There are 707 Poems about History & Politics

Bible Defense of Slavery
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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

“Do Not Embrace Your Mind’s New Negro Friend”
By William Meredith

“I never seen such days as this”
By Sholeh Wolpé

“No, Master, Never!”
By Joshua McCarter Simpson

“Que Sera Sera”
By A. Van Jordan

 The Gift Outright
By Robert Frost

1492
By Emma Lazarus

1866
By Henry Timrod

1914 II. Safety
By Rupert Brooke

1926
By Weldon Kees

1932
By Frederick Morgan

1941
By Ruth Stone

from “The Octoroon”
By Albery Allson Whitman

Deerfield:1703
By Charles Reznikoff

From Homage to Sextus Propertius
By Ezra Pound

Slave Sale: New Orleans
By Charles Reznikoff

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

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
By Hugh MacDiarmid

A Hanging Screen
By Michael Anania

A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails
By Nikki Giovanni

A History of Sexual Preference
By Robin Becker

A Late History
By Weldon Kees

A Map to the Next World
By Joy Harjo

A New Story
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Pathological Case in Pliny
By John Logan

A Pict Song
By Rudyard Kipling

A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan

A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
By Nikki Giovanni

A Political Prisoner
By Dannie Abse

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Shropshire Lad I: From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
By A. E. Housman

A Sister on the Tracks
By Donald Hall

A Song for Soweto
By June Jordan

A Song: “Men of England”
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Tapestry for Bayeux
By George Starbuck

A Tenth Anniversary Photograph, 1952
By Miller Williams

A Thousand Words
By Daryl Hine

A Treatise on Poetry: IV Natura
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Twenty-fourth Poem about Horses
By John Peck

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
By Vachel Lindsay

Absalom and Achitophel
By John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel: The Second Part
By John Dryden

Adult
By Ray Gonzalez

Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur

Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano

Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke

After Su Tung P'o
By Heather McHugh

After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once
By Robert Bly

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

Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden

America
By Tony Hoagland

America
By Claude McKay

America
By Allen Ginsberg

America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity
By Gregory Corso

America Remembers
By Paul Engle

from America, America
By Saadi Youssef

American History
By Michael S. Harper

American Roots: Moral Associations
By Primus St. John

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert

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

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 Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
By Andrew Marvell

An Inscription
By Ambrose Bierce

Anasazi, Ancient Enemies
By John Peck

Ancient History
By Siegfried Sassoon

Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Anniversaries
By Thomas McGrath

Anthology of Rapture
By James Scully

ANWR
By Sherwin Bitsui

Apollo
By Elizabeth Alexander

Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
By June Jordan

April 5, 1968
By Alan Williamson

as i fly over this time
By Thulani Davis

Assault to Abjury
By Raymond McDaniel

At the Bomb Testing Site
By William E. Stafford

At the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic
By Gail Mazur

At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
By Larry Levis

At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
By William E. Stafford

At This Precise Moment of History
By Thomas James Merton

Attempted Assassination of the Queen
By William McGonagall

Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Away to Canada
By Joshua McCarter Simpson

“Himself let him unknown contain”
By Tom Clark

‘Thrush’
By George Seferis

Backdrop addresses cowboy
By Margaret Atwood

backstage drama
By Thulani Davis

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

Ballad of Birmingham
By Dudley Randall

Ballad of the Dream That Was Not Dreamed
By A. M. Klein

Banneker
By Rita Dove

Bartow Black
By Timothy Thomas Fortune

Battlefield
By Mark Turcotte

Before the Rain
By Lianne Spidel

Beginnings
By Jeffrey Greene

Bel Canto
By Kenneth Koch

Belleau Wood
By Paul Engle

Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright

Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson
By Jay Wright

Beowulf (modern English translation)
By Anonymous

Between Assasinations
By Alan Shapiro

Between the Wars
By Robert Hass

Bible Study: 71 B.C.E.
By Sharon Olds

Big City Speech
By W. S. Di Piero

Blood
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Blue
By Chris Abani

Blue Juniata
By Malcolm Cowley

Blue Springs
By C. Dale Young

Booker T. and W.E.B.
By Dudley Randall

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

Break of Day in the Trenches
By Isaac Rosenberg

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus

Cameo Appearance
By Charles Simic

Campo dei Fiori
By Czeslaw Milosz

Capriccio of Roman Ruins
By A. F. Moritz

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Casualty
By Seamus Heaney

Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle
By Robert Browning

Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse
By Robert Browning

Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along
By Robert Browning

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

Charles Sumner
By Charlotte L. Forten Grimké

Chicago
By Carl Sandburg

Chicago’s Congo
By Frank Marshall Davis

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

Chomei at Toyama
By Basil Bunting

Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929
By William Logan

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Clear-seeing
By Edgar Bowers

Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Cock
By Albert Goldbarth

Cold Calls: War Music, Continued
By Christopher Logue

Color in American History: An Essay
By Tom Disch

Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conscription Camp
By Karl Shapiro

from constant change figures
By Lyn Hejinian

Cool Tombs
By Carl Sandburg

CORIKOS
By Richard Aldington

Crossroads
By Mary Barnard

Deathfugue
By Paul Celan

Debridement
By Michael S. Harper

Decline and Fall
By John Frederick Nims

Dedication
By Czeslaw Milosz

Deed
By Josephine Miles

Deep South
By Thomas McGrath

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
By Richard F. Hugo

Dejection
By David Baker

Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser

Der Gilgul (The Possessed)
By Jerome Rothenberg

Dog
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland

Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League
By Joseph Seamon Cotter

Dr. Joseph Goebbels (22 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass

Drake in the Southern Sea
By Ernesto Cardenal

Dreamer
By Primus St. John

Drill
By Michael Collier

Durban, South Africa—Some Notations of Value
By Chris Abani

Eagle Plain
By Robert Francis

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

Easter, 1916
By William Butler Yeats

Eden, Then and Now
By Ruth Stone

Elegy for a Soldier
By Marilyn Hacker

Elegy of Fortinbras
By Zbigniew Herbert

Eliza Harris
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Ellis Island
By Peter Balakian

En la Calle San Sebastián
By Martín Espada

England in 1819
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eschatology of the Lexicon
By J. Allyn Rosser

Estrangement in Athens
By Brian Culhane

Ethnogenesis
By Henry Timrod

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Ex-Embassy
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Exile
By George Elliott Clarke

Exiles
By C. P. Cavafy

Eye on the Scarecrow
By Nathaniel Mackey

Fabergé's Egg
By Elizabeth Spires

Fable
By Tom Sleigh

Fable for a War
By Thomas James Merton

Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Fallout
By David Bottoms

Family History
By Irving Feldman

Fanny
By Carolyn Kizer

Five Poems From "Helen: A Revision"
By Jack Spicer

Five Visions of Captain Cook
By Kenneth Slessor

Flesh of John Brown's Flesh: 2 December 1859
By Geoffrey Brock

For 1939
By Paul Engle

For a War Memorial
By G. K. Chesterton

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For Malcolm X
By Margaret Walker

For Malcolm, A Year After
By Etheridge Knight

For My People
By Margaret Walker

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

Formerly Communist Love Sonnet
By Connie Deanovich

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frederick Douglass
By Robert E. Hayden

Freely Espousing
By James Schuyler

From Mythology
By Zbigniew Herbert

From the Headland at Cumae
By John Peck

Fundamentalism
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Fundamentals of Esperanto
By Srikanth Reddy

Funeral Music
By Geoffrey Hill

Gairmscoile
By Hugh MacDiarmid

George & Rue: Pure, Virtuous Killers
By George Elliott Clarke

Ghana Calls
By W. E. B. Du Bois

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

God Bless America
By John Fuller

Golden Age
By Timothy Steele

Grafik
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Grandfather
By Michael S. Harper

Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
By Lola Haskins

Gunga Din
By Rudyard Kipling

Hands
By Robinson Jeffers

Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani

Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Helen
By George Seferis

Hidden Harvest
By Rodrigo Toscano

History
By Babette Deutsch

History Lesson
By Natasha Trethewey

History Lessons
By Sidney Wade

Holy Cussing
By Robert Morgan

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
By John Berryman

Homework
By Allen Ginsberg

Hooded Night
By Robinson Jeffers

How It Was
By Czeslaw Milosz

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
By Sherman Alexie

How We Heard the Name
By Alan Dugan

How We Made a New Art on Old Ground
By Eavan Boland

Howl
By Allen Ginsberg

Humanities Lecture
By William E. Stafford

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

Hypothetical Antipodes, Judgment
By Philip Jenks

I Am Merely Posing for a Photograph
By Juan Felipe Herrera

I am the People, the Mob
By Carl Sandburg

I Am Waiting
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris
By Louis Simpson

