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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Take Comfort Where You Can First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Chitwood

Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away
By William Shakespeare

Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away
By John Fletcher

Taking Down the Tree
By Jane Kenyon

Taking Notice
By Marilyn Hacker

Taking Off My Clothes
By Carolyn Forché

Taking the Thought for the Dog First appeared in Poetry
By Katharine Auchincloss Lorr

Taking Time to Grow
By Mary Mapes Dodge

Talbingo
By Kenneth Slessor

Talented Family
By Kenn Nesbitt

Talking among Ourselves
By Charlie Smith

Talking Richard Wilson Blues, by Richard Clay Wilson
By Denis Johnson

Tall Ambrosia
By Henry David Thoreau

Tally
By Josephine Miles

Tam Glen
By Robert Burns

Tam O 'Shanter
By Robert Burns

Tangerine
By Ruth L. Schwartz

Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers
By John Updike

Tapestry
By Charles Simic

Tar
By C. K. Williams

Tarantula, or The Dance of Death First appeared in Poetry
By Anthony Hecht

Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
By Thomas Lux

Tatyana
By Thomas P. Lynch

Tea Party First appeared in Poetry
By Joanie V. Mackowski

Tea-Strainer First appeared in Poetry
By Joyelle McSweeney

Teaching English from an Old Composition Book
By Gary Soto

Tears, Oily Tears . . . First appeared in Poetry
By James Schuyler

Tech Help
By Chase Twichell

Technical Notes
By James Laughlin

Teeth First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin McFadden

Tell the Bees First appeared in Poetry
By Sarah Lindsay

Telling Fortunes
By Alice Cary

Telling the Bees
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Telling the Bees
By Lizette Woodworth Reese

Temperance Poems
By William Pitt Root

Temporarily in Oxford
By Anne Stevenson

Tempus fugit First appeared in Poetry
By Samuel Menashe

Ten Moons First appeared in Poetry
By Sasha Dugdale

Ten Thousand to One
By Arthur Sze

Tender Only to One
By Stevie Smith

Tender-heartedness
By Harry Graham

Tenderness and Rot First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Tenebrae
By Geoffrey Hill

Tent Caterpillars
By Susan Mitchell

Teodoro Luna Confesses After Years to His Brother, Anselmo the Priest, Who Is Required to Understand, But Who Understands Anyway, More Than People Think
By Alberto Ríos

Terminator Too
By Tom Clark

Terminus
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Terms First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin Stein

Terms
By Philip Booth

Territories
By Gregory Djanikian

Terror of the Future / 4
By Matthea Harvey

Testament
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

Testimonial First appeared in Poetry
By Rita Dove

Testing on Steel and Glass
By Carl Rakosi

Thamar and Amnon
By Federico García Lorca

Thanatopsis
By William Cullen Bryant

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

Thanksgiving
By Edgar Albert Guest

Thanksgiving Day
By L. Maria Child

Thanksgiving Magic
By Rowena Bastin Bennett

That Child First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

That Country
By Grace Paley

That Evening at Dinner
By David Ferry

That Magnificent Part the Chorus Does about Tragedy
By Lisa Olstein

That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrrection
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

That Pull from the Left
By Louise Erdrich

The Painting After Lunch
By Clarence Major

The 167th Psalm of Elvis
By Tony Barnstone

The Abandoned Farm First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Rose O'Reilley

The Abduction
By Stanley Kunitz

The Academic Sigh
By Russell Edson

The Accompanist
By Dick Allen

The Ache of Marriage
By Denise Levertov

The Advance of the Father
By Fanny Howe

The Adventures of a Turtle
By Russell Edson

The Affair
By David Baker

The Affinity
By Anna Wickham

The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert

The Affliction of Richard
By Robert Bridges

The Afterbirth, 1931
By Nikky Finney

The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill First appeared in Poetry
By Hayden Carruth

The Afternoon Sun
By C. P. Cavafy

The Age Demanded
By Ernest M. Hemingway

The Age of Dinosaurs First appeared in Poetry
By James Scruton

The Aged Lover Renounceth Love
By Thomas Lord Vaux

The Air Base at Châteauroux, France
By Sherod Santos

The Air Plant
By Hart Crane

The Airy Christ
By Stevie Smith

The Albatross
By Kate Bass

The Alchemist
By Lawrence Raab

The Alpaca
By Gabriela Mistral

The Alphabet First appeared in Poetry
By Karl Shapiro

The Altar
By George Herbert

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Amenities
By Heather McHugh

The American Soldier
By Philip Morin Freneau

The American Way
By Gregory Corso

The Animal Store
By Rachel Field

The Animals
By W. S. Merwin

The Animals are Leaving
By Charles Harper Webb

The animals in that country
By Margaret Atwood

The Annihilation of Nothing First appeared in Poetry
By Thom Gunn

The Anniversary
By John Donne

The Answer
By Bei Dao

The Answer
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Answer
By Robinson Jeffers

The Answering Machine First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

The Antagonism
By Thom Gunn

The Anti-Suffragist
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Anti-Suffragists
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Aphrodisiac
By Arthur Sze

The Apophatic First appeared in Poetry
By Nance Van Winckel

The Appalachian Book of the Dead
By Charles Wright

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Apparition
By John Donne

The Apparition
By Herman Melville

The Apple Tree First appeared in Poetry
By Wendell Berry

The Apples
By W. S. Di Piero

The Approaches First appeared in Poetry
By Harry Clifton

The April Hill First appeared in Poetry
By Janet Loxley Lewis

The Argument
By Jane Kenyon

The Argument of his Book
By Robert Herrick

The Arkansas Prison System
By Frank Stanford

The Armada
By Anne Winters

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Arsenal at Springfield
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Art Room
By Shara McCallum

The Artist First appeared in Poetry
By Amy Lowell

The Ash Bringer First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

The Ashes
By Karin Gottshall

The Asians Dying
By W. S. Merwin

The Astronomical Hen
By Cynthia Zarin

the attack could not be seen by night
By Thulani Davis

The Author of Torah
By Alfred Corn

The Author to Her Book
By Anne Bradstreet

The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
By Howard Nemerov

The Baby's Dance
By Ann Taylor

The Babysitters
By Sylvia Plath

The Bachelor’s Soliloquy
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Bad Mother
By Susan Griffin

The Bad Old Days
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad
By Robert Herrick

The Bait
By John Donne

The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
By Robert W. Service

The Ballad of God-Makers
By G. K. Chesterton

The Ballad of Nat Turner
By Robert E. Hayden

The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke

The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By Oscar Wilde

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Ballad of Sally in our Alley
By Henry Carey

