There are 182 Dramatic Monologue poems

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

"I was one of the skunks"
By Bernadette Mayer

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

A Farmer Remembers Lincoln
By Witter Bynner

A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

A Local Doc, over Rocky Lunchtime Bourbon, Speaks of Barter and Hopeful Home Remedies
By R. T. Smith

a song in the front yard
By Gwendolyn Brooks

A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

Adam After the Ice Storm
By John Engels

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

Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning

Animals Are Passing from Our Lives
By Philip Levine

Aunt Madelyn At The White Sale
By Alice Fulton

Balance
By Linda Bierds

Baudelaire
By Delmore Schwartz

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Bloody Fate
By Miguel Hernández

Briefly It Enters, Briefly Speaks
By Jane Kenyon

Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Carl Hamblin
By Edgar Lee Masters

Cleon
By Robert Browning

Cloudy Day
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Confession in a Booth at the Hollow Log Lounge
By R. T. Smith

Conrad Siever
By Edgar Lee Masters

Count Gismond—Aix in Provence
By Robert Browning

Cowgirl
By R. T. Smith

Cuba, 1962
By Ai

Davis Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters

Dora Williams
By Edgar Lee Masters

Esmiss Esmoor
By Ben Belitt

Eternity Blues
By Hayden Carruth

Eugenia Todd
By Edgar Lee Masters

Eve Considers the Possibility of Pardon
By John Engels

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Fanny
By Carolyn Kizer

Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
By Lola Haskins

Gretel in Darkness
By Louise Glück

Gunga Din
By Rudyard Kipling

Herbert White
By Frank Bidart

Horse
By Louise Glück

I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
By Howard Nemerov

I Sit and Sew
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea
By Walter Savage Landor

Infant Joy
By William Blake

Interview
By Dudley Randall

Isis: Dorothy Eady, 1924
By Mark Doty

John Sutter
By Yvor Winters

Juggling Jerry
By George Meredith

Killing Floor
By Ai

Kwannon
By Marjorie Pickthall

Lambert Hutchins
By Edgar Lee Masters

Lines from a Plutocratic Poetaster to a Ditch-digger
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Linnaeus in Lapland
By Lorine Niedecker

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Luciferin
By Dean Young

Lucinda Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters

Lyman King
By Edgar Lee Masters

Madam’s Past History
By Langston Hughes

Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Maximus, to himself
By Charles Olson

Memphis Resurrection
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Middle-Aged
By Ezra Pound

Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger

from Monologues of the Son of Saul
By John Logan

Mother and Child
By Louise Glück

Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Mrs. Kessler
By Edgar Lee Masters

Muckraker
By Cate Marvin

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold

New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman

Next Day
By Randall Jarrell

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Northern Exposures
By G. E. Murray

Northern Farmer: New Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Northern Farmer: Old Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Nothing But Color
By Ai

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

Oxford Stroud Recollects Fishing with Electricity
By R. T. Smith

Passing Through
By Ai

Pig Song
By Margaret Atwood

Porphyria's Lover
By Robert Browning

Progressive Health
By Carl Dennis

Radio
By Gottfried Benn

Rat Song
By Margaret Atwood

Regarding Chainsaws
By Hayden Carruth

Reward
By Kevin Young

Rutherford McDowell
By Edgar Lee Masters

Sad and Alone
By Maurice Manning

Salomé
By Ai

Sarah Brown
By Edgar Lee Masters

Seele im Raum
By Randall Jarrell

Separation at Burnt Island
By D. Nurkse

Sequestrienne
By Dorothea Tanning

Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
By Rudyard Kipling

Seth Compton
By Edgar Lee Masters

Sheriff Matt Whitlock Confesses to a Lesson in Zen after Hours
By R. T. Smith

Shroud of the Gnome
By James Tate

Song & Error
By Averill Curdy

Song of the Little Cripple at the Street Corner
By Rainer Maria Rilke

Song of the Sea to the Shore
By Robert Fanning

Song of the Witches
By William Shakespeare

Stars
By Alice Friman

State's Attorney Fallas
By Edgar Lee Masters

Stranger at the Ashwood Threshold
By Sherod Santos

Subway Seethe
By J. Allyn Rosser

Sylvester’s Dying Bed
By Langston Hughes

Talking Richard Wilson Blues, by Richard Clay Wilson
By Denis Johnson

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest

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

The Boarding
By Denis Johnson

The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity
By Mary Ruefle

The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off
By Cornelius Eady

The cat’s song
By Marge Piercy

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake

The Circuit Judge
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson

The Curator
By Miller Williams

The Dowser’s Ear
By Wilmer Mills

The Dying Hunter to his Dog
By Susanna Moodie

The God of Inattention
By Averill Curdy

The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski

The Jester
By Margaret Widdemer

The Kid
By Ai

The Laboratory
By Robert Browning

The Larger
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass
By Michael S. Harper

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

The Maid’s Lament
By Walter Savage Landor

The Men
By Pablo Neruda

The Moss of His Skin
By Anne Sexton

The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons
By A.E. Stallings

The Motorcyclists
By James Tate

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The Perfect Life
By John Koethe

The Phyllis
By R. T. Smith

The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück

The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück

The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray

The Stars Are
By Samuel Menashe

The Strange People
By Louise Erdrich

The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold

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

The Unknown
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Untrustworthy Speaker
By Louise Glück

The Voyage Home
By Philip Appleman

The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
By Bernadette Mayer

the weather is hot on the back of my watch
By Charles Bukowski

The Woman at the Washington Zoo
By Randall Jarrell

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

To Mary
By William Cowper

To My Father's Business
By Kenneth Koch

Torcello
By Catherine Sasanov

Twang Chic: Sam Buckhannon Explores the Latest Fashion
By R. T. Smith

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward
By Anne Sexton

Vagabonds
By Arthur Rimbaud

Vespers [In your extended absence, you permit me]
By Louise Glück

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

Walter Llywarch
By R. S. Thomas

Walter Llywarch
By R. S. Thomas

Washington McNeely
By Edgar Lee Masters

What the Rattlesnake Said
By Vachel Lindsay

Who Am I?
By Carl Sandburg

Why Are Your Poems So Dark?
By Linda Pastan

Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun

Widow McFarlane
By Edgar Lee Masters

Windigo
By Louise Erdrich

Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

You People
By Nance Van Winckel

Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun