There are 1584 Poems about Arts & Sciences

Watching dan-
-cers on skates
By Lorine Niedecker

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

"I am the last . . ."
By Charles Simic

"I was one of the skunks"
By Bernadette Mayer

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

"Imagine Lucifer..."
By Jack Spicer

"It's such a shock, I almost screech"
By William Cole

"Of": An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield

"Sometimes a human mammal is not to be seen"
By Bernadette Mayer

"Wreck" and "rise above"
By Eleanor Wilner

$$$Expensive Magic$$$
By Cedar Sigo

$2.50
By Kenneth Fearing

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

“Four Quartets” Revisited
By Belle Randall

“Que Sera Sera”
By A. Van Jordan

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

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

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

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

... by an Earthquake
By John Ashbery

0
By Hailey Leithauser

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

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

Nimis Compos Mentis
By Leslie Monsour

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

XI Mon. January [1736] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

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

from A Ballad Upon A Wedding
By Sir John Suckling

A Book on a Shelf
By Roger Mitchell

A Case of Netsuke
By Mary Jo Salter

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

A Cure at Porlock
By Amy Clampitt

A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning

A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel
By John Fuller

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

A Diamond
By Jack Spicer

A Divine Image
By William Blake

from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
By Hugh MacDiarmid

A Farewell to Tobacco
By Charles Lamb

A Felicitous Life
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme
By Ben Jonson

A Friendly Address
By Thomas Hood

A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

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 Lame Begger
By John Donne

A Late History
By Weldon Kees

A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Letter to Wallace Stevens
By Peter Balakian

A Letter to Yvor Winters
By Kenneth Rexroth

A Little Language
By Robert Duncan

from A Little White Shadow
By Mary Ruefle

A Magic Mountain
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Man in Blue
By James Schuyler

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

from A Moral Alphabet
By Hilaire Belloc

A Motor
By Marvin Bell

A Musical Instrument
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A New Story
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A New York Child’s Garden of Verses
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Parable
By Arthur Conan Doyle

from A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman

A Pathological Case in Pliny
By John Logan

A Phonecall from Frank O’Hara
By Anne Waldman

A Pindaric Ode
By Ben Jonson

A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters
By June Jordan

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 for Speculative Hipsters
By Amiri Baraka

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 Position at the University
By Lydia Davis

A Posthumous Poetics
By Michael Ryan

A Private Matter
By Carol Muske-Dukes

A Psalm of Freudian Life
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns

A Salutation
By Louise Imogen Guiney

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
By Jonathan Swift

A Secret Gratitude
By James Wright

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

A Serenade at the Villa
By Robert Browning

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 Suckling Pig
By Chase Twichell

A Supermarket in California
By Allen Ginsberg

A Supple Wreath of Myrtle
By Robert Hass

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

A Tale
By Louise Bogan

A Test of Poetry
By Charles Bernstein

A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest

A Toccata of Galuppi's
By Robert Browning

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 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

A Vision of Poesy
By Henry Timrod

A Workman to the Gods
By Edwin Markham

AAA Vacation Guide
By Ernest Hilbert

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
By Charles Bukowski

Absalom and Achitophel
By John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel: The Second Part
By John Dryden

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

Acceptance Speech
By Dean Young

Account
By Czeslaw Milosz

Acting
By R. S. Thomas

Adam’s Curse
By William Butler Yeats

Adam’s Task
By John Hollander

Address: the Archaeans, One Cell Creatures
By Pattiann Rogers

Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous
By Scott Cairns

Advertisement
By Wisława Szymborska

Advice to the Good Traveler
By Victor Segalen

Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
By Jonathan Swift

Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano

After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer

After Three Photographs of Brassaï
By Norman Dubie

Afternoons
By Michael Anania

Against the Evidence
By David Ignatow

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

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

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

Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden

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

Alla Breve Loving
By C. D. Wright

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

America
By Allen Ginsberg

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 Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Ancient Degree
By Bernadette Mayer

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

An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin

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

An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi

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

An Equation for My Children
By Wilmer Mills

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

An Excelente Balade of Charitie
By Thomas Chatterton

An Explanation
By James Weldon Johnson

An Inscription
By Ambrose Bierce

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

Anchored to the Infinite
By Edwin Markham

And as in Alice
By Mary Jo Bang

Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning

Angels
By B. H. Fairchild

Aphrodite Metropolis (2)
By Kenneth Fearing

Apostrophe to the Apostrophe
By Eric Nelson

Application for a Grant
By Anthony Hecht

April Treason
By John Crowe Ransom

Arion
By David Wojahn

Aristotle
By Billy Collins

Ars Poetica
By Archibald MacLeish

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
By Elizabeth Alexander

Art of the Haiku
By Irving Feldman

as i fly over this time
By Thulani Davis

Aside
By Karl Shapiro

Astrophel and Stella I
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XV
By Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella XXIII
By Philip Sidney

At a Solemn Musick
By Delmore Schwartz

At a Symphony
By Louise Imogen Guiney

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

At the Threshold of the Book
By Edmond Jabès

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autopsychography
By Fernando Pessoa

Autumn Psalm
By Jacqueline Osherow

Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers

Ave Atque Vale
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Aviation
By Alice Fulton

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

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

Bacchanalia
By Matthew Arnold

backstage drama
By Thulani Davis

Balboa, the Entertainer
By Amiri Baraka

Ballade of Modest Confession
By Hilaire Belloc

Ballet School
By Babette Deutsch

Baseball’s Sad Lexicon
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Baudelaire
By Delmore Schwartz

Beat! Beat! Drums!
By Walt Whitman

Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
By Stephen C. Foster

Bede's Death Song
By The Venerable Bede

Beer
By George Arnold

Before Sextet
By Bernadette Mayer

Before the Mirror
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Beginnings
By Jeffrey Greene

Bel Canto
By Kenneth Koch

Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Better Days
By A. F. Moritz

Billet-Doux
By Chris Forhan

Billie Holiday
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Black Boys Play the Classics
By Toi Derricotte

Bleeding
By May Swenson

Blowfly Grass
By Les Murray

Blue Juniata
By Malcolm Cowley

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Blues for Dante Alighieri
By Kim Addonizio

