There are 235 Allusion poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine."Love of My Flesh, Living Death"
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet
A Farewell to Tobacco
By Charles Lamb
A little East of Jordan, (145)
By Emily Dickinson
A Magic Mountain
By Czeslaw Milosz
A New Story
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
A Version of Paolo and Francesca
By Peter Balakian
A Woman on the Dump
By Debora Greger
Abraham Lincoln
By Abraham Lincoln
Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor
Address to the Devil
By Robert Burns
Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke
After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer
Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake
All overgrown by cunning moss, (146)
By Emily Dickinson
America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
America: A Prophecy
By William Blake
An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
By Robert Browning
Bacchanalia
By Matthew Arnold
Before Sextet
By Bernadette Mayer
Beyond Words
By Kevin Young
Blues for Dante Alighieri 
By Kim Addonizio
Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats
Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg
Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold
Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning
Call Me Pier
By Susan Firer
Cassandra
By Louise Bogan
Chicago 
By Carl Sandburg
Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Cleanliness
By Charles Lamb
Consolation 
By Wisława Szymborska
Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
courthouse steps 
By D.A. Powell
Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch
Customs of the Barbarians 
By Alan Williamson
Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Dear Mr. Merrill, 
By Moira Egan
Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke
Do you Remember me? or are you Proud?
By Walter Savage Landor
Don Juan: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Earth's Answer
By William Blake
Easter Week
By Joyce Kilmer
Elegy of Fortinbras
By Zbigniew Herbert
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake
Exile
By George Elliott Clarke
Fancy
By John Keats
First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert
Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Funny Strange 
By Jennifer Michael Hecht
George & Rue: Pure, Virtuous Killers
By George Elliott Clarke
God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
By John Donne
Gospel
By Fleda Brown
Government
By Carl Sandburg
Handle 
By J. Allyn Rosser
He Said Turn Here
By Dean Young
Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty
Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer
Heroic Simile
By Robert Hass
History Lessons 
By Sidney Wade
Holy Sonnets: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
By John Donne
Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake
Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne
Hyperion
By John Keats
Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea
By Walter Savage Landor
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
By John Keats
Impromptus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Introduction to the Songs of Experience
By William Blake
Isis: Dorothy Eady, 1924
By Mark Doty
Isolation: To Marguerite
By Matthew Arnold
Jerusalem: England! awake! awake! awake!
By William Blake
Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
By William Blake
Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke
Kind of Blue 
By Lynn Powell
Kindness 
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Last Lines
By Anne Brontë
Letter to a Young Poet 
By Robert Wrigley
Li Hua's Messenger 
By Peter Bethanis
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold
Lissadell 
By Wendy Cope
Little Blessing for My Floater 
By Jeanne Murray Walker
Looking Around 
By Charles Wright
Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love (I)
By George Herbert
Love Armed
By Aphra Behn
Love's Deity
By John Donne
Love-Lily
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Lucifer in Starlight
By David St. John
Lullaby 
By Amanda Jernigan
Lullabye for the Second Millennium 
By J. Allyn Rosser
Magnificat 
By Eleanor Wilner
Marco Polo at Finisterre 
By Matthew Brenneman
Market Forecast 
By Alexa Selph
Mary Shelley in Brigantine 
By Stephen Dunn
Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Milton: And did those feet in ancient time
By William Blake
Milton: But in the Wine-presses the Human Grapes Sing not nor Dance
By William Blake
Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los
By William Blake
Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney
Morality
By Matthew Arnold
Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor
Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold
N 
By Randall Mann
Negation
By George Elliott Clarke
Notes on the Steps of the San Diego Bus Depot
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Obbligato 
By Bruce Smith
Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats
Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso 
By Donald Revell
Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
By John Keats
One Night Stand
By Jack Spicer
Ophelia's Technicolor G-String: An Urban Mythology
By Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett
Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke
Orpheus in Hell
By Jack Spicer
Outside
By Mark Jarman
Pamet Harbor 
By Gerald Stern
Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück
Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke
Pentecost 
By David Wojahn
Phases 
By Wallace Stevens
Philomela
By Matthew Arnold
Pig Song 
By Margaret Atwood
Platonic Love 
By Curt Anderson
Prais’d be Diana’s Fair and Harmless Light
By Sir Walter Ralegh
Prayer (I)
By George Herbert
Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer
Private and Profane 
By Marie Ponsot
Prometheus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Reading Titus Andronicus In Three Mile Plains, N.S.
By George Elliott Clarke
Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert
Report from the Temple of Confessions in Old Chicano English
By Brenda Cárdenas
Revelations in the Key of K 
By Mary Karr
Robin Hood
By John Keats
Rue 
By Samuel Menashe
Saul
By Robert Browning
Schools 
By Paula Tatarunis
Scrabble with Matthews 
By David Wojahn
Sean Penn Anti-Ode 
By Dean Young
Self-Portrait at 38 
By Jennifer Tonge
Separation at Burnt Island 
By D. Nurkse
Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Son of Fog 
By Dean Young
Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
By William Blake
Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
By William Cowper
Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O'er
By Walter Savage Landor
Spring Snow 
By Linda Gregerson
Stalin's Library Card 
By David Wojahn
Staying Power 
By Jeanne Murray Walker
Stomackes 
By Albert Goldbarth
That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
That Too 
By Lawrence Joseph
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke
The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest
The Boathouse 
By David St. John
The Book of Urizen
By William Blake
The Calm
By John Donne
The Collar
By George Herbert
The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
By Ambrose Bierce
The Death of Allegory 
By Billy Collins
The Death of Antinoüs 
By Mark Doty
The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
The Divine Image
By William Blake
The Doors 
By David St. John
The Duffel Bag 
By David Harsent
The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück
The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats
The French Revolution
By William Blake
The Future
By Matthew Arnold
The Grey Monk
By William Blake
The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats 
By John Surowiecki
The Hitchhikers 
By Diane Wakoski
The Hold-fast
By George Herbert
The Horses Run Back To Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson
The Larger 
By Joanie V. Mackowski
The List
By A. F. Moritz
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot
The Magi 
By William Butler Yeats
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By William Blake
The Miller's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons 
By A.E. Stallings
The Passing of the Wise Men 
By Pattiann Rogers
The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück
The Red Cadillac 
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson
The Relic
By John Donne
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold
The Science Masquerade
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
The Snail
By Richard Lovelace
The Statesmen
By Ambrose Bierce
The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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
The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti
from The Vanity of Human Wishes
By Samuel Johnson
The Voyage Home 
By Philip Appleman
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
Thought 
By Thomas Pfau
Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
By Matthew Arnold
To Catullus
By Robert Bridges
To Homer
By John Keats
To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer
To the Consolations of Philosophy 
By W. S. Merwin
To the Muses
By William Blake
To Whistler, American 
By Ezra Pound
To You 
By Kevin A. González
Translation 
By Deirdre O'Connor
Trip to Delphi 
By Alice Friman
Truly Pathetic 
By Neal Bowers
Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning
Update on the Last Judgment 
By Ellen Hinsey
Venetian Coda 
By John Koethe
Venus Transiens 
By Amy Lowell
Verities 
By Kim Addonizio
Wake Me in South Galway 
By Richard Tillinghast
Watching the Oregon Whale
By Annie Finch
Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke
We Old Dudes 
By Joan Murray
What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
When Sappho Wrote
By Gregory Orr
Wight 
By Stanley Plumly
Winter promises
By Marge Piercy
Zeus to Juno 
By Fiona Sampson
[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up
By Bernadette Mayer
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