There are 439 Imagery poems

A Barefoot Boy
By James Whitcomb Riley

A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti

A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon
By Ron De Maris

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

A Divine Image
By William Blake

A Lecture upon the Shadow
By John Donne

A Map to the Next World
By Joy Harjo

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne

A Poem That Starts Out Wrong
By Landis Everson

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Reminiscence
By Anne Brontë

A Serenade at the Villa
By Robert Browning

A Song on the End of the World
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Tale
By Louise Bogan

A Treatise on Poetry: IV Natura
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Valediction: of Weeping
By John Donne

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor

After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer

After Three Photographs of Brassaï
By Norman Dubie

Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo

All Hallows
By Louise Glück

Always unsuitable
By Marge Piercy

Amaze
By Adelaide Crapsey

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

from Anecdote of the Jar
By Wallace Stevens

Apollo Musagetes
By Matthew Arnold

Aquarium
By John Ciardi

Artificer
By Czeslaw Milosz

As Children Know
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Assay Only Glimpsable for an Instant
By Jane Hirshfield

At a Window
By Carl Sandburg

At Popham Beach
By Thorpe Moeckel

“What Do Women Want?”
By Kim Addonizio

Bacchanalia
By Matthew Arnold

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

Becune Point
By Derek Walcott

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Between the Wars
By Robert Hass

Black Mare
By Lynda Hull

Bloody Fate
By Miguel Hernández

Bowl
By Valerie Martínez

Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Burning the Fields
By Linda Bierds

Cadillac Moon
By Kevin Young

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Cage
By Josephine Miles

Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning

Campo dei Fiori
By Czeslaw Milosz

Capriccio of Roman Ruins
By A. F. Moritz

Cardinal Ideograms
By May Swenson

Chant
By Tom Sleigh

Chicago
By Carl Sandburg

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Cleanliness
By Charles Lamb

Cloudy Day
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Concord Hymn
By Jack Spicer

Confessions
By Robert Browning

Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet

Cottonmouth Country
By Louise Glück

Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Deathfugue
By Paul Celan

Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke

Drift-Raft
By Atsuro Riley

Early December in Croton-on-Hudson
By Louise Glück

Earth's Answer
By William Blake

Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne

Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne

Encounter
By Czeslaw Milosz

from Endymion
By John Keats

Episode
By Zbigniew Herbert

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke

Falling From Us, Vanishings
By Alan Williamson

Fancy
By John Keats

Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor

Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Fog
By Carl Sandburg

Found Letter
By Joshua Weiner

Four Appaloosas
By Stanley Plumly

Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 9: The Netherlands
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment of a Women from Kos
By Susan Mitchell

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Glow Flesh
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti

God
By Isaac Rosenberg

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Grain Field
By Adelaide Crapsey

Green Tea
By Dale Ritterbusch

Guysborough Road Church
By George Elliott Clarke

Harp Trees
By Robin Blaser

Heaven, 1963
By Kim Noriega

Hello, Willie Shoemaker
By Charles Bukowski

Her Garden
By Donald Hall

Heroic Simile
By Robert Hass

Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake

Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

How It Was
By Czeslaw Milosz

Hyacinth
By Louise Glück

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Hymn to the Comb-Over
By Wesley McNair

I felt a Funeral in my Brain
By Emily Dickinson

I Hear a River thro’ the Valley Wander
By Trumbull Stickney

I Saw a Chapel
By William Blake

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

Imbiancato
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

In a Station of the Metro
By Ezra Pound

In Kona, Thinking of the Elements
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

In My Mother’s House
By Gloria g. Murray

In Piam Memoriam
By Geoffrey Hill

In The Black Rock Tavern
By Judith Slater

Incision
By Jillian Weise

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass

Into Death Bravely
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

It was not death, for I stood up
By Emily Dickinson

It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

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

Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke

Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Last Century
By Wyatt Prunty

Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden
By Major Jackson

Li Hua's Messenger
By Peter Bethanis

Light Shining out of Darkness
By William Cowper

Lions Are Interesting
By Joel Brouwer

Litany
By Billy Collins

Looking Around
By Charles Wright

Lost
By Carl Sandburg

Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love at Thirty-two Degrees
By Katherine Larson

