There are 132 Refrain poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.(“Leave off your works, bride...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
(“Come as you are...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
(“Lest I should know you...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
(“Tell me if this is all true...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
(“We both live in the same village...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
A Ballad of Baseball Burdens
By Franklin Pierce Adams
A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne
A Musical Instrument
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Negro Love Song
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
By John Dryden
A Song from the Italian from Limberham: or, the Kind Keeper
By John Dryden
A Song on the End of the World
By Czeslaw Milosz
Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo
Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden
Alzuna
By Alfred Noyes
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Dylan Thomas
As
By Paul Muldoon
Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke
Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Briefly It Enters, Briefly Speaks
By Jane Kenyon
Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
By Robert Burns
Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle
By Robert Browning
Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse
By Robert Browning
Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along
By Robert Browning
Comin thro' the Rye
By Robert Burns
from constant change figures
By Lyn Hejinian
Danny Deever
By Rudyard Kipling
Deathfugue
By Paul Celan
Duncan Gray
By Robert Burns
Elegy with Surrealist Proverbs as Refrain
By Dana Gioia
Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke
Excelsior
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer
Flamingos Have Arrived in Ashtabula
By Andrew Hudgins
Forget not Yet the Tried Intent
By Thomas Wyatt
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven 
By Vachel Lindsay
Gethsemane
By Rudyard Kipling
God Bless America
By John Fuller
Grandfather
By Andrei Guruianu
How Are You Doing?
By Rick Snyder
Howl
By Allen Ginsberg
Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings
I Heard an Angel
By William Blake
I Would Like to Describe
By Zbigniew Herbert
Impromptus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
In the Cool of the Evening
By Andrew Hudgins
Infant Joy
By William Blake
Is it Possible
By Thomas Wyatt
Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
By William Blake
King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke
Letter For Emily Dickinson
By Annie Finch
Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden 
By Major Jackson
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
By John Keats
Litany 
By Billy Collins
Lullaby of an Infant Chief
By Sir Walter Scott
Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Metropolitan
By John Fuller
Military Mind 
By Charlie Smith
Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney
More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes
Mugging (I)
By Allen Ginsberg
My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My Lost Youth
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O Best of All Nights, Return and Return Again
By James Laughlin
Occupation 1943 
By Saadi Youssef
Ode to the Midwest 
By Kevin Young
Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster
On Inhabiting an Orange 
By Josephine Miles
On the Road 
By John Updike
Our Fear
By Zbigniew Herbert
from Preludes for Memnon
By Conrad Aiken
Recessional
By Rudyard Kipling
Requests for Toy Piano 
By Tony Hoagland
Sad Boy's Sad Boy 
By Charles Bernstein
Shame 
By Joshua Weiner
Ships that Pass in the Night
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sleep 
By Meghan O'Rourke
Song of Ecclesiastes
By George Elliott Clarke
Song of the Galley-Slaves
By Rudyard Kipling
Sparrow Trapped in the Airport 
By Averill Curdy
The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke
The Barrel-Organ
By Alfred Noyes
The Bell Buoy
By Rudyard Kipling
The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Divine Image
By William Blake
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear
The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams
The Lamb
By William Blake
The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling
The Long Voyage 
By Malcolm Cowley
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot
The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch
The Modern Pastoral Elegy 
By Conor O'Callaghan
The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell
The Old Clock on the Stairs
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Old Familiar Faces
By Charles Lamb
The Pasture
By Robert Frost
The Powwow at the End of the World
By Sherman Alexie
The Properly Scholarly Attitude
By Adelaide Crapsey
The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear
The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley
The Rain Poured Down
By Dan Gerber
The Ruined Maid
By Thomas Hardy
The School Where I Studied 
By Yehuda Amichai
The Secular Masque
By John Dryden
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tragedy of Hats 
By Clarinda Harriss
The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost
There Is A Garden In Her Face
By Thomas Campion
Though some Saith that Youth Ruleth me
By Henry VIII, king of England
To a Greek Marble 
By Richard Aldington
To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams
To Mary
By William Cowper
To One Unknown 
By Helen Dudley
Today 
By Billy Collins
Triolet 
By Sandra McPherson
Trust 
By Susan Kinsolving
Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer
Under the Dome
By Elise Paschen
Update on the Last Judgment 
By Ellen Hinsey
We Wear the Mask
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Well Said, Davy
By John Fuller
What Became 
By Wesley McNair
What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
What Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert
When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley
Wight 
By Stanley Plumly
You That I Loved 
By A. F. Moritz
Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped
By John Dryden
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