There are 201 Poems about Class
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.1932
By Frederick Morgan
The Common Women Poems, II. Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
By Judy Grahn
The Common Women Poems, III. Nadine, resting on her neighbor’s stoop
By Judy Grahn
A Gallup Swill-Hole; Or, Cantina Blues
By Clarence Major
A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails
By Nikki Giovanni
A Home
By Sarah C. Woolsey
A Pict Song
By Rudyard Kipling
A Poem for the Cruel Majority
By Jerome Rothenberg
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 Song: “Men of England”
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison
By Etheridge Knight
A Winter Night
By Robert Burns
Addiction
By A. F. Moritz
Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano
After working sixty hours again for what reason
By Bob Hicok
from America, America
By Saadi Youssef
An Arbor 
By Linda Gregerson
An Immigrant Woman
By Anne Winters
Anchorage
By Joy Harjo
Aubade
By Edith Sitwell
Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake
Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot
Box of Cigars 
By Gerald Stern
Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes
Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile
Chant
By Tom Sleigh
Chicago 
By Carl Sandburg
Chicago
By Paul Engle
Childhood
By Margaret Walker
Christian Virtues
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
Cities
By H. D.
City Elegies
By Robert Pinsky
Contentment
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot
Daily Bread
By John Reibetanz
Days of 1908
By C. P. Cavafy
De Linin’ ub De Hymns
By Daniel Webster Davis
Doña Josefina Counsels Doña Concepción Before Entering Sears
By Maurice Kilwein Guevara
Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League
By Joseph Seamon Cotter
East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers
Eclogue the Second: HASSAN; or, the Camel-driver.
By William Collins
England in 1819
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Essay on Psychiatrists
By Robert Pinsky
Eve of St. Agony or The Middleclass Was Sitting on Its Fat
By Kenneth Patchen
Everyone Has a House
By Kate Gale
Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate
Foodcourt
By Tony Hoagland
For a' That and a' That
By Robert Burns
For Malcolm, A Year After
By Etheridge Knight
For Pharish Pinckney, Bindle-Stiff During the Depression
By Dudley Randall
Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
By Hilaire Belloc
Government
By Carl Sandburg
Graceland
By Carl Sandburg
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
By Etheridge Knight
Hard-time blues
By William Waring Cuney
Harlem Shadows
By Claude McKay
Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer
Hidden Harvest
By Rodrigo Toscano
Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake
Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see
By William Blake
Honey Dripper
By Clarence Major
Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings
Hypothetical Antipodes, Judgment
By Philip Jenks
I am the People, the Mob
By Carl Sandburg
I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves
By Colleen J. McElroy
Ice Plant in Bloom
By W. S. Di Piero
Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
In the Armpit of the Hill
By Clarence Major
In The Black Rock Tavern
By Judith Slater
Islanders
By Richard Emil Braun
Jack
By Carl Sandburg
January, 1795
By Mary Robinson
Joy in the Woods
By Claude McKay
Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major
Lies and Longing
By Linda Gregg
Like New
By Linda Gregerson
Lines from a Plutocratic Poetaster to a Ditch-digger
By Franklin Pierce Adams
Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe
from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe
Map 
By Atsuro Riley
Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Memories of West Street and Lepke
By Robert Lowell
Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly
Money
By Reginald Gibbons
Money Won’t Change It (but time will take you on)
By Cornelius Eady
More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate
Native Woman
By A. F. Moritz
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg
Night Wash
By Anne Winters
No Buyers
By Thomas Hardy
No Classes!
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Northern Farmer: New Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Northern Farmer: Old Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
By James Edwin Campbell
Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie
On the Loss of Energy (and Other Things)
By June Jordan
One Girl of Many
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
Opera Bouffe 
By Philip Gross
Parchment 
By Michelle Boisseau
Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Politics of Mop and Sponge
By Kevin Stein
Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Poverty
By Jane Taylor
Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez
Rarefied 
By Albert Goldbarth
Ready to Kill
By Carl Sandburg
Requests for Toy Piano 
By Tony Hoagland
Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Riot
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Royalty 
By Lianne Spidel
Sales 
By W. S. Di Piero
Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study
By Thomas Hardy
from Saying Grace
By Kevin Young
School
By Jane Miller
Seventh Street
By Jean Toomer
Shadow Play 
By Ralph Angel
Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell
Small Kingdom
By Samuel Menashe
Song of the Galley-Slaves
By Rudyard Kipling
Sonnet Reversed
By Rupert Brooke
Street Music
By Elizabeth Akers Allen
The Beggars 
By Margaret Widdemer
The Birth-day
By Mary Robinson
The Boston Evening Transcript
By T. S. Eliot
The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off
By Cornelius Eady
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
By E. E. Cummings
The Chaste Stranger
By James Tate
The Children of the Poor 
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake
The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Dead 
By Don Paterson
The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost
The Deserted Village
By Oliver Goldsmith
The Dignity of Ushers 
By Al Maginnes
The Dirt-Eaters
By Elizabeth Alexander
The Dow Is Off
By Norman Williams
from The Emigrants: A Poem
By Charlotte Smith
The Emperor's Dream
By Zbigniew Herbert
The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly
The Four Zoas
By William Blake
The Great Pax Whitie
By Nikki Giovanni
The Great Society
By Robert Bly
The Grey Monk
By William Blake
The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More
The Harbor 
By Carl Sandburg
The Horses Run Back To Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson
The Lady and the Doctor
By Helen Leigh
The Laws of Motion
By Nikki Giovanni
The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
The Little Black Boy
By William Blake
The Little Match Girl
By William McGonagall
The Little Orphan
By Edgar Albert Guest
The Little Vagabond
By William Blake
The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz
The Men 
By Pablo Neruda
The Mill-Race
By Anne Winters
The Paradox
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley
The Ruined Maid
By Thomas Hardy
The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott
The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada
The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold
The Suburban Classes
By Stevie Smith
the trash men
By Charles Bukowski
The Trickle-Down Theory of Happiness 
By Philip Appleman
The Truth about Small Towns
By David Baker
The Two Boys
By Mary Lamb
The View from Here
By W. S. Di Piero
The Village: Book I
By George Crabbe
The Window, at the Moment of Flame
By Alicia Ostriker
The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window
By Joy Harjo
from The Woman’s Labor. An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck
By Mary Collier
The Workforce
By James Tate
They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni
They Feed They Lion
By Philip Levine
They Will Say
By Carl Sandburg
Time Passes
By Cesare Pavese
To Elsie
By William Carlos Williams
To My Brother
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman
To the Negro Farmers of the United States
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Tourist
By Paul Engle
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
Twang Chic: Sam Buckhannon Explores the Latest Fashion
By R. T. Smith
Two Aunts
By Thomas James
Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy
We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer
Webs and Weeds
By Colleen J. McElroy
What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
What Work Is
By Philip Levine
Who Understands Me but Me
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Winter
By Anne Hunter
Wish for an Overcoat
By Alfred Islay Walden
Work Shy
By Alex Phillips
Worldly Place
By Matthew Arnold
Worm Either Way
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Written in London. September, 1802
By William Wordsworth
Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped
By John Dryden
[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up
By Bernadette Mayer
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