There are 567 Poems about Poetry & Poets

"Any fool can get into an ocean..."
By Jack Spicer

"I'm the pen your lover writes with"
By Bernadette Mayer

"Imagine Lucifer..."
By Jack Spicer

$$$Expensive Magic$$$
By Cedar Sigo

“Nothing Is Really Hard but to Be Real—”
By John Ciardi

28
By Jane Miller

from Dante Études: Book Three: In My Youth Not Unstaind
By Robert Duncan

Ars Poetica?
By Czeslaw Milosz

From Homage to Sextus Propertius
By Ezra Pound

a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore
By Charles Bukowski

A Ballad of François Villon, Prince of All Ballad-Makers
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Cure at Porlock
By Amy Clampitt

A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel
By John Fuller

A Diamond
By Jack Spicer

from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
By Hugh MacDiarmid

A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
By Ben Jonson

A Hanging Screen
By Michael Anania

A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
By Wallace Stevens

A Hopkins Rumble, 1999
By John Hazard

A Knocker
By Zbigniew Herbert

A Late History
By Weldon Kees

A Letter to Wallace Stevens
By Peter Balakian

A Letter to Yvor Winters
By Kenneth Rexroth

A Little Language
By Robert Duncan

A Magic Mountain
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead
By Kenneth Koch

A Motor
By Marvin Bell

A Musical Instrument
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A Phonecall from Frank O’Hara
By Anne Waldman

A Pindaric Ode
By Ben Jonson

A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan

A Poem For Dada Day At The Place April 1, 1958
By Jack Spicer

A Poem That Starts Out Wrong
By Landis Everson

A Poem Without a Single Bird in It
By Jack Spicer

A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid
By Elizabeth Hands

A Poet to His Baby Son
By James Weldon Johnson

A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School
By William Wordsworth

A Poet’s Death
By David Trinidad

A Poet’s Poem
By Brenda Shaughnessy

A Political Prisoner
By Dannie Abse

A Posthumous Poetics
By Michael Ryan

A Salutation
By Louise Imogen Guiney

A Secret Gratitude
By James Wright

A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Supermarket in California
By Allen Ginsberg

A Supplement of an Imperfect Copy of Verses of Mr. William Shakespear’s, by the Author
By Sir John Suckling

A Test of Poetry
By Charles Bernstein

A Treatise on Poetry: IV Natura
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats
By John Ciardi

A Vision of Poesy
By Henry Timrod

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
By Charles Bukowski

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

Acceptance Speech
By Dean Young

Adam’s Curse
By William Butler Yeats

Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
By Jonathan Swift

Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano

After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

All overgrown by cunning moss, (146)
By Emily Dickinson

American Roots: Moral Associations
By Primus St. John

Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
By Edmund Spenser

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley
By Jupiter Hammon

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
By Jupiter Hammon

An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne
By Thomas Carew

An Essay on Criticism: Part 1
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism: Part 2
By Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism: Part 3
By Alexander Pope

An Excelente Balade of Charitie
By Thomas Chatterton

An Introduction to My Anthology
By Marvin Bell

An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry
By William Collins

An Ode to Ben Jonson
By Robert Herrick

An Ode to Himself
By Ben Jonson

Angels
By B. H. Fairchild

Application for a Grant
By Anthony Hecht

Ars Poetica
By Archibald MacLeish

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
By Elizabeth Alexander

Art of the Haiku
By Irving Feldman

Astrophel and Stella I
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XV
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XXIII
By Philip Sidney

At a Vacation Exercise
By John Milton

At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy

At Night the States
By Alice Notley

At the California Institute of Technology
By Richard Brautigan

At the Poetry Reading
By John Brehm

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autopsychography
By Fernando Pessoa

Autumn Psalm
By Jacqueline Osherow

Ave Atque Vale
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Aviation
By Alice Fulton

“The female seer will burn upon this pyre”
By Elizabeth Alexander

Bacchanalia
By Matthew Arnold

Balboa, the Entertainer
By Amiri Baraka

Baudelaire
By Delmore Schwartz

Before the Mirror
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Bel Canto
By Kenneth Koch

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Blues for Dante Alighieri
By Kim Addonizio

Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch

Bricks and Straw
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Busman's Honeymoon
By A. F. Moritz

Cacoethes Scribendi
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Call Me Pier
By Susan Firer

Campo dei Fiori
By Czeslaw Milosz

Cancer and Complaint at Midsummer
By C. Dale Young

Careless Perfection
By Daniel Halpern

Carlos
By Theodore Deppe

Carpentry
By Carl Dennis

Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
By Cornelius Eady

Chaucer
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cleon
By Robert Browning

Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny

Complaint: To the Muse
By Philip Whalen

Cor Cordium
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

corydon & alexis
By D.A. Powell

Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch

Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray

Cups: 1
By Robin Blaser

Curriculum Vitae
By Samuel Menashe

Day-Old Bargain
By Hilda Raz

Dear Mr. Merrill,
By Moira Egan

Deathfugue
By Paul Celan

December 30
By Richard Brautigan

Dedication
By Czeslaw Milosz

Deer Skull
By Susan Griffin

Dejection
By David Baker

Digging
By Seamus Heaney

Discontents in Devon
By Robert Herrick

Discontinuous Poems
By Fernando Pessoa

Do Words Outlast
By Gregory Orr

Dog Woman
By Chris Abani

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

Don Juan: Dedication
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Duncan
By Thom Gunn

Each Defeat
By Eileen Myles

Early Morning Prompts for Evening Takes Or, Roll ’em!
By Rodrigo Toscano

Eating Poetry
By Mark Strand

Elegy for a Soldier
By Marilyn Hacker

Elegy on Toy Piano
By Dean Young

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By Vachel Lindsay

from Endymion
By John Keats

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Epilogue
By Robert Lowell

Episode in a Library
By Zbigniew Herbert

Epistle to J. Lapraik
By Robert Burns

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
By Alexander Pope

Epitaph
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Eros of Heroines
By Ange Mlinko

Expression
By George Arnold

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
By Robert Lowell

Fancy and the Poet
By Susanna Moodie

Fireweed
By C. Dale Young

Flood
By Jorie Graham

Flying Home
By Rachel Hadas

For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
By David Wagoner

For Malcolm, A Year After
By Etheridge Knight

For Micha's Mother, Who Signs
By Robert A. Fink

For My Contemporaries
By J. V. Cunningham

For the Consideration of Poets
By Haki Madhubuti

For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
By Fleda Brown

For the young who want to
By Marge Piercy

Fourteen Pages
By Albert Goldbarth

Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Free Verses
By Sarah Kirsch

Fresh Air
By Kenneth Koch

From Lines to William Simson
By Robert Burns

From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren

Fruit-gathering LV
By Rabindranath Tagore

Fugue
By Peter Pereira

Fundamentals of Esperanto
By Srikanth Reddy

Gairmscoile
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Ghazal For A Poetess
By Annie Finch

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

Gwendolyn Brooks
By Haki Madhubuti

H. S. Mauberley (Life and Contacts) [Part I]
By Ezra Pound

Haiku Ambulance
By Richard Brautigan

Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani

Hangzhou, Lake of the Poets
By Marie Ponsot

Hayden
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty

Hell
By Donald Justice

Here Is an Ear Hear
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Herman Melville
By Conrad Aiken

Heroic Simile
By Robert Hass

Hidden Harvest
By Rodrigo Toscano

His Prayer for Absolution
By Robert Herrick

His Prayer to Ben Jonson
By Robert Herrick

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
By John Berryman

Hotel Lautréamont
By John Ashbery

How I Discovered Poetry
By Marilyn Nelson

How to Continue
By John Ashbery

How We Were Introduced
By Zbigniew Herbert

Human Beauty
By Albert Goldbarth

Hypocrite Auteur
By Archibald MacLeish

Hysteria
By Dionisio D. Martinez

I Am Offering this Poem
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet
By Charles Bukowski

i can't stay in the same room with that woman for five minutes
By Charles Bukowski

I Feel (Verse Libre)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

I Would Like to Describe
By Zbigniew Herbert

If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
By John Keats

If I Were Another
By Mahmoud Darwish

Impossible to Tell
By Robert Pinsky

In Her Absence I Created Her Image
By Mahmoud Darwish

In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn
By Donald Justice

In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

In My Craft or Sullen Art
By Dylan Thomas

In the Bay
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Incandescent War Poem Sonnet
By Bernadette Mayer

Incantation
By Czeslaw Milosz

Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass

Interview by a Guggenheim Recipient
By Charles Bukowski

Introduction to Poetry
By Billy Collins

Introductory to Second Edition
By Alfred Islay Walden

Invocation to the Social Muse
By Archibald MacLeish

Irish Prospects
By J. D. McClatchy

It would be neat if with the New Year
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

James Schuyler
By David Trinidad

Jordan (I)
By George Herbert

Jubilate Agno, 1975
By David Lee

Keats
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Korean mums
By James Schuyler

Larkinesque
By Michael Ryan

Let Me Count the Waves
By Sandra Beasley

Let Me Tell You What a Poem Brings
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Letter For Emily Dickinson
By Annie Finch