I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater
By Mahmoud Darwish

i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife
By Charles Bukowski

I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
By Yehuda Amichai

I Went into the Maverick Bar
By Gary Snyder

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

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

Ice Child
By John Haines

Image-Nation 9 (half and half
By Robin Blaser

Imitations of Horace
By Alexander Pope

Impressions of the New Mexico Legislature
By Arthur Sze

In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
By Paul Engle

In Defiance of Fortune
By Elizabeth I

In Exile
By Emma Lazarus

In Her Absence I Created Her Image
By Mahmoud Darwish

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH
By Anne Bradstreet

In Jerusalem
By Mahmoud Darwish

In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
By June Jordan

In Order To
By Kenneth Patchen

In the Absence of Bliss
By Maxine W. Kumin

In the House of Wax
By John Haines

In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Year Eight Hundred
By Jane Hirshfield

Indian Names
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Inside the Blues Whale
By Afaa Michael Weaver

Interesting Times
By Mark Jarman

Interior at Petworth: From Turner
By Rosanna Warren

Interview
By Dudley Randall

Intimate Letters
By Rosanna Warren

Introductory to Second Edition
By Alfred Islay Walden

Invocation to the Social Muse
By Archibald MacLeish

Iphigenia: Politics
By Thomas James Merton

It Is a Living Coral
By William Carlos Williams

It is not to be Thought of
By William Wordsworth

It was a' for our Rightful King
By Robert Burns

It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Itinerary
By James McMichael

jasper texas 1998
By Lucille Clifton

Jazz Station
By Michael S. Harper

Jeremiah
By Donald Revell

Joe
By Emily Pauline Johnson

from John Brown's Body: "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave"
By Stephen Vincent Benét

from John Brown's Body: "The years ride out from the world like couriers gone to a throne ..."
By Stephen Vincent Benét

from John Brown's Body: Invocation
By Stephen Vincent Benét

John Brown: A Paradox
By Louise Imogen Guiney

John Brown’ s Face
By Kevin Stein

Johnson’s Cabinet Watched by Ants
By Robert Bly

Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke

July in Washington
By Robert Lowell

Ka Waiapo Lani (Heavenly Showers)
By Lydia Kamakaeha Lili’uokalani

King’s Daughters, Home for Unwed Mothers, 1948
By C. D. Wright

Knucks
By Carl Sandburg

La Ghriba (“The Stranger”) Tells How and Why
By Nomi Stone

Last Century
By Wyatt Prunty

Lawyer and Child
By James Whitcomb Riley

Learning from History
By David Ferry

Learning to Read
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Lift Every Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Lime
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Lincoln
By Delmore Schwartz

Lines Written Near San Francisco
By Louis Simpson

Litany for Dictatorships
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Living
By C. D. Wright

Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur

Lothar’s Wife
By Colleen J. McElroy

Louisiana Purchase
By Charlie Smith

Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning

Mac Flecknoe
By John Dryden

Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Malcolm X, February 1965
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Mayor Harold Washington
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Medley of the Cut
By John Peck

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memories of West Street and Lepke
By Robert Lowell

from Mercian Hymns
By Geoffrey Hill

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Mingus in Diaspora
By William Matthews

Mississippi
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Mme. Sperides
By Gregory Djanikian

Momus
By Carl Sandburg

from Monologues of the Son of Saul
By John Logan

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

mulberry fields
By Lucille Clifton

Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James

My Century
By Alan Feldman

My Country ’Tis of Thee
By W. E. B. Du Bois

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Mythistorema
By George Seferis

Narrative: Ali
By Elizabeth Alexander

New Nation
By Charles Reznikoff

New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman

New York American Spell, 2001
By Tom Sleigh

Night Without Sleep
By Robinson Jeffers

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

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Nina's Blues
By Cornelius Eady

