
By Bei Dao
Pastorals
By Alexander Pope
Patience 
By Katherine Larson
Patroling Barnegat
By Walt Whitman
Patterns
By Amy Lowell
Peacock Display
By David Wagoner
Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke
Penumbra
By Amy Lowell
Penumbrae
By John Updike
Perhaps
By Hilda Morley
Permanent Press 
By Alice Friman
Pheasant
By Sylvia Plath
Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving
By Clarence Major
Pickers
By John Haines
Pied Booty 
By Dabney Stuart
Piute Creek
By Gary Snyder
Place Names
By Thomas James Merton
Plague of Dead Sharks
By Alan Dugan
Planetarium
By Adrienne Rich
Planting a Dogwood
By Roy Scheele
Planting the Meadow 
By Mary Makofske
Pleasure
By Carl Phillips
Plowing through Ashes
By Walter McDonald
Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima
By Lisa Jarnot
Poem by the Charles River
By Robin Blaser
Poem in October 
By Dylan Thomas
Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton
Poem [“The eager note on my door said, ‘Call me,’”]
By Frank O'Hara
Poetry 
By Arthur Davidson Ficke
Poetry, a Natural Thing
By Robert Duncan
Poker Star
By Richard Brautigan
Poor Angels 
By Edward Hirsch
Poppies in July
By Sylvia Plath
Poppies in October
By Sylvia Plath
Poppies on the Wheat
By Helen Hunt Jackson
Portrait
By Louise Bogan
Poste Restante
By R. S. Thomas
Postpartum Blues 
By Elton Glaser
Prayer
By Jorie Graham
Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer
Prehistoric 
By Claire Malroux
Preludes
By T. S. Eliot
Primitive Road 
By Lucas Howell
Prison Song 
By Alan Dugan
Probation 
By Averill Curdy
Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle
Progressive Health 
By Carl Dennis
Pronouns
By Cole Swensen
Prothalamion
By Edmund Spenser
Provinces
By C. D. Wright
Psalm 
By George Oppen
Psychoanalysis of Water
By Forrest Gander
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
By Jack Spicer
Pulp Fiction
By David Baker
Pura Vida 
By John Updike
Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost
from Quatrains: Second Hundred 
By Patrizia Valduga
Queen-Anne’s Lace
By William Carlos Williams
Question
By May Swenson
Quivira
By Ronald Johnson
Radar
By Jack Spicer
Radio 
By Gottfried Benn
Rain
By Edward Thomas
Rain along Shore
By Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rain Country
By John Haines
Rain Gauge
By John Kinsella
Rainbow’s End
By Louis Untermeyer
raise the shade
By E. E. Cummings
Raking Near the Great Works 
By Megan Grumbling
Ralegh’s Prizes
By Robert Pinsky
Range-finding
By Robert Frost
Re-Incarnation
By Eva Gore-Booth
Reading Titus Andronicus In Three Mile Plains, N.S.
By George Elliott Clarke
Real Estate: Kripplebush, New York
By Marie Ponsot
Realism
By Tom Clark
Reapers
By Jean Toomer
Reasons
By Thomas James
Recollection of the Wood
By Léonie Adams
Recollections of the Arabian Nights
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Reluctance
By Robert Frost
Repose of Rivers
By Hart Crane
Repulsive Theory 
By Kay Ryan
Requests for Toy Piano 
By Tony Hoagland
Requiem for a Nest
By Wanda Coleman
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill
Requiem Shark 
By Rad Smith
Requiescat
By Matthew Arnold
Resolution and Independence
By William Wordsworth
Rest before you sleep 
By Dionisio D. Martinez
Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate
Retrospect
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Return in Autumn
By Paul Engle
Returning Native
By John Updike
Reverie in Open Air 
By Rita Dove
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
By T. S. Eliot
Rhode Island
By William Meredith
Riprap
By Gary Snyder
River
By Sherwin Bitsui
River Road
By Stanley Kunitz
Rivers and Mountains
By John Ashbery
Robin Hood
By John Keats
Robin Redbreast
By Stanley Kunitz
Rock and Hawk
By Robinson Jeffers
Rogue Russets 
By R. T. Smith
Romance
By Edgar Allan Poe
Romans Angry about the Inner World
By Robert Bly
Romans in Dorset: A.D. MDCCCXCV
By Louise Imogen Guiney
Romantic Moment
By Tony Hoagland
Roots 
By John Piller
Roses
By Barbara Guest
Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold
Ruined Tunnel
By Forrest Gander
Ruins
By Samuel Menashe
Running Away Together
By Maxine W. Kumin
Sad and Alone 
By Maurice Manning
Safari, Rift Valley
By Roy Jacobstein
Saint Francis and the Sow
By Galway Kinnell
Saint Francis of Assisi
By W. S. Di Piero
San Diego and Matisse
By Clarence Major
Sand Flesh and Sky
By Clarence Major
Sanoe
By Lydia Kamakaeha Lili’uokalani
Séverine in Summer School 
By Rex Wilder
Scavenging the Wall 
By R. T. Smith
School of Flesh 
By Dana Levin
Scrabble with Matthews 
By David Wojahn
Scrapbook 
By George Scarbrough
Scree 
By Heidy Steidlmayer
Sea Holly
By Conrad Aiken
Sea Iris
By H. D.