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Bolero
By Gerald Stern

Born Like the Pines
By James Ephriam McGirt

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

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

Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch

Brancusi’s Golden Bird
By Mina Loy

Brian Age Seven
By Mark Doty

Bricks and Straw
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey

Bungee Jumping
By William H. Dickey

Burlesque
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Busman's Honeymoon
By A. F. Moritz

Cacoethes Scribendi
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Caedmon
By Denise Levertov

Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning

Call It Music
By Philip Levine

Call Me Pier
By Susan Firer

Calm Down
By Gregory Orr

Cameo Appearance
By Charles Simic

Campo dei Fiori
By Czeslaw Milosz

Canary
By Rita Dove

Cancer and Complaint at Midsummer
By C. Dale Young

Capriccio of Roman Ruins
By A. F. Moritz

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

Careless Perfection
By Daniel Halpern

Carlos
By Theodore Deppe

Carpentry
By Carl Dennis

Cartoon Physics, part 1
By Nick Flynn

Casanova's Bossa Nova
By Rich Murphy

Cast Off
By Belle Randall

Catalogue Raisonné of My Refrigerator Door
By George Starbuck

Cathedral
By Terence Winch

Chamber Thicket
By Sharon Olds

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

Chanson Philosophique
By Timothy Steele

Charles Meryon
By Christopher Middleton

Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
By Cornelius Eady

Chaucer
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Che Fece: Il Gran Rifiuto
By Jane Hirshfield

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

Chez Jane
By Frank O'Hara

Chicago
By Carl Sandburg

Chicago and December
By W. S. Di Piero

Chicken Pig
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

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

Chomei at Toyama
By Basil Bunting

Chord
By Stuart Dybek

Christian Virtues
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Clarinet
By Terrance Hayes

Cleon
By Robert Browning

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Cock
By Albert Goldbarth

Coda
By Marilyn Hacker

Cold Turkey
By Joshua Mehigan

Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny

Complaint: To the Muse
By Philip Whalen

Comus
By John Milton

Consecration
By Susan Stewart

Consolation
By Wisława Szymborska

Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet

Contentment
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Contrary Theses (II)
By Wallace Stevens

Cor Cordium
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Corpus Medicum
By C. Dale Young

corydon & alexis
By D.A. Powell

Counselors
By Robert Fitzgerald

Countrywomen
By Katherine Mansfield

Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch

Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray

Credo
By Robinson Jeffers

Creel
By Robert Wrigley

Cups: 1
By Robin Blaser

Curriculum Vitae
By Samuel Menashe

Customs of the Barbarians
By Alan Williamson

Daily Bread
By John Reibetanz

Dance Piece
By Ben Belitt

Dancers Exercising
By Amy Clampitt

Darwin’s Bestiary
By Philip Appleman

Day Room
By Tom Sleigh

Day-Old Bargain
By Hilda Raz

De Linin’ ub De Hymns
By Daniel Webster Davis

Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Dear Gonglya,
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Dear John, Dear Coltrane
By Michael S. Harper

Dear Mr. Merrill,
By Moira Egan

Deathfugue
By Paul Celan

December 30
By Richard Brautigan

Dedication
By Czeslaw Milosz

Deeply Morbid
By Stevie Smith

Deer Skull
By Susan Griffin

Dejection
By David Baker

Destiny
By Marin Sorescu

Digging
By Seamus Heaney

Dio ed Io
By Charles Wright

Dirge
By Kenneth Fearing

Discontents in Devon
By Robert Herrick

Discontinuous Poems
By Fernando Pessoa

Discrimination
By Kenneth Rexroth

Do Words Outlast
By Gregory Orr

Dog Music
By Paul Zimmer

Dog Woman
By Chris Abani

Domestic Situation
By Ernest Hilbert

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

Don Juan: Dedication
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

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

Double Elegy
By Michael S. Harper

Drawn Curtains
By Edmond Jabès

Dream Land
By Christina Rossetti

Dreams
By Nikki Giovanni

Drift
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747
By Samuel Johnson

Duke
By Bob Hicok

Duncan
By Thom Gunn

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

Each Defeat
By Eileen Myles

Eagle Plain
By Robert Francis

Early Cinema
By Elizabeth Alexander

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

Eating Poetry
By Mark Strand

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

Elegy
By Anne Stevenson

Elegy for a Soldier
By Marilyn Hacker

Elegy on Toy Piano
By Dean Young

Eliza Harris
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
By Vachel Lindsay

Embarrassment
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Emily Brontë
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Encounter in Buffalo
By Mary Barnard

from Endymion
By John Keats

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

Envoi
By Ezra Pound

Envy
By Mary Lamb

Epilogue
By Robert Lowell

Episode
By Zbigniew Herbert

Episode in a Library
By Zbigniew Herbert

Epistle to J. Lapraik
By Robert Burns

Epistle to Mrs. Tyler
By Christopher Smart

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle II: To a Lady on the Characters of Women
By Alexander Pope

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope

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

Epitaph
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Eros of Heroines
By Ange Mlinko

Erotikos Logos
By George Seferis

Errata
By Kevin Young

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
By Karen Craigo

Eschatology of the Lexicon
By J. Allyn Rosser

Esmiss Esmoor
By Ben Belitt

Etching of the Plague Years
By Mary Karr

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Every Day We Are Dancers
By Mitch Roberson

Evolution
By Jorie Graham

Evolution from the Fish
By Robert Bly

Ex Machina
By Linda Gregerson

Exegesis of the First Words Spoken (Ishmael)
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Experience
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Expression
By George Arnold

Eyes Like Leeks
By Linda Gregerson

Fable of the Ant and the Word
By Mary Barnard

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

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Faith
By Linda Pastan

Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
By Robert Lowell

Fancy and the Poet
By Susanna Moodie

Far Company
By W. S. Merwin

Fate
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fence Repair
By David Lee

Figures in the Carpets
By David Schloss

Fireweed
By C. Dale Young

First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert

Flaxman
By Margaret Fuller

Flight
By Linda Bierds

Floating Houses
By David Wojahn

Flood
By Jorie Graham

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Flying Home
By Rachel Hadas

Foolish Questions
By William Cole

For “Fiddle-de-de”
By John Hollander

For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
By David Wagoner

For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

For Grant Wood
By Margaret Mackinnon

For Laurel and Hardy on My Workroom Wall
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 once, then Something
By Robert Frost

