There are 421 Poems where the title begins with "m"
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.Ma Rainey
By Sterling A. Brown
Mac Flecknoe
By John Dryden
Machines 
By Michael Donaghy
Mad Song
By William Blake
Madam’s Past History
By Langston Hughes
Madam, withouten many Words
By Thomas Wyatt
Made Shine
By Josephine Miles
Made to Measure 
By Stephen Edgar
Madmen 
By Billy Collins
Madness in a Chalice 
By Neil Fischer
Madrigal in Time of War
By John Frederick Nims
Madrigal: "Like the Idalian queen"
By William Drummond of Hawthornden
Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass
Magic 
By Louis Untermeyer
Magnificat 
By Eleanor Wilner
Magnificat in Little
By Léonie Adams
Magnum Mysterium
By Lucie Brock-Broido
Mahayana
By Philip Whalen
Makeup 
By Dora Malech
Makeup on Empty Space
By Anne Waldman
Making Money: Drought Year in Minkler, California
By Gary Soto
Makris Is Fallen 
By Sarah Lindsay
Malcolm X, February 1965
By E. Ethelbert Miller
Malocchio
By W. S. Di Piero
Mama 
By Jesse Patrick Ferguson
Man
By George Herbert
Man Dancing with a Baby 
By Susan Stewart
Man in Space
By Billy Collins
Man in the Street or Hand Over Mouth
By Heather McHugh
Man of War 
By Carol Frost
Man with a Black Dog
By Richard Emil Braun
Manifest
By Reginald Shepherd
Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
By John Skelton
Mansion Beach
By Elizabeth Spires
Mantinades 
By Mantinadologoi
Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro
Manufacturing
By Rae Armantrout
Many Colored Squares
By Philip Whalen
Many Scientists Convert to Islam
By Nomi Stone
Map 
By Atsuro Riley
Maple Syrup
By Donald Hall
Mapping the Genome 
By Michael Symmons Roberts
Marathon
By E. Ethelbert Miller
Marble-Sized Song 
By Albert Goldbarth
March: An Ode
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Marching
By Jim Harrison
Marching Men
By Marjorie Pickthall
Marco Polo at Finisterre 
By Matthew Brenneman
Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters
Margaret’s Speech
By Norman Dubie
Marginalia
By Deborah Warren
Mariana
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mariana in the South
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Market Forecast 
By Alexa Selph
Market Women’s Cries
By Jonathan Swift
Marriage 
By Lawrence Raab
Marriage
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden
Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg
Marriage Morning
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Marry Me
By Veronica Patterson
Marrying the Hangman
By Margaret Atwood
Marshlands
By Emily Pauline Johnson
martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935
By Tyehimba Jess
Marvel 
By David Biespiel
Mary Morison
By Robert Burns
Mary Shelley in Brigantine 
By Stephen Dunn
Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Mary's Lamb
By Sarah Josepha Hale
Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Mason Jars by the Window
By Alberto Ríos
Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton
Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Maternal
By Gail Mazur
Maternity
By Robert W. Service
Mathematics
By Jane Hirshfield
Matinee
By Patrick Phillips
Mating Saliva
By Richard Brautigan
Matins 
By Denise Levertov
Matins 
By David Wojahn
Matins
By Carol Frost
Matisse, Too 
By Alicia Ostriker
Maturity
By Philip Larkin
from Maud: O that 'twere possible
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Maud; A Monodrama (from Part I)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Maud; A Monodrama (from Part II)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Maudlin; Or, The Magdalen’s Tears
By Linda Gregerson
Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson
Maximus, to himself
By Charles Olson
May
By Jonathan Galassi
MAY. [1748] III Month.
