There are 331 Metaphor poems

"Any fool can get into an ocean..."
By Jack Spicer

"Imagine Lucifer..."
By Jack Spicer

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
By Emily Dickinson

1994
By Lucille Clifton

Gloria Mundi
By Walter De La Mare

Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire
By Brenda Hillman

X Mon. December [1744] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport
By Sidney Wade

A Daughter of Eve
By Christina Rossetti

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

A Divine Image
By William Blake

A Knocker
By Zbigniew Herbert

A Lecture upon the Shadow
By John Donne

A Map to the Next World
By Joy Harjo

A Maul for Bill and Cindy’s Wedding
By Gary Snyder

A Poem on the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
By Nikki Giovanni

A Poem That Starts Out Wrong
By Landis Everson

A Poison Tree
By William Blake

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
By John Donne

A Valediction: of Weeping
By John Donne

A Visit
By Tom Sleigh

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell

Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo

All overgrown by cunning moss, (146)
By Emily Dickinson

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

And as in Alice
By Mary Jo Bang

Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning

from Anecdote of the Jar
By Wallace Stevens

Angels
By Russell Edson

Another Insane Devotion
By Gerald Stern

At a Window
By Carl Sandburg

“Of all that God has shown me ...”
By Mechtild

“What Do Women Want?”
By Kim Addonizio

Before Christmas
By Landis Everson

Before Sextet
By Bernadette Mayer

Bleeding
By May Swenson

Bloody Fate
By Miguel Hernández

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Breakage
By Mary Oliver

Brick
By Robert Creeley

Bus Trip
By Susan Mitchell

Busman's Honeymoon
By A. F. Moritz

Butter
By Connie Wanek

Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown

Cage
By Josephine Miles

Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou

Cassandra
By H. D.

Chicago
By Carl Sandburg

Christmas Tree Lots
By Chris Green

Corpus Medicum
By C. Dale Young

Cottonmouth Country
By Louise Glück

Cultural Stakes; or, How To Learn English as a Second Language
By Kevin A. González

Death Snips Proud Men
By Carl Sandburg

Dedication
By Czeslaw Milosz

Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Destiny
By Sophie Jewett

Difference
By Mark Doty

Dismantling the House
By Stephen Dunn

Doppelte Nationaltätsmoral/Dual Nationality: A Moral Tale
By Zehra Çirac

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

Drawings: For John Who Said to Write about True Love
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Dream-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe

Elegy
By Miguel Hernández

Elms
By Louise Glück

End of Winter
By Louise Glück

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Extinction of Silence
By A.E. Stallings

Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell

First Song
By Miguel Hernández

First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert

Flow
By Jonathan Galassi

Fog Horns
By David Mason

Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Free Verses
By Sarah Kirsch

From Mythology
By Zbigniew Herbert

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Glow Flesh
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Glucose Self-Monitoring
By Katy Giebenhain

Handle
By J. Allyn Rosser

Havana Birth
By Susan Mitchell

Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths
By Sean Nevin

Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
By John Donne

Horse
By Louise Glück

Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

How It Was
By Czeslaw Milosz

How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate

Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
By John Donne

I Am But A Traveler in This Land & Know Little of Its Ways
By Dean Young

I Call Her My Jungle Gardenia
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

I felt a Funeral in my Brain
By Emily Dickinson

I Used to Think
By Trumbull Stickney

I Want You to See
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

i wanted to overthrow the government but all i brought down was somebody's wife
By Charles Bukowski

I Would Like to Describe
By Zbigniew Herbert

I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

Interesting Times
By Mark Jarman

It would be neat if with the New Year
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Kindness
By Yusef Komunyakaa

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Languages
By Carl Sandburg

Laundry
By Ruth Moose

Li Hua's Messenger
By Peter Bethanis

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

Lions Are Interesting
By Joel Brouwer

Litany
By Billy Collins

Little Blessing for My Floater
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Little God Origami
By Stefi Weisburd

Long Finger Poem
By Jin Eun-Young

Love (II)
By George Herbert

Love (III)
By George Herbert

Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love's Nocturn
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Madmen
By Billy Collins

