There are 113 Simile poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.A Barefoot Boy
By James Whitcomb Riley
A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti
A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon 
By Ron De Maris
A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
A Tale
By Louise Bogan
Air and Angels
By John Donne
America: A Prophecy
By William Blake
And the Grass Did Grow 
By Ralph Angel
As Children Know
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Belly good
By Marge Piercy
Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown
Canada Anemone 
By Fleda Brown
Cheer
By Stanley Plumly
Chicago 
By Carl Sandburg
Concord Hymn
By Jack Spicer
Death, in a bull's pelt
By Miguel Hernández
Difference
By Mark Doty
Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold
Dream Land
By Christina Rossetti
Duties of the Spirit
By Patricia Fargnoli
Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room 
By Victoria Chang
Envy
By Mary Lamb
Epitaph for a Romantic Woman
By Louise Bogan
Family
By Marilyn Nelson
For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
By Fleda Brown
For Weeks After the Funeral
By Andrea Hollander Budy
Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti
Gospel
By Fleda Brown
Green Groweth the Holly
By Henry VIII, king of England
Green Tea
By Dale Ritterbusch
Hand Defined
By Cole Swensen
Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
By John Donne
Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake
I Call Her My Jungle Gardenia
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
I felt a Funeral in my Brain
By Emily Dickinson
I Remember Galileo 
By Gerald Stern
I'm nobody! Who are you?
By Emily Dickinson
Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy
Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland
Infant Sorrow
By William Blake
Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
By William Blake
Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty
Li Hua's Messenger 
By Peter Bethanis
Light Thickens 
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
Lions Are Interesting 
By Joel Brouwer
Lost 
By Carl Sandburg
Love Like Salt
By Lisel Mueller
Love Recidivus 
By Lisa Barnett
Love's Nocturn
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Making Quiltwork
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Middle-Aged 
By Ezra Pound
Minor Poet 
By Bill Sweeney
Mock Orange
By Louise Glück
Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti
More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy
Mountain Dulcimer 
By Robert Morgan
Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
My Star
By Robert Browning
Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen 
By Charles Wright
Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold
Old Toys Come Back 
By Alan Williamson
On the Screened Porch 
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz
Palm Sunday Maple Syrup Poem
By Bernadette Mayer
Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke
Permanent Press 
By Alice Friman
Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold
Separation 
By W. S. Merwin
Silence 
By Billy Collins
Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Song: My silks and fine array
By William Blake
Stanzas for Music
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Stars 
By Alice Friman
Tangerine
By Ruth L. Schwartz
The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Bluet
By James Schuyler
The Book of Thel
By William Blake
The Book of Urizen
By William Blake
The County Jail
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
The Good 
By Michelle Boisseau
The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca 
By David Wagoner
The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats 
By John Surowiecki
The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Illiterate
By Linda Gregerson
The Little Black Boy
By William Blake
The Little Vagabond
By William Blake
The Market-Place
By Walter De La Mare
The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
The neighbor
By Marge Piercy
The Passing of the Wise Men 
By Pattiann Rogers
The Poetry Bus
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Singers 
By Todd Hearon
The Statesmen
By Ambrose Bierce
The Visit 
By Carole Bernstein
Then too there is this 
By J. Allyn Rosser
To Judgment: An Assay 
By Jane Hirshfield
To Margaret W------
By Charles Lamb
To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer
To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Turning Forty
By Kevin Griffith
Twilight: After Haying
By Jane Kenyon
Virtue
By George Herbert
What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy
When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley
Worth
By Marilyn Nelson
Yellow Dress 
By Amy Beeder
You were like the young fig tree
By Miguel Hernández
Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz
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