The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
By Delmore Schwartz

The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
By Anne Sexton

The Ballad of Villon and Fat Madge
By François Villon

The Bamboo Ladder
By Anonymous

The Barber's Fountain
By Henry Carlile

The Bard: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Barefoot Boy
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Barrel-Organ
By Alfred Noyes

The Bat
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

The Bath
By Gary Snyder

The Battle of Omdurman
By William McGonagall

The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
By William McGonagall

The Battle of the Bulge
By Robert W. Service

The Batture
By Dara Wier

The Beach at Sunset
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees

The Bean Eaters First appeared in Poetry
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bear
By Galway Kinnell

The Bear
By Susan Mitchell

The Bear at the Dump
By William Matthews

The Bear Hunt
By Abraham Lincoln

The Bearer First appeared in Poetry
By Hayden Carruth

The Beasts' Confession
By Jonathan Swift

The Beautiful First appeared in Poetry
By Roddy Lumsden

The Beautiful Animal
By Geoffrey Brock

The Beauty of Things
By Robinson Jeffers

The Bees First appeared in Poetry
By Bruce Mackinnon

The Beggars First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Widdemer

The Beggars First appeared in Poetry
By Rainer Maria Rilke

The Bell Buoy
By Rudyard Kipling

The Bells of San Blas
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Bench of Boors
By Herman Melville

The Benefactors
By Rudyard Kipling

The Berg (A Dream)
By Herman Melville

The Best Game the Fairies Play
By Rose Fyleman

The Best of the Body
By Thylias Moss

The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner

The Bethlehem Nursing Home
By Rodney Torreson

The Betrothal
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Billboards in Exile
By John Haines

The Birds
By Linda Pastan

The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson

The Birth-day
By Mary Robinson

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
By Robert Browning

The Bison
By Hilaire Belloc

The Bistro Styx
By Rita Dove

The Bitterness of Children
By Thomas Lux

The Black Hose
By Bruce Weigl

The Black Swan
By James Merrill

The Black-Faced Sheep
By Donald Hall

The Blackstone Rangers
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bloody Sire First appeared in Poetry
By Robinson Jeffers

The Blue Booby First appeared in Poetry
By James Tate

The Blue Robe
By Wendell Berry

The Blue Scarf
By Amy Lowell

The Bluet
By James Schuyler

The Boarding First appeared in Poetry
By Denis Johnson

The Bodies
By Elizabeth Spires

The Body First appeared in Poetry
By Marianne Boruch

The Body
By Frederick Morgan

The Body to the Soul
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Bogeyman
By Jack Prelutsky

The Bones of My Father
By Etheridge Knight

from The Book of Funnels
By Christian Hawkey

The Book of Hours
By B. H. Fairchild

The Book of Phillip Sparrow
By John Skelton

The Book of the Dead Man (#15)
By Marvin Bell

The Book of the Dead Man (#3)
By Marvin Bell

The Book of the Deer, the Bear and the Elk
By Henry Carlile

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

The Boston Evening Transcript
By T. S. Eliot

from The Botanic Garden, “The Economy of Vegetation”: Canto I
By Erasmus Darwin

The Boundary
By Bei Dao

The Bounty
By Derek Walcott

The Boy’s Answer to the Blackmoor
By Henry King

The Brassiere Factory
By Kenneth Koch

The Breather First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

The Breathing Space
By Frederick Morgan

The Bride
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Bridge
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Bridge Builder
By Anonymous

The Bridge of Change
By John Logan

from The Bridge: Atlantis
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Cutty Sark First appeared in Poetry
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Quaker Hill
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: Southern Cross
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: The Dance
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: The Tunnel
By Hart Crane

from The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge
By Hart Crane

The Brief Journey West
By Howard Nemerov

The British Church
By George Herbert

The Broken Home
By James Merrill

The Broken String First appeared in Poetry
By Diakwain

The Buffalo Coat First appeared in Poetry
By Thomas McGrath

The Building of Light First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Edgar

The Building of the Ship
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Bumblebee
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Bungalows
By John Ashbery

The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Ruefle

The Burial of the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall

The Buried Life
By Matthew Arnold

The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell, SJ

The Burnt Child
By W. S. Merwin

The Bustle in a House (1108)
By Emily Dickinson

The Butterfly’s Dream
By Hannah F. Gould

The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off
By Cornelius Eady

The Caged Skylark
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Calm
By John Donne

The Calves Not Chosen
By Linda Gregg

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
By E. E. Cummings

The Campus on the Hill
By W. D. Snodgrass

The Candle Flame
By Janet Loxley Lewis

The Cane-Bottom’d Chair
By William Makepeace Thackeray

The Canonization
By John Donne

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canticle of Jack Kerouac
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The Cap and Bells
By William Butler Yeats

The Cardinal
By Henry Carlile

The Carpenter
By Primus St. John

The cars
By Kathleen Fraser

The cast
By Miroslav Holub

The Castaway
By William Cowper

The Catalpa
By John Ciardi

The cat’s song
By Marge Piercy

The Catch First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

The Cats Will Know
By Cesare Pavese

The Cause First appeared in Poetry
By Daniel Tobin

The Caution
By Catherine Cockburn

The Cave Painters First appeared in Poetry
By Eamon Grennan

The Caveman on the Train
By John Frederick Nims

The Cellar First appeared in Poetry
By Emily Fragos

The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández

The Center for Atmospheric Research
By Bin Ramke

The Certainty of Numbers
By Bruce Snider

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Chairs That No One Sits In First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

The Chambered Nautilus
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

from The Changeling
By Thomas Middleton

The Chant of the Vultures
By Edwin Markham

The Character of Holland
By Andrew Marvell

The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Chaste Stranger
By James Tate

The Cherry Tree
By David Wagoner

The Child’s Address to the Kentucky Mummy
By Hannah F. Gould

The Children
By Mark Jarman

The Children
By Donald Revell

The Children of Stare
By Walter De La Mare

The Children of the Poor First appeared in Poetry
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Children's Hour
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake

The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young
By William Blake

The China Painters
By Ted Kooser

The Chinese Mother’s Lullaby First appeared in Poetry
By Biddy Jenkinson

The Chocolate Infection
By G. E. Murray

The Chorus
By Rachel Hadas

The Chosen
By Thomas Hardy

The circle game
By Margaret Atwood

The Circuit Judge
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The Cities Inside Us
By Alberto Ríos