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

Found Letter
By Joshua Weiner

Found Parable
By J. D. McClatchy

Fountains of Aix
By May Swenson

Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Fourteen Pages
By Albert Goldbarth

Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning

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

Fragment 9: The Netherlands
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment of a Women from Kos
By Susan Mitchell

Free Verses
By Sarah Kirsch

Fresh Air
By Kenneth Koch

From Lines to William Simson
By Robert Burns

From the Headland at Cumae
By John Peck

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

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
By Vachel Lindsay

Geology
By Bob King

George Moore
By Marianne Moore

Getting Information Out of Pa
By Anonymous

Ghazal For A Poetess
By Annie Finch

Giovanni Franchi
By Mina Loy

Girl in a Library
By Gail Mazur

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
By Hilaire Belloc

Gospel
By Fleda Brown

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Goya
By Conrad Aiken

Grass
By Carl Sandburg

Gravelly Run
By A. R. Ammons

Greek Architecture
By Herman Melville

Gwendolyn Brooks
By Haki Madhubuti

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

Haiku Ambulance
By Richard Brautigan

Half-Ourselves & Half-Not
By Colin Cheney

Hamatreya
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hammer
By Dean Young

Hand Defined
By Cole Swensen

Hands
By Robinson Jeffers

Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani

Hangzhou, Lake of the Poets
By Marie Ponsot

Having a Coke with You
By Frank O'Hara

Hayden
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
By William Meredith

He Imagined the Gorgeous Pattern of the New Skin and Settled for America
By Primus St. John

Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty

Heaven, 1963
By Kim Noriega

Hell
By Donald Justice

Here Is an Ear Hear
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Here Where Coltrane Is
By Michael S. Harper

Herman Melville
By Conrad Aiken

Heroic Simile
By Robert Hass

Hidden Harvest
By Rodrigo Toscano

Hidden Name
By Victor Segalen

His Farewell to Sack
By Robert Herrick

His Prayer for Absolution
By Robert Herrick

His Prayer to Ben Jonson
By Robert Herrick

History Lesson
By Natasha Trethewey

History of My Heart
By Robert Pinsky

Holy Shit
By Peter Pereira

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
By John Berryman

Homes
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Horses
By Wendell Berry

Hotel Lautréamont
By John Ashbery

How Evolution Came to Indiana
By Philip Appleman

How I Discovered Poetry
By Marilyn Nelson

How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate

How to Continue
By John Ashbery

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
By Sherman Alexie

How We Were Introduced
By Zbigniew Herbert

Hugging the Jukebox
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Human Beauty
By Albert Goldbarth

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 Believe
By Robert W. Service

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

I dwell in Possibility – (466)
By Emily Dickinson

I Fail As a Celibate
By Jerome Rothenberg

I Feel (Verse Libre)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t
By Richard Brautigan

I Grant You Ample Leave
By George Eliot

I Hear America Singing
By Walt Whitman

I Remember Galileo
By Gerald Stern

I Used to Think
By Trumbull Stickney

I Walk’d the Other Day
By Henry Vaughan

I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

I Would Like to Describe
By Zbigniew Herbert

I’m Over the Moon
By Brenda Shaughnessy

I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady

I'm nobody! Who are you?
By Emily Dickinson

Ice Bound
By Walter Bargen

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

If I Were Another
By Mahmoud Darwish

If You Said You Would Come With Me
By John Ashbery

Il Penseroso
By John Milton

Illuminated Page
By Jennifer O'Grady

Image-Nation 9 (half and half
By Robin Blaser

Imitations of Horace
By Alexander Pope

Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland

Impossible to Tell
By Robert Pinsky

Impromptus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

In a Science-Illustrator’s Apartment
By Diane Ackerman

In Chandler Country
By Dana Gioia

In Defiance of Fortune
By Elizabeth I

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

In Her Absence I Created Her Image
By Mahmoud Darwish

In Kona, Thinking of the Elements
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of what was in his Mind to Write after Section
By James Clerk Maxwell

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 Piam Memoriam
By Geoffrey Hill

In Praise of a Western Virgin
By Victor Segalen

In the Bay
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

In the Cool of the Evening
By Andrew Hudgins

In the Elementary School Choir
By Gregory Djanikian

In the Grand Manner
By Richard Emil Braun

In the House of the Latin Professor
By B. H. Fairchild

In the Marble Quarry
By James L. Dickey

In the Novel
By Susan Stewart

In the Reading-Room of the British Museum
By Louise Imogen Guiney

In Walked Bud With a Palette
By Clarence Major

Incandescent War Poem Sonnet
By Bernadette Mayer

Incantation
By Czeslaw Milosz

Inside Out
By Diane Wakoski

Instances of Wasted Ingenuity
By Dara Wier

Interior at Petworth: From Turner
By Rosanna Warren

Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass

Interview
By Dorothy Parker

Interview by a Guggenheim Recipient
By Charles Bukowski

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Introduction to Poetry
By Billy Collins

Introduction to the Songs of Innocence
By William Blake

Introductory to Second Edition
By Alfred Islay Walden

Introit & Fugue
By D. Nurkse

Invocation to the Social Muse
By Archibald MacLeish

Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Irish Prospects
By J. D. McClatchy

Ishmael, or The Orphan
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Isis: Dorothy Eady, 1924
By Mark Doty

Isla
By Virgil Suárez

Islanders
By Richard Emil Braun

Israfel
By Edgar Allan Poe

It Is a Living Coral
By William Carlos Williams

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

Itinerary
By James McMichael

Jabberwocky
By Lewis Carroll

Jacob
By Phoebe Cary

James Schuyler
By David Trinidad

Jan Kubelik
By Carl Sandburg

Jazz Station
By Michael S. Harper

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

Jesus Returns
By Cynthia Macdonald

John James Audobon
By Stephen Vincent Benét

John Lennon
By Mary Jo Salter

Jordan (I)
By George Herbert

Joy
By Alan Shapiro

Jubilate Agno, 1975
By David Lee

Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Keats
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kind of Blue
By Lynn Powell

