There are 256 Poems about Philosophy

"Of": An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield

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

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By Hailey Leithauser

VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster

A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning

A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure
By Andrew Marvell

A Divine Image
By William Blake

A Parable
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Posthumous Poetics
By Michael Ryan

A Psalm of Freudian Life
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
By Thomas Traherne

A Supple Wreath of Myrtle
By Robert Hass

A Tale
By Louise Bogan

A View of the Sea
By J. D. McClatchy

A Vision of a Wrangler, of a University, of Pedantry, and of Philosophy
By James Clerk Maxwell

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous
By Scott Cairns

Advice to the Good Traveler
By Victor Segalen

Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun
By Emily Jane Brontë

Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid
By Elizabeth I

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi

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

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 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

Aristotle
By Billy Collins

At the Threshold of the Book
By Edmond Jabès

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

Bede's Death Song
By The Venerable Bede

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning

Capriccio of Roman Ruins
By A. F. Moritz

Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price
By William Byrd

Cartoon Physics, part 1
By Nick Flynn

Chanson Philosophique
By Timothy Steele

Che Fece: Il Gran Rifiuto
By Jane Hirshfield

Chicago
By Carl Sandburg

Cleon
By Robert Browning

Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet

Contrary Theses (II)
By Wallace Stevens

Counselors
By Robert Fitzgerald

Credo
By Robinson Jeffers

Day Room
By Tom Sleigh

Drawn Curtains
By Edmond Jabès

Dream Land
By Christina Rossetti

Duns Scotus's Oxford
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Duties of the Spirit
By Patricia Fargnoli

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
By Walter Savage Landor

Early Morning in Milwaukee
By John Koethe

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

Earth's Answer
By William Blake

Episode
By Zbigniew Herbert

Erotikos Logos
By George Seferis

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Experience
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Fate
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

For once, then Something
By Robert Frost

Found Letter
By Joshua Weiner

Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning

From the Headland at Cumae
By John Peck

Gairmscoile
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Grass
By Carl Sandburg

Gravelly Run
By A. R. Ammons

Half-Ourselves & Half-Not
By Colin Cheney

Hamatreya
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hidden Name
By Victor Segalen

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

I dwell in Possibility – (466)
By Emily Dickinson

I Fail As a Celibate
By Jerome Rothenberg

I Grant You Ample Leave
By George Eliot

I Used to Think
By Trumbull Stickney

I Walk’d the Other Day
By Henry Vaughan

I Would Like to Describe
By Zbigniew Herbert

Ice Bound
By Walter Bargen

Il Penseroso
By John Milton

In Defiance of Fortune
By Elizabeth I

In Kona, Thinking of the Elements
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

In Praise of a Western Virgin
By Victor Segalen

In the Cool of the Evening
By Andrew Hudgins

Incantation
By Czeslaw Milosz

Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass

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

Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Kindness
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Letter to a Young Poet
By Robert Wrigley

Library
By Brian Culhane

Light
By C. K. Williams

Limits
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lines written under the conviction that it is not wise to read Mathematics in November after one’s fire is out
By James Clerk Maxwell

Little God Origami
By Stefi Weisburd

Long Finger Poem
By Jin Eun-Young

Looking Around
By Charles Wright

Love (I)
By George Herbert

Mad Song
By William Blake

Making Quiltwork
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Man
By George Herbert

Many Scientists Convert to Islam
By Nomi Stone

Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass

Meditation under Stars
By George Meredith

Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold

Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los
By William Blake

Mind | Body
By Gregory Djanikian

Mirror and Scarf
By Edmond Jabès

Molecular Evolution
By James Clerk Maxwell

Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Mums
By Bernadette Mayer

Museums
By Dan Beachy-Quick

My God
By Susan Rolston

Natural Selection
By Alan Shapiro

Nietzche’s Hands
By Christopher Middleton

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë

North Point North
By John Koethe

from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction: It Must Give Pleasure
By Wallace Stevens