The City
By C. P. Cavafy

The City (1925)
By Carl Rakosi

The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War
By James Doyle

The Cleaving
By Li-Young Lee

The Clod and the Pebble
By William Blake

The Cloister
By William Matthews

The Closet
By Bill Knott

The Clote (Water-Lily)
By William Barnes

The Cloth of the Tempest
By Kenneth Patchen

The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Coast-Road
By Robinson Jeffers

The Cold Heaven
By William Butler Yeats

The Collar
By George Herbert

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Coming of the Plague First appeared in Poetry
By Weldon Kees

The Coming Woman
By Mary Weston Fordham

The Companions in Hades
By George Seferis

The Complaint of Lisa
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Complaint: or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
By Edward Young

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson

from The Congo: Section 1
By Vachel Lindsay

The Connoisseur of Starts
By Michael C. Blumenthal

The Conqueror Worm
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Conscientious Objector
By Karl Shapiro

The Considerate Soft-Shelled Phizzint
By Shel Silverstein

The Consolations of Sociobiology
By Bill Knott

The Constant Voice
By John Koethe

The Consultant for the Mayor First appeared in Poetry
By Robert VanderMolen

The Continent’s End
By Robinson Jeffers

The Convergence of the Twain
By Thomas Hardy

The Convert
By G. K. Chesterton

The Cooling Tower
By Amy Clampitt

The Copper Beech
By Daryl Hine

The Copper Beech
By Marie Howe

The Corn Baby First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Wunderlich

The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Corner Grocery Store
By Walter McDonald

The Coronet
By Andrew Marvell

The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students First appeared in Poetry
By Galway Kinnell

The Country of Marriage
By Wendell Berry

The Country Whore
By Cesare Pavese

The County Jail
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Courtesy
By Alan Shapiro

The Cover of Mars
By Jane Miller

The Cows on Killing Day
By Les Murray

The Cradle Logic of Autumn
By Jay Wright

The Crane Dance First appeared in Poetry
By Yannis Ritsos

The Creation of the Inaudible
By Pattiann Rogers

The Creature in the Classroom
By Jack Prelutsky

The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service

The Cricket
By Edwin Markham

The Cross of Snow
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Crossing
By Ruth Moose

The Crow First appeared in Poetry
By Kunst Judith McCune

The Crow
By Kaelum Poulson

The crowd at the ball game
By William Carlos Williams

The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away
By Matthea Harvey

The Cruel Mother
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Crystal Lithium
By James Schuyler

The Cuckoo Song
By Anonymous

The Curator
By Miller Williams

The Curse
By J. M. Synge

The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth

The Cut
By Ann Taylor

The Cypress Broke
By Mahmoud Darwish

The Damned First appeared in Poetry
By Roddy Lumsden

The Dancer
By David Tucker

The Daring One
By Edwin Markham

The Dark Chamber
By Louis Untermeyer

The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy

The Dawn
By Federico García Lorca

The Day Before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959
By Thylias Moss

The Day is a Poem
By Robinson Jeffers

The Day is Done
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara

The Day of Judgment
By Isaac Watts

The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
By Ambrose Bierce

The Days Gone By
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Dead First appeared in Poetry
By Don Paterson

The Dead Man Walking
By Thomas Hardy

The Dead Never Fight Against Anything
By Pattiann Rogers

The Dead of Winter
By Samuel Menashe

The Dead Remember Brooklyn First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

The Death of Allegory First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

The Death of Antinoüs First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Doty

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Deathwatch Beetle
By Linda Pastan

The Debt
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Decision First appeared in Poetry
By Jane Hirshfield

The Deeper Shadow
By Pierre Reverdy

The Deer and the Snake
By Kenneth Patchen

The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
By Robinson Jeffers

The Definition of Gardening
By James Tate

The Definition of Love
By Andrew Marvell

The Delicacy
By Sandra McPherson

The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee
By N. Scott Momaday

The Delta Parade
By Susan Stewart

The Deodand
By Anthony Hecht

The Dependencies
By Howard Nemerov

The Deposed
By Donald Revell

The Depot
By Anne Winters

The Description of Cooke-ham
By Æmilia Lanyer

The Desert of Empire
By Mark Rudman

The Deserted Village
By Oliver Goldsmith

The Desk First appeared in Poetry
By David Bottoms

The Despairing Man Draws a Serpent
By Alfonso Cortes

The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Dictionary of Silence
By Debora Greger

the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck
By Charles Bukowski

The Difficulty with a Tree
By Russell Edson

The Dignity of Ushers First appeared in Poetry
By Al Maginnes

The Diner
By Richard Jones

The Dinner
By Gregory Orr

The Dipper First appeared in Poetry
By Kathleen Jamie

The Dirt-Eaters
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Disabled Debauchee
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The Disappointment
By Aphra Behn

The Disremembered Glossolalist First appeared in Poetry
By Peter Ciccariello

The Ditch
By Michael Ryan

The Divine Image
By William Blake

The Diving Apprentices
By Christopher Middleton

The Dog Stoltz
By August Kleinzahler

The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
By Alicia Ostriker

The Doll Believers
By Clarence Major

The Dolls
By John Ciardi

The Dome of Sunday
By Karl Shapiro

The Domestic Life of Ghosts
By Tom Clark

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Donkey
By G. K. Chesterton

The Door (I) First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Creeley

The Double Fortress
By Alfred Noyes

The Double Leash First appeared in Poetry
By Katharine Coles

The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
By Richard Brautigan

The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I

The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life
By Anthony Hecht

The Dow Is Off
By Norman Williams

The Dowser’s Ear First appeared in Poetry
By Wilmer Mills

The Dream
By Irving Feldman

The Dream
By John Donne

The Dream
By Aphra Behn

The Dream of a Lover
By Anonymous

The Dream of February
By John Haines

The Dream of the Unified Field
By Jorie Graham

The Dreamer
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Drought First appeared in Poetry
By Gary Soto

The Drowned Children
By Louise Glück

The Drowning of Immoral Women
By Herbert Morris

The Drunk Old Woman
By Cesare Pavese

The Duel
By Eugene Field

The Duffel Bag First appeared in Poetry
By David Harsent

The Dust Covers My Shoes
By Hilda Morley

The Dying Child
By John Clare

The Dying Hunter to his Dog
By Susanna Moodie

The Eager Interpreter
By Reginald Gibbons

The Eagle
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Eagle That Is Forgotten
By Vachel Lindsay

The Echo Elf Answers
By Thomas Hardy

The Ecstasy
By John Donne

The Eden of the Author of Sleep
By Brian Teare

The Education of a Poet
By Leslie Monsour

The Eemis Stane
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Egoist
By William H. Dickey

