There are 316 Poems about Cities & Urban Life

1932
By Frederick Morgan

1941
By Ruth Stone

A Contract. (For the Destruction and Rebuilding of Paterson
By Amiri Baraka

A Crowded Trolley Car
By Elinor Wylie

A Description of the Morning
By Jonathan Swift

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

A History of Sexual Preference
By Robin Becker

A Lot
By Scott Cairns

A Motor
By Marvin Bell

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

A Pedestrian
By Amit Majmudar

A Second Train Song for Gary
By Jack Spicer

A Side Street
By Louis Untermeyer

A Step Away from Them
By Frank O'Hara

A Sum of Destructions
By Theodore Weiss

A Supermarket in California
By Allen Ginsberg

A Toccata of Galuppi's
By Robert Browning

A Winter Daybreak above Vence
By James Wright

AAA Vacation Guide
By Ernest Hilbert

Above the City
By James Laughlin

Alameda Street
By Douglas Kearney

All Afternoon
By Charles Tomlinson

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

An Immigrant Woman
By Anne Winters

An Interview
By Oskar Pastior

An Urban Convalescence
By James Merrill

Ants on the Melon
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Aphrodite Metropolis (1)
By Kenneth Fearing

Asked to Recall a Moment of Pure Happiness
By Mary Kinzie

Aspects of Robinson
By Weldon Kees

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

Aubade-Harlem
By Thomas James Merton

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

backstage drama
By Thulani Davis

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Bernal Hill
By Randall Mann

Beyond Words
By Kevin Young

Big City
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Big City Speech
By W. S. Di Piero

Black Mare
By Lynda Hull

Blue Moon
By W. S. Di Piero

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

Box of Cigars
By Gerald Stern

Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

Busman's Honeymoon
By A. F. Moritz

Carolina Journal
By Nicole Pekarske

Cathedral
By Terence Winch

Chant
By Tom Sleigh

Charles Meryon
By Christopher Middleton

Chicago
By Carl Sandburg

Chicago
By Paul Engle

Chicago and December
By W. S. Di Piero

Chicago’s Congo
By Frank Marshall Davis

Chomei at Toyama
By Basil Bunting

Christmas Away from Home
By Jane Kenyon

Cities
By H. D.

City Elegies
By Robert Pinsky

Come with Me
By Robert Bly

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Consecration
By Susan Stewart

Cool Pastoral on Bloor Street
By John Reibetanz

Coyote, with Mange
By Mark Wunderlich

Crepuscule with Muriel
By Marilyn Hacker

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman

Dear Mr. Fanelli,
By Charles Bernstein

Descriptive Jottings of London
By William McGonagall

Detroit, Tomorrow
By Philip Levine

Dirge
By Kenneth Fearing

Doctor Frolic
By Robert Pinsky

Domestic Violence
By Eavan Boland

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

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

Duns Scotus's Oxford
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Early Morning in Milwaukee
By John Koethe

East of the Library, Across from the Odd Fellows Building
By August Kleinzahler

Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary
By Kevin Young

Elegy for a Soldier
By Marilyn Hacker

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope

Epithalamion
By David Jones

Etching of the Plague Years
By Mary Karr

Euphorias
By Philip Appleman

Everything’s a Fake
By Fanny Howe

Ex-Basketball Player
By John Updike

Falling From Us, Vanishings
By Alan Williamson

First Grade Homework
By D. Nurkse

Fog
By Carl Sandburg

from Four Good Things
By James McMichael

Freely Espousing
By James Schuyler

From a Rooftop
By Timothy Steele

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Glow Flesh
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Good-Bye
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Graceland
By Carl Sandburg

