There are 305 Poems about God
= First appeared in Poetry magazine. Take Me Out to the Go-Go
By Thomas Sayers Ellis
'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Paradise Lost: Book I
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IV
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IX
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book X
By John Milton
A Blasphemy 
By Maurice Manning
A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning
A Hymn to Childhood
By Li-Young Lee
A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne
A Hymn to God the Father
By Ben Jonson
A little East of Jordan, (145)
By Emily Dickinson
from A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman
A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
By Jupiter Hammon
A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
By Thomas Traherne
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
By John Dryden
A Tenth Anniversary Photograph, 1952
By Miller Williams
A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick
Aaron
By George Herbert
Abou Ben Adhem
By Leigh Hunt
Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning
After the Surprising Conversions
By Robert Lowell
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley
By Jupiter Hammon
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
By Jupiter Hammon
An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne
An Essay on Man: Epistle I
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man: Epistle II
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man: Epistle III
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries
By Jupiter Hammon
An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty
By Edmund Spenser
Ark
By Camille T. Dungy
Artificer
By Czeslaw Milosz
At Mass
By Vachel Lindsay
Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake
Autumn Psalm
By Jacqueline Osherow
“Of all that God has shown me ...”
By Mechtild
“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville
Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe
BEAM 30: The Garden
By Ronald Johnson
Before You 
By Carl Rakosi
Bel Canto 
By Kenneth Koch
Belleau Wood
By Paul Engle
Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright
Book of Isaiah
By Anne Carson
Brahma
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
brothers
By Lucille Clifton
By Night when Others Soundly Slept
By Anne Bradstreet
Cædmon's Hymn
By Cædmon
Carrion Comfort
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Chorus Sacerdotum
By Fulke Greville
Clear Night
By Charles Wright
Cold Turkey 
By Joshua Mehigan
Davis Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters
Dio ed Io 
By Charles Wright
Divine Epigrams: To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine
By Richard Crashaw
Doot Dah Do
By Diane Glancy
Easter Wings
By George Herbert
Eden
By Thomas Traherne
Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By John Berryman
Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By Mark Jarman
Eve
By Ella Higginson
Eve Considers the Possibility of Pardon
By John Engels
Ex-Embassy
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Exclusion
By Emily Dickinson
Felix Randal
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Fiduciary 
By Randall Mann
Fish of the Flood 
By Emilia Stuart Lorimer
Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven 
By Vachel Lindsay
Gnostic
By Honor Moore
God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
God's Grandeur
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's World
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne
Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost
Hap
By Thomas Hardy
Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion
By William Cowper
Hayden
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
here is little Effie’s head
By E. E. Cummings
High Tension Lines across a Landscape
By John Ciardi
His Prayer for Absolution
By Robert Herrick
His Wish to God
By Robert Herrick
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: 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: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
By John Donne
Hurt Hawks
By Robinson Jeffers
Hymn
By Carl Phillips
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 Am!
By John Clare
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591)
By Emily Dickinson
I know that He exists. (365)
By Emily Dickinson
I Live Up Here
By W. S. Merwin
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
In Heaven
By Stephen Crane
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 124
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 126
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 131
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 54
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 55
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the Cool of the Evening
By Andrew Hudgins
In the Days of Awe
By Robin Becker
In the Holy Nativity of our Lord
By Richard Crashaw
Incandescence at Dusk
By Edward Hirsch
Innocence
By Thomas Traherne
Irony
By Louis Untermeyer
Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake!
By William Blake
Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
By William Blake
Jordan (I)
By George Herbert
from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart
from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart
Juggling Jerry
By George Meredith
Kneeling
By R. S. Thomas
Last Lines
By Anne Brontë
Laus Veneris
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Le Secret
By Thomas James Merton
Let me not thirst with this Hock at my Lip
By Emily Dickinson
Let me tell you about my marvelous god
By Susan Stewart
Light Shining out of Darkness
By William Cowper
Little Blessing for My Floater 
By Jeanne Murray Walker
Longing
By Ina Coolbrith
Love (I)
By George Herbert
Love (II)
By George Herbert
Love (III)
By George Herbert
Makeup 
By Dora Malech
Man
By George Herbert
Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Meditations
By Margaret Fuller
Mine eyes have seen the glory of ... 
