There are 204 Poems about Music

“Que Sera Sera”
By A. Van Jordan

 Take Me Out to the Go-Go
By Thomas Sayers Ellis

(“Sing the song of the moment...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

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

A Man in Blue
By James Schuyler

A Musical Instrument
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns

A Serenade at the Villa
By Robert Browning

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
By John Dryden

A Toccata of Galuppi's
By Robert Browning

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
By Charles Bukowski

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden

Alla Breve Loving
By C. D. Wright

Arion
By David Wojahn

as i fly over this time
By Thulani Davis

At a Solemn Musick
By Delmore Schwartz

At a Symphony
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers

Bacchanalia
By Matthew Arnold

backstage drama
By Thulani Davis

Beat! Beat! Drums!
By Walt Whitman

Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
By Stephen C. Foster

Billie Holiday
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Black Boys Play the Classics
By Toi Derricotte

Blue Juniata
By Malcolm Cowley

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Bolero
By Gerald Stern

Born Like the Pines
By James Ephriam McGirt

Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey

Call It Music
By Philip Levine

Canary
By Rita Dove

Chamber Thicket
By Sharon Olds

Chord
By Stuart Dybek

Clarinet
By Terrance Hayes

De Linin’ ub De Hymns
By Daniel Webster Davis

Dear John, Dear Coltrane
By Michael S. Harper

Do Words Outlast
By Gregory Orr

Dog Music
By Paul Zimmer

Dog Woman
By Chris Abani

Double Elegy
By Michael S. Harper

Dreams
By Nikki Giovanni

Elegy
By Anne Stevenson

Errata
By Kevin Young

Far Company
By W. S. Merwin

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

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
By Vachel Lindsay

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Gospel
By Fleda Brown

Here Where Coltrane Is
By Michael S. Harper

History of My Heart
By Robert Pinsky

Horses
By Wendell Berry

Hugging the Jukebox
By Naomi Shihab Nye

I Hear America Singing
By Walt Whitman

I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady

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

If I Were Another
By Mahmoud Darwish

Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland

In the Elementary School Choir
By Gregory Djanikian

In Walked Bud With a Palette
By Clarence Major

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
By William Blake

Introit & Fugue
By D. Nurkse

Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Israfel
By Edgar Allan Poe

Jan Kubelik
By Carl Sandburg

Jazz Station
By Michael S. Harper

John Lennon
By Mary Jo Salter

Kind of Blue
By Lynn Powell

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Legacy
By Amiri Baraka

Les Luths
By Frank O'Hara

Lines
By Ina Coolbrith

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written Near San Francisco
By Louis Simpson

Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ma Rainey
By Sterling A. Brown

Machines
By Michael Donaghy

Man Dancing with a Baby
By Susan Stewart

Memphis Resurrection
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Messiah (Christmas Portions)
By Mark Doty

Mingus at the Showplace
By William Matthews

Mingus in Diaspora
By William Matthews

More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright

Mountain Dulcimer
By Robert Morgan

Music
By George Scarbrough

Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Musical Moments
By Dannie Abse

My Lute Awake
By Thomas Wyatt

New Folk
By Terrance Hayes

New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg

Nina's Blues
By Cornelius Eady

No Postmortems
By Gregory Orr

North of Mist
By Wendy Videlock

Nuit Blanche
By Amy Lowell

Nuremberg
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O Black and Unknown Bards
By James Weldon Johnson

Obbligato
By Bruce Smith

Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Omni–Albert Murray
By Elizabeth Alexander

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
By John Keats

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Orpheus and Eurydice
By Jorie Graham

Orpheus in Hell
By Jack Spicer

Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
By William Shakespeare

Pamet Harbor
By Gerald Stern

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Perfect Pitch
By Peter Pereira

Peter Quince at the Clavier
By Wallace Stevens

Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968
By Cornelius Eady

Piano
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

Private and Profane
By Marie Ponsot

Radio
By Tom Clark

Reunion
By Carolyn Forché

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Rose-Cheeked Laura
By Thomas Campion

Santo Domingo Feast Day
By Robin Becker

Saturday Night
By Alicia Ostriker

Saul
By Robert Browning

Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey
By Hayden Carruth

Silent Music
By Floyd Skloot

Siren Song
By Margaret Atwood

Solo R&B Vocal Underground
By W. S. Di Piero

Sonata
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Song and Dance
By Alan Shapiro

Song from a Country Fair
By Léonie Adams

Song in the Songless
By George Meredith

Song of the Andoumboulou: 55
By Nathaniel Mackey

Song of the Andoumboulou: 60
By Nathaniel Mackey

Song of the Piper
By William Pitt Root

Song: Memory, hither come
By William Blake

Stravinsky in L.A.
By Elizabeth Alexander

Street Music
By Elizabeth Akers Allen

Street Musicians
By John Ashbery

String Quartet
By Babette Deutsch

Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro

Sway
By Louis Simpson

Switchblade
By Michael Ryan

Symphony of a Mexican Garden
By Grace Hazard Conkling

Syringa
By John Ashbery

Tenebrae
By Geoffrey Hill

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Arsenal at Springfield
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

the attack could not be seen by night
By Thulani Davis

The Barrel-Organ
By Alfred Noyes

from The Castle of Indolence
By James Thomson

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race
By Vachel Lindsay

The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Dance in Jinotega
By Grace Paley

The Day is Done
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara

The Dinner
By Gregory Orr

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The End of an Ethnic Dream
By Jay Wright

The Fair Singer
By Andrew Marvell

The French Girl
By Ann Lauterbach

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

The Heart's Archaeology
By Maudelle Driskell

The Hearts
By Robert Pinsky

The History of Jazz
By Kenneth Koch

The Homecoming Singer
By Jay Wright

The House of Life: 22. Heart's Haven
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Idea of Order at Key West
By Wallace Stevens

The Inkspots
By Gerald Stern

The Last Castrato
By Linda Bierds

from The Next Clause
By Fleda Brown

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story
By Robert Browning

The Piper
By Joseph Campbell

The Singers
By Todd Hearon

The Singing Place
By Lily A. Long

The Solitary Reaper
By William Wordsworth

The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling

from The Testament of Love
By Robert Bridges

The Tune He Saw
By Cynthia Macdonald

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The Weary Blues
By Langston Hughes

This blue belongs to no one.
By Jean-Michel Maulpoix

To Homer
By John Keats

To Play Pianissimo
By Lola Haskins

To Robert Browning
By Walter Savage Landor

To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey

To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Togetherness
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Truth-Taking Stare
By David Wojahn

Two Guitars
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Voices of the Air
By Katherine Mansfield

Wake Me in South Galway
By Richard Tillinghast

War Ballad
By Stanley Moss

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

Well, You Needn’t
By William Matthews

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

Win-Win
By Ange Mlinko

Winter Stars
By Larry Levis

Woodstock
By Peter Balakian

Youth and Art
By Robert Browning

Zucchini Shofar
By Sarah Lindsay

[even with insects]
By Kobayashi Issa