The Eight O Five
By Diane Glancy

The Elements of San Joaquin
By Gary Soto

The Elephant
By Dan Chiasson

The Elixir
By George Herbert

The Embankment
By T. E. Hulme

from The Emigrants: A Poem
By Charlotte Smith

The Emperor of Ice-Cream
By Wallace Stevens

The Emperor’s New Clothes
By Kate Gale

The Emperor's Dream
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Empty Dance Shoes
By Cornelius Eady

The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück

The Empty House
By Walter De La Mare

The End
By Mark Strand

The End
By Robert Creeley

The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska

The End of an Ethnic Dream
By Jay Wright

The End of Summer
By Rachel Hadas

The End of the World
By Dana Gioia

The end of the world
By Miroslav Holub

The Engine
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The English in Virginia, April 1607
By Charles Reznikoff

The Enigma First appeared in Poetry
By Anne Stevenson

The Enkindled Spring
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Envoy
By Jane Hirshfield

The Envoy of Mr. Cogito
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Eolian Harp
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Epitaph in Form of a Ballad which Villon Made for Himself and his Comrades, Expecting to be Hanged along with Them
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Erotic Philosophers
By Carolyn Kizer

The Errancy
By Jorie Graham

The Essential Shakespeare, Volume XII: Space-Saver Sonnets
By George Starbuck

The Eternal Rebel
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The Evening Darkens Over
By Robert Bridges

The Evening of the Mind First appeared in Poetry
By Donald Justice

The Evening Wind
By William Cullen Bryant

The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
By Henry Vaughan

The Executive’s Death
By Robert Bly

from The Exeter Book: Gnomic Verses
By Anonymous

The Exorcism
By Joyce Sutphen

The Expiration
By John Donne

The Extension of the Dead First appeared in Poetry
By Gary Fincke

The Fable
By Yvor Winters

The Fable About a Nail
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Fabric of Life First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

The Face
By Stevie Smith

The Face
By Franz Wright

The Fact of the Garden
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Fair
By R. S. Thomas

The Fair Singer
By Andrew Marvell

The Faithful
By Jane Cooper

The Fall
By William Barnes

The Fall of Troy
By Rachel Hadas

The Famous Tay Whale
By William McGonagall

The Farm
By Joyce Sutphen

The Farm
By David Lee

The Farm on the Great Plains First appeared in Poetry
By William E. Stafford

The Farmer’s Soliloquy
By Robert Charles O’Hara Benjamin

The Fascination of What’s Difficult
By William Butler Yeats

The Fat Old Couple Whirling Around
By Robert Bly

The Fatal Sisters: An Ode
By Thomas Gray

from The Fatalist: Come October, it's the lake not the border
By Lyn Hejinian

from The Fatalist: Home whose names are produced by motion
By Lyn Hejinian

from The Fatalist: The best words get said frequently‚ they are like fertile pips.
By Lyn Hejinian

from The Fatalist: Time is filled with beginners. You are right. Now
By Lyn Hejinian

The Father
By Ronald Ross

The Father of My Country
By Diane Wakoski

The Fearful Child
By Carol Frost

The Feast of Stephen
By Anthony Hecht

The Feed
By M.L. Smoker

The Fight in the Meadow
By Russell Edson

The Figure on the Far Side
By Jane Cooper

The Figurehead
By Léonie Adams

The Final Morbidity of the Interior Embezzler First appeared in Poetry
By Henry Taylor

The Finality of a Poem
By Michael Anania

The Finger Puppets in the Attic Dollhouse
By John Reibetanz

The Fire
By Deborah Parédez

The Fire Fetched Down
By George Bradley

The Fire of Drift-wood
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The First Day of Christmas
By Anonymous

The First Line is the Deepest First appeared in Poetry
By Kim Addonizio

The First Person
By David Baker

The Fisherman First appeared in Poetry
By William Butler Yeats

The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Flaming Heart
By Richard Crashaw

The Flash Reverses Time
By A. Van Jordan

The Flashboat
By Jane Cooper

The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams

The Flâneur
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Flea
By John Donne

The Flight
By Grace Schulman

The Flower
By George Herbert

The Flower Path
By Arthur Sze

The Fly
By Karl Shapiro

The Fly
By Lynn Crosbie

The Foggy, Foggy Blue
By Delmore Schwartz

The Folk Who Live in Backward Town
By Mary Ann Hoberman

The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
By Dylan Thomas

The Forerunners
By George Herbert

The Forsaken Merman
By Matthew Arnold

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet

The Four Seasons
By Henry Carlile

The Freaks at Spurgin Road Field
By Richard F. Hugo

The French Girl
By Ann Lauterbach

The French Prisoner First appeared in Poetry
By János Pilinszky

The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
By William Wordsworth

The friend
By Marge Piercy

The Frog
By Hilaire Belloc

The Frog Footman and the Fish Footman
By William H. Dickey

The Funeral
By John Donne

The Funeral
By Norman Dubie

The Future
By Matthew Arnold

The Future
By Neal Bowers

The Future of Terror / 1
By Matthea Harvey

The Future of Terror / 5
By Matthea Harvey

The Gaffe First appeared in Poetry
By C. K. Williams

The Gallery
By Andrew Marvell

The Garbo Cloth First appeared in Poetry
By Lucia Perillo

The Garden
By Andrew Marvell

The Garden
By Mark Strand

The Garden
By Jones Very

The Garden Buddha
By Peter Pereira

The Garden by Moonlight
By Amy Lowell

the garden of delight
By Lucille Clifton

The Garden of Love
By William Blake

The Garden of Proserpine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Gardener 38
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Gardener 85
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Gate
By Marie Howe

The General’s Briefing
By Jane Miller

The Geranium
By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Ghost in the Martini
By Anthony Hecht

The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds

The Giant Slide
By Ted Kooser

The Giant Yea First appeared in Poetry
By Theodore Weiss

The Gift
By Li-Young Lee

The Girl Who Buried Snakes in a Jar
By John Haines

The Girl with Bees in Her Hair
By Eleanor Wilner

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Glass-Walled Conservatory
By Cynthia Macdonald

The Glove and the Lions
By Leigh Hunt

The God of Inattention First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