Nineteen-Fourteen: Peace
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-twenty-nine
By William Waring Cuney

No Buyers
By Thomas Hardy

No Comfort To Be Had
By Sidney Wade

No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night
By Etheridge Knight

Nogi
By Harriet Monroe

Notes on the Capitalist Persuasion
By John Haines

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

November, 1806
By William Wordsworth

Nuremberg
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O Black and Unknown Bards
By James Weldon Johnson

Occupation 1943
By Saadi Youssef

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Ode for the American Dead in Asia
By Thomas McGrath

Ode on the Facelifting of the "statue" of Liberty
By Edward Dorn

Ode, Inscribed to William H. Channing
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of History and Hope
By Miller Williams

Of Lincoln
By Cynthia Zarin

Oh Lovely Rock
By Robinson Jeffers

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old Lem
By Sterling A. Brown

On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama
By Gregory Orr

On a Raised Beach
By Hugh MacDiarmid

On Hearing a Description of a Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

On Liberty and Slavery
By George Moses Horton

On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me
By John Ciardi

On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
By John Keats

On the Birth of a Son
By Su Tung-Po

On the Civil War on the East Coast of the United States of North America 1860-64
By Alan Dugan

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
By William Wordsworth

On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
By William Lisle Bowles

On the Loss of Energy (and Other Things)
By June Jordan

On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper

On The Western Front
By Alfred Noyes

One Angel: Palazzo Arian, at San Raffaele Arcangelo
By Ann Snodgrass

One Home
By William E. Stafford

Opera Bouffe
By Philip Gross

Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke

Orophernis
By C. P. Cavafy

Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens
By A. M. Klein

Outbreak
By Donald Revell

Ovid in the Third Reich
By Geoffrey Hill

Pacific Epitaphs
By Dudley Randall

Parable in Praise of Violence
By Tony Barnstone

Parsley
By Rita Dove

Paschal
By Robert Pinsky

Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke

Perspectives
By R. S. Thomas

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Place Names
By Thomas James Merton

Poem about My Rights
By June Jordan

Poem for Nana
By June Jordan

Poem of Disconnected Parts
By Robert Pinsky

Politics
By William Meredith

Port Royal
By C. Dale Young

Port-Au-Prince
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Post-Traumatic Shock, Newark, New Jersey, 1942
By Peter Balakian

from Powers of Thirteen: 29 [An Old Song]
By John Hollander

Praise Song for the Day
By Elizabeth Alexander

Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer

Problems of Translation: Problems of Language
By June Jordan

Prodigy
By Charles Simic

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Protus
By Robert Browning

Quivira
By Ronald Johnson

Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

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

Recessional
By Rudyard Kipling

Red String
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Reflections on History in Missouri
By Constance Urdang

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (1 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Religio Laici
By John Dryden

Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
By Linda Pastan

Report to Crazy Horse
By William E. Stafford

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill

Respublica
By Geoffrey Hill

Retirement
By Henry Timrod

Reward
By Kevin Young

Rock and Hawk
By Robinson Jeffers

Romans Angry about the Inner World
By Robert Bly

Romans in Dorset: A.D. MDCCCXCV
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Ruins
By Samuel Menashe

Rule Britannia
By James Thomson

Runagate Runagate
By Robert E. Hayden

Samson Agonistes
By John Milton

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

Satire III
By John Donne

from Saying Grace
By Kevin Young

Scattering the March
By D. Nurkse

School
By Jane Miller

Scots Wha Hae
By Robert Burns

She Had Some Horses
By Joy Harjo

Shine, Perishing Republic
By Robinson Jeffers

Shine, Republic
By Robinson Jeffers

Ships that Pass in the Night
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman

skinny-dippin’ in the gene pool
By Thulani Davis

Skipper Ireson’s Ride
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Slavery
By Hannah More

Small Kingdom
By Samuel Menashe

Smothered Fires
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Snake
By Dannie Abse

So they stood
By Samuel Menashe

Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi
By Garrett Hongo

Sometime During Eternity ...
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sometimes Never
By Joyce Sutphen

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors
By William Wordsworth

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Song of the Andoumboulou: 60
By Nathaniel Mackey

