There are 738 Poems about Religion

Bible Defense of Slavery
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

"Imagine Lucifer..."
By Jack Spicer

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

“I never seen such days as this”
By Sholeh Wolpé

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

 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

'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

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

Adam Means Earth*
By Samuel Menashe

A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti

A Blasphemy
By Maurice Manning

A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953
By Wyatt Prunty

A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov

A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

A Dirge
By Thomas James Merton

A Friendly Address
By Thomas Hood

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
By Wallace Stevens

A Hopkins Rumble, 1999
By John Hazard

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 Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
By Richard Crashaw

A Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai

A little East of Jordan, (145)
By Emily Dickinson

A Map to the Next World
By Joy Harjo

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne

from A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman

A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death
By Jupiter Hammon

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz

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 Song on the End of the World
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Song to David
By Christopher Smart

A Story
By Colette Inez

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

Absalom and Achitophel
By John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel: The Second Part
By John Dryden

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

Actaeon
By Frederick Morgan

Action and Non-Action
By Chuang Tzu

Adam
By Federico García Lorca

Adding It Up
By Philip Booth

Address to the Devil
By Robert Burns

Advice to a Young Prophet
By Thomas James Merton

After the Surprising Conversions
By Robert Lowell

Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake

Air and Angels
By John Donne

Alone with the Goddess
By Linda Gregg

Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life
By Edmund Spenser

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley
By Jupiter Hammon

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
By Jupiter Hammon

An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall

An Altogether Different Language
By Anne Porter

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi

An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England
By Geoffrey Hill

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

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 Excelente Balade of Charitie
By Thomas Chatterton

An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty
By Edmund Spenser

Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Ararat
By Mark Doty

Ark
By Camille T. Dungy

Artificer
By Czeslaw Milosz

As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Ash Wednesday
By Louis Untermeyer

At Home from Church
By Sarah Orne Jewett

At Mass
By Vachel Lindsay

At the Threshold of the Book
By Edmond Jabès

At Thomas Merton’s Grave
By Spencer Reece

Aubade-Harlem
By Thomas James Merton

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

Autumn Psalm
By Jacqueline Osherow

“Although the wind ...”
By Izumi Shikibu

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

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

“Of all that God has shown me ...”
By Mechtild

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

“The Vision of Saint Augustine”
By Beverley Bie

“Your Luck Is About To Change”
By Susan Elizabeth Howe

Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe

BEAM 30: The Garden
By Ronald Johnson

Becune Point
By Derek Walcott

Bede's Death Song
By The Venerable Bede

Before You
By Carl Rakosi

Bel Canto
By Kenneth Koch

Belief
By Josephine Miles

Belleau Wood
By Paul Engle

Beowulf (modern English translation)
By Anonymous

Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright

Blessed Assurance
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

Blind Curse
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Book of Isaiah
By Anne Carson

Bowl
By Valerie Martínez

Brahma
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

brothers
By Lucille Clifton

Burning Island
By Gary Snyder

But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light
By Richard Crashaw

By Night when Others Soundly Slept
By Anne Bradstreet

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus

Cædmon's Hymn
By Cædmon

Carrion Comfort
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

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

Chekhov’s “The Student” (April, 1894)
By Brian Culhane

Chorus Sacerdotum
By Fulke Greville

Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929
By William Logan

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christ’s Nativity
By Henry Vaughan

Christian Virtues
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Christmas Tree Lots
By Chris Green

Clear Night
By Charles Wright

Cold Calls: War Music, Continued
By Christopher Logue

Cold Turkey
By Joshua Mehigan

Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny

Conches on Christmas
By Mike Chasar

Corpus Medicum
By C. Dale Young

Coyote, with Mange
By Mark Wunderlich

crossing into canaan
By D.A. Powell

Davis Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters

De Linin’ ub De Hymns
By Daniel Webster Davis

De Profundis
By Christina Rossetti

Dead
By Sarah C. Harwell

Deed
By Josephine Miles

Descending Theology: The Resurrection
By Mary Karr

Different Ways to Pray
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Dio ed Io
By Charles Wright