Sea Poppies
By H. D.
Sea Rose
By H. D.
Sea Urchin 
By J. Allyn Rosser
Searchers 
By D. Nurkse
Seasons 
By John Haag
Seaweed
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Seaweeds 
By Sandra McPherson
Second Adam 
By Ben Belitt
Self-Dependence
By Matthew Arnold
self-exam (my body is a cage)
By Nick Flynn
Self-Pity
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Self-Portrait
By Afaa Michael Weaver
Semblance: Screens 
By Liz Waldner
Sent with a Flower-Pot Begging a Slip of Geranium
By Christian Milne
September Midnight 
By Sara Teasdale
September Song
By Geoffrey Hill
September, 1819
By William Wordsworth
September, 1918
By Amy Lowell
Sequels to an Uncollected Winter
By G. E. Murray
seventh heaven
By Patti Smith
Sex and Taxes 
By Kevin Cantwell
Shale
By Anne Stevenson
Shamanism 101
By Dean Young
Shame 
By Joshua Weiner
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
By William Wordsworth
Sheltered Garden
By H. D.
Ships that Pass in the Night
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Shore Line
By Carl Rakosi
Shore Scene
By John Logan
Shoreline 
By Mary Barnard
Sierra Nevada
By Anne Stevenson
Signs
By Larry Levis
Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Silent Film 
By Kurt Brown
Silent, Silent Night
By William Blake
Since There Is No Escape
By Sara Teasdale
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sitting Outside at the End of Autumn
By Charles Wright
Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman
Skin Cancer
By Mark Jarman
Skin Canoes
By Carolyn Forché
Skipper Ireson’s Ride
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Skirts and Slacks
By W. S. Di Piero
Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell
Skywriting
By Charles Tomlinson
Sleep in the Mojave Desert
By Sylvia Plath
Sleeping on Fists
By Alberto Ríos
Sloth 
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Small Tantric Sermon
By Philip Whalen
Small Woman on Swallow Street 
By W. S. Merwin
Snakeskin 
By Liz Beasely
Snow Becoming Light by Morning 
By Jill Osier
Snow Day
By Billy Collins
Snow flakes. (45)
By Emily Dickinson
Snow on the Desert
By Agha Shahid Ali
Snow Signs
By Charles Tomlinson
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Snow-flakes
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Snowflake
By William Baer
Snowmen
By Agha Shahid Ali
So This Is Nebraska
By Ted Kooser
Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold
Solar
By Robin Becker
Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
By Alberto Ríos
Some Last Questions 
By W. S. Merwin
Some Questions about the Storm
By Hilda Raz
Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco
Son of Fog 
By Dean Young
Song
By Thomas James Merton
Song
By Brenda Cárdenas
Song
By Sophie Jewett
Song
By Joanna Baillie
Song & Error 
By Averill Curdy
Song for Autumn 
By Mary Oliver
Song in Barbarous Fumarole of the Japanese Crested Ibis
By Will Alexander
Song in Sligo
By Jean Garrigue
Song of Ecclesiastes
By George Elliott Clarke
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
Song of the Piper
By William Pitt Root
Song of the Sea to the Shore 
By Robert Fanning
Song of the Witches
By William Shakespeare
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring
By John Dryden
Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
By William Blake
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
Sonnet
By Robert Hass
Sonnet
By Frances Anne Kemble
Sonnet CXLVI: Poor Soul, the Centre of my Sinful Earth
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year thou mayst in me Behold
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXXIV
By Anna Seward
Sonnet Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
By Charlotte Smith
Sonnet XCI
By Anna Seward
Sonnet XCII
By Anna Seward
Sonnet XCVII: How like a Winter hath my Absence been
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XX
By Pablo Neruda
Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a Glorious Morning have I Seen
By William Shakespeare
Sonnets for Five Seasons
By Anne Stevenson
Sonnets from the Portuguese 22: When our Two Souls
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought
By William Wordsworth
Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate
Sotto Voce 
By C. Dale Young
Sounding Chinese at Inspiration Point
By Tom Clark
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man’s Footsteps #17
By Marvin Bell
South Country
By Kenneth Slessor
Sparrow Trapped in the Airport 
By Averill Curdy
Speckled Trout
By Ron Rash
Spectral Lovers
By John Crowe Ransom
Spider Crystal Ascension
By Charles Wright
Spider Tumor
By Michael Collier
Spirits of the Dead
By Edgar Allan Poe
Spring
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Spring
By Karla Kuskin
Spring
By William Shakespeare
Spring A. D.