Kindness
By Yusef Komunyakaa

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Korean mums
By James Schuyler

Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Larkinesque
By Michael Ryan

Last Century
By Wyatt Prunty

Lawyer and Child
By James Whitcomb Riley

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens

Learning the Trees
By Howard Nemerov

Learning to Read
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Lectures to Women on Physical Science
By James Clerk Maxwell

Legacy
By Amiri Baraka

Les Luths
By Frank O'Hara

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 ARC On Her Wishing to be Called Anna
By Matilda Bethem

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Letter to the Local Police
By June Jordan

Letters to Walt Whitman
By Ronald Johnson

Li Hua's Messenger
By Peter Bethanis

Library
By Brian Culhane

Life Cycle of Common Man
By Howard Nemerov

Light
By C. K. Williams

Light
By C. K. Williams

Limits
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lines
By Ina Coolbrith

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

Lines on Nonsense
By Eliza Lee Follen

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
By John Keats

Lines to a Don
By Hilaire Belloc

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written Near San Francisco
By Louis Simpson

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

Lines——
By Hartley Coleridge

Lissadell
By Wendy Cope

Litany
By Billy Collins

Literary
By Kenneth Fearing

Little God Origami
By Stefi Weisburd

Little Soul
By Hadrian

London Crossfigured
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Long Finger Poem
By Jin Eun-Young

Looking Around
By Charles Wright

Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love (I)
By George Herbert

Love at Thirty-two Degrees
By Katherine Larson

Love Letters
By Lynn Crosbie

Love Letters
By Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard

Love Poem for an Enemy
By Richard Katrovas

Love Song
By Dorothy Parker

Love the Wild Swan
By Robinson Jeffers

Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child
By Dorothy Wordsworth

Lullabye for the Second Millennium
By J. Allyn Rosser

Luminous Great Mass
By Peter O’Leary

Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
By Kenneth Rexroth

Lyrical Ballads (1798)
By William Wordsworth

Ma Rainey
By Sterling A. Brown

Mac Flecknoe
By John Dryden

Machines
By Michael Donaghy

Mad Song
By William Blake

Madmen
By Billy Collins

Making Quiltwork
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Man
By George Herbert

Man Dancing with a Baby
By Susan Stewart

Manfred: Incantation
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Manitoba Childe Roland
By Carl Sandburg

Many Scientists Convert to Islam
By Nomi Stone

Mapping the Genome
By Michael Symmons Roberts

Market Forecast
By Alexa Selph

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Mary Shelley in Brigantine
By Stephen Dunn

Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Maternity
By Robert W. Service

Mathematics
By Jane Hirshfield

Mating Saliva
By Richard Brautigan

Matins
By David Wojahn

Matisse, Too
By Alicia Ostriker

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

MAY. [1748] III Month.
By Benjamin Franklin

Measure
By Robert Hass

Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass

Meditation under Stars
By George Meredith

Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass

Memorabilia
By Robert Browning

Memorial Service
By George Garrett

Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold

Memphis Resurrection
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Merce of Egypt
By Charles Olson

Messiah (Christmas Portions)
By Mark Doty

Milton
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Mind | Body
By Gregory Djanikian

Mingus at the Showplace
By William Matthews

Mingus in Diaspora
By William Matthews

Minor Poet
By Bill Sweeney

Minuscule Things
By William Matthews

Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger

Mirror and Scarf
By Edmond Jabès

Misreading Housman
By Linda Pastan

Mobile-Buck
By James Edwin Campbell

Moby Dick
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Modern Elfland
By G. K. Chesterton

Molecular Evolution
By James Clerk Maxwell

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

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

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

More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Mother Mind
By Julia Ward Howe

Mountain Dulcimer
By Robert Morgan

Movie
By Eileen Myles

Muckraker
By Cate Marvin

Mums
By Bernadette Mayer

Murder
By David Baker

Museums
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Music
By George Scarbrough

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

Musical Moments
By Dannie Abse

My Dog Practices Geometry
By Cathryn Essinger

My God
By Susan Rolston

My Last Dance
By Julia Ward Howe

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

from My Life: A name trimmed with colored ribbons
By Lyn Hejinian

My Lute Awake
By Thomas Wyatt

My Madonna
By Robert W. Service

My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman

My Shoes
By Charles Simic

Nabokov’s Blues
By William Matthews

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

Natural Selection
By Alan Shapiro

Nephelidia
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

New Folk
By Terrance Hayes

New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg

New York American Spell, 2001
By Tom Sleigh

Nietzche’s Hands
By Christopher Middleton

Night Singing
By W. S. Merwin

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

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Nina's Blues
By Cornelius Eady

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen
By Charles Wright

No Coward Soul Is Mine
By Emily Jane Brontë

No Images
By William Waring Cuney

No More and No Less
By Mahmoud Darwish

No Postmortems
By Gregory Orr

Noah’s Wife
By Linda Gregerson

Normalization
By Czeslaw Milosz

North
By Seamus Heaney

North of Mist
By Wendy Videlock

North Point North
By John Koethe

Northern Exposures
By G. E. Murray

Nostalgia
By Billy Collins

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

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

Novelette
By Adrian Blevins

Nude Descending
By Alicia Ostriker

Nude Descending a Staircase
By X J Kennedy

Nuit Blanche
By Amy Lowell

Numbers
By Mary Cornish

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 sweet spontaneous
By E. E. Cummings

O.
By Robin Blaser

Obbligato
By Bruce Smith

Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Ode For Walt Whitman
By Jack Spicer

Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats

Ode on Indolence
By John Keats

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray

Ode on the Poetical Character
By William Collins

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd.
By Mark Twain

Ode to the Midwest
By Kevin Young

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 15 ["Nothing"]
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

