There are 103 Epigram poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine."'kitty'. sixteen,5'1",white,prostitute"
By E. E. Cummings
"I'm the pen your lover writes with"
By Bernadette Mayer
"Sometimes a human mammal is not to be seen"
By Bernadette Mayer
A Lame Begger
By John Donne
A Man Said to the Universe
By Stephen Crane
Abraham Lincoln
By Abraham Lincoln
Account
By Czeslaw Milosz
An Altogether Different Language
By Anne Porter
And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art thou pale for weariness
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Faith” is fine invention (202)
By Emily Dickinson
Bede's Death Song
By The Venerable Bede
Blind Joy
By John Frederick Nims
But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light
By Richard Crashaw
Chapter Heading
By Ernest M. Hemingway
Days of Our Years
By John Frederick Nims
Defeated
By Sophie Jewett
Dirce
By Walter Savage Landor
Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian
By Richard Crashaw
Divine Epigrams: On the Miracle of the Multiplied Loaves
By Richard Crashaw
Divine Epigrams: Samson to his Delilah
By Richard Crashaw
Divine Epigrams: To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine
By Richard Crashaw
Do you Remember me? or are you Proud?
By Walter Savage Landor
from Doctor Drink, #1
By J. V. Cunningham
Dust of Snow
By Robert Frost
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
By Walter Savage Landor
Ebb
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Elms
By Louise Glück
Elusive Time
By James Laughlin
from Epigrams: A Journal, #20
By J. V. Cunningham
from Epigrams: A Journal, #30
By J. V. Cunningham
from Epigrams: A Journal, #8
By J. V. Cunningham
Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
By Ben Jonson
Faults
By Sara Teasdale
Fire and Ice
By Robert Frost
Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost
For Futures
By Josephine Miles
Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good Husbands Make Unhappy Wives
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Greek Architecture
By Herman Melville
How to get RICHES
By Benjamin Franklin
Humoresque
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
I Hear a River thro’ the Valley Wander
By Trumbull Stickney
In a Station of the Metro 
By Ezra Pound
In Defiance of Fortune
By Elizabeth I
Into Death Bravely
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Liberty
By Archibald MacLeish
Like an Animal
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Little Soul 
By Hadrian
Looking Forward
By Robert Louis Stevenson
My Autograph
By Susanna Moodie
Natural Law
By Babette Deutsch
Natural Selection 
By Alan Shapiro
Neo-Thomist Poem
By Ernest M. Hemingway
No Time 
By Billy Collins
Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost
On Gut
By Ben Jonson
One Sung of thee who Left the Tale Untold
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Preparedness
By Edwin Markham
Resum
By Dorothy Parker
Rue 
By Samuel Menashe
Scree 
By Heidy Steidlmayer
Second Fig
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Self-Pity
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Separation 
By W. S. Merwin
Should the Wide World Roll Away
By Stephen Crane
Sir, Say no More
By Trumbull Stickney
Song in the Songless
By George Meredith
Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O'er
By Walter Savage Landor
Suicide's Note
By Langston Hughes
Tea-Strainer 
By Joyelle McSweeney
Tenderness and Rot 
By Kay Ryan
The Anti-Suffragist
By Eva Gore-Booth
The Bison
By Hilaire Belloc
The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández
The Fire
By Deborah Parédez
The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Frog
By Hilaire Belloc
The Horrid Voice of Science 
By Vachel Lindsay
The Little White Rose
By Hugh MacDiarmid
The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued
By Trumbull Stickney
The Poet's Life: From Martial's Epigrams 
By Gary Schmidgall
The Whale
By Hilaire Belloc
The Yak
By Hilaire Belloc
Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz
There was a little girl
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Three Poets 
By Robert West
To an Intra-mural Rat
By Marianne Moore
To Autumn
By Louise Glück
To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr
To John Donne
By Ben Jonson
To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
By Ben Jonson
To Rosa
By Abraham Lincoln
To the Destroyers of Ballots
By Donald Revell
Upon Parson Beanes
By Robert Herrick
What I Know About Epistemology 
By John Surowiecki
When Life
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
With a Book
By Ambrose Bierce
Written in her French Psalter
By Elizabeth I
Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I
You know where you did despise
By Alexander Pope
You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed
By Walter Savage Landor
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