By George Seferis
Spring and Fall
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring before a War
By Dudley Randall
Spring Letter 
By Carl Dennis
Spring Snow 
By Linda Gregerson
Spring Thaw in South Hadley
By Mary Jo Salter
Spring, the sweet spring
By Thomas Nashe
Squall
By Stanley Moss
Stanzas for Music
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
By Matthew Arnold
Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Star
By W. S. Merwin
Stargnoc Caz!
By Bernadette Mayer
Starlings
By W. S. Di Piero
Stars
By Marjorie Pickthall
Stars 
By Alice Friman
Still Water 
By Patricia Fargnoli
Stilling
By Donald Revell
Stone
By Charles Simic
Stone Canyon Nocturne
By Charles Wright
Stone Gullets
By May Swenson
Stony Limits
By Hugh MacDiarmid
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
Storm Windows
By Howard Nemerov
Storming Toward a Precipice
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Stowaway
By Stanley Moss
Strays
By Stanley Plumly
Study/Trees
By Leonard Gontarek
Stump 
By Donald Hall
Styx
By Robert Duncan
Subway Wind
By Claude McKay
Suitcase Song 
By Albert Goldbarth
Sumer is i-cumin in
By Anonymous
Summer
By Conrad Aiken
Summer
By John Clare
Summer
By Ronald Johnson
Summer at North Farm 
By Stephen Kuusisto
Summer Downpour on Campus
By Juliana Gray
Summer Evening
By Eamon Grennan
Summer Images
By John Clare
Summer near the River
By Carolyn Kizer
Sunday Skaters
By Mary Jo Salter
Sundown
By Léonie Adams
Sunrise along Shore
By Lucy Maud Montgomery
Superhero Pregnant Woman
By Jessy Randall
Swallow the Lake
By Clarence Major
Sweat
By Miguel Hernández
Sweet Machine
By Mark Doty
Sweet Tooth
By Russell Edson
Swells
By A. R. Ammons
Swifts
By Anne Stevenson
Swifts 
By Gerald Stern
Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle
By Freya Manfred
Swordfish 
By Andrew Hudgins
Sympathy of Peoples
By Robert Fitzgerald
Symphony of a Mexican Garden 
By Grace Hazard Conkling
Synchronous Chronology
By Alice Notley
Syrinx
By Amy Clampitt
Take Comfort Where You Can 
By Michael Chitwood
Taking Off My Clothes
By Carolyn Forché
Talbingo
By Kenneth Slessor
Tall Ambrosia
By Henry David Thoreau
Tangerine
By Ruth L. Schwartz
Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
By Thomas Lux
Telling the Bees
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Temporarily in Oxford
By Anne Stevenson
Ten Moons 
By Sasha Dugdale
Tent Caterpillars
By Susan Mitchell
That Child 
By David Wagoner
That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry
That Too 
By Lawrence Joseph
The Abandoned Farm 
By Mary Rose O'Reilley
The Abduction
By Stanley Kunitz
The Academic Sigh
By Russell Edson
The Affair
By David Baker
The Age of Dinosaurs 
By James Scruton
The Air Plant
By Hart Crane
The Alpaca
By Gabriela Mistral
The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai
The Amenities
By Heather McHugh
The Annihilation of Nothing 
By Thom Gunn
The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright
The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver
The Apple Tree 
By Wendell Berry
The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke
The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth
The Bait
By John Donne
The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
By Robert W. Service
The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke
The Barber's Fountain
By Henry Carlile
The Barefoot Boy
By John Greenleaf Whittier
The Barrel-Organ
By Alfred Noyes
The Bat
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Bath
By Gary Snyder
The Batture
By Dara Wier
The Beach at Sunset
By Eloise Klein Healy
The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees
The Bear
By Galway Kinnell
The Bear
By Susan Mitchell
The Bear at the Dump
By William Matthews
The Bearer 
By Hayden Carruth
The Beautiful Animal
By Geoffrey Brock
The Beauty of Things
By Robinson Jeffers
The Bell Buoy
By Rudyard Kipling
The Berg (A Dream)
By Herman Melville
The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner
The Birds
By Linda Pastan
The Black Swan
By James Merrill
The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blue Booby 
By James Tate
The Bluet
By James Schuyler
The Bodies
By Elizabeth Spires
The Body
By Frederick Morgan
The Body 
By Marianne Boruch
The Body to the Soul
By Eva Gore-Booth
The Bones of My Father
By Etheridge Knight
The Book of Thel
By William Blake
from The Botanic Garden, “The Economy of Vegetation”: Canto I
By Erasmus Darwin
The Boundary
By Bei Dao
from The Bridge: Cutty Sark 
By Hart Crane
from The Bridge: Southern Cross
By Hart Crane
from The Bridge: The Dance
By Hart Crane
The Buffalo Coat 
By Thomas McGrath
The Building of the Ship
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Bumblebee
By James Whitcomb Riley
The Burial of the Dead
By Sidney Wade
The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell, SJ
The Butterfly’s Dream
By Hannah F. Gould
The Caged Skylark
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Calm
By John Donne
The Calves Not Chosen
By Linda Gregg
The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cardinal
By Henry Carlile
The Castaway
By William Cowper
The Catalpa
By John Ciardi
The cat’s song
By Marge Piercy