By Benjamin Franklin
Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
By Gail Mazur
Mayor Harold Washington
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Maze Without a Minotaur
By Dana Gioia
Measure
By Robert Hass
Measuring the Tyger
By Jack Gilbert
Medical History
By Carrie Shipers
Mediocrity in Love Rejected
By Thomas Carew
Meditation
By David St. John
Meditation at Fifty Yards, Moving Target
By Rita Dove
Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass
Meditation at Sundown
By Frederick Morgan
Meditation on a Grapefruit 
By Craig Arnold
Meditation on Statistical Method
By J. V. Cunningham
Meditation under Stars
By George Meredith
Meditations
By Margaret Fuller
Meditations in an Emergency 
By Frank O'Hara
Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Medley of the Cut
By John Peck
Medusa
By Louise Bogan
Meet Me in the Green Glen
By John Clare
Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning
Meeting the Mountains
By Gary Snyder
Meg Merrilies
By John Keats
Mehr Licht 
By Tim Dlugos
Melting Pot
By Bin Ramke
Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass
Memorabilia
By Robert Browning
Memorandum
By W. S. Merwin
Memorial Day
By Michael Anania
Memorial Day
By Gregory Orr
Memorial Service 
By George Garrett
Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold
Memories Are a House 
By Avot Yeshurun
Memories of West Street and Lepke
By Robert Lowell
Memory As a Hearing Aid
By Tony Hoagland
Memory at These Speeds
By Jane Miller
Memphis Resurrection
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Men at Forty 
By Donald Justice
Men at My Father’s Funeral
By William Matthews
Men Say Brown 
By Henry M. Seiden
Men Say They Know Many Things
By Henry David Thoreau
Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly
Mending Wall
By Robert Frost
Menstruation at Forty
By Anne Sexton
from Mercian Hymns
By Geoffrey Hill
Merlin
By Henry Carlile
from Merlin and Vivien
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Merry-go-round
By Miroslav Holub
Merry-No-Round 
By Bill Knott
Messenger
By Dave Smith
Messengers
By Louise Glück
Messiah (Christmas Portions)
By Mark Doty
Meta-A and the A of Absolutes
By Jay Wright
Metals Metals
By Russell Edson
Methought I saw my late espousèd saint
By John Milton
Metropolitan
By John Fuller
Mezzo Cammin
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
mi'kmaq book of the dead 
By mIEKAL aND
Miami Heart
By Jane Miller
Michael O’Toole
By Phil Bolsta
Michiko Dead
By Jack Gilbert
Microcosmos
By Siegfried Sassoon
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
By Gary Snyder
Mid-March
By Lizette Woodworth Reese
Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden
Middle-Aged 
By Ezra Pound
Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan
Midland Swimmer
By John Reibetanz
Midnight Salvage
By Adrienne Rich
Midstairs
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
Midsummer 
By Robert Fitzgerald
Midsummer 
By Louise Glück
Midwinter
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Midwinter
By Sophie Jewett
Mighty Forms
By Brenda Hillman
Miguel 
By César Vallejo
Mild is the Parting Year
By Walter Savage Landor
Military Mind 
By Charlie Smith
Milk
By Shirley Kaufman
Milton
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Milton
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mind | Body 
By Gregory Djanikian
Mine
By Lilian Moore
Mine 
By Shail D. Patel
Mine own John Poynz
By Thomas Wyatt
Mingus at the Showplace 
By William Matthews
Mingus in Diaspora
By William Matthews
Miniature
By Brad Leithauser
Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Minnesota Fats Describes His Youth
By Elizabeth Alexander
Minor Litany
By Stephen Vincent Benét
Minor Poet 
By Bill Sweeney
Minuscule Things
By William Matthews
Mirabeau Bridge
By Guillaume Apollinaire
Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger
Miriam Tazewell
By John Crowe Ransom
Mirror 
By James Merrill
Mirror and Scarf
By Edmond Jabès
Mirror Image
By Samuel Menashe
Misery and Splendor
By Robert Hass
Misgivings
By Herman Melville
Misreading Housman
By Linda Pastan
Miss Scarlett 
By Vanessa Place
Missed Time 
By n/a
Missing Persons 
By Rae Armantrout
Mississippi
By E. Ethelbert Miller
Mixed-Up School
By X J Kennedy
Mme. Sperides
By Gregory Djanikian
Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney
Mobile-Buck
By James Edwin Campbell
Moby Dick
By Dan Beachy-Quick