Disgraceland
By Mary Karr

Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: On the Miracle of the Multiplied Loaves
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: Samson to his Delilah
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine
By Richard Crashaw

Don Juan: Canto the Eighth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Done is a Battle
By William Dunbar

Doot Dah Do
By Diane Glancy

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

Dreamer
By Primus St. John

Duns Scotus's Oxford
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

During the Service
By Carrie Grabo

East with Ibn Battuta
By Thomas James Merton

Easter Wings
By George Herbert

Easy Sermon
By Mark Jarman

Eden
By Thomas Traherne

Eden
By Ina Rousseau

Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By John Berryman

Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By Mark Jarman

Emergency Haying
By Hayden Carruth

Epitaph
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died Before
By Aphra Behn

Eschatology
By Sandra McPherson

Eve
By Ella Higginson

Eve Considers the Possibility of Pardon
By John Engels

Eve's Design
By Moira Linehan

Evening Angelus
By Joyce Sutphen

Ex-Embassy
By Carol Muske-Dukes

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

Fish of the Flood
By Emilia Stuart Lorimer

For Christmas Day
By Charles Wesley

For Christmas Day: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
By Charles Wesley

For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

Forest Dwellers
By R. S. Thomas

Forever – is composed of Nows – (690)
By Emily Dickinson

Four Fibs
By A.E. Stallings

Four Sandwiches
By Martín Espada

Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning

Fragment
By Thomas Hardy

From Her Notes
By Nomi Stone

From Mythology
By Zbigniew Herbert

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fruit-gathering LV
By Rabindranath Tagore

Fruit-gathering XXXVI
By Rabindranath Tagore

Funeral Music
By Geoffrey Hill

Gairmscoile
By Hugh MacDiarmid

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
By Vachel Lindsay

Gethsemane
By Rudyard Kipling

Gnostic
By Honor Moore

God
By Isaac Rosenberg

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

God's Grandeur
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

God's World
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Going Back to Bed
By J. D. McClatchy

Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne

Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost

Gospel
By Fleda Brown

Grain Field
By Adelaide Crapsey

Guysborough Road Church
By George Elliott Clarke

Hail
By Mary Szybist

Hap
By Thomas Hardy

Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion
By William Cowper

Hayden
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

He Lit a Fire with Icicles
By Kay Ryan

Hedgehog
By Paul Muldoon

Here I Am, Lord
By Michael Chitwood

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

History Lessons
By Sidney Wade

Holy Shit
By Peter Pereira

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

Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake

Homo Will Not Inherit
By Mark Doty

Honorary Jew
By John Repp

How It Was
By Czeslaw Milosz

How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate

How to Do Things With Tears
By Allen Grossman

Hurt Hawks
By Robinson Jeffers

Huswifery
By Edward Taylor

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 to Proserpine (After the Proclamation in Rome of the Christian Faith)
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hymn: Thou Hidden Love of God
By John Wesley

I am the Living Bread: Meditation Eight: John 6:51
By Edward Taylor

I Am!
By John Clare

I Call Her My Jungle Gardenia
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

I Grant You Ample Leave
By George Eliot

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591)
By Emily Dickinson

I Heard an Angel
By William Blake

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

I Live Up Here
By W. S. Merwin

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

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

If—
By Rudyard Kipling

Illuminated Page
By Jennifer O'Grady

Imbiancato
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Immortality
By Matthew Arnold

In Church
By Peter Balakian

In Exile
By Emma Lazarus

In Heaven
By Stephen Crane

In Jerusalem
By Mahmoud Darwish

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: 126
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 131
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 30
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: 55
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 Days of Awe
By Robin Becker