The Caterpillar
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld
The Cave Painters 
By Eamon Grennan
The Chambered Nautilus
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Character of Holland
By Andrew Marvell
The Children
By Mark Jarman
The Children of Stare
By Walter De La Mare
The China Painters
By Ted Kooser
The Cleaving
By Li-Young Lee
The Clote (Water-Lily)
By William Barnes
The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché
The Coming of the Plague 
By Weldon Kees
The Convergence of the Twain
By Thomas Hardy
The Copper Beech
By Marie Howe
The Corn Baby 
By Mark Wunderlich
The Cradle Logic of Autumn
By Jay Wright
The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service
The Cricket
By Edwin Markham
The Cross of Snow
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Crow 
By Kunst Judith McCune
The Cuckoo Song
By Anonymous
The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth
The Cypress Broke
By Mahmoud Darwish
The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy
The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara
The Dead 
By Don Paterson
The Dead of Winter
By Samuel Menashe
The Death of Antinoüs 
By Mark Doty
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
By Robinson Jeffers
The Delicacy
By Sandra McPherson
The Dependencies
By Howard Nemerov
The Despairing Man Draws a Serpent
By Alfonso Cortes
The Difficulty with a Tree
By Russell Edson
The Dipper 
By Kathleen Jamie
The Diving Apprentices
By Christopher Middleton
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear
The Double Leash 
By Katharine Coles
The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
By Richard Brautigan
The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I
The Dowser’s Ear 
By Wilmer Mills
The Drought 
By Gary Soto
The Dying Child
By John Clare
The Eagle
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Ecstasy
By John Donne
The Eden of the Author of Sleep
By Brian Teare
The Eemis Stane
By Hugh MacDiarmid
The Eight O Five
By Diane Glancy
The Embankment
By T. E. Hulme
The Empty House
By Walter De La Mare
The End of Summer
By Rachel Hadas
The Enkindled Spring
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Envoy
By Jane Hirshfield
The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz
The Evening Darkens Over
By Robert Bridges
The Evening Wind
By William Cullen Bryant
The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
By Henry Vaughan
The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Fable
By Yvor Winters
The Face
By Franz Wright
The Fact of the Garden
By Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Fall
By William Barnes
The Famous Tay Whale
By William McGonagall
The Farm
By Joyce Sutphen
The Farm on the Great Plains 
By William E. Stafford
The Fight in the Meadow
By Russell Edson
The Figurehead
By Léonie Adams
The Finality of a Poem
By Michael Anania
The Fire of Drift-wood
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The First Person
By David Baker
The Fish
By Marianne Moore
The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Flashboat
By Jane Cooper
The Flâneur
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
By Dylan Thomas
The Forsaken Merman
By Matthew Arnold
The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly
The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet
The Four Seasons
By Henry Carlile
The friend
By Marge Piercy
The Future
By Matthew Arnold
The Garbo Cloth 
By Lucia Perillo
The Garden
By Andrew Marvell
The Garden by Moonlight
By Amy Lowell
The Garden of Proserpine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Gardener 66
By Rabindranath Tagore
The Gardener 85
By Rabindranath Tagore
The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds
The Gift
By Richard Emil Braun
The Girl Who Buried Snakes in a Jar
By John Haines
The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson
The Good 
By Michelle Boisseau
The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov
The Grand Canyon
By Jean Garrigue
The Great Blue Heron 
By Carolyn Kizer
The Greatest Grandeur
By Pattiann Rogers
The Green Linnet
By William Wordsworth
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 Harbor 
By Carl Sandburg
The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Heaven of Animals
By James L. Dickey
The Herdsman 
By Fernando Pessoa
The Hermit Crab 
By Mary Oliver
The Hills of Youth
By Alfred Noyes
The Hind and the Panther: Part I
By John Dryden
The Hitchhikers 
By Diane Wakoski
The Homecoming
By Barbara Howes
The Horrid Voice of Science 
By Vachel Lindsay
The House Gift 
By Joanie V. Mackowski
The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 73. The Choice, III
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Icehouse in Summer
By Howard Nemerov
The Idea of Order at Key West
By Wallace Stevens
The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin
By Ann Yearsley
The Interrupted Concert
By Federico García Lorca
The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer
The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell
The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
By William Meredith
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song