The God Who Loves You
By Carl Dennis

The Goddess Who Created This Passing World
By Alice Notley

The Golden Age
By Bill Knott

The Golden Hinde First appeared in Poetry
By Devin Johnston

The Golden Schlemiel
By Irving Feldman

The Good Lunch of Oceans
By Alberto Ríos

The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

The Good Wife Taught Her Daughter First appeared in Poetry
By Medbh McGuckian

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Good-Morrow
By John Donne

The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov

The Gospel of Barbecue
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Grand Miracle
By Mary Karr

The Grasshopper
By Conrad Aiken

The Grasshopper
By Richard Lovelace

The Great Blue Heron First appeared in Poetry
By Carolyn Kizer

The Great Figure
By William Carlos Williams

The Great Order of the Universe First appeared in Poetry
By Christian Bök

The Great Palaces of Versailles
By Rita Dove

The Great Pax Whitie
By Nikki Giovanni

The Great Society
By Robert Bly

The Greatest Grandeur
By Pattiann Rogers

The Greatest Love
By Anna Swir

The Green Car First appeared in Poetry
By Landis Everson

The Green Linnet
By William Wordsworth

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Guardian Angel of the Private Life
By Jorie Graham

The Guards Came Through
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Guest Ellen at the Supper for Street People
By David Ferry

The Guinea Pig and the Green Balloon
By Oni Buchanan

The Guru First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More

The Halo That Would Not Light
By Lucie Brock-Broido

The Hammer First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

The hand and foot
By Jones Very

The Hand That Signed the Paper
By Dylan Thomas

The Hangar at Sunnyvale: 1937
By Janet Loxley Lewis

The Hanging Man
By Sylvia Plath

The Harbor First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

The Harp
By Bruce Weigl

The Harpy
By Robert W. Service

The Harriers
By Mary Kinzie

The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Haunted Palace
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Haunter
By Thomas Hardy

The Healing Improvisation of Hair
By Jay Wright

The Heart and Service
By Thomas Wyatt

The Heart of a Woman
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Heart's Archaeology First appeared in Poetry
By Maudelle Driskell

The Hearts
By Robert Pinsky

The Heaven of Animals
By James L. Dickey

The Heavenly Doctor
By T.R. Hummer

The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
By Delmore Schwartz

The Hedgehog
By J. J. Bell

The Hen Swallows a Worm or Slug First appeared in Poetry
By A. V. Christie

The Herdsman First appeared in Poetry
By Fernando Pessoa

The Here and Now
By Theodore Weiss

The Hero on His Way Home
By Lawrence Raab

The Hidden Singer
By Wendell Berry

The Higher Pantheism
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes

The Hill
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Hills in Half Light
By Patricia Goedicke

The Hills of Youth
By Alfred Noyes

The History of America
By Alicia Ostriker

The History of Jazz
By Kenneth Koch

The History of Mothers of Sons First appeared in Poetry
By Lisa Furmanski

The Hitchhikers First appeared in Poetry
By Diane Wakoski

The Hold-fast
By George Herbert

The Home
By Herbert Morris

The Homecoming
By Barbara Howes

The Homecoming Singer
By Jay Wright

The Homer Mitchell Place
By John Engels

The Hook First appeared in Poetry
By Theodore Weiss

The Horrid Voice of Science First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

The Horse First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Levine

The Horse Fell Off the Poem
By Mahmoud Darwish

The Hospital Window
By James L. Dickey

The house
By Marin Sorescu

The House Gift First appeared in Poetry
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 22. Heart's Haven
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 36. Life-in-Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 66. The Heart of the Night
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 72. The Choice, II
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 73. The Choice, III
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 97. A Superscription
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Rest
By Julia Ward Howe

The House on the Hill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The house was just twinkling in the moon light
By Gertrude Stein

The Housewife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Human Seasons
By John Keats

The Humbled Heart
By Siegfried Sassoon

The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll

The Hush of the Very Good First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Boss

The Huts at Esquimax
By Norman Dubie

The Hypnotist's Daughter
By Lisa Olstein

The Ice-Cream Man
By Michael Longley

The Icehouse in Summer
By Howard Nemerov

The Idea
By Mark Strand

The Idea of Ancestry
By Etheridge Knight

The Idea of Order at Key West
By Wallace Stevens

The Idler
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Illiterate
By William Meredith

The Imagined Copperhead First appeared in Poetry
By Andrew Hudgins

The Immoralist
By Norman Dubie

The Immortal Pilots
By Chase Twichell

The Impalpable Brush Fire Singer
By Will Alexander

The Imperfect Enjoyment
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The Incarnate
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Indian
By Elizabeth Kirkham Mathews

The Indian Burying Ground
By Philip Morin Freneau

The Indian Serenade
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Indifferent
By John Donne

The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin
By Ann Yearsley

The Indoors is Endless
By Tomas Tranströmer

The Inevitable
By Allan Peterson

The Infirmament
By Dean Young

The Inheritance
By Stanley Moss

The Inkspots
By Gerald Stern

The Instruction Manual
By John Ashbery

The Intellectual
By Karl Shapiro

The Interrupted Concert
By Federico García Lorca

The Introduction
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer

The Intruder
By Frank Stanford

The Invention of Cuisine
By Carol Muske-Dukes

The Invisible Birds of Central America First appeared in Poetry
By Craig Arnold

The Invisible Person
By James Laughlin

The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell

The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens

The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
By William Meredith

The James Bond Movie
By May Swenson

The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski

The Jaunt
By Alfred Corn

The Jester First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Widdemer

The Jew
By Isaac Rosenberg

The Jew and the Rooster Are One
By Gerald Stern

The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
By Li Po

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Journey
By Eavan Boland

The Journey
By David Ignatow

The Journey
By Yvor Winters

The Journey
By James Wright

The Jungle Café First appeared in Poetry
By Gary Soto

The Key to the City
By Anne Winters

The Key to the Kingdom First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Gross

The Kid
By Ai

The Kindergarten Concert
By Robert Pottle

The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song

The King of Asini
By George Seferis

The King of Spain
By William Jay Smith

The King’s Question
By Brian Culhane

The Kingfisher
By Amy Clampitt

The Kiss
By W. S. Di Piero

The Kiss
By Kirmen Uribe

The Knife
By Jean Valentine

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Laboratory
By Robert Browning

The Ladder of St. Augustine
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Lady and the Doctor
By Helen Leigh

The Lady and the Tramp
By Bruce Guernsey

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Lady of Shalott (1832)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Lady of Shalott (1842)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Lady of the Castle
By John Hollander

from The Lady of the Lake: Boat Song
By Sir Walter Scott

from The Lady of the Lake: The Western Waves of Ebbing Day
By Sir Walter Scott

The Lady's Yes
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Lady’s Dressing Room
By Jonathan Swift