By Eleanor Wilner
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti
Morality
By Matthew Arnold
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell
My Soul
By Stevie Smith
Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg
News
By Thomas Traherne
No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë
Nothing New
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
O Black and Unknown Bards
By James Weldon Johnson
Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Ode for the American Dead in Asia
By Thomas McGrath
Ode to a Blizzard 
By Tom Disch
Of Man by Nature
By John Bunyan
Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne
On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan
On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me 
By John Ciardi
On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë
On the Farm
By R. S. Thomas
Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our Family Tree
By Joseph Cephas Holly
Outbreak
By Donald Revell
Outside
By Mark Jarman
Ovid in the Third Reich
By Geoffrey Hill
Paradise Lost: Book I (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book II (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book III (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IV (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IX (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book VI (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book VII (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book VIII (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book X (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book XI (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book XII (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book I (1671)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book II (1671)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book III (1671)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book IV (1671)
By John Milton
Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti
Peace
By Henry Vaughan
Pied Beauty
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Booty 
By Dabney Stuart
Plead for Me
By Emily Jane Brontë
Possible Answers to Prayer
By Scott Cairns
Prayer (I)
By George Herbert
Praying Drunk
By Andrew Hudgins
Progressive Health 
By Carl Dennis
Prometheus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez
Realism
By Tom Clark
Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Return for an Instant
By Juan Ramón Jiménez
Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold
Self-Dependence
By Matthew Arnold
Shine, Perishing Republic
By Robinson Jeffers
Sin (I)
By George Herbert
Slavery
By Hannah More
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)
By Emily Dickinson
Song of Social Despair
By Marvin Bell
Song of the Little Cripple at the Street Corner 
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring
By John Dryden
Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
St. Agnes' Eve
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Staying Power 
By Jeanne Murray Walker
Terminus
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert
The Altar
By George Herbert
The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright
The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Bungalows
By John Ashbery
The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake
The Collar
By George Herbert
The Creation of the Inaudible
By Pattiann Rogers
The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
The Divine Image
By William Blake
The Elixir
By George Herbert
The Embankment
By T. E. Hulme
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 Goddess Who Created This Passing World
By Alice Notley
The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Grand View
By Dannie Abse
The Grey Monk
By William Blake
The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More
The Higher Pantheism
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Hold-fast
By George Herbert
The House of Life: 66. The Heart of the Night
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 72. The Choice, II
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Lamb
By Linda Gregg
The Lion for Real
By Allen Ginsberg
The Little Black Boy
By William Blake
The Little Vagabond
By William Blake
The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz
The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By William Blake
The Moon is distant from the Sea – (387)
By Emily Dickinson
The Morning-Watch
By Henry Vaughan
The Name Drawn from the Names
By Juan Ramón Jiménez
The New Decalogue
By Ambrose Bierce
The New Religion
By Chris Abani
The One in All
By Margaret Fuller
The Pearl
By George Herbert
The Pilgrim
By John Bunyan
The Preface
By Edward Taylor
The Prisoner
By R. S. Thomas
The Pulley
By George Herbert
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell
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 River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine
The Rose
By Jean Valentine
The Same City
By Terrance Hayes
The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
By Hugh MacDiarmid
The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens
The Star
By Henry Vaughan
The Statue
By Ella Higginson
The Summoner's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
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 Temper (I)
By George Herbert
The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti
The Truth
By Carl Phillips
The Tyger
By William Blake
The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan
The World
By Henry Vaughan
The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
They are all Gone into the World of Light
By Henry Vaughan
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thoughts about the Person from Porlock
By Stevie Smith
Threshold
By R. S. Thomas
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
By Emily Dickinson
To a Waterfowl
By William Cullen Bryant
To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer
To Heaven
By Ben Jonson
To Live in the Mercy of God
By Denise Levertov
To Marguerite: Continued
By Matthew Arnold
To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden
To Our Land
By Mahmoud Darwish
To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey
To the Desert
By Benjamin Alire Sáenz
To the Negro Farmers of the United States
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Trees
By Joyce Kilmer
from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer
Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer
Two Went up into the Temple to Pray
By Richard Crashaw
Unholy Sonnet 1
By Mark Jarman
Unholy Women
By Chris Abani
Upon Apparel
By John Bunyan
Walking
By Thomas Traherne
What He Thought
By Heather McHugh
When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton
When You Watch Us Sleeping
By Pattiann Rogers
Wonder
By Thomas Traherne
Written on a Wall at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I
You and I
By Stanley Moss
[It's been two thousand years now] 
By Marie-Claire Bancquart
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