The King and Queen of Hearts
By Charles Lamb
The Kingfisher
By Amy Clampitt
The Kingfishers
By Charles Olson
The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo
from The Lady of the Lake: The Western Waves of Ebbing Day
By Sir Walter Scott
The Lake 
By Sophie Cabot Black
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
By William Butler Yeats
The Land of Nod
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The Larger 
By Joanie V. Mackowski
The Lark
By Gabriela Mistral
The Late Wisconsin Spring
By John Koethe
The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson
The Lesson
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Lifeguard
By James L. Dickey
The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
The Little Match Girl
By William McGonagall
The Little Turtle
By Vachel Lindsay
The Little Waves of Breffny
By Eva Gore-Booth
The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Lobster
By Carl Rakosi
The Lonely Death
By Adelaide Crapsey
The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling
The Long Voyage 
By Malcolm Cowley
The Lost Land
By Eavan Boland
The Maldive Shark
By Herman Melville
The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell
The Man with Night Sweats
By Thom Gunn
The Map
By Larry Levis
The Map of the World Confused with Its Territory
By Susan Stewart
The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
The Marriage in the Trees
By Stanley Plumly
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By William Blake
The May Apple
By Cynthia Zarin
The Meadow
By Tom Sleigh
The Menage
By Carl Rakosi
The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch
The Mermaid in the Hospital 
By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Minks
By Toi Derricotte
The Moment When Your Name is Pronounced
By Forrest Gander
The Months 
By Linda Pastan
The Moon and the Yew Tree
By Sylvia Plath
The Moon is distant from the Sea – (387)
By Emily Dickinson
The Moose
By Elizabeth Bishop
The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Mountain Cemetery
By Edgar Bowers
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 Negro Speaks of Rivers
By Langston Hughes
The New Religion
By Chris Abani
The night is darkening round me
By Emily Jane Brontë
The November Angels
By Jane Hirshfield
The Nuns Assist at Childbirth 
By Barbara Howes
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
By Sir Walter Ralegh
The Octopus 
By James Merrill
The Odd Last Thing She Did 
By Brad Leithauser
The Old Cumberland Beggar
By William Wordsworth
The Old Swimmin' Hole
By James Whitcomb Riley
The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
By Larry Levis
The One-Year-Old Lemon Tree
By W. S. Di Piero
The Orange Alert
By Douglas Kearney
The Origin of Order 
By Pattiann Rogers
The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear
The Painter 
By John Ashbery
The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House
By Howard Nemerov
The Parlement of Fowls
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Passing of the Wise Men 
By Pattiann Rogers
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe
The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The Photos
By Diane Wakoski
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
By Andrew Marvell
The Pieces That Fall To Earth 
By Kay Ryan
The Pier: Under Pisces
By James Merrill
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
By Richard Brautigan
The Place for No Story
By Robinson Jeffers
The Poet Orders His Tomb
By Edgar Bowers
The Pond
By Gregory Orr
The Pond
By Amy Lowell
The Pool 
By H. D.
The Poppy
By Jane Taylor
The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers
from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time
By William Wordsworth
from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
By William Wordsworth
The Presence
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis
The Primrose of the Rock
By William Wordsworth
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: Sweet and Low
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell
The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear
The Question
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Question
By Ruth Stone
The Rain
By Robert Creeley
The Rainbow
By David Baker
The Rainbow
By Charlotte Richardson
The Real Prayers Are Not the Words,
But the Attention that Comes First 
By Mary Oliver
The Red Wheelbarrow
By William Carlos Williams
The Redbreast
By Charlotte Richardson
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
from The Return
By Charles Tomlinson
The Reverie of Poor Susan
By William Wordsworth
The Rhodora
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Right Whale in Iowa
By Debora Greger
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The River
By Gregory Orr
The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine
The River Now
By Richard F. Hugo
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
The Rock in the Sea
By Archibald MacLeish
The Rocky Islands
By Janet Loxley Lewis
The Room
By Conrad Aiken
The Room in Which My First Child Slept 
By Eavan Boland
The Rose
By Jean Valentine
The Sévres Road 
By Susan Donnelly
The Sailor's Grave at Clo-oose, V.I.