Love Like Salt
By Lisel Mueller

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

Magic
By Louis Untermeyer

Man
By George Herbert

Marching
By Jim Harrison

Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Matins
By David Wojahn

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

Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning

Men Say Brown
By Henry M. Seiden

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

from Mercian Hymns
By Geoffrey Hill

Messengers
By Louise Glück

Military Mind
By Charlie Smith

Milton: And did those feet in ancient time
By William Blake

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

Minor Poet
By Bill Sweeney

Momus
By Carl Sandburg

More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy

Mount Angel
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Mountain Dulcimer
By Robert Morgan

Music
By George Scarbrough

My Father Photographed With Friends
By William Bronk

My Father's Diary
By Sharon Olds

My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My Son the Man
By Sharon Olds

N
By Randall Mann

Nabokov’s Blues
By William Matthews

Naima
By George Elliott Clarke

New Water
By Sharon Chmielarz

Niagara
By Adelaide Crapsey

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen
By Charles Wright

No Time
By Billy Collins

Nomadology
By Alissa Leigh

Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
By Stanley Plumly

O Carib Isle!
By Hart Crane

O Heart Uncovered
By Joseph Ceravolo

Obbligato
By Bruce Smith

October
By Jacob Polley

Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
By Pablo Neruda

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

Ode to the Midwest
By Kevin Young

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

Old Men Playing Basketball
By B. H. Fairchild

On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born
By Charles Lamb

On Donne's Poetry
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats

On Munsungun
By Ethan Stebbins

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell
By Geoffrey Hill

On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper

On the Road
By John Updike

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

One Morning
By Emmy Pérez

One Possible Meaning
By Charlie Smith

Onions
By William Matthews

Oread
By H. D.

Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke

Over and Over Tune
By Ioanna Carlsen

Over and Under
By John Brehm

Palais des Artes
By Louise Glück

Palm Sunday Maple Syrup Poem
By Bernadette Mayer

Parchment
By Michelle Boisseau

Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems
By Jacques Roubaud

Parting at Morning
By Robert Browning

Parts of a Story
By Mary Walker Graham

Paschal
By Robert Pinsky

Paths
By John Montague

Patience
By Katherine Larson

Peacock Display
By David Wagoner

Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke

Pentecost
By David Wojahn

People
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Phases
By Wallace Stevens

Picasso
By E. E. Cummings

Pig Song
By Margaret Atwood

Poetry
By Arthur Davidson Ficke

Prayer (I)
By George Herbert

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Prehistoric
By Claire Malroux

Primitive Road
By Lucas Howell

Pura Vida
By John Updike

Rage for Order
By David Lunde

Raking Near the Great Works
By Megan Grumbling

Reading Titus Andronicus In Three Mile Plains, N.S.
By George Elliott Clarke

Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles
By Billy Collins

Ready to Kill
By Carl Sandburg

Release
By Adelaide Crapsey

Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert

Repulsive Theory
By Kay Ryan

Requiem Shark
By Rad Smith

Retrospect
By Emily Dickinson

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Roots
By John Piller

Saint Francis of Assisi
By W. S. Di Piero

Sanctuary
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Santa Lucia
By Robert Hass

Séverine in Summer School
By Rex Wilder

School of Flesh
By Dana Levin

Schools
By Paula Tatarunis

Scrapbook
By George Scarbrough

Scree
By Heidy Steidlmayer

Seasons
By John Haag

Self-Dependence
By Matthew Arnold

Sequestrienne
By Dorothea Tanning

Sex and Taxes
By Kevin Cantwell

Shy Boy
By Greg Sellers

Silence
By Billy Collins

Silent Film
By Kurt Brown

Sleep
By Meghan O'Rourke

Smoke
By Philip Levine

Snakeskin
By Liz Beasely

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Solar
By Robin Becker

Some Last Questions
By W. S. Merwin

Something Childish, but Very Natural
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco

Song of Ecclesiastes
By George Elliott Clarke

Song: Memory, hither come
By William Blake

Song: My silks and fine array
By William Blake

Sonnet
By Robert Hass

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

Sparrow Trapped in the Airport
By Averill Curdy

Spring Snow
By Linda Gregerson

Stalin's Library Card
By David Wojahn

Stargnoc Caz!
By Bernadette Mayer

Staying Power
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Strays
By Stanley Plumly

Study in Orange and White
By Billy Collins

Swordfish
By Andrew Hudgins

Symphony of a Mexican Garden
By Grace Hazard Conkling

That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrrection
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Abandoned Farm
By Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Age of Dinosaurs
By James Scruton