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Letter to a Young Poet
By Robert Wrigley

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Letters to Walt Whitman
By Ronald Johnson

Li Hua's Messenger
By Peter Bethanis

Light
By C. K. Williams

Lines for LBG-30, Computer, Poet
By Henri Coulette

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
By John Keats

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines——
By Hartley Coleridge

Lissadell
By Wendy Cope

Litany
By Billy Collins

Literary
By Kenneth Fearing

Long Finger Poem
By Jin Eun-Young

Love the Wild Swan
By Robinson Jeffers

Lyrical Ballads (1798)
By William Wordsworth

Mac Flecknoe
By John Dryden

Madmen
By Billy Collins

Market Forecast
By Alexa Selph

Mary Shelley in Brigantine
By Stephen Dunn

Mathematics
By Jane Hirshfield

Measure
By Robert Hass

Memorabilia
By Robert Browning

Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold

Milton
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Mingus at the Showplace
By William Matthews

Minor Poet
By Bill Sweeney

Misreading Housman
By Linda Pastan

Mother Mind
By Julia Ward Howe

Murder
By David Baker

Museums
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Music
By George Scarbrough

My Dog Practices Geometry
By Cathryn Essinger

My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Nephelidia
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Night Singing
By W. S. Merwin

Nights of 1964—1966: The Old Reliable
By Marilyn Hacker

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen
By Charles Wright

No Postmortems
By Gregory Orr

North
By Seamus Heaney

North Point North
By John Koethe

Northern Exposures
By G. E. Murray

Notes on the Steps of the San Diego Bus Depot
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room
By William Wordsworth

Nuremberg
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O Black and Unknown Bards
By James Weldon Johnson

O my pa-pa
By Bob Hicok

O.
By Robin Blaser

Ode For Walt Whitman
By Jack Spicer

Ode on Indolence
By John Keats

Ode on the Poetical Character
By William Collins

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 36 ["See! Their verses are laid"]
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 6. What the Chairman Told Tom
By Basil Bunting

Of Modern Books
By Carolyn Wells

Of Modern Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

Of Robert Frost
By Gwendolyn Brooks

On A Diet
By William Matthews

On an Anniversary
By J. M. Synge

On Donne's Poetry
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats

On Mr. G. Herbert's Book
By Richard Crashaw

On Pickiness
By Rodney Jones

On Reading John Hollander’s Poem “Breadth. Circle. Desert. Monarch. Month. Wisdom. (for which there are no rhymes)“
By George Starbuck

On Shakespeare. 1630
By John Milton

On Stephen Duck, the Thresher and Favourite Poet
By Jonathan Swift

On Teaching the Young
By Yvor Winters

On the Edge
By Philip Levine

On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane
By Philip Levine

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Orpheus Alone
By Mark Strand

Out of Our Hands
By Cathy Song

Ovid in the Third Reich
By Geoffrey Hill

Paideia
By George Bradley

Palm Sunday Maple Syrup Poem
By Bernadette Mayer

Parable in Praise of Violence
By Tony Barnstone

Parable of the Desultory Slut
By Tony Barnstone

Paradoxes and Oxymorons
By John Ashbery

Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems
By Jacques Roubaud

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Pentecost
By David Wojahn

Picture of Little Letters
By John Koethe

Pied Booty
By Dabney Stuart

Poem for Christian, My Student
By Gail Mazur

Poem of Disconnected Parts
By Robert Pinsky

Poem to Some of My Recent Poems
By James Tate

Poem, on a Nude, from the Ballet, to Debussy’s Prelude L’Après-Midi D’un Faune, after Mallarm�’s L’Apres-Midi D’un Faune
By Dudley Randall

Poet Dances with Inanimate Object
By Cornelius Eady

Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur
By Lewis Carroll

Poet’s work
By Lorine Niedecker

Poetics
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetics
By Rodrigo Toscano

Poetry
By Marianne Moore

Poetry
By Arthur Davidson Ficke

Poetry
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Poetry, a Natural Thing
By Robert Duncan

Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot

Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Portrait of the Poet as Landscape
By A. M. Klein