In the Holy Nativity of our Lord
By Richard Crashaw

In the Kingdom of Perpetual Repair
By Kevin Stein

Incandescence at Dusk
By Edward Hirsch

Incantation
By Czeslaw Milosz

Innocence
By Thomas Traherne

Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
By William Wordsworth

Introduction to the Songs of Experience
By William Blake

Iraqi Boy
By Elizabeth Arnold

Irony
By Louis Untermeyer

Israfel
By Edgar Allan Poe

Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake!
By William Blake

Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
By William Blake

jesus knew
By Nick Flynn

Jesus Returns
By Cynthia Macdonald

Jordan (I)
By George Herbert

from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke

Juggling Jerry
By George Meredith

Kneeling
By R. S. Thomas

Last Lines
By Anne Brontë

Late Results
By Scott Cairns

Laus Veneris
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens

Le Secret
By Thomas James Merton

Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton

Les Très Riches Heures de Florida
By Debora Greger

Let me not thirst with this Hock at my Lip
By Emily Dickinson

Let me tell you about my marvelous god
By Susan Stewart

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

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

Longing
By Ina Coolbrith

Love (I)
By George Herbert

Love (II)
By George Herbert

Love (III)
By George Herbert

Love's Nocturn
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Loves
By Scott Cairns

Luminous Great Mass
By Peter O’Leary

Magnificat
By Eleanor Wilner

Makeup
By Dora Malech

Malcolm X, February 1965
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Man
By George Herbert

Many Scientists Convert to Islam
By Nomi Stone

Marching Men
By Marjorie Pickthall

Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Maudlin; Or, The Magdalen’s Tears
By Linda Gregerson

Meditations
By Margaret Fuller

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Midstairs
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Milton: And did those feet in ancient time
By William Blake

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

Mirror and Scarf
By Edmond Jabès

Modern Elfland
By G. K. Chesterton

Monastery Nights
By Chase Twichell

Monk’s House, Rodmell
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

Morality
By Matthew Arnold

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Morning Hymn
By Charles Wesley

Morning Song
By Gregory Orr

Mosaic
By Linda Pastan

Mother and Child
By Louise Glück

Mount Angel
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James

Mums
By Bernadette Mayer

my dream about the second coming
By Lucille Clifton

My Madonna
By Robert W. Service

My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy

My Sin
By Chungmi Kim

My Soul
By Stevie Smith

Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold

Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Neo-Thomist Poem
By Ernest M. Hemingway

New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman

New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg

New York American Spell, 2001
By Tom Sleigh

News
By Thomas Traherne

No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë

Noah’s Wife
By Linda Gregerson

Nogi
By Harriet Monroe

North of Mist
By Wendy Videlock

Nothing New
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

O Black and Unknown Bards
By James Weldon Johnson

O Me! O Life!
By Walt Whitman

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Ode for the American Dead in Asia
By Thomas McGrath

Ode to a Blizzard
By Tom Disch

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Of Man by Nature
By John Bunyan

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

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan

On Being Brought from Africa to America
By Phillis Wheatley

On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me
By John Ciardi

On Quitting
By Edgar Albert Guest

On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë

On the Farm
By R. S. Thomas

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
By John Milton

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

On The Western Front
By Alfred Noyes

On Virtue
By Phillis Wheatley

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

Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Opportunity
By Helen Hunt Jackson

Original Sin
By Robinson Jeffers

Our Family Tree
By Joseph Cephas Holly

Outbreak
By Donald Revell

Outside
By Mark Jarman

Ovid in the Third Reich
By Geoffrey Hill

Pamet Harbor
By Gerald Stern

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

Paschal
By Robert Pinsky

Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti

Passion for Solitude
By Cesare Pavese

Past and Future
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pastoral
By William Carlos Williams

Pater Noster
By Catherine Imbriglio

Peace
By Henry Vaughan

Perspectives
By R. S. Thomas

Picture of a Nativity
By Geoffrey Hill

Pied Beauty
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Pied Booty
By Dabney Stuart