Of the Last Verses in the Book
By Edmund Waller

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
By James Edwin Campbell

Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro

Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie

Omni–Albert Murray
By Elizabeth Alexander

On A Diet
By William Matthews

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

On a Raised Beach
By Hugh MacDiarmid

On an Anniversary
By J. M. Synge

On An Unsociable Family
By Elizabeth Hands

On Distinction
By A. F. Moritz

On Donne's Poetry
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats

On Inhabiting an Orange
By Josephine Miles

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

On Pickiness
By Rodney Jones

On Reading Crowds and Power
By Geoffrey Hill

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

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
By John Keats

On Shakespeare. 1630
By John Milton

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

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

On Teaching the Young
By Yvor Winters

On the Birth of a Son
By Su Tung-Po

On the Edge
By Philip Levine

On the Gift of a Book to a Child
By Hilaire Belloc

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

On the Metro
By C. K. Williams

On the Road
By John Updike

On the Subject of Doctors
By James Tate

One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker

Opera Bouffe
By Philip Gross

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Orpheus Alone
By Mark Strand

Orpheus and Eurydice
By Jorie Graham

Orpheus in Hell
By Jack Spicer

Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
By William Shakespeare

Out of Our Hands
By Cathy Song

Outsider Art
By Kay Ryan

Ovation
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Over and Over Tune
By Ioanna Carlsen

Ovid in the Third Reich
By Geoffrey Hill

Paideia
By George Bradley

Paintings
By Marin Sorescu

Palm Sunday Maple Syrup Poem
By Bernadette Mayer

Pamet Harbor
By Gerald Stern

Pangur Bán
By Anonymous

Parable in Praise of Violence
By Tony Barnstone

Parable of the Desultory Slut
By Tony Barnstone

Paradoxes and Oxymorons
By John Ashbery

Parchment
By Michelle Boisseau

Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems
By Jacques Roubaud

Part for the Whole
By Robert Francis

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Pater Noster
By Catherine Imbriglio

Peekaboo: Three Songs for the Nursery
By Anthony Hecht

Pentecost
By David Wojahn

Perfect Pitch
By Peter Pereira

Peripeteia
By Anthony Hecht

Peter Quince at the Clavier
By Wallace Stevens

Philosophia Perennis
By Anne Waldman

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

Photographs
By Barbara Guest

Physics
By Richard Kenney

Piano
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Picasso
By E. E. Cummings

Picture of a Nativity
By Geoffrey Hill

Picture of Little Letters
By John Koethe

Pied Booty
By Dabney Stuart

Planetarium
By Adrienne Rich

Platonic Love
By Curt Anderson

Playing Dead
By Andrew Hudgins

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

Postfeminism
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Pre-Dialogue, II
By Edmond Jabès

Preposition
By Sally Van Doren

Pretty
By Stevie Smith

Private and Profane
By Marie Ponsot

Private Eye Lettuce
By Richard Brautigan

Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer

Progressive Health
By Carl Dennis

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Prophetic Outlook
By Ernest Hilbert

Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale
By Edmund Spenser

Protus
By Robert Browning

Proverbs
By Thomas James Merton

Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
By Jack Spicer

Publication – is the Auction (788)
By Emily Dickinson

Pullman Porter
By Robert W. Service

Pulp Fiction
By David Baker

Pura Vida
By John Updike

Pure Conversation with a Chinese Character
By Marin Sorescu

Q & A
By Kenneth Fearing

Quality: Gwendolyn Brooks at 73
By Haki Madhubuti

from Queen Mab: Part VI
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Queer People
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Radio
By Gottfried Benn

Radio
By Tom Clark

Randall Jarrell
By Robert Lowell

Rarefied
By Albert Goldbarth

Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

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

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

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

Recitation
By Scott Cairns

Red Parade
By David Trinidad

Religio Laici
By John Dryden

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Remarks on Poetry and the Physical World
By Mary Barnard

Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
By Linda Pastan

Replica
By Marvin Bell

Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert

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

Repulsive Theory
By Kay Ryan

Requiem
By Bei Dao

Resolution and Independence
By William Wordsworth

Resum�
By Dorothy Parker

Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Retrospect
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Reunion
By Carolyn Forché

Revelations in the Key of K
By Mary Karr

Riprap
By Gary Snyder

Ritual One
By David Ignatow

Road
By Lisa Williams

Road Report
By Kurt Brown

Robert Duncan
By Robin Blaser

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Romans Angry about the Inner World
By Robert Bly

Romanticism
By David Baker

Rorschach Test
By Franz Wright

Rose-Cheeked Laura
By Thomas Campion

Roses
By Barbara Guest

Rotting Symbols
By Eileen Myles

Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold

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

Rutherford McDowell
By Edgar Lee Masters

Salt and Pepper
By Samuel Menashe

San Francisco
By Richard Brautigan

San Sepolcro
By Jorie Graham

Santa Lucia
By Robert Hass

Santo Domingo Feast Day
By Robin Becker

Sapphics Against Anger
By Timothy Steele

Sapphics: At the Mohawk-Castle, Canada. To Lieutenant Montgomery
By Thomas Morris

Sappho
By James Wright

Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull
By Hilaire Belloc

Satire III
By John Donne

Satire IV
By John Donne

Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study
By Thomas Hardy

Saturday Night
By Alicia Ostriker

Saul
By Robert Browning

Schemhammphorasch
By Rose Terry Cooke

Schools
By Paula Tatarunis

Scissors
By Samuel Menashe

Scorn not the Sonnet
By William Wordsworth

Scrabble with Matthews
By David Wojahn

Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey
By Hayden Carruth

Sean Penn Anti-Ode
By Dean Young

Self-Dependence
By Matthew Arnold

Self-Employed
By David Ignatow

Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview
By Gary Soto

Self-Portrait at 38
By Jennifer Tonge

Sent with a Flower-Pot Begging a Slip of Geranium
By Christian Milne

Sentimental
By Albert Goldbarth

Separation at Burnt Island
By D. Nurkse

Sequestered Writing
By Carolyn Forché

Sequestrienne
By Dorothea Tanning

Service
By Trumbull Stickney

Seth Compton
By Edgar Lee Masters

Shakespeare
By Matthew Arnold

Shakespeare
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Shawl
By Albert Goldbarth

She Considers the Dimensions of Her Soul
By Young Smith

Shy Boy
By Greg Sellers

Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Silence
By Billy Collins

Silent Music
By Floyd Skloot

Similar Cases
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

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

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Siren Song
By Margaret Atwood

