There are 142 Poems about Painting & Sculpture

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

(“Amidst the rush and roar of life...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

1801: Among the Papers of the Envoy to Constantinople
By Richard Howard

A Case of Netsuke
By Mary Jo Salter

A Hanging Screen
By Michael Anania

from A Little White Shadow
By Mary Ruefle

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 Workman to the Gods
By Edwin Markham

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin

An Inscription
By Ambrose Bierce

Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning

April Treason
By John Crowe Ransom

Beginnings
By Jeffrey Greene

Better Days
By A. F. Moritz

Brancusi’s Golden Bird
By Mina Loy

Brian Age Seven
By Mark Doty

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

Cathedral
By Terence Winch

Charles Meryon
By Christopher Middleton

Chez Jane
By Frank O'Hara

Chicago and December
By W. S. Di Piero

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Cleon
By Robert Browning

Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Customs of the Barbarians
By Alan Williamson

Daily Bread
By John Reibetanz

Dear Mr. Merrill,
By Moira Egan

Deeply Morbid
By Stevie Smith

Dog Woman
By Chris Abani

Don’t Let That Horse ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
By Victoria Chang

Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
By William Wordsworth

Ex Machina
By Linda Gregerson

Flaxman
By Margaret Fuller

For Grant Wood
By Margaret Mackinnon

Fountains of Aix
By May Swenson

Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning

Fragment of a Women from Kos
By Susan Mitchell

From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren

Goya
By Conrad Aiken

Hands
By Robinson Jeffers

Having a Coke with You
By Frank O'Hara

Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
By William Meredith

Illuminated Page
By Jennifer O'Grady

In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In Piam Memoriam
By Geoffrey Hill

In the Grand Manner
By Richard Emil Braun

In the Marble Quarry
By James L. Dickey

In Walked Bud With a Palette
By Clarence Major

Inside Out
By Diane Wakoski

Interior at Petworth: From Turner
By Rosanna Warren

It Is a Living Coral
By William Carlos Williams

Korean mums
By James Schuyler

Li Hua's Messenger
By Peter Bethanis

London Crossfigured
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Looking Around
By Charles Wright

Madmen
By Billy Collins

Matisse, Too
By Alicia Ostriker

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

Momus
By Carl Sandburg

Monet Refuses the Operation
By Lisel Mueller

Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass

Monk’s House, Rodmell
By Carol Muske-Dukes

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

My Madonna
By Robert W. Service

Nude Descending
By Alicia Ostriker

Nude Descending a Staircase
By X J Kennedy

Nuremberg
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O.
By Robin Blaser

Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats

On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane
By Donald Justice

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
By John Keats

Outsider Art
By Kay Ryan

Paintings
By Marin Sorescu

Picasso
By E. E. Cummings

Picture of a Nativity
By Geoffrey Hill

Protus
By Robert Browning

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

Roses
By Barbara Guest

San Sepolcro
By Jorie Graham

Santa Lucia
By Robert Hass

Self-Portrait at 38
By Jennifer Tonge

Sequestrienne
By Dorothea Tanning

Statue
By Tom Clark

Statue and Birds
By Louise Bogan

Study in Orange and White
By Billy Collins

Study of Two Pears
By Wallace Stevens

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Tapestry
By Charles Simic

Temperance Poems
By William Pitt Root

The Painting After Lunch
By Clarence Major

The Artist
By Amy Lowell

The Bench of Boors
By Herman Melville

The Bistro Styx
By Rita Dove

The Book of Hours
By B. H. Fairchild

from The Castle of Indolence
By James Thomson

The Cave Painters
By Eamon Grennan

The Curator
By Miller Williams

The Deodand
By Anthony Hecht

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Gallery
By Andrew Marvell

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Hook
By Theodore Weiss

The Lady of the Castle
By John Hollander

The Painter
By John Ashbery

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

The Painter of the Night
By James Tate

The Poet as Setting
By Douglas Kearney

The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Sévres Road
By Susan Donnelly

The Starry Night
By Anne Sexton

The Statue
By Ella Higginson

The Summer Image
By Léonie Adams

The Surrealist Learns To Fly
By Jennifer O'Grady

from The Task, Book I: The Sofa
By William Cowper

The Virgin Considered as a Picture
By Edgar Bowers

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

Thoughts on One’s Head
By William Meredith

Threshold
By R. S. Thomas

To a Greek Marble
By Richard Aldington

To Bessie Drennan
By Mark Doty

To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works
By Phillis Wheatley

To Whistler, American
By Ezra Pound

Tulips
By A.E. Stallings

Venetian Interior, 1889
By Richard Howard

Venus Transiens
By Amy Lowell

Vermeer
By Debora Greger

Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures
By Peter Gizzi

Vuillard: “The Mother and Sister of the Artist”
By W. D. Snodgrass

W.H.
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Waring
By Robert Browning

Wash of Cold River
By H. D.

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

What loves, takes away
By Eleanor Wilner

Why I Am Not a Painter
By Frank O'Hara

Women in Profile: Bas-Relief, Left Section Missing
By Susan Mitchell

Woodcut
By Thomas McGrath

You Can't Buy Shoes in a Painting
By Jill Osier

Young Girl Peeling Apples
By Mary Jo Salter

Youth and Art
By Robert Browning