Plead for Me
By Emily Jane Brontë

Poem of Disconnected Parts
By Robert Pinsky

Possible Answers to Prayer
By Scott Cairns

Poste Restante
By R. S. Thomas

Praise
By Stanley Moss

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

Progressive Health
By Carl Dennis

Prometheus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Q & A
By Kenneth Fearing

Rabbi Ben Ezra
By Robert Browning

Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez

Re-Incarnation
By Eva Gore-Booth

Reading Titus Andronicus In Three Mile Plains, N.S.
By George Elliott Clarke

Realism
By Tom Clark

Recessional
By Rudyard Kipling

Recollections of the Arabian Nights
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Religio Laici
By John Dryden

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Religious Instruction
By Mina Loy

Remarks on Poetry and the Physical World
By Mary Barnard

Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert

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

Roosters
By Elizabeth Bishop

Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold

Sabbath lie
By Yehuda Amichai

Saint Francis of Assisi
By W. S. Di Piero

Saints’ Logic
By Linda Gregerson

Salvation
By Stephen Dunn

Samson Agonistes
By John Milton

Satire III
By John Donne

Saul
By Robert Browning

Schemhammphorasch
By Rose Terry Cooke

Secret Waters
By Eva Gore-Booth

Self-Dependence
By Matthew Arnold

Semblance: Screens
By Liz Waldner

seventh heaven
By Patti Smith

Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman

She Considers the Dimensions of Her Soul
By Young Smith

Sheriff Matt Whitlock Confesses to a Lesson in Zen after Hours
By R. T. Smith

Shine, Perishing Republic
By Robinson Jeffers

Sin (I)
By George Herbert

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Slavery
By Hannah More

Snake
By Dannie Abse

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – (236)
By Emily Dickinson

Somewhere Holy
By Carl Phillips

Song of Ecclesiastes
By George Elliott Clarke

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 in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree
By George Starbuck

Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piemont
By John Milton

Sonnet: Grief Dies
By Henry Timrod

Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Sonnets from the Portuguese 22: When our Two Souls
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sotto Voce
By C. Dale Young

St. Agnes' Eve
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte

Staying Power
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Stomackes
By Albert Goldbarth

Sunday Morning
By Wallace Stevens

Sunt Leones
By Stevie Smith

Supremacy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Take Comfort Where You Can
By Michael Chitwood

Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers
By John Updike

Tenebrae
By Geoffrey Hill

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

Terminus
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thamar and Amnon
By Federico García Lorca

That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrrection
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert

The Affliction of Richard
By Robert Bridges

The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
By Hayden Carruth

The Airy Christ
By Stevie Smith

The Alphabet
By Karl Shapiro

The Altar
By George Herbert

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Answer
By Bei Dao

The Antagonism
By Thom Gunn

The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Author of Torah
By Alfred Corn

The Ballad of God-Makers
By G. K. Chesterton

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
By Robert Browning

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Book of Urizen
By William Blake

The Bounty
By Derek Walcott

The British Church
By George Herbert

The Bungalows
By John Ashbery

The Burial of the Dead
By Sidney Wade

The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell, SJ

The Calm
By John Donne

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

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 Corn Baby
By Mark Wunderlich

The Coronet
By Andrew Marvell

The Creation of the Inaudible
By Pattiann Rogers

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
By Ambrose Bierce

The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Divine Image
By William Blake

The Donkey
By G. K. Chesterton

The Doors
By David St. John

The Elixir
By George Herbert

The Embankment
By T. E. Hulme

The Eolian Harp
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Eternal Rebel
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

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 Funeral
By John Donne

The Future
By Matthew Arnold

The Garden
By Andrew Marvell

the garden of delight
By Lucille Clifton

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

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The God of Inattention
By Averill Curdy

The Goddess Who Created This Passing World
By Alice Notley

The Good Man in Hell
By Mark Jarman

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Grand View
By Dannie Abse

The Greatest Grandeur
By Pattiann Rogers

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More

The Hidden Singer
By Wendell Berry

The Higher Pantheism
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

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: 72. The Choice, II
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