By Marjorie Pickthall
The Saint and the Crab
By William Logan
The Same Old Jazz
By Philip Whalen
The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
By Hugh MacDiarmid
The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold
The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott
The Science Masquerade
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Sea Chews Things Up
By Cleopatra Mathis
The Seafarer
By Ezra Pound
The Search for Lost Lives
By James Tate
from The Seasons: Spring
By James Thomson
The Second Slaughter 
By Lucia Perillo
The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove
The Seer 
By A. F. Moritz
The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man 
By Wallace Stevens
The Shadow Of Night
By George Chapman
The Shampoo (From The Nightingales)
By David Wojahn
from The Shepheardes Calender: April
By Edmund Spenser
from The Shepheardes Calender: October
By Edmund Spenser
The Shipman's Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Shires
By John Fuller
The Shore
By David St. John
The Shore of Life
By Robert Fitzgerald
The Shrubbery
By William Cowper
The Sick Rose
By William Blake
The Silver Lily
By Louise Glück
The Simplon Pass
By William Wordsworth
The Simulacra 
By D. Nurkse
The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Skylark
By John Clare
The Sleeper
By Edgar Allan Poe
The Sleigh-Bells
By Susanna Moodie
The Slow Pacific Swell
By Yvor Winters
The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye
The Snail
By Marin Sorescu
The Snake
By William Matthews
The Snake
By Emily Dickinson
The Snow Is Deep on the Ground
By Kenneth Patchen
The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens
The Snow-Storm
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Snowbound City
By John Haines
The Soldier and the Snow
By Miguel Hernández
The Solitary Reaper
By William Wordsworth
The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle
The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
By Mina Loy
The Song of the Traveller
By Thomas James Merton
The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens
The Sound of the Sun
By George Bradley
The Sound of Trees
By Robert Frost
The Spanish Hour
By J. D. McClatchy
The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay
The Spire
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument
By Anne Stevenson
The Sponge 
By Joshua Mehigan
The Spring
By Thomas Carew
The Springtime
By Denise Levertov
The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray
The Star
By Ann Taylor
The Star
By Henry Vaughan
The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost
The Starlight Night
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Stars and the Moon
By Grace Schulman
The Stars Are 
By Samuel Menashe
The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker
The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
By Edmund Waller
The Strange People
By Louise Erdrich
The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods
By Rigoberto González
The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Summer Bower
By Henry Timrod
The Summer Image
By Léonie Adams
The Summoner's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Sun 
By Dan Chiasson
The Sun-Struck Eagle
By Eleanor Percy Lee, Catherine Ana Warfield
The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Surrealist Learns To Fly 
By Jennifer O'Grady
The Swing
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth
from The Task, Book I: The Sofa
By William Cowper
from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper
from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper
from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper
from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper
The Tay Bridge Disaster
By William McGonagall
The Third Hour of the Night 
By Frank Bidart
The Three-Legged Dog at the Heart of Our Home 
By Linda Gregerson
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Topography of History
By Thomas McGrath
The Town Dump
By Howard Nemerov
The Tree
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The Trees are Down
By Charlotte Mew
The Trespasser
By Ben Belitt
The Triumph of Time
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Tropics in New York
By Claude McKay
The Truth
By Carl Phillips
The Truth the Dead Know
By Anne Sexton
The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost
The Two Streams
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Tyger
By William Blake
The Undeniable Pressure of Existence
By Patricia Fargnoli
The Untamed
By R. S. Thomas
The Valley of Unrest
By Edgar Allan Poe
The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song
The Verification of Vulnerability: Bog Turtle 
By Pattiann Rogers
The Very Rich Hours 
By James McMichael
The Victory of the Beet-Fields
By Louis Untermeyer
The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov
The Village: Book I
By George Crabbe
The Violet
By Jane Taylor
The Visitation
By Samuel Menashe
The Waking
By Theodore Roethke
The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll
The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll
The Washingtonian
By May Miller
The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan
The Watergaw
By Hugh MacDiarmid
The Way to the River
By W. S. Merwin
the weather is hot on the back of my watch
By Charles Bukowski
The West Window in Moveen
By Thomas P. Lynch
The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth
The White Porch
By Cathy Song
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime 
By William Carlos Williams
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Wild Common
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Wild Old Wicked Man
By William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole
By William Butler Yeats
The Wind, the Sun and the Moon
By Anne Stevenson
The Windhover
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Witnesses
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
By Randall Jarrell
The Woman Who Laughed on Calvary
By Heather McHugh
The Woman Who Loved Worms
By Colette Inez
The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost
The Woodpecker Keeps Returning
By Jane Hirshfield
The Woodspurge
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The World
By Henry Vaughan
The World below the Brine
By Walt Whitman
The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández
The Worship of Nature
By John Greenleaf Whittier
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 Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith
The Yellowhammer's Nest
By John Clare
The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song
Their Bodies 
By David Wagoner
Theme in Yellow
By Carl Sandburg
There may be Chaos still around the World
By George Santayana
There was a Boy
By William Wordsworth
There was a Young Lady Whose Eyes
By Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear
There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
By Emily Dickinson
Thing Language
By Jack Spicer
Things
By Louis Simpson
Thirteen Blackbirds Look at a Man
By R. S. Thomas
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
By Wallace Stevens
This blue belongs to no one.
By Jean-Michel Maulpoix
This is a Letter
By Rebecca Dunham
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This Little Glade, Remember
By Pattiann Rogers
Thoughts on One’s Head
By William Meredith
Thread
By Jonathan Galassi
Three Haiku, Two Tanka
By Philip Appleman
Three Six Five Zero 
By Conor O'Callaghan
Three Songs at the End of Summer 
By Jane Kenyon
Three Sonnets
By James Galvin
Three Years She Grew
By William Wordsworth
Thrushes
By Siegfried Sassoon
Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
By Matthew Arnold
Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke
Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun
Time
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters
Time to Come
By Walt Whitman
To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe
To a Captive Owl
By Henry Timrod
To a Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks on His Barbed Wire
By David Wagoner
To a Greek Marble 
By Richard Aldington
To a Highland Girl
By William Wordsworth
To a Lady, Who Sent the Author a Present of a Fashionable Bonnet
By Elizabeth Moody
To a Marsh Hawk in Spring
By Henry David Thoreau
To a Mountain Daisy
By Robert Burns
To a Mouse
By Robert Burns
To a Skylark
By William Wordsworth
To a Skylark
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a Wren on Calvary
By Larry Levis
To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer
To Autumn
By Louise Glück
To Autumn
By John Keats
To Bessie Drennan 
By Mark Doty
To Daffodils
By Robert Herrick
To Fishermen 
By Carol Frost
To Help the Monkey Cross the River
By Thomas Lux
To John Clare
By John Clare
To Kill a Deer
By Carol Frost
To Live with a Landscape
By Constance Urdang
To Margaret W------
By Charles Lamb
To Marguerite: Continued
By Matthew Arnold
To Mary
By William Cowper
To Mr. Lawrence
By John Milton
To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden
To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
By John Keats
To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer
To the Cuckoo
By William Wordsworth
To the Desert
By Benjamin Alire Sáenz
To the Destroyers of Ballots
By Donald Revell
To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman
To the Harbormaster
By Frank O'Hara
To the King on his Navy
By Edmund Waller
To the Light of September 
By W. S. Merwin
To the Moon
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
To the Muses
By William Blake
To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
To the Quarry and Back 
By Katia Kapovich
To the Reader
By Jorie Graham
To The Stone-Cutters
By Robinson Jeffers
To You 
By Kevin A. González
To. W. P.
By George Santayana
Toad dreams
By Marge Piercy
Today 
By Billy Collins
Together
By Maxine W. Kumin
Tokens
By William Barnes
Tom Deadlight (1810)
By Herman Melville
Tom O’ Bedlam among the Sunflowers
By Thomas James
Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer
Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Too Much of a Good Thing
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Tor House
By Robinson Jeffers
Tornado Child
By Kwame Dawes
Tossing and Turning
By John Updike
Totem
By Eamon Grennan
Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz
Toward an Organic Philosophy
By Kenneth Rexroth
Tracking 
By Eleanor Wilner
Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford
Tree
By Nikki Grimes
Tree
By Jane Hirshfield
Tree Ferns
By Stanley Plumly
Tree Marriage
By William Meredith
Trees
By Joyce Kilmer
Triad
By Adelaide Crapsey
Tricyclist and a Turtle 
By Molly McQuade
Trillium
By Louise Glück
Triolets in the Argolid 
By Rachel Hadas
Tritina for Susannah 
By David Yezzi
Tropics
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
True Love
By Sharon Olds
Truly Pathetic 
By Neal Bowers
Trust 
By Susan Kinsolving
Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer
Tulips
By Sylvia Plath
Tulips 
By A.E. Stallings
Turkish Bath 
By Sidney Wade
Twenty Below
By Paul Engle
Twenty-third 
By Christina Pugh
Twilight Blues
By Samuel Menashe
Twilight: After Haying
By Jane Kenyon
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
By Jane Taylor
Two Bodies
By Annie Finch
Two Guitars
By Victor Hernández Cruz
Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning
Two Songs from a Car 
By Ioanna Carlsen
Two Views of Buson
By Robert Hass
Ultima Thule
By Linda Bierds
Ultima Thule: Dedication to G. W. G.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Under Stars
By Tess Gallagher
Under the Dome
By Elise Paschen
Under the Greenwood Tree
By William Shakespeare
Under the Vulture-Tree
By David Bottoms
Under Two Windows 
By Schuyler Van Rensselaer
Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen
Undone Song at Neap Tide 
By Kathryn Starbuck
Uninvited Reader
By A. F. Moritz
Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms 
By Francesca Abbate
Up at a VillaDown in the City
By Robert Browning
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
By Edward Taylor
Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough
By Andrew Marvell
Upon the Vine-tree
By John Bunyan
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor
Valentine
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele
By Charles Olson
Vaunting Oak
By John Crowe Ransom
Verities 
By Kim Addonizio
Vermeer
By Debora Greger
Very Strong February
By Bernadette Mayer
Vespers ["Once I believed in you..."]
By Louise Glück
Vespers [In your extended absence, you permit me]
By Louise Glück
Video Cuisine
By Maxine W. Kumin
Virtue
By George Herbert
Visions
By William E. Stafford
Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia
By Irene McKinney
Vita Nova
By Louise Glück
Vixen
By W. S. Merwin
vocabulary I
By Robin Blaser
Voices of the Air
By Katherine Mansfield
Voyages
By Hart Crane
Wake Me in South Galway 
By Richard Tillinghast
Waking from Sleep
By Robert Bly
Wales Visitation
By Allen Ginsberg
Walking Down Park
By Nikki Giovanni
Walking on Tiptoe
By Ted Kooser
Walking the Dunes 
By Brenda Hillman
Walking West
By William E. Stafford
Warm Summer Sun
By Mark Twain
Wash of Cold River
By H. D.