Private and Profane
By Marie Ponsot

Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
By Jack Spicer

Pullman Porter
By Robert W. Service

Pulp Fiction
By David Baker

Pure Conversation with a Chinese Character
By Marin Sorescu

Quality: Gwendolyn Brooks at 73
By Haki Madhubuti

Randall Jarrell
By Robert Lowell

Read to the Animals, or Orpheus at the SPCA
By Irving Feldman

Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles
By Billy Collins

Reading to the Children
By Herbert Morris

Red Parade
By David Trinidad

Remarks on Poetry and the Physical World
By Mary Barnard

Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
By Linda Pastan

Report from the Temple of Confessions in Old Chicano English
By Brenda Cárdenas

Requiem
By Bei Dao

Resolution and Independence
By William Wordsworth

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Riprap
By Gary Snyder

Road
By Lisa Williams

Robert Duncan
By Robin Blaser

Roses
By Barbara Guest

Rotting Symbols
By Eileen Myles

Rules for Captain Ahab’s Provincetown Poetry Workshop
By Martín Espada

Sapphics Against Anger
By Timothy Steele

Sappho
By James Wright

Schools
By Paula Tatarunis

Scorn not the Sonnet
By William Wordsworth

Scrabble with Matthews
By David Wojahn

Sentimental
By Albert Goldbarth

Sequestered Writing
By Carolyn Forché

Service
By Trumbull Stickney

Shakespeare
By Matthew Arnold

Shakespeare
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Silence
By Billy Collins

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Six Poems for Poetry Chicago
By Jack Spicer

Sleepers Awake
By John Ashbery

Snow flakes. (45)
By Emily Dickinson

Soliloquy on an Empty Purse
By Mary Jones

Sometimes Never
By Joyce Sutphen

Song for Pythagoras
By Dannie Abse

Sonnet CVII: Not mine own Fears, nor the Prophetic Soul
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet for September 27th
By Jack Prelutsky

Sonnet LX: Like as the Waves Make towards the Pebbled Shore
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line
By George Starbuck

Sonnet XXXII: If thou Survive my Well-contented Day
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet-To Science
By Edgar Allan Poe

Sonnet: They Dub Thee Idler
By Henry Timrod

Sonnets from the Portuguese 1: I Thought how Theocritus
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese 28: My Letters!
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sophia Nichols,
By Robin Blaser

Sounding Chinese at Inspiration Point
By Tom Clark

Sporting Life
By Jack Spicer

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
By Matthew Arnold

Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens
By Robert Duncan

Technical Notes
By James Laughlin

Terminator Too
By Tom Clark

That Too
By Lawrence Joseph

The Academic Poet
By Henri Coulette

The Author to Her Book
By Anne Bradstreet

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
By Robert Herrick

The Bard: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity
By Mary Ruefle

The Canonization
By John Donne

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Castaway
By William Cowper

from The Castle of Indolence
By James Thomson

The Chorus
By Rachel Hadas

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
By Galway Kinnell

The Day is Done
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Death of Allegory
By Billy Collins

the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck
By Charles Bukowski

The Dog Stoltz
By August Kleinzahler

The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life
By Anthony Hecht

The Education of a Poet
By Leslie Monsour

The Elephant
By Dan Chiasson

The Emperor’s New Clothes
By Kate Gale

The Eolian Harp
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Essential Shakespeare, Volume XII: Space-Saver Sonnets
By George Starbuck

from The Fatalist: The best words get said frequently‚ they are like fertile pips.
By Lyn Hejinian

from The Fatalist: Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now
By Lyn Hejinian

The Finality of a Poem
By Michael Anania

The Fisherman
By William Butler Yeats

The Foggy, Foggy Blue
By Delmore Schwartz

The Gardener 38
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Gardener 85
By Rabindranath Tagore

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

The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca
By David Wagoner

The Grand View
By Dannie Abse

The Here and Now
By Theodore Weiss

The Horse Fell Off the Poem
By Mahmoud Darwish

The House of Life: The Sonnet
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Journey
By Eavan Boland

The Kingfisher
By Amy Clampitt

The Kiss
By W. S. Di Piero

The Last Canto
By Brian Culhane

The Lesson
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Lost Leader
By Robert Browning

The Lyric In A Time of War
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Magic of Numbers
By Kenneth Koch

The Measure
By Robert Creeley

The Militant Black Poet
By Dudley Randall

The Modern Pastoral Elegy
By Conor O'Callaghan

The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

from The Nerve Meter
By Antonin Artaud

The Nineteenth Century as a Song
By Robert Hass

The Odd Last Thing She Did
By Brad Leithauser

The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson
By Irene McKinney

The Poet
By Yone Noguchi

The Poet as Setting
By Douglas Kearney

The Poet at Seventeen
By Larry Levis

The Poet Orders His Tomb
By Edgar Bowers

from The Poet Writes The Poem That Will Certainly Make Him Famous
By Douglas Kearney

The Poet's Life: From Martial's Epigrams
By Gary Schmidgall

The Poetry Bus
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Prisoner
By R. S. Thomas