Mock Orange
By Louise Glück
Modern Elfland
By G. K. Chesterton
Modern Love
By John Keats
Modern Love XXX
By George Meredith
Modern Love: I
By George Meredith
Modern Love: II
By George Meredith
Modern Love: IX
By George Meredith
Modern Love: L
By George Meredith
Modern Love: VIII
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XIV
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XLIX
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XLVI
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XLVII
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XVI
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XX
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XXII
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XXVI
By George Meredith
Modern Love: XXXIV
By George Meredith
modulation
By Spencer Selby
Molecular Evolution
By James Clerk Maxwell
Moly
By Thom Gunn
Moments of Terror
By Roddy Lumsden
Momus 
By Carl Sandburg
Monaco 
By Spencer Reece
Monastery Nights
By Chase Twichell
Monet Refuses the Operation
By Lisel Mueller
Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass
Money
By Howard Nemerov
Money
By Reginald Gibbons
Money
By Philip Larkin
Money Is Also a Kind of Music 
By Jason Guriel
Money Won’t Change It (but time will take you on)
By Cornelius Eady
Mongrel Heart
By David Baker
Monk’s House, Rodmell
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Monody
By Herman Melville
Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan
Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Montale’s Grave
By Jonathan Galassi
Montana Pastoral
By J. V. Cunningham
Montparnasse
By Ernest M. Hemingway
Monuments
By Myra Sklarew
Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party 
By William E. Stafford
Moo, Moo, Brown Cow
By Anonymous
Moon
By William Jay Smith
Moon From the Porch
By Annie Finch
Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen
Moonlight: Chickens On The Road
By Robert Wrigley
Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Moose Dreams 
By William Johnson
Moraine for Bob
By Joanna Fuhrman
Morality
By Matthew Arnold
More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright
More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
More Lying Loving Facts, You Sort ’Em Out 
By Arthur Vogelsang
More Rain
By W. S. Di Piero
More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate
More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy
Morel Mushrooms
By Jane Whitledge
Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morning 
By Billy Collins
Morning After
By Langston Hughes
Morning Arrives
By Franz Wright
Morning Hymn
By Charles Wesley
Morning News
By Marilyn Hacker
Morning Song
By Sylvia Plath
Morning Song
By Gregory Orr
Morning Talk
By Roberta Hill Whiteman
Morningside Heights, July
By William Matthews
Mortal shower
By Bob Hicok
Mortal Sorrows 
By Rodney Jones
Morte d'Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mosaic
By Linda Pastan
Moss
By Bruce Guernsey
Most Like an Arch This Marriage
By John Ciardi
Most Sweet it is
By William Wordsworth
Motet
By Michael Anania
Mother and Child
By Louise Glück
Mother and Child, Body and Soul
By Jean Valentine
Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mother Mind
By Julia Ward Howe
Mother to Son
By Langston Hughes
Mother's Closet
By Maxine Scates
Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor
Mother/Child: Coda
By Alicia Ostriker
Motherhood
By May Swenson
Mothers
By Nikki Giovanni
Moths 
By Jennifer O'Grady
Mount Angel 
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Mountain Dulcimer 
By Robert Morgan
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
By Robert E. Hayden
Movement Song
By Audre Lorde
Movie
By Eileen Myles
Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes
Mowing
By Robert Wrigley
Mowing
By Robert Frost
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell
Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Luna’s Plum Tree
By Alberto Ríos
Mr. Nobody
By Anonymous
Mrs. Adam 
By Kathleen Norris
Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters
Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things 
By Gregory Djanikian
Mrs. Hill
By B. H. Fairchild
Mrs. Kessler
By Edgar Lee Masters
Mrs. Krikorian
By Sharon Olds
Mu'allaqa 
By Imru'al-qays
Much in Little
By Yvor Winters
Much Madness is divinest Sense -
By Emily Dickinson
Muckraker 
By Cate Marvin
Mugging (I)
By Allen Ginsberg
Muier