The Lake First appeared in Poetry
By Sophie Cabot Black

The Lake
By Daryl Hine

The Lake in Central Park
By Jay Wright

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
By William Butler Yeats

The Lamb
By William Blake

The Lamb
By Linda Gregg

The Land of Nod
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Landing
By J. D. McClatchy

The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Language
By Robert Creeley

The Larger First appeared in Poetry
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The Lark
By Gabriela Mistral

The Last Canto
By Brian Culhane

The Last Attack. To Klaus First appeared in Poetry
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Last Bargain
By Rabindranath Tagore

from the Last Canto of Paradiso First appeared in Poetry
By Dante Alighieri

The Last Day
By George Seferis

The Last Laugh
By Wilfred Owen

The Last Leaf
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Last Man
By Eleanor Wilner

The Last Man’s Club
By James Galvin

The Last Movie
By Rachel Hadas

The Last Scene
By Alan Shapiro

The Late Wisconsin Spring
By John Koethe

The Late Worm First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

The Laughter of Women
By Mary-Sherman Willis

The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson

The Lawn Mower First appeared in Poetry
By Sarah Barber

The Laws of Motion
By Nikki Giovanni

The Lawyers' Ways
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Lay for the Troubled Golfer
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Leaf Pile
By Alicia Ostriker

The Leaves Are Falling First appeared in Poetry
By Ange Mlinko

The Legend
By Garrett Hongo

The Letter
By Dana Gioia

The Letter Scale First appeared in Poetry
By Jacques Réda

The Lie
By Anne Waldman

The Lie
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Lie First appeared in Poetry
By Don Paterson

The Life and Letters
By Irving Feldman

The Life of Lincoln West
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Lifeguard
By James L. Dickey

The Light the Dead See
By Frank Stanford

The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Lights of London
By Louise Imogen Guiney

The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos

The Lion for Real
By Allen Ginsberg

The Listeners
By Walter De La Mare

The Little Black Boy
By William Blake

The Little Book of Hand Shadows
By Deborah Digges

The Little Boy Lost
By William Blake

The Little Mariner
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

The Little Match Girl
By William McGonagall

The Little Orphan
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Little Turtle
By Vachel Lindsay

The Little Vagabond
By William Blake

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Little Waves of Breffny
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Little White Hearse
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Little White Rose
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Living End
By Samuel Menashe

The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Llano Estacado First appeared in Poetry
By John Poch

The Loaf
By Paul Muldoon

The Lobster
By Carl Rakosi

The Local Language
By Ralph Angel

The Lodger First appeared in Poetry
By Fiona Sampson

The Loneliness of the Military Historian
By Margaret Atwood

The Lonely Death
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Lonely Pipefish
By Barbara Howes

The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour
By Thomas Wyatt

The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling

The Long Voyage First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

The Look
By Sara Teasdale

The Lord Sits with Me Out Front
By Jack Gilbert

The Loss
By Anne Stevenson

The Lost Land
By Eavan Boland

The Lost Leader
By Robert Browning

The Lost Mistress
By Robert Browning

The Lost Pilot
By James Tate

The Lotos-eaters
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Love Cook
By Ron Padgett

The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass
By Michael S. Harper

The Love of an Orange First appeared in Poetry
By Dahlia Ravikovitch

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

The lover
By Sina Queyras

The Lover: A Ballad
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The Lovers of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Lowering
By May Swenson

The Luggage
By Constance Urdang

The Lyric “I” Drives to Pick up Her Children from School: A Poem in the Postconfessional Mode
By Olena Kalytiak Davis

The Lyric In A Time of War
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Machine
By Carol Muske-Dukes

The Mad Scene First appeared in Poetry
By James Merrill

The Madness of Emperors
By George Bradley

The Magi First appeared in Poetry
By William Butler Yeats

The Magic of Numbers
By Kenneth Koch

The Magnets
By Ray Gonzalez

The Magus
By C. Dale Young

The Maid’s Lament
By Walter Savage Landor

The Mailman
By Franz Wright

The Maldive Shark
By Herman Melville

The Man He Killed
By Thomas Hardy

The Man I Could Have Been
By Roddy Lumsden

The Man Moves Earth
By Cathy Song

The Man on the Dump
By Wallace Stevens

The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell

The Man Who Married Magdalene
By Louis Simpson

The Man with Night Sweats
By Thom Gunn

The Man with the Hoe
By Edwin Markham

The Man-Moth
By Elizabeth Bishop

from The Manner of Her Will, & What She Left to London, and to All Those in It, at Her Departing
By Isabella Whitney

The Map
By Gary Soto

The Map
By Larry Levis

The Map of the World Confused with Its Territory
By Susan Stewart

The March into Virginia Ending in the First Manassas (July, 1861)
By Herman Melville

The March aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes
By Daryl Hine

The Mare of Money First appeared in Poetry
By Roger Reeves

The Market-Place
By Walter De La Mare

The Marriage
By Mark Strand

The Marriage in the Trees
By Stanley Plumly

The Masked Face
By Thomas Hardy

The Massacre of the Innocents
By Donald Revell

The May Apple
By Cynthia Zarin

The Mayans
By Eleanor Lerman

The Mayor of Scuttleton
By Mary Mapes Dodge

The Meadow
By Tom Sleigh

The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada

The Measure
By Robert Creeley

The Measure
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Measure of the Year
By James Galvin

The Medium
By Robin Blaser

The Melon First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Simic

The Memory of Barbarism is the Recollection of Virtue
By Richard Emil Braun

The Memory of Elena
By Carolyn Forché

The Men First appeared in Poetry
By Pablo Neruda

The Men
By B. H. Fairchild

The Menage
By Carl Rakosi

The Mermaid in the Hospital First appeared in Poetry
By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

the message of crazy horse
By Lucille Clifton

The Messenger
By Eleanor Wilner

The Metaphysical Amorist
By J. V. Cunningham

The Microcosm
By Giovanni Battista Guarini

The Militance of a Photograph in the Passbook of a Bantu under Detention
By Michael S. Harper

The Milkmaid’s Epithalamium
By Thomas Randolph

The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Mill-Race
By Anne Winters

The Miller's Daughter
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Minefield
By Diane Thiel