Song of the Galley-Slaves
By Rudyard Kipling

Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
By William Cowper

Sonnet XVI: To the Lord General Cromwell
By John Milton

Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piemont
By John Milton

Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate

Sorrow Home
By Margaret Walker

sorrow song
By Lucille Clifton

Soweto
By Edward Brathwaite

Spain: Anno 1492
By Charles Reznikoff

Stalin's Library Card
By David Wojahn

Statement with Rhymes
By Weldon Kees

Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou

Stomackes
By Albert Goldbarth

Strange Meeting
By Wilfred Owen

Stranger at the Ashwood Threshold
By Sherod Santos

Styx
By Robert Duncan

Submission
By Lynn Crosbie

Success is counted sweetest (112)
By Emily Dickinson

Swerve
By Kelle Groom

Swift
By Delmore Schwartz

Sympathy
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Age Demanded
By Ernest M. Hemingway

The Alphabet
By Karl Shapiro

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The American Way
By Gregory Corso

The Answer
By Robinson Jeffers

The Anti-Suffragist
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Anti-Suffragists
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Aphrodisiac
By Arthur Sze

The Armada
By Anne Winters

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Author of Torah
By Alfred Corn

The Ballad of Nat Turner
By Robert E. Hayden

The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
By Delmore Schwartz

The Bard: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Battle of Omdurman
By William McGonagall

The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
By William McGonagall

The Benefactors
By Rudyard Kipling

The Blackstone Rangers
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bloody Sire
By Robinson Jeffers

The Bridge of Change
By John Logan

from The Bridge: Atlantis
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Cutty Sark
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Quaker Hill
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge
By Hart Crane

The Brief Journey West
By Howard Nemerov

The Buffalo Coat
By Thomas McGrath

The Campus on the Hill
By W. D. Snodgrass

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Caveman on the Train
By John Frederick Nims

The Chant of the Vultures
By Edwin Markham

The Character of Holland
By Andrew Marvell

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Dance in Jinotega
By Grace Paley

The Day is a Poem
By Robinson Jeffers

The Depot
By Anne Winters

The Desert of Empire
By Mark Rudman

The Deserted Village
By Oliver Goldsmith

The Dinner
By Gregory Orr

The Dirt-Eaters
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Door (I)
By Robert Creeley

The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I

The Dust Covers My Shoes
By Hilda Morley

The Eagle That Is Forgotten
By Vachel Lindsay

from The Emigrants: A Poem
By Charlotte Smith

The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska

The End of an Ethnic Dream
By Jay Wright

The Erotic Philosophers
By Carolyn Kizer

The Fable About a Nail
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Farm on the Great Plains
By William E. Stafford

The Fatal Sisters: An Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Father of My Country
By Diane Wakoski

The Feed
By M.L. Smoker

The Fisherman
By William Butler Yeats

The Flashboat
By Jane Cooper

The French Revolution
By William Blake

The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
By William Wordsworth

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

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Great Palaces of Versailles
By Rita Dove

The Great Society
By Robert Bly

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Guards Came Through
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hand That Signed the Paper
By Dylan Thomas

The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats
By John Surowiecki

The History of America
By Alicia Ostriker

The History of Jazz
By Kenneth Koch

The Horses Run Back To Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson

The Iliad
By Alexander Pope

The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens

The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
By William Meredith

The King and Queen of Hearts
By Charles Lamb

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Lamb
By Linda Gregg

The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Last Attack. To Klaus
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson

The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The List
By A. F. Moritz

The Little Mariner
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling

The Lost Leader
By Robert Browning

The Lyric In A Time of War
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Madness of Emperors
By George Bradley

The Man He Killed
By Thomas Hardy

The Map
By Gary Soto

The March into Virginia Ending in the First Manassas (July, 1861)
By Herman Melville

