IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009

Poetry Magazine

Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.

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"Any fool can get into an ocean..." First appeared in Poetry
By Jack Spicer

"Fire and Sleet and Candle-Light" First appeared in Poetry
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" First appeared in Poetry
By Eleanor Wilner

“Feuerzauber”
By Louis Untermeyer

“It's raining, it's pouring ... ”
By Anonymous

“Birds small enough...” First appeared in Poetry
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...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

(“Over the green and yellow...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

(“We both live in the same village...”) First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Derek Sheffield

A Gothic Tale
By Theodore Weiss

A Graveyard
By Marianne Moore

A Hanging Screen First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Denise Levertov

A Marriage in the Dolomites First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Edgar Bowers

An Arbor First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

Ancestral
By Archibald MacLeish

And Soul
By Eavan Boland

And Then I Saw
By Alfred Corn

from Anecdote of the Jar First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

Animal Caution First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Hahn

Ants on the Melon
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

ANWR
By Sherwin Bitsui

Aperture First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Tonge

Apollo First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Alexander

Apollo Musagetes
By Matthew Arnold

April Rain Song
By Langston Hughes

April Treason
By John Crowe Ransom

Ararat First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

ARK 99, Arches XXXIII
By Ronald Johnson

Arrowhead First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Pack

Arrowhead Hunting First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

At Darien Bridge
By James L. Dickey

At Dauphin Island, 1997 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Spencer Reece

Atlantis
By Mark Doty

Au Vieux Jardin First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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” First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Derek Walcott

Bed in Summer
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Beech First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin McFadden

Bees and Morning Glories
By John Ciardi

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

Before the Rain First appeared in Poetry
By Lianne Spidel

Before You First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

Between Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

Blue Monday
By Diane Wakoski

Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Body First appeared in Poetry
By Alissa Leigh

Body and Soul First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Oliver

Breughel First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Collier

Brick
By Robert Creeley

from Briggflatts First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile

Butter First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Henry Carlile

Camouflaging the Chimera
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Canada Anemone First appeared in Poetry
By Fleda Brown

Canned Food Drive First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Carmel Point
By Robinson Jeffers

Carolina Journal First appeared in Poetry
By Nicole Pekarske

Cassandra
By H. D.

Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson

Checklist
By Stephen Dunn

Cheer
By Stanley Plumly

Chicago and December First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Cold Blooded Creatures
By Elinor Wylie

Cold Spring
By Lawrence Raab

Cold Turkey First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Mehigan

Colophon
By Dean Young

Color
By Christina Rossetti

Color in American History: An Essay First appeared in Poetry
By Tom Disch

Come into Animal Presence First appeared in Poetry
By Denise Levertov

Come with Me First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Mike Chasar

Concord Hymn
By Jack Spicer

Confluence
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Conrad Siever
By Edgar Lee Masters

Consecration First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Aldington

Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick

Corsons Inlet
By A. R. Ammons

Cortège
By Carl Phillips

corydon & alexis First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

corydon & alexis, redux First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

Country Love Song First appeared in Poetry
By Melanie Almeder

Country Summer
By Léonie Adams

Courtesy
By David Ferry

Courtship First appeared in Poetry
By Talvikki Ansel

Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Coyote, with Mange First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Karr

Doctor Frolic
By Robert Pinsky

Dog Gospel First appeared in Poetry
By Brian Barker

Doing Laundry on Sunday First appeared in Poetry
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Domes First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Robin Robertson

Dream-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe

Drifting at Midday First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Wrigley

East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

Easter Week
By Joyce Kilmer

Easy as Falling Down Stairs First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Thomas McGrath

Encounter in Buffalo
By Mary Barnard

from Endymion
By John Keats

Envy
By Mary Lamb

Ephemera
By Robin Becker

Ephemeroptera First appeared in Poetry
By Miriam Vermilya

from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie

Equinox First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Alexander

Eros
By Robert Bridges

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Eyes Like Leeks
By Linda Gregerson

Fable for Blackboard
By George Starbuck

Fable of the Ant and the Word First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Farewell to Florida
By Wallace Stevens

Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
By John Ashbery

Fat First appeared in Poetry
By Ioanna Carlsen

Fawn
By Mary Barnard

Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor

February
By Margaret Atwood

February First appeared in Poetry
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° First appeared in Poetry
By Sylvia Plath

Fie, Pleasure, Fie!
By George Gascoigne

Field Burning: A Full Moon
By Robert Wrigley

Figures in the Carpets First appeared in Poetry
By David Schloss

Fire
By Francis Ponge

fire
By Nick Flynn

Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost

Firefly Under the Tongue First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Emilia Stuart Lorimer

Fishing First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By David Mason

Foolish Questions
By William Cole

For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

For Grant Wood First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Wendell Berry

Graciela
By Gary Soto

Grain Field
By Adelaide Crapsey

Gravelly Run First appeared in Poetry
By A. R. Ammons

Gravepiece First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

In Love with You First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Lynda Hull

Inside My Head
By Robert Creeley

Inside the Blues Whale
By Afaa Michael Weaver

Insomnia & So On First appeared in Poetry
By Malachi Black

Interesting Times First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Howard Nemerov

Leaving
By Cathy Song

Leda
By H. D.