The Minister
By Anne Stevenson

The Minks
By Toi Derricotte

The Minneapolis Poem
By James Wright

The Misanthropist
By James Monroe Whitfield

The Miscarriage First appeared in Poetry
By Amit Majmudar

The Mission First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin Young

The Mock Song
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

The Modern Pastoral Elegy First appeared in Poetry
By Conor O'Callaghan

The Moment When Your Name is Pronounced
By Forrest Gander

The Monsters in My Closet
By Phil Bolsta

The Month of June: 13 1/2 First appeared in Poetry
By Sharon Olds

The Months First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

The Monument and the Shrine
By John Logan

The Moon and the Yew Tree
By Sylvia Plath

The Moon is distant from the Sea – (387)
By Emily Dickinson

The moon now rises to her absolute rule
By Henry David Thoreau

The Moose
By Elizabeth Bishop

The Moralists
By Yvor Winters

The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants
By Paul Muldoon

The Morning-Watch
By Henry Vaughan

The Mosquito
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Mosquito
By Rodney Jones

The Moss of His Skin
By Anne Sexton

the mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mother’s Charge
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Mother’s Loathing of Balloons First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

The Mother’s Return
By Dorothy Wordsworth

The Motorcyclists
By James Tate

The Mount
By Léonie Adams

The Mountain Cemetery
By Edgar Bowers

The Mower
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower
By Philip Larkin

The Mower against Gardens
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower to the Glow-Worms
By Andrew Marvell

The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell

The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon-colored Gloves
By Kenneth Patchen

The Murder of William Remington
By Howard Nemerov

The Nabob
By Kenneth Slessor

The Nail
By C. K. Williams

The Nails
By W. S. Merwin

The Name Drawn from the Names
By Juan Ramón Jiménez

The Natives of America
By Ann Plato

The Natural Child
By Helen Leigh

The Negative
By Arthur Sze

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
By Langston Hughes

The Neon Artist in December
By Linda Bierds

from The Nerve Meter
By Antonin Artaud

The Net First appeared in Poetry
By Babette Deutsch

The New Chinese Fiction
By James Tate

The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus

The New Decalogue
By Ambrose Bierce

The New Religion
By Chris Abani

The New World
By Amiri Baraka

The New Year
By Emma Lazarus

The Newspaper
By Penina Moise

from The Next Clause First appeared in Poetry
By Fleda Brown

The Niche
By Samuel Menashe

The Night
By Henry Vaughan

The night is darkening round me
By Emily Jane Brontë

The Night Mirror
By John Hollander

The Night of the Shirts
By W. S. Merwin

The Night Piece, to Julia
By Robert Herrick

The Night Would Grow Like a Telescope Pulled Out
By Alberto Ríos

The Nightingale
By Philip Sidney

The Nineteenth Century as a Song
By Robert Hass

The Ninth of July
By John Hollander

The north wind whips First appeared in Poetry
By Víctor Terán

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The Not Tale (Funeral) First appeared in Poetry
By Caroline Bergvall

The November Angels
By Jane Hirshfield

The Nuns Assist at Childbirth First appeared in Poetry
By Barbara Howes

The Nursery
By Fanny Howe

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
By Andrew Marvell

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Oblation
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Obligation to Be Happy First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

The Octopus First appeared in Poetry
By James Merrill

The Odd Last Thing She Did First appeared in Poetry
By Brad Leithauser

The Old Clock on the Stairs
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Old Codger’s Lament
By Carl Rakosi

The Old Familiar Faces
By Charles Lamb

The Old Front Gate
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Old Liberators
By Robert Hedin

The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale

The Old Maid Factory
By Constance Urdang

The Old Man Drew the Line
By Carl Rakosi

The Old Meeting House
By Alfred Noyes

The Old Swimmin' Hole
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Old World
By Charles Simic

The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
By Larry Levis

The One I Think of Now
By Wesley McNair

The One in All
By Margaret Fuller

The One-Year-Old Lemon Tree
By W. S. Di Piero

The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson
By Irene McKinney

The Opal
By Arthur Sze

The Open Happens in the Midst of Beings
By Norman Dubie

The Oracle
By Thomas James Merton

The Orange
By Wendy Cope

The Orange Alert
By Douglas Kearney

The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill

The Order In Which Things Are Broken First appeared in Poetry
By Desirée Alvarez

The order of islands here
By Michael Palmer

The Orient
By Thomas P. Lynch

The Origin of Order First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Other Place First appeared in Poetry
By William Logan

The Other Side of This World
By Calvin Forbes

The Others
By Michael Ryan

The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost

The Oven Loves the TV Set
By Heather McHugh

The Owl First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Videlock

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Package First appeared in Poetry
By Rodney Jones

The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Painter First appeared in Poetry
By John Ashbery

The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House
By Howard Nemerov

The Painter of the Night First appeared in Poetry
By James Tate

The Paleontologist’s Blind Date
By Philip Memmer

The Panther
By Edwin Markham

The Parade First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

The Paradox
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Paradox of Jerome’s Lion
By Christopher Middleton

The Paris Mouse First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra M. Gilbert

The Park First appeared in Poetry
By Harry Clifton

The Parlement of Fowls
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Passing of the Wise Men First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
By Christopher Marlowe

The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued
By Trumbull Stickney

The Past
By Henry Timrod

The Past
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Pasture
By Robert Frost

The Pattern First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Creeley

The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry

The Pear First appeared in Poetry
By Jane Hirshfield

The Pearl
By George Herbert

The Penitent
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Pennacesse Leper Colony for Women, Cape Cod: 1922
By Norman Dubie

The People of the Other Village
By Thomas Lux

from The People, Yes
By Carl Sandburg

The Perfect Life First appeared in Poetry
By John Koethe

The Perfect Mother
By Susan Griffin

The Performance First appeared in Poetry
By James L. Dickey

The Phantom Horsewoman
By Thomas Hardy

The Photos
By Diane Wakoski

The Phyllis
By R. T. Smith

The Piano Speaks First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra Beasley

The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
By Andrew Marvell

The Pieces That Fall To Earth First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

The Pier: Under Pisces
By James Merrill

The Pig
By Roald Dahl

The Pilgrim
By John Bunyan

The Pilgrim
By Sophie Jewett

The Pilgrims
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
By Richard Brautigan

The Pillar of Fame
By Robert Herrick

The Pilot in the Jungle
By John Ciardi

The Piper First appeared in Poetry
By Joseph Campbell

The Pit
By John Fuller

The Place for No Story
By Robinson Jeffers

The Planet Krypton
By Lynn Emanuel

The Play of Light and Shadow First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

The Poem of the Little House at the Corner of Misapprehension and Marvel First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

The Poet First appeared in Poetry
By Yone Noguchi

The Poet as Setting
By Douglas Kearney

The Poet at Seventeen
By Larry Levis

The Poet Orders His Tomb
By Edgar Bowers

The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical Academics
By W. D. Snodgrass

from The Poet Writes The Poem That Will Certainly Make Him Famous
By Douglas Kearney

The Poet's Life: From Martial's Epigrams First appeared in Poetry
By Gary Schmidgall

The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos

The Pond
By Amy Lowell

The Pond
By Gregory Orr

The Pond at Dusk
By Jane Kenyon

The Pool First appeared in Poetry
By H. D.

