IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009

Poetry Magazine

Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.

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There are 342 Poems where the title begins with "l"

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L Equals Look First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Jo Bang

L'Allegro
By John Milton

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
By John Keats

La Belle Juive
By Henry Timrod

La Figlia che Piange
By T. S. Eliot

La Ghriba (“The Stranger”) Tells How and Why
By Nomi Stone

La Petite Vie First appeared in Poetry
By Allen Edwin Butt

La Porte First appeared in Poetry
By Rachel Webster

Labile First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Basinski

Lacemakers First appeared in Poetry
By Beverley Bie

Ladders
By Elizabeth Alexander

Ladies First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

Lady Lazarus
By Sylvia Plath

Lady MacBeth's Confession First appeared in Poetry
By Neisha Tweed

Ladybirds First appeared in Poetry
By Larissa Szporluk

Lake Echo, Dear
By C. D. Wright

from Lalla Rookh
By Thomas Moore

Lambert Hutchins
By Edgar Lee Masters

Lament
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Lament
By Thom Gunn

Lament
By Arthur Sze

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias
By Federico García Lorca

Lamenting Widow First appeared in Poetry
By Ho Xuan Huong

Land First appeared in Poetry
By Agha Shahid Ali

Land’s End
By Weldon Kees

Landscape
By Thomas James Merton

Landscape
By Samuel Menashe

Landscape Over Zero
By Bei Dao

Landscape with Horse Named Popcorn First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Irwin

Landscape with Scavengers and Bonelight First appeared in Poetry
By Chris Dombrowski

Landscape, Dense with Trees
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Language is her caravan First appeared in Poetry
By Caleb Klaces

Language Lessons
By Alexandra Teague

Language of Love
By Rae Armantrout

Languages
By Carl Sandburg

Laodamia
By William Wordsworth

Lares and Penates First appeared in Poetry
By Caki Wilkinson

Large Intestine
By Anna Swir

Largesse
By J. D. McClatchy

Larkinesque First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Ryan

Lascaux First appeared in Poetry
By Joseph Spece

Last
By Donald Revell

Last August Hours Before the Year 2000
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Last Call First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Mann

Last Days First appeared in Poetry
By Maxine W. Kumin

Last Lines
By Anne Brontë

Last May a Braw Wooer
By Robert Burns

Last Month
By John Ashbery

Last Night First appeared in Poetry
By Hester Knibbe

Last Poem
By Ronald Johnson

Last Words
By Daryl Hine

Last Words by “Slick”
By Etheridge Knight

Last Words to Miriam
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Late at Night in Bed First appeared in Poetry
By Gregory Djanikian

Late Confession First appeared in Poetry
By Gary Soto

Late Echo First appeared in Poetry
By John Ashbery

Late February
By Ted Kooser

Late Night Ode
By J. D. McClatchy

Late Results
By Scott Cairns

Late Ripeness
By Czeslaw Milosz

Late, Late, so Late
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Late?
By David Rivard

Latin First appeared in Poetry
By Herbert Morris

Lauderdale First appeared in Poetry
By Laura Newbern

Laughing Time
By William Jay Smith

Laundry
By Bruce Smith

Laundry
By Ruth Moose

Laus Veneris
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Lava and Sand First appeared in Poetry
By Hester Knibbe

Laws of the Universe
By Albert Goldbarth

Lawyer and Child
By James Whitcomb Riley

Layabout First appeared in Poetry
By John Brehm

Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
By Wallace Stevens

Le Secret
By Thomas James Merton

Leaf Litter on Rock Face First appeared in Poetry
By Heather McHugh

Leaflet on Wooing
By Lucie Brock-Broido

Leap In The Dark
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Leap Year Poem
By Anonymous

Learning from History
By David Ferry

Learning the Trees First appeared in Poetry
By Howard Nemerov

Learning to Love America
By Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Learning to Read
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Learning to swim First appeared in Poetry
By Bob Hicok

Learning to Talk
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Leave him now Quiet by the Way
By Trumbull Stickney

Leave the Hand In First appeared in Poetry
By John Ashbery

Leave-Taking First appeared in Poetry
By Louise Bogan

Leaving
By Cathy Song

Leaving Bartram’s Garden in Southwest Philadelphia
By W. S. Di Piero

Leaving the Island
By Sharon Olds

Lectures to Women on Physical Science
By James Clerk Maxwell

Leda
By H. D.

Leda and the Swan
By William Butler Yeats

Left to Itself the Heart Could Almost Melt, Mend First appeared in Poetry
By Jill Osier

Legacies
By Nikki Giovanni

Legacy
By Amiri Baraka

Legend
By Hart Crane

Lemnos First appeared in Poetry
By Karl Kirchwey

Lenox Hill
By Agha Shahid Ali

Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton

Les Luths
By Frank O'Hara

Les Très Riches Heures de Florida
By Debora Greger

Less First appeared in Poetry
By Jason Guriel

Less Than Two Minutes
By W. S. Di Piero

Lesser Evils First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

from Lessons From Television
By Susan Stewart

Let Evening Come
By Jane Kenyon

Let It Be Forgotten
By Sara Teasdale

Let Me Count the Waves First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra Beasley

Let Me Die on the Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

Let me not thirst with this Hock at my Lip
By Emily Dickinson

Let me tell you about my marvelous god
By Susan Stewart

Let Me Tell You What a Poem Brings
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Let the Fall Leaves Fall
By Clyde Watson

Let Us Consider
By Russell Edson

Letter
By Jean Valentine

Letter 7
By Michael Palmer

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin C. Powers

Letter from Swan’s Island
By Elizabeth Spires

Letter from the Mountains
By James K. Baxter

Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis

Letter of Recommendation First appeared in Poetry
By Robert B. Shaw

Letter to a Friend about Girls
By Philip Larkin

Letter to ARC On Her Wishing to be Called Anna
By Matilda Bethem

Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden First appeared in Poetry
By Major Jackson

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Letter to the Local Police
By June Jordan

Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
By Anne Sexton

Letters from an Institution
By Michael Ryan

Letters to a Stranger
By Thomas James

Letters to Walt Whitman First appeared in Poetry
By Ronald Johnson

Li Hua's Messenger First appeared in Poetry
By Peter Bethanis

Liar
By Charlie Smith

Liberty
By Archibald MacLeish

Liberty
By Thomas P. Lynch

Library
By Brian Culhane

Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
By Dylan Thomas

Lies and Longing
By Linda Gregg

Life
By Edith Wharton

Life
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Life
By George Herbert

Life at War
By Denise Levertov

Life Cycle of Common Man
By Howard Nemerov

Life in a Love
By Robert Browning

Life of Sundays First appeared in Poetry
By Rodney Jones

Life Story
By Tennessee Williams

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Lift Every Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Light
By C. K. Williams

Light
By C. K. Williams

Light and Dark
By Barbara Howes

Light Blue
By Frank Stanford

Light Night First appeared in Poetry
By James Schuyler

Light Shining out of Darkness
By William Cowper

Light the Festive Candles
By Aileen Fisher

Lightness in Autumn
By Robert Fitzgerald

Like a Scarf
By James Tate

Like a Sentence
By John Ashbery

Like an Animal
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Like Coins, November
By Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck

Like cold air passing through lips
By Saradha Soobrayen

Like New
By Linda Gregerson

Like Rousseau First appeared in Poetry
By Amiri Baraka

Like van Gogh, I Can’t Begin in Prose
By Primus St. John

Lilacs
By Amy Lowell

Limbo: Altered States
By Mary Karr

Lime
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Limits
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lincoln
By Vachel Lindsay

Lincoln
By Delmore Schwartz

Lincoln, Man of the People
By Edwin Markham

Lines
By John Ciardi

Lines First appeared in Poetry
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Lines
By Ina Coolbrith

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
By William Wordsworth

Lines Depicting Simple Happiness
By Peter Gizzi

Lines for a Prologue
By Archibald MacLeish

Lines for Winter
By Mark Strand

Lines for Winter First appeared in Poetry
By Dave Lucas

Lines from a Plutocratic Poetaster to a Ditch-digger
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Lines on Locks (or Jail and the Erie Canal)
By John Logan

Lines On My Face
By J. D. McClatchy

Lines on Nonsense
By Eliza Lee Follen

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
By John Keats

Lines to a Don
By Hilaire Belloc

Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve
By Carolyn Kizer

Lines to Mr. Hodgson Written on Board the Lisbon Packet
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written in Early Spring
By William Wordsworth

Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold

Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines Written Near San Francisco
By Louis Simpson

Lines written under the conviction that it is not wise to read Mathematics in November after one’s fire is out
By James Clerk Maxwell

Lines: The cold earth slept below
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lines——
By Hartley Coleridge

Linnaeus in Lapland
By Lorine Niedecker

Lioness Asleep
By Babette Deutsch

Lions
By Sandra McPherson

Lions Are Interesting First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

Lisa
By David Hernandez

Lissadell First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Cope

Listen Carefully
By Philip Levine

Listening First appeared in Poetry
By David Ignatow

Listening
By Jean Valentine

Litany First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Litany for Dictatorships
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out
By Richard Siken

Literary
By Kenneth Fearing

Little Ache First appeared in Poetry
By Li-Young Lee

Little Black Tangrams
By Dara Wier

Little Blessing for My Floater First appeared in Poetry
By Jeanne Murray Walker

Little Bo-Peep
By Anonymous

Little Boy Blue
By Anonymous

Little Boy Blue
By Darren Sardelli

Little Brown Baby
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Little Elegy
By Elinor Wylie

Little Father
By Li-Young Lee

Little Fugue
By John Peck

Little Furnace
By Brenda Hillman

Little God Origami First appeared in Poetry
By Stefi Weisburd

Little Jack Horner
By Anonymous

Little Map
By Jean Valentine

Little Miss Muffet
By Anonymous

Little Robin Redbreast
By Anonymous

Little Soul First appeared in Poetry
By Hadrian

little tree
By E. E. Cummings

Live Blindly and upon the Hour
By Trumbull Stickney

Lives of the Watchmakers First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Rutherglen

Living
By C. D. Wright

Living
By Frank Stanford

Living Here Now
By Eloise Klein Healy

Living in the Body
By Joyce Sutphen

Lochinvar
By Sir Walter Scott

Locksley Hall
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Loiter
By Forrest Gander

London
By William Blake

London Crossfigured
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

London Snow
By Robert Bridges

London, 1802
By William Wordsworth

London’s Summer Morning
By Mary Robinson

Loners First appeared in Poetry
By Jean Follain

Long Finger Poem First appeared in Poetry
By Jin Eun-Young

Long Island Sound
By Emma Lazarus

Long Story Short
By G. E. Murray

Long time a child, and still a child, when years
By Hartley Coleridge

long way home
By Quraysh Ali Lansana

Longing
By Ina Coolbrith

Longing for Prophets
By Shirley Kaufman

Look to the Future
By Ruth Stone

Looking Around First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Wright

Looking For Each of Us
By Linda Gregg

Looking Forward
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Looking In at Night
By Mary Kinzie

Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur

Looking Out the Window Poem
By Denis Johnson

Losing the Game
By Diane Ackerman

Lost First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Lost and Found
By Maxine Chernoff

Lost Content
By A. F. Moritz

Lost Desire
By Meleager

Lost in the Forest
By Amy Gerstler

Lost in Translation
By Peter Pereira

Lothar’s Wife
By Colleen J. McElroy

Louisiana Line
By Betty Adcock

Louisiana Purchase
By Charlie Smith

Louse Hunting
By Isaac Rosenberg

Love
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love (I)
By George Herbert

Love (II)
By George Herbert

Love (III)
By George Herbert

Love Again
By Philip Larkin

Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning

Love and a Question
By Robert Frost

Love and Death
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Love and Friendship
By Emily Jane Brontë

Love and Life: A Song
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Love and Sleep
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love Armed
By Aphra Behn

Love at Thirty-two Degrees First appeared in Poetry
By Katherine Larson

Love Explained
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Love for a Hand
By Karl Shapiro

Love in a Life
By Robert Browning

Love in the Valley
By George Meredith

Love in the Weather’s Bells
By Jay Wright

Love Is A Sickness Full of Woes
By Samuel Daniel

Love Letter (Clouds)
By Sarah Manguso

Love Letters
By Lynn Crosbie

Love Letters
By Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard

Love Like Salt
By Lisel Mueller

Love Lives beyond the Tomb
By John Clare

Love Me Little, Love Me Long
By Anonymous

Love Pirates
By Joseph Millar

Love Poem for an Enemy First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Katrovas

Love Poem with Harbor View
By Erica Funkhouser

Love Recidivus First appeared in Poetry
By Lisa Barnett

Love Song
By Dorothy Parker

Love Song
By David P. Young

Love Song
By Mary Carolyn Davies

Love Song for Alex, 1979
By Margaret Walker

Love Song: I and Thou
By Alan Dugan

Love the Wild Swan
By Robinson Jeffers

Love Worn
By Lita Hooper

Love's Alchemy
By John Donne

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

Love's Deity
By John Donne

Love's Good-Morrow
By Thomas Heywood

Love's Growth
By John Donne

Love's Nocturn
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Love's Witness
By Aphra Behn

Love-Lily
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Love’s Philosophy
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lovers' Infiniteness
By John Donne

Loves
By Scott Cairns

Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child
By Dorothy Wordsworth

Low Barometer
By Robert Bridges

Lucifer Alone
By Josephine Miles

Lucifer in Starlight
By George Meredith

Lucifer in Starlight
By David St. John

Luciferin First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Lucinda Matlock
By Edgar Lee Masters

Lucks, My Fair Falcon
By Thomas Wyatt

Ludlow First appeared in Poetry
By Roddy Lumsden

Lui et Elle
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Luke Havergal
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Lullaby First appeared in Poetry
By Amanda Jernigan

Lullaby
By John Fuller

Lullaby of the Onion
By Miguel Hernández

Lullabye for the Second Millennium First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

Luminous Great Mass
By Peter O’Leary

Lumsden Hotel
By Roddy Lumsden

Luna Moth
By Carl Phillips

Lunar Baedeker
By Mina Loy

Lunchbox Love Note
By Kenn Nesbitt

Lusty Youth should us ensue
By Henry VIII, king of England

Lycidas
By John Milton

Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
By Kenneth Rexroth

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
By James Wright

Lyman King
By Edgar Lee Masters

Lyre
By Donald Revell

from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe

from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe