There are 280 Poems about Faith & Doubt

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
By Emily Dickinson

“Some motionless conflict in the sky...”
By Donald Revell

'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

(“I asked of Destiny...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti

A Blasphemy
By Maurice Manning

A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne

A Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai

A Song on the End of the World
By Czeslaw Milosz

Aaron
By George Herbert

Adding It Up
By Philip Booth

Advice to a Young Prophet
By Thomas James Merton

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries
By Jupiter Hammon

At Mass
By Vachel Lindsay

At Thomas Merton’s Grave
By Spencer Reece

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

“Faith” is fine invention (202)
By Emily Dickinson

“I have been a stranger in a strange land”
By Rita Dove

“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville

Before You
By Carl Rakosi

Belief
By Josephine Miles

Blind Curse
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Book of Isaiah
By Anne Carson

Bowl
By Valerie Martínez

brothers
By Lucille Clifton

But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light
By Richard Crashaw

By Night when Others Soundly Slept
By Anne Bradstreet

Carrion Comfort
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

Che Fece ... Il Gran Refiuto
By C. P. Cavafy

Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929
By William Logan

Cold Turkey
By Joshua Mehigan

Coyote, with Mange
By Mark Wunderlich

Davis Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters

De Profundis
By Christina Rossetti

Dio ed Io
By Charles Wright

Doot Dah Do
By Diane Glancy

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

Dreamer
By Primus St. John

During the Service
By Carrie Grabo

Easter Wings
By George Herbert

Easy Sermon
By Mark Jarman

Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By John Berryman

Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By Mark Jarman

Evening Angelus
By Joyce Sutphen

Exclusion
By Emily Dickinson

Faint Music
By Robert Hass

Faith
By David Baker

Faith
By Louis Untermeyer

Faith
By Linda Pastan

Faith
By Frances Anne Kemble

Faith Healing
By Philip Larkin

far memory
By Lucille Clifton

Felix Randal
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiduciary
By Randall Mann

Fragment
By Thomas Hardy

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
By Vachel Lindsay

Gnostic
By Honor Moore

God
By Isaac Rosenberg

Going Back to Bed
By J. D. McClatchy

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne

Guysborough Road Church
By George Elliott Clarke

Hail
By Mary Szybist

Hedgehog
By Paul Muldoon

Here I Am, Lord
By Michael Chitwood

Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: This is my play's last scene
By John Donne

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

Homo Will Not Inherit
By Mark Doty

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Hymn: Thou Hidden Love of God
By John Wesley

I Grant You Ample Leave
By George Eliot

I know that He exists. (365)
By Emily Dickinson

I Remember, I Remember
By Thomas Hood

I Sit and Sew
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

I Walk’d the Other Day
By Henry Vaughan

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

If—
By Rudyard Kipling

Imbiancato
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Immortality
By Matthew Arnold

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII [all 133 poems]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 124
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 44
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 54
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 96
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: [Prelude]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Piam Memoriam
By Geoffrey Hill

In the Cool of the Evening
By Andrew Hudgins

In the Kingdom of Perpetual Repair
By Kevin Stein

Incantation
By Czeslaw Milosz

Innocence
By Thomas Traherne

jesus knew
By Nick Flynn

Jordan (I)
By George Herbert

Last Lines
By Anne Brontë

Late Results
By Scott Cairns

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Life of Sundays
By Rodney Jones

Light Shining out of Darkness
By William Cowper

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

Little Blessing for My Floater
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Little God Origami
By Stefi Weisburd

Love (I)
By George Herbert

Love (II)
By George Herbert

Love (III)
By George Herbert

Magnificat
By Eleanor Wilner

Many Scientists Convert to Islam
By Nomi Stone

Meditations
By Margaret Fuller

Midstairs
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Milton: But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance
By William Blake

Mine eyes have seen the glory of ...
By Eleanor Wilner

Modern Elfland
By G. K. Chesterton

Monastery Nights
By Chase Twichell

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Morning Hymn
By Charles Wesley

Morning Song
By Gregory Orr

Mother and Child
By Louise Glück

Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

my dream about the second coming
By Lucille Clifton

My Sin
By Chungmi Kim

Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold

Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

News
By Thomas Traherne

No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë

O Me! O Life!
By Walt Whitman

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

On Quitting
By Edgar Albert Guest

On The Western Front
By Alfred Noyes

On Virtue
By Phillis Wheatley

One Angel: Palazzo Arian, at San Raffaele Arcangelo
By Ann Snodgrass

Opportunity
By Helen Hunt Jackson

Outbreak
By Donald Revell

Passion for Solitude
By Cesare Pavese

Pater Noster
By Catherine Imbriglio

Perspectives
By R. S. Thomas

Plead for Me
By Emily Jane Brontë

Possible Answers to Prayer
By Scott Cairns

Prayer
By Marin Sorescu

Prayer (I)
By George Herbert

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Praying Drunk
By Andrew Hudgins