Six Poems for Poetry Chicago
By Jack Spicer

Sixty-One
By Doug Anderson

skinny-dippin’ in the gene pool
By Thulani Davis

Sleepers Awake
By John Ashbery

Snow flakes. (45)
By Emily Dickinson

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Soliloquy on an Empty Purse
By Mary Jones

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

Some Assembly Required
By George Bradley

Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
By Alberto Ríos

Sometimes Never
By Joyce Sutphen

Son of Fog
By Dean Young

Sonata
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Song
By Mark Defoe

Song and Dance
By Alan Shapiro

Song for Pythagoras
By Dannie Abse

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: A youth for Jane with ardour sighed...
By Amelia Opie

Song: Memory, hither come
By William Blake

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

Sonnet CX: Alas, 'tis True I have Gone here and there
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXI: O, for my Sake do you with Fortune Chide
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 to Vauxhall
By Thomas Hood

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

Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone
By Bob Hicok

Sporting Life
By Jack Spicer

St Vincent’s
By W. S. Merwin

St. Agnes' Eve
By Kenneth Fearing

Stalin's Library Card
By David Wojahn

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
By Matthew Arnold

Statue
By Tom Clark

Statue and Birds
By Louise Bogan

Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
By Jonathan Swift

Stomackes
By Albert Goldbarth

Stravinsky in L.A.
By Elizabeth Alexander

Street Music
By Elizabeth Akers Allen

Street Musicians
By John Ashbery

String Quartet
By Babette Deutsch

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

Study in Orange and White
By Billy Collins

Study of Two Pears
By Wallace Stevens

Sublimation Point
By Jason Schneiderman

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro

Sunt Leones
By Stevie Smith

Supernatural Love
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Surgeons must be very careful (156)
By Emily Dickinson

Sway
By Louis Simpson

sweet reader, flanneled and tulled
By Olena Kalytiak Davis

Switchblade
By Michael Ryan

Symphony of a Mexican Garden
By Grace Hazard Conkling

Synopsis for a German Novella
By John Fuller

Syringa
By John Ashbery

Taking the Thought for the Dog
By Katharine Auchincloss Lorr

Tapestry
By Charles Simic

Tea-Strainer
By Joyelle McSweeney

Teaching English from an Old Composition Book
By Gary Soto

Technical Notes
By James Laughlin

Temperance Poems
By William Pitt Root

Tenderness and Rot
By Kay Ryan

Tenebrae
By Geoffrey Hill

Terminator Too
By Tom Clark

Testing on Steel and Glass
By Carl Rakosi

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

That Too
By Lawrence Joseph

The Painting After Lunch
By Clarence Major

The 167th Psalm of Elvis
By Tony Barnstone

The Academic Poet
By Henri Coulette

The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
By Hayden Carruth

The Alphabet
By Karl Shapiro

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Ancient World
By Mark Doty

The Annihilation of Nothing
By Thom Gunn

The Argument of his Book
By Robert Herrick

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Arsenal at Springfield
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Artist
By Amy Lowell

the attack could not be seen by night
By Thulani Davis

The Author to Her Book
By Anne Bradstreet

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
By Robert Herrick

The Bard: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Barrel-Organ
By Alfred Noyes

The Battle of the Bulge
By Robert W. Service

The Bear at the Dump
By William Matthews

The Beasts' Confession
By Jonathan Swift

The Bench of Boors
By Herman Melville

The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner

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

The Bison
By Hilaire Belloc

The Bistro Styx
By Rita Dove

The Book of Hours
By B. H. Fairchild

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

from The Botanic Garden, “The Economy of Vegetation”: Canto I
By Erasmus Darwin

The Brassiere Factory
By Kenneth Koch

The Bumblebee
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity
By Mary Ruefle

The Buried Life
By Matthew Arnold

The Calm
By John Donne

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 Cave
By Michael Collier

The Cave Painters
By Eamon Grennan

The Certainty of Numbers
By Bruce Snider

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Chorus
By Rachel Hadas

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The Clod and the Pebble
By William Blake

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

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

The Conqueror Worm
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Constant Voice
By John Koethe

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

The Copper Beech
By Marie Howe

The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

The Creation of the Inaudible
By Pattiann Rogers

The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service

The Curator
By Miller Williams

The Curse
By J. M. Synge

The Dance in Jinotega
By Grace Paley

The Dancer
By David Tucker

The Day is Done
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara

The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
By Ambrose Bierce

The Death of Allegory
By Billy Collins

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Definition of Gardening
By James Tate

The Deodand
By Anthony Hecht

The Dictionary of Silence
By Debora Greger

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

The Dinner
By Gregory Orr

The Divine Image
By William Blake

The Dog Stoltz
By August Kleinzahler

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life
By Anthony Hecht

The Dunciad: Book IV
By Alexander Pope

The Education of a Poet
By Leslie Monsour

The Egoist
By William H. Dickey

The Elephant
By Dan Chiasson

The Emperor’s New Clothes
By Kate Gale

The Emperor's Dream
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Empty Dance Shoes
By Cornelius Eady

The End of an Ethnic Dream
By Jay Wright

The Eolian Harp
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Erotic Philosophers
By Carolyn Kizer

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

The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
By Henry Vaughan

The Extension of the Dead
By Gary Fincke

The Fable About a Nail
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Fair Singer
By Andrew Marvell

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 Final Morbidity of the Interior Embezzler
By Henry Taylor

The Finality of a Poem
By Michael Anania

The Fisherman
By William Butler Yeats

The Flash Reverses Time
By A. Van Jordan

The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams

The Flâneur
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Foggy, Foggy Blue
By Delmore Schwartz

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

The Four Zoas
By William Blake

The French Girl
By Ann Lauterbach

The Frog
By Hilaire Belloc

The Gallery
By Andrew Marvell

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 Giant Yea
By Theodore Weiss

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Good
By Michelle Boisseau

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

The Grand View
By Dannie Abse

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Guru
By A. F. Moritz

The Hammer
By Carl Sandburg

The Hand Photographed
By Cole Swensen

The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats
By John Surowiecki

The Heart's Archaeology
By Maudelle Driskell

The Hearts
By Robert Pinsky

The Herdsman
By Fernando Pessoa

The Here and Now
By Theodore Weiss

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Hind and the Panther: Part I
By John Dryden