Magnificat
By Eleanor Wilner

Makeup
By Dora Malech

Making Quiltwork
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Mapping the Genome
By Michael Symmons Roberts

Matisse, Too
By Alicia Ostriker

Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass

Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Messengers
By Louise Glück

Milton: The Sky is an Immortal Tent Built by the Sons of Los
By William Blake

Mind | Body
By Gregory Djanikian

Misery and Splendor
By Robert Hass

Misgivings
By Herman Melville

Modern Love: XXVI
By George Meredith

Morning Arrives
By Franz Wright

Moss
By Bruce Guernsey

Mountain Dulcimer
By Robert Morgan

Mouth
By Robert Wrigley

Mums
By Bernadette Mayer

My Father's Diary
By Sharon Olds

Nabokov’s Blues
By William Matthews

Naming the Stars
By Joyce Sutphen

Narrative Without People
By Hilda Raz

New Water
By Sharon Chmielarz

New York
By Valzhyna Mort

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen
By Charles Wright

Northern Exposures
By G. E. Murray

Notes from the City of the Sun
By Bei Dao

Novelette
By Adrian Blevins

Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
By Stanley Plumly

O Carib Isle!
By Hart Crane

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
By Pablo Neruda

Ode to the Midwest
By Kevin Young

Of Some Renown
By Jean L. Connor

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

On a Girdle
By Edmund Waller

On A Moonstruck Gravel Road
By Rodney Torreson

On Donne's Poetry
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On the Preserved Body of an Inca Child Frozen to Death as a Sacrifice to the Sun
By A. F. Moritz

One Angel: Palazzo Arian, at San Raffaele Arcangelo
By Ann Snodgrass

One Morning
By Emmy Pérez

One Possible Meaning
By Charlie Smith

Opera Bouffe
By Philip Gross

Out of Town
By Piotr Sommer

Pacemaker
By W. D. Snodgrass

Palm Sunday Maple Syrup Poem
By Bernadette Mayer

Parable of the Swans
By Louise Glück

Paschal
By Robert Pinsky

Past and Future
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Patience
By Katherine Larson

Pauline Is Falling
By Jean Nordhaus

Peacock Display
By David Wagoner

Perhaps the World Ends Here
By Joy Harjo

Planting the Meadow
By Mary Makofske

Plead for Me
By Emily Jane Brontë

Poetry
By Arthur Davidson Ficke

Posthumous
By Jean Nordhaus

Prayer (I)
By George Herbert

Prehistoric
By Claire Malroux

Prospice
By Robert Browning

Pura Vida
By John Updike

Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost

Reverie in Open Air
By Rita Dove

Revolution
By Susan Griffin

Road
By Lisa Williams

Rogue Russets
By R. T. Smith

Salvation
By James Kimbrell

Scary Movies
By Kim Addonizio

Scavenging the Wall
By R. T. Smith

School of Flesh
By Dana Levin

Scrapbook
By George Scarbrough

Scree
By Heidy Steidlmayer

Searchers
By D. Nurkse

Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview
By Gary Soto

Separation at Burnt Island
By D. Nurkse

Shame
By Joshua Weiner

Sharks' Teeth
By Kay Ryan

Shell
By Harriet Brown

Ships that Pass in the Night
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Shy Boy
By Greg Sellers

Sir, Say no More
By Trumbull Stickney

Sleep
By Meghan O'Rourke

Sloth
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Snake
By Dannie Abse

Snakeskin
By Liz Beasely

Solar
By Robin Becker

Some Last Questions
By W. S. Merwin

Sometimes Never
By Joyce Sutphen

Song for Pythagoras
By Dannie Abse

Sonnet XCII
By Anna Seward

Sonnets from the Portuguese 20: Beloved, my Beloved
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Space Station
By Tom Sleigh

Sporting Life
By Jack Spicer

Stationed
By Albert Goldbarth

Storming Toward a Precipice
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Suitcase Song
By Albert Goldbarth

Supple Cord
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Sweat
By Miguel Hernández

Swifts
By Gerald Stern

Take Comfort Where You Can
By Michael Chitwood

Tea-Strainer
By Joyelle McSweeney

Tenderness and Rot
By Kay Ryan

Terms
By Philip Booth

The Age of Dinosaurs
By James Scruton

The Apple Tree
By Wendell Berry

The Bait
By John Donne

The Bethlehem Nursing Home
By Rodney Torreson

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Body
By Marianne Boruch

The Boundary
By Bei Dao

The British Church
By George Herbert

The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity
By Mary Ruefle

The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell, SJ

The Calm
By John Donne

The Canonization
By John Donne

The Chariot
By Emily Dickinson

The Collar
By George Herbert

The Ecstasy
By John Donne

The Elixir
By George Herbert

The Engine
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Enigma
By Anne Stevenson

The Fable About a Nail
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Fabric of Life
By Kay Ryan

The Fire
By Deborah Parédez

The Fisherman
By William Butler Yeats

The Flea
By John Donne

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

The God of Inattention
By Averill Curdy

The Great Blue Heron
By Carolyn Kizer

The Guru
By A. F. Moritz

The Hippopotamus
By T. S. Eliot

The House Gift
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The House of Life: The Sonnet
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Human Seasons
By John Keats

The Key to the Kingdom
By Philip Gross

The Larger
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The Last Leaf
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Letter Scale
By Jacques Réda

The Lie
By Don Paterson

The Little Black Boy
By William Blake

The Magi
By William Butler Yeats

The Man in the Dead Machine
By Donald Hall

The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

The New Chinese Fiction
By James Tate

The Pearl
By George Herbert

The Principles of Concealment
By David Wagoner

The Props assist the House (729)
By Emily Dickinson

The Pulley
By George Herbert

The Relic
By John Donne

The Road and the End
By Carl Sandburg

The Room in Which My First Child Slept
By Eavan Boland

The Rose
By Jean Valentine

The School Where I Studied
By Yehuda Amichai

The Seer
By A. F. Moritz

The Silver Lily
By Louise Glück

The Singers
By Todd Hearon

The Singing Place
By Lily A. Long

The Smell of Rat Rubs Off
By J. Allyn Rosser

The Snow-Storm
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

The Sponge
By Joshua Mehigan

The Sun Rising
By John Donne

The Temper (I)
By George Herbert

The Trickle-Down Theory of Happiness
By Philip Appleman

The Two Streams
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Veggie Life
By Michael Steffen

The Voyage Home
By Philip Appleman

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The Wires of the Night
By Billy Collins

The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández

The Wound
By Ruth Stone

The Yellow Bicycle
By Robert Hass

They Sit Together on the Porch
By Wendell Berry

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

Thinking About the Enemy
By J. P. White

Thought
By Thomas Pfau

Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
By Emily Dickinson

Time Done Is Dark
By Michelle Boisseau

To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams

To a Waterfowl
By William Cullen Bryant

To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand
By Howard Nemerov

To Help the Monkey Cross the River
By Thomas Lux

To the Blank Spaces
By W. S. Merwin

Toad dreams
By Marge Piercy

Toth Farry
By Sharon Olds

Tree Ferns
By Stanley Plumly

Tricyclist and a Turtle
By Molly McQuade

Trillium
By Louise Glück

trouble with spain
By Charles Bukowski

Two Guitars
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms
By Francesca Abbate

Upon the Vine-tree
By John Bunyan

Upon Time and Eternity
By John Bunyan

Vagabonds
By Arthur Rimbaud

Very Strong February
By Bernadette Mayer

Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert

Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes
By Bernadette Mayer

Wax Lips
By Cynthia Rylant

We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

We Tend to Sleep Better When the Clock Is Wound
By Todd Boss

What Calls Us
By David Bengtson

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

White Head
By Sophie Jewett

Who Am I?
By Carl Sandburg

Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)
By Emily Dickinson

Winter promises
By Marge Piercy

Xylem
By Talvikki Ansel

Yesterday
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Young Man
By John Haines

Yowr Yen Two Woll Sle me Sodenly
By Geoffrey Chaucer