Preludes
By T. S. Eliot

Q & A
By Kenneth Fearing

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Religious Instruction
By Mina Loy

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Retrospect
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Return for an Instant
By Juan Ramón Jiménez

Revelations in the Key of K
By Mary Karr

Rhapsody on a Windy Night
By T. S. Eliot

Sabbath lie
By Yehuda Amichai

Salvation
By Stephen Dunn

Satire III
By John Donne

Saul
By Robert Browning

Schemhammphorasch
By Rose Terry Cooke

Secret Waters
By Eva Gore-Booth

Semblance: Screens
By Liz Waldner

Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman

She Considers the Dimensions of Her Soul
By Young Smith

Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Slavery
By Hannah More

Somewhere Holy
By Carl Phillips

Song of Social Despair
By Marvin Bell

Song of the Little Cripple at the Street Corner
By Rainer Maria Rilke

Sonnet: Grief Dies
By Henry Timrod

Sonnets from the Portuguese 20: Beloved, my Beloved
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Staying Power
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Supremacy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Take Comfort Where You Can
By Michael Chitwood

Tenebrae
By Geoffrey Hill

That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert

The Affliction of Richard
By Robert Bridges

The Altar
By George Herbert

The Answer
By Bei Dao

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Bounty
By Derek Walcott

The Calm
By John Donne

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake

The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Collar
By George Herbert

The Convert
By G. K. Chesterton

The Creation of the Inaudible
By Pattiann Rogers

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Elixir
By George Herbert

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

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

the garden of delight
By Lucille Clifton

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The God of Inattention
By Averill Curdy

The Good Man in Hell
By Mark Jarman

The Grand View
By Dannie Abse

The Greatest Grandeur
By Pattiann Rogers

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Hidden Singer
By Wendell Berry

The Hind and the Panther: Part I
By John Dryden

The Hippopotamus
By T. S. Eliot

The Hold-fast
By George Herbert

The House of Life: 66. The Heart of the Night
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 73. The Choice, III
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Infirmament
By Dean Young

The Ladder of St. Augustine
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Lamb
By Linda Gregg

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

The Magi
By William Butler Yeats

The Masked Face
By Thomas Hardy

The Misanthropist
By James Monroe Whitfield

The Morning-Watch
By Henry Vaughan

The Other Place
By William Logan

The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Passing of the Wise Men
By Pattiann Rogers

The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry

The Pearl
By George Herbert

The Prisoner
By R. S. Thomas

The Quip
By George Herbert

The Rainbow
By David Baker

The Reason
By Stevie Smith

The Retreat
By Henry Vaughan

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Shopping-Bag Lady
By Linda Gregg

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

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

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

The Temper (I)
By George Herbert

The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti

The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Water Diviner
By Dannie Abse

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks
By Janet McCann

The Words Under the Words
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The World
By Henry Vaughan

Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz

There may be Chaos still around the World
By George Santayana

There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
By Emily Dickinson

They are all Gone into the World of Light
By Henry Vaughan

Threshold
By R. S. Thomas

Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
By Emily Dickinson

Time to Come
By Walt Whitman

To Have a Friend
By Tomaz Salamun

To Heaven
By Ben Jonson

To Marguerite: Continued
By Matthew Arnold

To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber)
By Averill Curdy

Torcello
By Catherine Sasanov

Trillium
By Louise Glück

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Two Went up into the Temple to Pray
By Richard Crashaw

Update on the Last Judgment
By Ellen Hinsey

Venetian Coda
By John Koethe

Vespers ["Once I believed in you..."]
By Louise Glück

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

Virtue
By George Herbert

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

Wanting Sumptuous Heavens
By Robert Bly

Washing My Hair
By Anne Stevenson

Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert

Waumandee
By Mark Wunderlich

We Are Seven
By William Wordsworth

What Light Destroys
By Andrew Hudgins

What loves, takes away
By Eleanor Wilner

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

Wonder
By Thomas Traherne

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You People
By Nance Van Winckel

[It's been two thousand years now]
By Marie-Claire Bancquart

[Often when he was advancing]
By Charles Juliet