The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Proximate Shore
By John Koethe

The Red Cadillac
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson

The Revelation
By Coventry Patmore

The Role of Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang

The Roundel
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Secret
By Denise Levertov

The Shameful Profession
By James Laughlin

from The Shepheardes Calender: October
By Edmund Spenser

The So-called Singer of Nab
By Sarah Lindsay

The Soldiers in the Garden
By Martín Espada

The Sonnet
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Strife between the Poet and Ambition
By Thomas James Merton

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 VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Triple Fool
By John Donne

The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan

The Velocipede
By Michael Longley

The Way I Learned to Write
By Kate Gale

The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth

There is no Frigate like a Book (1286)
By Emily Dickinson

These Poems, She Said
By Robert Bringhurst

Thing Language
By Jack Spicer

Thirteen Blackbirds Look at a Man
By R. S. Thomas

Thirty Years Later I Meet Your Seventeen-Year-Old Daughter the Poet
By Sandra M. Gilbert

This Day after Yesterday
By Philip Booth

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

Thought
By Thomas Pfau

Thoughts about the Person from Porlock
By Stevie Smith

Three Poets
By Robert West

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl
By Hartley Coleridge

To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
By William Butler Yeats

To a Mountain Daisy
By Robert Burns

To a Real Standup Piece of Painted Crockery
By George Starbuck

To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer

To a Young Writer
By Yvor Winters

To Ben Jonson
By Thomas Carew

To Catullus
By Robert Bridges

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To Emily Dickinson
By Yvor Winters

To Homer
By John Keats

To James Fenton
By John Fuller

To John Donne
By Ben Jonson

To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses
By Robert Herrick

To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
By Ben Jonson

To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy Call'd the Double Dealer
By John Dryden

To R.D., March 4th 1988
By Denise Levertov

To Robert Browning
By Walter Savage Landor

To Shakespeare
By Frances Anne Kemble

To the Blank Spaces
By W. S. Merwin

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden

To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
By Ben Jonson

To the Muse
By James Wright

To the Muses
By William Blake

To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
By John Dryden

To the Poetry^* of Hugh McCrae
By Kenneth Slessor

To the Reader: If You Asked Me
By Chase Twichell

To the Reader: Twilight
By Chase Twichell

To the Sea
By Marin Sorescu

To the Shade of Burns
By Charlotte Smith

To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Manuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's Death
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To Whistler, American
By Ezra Pound

To Wordsworth
By Felicia Dorothea Hemans

To Wordsworth
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Yvor Winters, 1955
By Thom Gunn

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

Triolets in the Argolid
By Rachel Hadas

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Trollius and trellises
By Charles Bukowski

trouble with spain
By Charles Bukowski

Two Poems from Language
By Jack Spicer

Two Views of Buson
By Robert Hass

Unholy Women
By Chris Abani

Uninvited Reader
By A. F. Moritz

Vagabonds
By Arthur Rimbaud

vegas
By Charles Bukowski

Venetian Interior, 1889
By Richard Howard

Villon
By Basil Bunting

Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy

Visits to St. Elizabeths
By Elizabeth Bishop

vocabulary I
By Robin Blaser

W.H.
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Wake Me in South Galway
By Richard Tillinghast

Wales Visitation
By Allen Ginsberg

Walt, the Wounded
By W. S. Di Piero

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

What He Thought
By Heather McHugh

What Is Life
By Gregory Orr

When he would have his Verses Read
By Robert Herrick

When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
By John Keats

When I Read Shakespeare --
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr

Whispers of Immortality
By T. S. Eliot

Why Are Your Poems So Dark?
By Linda Pastan

Why do you stay up so late?
By Don Paterson

Why I Am Not a Painter
By Frank O'Hara

Wildflowers
By Richard Howard

Wind In Mytilene
By Eloise Klein Healy

Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Winter Mask
By Allen Tate

With a Book
By Ambrose Bierce

won't you celebrate with me
By Lucille Clifton

Working Habits
By George Starbuck

Workshop
By Billy Collins

Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday
By Gregory Corso

Writing in the Afterlife
By Billy Collins

Written with a Pencil Found in Lorine Niedecker’s Front Yard
By David Trinidad

You Got a Song, Man
By Martín Espada

You Who Wronged
By Czeslaw Milosz

You, Andrew Marvell
By Archibald MacLeish

Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz

Your Night Is of Lilac
By Mahmoud Darwish

[“Dear Lorca / These letters are to be”]
By Jack Spicer

[“Dear Robin / Enclosed you find”]
By Jack Spicer

[Letter to Gary Bottone]
By Jack Spicer