The Alphabet
By Karl Shapiro

The Apparition
By John Donne

The Ashes
By Karin Gottshall

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Avenues
By David St. John

The Bait
By John Donne

The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke

The Bearer
By Hayden Carruth

The Berg (A Dream)
By Herman Melville

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 Canonization
By John Donne

The Castaway
By William Cowper

The Cave Painters
By Eamon Grennan

The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández

The Children of Stare
By Walter De La Mare

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake

The Collar
By George Herbert

The Cook's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The County Jail
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Death of Allegory
By Billy Collins

The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Enigma
By Anne Stevenson

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Fisherman
By William Butler Yeats

The Forsaken Merman
By Matthew Arnold

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Four Zoas
By William Blake

The French Revolution
By William Blake

The Future
By Matthew Arnold

The Garbo Cloth
By Lucia Perillo

The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds

The Good
By Michelle Boisseau

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Great Blue Heron
By Carolyn Kizer

The Harbor
By Carl Sandburg

The Heart's Archaeology
By Maudelle Driskell

The House Gift
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Lonely Death
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

The Marriage in the Trees
By Stanley Plumly

The Men
By Pablo Neruda

The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Months
By Linda Pastan

The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Pearl
By George Herbert

The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story
By Robert Browning

The Principles of Concealment
By David Wagoner

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear

The Railway Train
By Emily Dickinson

The Real Prayers Are Not the Words,
But the Attention that Comes First
By Mary Oliver

The Red Cadillac
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson

The Relic
By John Donne

The Retired Cat
By William Cowper

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Room in Which My First Child Slept
By Eavan Boland

The Sévres Road
By Susan Donnelly

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The Seer
By A. F. Moritz

The Sheets
By Anonymous

The Shrubbery
By William Cowper

The Silver Lily
By Louise Glück

The Snake
By Emily Dickinson

The Sun Rising
By John Donne

from The Task, Book I: The Sofa
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 Third Hour of the Night
By Frank Bidart

The Tragedy of Hats
By Clarinda Harriss

the trash men
By Charles Bukowski

the weather is hot on the back of my watch
By Charles Bukowski

The Yellowhammer's Nest
By John Clare

Then too there is this
By J. Allyn Rosser

There Are Black
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Thinking About the Enemy
By J. P. White

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This Little Glade, Remember
By Pattiann Rogers

Thought
By Thomas Pfau

Tintype on the Pond, 1925
By J. Lorraine Brown

To a Greek Marble
By Richard Aldington

To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer

To Fishermen
By Carol Frost

To My Father's Business
By Kenneth Koch

To One Unknown
By Helen Dudley

To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer

To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works
By Phillis Wheatley

To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey

To the Destroyers of Ballots
By Donald Revell

To the Light of September
By W. S. Merwin

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Torcello
By Catherine Sasanov

Toth Farry
By Sharon Olds

Touch
By Trevor West Knapp

Tracking
By Eleanor Wilner

Traveling dream
By Marge Piercy

Tree Ferns
By Stanley Plumly

Triad
By Adelaide Crapsey

Tricyclist and a Turtle
By Molly McQuade

Trillium
By Louise Glück

Trip to Delphi
By Alice Friman

Truly Pathetic
By Neal Bowers

Twenty-third
By Christina Pugh

Ultima Thule
By Linda Bierds

Under Stars
By Tess Gallagher

Under Two Windows
By Schuyler Van Rensselaer

Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms
By Francesca Abbate

Valentine
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Valentine's Afternoon
By Michael McFee

Venetian Candy
By John Updike

Venus Transiens
By Amy Lowell

Very Strong February
By Bernadette Mayer

Virtue
By George Herbert

Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert

Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes
By Bernadette Mayer

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

Westray: 1991
By Linda Bierds

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What the Leaf Told Me
By Ronald Johnson

When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

White-Eyes
By Mary Oliver

Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Women in Profile: Bas-Relief, Left Section Missing
By Susan Mitchell

Work Shy
By Alex Phillips

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Writing in the Afterlife
By Billy Collins

Yellow Dress
By Amy Beeder

Yesterday
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

You Can't Buy Shoes in a Painting
By Jill Osier

Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Zen Living
By Dick Allen

[goes out comes back]
By Kobayashi Issa

[Les plantes et les planètes] / [Plants and planets]
By Robert Marteau

[the snow is melting]
By Kobayashi Issa

[under the evening moon]
By Kobayashi Issa