There are 211 Blank Verse poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.“Do Not Embrace Your Mind’s New Negro Friend”
By William Meredith
Paradise Lost: Book I
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IV
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IX
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book X
By John Milton
A Book on a Shelf 
By Roger Mitchell
A Death in the Desert
By Robert Browning
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
By Wallace Stevens
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
By Frank O'Hara
A Vision of Poesy
By Henry Timrod
A Workman to the Gods
By Edwin Markham
About the Phoenix
By James Merrill
Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
All Afternoon
By Charles Tomlinson
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
By Robert Browning
from An Explanation of America: A Love of Death
By Robert Pinsky
An Xmas Murder 
By Alfred Corn
Anchored to the Infinite
By Edwin Markham
Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning
At the Executed Murderer’s Grave 
By James Wright
Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy (complete text)
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers
‘Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair’
By Philip Larkin
Bees and Morning Glories
By John Ciardi
Beyond the Stars 
By Charles Hanson Towne
Birches
By Robert Frost
Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Brothers-American Drama
By James Weldon Johnson
Burning Trash
By John Updike
Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning
Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson
Change
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Clear-seeing
By Edgar Bowers
Cleon
By Robert Browning
Clothes
By Edgar Bowers
Conscription Camp 
By Karl Shapiro
Contrary Theses (II)
By Wallace Stevens
Counselors
By Robert Fitzgerald
Darkness
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Days
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
By Richard F. Hugo
Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
By Delmore Schwartz
Eclogue of the Shepherd and the Townie
By Anthony Hecht
Elena
By Irving Feldman
Equations of the Light
By Dana Gioia
Ex-Basketball Player
By John Updike
Exile
By Conrad Aiken
Farewell to Florida
By Wallace Stevens
Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor
First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald
For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers
For once, then Something
By Robert Frost
Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning
Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God
By Isaac Rosenberg
God’s Acre
By Conrad Aiken
Gyroscope
By Howard Nemerov
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hyperion
By John Keats
I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris
By Louis Simpson
Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In a London Drawingroom
By George Eliot
In Celebration
By Mark Strand
In Cities, Be Alert
By Annie Finch
In the Kingdom of Pleasure
By Alan Shapiro
In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave
By Delmore Schwartz
Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
By William Wordsworth
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens
Learning the Trees 
By Howard Nemerov
Letter from a Distant Land 
By Philip Booth
Lincoln
By Delmore Schwartz
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
By William Wordsworth
Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve
By Carolyn Kizer
London’s Summer Morning
By Mary Robinson
Magnificat 
By Eleanor Wilner
Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro
Mending Wall
By Robert Frost
Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth
Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden
Middle-Aged 
By Ezra Pound
Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger
Money
By Howard Nemerov
Morte d'Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith
from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction: It Must Give Pleasure
By Wallace Stevens
O Carib Isle! 
By Hart Crane
OEnone
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Of Modern Poetry
By Wallace Stevens
On Virtue
By Phillis Wheatley
Paradise Lost: Book I (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book II (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book III (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IV (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book IX (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book VI (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book VII (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book VIII (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book X (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book XI (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book XII (1674)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book I (1671)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book II (1671)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book III (1671)
By John Milton
Paradise Regain'd: Book IV (1671)
By John Milton
Part for the Whole 
By Robert Francis
Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald
Paths 
By John Montague
Peripeteia
By Anthony Hecht
Planting the Meadow 
By Mary Makofske
Portrait d'une Femme
By Ezra Pound
from Preludes for Memnon
By Conrad Aiken
Pretty
By Stevie Smith
Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle
Prometheus Unbound
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
from Queen Mab: Part VI
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Raking Near the Great Works 
By Megan Grumbling
Ralegh’s Prizes
By Robert Pinsky
Rarefied 
By Albert Goldbarth
Retirement
By Henry Timrod
Road 
By Lisa Williams
Samson Agonistes
By John Milton
Scrabble with Matthews 
By David Wojahn
Sea Holly
By Conrad Aiken
Seele im Raum 
By Randall Jarrell
Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary
Singing School
By Seamus Heaney
Some Assembly Required 
By George Bradley
Storm Windows
By Howard Nemerov
Sugar Cane
By Alfred Corn
Sunday Morning 
By Wallace Stevens
That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry
The Age of Dinosaurs 
By James Scruton
The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
By Howard Nemerov
The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest
The Bearer 
By Hayden Carruth
The Beggars 
By Margaret Widdemer
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
By Robert Browning
The Brief Journey West
By Howard Nemerov
The Caterpillar
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld
The Children
By Mark Jarman
The Chorus
By Rachel Hadas
The Comedian as the Letter C
By Wallace Stevens
The Constant Voice
By John Koethe
The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost
The Deodand
By Anthony Hecht
The Dependencies
By Howard Nemerov
The Dowser’s Ear 
By Wilmer Mills
The Fable
By Yvor Winters
The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
By William Wordsworth
The Great Blue Heron 
By Carolyn Kizer
The Hearts
By Robert Pinsky
The Icehouse in Summer
By Howard Nemerov
The Idea of Order at Key West
By Wallace Stevens
The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo
The Lovers of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Man on the Dump
By Wallace Stevens
The Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham
The Marriage in the Trees
By Stanley Plumly
The Old Cumberland Beggar
By William Wordsworth
The Perfect Life 
By John Koethe
The Phyllis
By R. T. Smith
The Pit
By John Fuller
from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time
By William Wordsworth
from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
By William Wordsworth
The Princess: Come down, O Maid
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess: Our Enemies Have Fall'n
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man 
By Wallace Stevens
The Simplon Pass
By William Wordsworth
The Singers 
By Todd Hearon
The Snow-Storm
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Soldier
By David Ferry
The Sponge 
By Joshua Mehigan
The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost
The Steel Glass
By George Gascoigne
The Summer Bower
By Henry Timrod
The Summer Image
By Léonie Adams
The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks
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 Transfiguration
By Edwin Muir
The Troubles That Women Start Are Men
By Rodney Jones
The West Window in Moveen
By Thomas P. Lynch
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
By Randall Jarrell
The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost
There was a Boy
By William Wordsworth
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tithonus
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand 
By Howard Nemerov
To Mr. [S.T.] C[oleridge]
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld
To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey
To Whistler, American 
By Ezra Pound
Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford
Troop Train
By Karl Shapiro
Twelfth Birthday 
By Rachel Hadas
Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
University 
By Karl Shapiro
Venetian Coda 
By John Koethe
Venetian Interior, 1889
By Richard Howard
Voyages
By Hart Crane
Washing Day
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Witch Doctor
By Robert E. Hayden
Writing
By Howard Nemerov
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