By William Carlos Williams
mulberry fields
By Lucille Clifton
Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James
Mums
By Bernadette Mayer
Murder
By David Baker
Murray Dreaming 
By Stephen Edgar
Museums 
By Dan Beachy-Quick
Mushrooms
By Charles Tomlinson
Music 
By George Scarbrough
Music Swims Back to Me
By Anne Sexton
Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Musical Moment
By Virginia Hamilton Adair
Mutability
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mutability
By William Wordsworth
Mutoscope
By Elizabeth Spires
My Autograph
By Susanna Moodie
My Autumn Leaves
By Bruce Weigl
My Body
By William Jay Smith
My Boyfriend
By Camille Guthrie
My Brother
By Marci Ridlon
My Brother, the Artist, at Seven 
By Philip Levine
My Brother’s Bear
By Bruce Lansky
My Century 
By Alan Feldman
My Country ’Tis of Thee
By W. E. B. Du Bois
My Daughter at the Gymnastics Party
By David Bottoms
My Dearest Dust
By Catherine Dyer
My Dog Practices Geometry 
By Cathryn Essinger
My Doggy Ate My Homework
By Dave Crawley
My Dragon
By X J Kennedy
my dream about being white
By Lucille Clifton
my dream about the second coming
By Lucille Clifton
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell
By Gwendolyn Brooks
My Erotic Double
By John Ashbery
My Father
By Jessie B. Rittenhouse
My Father Holds the Door for Yoko Ono
By Christopher Chambers
My Father in the Night Commanding No
By Louis Simpson
My Father Photographed With Friends
By William Bronk
My Father Teaches Me to Dream
By Jan Beatty
My Father’s Wedding
By Robert Bly
My Father’s Left Hand
By David Bottoms
My Father's Diary 
By Sharon Olds
My Father’s Closet
By D. Nurkse
My First Best Friend
By Jack Prelutsky
My Frog Is a Frog
By Jack Prelutsky
My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness
By Thomas Wyatt
My Generation Reading the Newspapers
By Kenneth Patchen
My God 
By Susan Rolston
My Grandmother’s Love Letters
By Hart Crane
My Grave
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My Hair 
By Robin Behn
My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My House is the Red Earth
By Joy Harjo
My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow
By Robert Lowell
My Last Dance
By Julia Ward Howe
My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning
My Life
By Mark Strand
My Life
By Roddy Lumsden
My Life as a Subject 
By Meghan O'Rourke
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun (764)
By Emily Dickinson
from My Life: A name trimmed with colored ribbons
By Lyn Hejinian
from My Life: Reason looks for two, then arranges it from there
By Lyn Hejinian
My Life’s Delight
By Thomas Campion
My Limbo
By Roddy Lumsden
My Little Dreams
By Georgia Douglas Johnson
My Lost Youth
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My Love
By Don Paterson
My Lover Gave Me Green Leaves
By Josephine Dickinson
My Lute Awake
By Thomas Wyatt
My Madonna
By Robert W. Service
My Message Left Next to the Phone
By W. S. Di Piero
My Moses 
By Wendy Videlock
My Mother Contemplating Her Gun
By Nick Flynn
My Mother’s Pillow
By Cecilia Woloch
My Mother's Nipples
By Robert Hass
My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy
My name came from. . .
By Emmett Tenorio Melendez
My Old Idols
By J. D. McClatchy
My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman
My Pain
By Roddy Lumsden
My Picture Left in Scotland
By Ben Jonson
My Raptor
By Annie Finch
My Sad Captains
By Thom Gunn
My Sad Self
By Allen Ginsberg
My Second Marriage To My First Husband 
By Alice Fulton
My Shadow
By Robert Louis Stevenson
My Shoes
By Charles Simic
My Sin
By Chungmi Kim
My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
My skeleton, my rival
By David Ignatow
My Son the Man
By Sharon Olds
My Soul
By Stevie Smith
My Soul 
By Richard Lehnert
My Star
By Robert Browning
My Sweetest Lesbia
By Thomas Campion
My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier
My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
By Naomi Shihab Nye
My Violin
By Bruce Lansky
Mya Calendar
By Colette Inez
Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold
Myrrha to the Source 
By Heather McHugh
Myself and My Person
By Anna Swir
Mysteries of Small Houses
By Alice Notley
Mystic Bounce 
By Terrance Hayes
Myth of the Blaze
By George Oppen
Mythistorema
By George Seferis
Mythmaking on the Merritt Parkway
By G. E. Murray
Mythology
By Marilyn Hacker
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