Washing My Hair
By Anne Stevenson
Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert
Watching Television
By Robert Bly
Watching the Oregon Whale
By Annie Finch
from Water Music
By Hugh MacDiarmid
Waterwings
By Cathy Song
Waumandee 
By Mark Wunderlich
Way Out West
By Amiri Baraka
Way-Station
By Archibald MacLeish
We Had Words
By Vona Groarke
Weather
By Clarence Major
Webs and Weeds
By Colleen J. McElroy
Weighing In
By Rhina P. Espaillat
West Topsham
By John Engels
Wet-weather Talk
By James Whitcomb Riley
What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy
What Calls Us
By David Bengtson
What Is Impossible
By A. F. Moritz
What Is the Field? 
By Leila Wilson
What Kind of Times Are These
By Adrienne Rich
What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham
What the Leaf Told Me
By Ronald Johnson
What the Rattlesnake Said 
By Vachel Lindsay
What the Stars Meant
By John Koethe
What the Winds Bring
By Edmund Clarence Stedman
What to Count On
By Peggy Shumaker
What to Eat, What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison
By Camille T. Dungy
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 Daisies Pied and Violets Blue
By William Shakespeare
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
By Walt Whitman
When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I
When in Wisconsin Where I Once Had Time
By John Engels
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman
When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr
When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley
When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo
Where the Blue Begins
By George Bradley
Whispers of Immortality
By T. S. Eliot
White Darkness
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
White Head
By Sophie Jewett
White-Eyes 
By Mary Oliver
Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Rossetti
who knows if the moon's
By E. E. Cummings
Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun
Why They Turned Back/Why They Went On
By Constance Urdang
Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen
Wild Peaches
By Elinor Wylie
Wild Turkeys: The Dignity of the Damned
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Wildflowers
By Reginald Gibbons
Willowspout 
By R. T. Smith
Win-Win 
By Ange Mlinko
Wind In Mytilene
By Eloise Klein Healy
Windigo
By Louise Erdrich
Windy Nights
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Winesaps
By Dave Smith
Winter
By Anne Hunter
Winter Campus: Ann Arbor
By Dudley Randall
Winter Dawn
By Kenneth Slessor
Winter Dusk
By Walter De La Mare
Winter Journal: Disseminate Birds over Water
By Emily Wilson
Winter Journal: Fish Rises, Dark Brown Muscle Turns Over
By Emily Wilson
Winter Journal: Gold Rivulet Weave, Gauded
By Emily Wilson
Winter Journal: Gray Shadings
By Emily Wilson
Winter Journal: Scratchings among the Burnings
By Emily Wilson
Winter Journal: The Sky Is the Lost Orpheum
By Emily Wilson
Winter Journal: Threshed Blue, Cardings, Dim Tonsils
By Emily Wilson
Winter Journal: Wind Thumbs through Woods
By Emily Wilson
Winter Love
By Linda Gregg
Winter promises
By Marge Piercy
Winter Remembered
By John Crowe Ransom
Winter Stars
By Larry Levis
Winter Trees
By William Carlos Williams
Wish for an Overcoat
By Alfred Islay Walden
wishes for sons
By Lucille Clifton
With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath
By Linda Gregerson
Woman Unborn
By Anna Swir
Wonder
By Thomas Traherne
Wood
By Reginald Gibbons
Woodcut
By Thomas McGrath
Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Working Outside at Night
By Denis Johnson
Worms 
By Carl Dennis
Written in her French Psalter
By Elizabeth I
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
By Eugene Field
XXVIII
By Clarence Major
Xylem 
By Talvikki Ansel
Yarrow Revisited
By William Wordsworth
Yarrow Unvisited
By William Wordsworth
Yarrow Visited. September, 1814
By William Wordsworth
Yellow from a Distance
By Karen Whalley
Yesterday
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico
By Robin Becker
You and I Saw Hawks Exchanging the Prey
By James Wright
You Can't Buy Shoes in a Painting 
By Jill Osier
You Goatherd Gods
By Philip Sidney
You know where you did despise
By Alexander Pope
You That I Loved 
By A. F. Moritz
Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz
Youth
By James Wright
Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Zeus to Juno 
By Fiona Sampson
Zun-zet
By William Barnes
[dear dusty moth]
By Robin Blaser
[Les plantes et les planètes] / [Plants and planets] 
By Robert Marteau
[Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way]
By Juan Felipe Herrera
[morning green through ivy]
By Dan Beachy-Quick
[My mother saw the green tree toad]
By Lorine Niedecker
[Popcorn-can cover]
By Lorine Niedecker
[Posterity, this me is Now—]
By Dan Beachy-Quick
[Record no oiled tongue]
By Dan Beachy-Quick
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