O sweet spontaneous
By E. E. Cummings

Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

On Distinction
By A. F. Moritz

On Inhabiting an Orange
By Josephine Miles

On Reading Crowds and Power
By Geoffrey Hill

On the Road
By John Updike

Over and Over Tune
By Ioanna Carlsen

Part for the Whole
By Robert Francis

Philosophia Perennis
By Anne Waldman

Platonic Love
By Curt Anderson

Poem of Disconnected Parts
By Robert Pinsky

Pre-Dialogue, II
By Edmond Jabès

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Pura Vida
By John Updike

Q & A
By Kenneth Fearing

from Queen Mab: Part VI
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Radio
By Tom Clark

Religio Laici
By John Dryden

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Repulsive Theory
By Kay Ryan

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Retrospect
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Road Report
By Kurt Brown

Robert Duncan
By Robin Blaser

Romans Angry about the Inner World
By Robert Bly

Romanticism
By David Baker

Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold

Sapphics Against Anger
By Timothy Steele

Self-Dependence
By Matthew Arnold

Self-Employed
By David Ignatow

Seth Compton
By Edgar Lee Masters

She Considers the Dimensions of Her Soul
By Young Smith

Simone Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934-1935)
By Edward Hirsch

Sonata
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Song for Pythagoras
By Dannie Abse

Study of Two Pears
By Wallace Stevens

Tea-Strainer
By Joyelle McSweeney

Tenderness and Rot
By Kay Ryan

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

The Buried Life
By Matthew Arnold

The Calm
By John Donne

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Cave
By Michael Collier

The Clod and the Pebble
By William Blake

The Constant Voice
By John Koethe

The Copper Beech
By Marie Howe

The Creation of the Inaudible
By Pattiann Rogers

The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
By Ambrose Bierce

The Divine Image
By William Blake

The Dunciad: Book IV
By Alexander Pope

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
By Henry Vaughan

The Fable About a Nail
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

The Four Zoas
By William Blake

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

The Giant Yea
By Theodore Weiss

The Good
By Michelle Boisseau

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Hammer
By Carl Sandburg

The Herdsman
By Fernando Pessoa

The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 72. The Choice, II
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 97. A Superscription
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Idea of Order at Key West
By Wallace Stevens

The Lamb
By William Blake

The List
By A. F. Moritz

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By William Blake

The moon now rises to her absolute rule
By Henry David Thoreau

The Moralists
By Yvor Winters

The night is darkening round me
By Emily Jane Brontë

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

The Passing of the Wise Men
By Pattiann Rogers

The Proximate Shore
By John Koethe

The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man
By Wallace Stevens

The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens

The Sponge
By Joshua Mehigan

The Star
By Henry Vaughan

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

The Sun
By Dan Chiasson

from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper

The Temper (I)
By George Herbert

The Triumph of Life
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Tyger
By William Blake

from The Vanity of Human Wishes
By Samuel Johnson

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The World
By Henry Vaughan

The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández

Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz

They are all Gone into the World of Light
By Henry Vaughan

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
By Wallace Stevens

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

Thought
By Thomas Pfau

To Judgment: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield

To Luck
By W. S. Merwin

To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden

To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode
By James Clerk Maxwell

To the Consolations of Philosophy
By W. S. Merwin

To Yvor Winters, 1955
By Thom Gunn

Toward an Organic Philosophy
By Kenneth Rexroth

Translation
By Deirdre O'Connor

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book I
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Un citadin / A City Dweller
By Jacques Réda

Verities
By Kim Addonizio

Virtue
By George Herbert

Walking
By Thomas Traherne

Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka
By Alan Dugan

Water
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wet-weather Talk
By James Whitcomb Riley

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What I Know About Epistemology
By John Surowiecki

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Whatever Is
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

When I am dead, my dearest
By Christina Rossetti

Whispers of Immortality
By T. S. Eliot

Who Am I?
By Carl Sandburg

Wight
By Stanley Plumly

Wildflowers
By Richard Howard

Worldly Place
By Matthew Arnold

Written in her French Psalter
By Elizabeth I

Youth and Calm
By Matthew Arnold

Zen Living
By Dick Allen