The Mayans
By Eleanor Lerman

The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada

The Militant Black Poet
By Dudley Randall

The Misanthropist
By James Monroe Whitfield

The Monument and the Shrine
By John Logan

The Nail
By C. K. Williams

The Natives of America
By Ann Plato

The New Chinese Fiction
By James Tate

The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus

The Nineteenth Century as a Song
By Robert Hass

The Ninth of July
By John Hollander

The Old Meeting House
By Alfred Noyes

The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson
By Irene McKinney

The Pennacesse Leper Colony for Women, Cape Cod: 1922
By Norman Dubie

The People of the Other Village
By Thomas Lux

from The People, Yes
By Carl Sandburg

The Poet as Setting
By Douglas Kearney

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

The Political Meeting
By A. M. Klein

The Portent
By Herman Melville

The Powwow at the End of the World
By Sherman Alexie

The Price is Right: A Torture Wheel of Fortune
By Edward Dorn

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Rainbow
By David Baker

The Return
By Frank Bidart

The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott

The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats

The Second Slaughter
By Lucia Perillo

The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
By Bob Hicok

The Shampoo (From The Nightingales)
By David Wojahn

The Slave Mother
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The So-called Singer of Nab
By Sarah Lindsay

The Soldiers in the Garden
By Martín Espada

The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling

The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle

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

The South
By Emma Lazarus

The Speakers
By Weldon Kees

The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray

The Statesmen
By Ambrose Bierce

The Steel Glass
By George Gascoigne

The Stone Axe
By Robinson Jeffers

The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker

The Suburban Classes
By Stevie Smith

The Sweater of Vladimir Ussachevsky
By John Haines

The Tartar Swept
By August Kleinzahler

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 Topography of History
By Thomas McGrath

from The Triumph of Love
By Geoffrey Hill

The True Born Englishman
By Daniel Defoe

from The Vanity of Human Wishes
By Samuel Johnson

The Very Rich Hours
By James McMichael

The War Horse
By Eavan Boland

The Waste Carpet
By William Matthews

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Western Emigrant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni

Things
By Louis Simpson

Things of the Past
By Theodore Weiss

Thomas Jefferson
By Lorine Niedecker

Those Being Eaten by America
By Robert Bly

Though some Saith that Youth Ruleth me
By Henry VIII, king of England

To Our Land
By Mahmoud Darwish

To the Bartholdi Statue
By Ambrose Bierce

To The Indifferent Women
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

To the King on his Navy
By Edmund Waller

To the States,
By Walt Whitman

To The Stone-Cutters
By Robinson Jeffers

To the Western World
By Louis Simpson

To the Young Wife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

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 Percy Bysshe Shelley

Torcello
By Catherine Sasanov

Toussaint L’Ouverture
By Henrietta Cordelia Ray

Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement
By Pierre Martory

Tracings
By Michael Anania

Train Above Pedestrians
By Reginald Gibbons

Truth-Taking Stare
By David Wojahn

Two Poems from “The Day”
By Kenneth Goldsmith

Unholy Women
By Chris Abani

Unreliable Narration
By Sarah Lindsay

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

Us and Them
By Nomi Stone

Venetian Coda
By John Koethe

Video Cuisine
By Maxine W. Kumin

Villanelle of Change
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Villon
By Basil Bunting

Visions
By William E. Stafford

Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy

Wade Seego Believes Soylent Green Is People
By R. T. Smith

Waiting for the Barbarians
By C. P. Cavafy

Walking Down Park
By Nikki Giovanni

Walking West
By William E. Stafford

Wall and Pine: The Rain
By Anne Winters

Walt, the Wounded
By W. S. Di Piero

War Bird: A Journal
By David Gewanter

Water
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

We Wear the Mask
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What He Thought
By Heather McHugh

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What Kind of Times Are These
By Adrienne Rich

What loves, takes away
By Eleanor Wilner

What the Birds Said
By John Greenleaf Whittier

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

Who Am I, Without Exile?
By Mahmoud Darwish

Who Understands Me but Me
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket
By Vachel Lindsay

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

Wingfoot Lake
By Rita Dove

Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Witch Doctor
By Robert E. Hayden

Woods Burial
By John Peck

Woodstock
By Peter Balakian

Worldly Place
By Matthew Arnold

Written in London. September, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Written on a Wall at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

You Got a Song, Man
By Martín Espada

You Who Wronged
By Czeslaw Milosz

Young Afrikans
By Gwendolyn Brooks

[Posterity, this me is Now—]
By Dan Beachy-Quick

[Response to the Loyalty Oath]
By Jack Spicer

[The bird’s-eye view]
By Ben Lerner

[The wild and wavy event]
By Lorine Niedecker