There are 130 Common Measure poems
"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe."
By Anonymous
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
By Emily Dickinson
A Crowded Trolley Car
By Elinor Wylie
A Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe
A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle
A Leak in the Dike
By Phoebe Cary
A Little Book
By Ruth Lilly
A Parable
By Arthur Conan Doyle
A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
A Shropshire Lad I: From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
By A. E. Housman
A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
By William Wordsworth
A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest
Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett
Adam and Eve
By Marjorie Pickthall
Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers
By Jonathan Swift
And If I Did, What Then?
By George Gascoigne
Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
As imperceptibly as grief
By Emily Dickinson
At Mass
By Vachel Lindsay
“Faith” is fine invention (202)
By Emily Dickinson
Break, Break, Break
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
By John Dryden
Colonel Fazackerley
By Charles Causley
Daisy Time
By Marjorie Pickthall
Danny
By J. M. Synge
Discontents in Devon
By Robert Herrick
Eight O'Clock
By Sara Teasdale
Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie
Exile
By Marjorie Pickthall
Farewell to Bath
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
For a War Memorial
By G. K. Chesterton
George Washington’s Birthday: Wondering
By Bobbi Katz
How Doth the Little Crocodile
By Lewis Carroll
I Believe
By Robert W. Service
I felt a Funeral in my Brain
By Emily Dickinson
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591)
By Emily Dickinson
I never hear the word “Escape” (144)
By Emily Dickinson
I Travelled among Unknown Men
By William Wordsworth
I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
It Couldn’t Be Done
By Edgar Albert Guest
It was not death, for I stood up
By Emily Dickinson
Jacob
By Phoebe Cary
Just Think!
By Robert W. Service
Light Shining out of Darkness
By William Cowper
Little Bo-Peep
By Anonymous
Love Song
By Dorothy Parker
Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden
Maternity
By Robert W. Service
Meg Merrilies
By John Keats
My Doggy Ate My Homework
By Dave Crawley
My Madonna
By Robert W. Service
My Violin
By Bruce Lansky
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd.
By Mark Twain
Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Perfect
By Kenn Nesbitt
Queer People
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Retrospect
By Emily Dickinson
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
By William Wordsworth
Shoes
By Anonymous
Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sing a Song of Sixpence
By Anonymous
Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine)
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Song for Pythagoras
By Dannie Abse
Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy
By Lewis Carroll
Success is counted sweetest (112)
By Emily Dickinson
Suppose
By Phoebe Cary
Surgeons must be very careful (156)
By Emily Dickinson
The Animal Store
By Rachel Field
The Ballad of Nat Turner
By Robert E. Hayden
The Battle of the Bulge
By Robert W. Service
The Bear Hunt
By Abraham Lincoln
The Benefactors
By Rudyard Kipling
The Betrothal
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson
The Chant of the Vultures
By Edwin Markham
The Chariot
By Emily Dickinson
The Children's Hour
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service
The Cut
By Ann Taylor
The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy
The Day is Done
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Donkey
By G. K. Chesterton
The Glove and the Lions
By Leigh Hunt
The Harpy
By Robert W. Service
The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Kindergarten Concert
By Robert Pottle
The Listeners
By Walter De La Mare
The Look
By Sara Teasdale
The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale
The Palace of Art
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess: As thro' the Land
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Princess: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Props assist the House (729)
By Emily Dickinson
The Prospector
By Robert W. Service
The Railway Train
By Emily Dickinson
The Reckoning
By Robert W. Service
The Sleeper
By Walter De La Mare
The Snake
By Emily Dickinson
The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens
The Spider and the Fly
By Mary Howitt
The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth
The Weary Blues
By Langston Hughes
The Worship of Nature
By John Greenleaf Whittier
The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
By Emily Dickinson
Thoughts
By Marjorie Pickthall
Tie the strings to my life, my Lord
By Emily Dickinson
To a Copper Paper Weight
By Ruth Lilly
To Althea, from Prison
By Richard Lovelace
To J. S.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
By Richard Lovelace
To the Cuckoo
By William Wordsworth
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
By Robert Herrick
Union Square
By Sara Teasdale
Vision
By Marjorie Pickthall
What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay
When de Co'n Pone's Hot
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Willie’s Wart
By Kenn Nesbitt
Yarrow Revisited
By William Wordsworth
Yarrow Unvisited
By William Wordsworth
Yarrow Visited. September, 1814
By William Wordsworth
Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
By Robert Burns
You are Old, Father William
By Lewis Carroll
You charm'd me not with that fair face
By John Dryden
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