IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009
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.
There are 290 Poems where the title begins with "o"
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By Atsuro Riley
O Best of All Nights, Return and Return Again
By James Laughlin
O Canada
By Thomas P. Lynch
O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman
O Carib Isle!
By Hart Crane
O Donald! Ye Are Just the Man
By Susanna Blamire
O Heart Uncovered
By Joseph Ceravolo
O Me! O Life!
By Walt Whitman
O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
By William Shakespeare
O my pa-pa
By Bob Hicok
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
By Walt Whitman
from O’Clock
By Fanny Howe
O, She Says
By Hailey Leithauser
O.
By Robin Blaser
Obbligato
By Bruce Smith
Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold
Obsessive
By Marvin Bell
Occupation 1943
By Saadi Youssef
Occurrence on Washburn Avenue
By Regan Huff
Ocean City: Early March
By Elizabeth Spires
Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
October
By May Swenson
October
By Jacob Polley
October
By Robert Frost
October 10
By Wendell Berry
October Arriving
By Charles Simic
October, 1803
By William Wordsworth
Ode
By Henry Timrod
Ode 44
By Hafiz
Ode 487
By Hafiz
Ode for the American Dead in Asia
By Thomas McGrath
Ode For Walt Whitman
By Jack Spicer
Ode I, 5: To Pyrrha
By Horace
Ode I. 11
By Horace
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
By Thomas Gray
Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats
Ode on Indolence
By John Keats
Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats
Ode on Solitude
By Alexander Pope
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray
Ode on the Facelifting of the "statue" of Liberty
By Edward Dorn
Ode on the Poetical Character
By William Collins
Ode on the Spring
By Thomas Gray
Ode to a Blizzard
By Tom Disch
Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy
By Donald Justice
Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
By Pablo Neruda
Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats
Ode to a Yellow Onion
By C. Dale Young
Ode to Beauty
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ode to Big Trend
By Terrance Hayes
Ode to Duty
By William Wordsworth
Ode to Evening
By William Collins
Ode to his Wife (Written in Patna, 1784)
By Warren Hastings
Ode to Marbles
By Max Mendelsohn
Ode to Psyche
By John Keats
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd.
By Mark Twain
Ode to Suburbia
By Eavan Boland
Ode to the Midwest
By Kevin Young
Ode to the West Wind
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode, Inscribed to William H. Channing
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
By William Wordsworth
Odes
By Fernando Pessoa
from Odes, Book Three, 15
By Horace
from Odes: 10. Chorus of Furies
By Basil Bunting
from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry
By Basil Bunting
from Odes: 14. Gin the Goodwife Stint
By Basil Bunting
from Odes: 15 ["Nothing"]
By Basil Bunting
from Odes: 30. The Orotava Road
By Basil Bunting
from Odes: 36 ["See! Their verses are laid"]
By Basil Bunting
from Odes: 6. What the Chairman Told Tom
By Basil Bunting
Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso
By Donald Revell
OEnone
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
from Of Being Numerous
By George Oppen
of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Of Forced Sightes and Trusty Ferefulness
By Jorie Graham
Of Glory not a Beam is left (1685)
By Emily Dickinson
Of History and Hope
By Miller Williams
Of Late
By George Starbuck
Of Lincoln
By Cynthia Zarin
Of Love
By Robert Herrick
Of Man by Nature
By John Bunyan
Of Memory and Distance
By Russell Edson
Of Modern Books
By Carolyn Wells
Of Modern Poetry
By Wallace Stevens
Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Of Robert Frost
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Of Some Renown
By Jean L. Connor
Of the Last Verses in the Book
By Edmund Waller
Of the Mean and Sure Estate
By Thomas Wyatt
Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne
Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)
By Thomas Moore
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
By Robert Duncan
Oh Lovely Rock
By Robinson Jeffers
Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster
Oh, For a Bowl of Fat Canary