Grand Central, Track 23
By Elizabeth Skurnick

Harlem
By Langston Hughes

Harlem Shadows
By Claude McKay

Harlem Sweeties
By Langston Hughes

Harrison Street Court
By Carl Sandburg

Having My Cards Read
By W. S. Di Piero

Hello, Willie Shoemaker
By Charles Bukowski

Homo Will Not Inherit
By Mark Doty

Hotel François 1^er
By Gertrude Stein

How Evolution Came to Indiana
By Philip Appleman

How to Enter a Big City
By Thomas James Merton

Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City
By Thomas James Merton

Hymn to Life
By James Schuyler

Hysteria
By Dionisio D. Martinez

I am the People, the Mob
By Carl Sandburg

I Remember Galileo
By Gerald Stern

I the People
By Alice Notley

In a London Drawingroom
By George Eliot

In a Station of the Metro
By Ezra Pound

In Cities, Be Alert
By Annie Finch

In Houston
By Gail Mazur

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

In the Midwest
By Edward Hirsch

Industrial Lace
By Alice Fulton

Isla
By Virgil Suárez

January, 1795
By Mary Robinson

Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake!
By William Blake

Jottings of New York: A Descriptive Poem
By William McGonagall

July in Washington
By Robert Lowell

Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye
By Gerald Stern

Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major

Last Century
By Wyatt Prunty

Laundry
By Bruce Smith

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Learning to Talk
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Leaving Bartram’s Garden in Southwest Philadelphia
By W. S. Di Piero

Leaving Kansas City
By George Bradley

Letter from the Mountains
By James K. Baxter

Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden
By Major Jackson

Like New
By Linda Gregerson

Like Rousseau
By Amiri Baraka

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

London
By William Blake

London Snow
By Robert Bridges

London, 1802
By William Wordsworth

London’s Summer Morning
By Mary Robinson

Luminous Great Mass
By Peter O’Leary

Madam’s Past History
By Langston Hughes

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Matins
By David Wojahn

Meditations in an Emergency
By Frank O'Hara

Metropolitan
By John Fuller

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Minor Poet
By Bill Sweeney

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

Mugging (I)
By Allen Ginsberg

from My Life: Reason looks for two, then arranges it from there
By Lyn Hejinian

My Message Left Next to the Phone
By W. S. Di Piero

My Sad Self
By Allen Ginsberg

N
By Randall Mann

Native Woman
By A. F. Moritz

New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg

New York
By Valzhyna Mort

Night Wash
By Anne Winters

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

Nights on Planet Earth
By Campbell McGrath

Nocturne
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

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

Now and then
By James Schuyler

Odd
By Dannie Abse

Ode For Walt Whitman
By Jack Spicer

Ode on Solitude
By Alexander Pope

On Broadway
By Claude McKay

On Mother’s Day
By Grace Paley

On Reading Crowds and Power
By Geoffrey Hill

One Girl of Many
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Ophelia's Technicolor G-String: An Urban Mythology
By Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett

Out of Metropolis
By Lynn Emanuel

Over and Under
By John Brehm

Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems
By Jacques Roubaud

Pastoral
By William Carlos Williams

Pedestrian
By Thomas Lux

People
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Phases
By Wallace Stevens

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Photograph from September 11
By Wisława Szymborska

Poem about People
By Robert Pinsky

Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima
By Lisa Jarnot

Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton

Port-Au-Prince
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

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

Preludes
By T. S. Eliot

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Prothalamion
By David Jones

Relating to Robinson
By Weldon Kees

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Rhapsody on a Windy Night
By T. S. Eliot

Ruined Tunnel
By Forrest Gander

Sales
By W. S. Di Piero

Scattering the March
By D. Nurkse

Serena I
By Samuel Beckett

Seventh Street
By Jean Toomer

Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman

Shadow Play
By Ralph Angel

Shakespeare
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sharks' Teeth
By Kay Ryan