The History of Jazz
By Kenneth Koch

The Homecoming Singer
By Jay Wright

The Hook
By Theodore Weiss

The Horrid Voice of Science
By Vachel Lindsay

The Horse Fell Off the Poem
By Mahmoud Darwish

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

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 House of Life: The Sonnet
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll

The Ice Age
By Amy Gerstler

The Idea of Order at Key West
By Wallace Stevens

The Illiterate
By William Meredith

The Indifferent
By John Donne

The Inkspots
By Gerald Stern

The Intellectual
By Karl Shapiro

The James Bond Movie
By May Swenson

The Journey
By Eavan Boland

The King and Queen of Hearts
By Charles Lamb

The King of Spain
By William Jay Smith

The King’s Question
By Brian Culhane

The Kingfisher
By Amy Clampitt

The Kiss
By W. S. Di Piero

The Laboratory
By Robert Browning

The Lady and the Doctor
By Helen Leigh

The Lady of the Castle
By John Hollander

The Lamb
By William Blake

The Land We Did Not Know
By Jean Garrigue

The Last Canto
By Brian Culhane

The Last Castrato
By Linda Bierds

The Last Movie
By Rachel Hadas

The Lawyers' Ways
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Lesson
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The List
By A. F. Moritz

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Local Language
By Ralph Angel

The Lost Leader
By Robert Browning

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

The Lyric In A Time of War
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Machine
By Carol Muske-Dukes

The Magic of Numbers
By Kenneth Koch

The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By William Blake

The Measure
By Robert Creeley

The Militant Black Poet
By Dudley Randall

The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Modern Pastoral Elegy
By Conor O'Callaghan

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

The Moralists
By Yvor Winters

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

The neighbor
By Marge Piercy

from The Nerve Meter
By Antonin Artaud

The New Chinese Fiction
By James Tate

The Newspaper
By Penina Moise

from The Next Clause
By Fleda Brown

The night is darkening round me
By Emily Jane Brontë

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 Other Side of This World
By Calvin Forbes

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 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 Penitent
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

The Pig
By Roald Dahl

The Piper
By Joseph Campbell

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 Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Poster Girl’s Defence
By Carolyn Wells

The Prisoner
By R. S. Thomas

The Problem of Fiction
By Marie Ponsot

The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Properly Scholarly Attitude
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Proximate Shore
By John Koethe

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Rainbow
By David Baker

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5
By Alexander Pope

The Reading Club
By Patricia Goedicke

The Red Cadillac
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson

The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Retired Cat
By William Cowper

The Revelation
By Coventry Patmore

The Role of Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang

The Rolling English Road
By G. K. Chesterton

The Roundel
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Ruined Maid
By Thomas Hardy

The Sévres Road
By Susan Donnelly

The Science Masquerade
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Secret
By Denise Levertov

The Secret of the Machines
By Rudyard Kipling

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

The Shameful Profession
By James Laughlin

from The Shepheardes Calender: October
By Edmund Spenser

The Shipman's Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Singers
By Todd Hearon

The Singing Place
By Lily A. Long

The Snail
By Marin Sorescu

The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens

The So-called Singer of Nab
By Sarah Lindsay

The Soldiers in the Garden
By Martín Espada

The Solitary Reaper
By William Wordsworth

The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling

The Sonnet
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Soul of Spain With McAlmon and Bird the Publishers
By Ernest M. Hemingway

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

from The Spleen
By Matthew Green

The Sponge
By Joshua Mehigan

The Star
By Henry Vaughan

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

The Starry Night
By Anne Sexton

The Stars Are
By Samuel Menashe

The Statesmen
By Ambrose Bierce

The Statue
By Ella Higginson

The Steel Glass
By George Gascoigne

The Stories
By Robin Blaser

The Strife between the Poet and Ambition
By Thomas James Merton

The Suburban Classes
By Stevie Smith

The Summer Image
By Léonie Adams

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

The Sun
By Dan Chiasson

The Surrealist Learns To Fly
By Jennifer O'Grady

The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth

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

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 V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Tay Bridge Disaster
By William McGonagall

The Temper (I)
By George Herbert

The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books
By Alice Notley

from The Testament of Love
By Robert Bridges

The Tragedy of Hats
By Clarinda Harriss

The Trickle-Down Theory of Happiness
By Philip Appleman

The Triple Fool
By John Donne

The Triumph of Life
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Tummy Beast
By Roald Dahl

The Tune He Saw
By Cynthia Macdonald

The Tyger
By William Blake

The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan

from The Vanity of Human Wishes
By Samuel Johnson

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The Velocipede
By Michael Longley

The Venus Hottentot
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Virgin Considered as a Picture
By Edgar Bowers

The Voyage Home
By Philip Appleman

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The Way I Learned to Write
By Kate Gale

The Weary Blues
By Langston Hughes

The Whale
By Hilaire Belloc

The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Widower’s Courtship
By Elizabeth Hands

The Workforce
By James Tate

The World
By Henry Vaughan

The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández

The Yak
By Hilaire Belloc

Their Bodies
By David Wagoner

Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz

There Came a Soul
By Rita Dove

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

There was a Young Lady Whose Eyes
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Calcutta
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of New York
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear

These Poems, She Said
By Robert Bringhurst

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

They shut me up in Prose – (445)
By Emily Dickinson

Thing Language
By Jack Spicer

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

Thinking of Darwin
By Herbert Morris

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

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
By Wallace Stevens

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

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

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

Thoughts on One’s Head
By William Meredith

Three Poets
By Robert West

Three Six Five Zero
By Conor O'Callaghan

Threshold
By R. S. Thomas

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

To a Captive Owl
By Henry Timrod

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 Greek Marble
By Richard Aldington

To A Lady Who Said It Was Sinful to Read Novels
By Christian Milne

To a Mountain Daisy
By Robert Burns

To a Real Standup Piece of Painted Crockery
By George Starbuck

To a Wedding
By William Logan

To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer

To a Young Writer
By Yvor Winters

To Any Reader
By Robert Louis Stevenson

To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr

To Ben Jonson
By Thomas Carew

To Bessie Drennan
By Mark Doty

To Catullus
By Robert Bridges

To David, About His Education
By Howard Nemerov

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 Judgment: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield

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

To Luck
By W. S. Merwin

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

To Madame Curie
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To Matthew Dodsworth, Esq., On a Noble Captain Declaring that His Finger Was Broken by a Gate
By Anna Dodsworth

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

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

To Play Pianissimo
By Lola Haskins

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

To Robert Browning
By Walter Savage Landor

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

To Shakespeare
By Frances Anne Kemble

To the Blank Spaces
By W. S. Merwin

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

To the Consolations of Philosophy
By W. S. Merwin

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

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
By Jorie Graham

To the Reader: If You Asked Me
By Chase Twichell

To the Reader: Twilight
By Chase Twichell

To the Returned Girls
By Franklin Pierce Adams

To the Sea
By Marin Sorescu

To the Shade of Burns
By Charlotte Smith

To the Virginian Voyage
By Michael Drayton

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

Togetherness
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Tone Deficit
By Kevin McFadden

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

Toward an Organic Philosophy
By Kenneth Rexroth

Town Eclogues: Monday; Roxana or the Drawing-Room
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Tuesday; St. James's Coffee-House
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Tradition
By Lorine Niedecker

Train Above Pedestrians
By Reginald Gibbons

Translation
By Deirdre O'Connor

Translations from the English
By George Starbuck

Translator's note
By Bob Hicok

Traveling dream
By Marge Piercy

Triolets in the Argolid
By Rachel Hadas

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book I
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Trollius and trellises
By Charles Bukowski

trouble with spain
By Charles Bukowski

Troubled with the Itch and Rubbing with Sulphur
By George Moses Horton

Truly Pathetic
By Neal Bowers

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Truth-Taking Stare
By David Wojahn

Tulips
By A.E. Stallings

Twelfth Birthday
By Rachel Hadas

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat!
By Lewis Carroll

Two Guitars
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Two Poems from “The Day”
By Kenneth Goldsmith

Two Poems from Language
By Jack Spicer

Two Tales of Clumsy
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Two Views of Buson
By Robert Hass

Un citadin / A City Dweller
By Jacques Réda

Uncouplings
By Craig Arnold

Underwear
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Unholy Women
By Chris Abani

Uninvited Reader
By A. F. Moritz

University
By Karl Shapiro

Untitled [1. Now you are all here you might as well know ...]
By Thomas James Merton

Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax
By Andrew Marvell

Vagabonds
By Arthur Rimbaud

vegas
By Charles Bukowski

Venetian Interior, 1889
By Richard Howard

Venus Transiens
By Amy Lowell

Verities
By Kim Addonizio

Vermeer
By Debora Greger

Vers de Société
By Philip Larkin

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.
By Jonathan Swift

Victims of the Latest Dance Craze
By Cornelius Eady

Video Blues
By Mary Jo Salter

Villon
By Basil Bunting

Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures
By Peter Gizzi

Virtue
By George Herbert

Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy

Visits to St. Elizabeths
By Elizabeth Bishop

vocabulary I
By Robin Blaser

Voices of the Air
By Katherine Mansfield

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

W.H.
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Wake Me in South Galway
By Richard Tillinghast

Wales Visitation
By Allen Ginsberg

Walking
By Thomas Traherne

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

Walt, the Wounded
By W. S. Di Piero

War Ballad
By Stanley Moss

Waring
By Robert Browning

Wash of Cold River
By H. D.

Water
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

We Old Dudes
By Joan Murray

Well, You Needn’t
By William Matthews

Wet-weather Talk
By James Whitcomb Riley

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What He Thought
By Heather McHugh

What I Know About Epistemology
By John Surowiecki

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What Is Life
By Gregory Orr

What loves, takes away
By Eleanor Wilner

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

What the Stars Meant
By John Koethe

What We Need
By Jo McDougall

Whatever Is
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

When he would have his Verses Read
By Robert Herrick

When I am dead, my dearest
By Christina Rossetti

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

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
By Walt Whitman

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

When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr

Which Has More Patience -- Man or Woman?
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Whispers of Immortality
By T. S. Eliot

Who Am I?
By Carl Sandburg

Who Steals My Good Name
By W. D. Snodgrass

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
By Walt Whitman

Why Angels Disappeared
By Dannie Abse

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

Wight
By Stanley Plumly

Wildflowers
By Richard Howard

Win-Win
By Ange Mlinko

Wind In Mytilene
By Eloise Klein Healy

Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Winter Mask
By Allen Tate

Winter Stars
By Larry Levis

With a Book
By Ambrose Bierce

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

won't you celebrate with me
By Lucille Clifton

Woodcut
By Thomas McGrath

Woodstock
By Peter Balakian

Working Habits
By George Starbuck

Workshop
By Billy Collins

Worldly Place
By Matthew Arnold

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

Writing
By Howard Nemerov

Writing in the Afterlife
By Billy Collins

Written in her French Psalter
By Elizabeth I

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

X-Ray
By Dannie Abse

Yesterday
By Edgar Albert Guest

You are Old, Father William
By Lewis Carroll

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

You Got a Song, Man
By Martín Espada

You Love, You Wonder
By Brenda Shaughnessy

You Who Wronged
By Czeslaw Milosz

You, Andrew Marvell
By Archibald MacLeish

Young Girl Peeling Apples
By Mary Jo Salter

Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped
By John Dryden

Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz

Your Night Is of Lilac
By Mahmoud Darwish

Yours & Mine
By Alice Fulton

Youth and Art
By Robert Browning

Youth and Calm
By Matthew Arnold

Zen Living
By Dick Allen

Zoom!
By Simon Armitage

Zucchini Shofar
By Sarah Lindsay

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

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

[even with insects]
By Kobayashi Issa

[if your complexion is a mess]
By Harryette Mullen

[Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Kills bugs dead.]
By Harryette Mullen

[Letter to Gary Bottone]
By Jack Spicer

[Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths?]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Old Mother turns blue and from us]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up
By Bernadette Mayer

[The bird’s-eye view]
By Ben Lerner

[The predictability of these rooms]
By Ben Lerner