By John Lyly
Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes
By Charlotte Smith
Oh, How the Hand the Lover Ought to Prize
By Aphra Behn
Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
By James Edwin Campbell
Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster
Old Couple
By Charles Simic
Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster
Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro
Old Lem
By Sterling A. Brown
Old Love and New
By Sara Teasdale
Old Men Playing Basketball
By B. H. Fairchild
Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie
Old Smile at the Roast
By Glyn Maxwell
Old Woman in a Housecoat
By Georgiana Cohen
Old Woman With Protea Flowers, Kahalui Airport
By Kathleen Flenniken
Older Love
By Jim Harrison
Older, Younger, Both
By Joyce Sutphen
Omens
By Marin Sorescu
from Omeros
By Derek Walcott
Omni–Albert Murray
By Elizabeth Alexander
On a Dead Child
By Robert Bridges
On A Diet
By William Matthews
On a Dream
By John Keats
On a Drop of Dew
By Andrew Marvell
On a Girdle
By Edmund Waller
On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama
By Gregory Orr
On A Moonstruck Gravel Road
By Rodney Torreson
On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane
By Donald Justice
On a Piece of Tapestry
By George Santayana
On a Raised Beach
By Hugh MacDiarmid
On a View of Pasadena from the Hills
By Yvor Winters
On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born
By Charles Lamb
On an Old Woman Dying
By Janet Loxley Lewis
On An Unsociable Family
By Elizabeth Hands
On Antiphon Island
By Nathaniel Mackey
On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan
On Being Brought from Africa to America
By Phillis Wheatley
On Being Twenty-six
By Philip Larkin
On Broadway
By Claude McKay
On Distinction
By A. F. Moritz
On Donne's Poetry
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On Education
By Elizabeth Bentley
On English Monsieur
By Ben Jonson
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats
On Gut
By Ben Jonson
On Hearing a Description of a Prairie
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne
On Hurricane Jackson
By Alan Dugan
On Imagination
By Phillis Wheatley
On Inhabiting an Orange
By Josephine Miles
On Liberty and Slavery
By George Moses Horton
On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me
By John Ciardi
On Marriage
By Meghan O'Rourke
On Monsieur’s Departure
By Elizabeth I
On Mother’s Day
By Grace Paley
On Mr. G. Herbert's Book
By Richard Crashaw
On Munsungun
By Ethan Stebbins
On My First Daughter
By Ben Jonson
On Myself
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
On Pickiness
By Rodney Jones
On Playwright
By Ben Jonson
On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt
On Quitting
By Edgar Albert Guest
On rain washed paper dried, ink
By Marianne Boruch
On Reading Crowds and Power
By Geoffrey Hill
On Reading John Hollander’s Poem “Breadth. Circle. Desert. Monarch. Month. Wisdom. (for which there are no rhymes)“
By George Starbuck
On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper
On Scratchbury Camp
By Siegfried Sassoon
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
By John Keats
On Seeing the Wind at Hope Mansell
By Geoffrey Hill
On Shakespeare. 1630
By John Milton
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
By John Keats
On Spies
By Ben Jonson
On Summer
By George Moses Horton
On Swearing
By Gary Dop
On Teaching the Young
By Yvor Winters
On the Beach at Night
By Walt Whitman
On the Beach at Night Alone
By Walt Whitman
On the Birth of a Son
By Su Tung-Po
On the building site of a hostel
By Miroslav Holub
On the Civil War on the East Coast of the United States of North America 1860-64
By Alan Dugan
On the Crash of an Airliner at Takeoff
By Calvin Thomas
On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë
On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet
By Samuel Johnson
On the Death of Richard West
By Thomas Gray
On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester
By Aphra Behn
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
By William Wordsworth
On the Departure of the Nightingale
By Charlotte Smith
On the Edge
By Philip Levine
On the Eve of a Birthday
By Timothy Steele
On the Existence of the Soul
By Pattiann Rogers
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
By William Wordsworth
On the Farm