Left to Itself the Heart Could Almost Melt, Mend First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Ronald Johnson

Li Hua's Messenger First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

Lisa
By David Hernandez

Lissadell First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Jin Eun-Young

Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Long Island Sound
By Emma Lazarus

Looking Around First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Wright

Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur

Lost First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning

Love at Thirty-two Degrees First appeared in Poetry
By Katherine Larson

Love in the Valley
By George Meredith

Love in the Weather’s Bells
By Jay Wright

Love Song First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Luke Havergal
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Lullaby First appeared in Poetry
By Amanda Jernigan

Lullabye for the Second Millennium First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Louis Untermeyer

Magnum Mysterium
By Lucie Brock-Broido

Makeup First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Atsuro Riley

Mapping the Genome First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Symmons Roberts

March: An Ode
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Marching
By Jim Harrison

Marco Polo at Finisterre First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Fitzgerald

Midwinter
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Midwinter
By Sophie Jewett

Milton
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mind | Body First appeared in Poetry
By Gregory Djanikian

Mine eyes have seen the glory of ... First appeared in Poetry
By Eleanor Wilner

Miniature
By Brad Leithauser

Minor Poet First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By David Yezzi

Motherhood
By May Swenson

Moths First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer O'Grady

Mount Angel First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Levine

My Dog Practices Geometry First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Mann

Nabokov’s Blues First appeared in Poetry
By William Matthews

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Naming the Stars First appeared in Poetry
By Joyce Sutphen

Napa Valley First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Campbell McGrath

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Alissa Leigh

Normalization First appeared in Poetry
By Czeslaw Milosz

North
By Seamus Heaney

North of Childhood
By Jonathan Galassi

North of Mist First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Videlock

Northern Exposures First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By X J Kennedy

Nullaby First appeared in Poetry
By Atsuro Riley

O Carib Isle! First appeared in Poetry
By Hart Crane

O Heart Uncovered
By Joseph Ceravolo

O sweet spontaneous
By E. E. Cummings

Obbligato First appeared in Poetry
By Bruce Smith

Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold

Ocean City: Early March
By Elizabeth Spires

October
By May Swenson

October First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Tom Disch

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Fernando Pessoa

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Josephine Miles

On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me First appeared in Poetry
By John Ciardi

On Munsungun First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

One Afternoon First appeared in Poetry
By Joanie V. Mackowski

One Home
By William E. Stafford

One Morning
By Emmy Pérez

One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker

One Possible Meaning First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Yvonne Zipter

Our Valley First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Piotr Sommer

Over and Over Stitch
By Jorie Graham

Over the Sea our Galleys Went
By Robert Browning

Oystering
By Richard Howard

Pacemaker First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Pierre Martory

Pastoral
By William Carlos Williams

Pastoral
By Bei Dao

Pastorals
By Alexander Pope

Patience First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Friman

Pheasant
By Sylvia Plath

Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving
By Clarence Major

Pickers
By John Haines

Pied Booty First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Arthur Davidson Ficke

Poetry, a Natural Thing
By Robert Duncan

Poker Star
By Richard Brautigan

Poor Angels First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Elton Glaser

Prayer
By Jorie Graham

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Prehistoric First appeared in Poetry
By Claire Malroux

Preludes
By T. S. Eliot

Primitive Road First appeared in Poetry
By Lucas Howell

Prison Song First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Dugan

Probation First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Progressive Health First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Dennis

Pronouns
By Cole Swensen

Prothalamion
By Edmund Spenser

Provinces
By C. D. Wright

Psalm First appeared in Poetry
By George Oppen

Psychoanalysis of Water
By Forrest Gander

Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
By Jack Spicer

Pulp Fiction
By David Baker

Pura Vida First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost

from Quatrains: Second Hundred First appeared in Poetry
By Patrizia Valduga

Queen-Anne’s Lace
By William Carlos Williams

Question
By May Swenson

Quivira
By Ronald Johnson

Radar
By Jack Spicer

Radio First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Requests for Toy Piano First appeared in Poetry
By Tony Hoagland

Requiem for a Nest
By Wanda Coleman

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill

Requiem Shark First appeared in Poetry
By Rad Smith

Requiescat
By Matthew Arnold

Resolution and Independence
By William Wordsworth

Rest before you sleep First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Rex Wilder

Scavenging the Wall First appeared in Poetry
By R. T. Smith

School of Flesh First appeared in Poetry
By Dana Levin

Scrabble with Matthews First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

Scrapbook First appeared in Poetry
By George Scarbrough

Scree First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

Searchers First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

Seasons First appeared in Poetry
By John Haag

Seaweed
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Seaweeds First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra McPherson

Second Adam First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Liz Waldner

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

September Midnight First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin Cantwell

Shale
By Anne Stevenson

Shamanism 101
By Dean Young

Shame First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

Sierra Nevada
By Anne Stevenson

Signs
By Larry Levis

Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Silent Film First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Small Tantric Sermon
By Philip Whalen

Small Woman on Swallow Street First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Snakeskin First appeared in Poetry
By Liz Beasely

Snow Becoming Light by Morning First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Some Questions about the Storm
By Hilda Raz

Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco

Son of Fog First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Song
By Thomas James Merton

Song
By Brenda Cárdenas

Song
By Sophie Jewett

Song
By Joanna Baillie

Song & Error First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

Song for Autumn First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Dennis

Spring Snow First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Friman

Still Water First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Donald Hall

Styx
By Robert Duncan

Subway Wind
By Claude McKay

Suitcase Song First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle
By Freya Manfred

Swordfish First appeared in Poetry
By Andrew Hudgins

Sympathy of Peoples
By Robert Fitzgerald

Symphony of a Mexican Garden First appeared in Poetry
By Grace Hazard Conkling

Synchronous Chronology
By Alice Notley

Syrinx
By Amy Clampitt

Take Comfort Where You Can First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Sasha Dugdale

Tent Caterpillars
By Susan Mitchell

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 Child First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry

That Too First appeared in Poetry
By Lawrence Joseph

The Abandoned Farm First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Thom Gunn

The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Apple Tree First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By James Tate

The Bluet
By James Schuyler

The Bodies
By Elizabeth Spires

The Body
By Frederick Morgan

The Body First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Southern Cross
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: The Dance
By Hart Crane

The Buffalo Coat First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Weldon Kees

The Convergence of the Twain
By Thomas Hardy

The Copper Beech
By Marie Howe

The Corn Baby First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Don Paterson

The Dead of Winter
By Samuel Menashe

The Death of Antinoüs First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Kathleen Jamie

The Diving Apprentices
By Christopher Middleton

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Double Leash First appeared in Poetry
By Katharine Coles

The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
By Richard Brautigan

The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I

The Dowser’s Ear First appeared in Poetry
By Wilmer Mills

The Drought First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Michelle Boisseau

The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov

The Grand Canyon
By Jean Garrigue

The Great Blue Heron First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Heaven of Animals
By James L. Dickey

The Herdsman First appeared in Poetry
By Fernando Pessoa

The Hermit Crab First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Oliver

The Hills of Youth
By Alfred Noyes

The Hind and the Panther: Part I
By John Dryden

The Hitchhikers First appeared in Poetry
By Diane Wakoski

The Homecoming
By Barbara Howes

The Horrid Voice of Science First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

The House Gift First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Sophie Cabot Black

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
By William Butler Yeats

The Land of Nod
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Larger First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Barbara Howes

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

The Octopus First appeared in Poetry
By James Merrill

The Odd Last Thing She Did First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Painter First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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
First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Eavan Boland

The Rose
By Jean Valentine

The Sévres Road First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Lucia Perillo

The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove

The Seer First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Frank Bidart

The Three-Legged Dog at the Heart of Our Home First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Very Rich Hours First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Conor O'Callaghan

Three Songs at the End of Summer First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Doty

To Daffodils
By Robert Herrick

To Fishermen First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Katia Kapovich

To the Reader
By Jorie Graham

To The Stone-Cutters
By Robinson Jeffers

To You First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin A. González

To. W. P.
By George Santayana

Toad dreams
By Marge Piercy

Today First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Molly McQuade

Trillium
By Louise Glück

Triolets in the Argolid First appeared in Poetry
By Rachel Hadas

Tritina for Susannah First appeared in Poetry
By David Yezzi

Tropics
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

True Love
By Sharon Olds

Truly Pathetic First appeared in Poetry
By Neal Bowers

Trust First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Kinsolving

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Tulips
By Sylvia Plath

Tulips First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Turkish Bath First appeared in Poetry
By Sidney Wade

Twenty Below
By Paul Engle

Twenty-third First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Schuyler Van Rensselaer

Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen

Undone Song at Neap Tide First appeared in Poetry
By Kathryn Starbuck

Uninvited Reader
By A. F. Moritz

Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms First appeared in Poetry
By Francesca Abbate

Up at a Villa—Down 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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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? First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By R. T. Smith

Win-Win First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Dennis

Written in her French Psalter
By Elizabeth I

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
By Eugene Field

XXVIII
By Clarence Major

Xylem First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Jill Osier

You Goatherd Gods
By Philip Sidney

You know where you did despise
By Alexander Pope

You That I Loved First appeared in Poetry
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 First appeared in Poetry
By Fiona Sampson

Zun-zet
By William Barnes

[dear dusty moth]
By Robin Blaser

[Les plantes et les planètes] / [Plants and planets] First appeared in Poetry
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