The House of Rest
By Julia Ward Howe

The Incarnate
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Indian Burying Ground
By Philip Morin Freneau

The Infirmament
By Dean Young

The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell

The Jew
By Isaac Rosenberg

The Jew and the Rooster Are One
By Gerald Stern

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Kiss
By W. S. Di Piero

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Ladder of St. Augustine
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Lamb
By Linda Gregg

The Lamb
By William Blake

The Lamp of Poor Souls
By Marjorie Pickthall

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

The Magi
By William Butler Yeats

The Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By William Blake

The Masked Face
By Thomas Hardy

The Misanthropist
By James Monroe Whitfield

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 New Year
By Emma Lazarus

from The Next Clause
By Fleda Brown

The Nuns Assist at Childbirth
By Barbara Howes

The One in All
By Margaret Fuller

The Other Place
By William Logan

The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

The Passing of the Wise Men
By Pattiann Rogers

The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry

The Pearl
By George Herbert

The Pilgrim
By John Bunyan

The Pilgrims
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Preface
By Edward Taylor

The Priest
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Prisoner
By R. S. Thomas

The Prodigal Son
By James Weldon Johnson

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 Relic
By John Donne

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 Science Masquerade
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Search for Lost Lives
By James Tate

The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats

The Shopping-Bag Lady
By Linda Gregg

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Star
By Henry Vaughan

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

The Starlight Night
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Statue
By Ella Higginson

The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold

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

from The Testament of John Lydgate
By John Lydgate

The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti

The Transfiguration
By Edwin Muir

from The Triumph of Love
By Geoffrey Hill

The Truth
By Carl Phillips

The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Tyger
By William Blake

The Vagrant’s Romance
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Virgin
By William Wordsworth

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Water Diviner
By Dannie Abse

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The Widow of Naim
By Thomas James Merton

The Windhover
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks
By Janet McCann

The Words Under the Words
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The World
By Henry Vaughan

The Worship of Nature
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thoughts about the Person from Porlock
By Stevie Smith

Three Haiku, Two Tanka
By Philip Appleman

Threshold
By R. S. Thomas

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

Time to Come
By Walt Whitman

To a Waterfowl
By William Cullen Bryant

To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer

To Have a Friend
By Tomaz Salamun

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

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

Torcello
By Catherine Sasanov

Trees
By Joyce Kilmer

Trillium
By Louise Glück

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Trust
By Lizette Woodworth Reese

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Turkish Bath
By Sidney Wade

Two Poems from “The Day”
By Kenneth Goldsmith

Two Went up into the Temple to Pray
By Richard Crashaw

Unholy Sonnet 1
By Mark Jarman

Unholy Women
By Chris Abani

Update on the Last Judgment
By Ellen Hinsey

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
By Edward Taylor

Upon Apparel
By John Bunyan

Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor

Venetian Coda
By John Koethe

Veni, Creator Spiritus
By John Dryden

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

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

Virtue
By George Herbert

Vision
By Marjorie Pickthall

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

Walking
By Thomas Traherne

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 are the Days?
By Colette Inez

What For
By Garrett Hongo

What He Thought
By Heather McHugh

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What Light Destroys
By Andrew Hudgins

What loves, takes away
By Eleanor Wilner

When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

When You Watch Us Sleeping
By Pattiann Rogers

Woman’s Rights
By Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman

Wonder
By Thomas Traherne

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Writing Letters to My Mother
By Colette Inez

Written on a Wall at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico
By Robin Becker

You and I
By Stanley Moss

You People
By Nance Van Winckel

Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
By Li Po

Zucchini Shofar
By Sarah Lindsay

["The lamps are burning in the synagogue..."]
By Charles Reznikoff

[all the time I pray to Buddha]
By Kobayashi Issa

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

[Often when he was advancing]
By Charles Juliet