Shroud of the Gnome
By James Tate

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Slant
By Suji Kwock Kim

Sleep
By Meghan O'Rourke

Smoke
By Philip Levine

Solitude: An Ode
By Alexander Pope

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

Somehow They Got Three Stories Up
By W. S. Di Piero

Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco

Sonnet to Vauxhall
By Thomas Hood

Sonnet: I Scarcely Grieve
By Henry Timrod

Spring Letter
By Carl Dennis

Starlings
By W. S. Di Piero

Statement with Rhymes
By Weldon Kees

Stravinsky in L.A.
By Elizabeth Alexander

Street Boy
By J. Allyn Rosser

Street Music
By Elizabeth Akers Allen

Street Musicians
By John Ashbery

Suburban Pastoral
By Dave Lucas

Subway Seethe
By J. Allyn Rosser

Subway Wind
By Claude McKay

Sunday Chimes in the City
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Sunflower Sutra
By Allen Ginsberg

Sunny Prestatyn
By Philip Larkin

Swallow the Lake
By Clarence Major

Sweet Machine
By Mark Doty

Terminator Too
By Tom Clark

The 167th Psalm of Elvis
By Tony Barnstone

The Apples
By W. S. Di Piero

The Avenues
By David St. John

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Blackstone Rangers
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Blue-Eyed Precinct Worker
By Henri Coulette

The Boarding
By Denis Johnson

The Boston Evening Transcript
By T. S. Eliot

The Bridge of Change
By John Logan

from The Bridge: The Tunnel
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge
By Hart Crane

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The Cities Inside Us
By Alberto Ríos

The City (1925)
By Carl Rakosi

The Cleaving
By Li-Young Lee

The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson

The Cooling Tower
By Amy Clampitt

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Dawn
By Federico García Lorca

The Desert of Empire
By Mark Rudman

The Executive’s Death
By Robert Bly

The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams

The Flâneur
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Great Pax Whitie
By Nikki Giovanni

The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More

The Harbor
By Carl Sandburg

The Key to the City
By Anne Winters

The Key to the Kingdom
By Philip Gross

The Legend
By Garrett Hongo

The Lights of London
By Louise Imogen Guiney

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

The Man in the Dead Machine
By Donald Hall

The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada

The Mill-Race
By Anne Winters

The Minneapolis Poem
By James Wright

The neighbor
By Marge Piercy

The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus

The New World
By Amiri Baraka

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale

The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
By Larry Levis

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

The Reverie of Poor Susan
By William Wordsworth

The Runners
By Irving Feldman

The Shore of Life
By Robert Fitzgerald

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

The Town Dump
By Howard Nemerov

the trash men
By Charles Bukowski

The Tropics in New York
By Claude McKay

The Undeniable Pressure of Existence
By Patricia Fargnoli

The View from Here
By W. S. Di Piero

The Washingtonian
By May Miller

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Weary Blues
By Langston Hughes

The White City
By Claude McKay

The Windy City [sections 1 and 6]
By Carl Sandburg

from The Woman’s Labor. An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck
By Mary Collier

Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes

These Lacustrine Cities
By John Ashbery

They Will Say
By Carl Sandburg

This
By Ralph Angel

This Is It
By Gerald Stern

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Three Italian Pictures
By Mina Loy

Time Passes
By Cesare Pavese

Time Problem
By Brenda Hillman

To My Old City
By W. S. Di Piero

To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
By John Keats

Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement
By Pierre Martory

Train Above Pedestrians
By Reginald Gibbons

Two Guitars
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Un citadin / A City Dweller
By Jacques Réda

Union Square
By Sara Teasdale

Up at a Villa—Down in the City
By Robert Browning

Urban Renewal
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Vacant Lot
By Dudley Randall

Victims of the Latest Dance Craze
By Cornelius Eady

Victory
By Fanny Howe

Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy

Walking Down Park
By Nikki Giovanni

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

who knows if the moon's
By E. E. Cummings

Windy City
By Stuart Dybek

Winter Dawn
By Kenneth Slessor

Written in London. September, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Yellow Dress
By Amy Beeder

You Can’t Warm Your Hands in Front of a Book but You Can Warm Your Hopes There
By Fanny Howe