By R. S. Thomas
On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
By William Lisle Bowles
On the Gift of a Book to a Child
By Hilaire Belloc
On the Great Atlantic Rainway
By Kenneth Koch
On the Island
By Lawrence Raab
On the Lawn at the Villa
By Louis Simpson
On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
By John Milton
On the Loss of Energy (and Other Things)
By June Jordan
On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper
On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane
By Philip Levine
On the Metro
By C. K. Williams
On the Road
By John Updike
On the Seashore
By Rabindranath Tagore
On the Subject of Doctors
By James Tate
On the Wall of a KZ Lager
By János Pilinszky
On the water meadows
By Saradha Soobrayen
On the Welsh Language
By Katherine Philips
On The Western Front
By Alfred Noyes
On the Yard
By Tom Sleigh
On This Rock
By Daryl Hine
On Virtue
By Phillis Wheatley
On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes
By Mary Szybist
Once the Dream Begins
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Once We Played
By Mathilde Blind
Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana
By Susan Mitchell
Ondine
By Mary Barnard
One Afternoon
By Joanie V. Mackowski
One Angel: Palazzo Arian, at San Raffaele Arcangelo
By Ann Snodgrass
One Art
By Elizabeth Bishop
One Girl
By Sappho
One Girl of Many
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
One Home
By William E. Stafford
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
By Pablo Neruda
from One Hundred Quatrains
By Patrizia Valduga
One Love Story, Eight Takes
By Brenda Shaughnessy
One Morning
By Emmy Pérez
One Night Stand
By Jack Spicer
One of Their Gods
By C. P. Cavafy
One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker
One Possible Meaning
By Charlie Smith
One Sung of thee who Left the Tale Untold
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
One With The Sun
By A. F. Moritz
One's-Self I Sing
By Walt Whitman
Onions
By William Matthews
Only a Curl
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Only a Dad
By Edgar Albert Guest
Only Child
By D. Nurkse
Onset
By Kim Addonizio
Opals
By Robin Becker
Open, Time
By Louise Imogen Guiney
Opera Bouffe
By Philip Gross
Ophelia's Technicolor G-String: An Urban Mythology
By Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett
Opportunity
By Helen Hunt Jackson
Opus
By George Bradley
from Oracles for Youth
By Caroline Gilman
Oracular
By Richard Emil Braun
Oread
By H. D.
Origin
By Marie Ponsot
Original Sin
By Robinson Jeffers
Ornithogalum Dubium
By Roddy Lumsden
Ornithology
By Lynda Hull
Orophernis
By C. P. Cavafy
Orphean Lost
By Carl Rakosi
Orpheus Alone
By Mark Strand
Orpheus and Eurydice
By Jorie Graham
Orpheus in Hell
By Jack Spicer
Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
By William Shakespeare
Osage County Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma
By Diane Glancy
Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem
By Yvonne Zipter
Other Fugitives and Other Strangers
By Rigoberto González
Otranto
By Barbara Guest
Our Bungalow
By Ruth Lilly
Our Family Tree
By Joseph Cephas Holly
Our Father
By Irving Feldman
Our Fear
By Zbigniew Herbert
Our God, Our Help
By Isaac Watts
Our Hired Girl
By James Whitcomb Riley
Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life
By Mark Strand
Our Motorbike
By Elfriede Jelinek
Our Sun
By George Seferis
Our Valley
By Philip Levine
Our Willie
By Henry Timrod
Out
By Andrew Hudgins
Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
By Colleen J. McElroy
Out of Catullus
By Richard Crashaw
Out of Metropolis
By Lynn Emanuel
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
By Walt Whitman
Out of Town
By Piotr Sommer
Outbreak
By Donald Revell
Outsider Art
By Kay Ryan
Ovation
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Over and Over Stitch
By Jorie Graham
Over and Over Tune
By Ioanna Carlsen
Over and Under
By John Brehm
Over and Under
By William Jay Smith
Over the Roofs
By Sara Teasdale
Over the Sea our Galleys Went
By Robert Browning
Overnight Guest
By Ruth Stone
Ovid in the Third Reich
By Geoffrey Hill
Ox Cart Man
By Donald Hall
Oxford
By Fanny Howe
Oxford Stroud Recollects Fishing with Electricity
By R. T. Smith
Oystering
By Richard Howard
Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
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