The Pool
By Robert Creeley

The Poppy
By Jane Taylor

The Portent
By Herman Melville

The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers

The Poster Girl’s Defence
By Carolyn Wells

The Posture
By Lucretius

The Potato Eaters
By Leonard E. Nathan

The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing
By William Wordsworth

The Powwow at the End of the World
By Sherman Alexie

The Precincts of Moonlight
By David Wojahn

The Prediction
By Mark Strand

The Preface
By Edward Taylor

The Preface
By Philip Whalen

from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time
By William Wordsworth

from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
By William Wordsworth

The Presence
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

The Price is Right: A Torture Wheel of Fortune
By Edward Dorn

The Princess: As thro' the Land
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Ask me no more
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Come down, O Maid
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: O Swallow
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Our Enemies Have Fall'n
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Sweet and Low
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess: Thy Voice is Heard
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Principles of Concealment First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

The Prisoner
By R. S. Thomas

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Problem of Fiction
By Marie Ponsot

The Prodigal Son
By James Weldon Johnson

The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Project of Linear Inquiry
By Michael Palmer

The Promise
By Sharon Olds

The Properly Scholarly Attitude
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Props assist the House (729)
By Emily Dickinson

The Prospector
By Robert W. Service

The Proximate Shore
By John Koethe

The Psychotropic Squalls
By Will Alexander

The Pulley
By George Herbert

The Pump
By Frank Stanford

The Pumpkin
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear

The Quarrel
By Linda Pastan

The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück

The Question
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Question
By Ruth Stone

The Question of My Mother First appeared in Poetry
By Robin Ekiss

The Quiet World
By Jeffrey McDaniel

The Quip
By George Herbert

The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Rain
By Robert Creeley

The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Rain Poured Down
By Dan Gerber

The Rain-Streaked Avenues of Central Queens First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

The Rainbow
By David Baker

The Rainbow
By Charlotte Richardson

The Rape of Europa First appeared in Poetry
By Ovid

from The Rape of Lucrece
By William Shakespeare

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4
By Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5
By Alexander Pope

The Raspberry Room
By Karin Gottshall

The Rattling Boy from Dublin
By William McGonagall

The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Razor-Tailed Wren
By Shel Silverstein

The Reading Club
By Patricia Goedicke

The Real and True and Sure
By Robert Browning

The Reason
By Stevie Smith

The Rebel
By Hilaire Belloc

The Reckoning
By Robert W. Service

The Red Cadillac First appeared in Poetry
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson

The Red Portrait First appeared in Poetry
By Karl Kirchwey

The Red Sea First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Edgar

The Red Wheelbarrow
By William Carlos Williams

The Redbreast
By Charlotte Richardson

The Redeemer
By Siegfried Sassoon

The Redshifting Web
By Arthur Sze

The Relic
By John Donne

The Request of Alexis
By Sarah Dixon

The Rescue
By Robert Creeley

The Retreat
By Henry Vaughan

from The Return
By Charles Tomlinson

The Return
By Frank Bidart

The Return
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Revelation
By Coventry Patmore

The Reverie of Poor Susan
By William Wordsworth

The Revisionist Dream
By Maxine W. Kumin

The Right Whale in Iowa
By Debora Greger

The Rights of Women
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

the rites for Cousin Vit
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Rites of Darkness
By Kenneth Patchen

The River
By Gregory Orr

The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine

The River Now
By Richard F. Hugo

The River of Bees
By W. S. Merwin

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound

The Road
By Herbert Morris

The Road and the End First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

The Rock in the Sea
By Archibald MacLeish

The Rocky Islands
By Janet Loxley Lewis

The Role of Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang

The Rolling English Road
By G. K. Chesterton

The Room
By Conrad Aiken

The Room in Which My First Child Slept First appeared in Poetry
By Eavan Boland

The Room of My Life
By Anne Sexton

The Root First appeared in Poetry
By Helen Hoyt

The Rose
By Jean Valentine

The Roundel
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Ruined Maid
By Thomas Hardy

The Runners
By Irving Feldman

The Sévres Road First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Donnelly

The Sacred Flame
By Marin Sorescu

The Safecracker
By Linda Pastan

The Sailor's Grave at Clo-oose, V.I.
By Marjorie Pickthall

The Saint and the Crab
By William Logan

The Salutation
By Thomas Traherne

The Same City
By Terrance Hayes

The Same Old Jazz
By Philip Whalen

The Satyr’s Heart
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The School Where I Studied First appeared in Poetry
By Yehuda Amichai

The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott

The Screen of Distance
By Barbara Guest

The Scrutinie
By Richard Lovelace

The Sea Chews Things Up
By Cleopatra Mathis

The Sea of Death
By Thomas Hood

The Sea Shell
By Marin Sorescu

The Sea-Garden
By Fanny Howe

The Seafarer
By Ezra Pound

The Seagull
By Norman Dubie

The Search for Lost Lives
By James Tate

The Search Party
By William Matthews

from The Seasons: Spring
By James Thomson

The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats

The Second Slaughter First appeared in Poetry
By Lucia Perillo

The Second Trying First appeared in Poetry
By Dahlia Ravikovitch

The Secret
By Anonymous

The Secret
By Denise Levertov

The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove

The Secret of the Machines
By Rudyard Kipling

The Secular Masque
By John Dryden

The Seekonk Woods
By Galway Kinnell

The Seer First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

The Self Banished
By Edmund Waller

The Self-Unseeing
By Thomas Hardy

The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
By Bob Hicok

The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

The Sensible Girlfriend
By Terry Wolverton

The Sermon on the Warpland
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Seventh Inning
By Donald Hall

The Shadow
By Hilda Morley

The Shadow on the Stone
By Thomas Hardy

The Shameful Profession First appeared in Poetry
By James Laughlin

The Shampoo (From The Nightingales)
By David Wojahn

The Sheep Child
By James L. Dickey

The Sheep in the Ruins
By Archibald MacLeish

the sheep lady from algiers
By Patti Smith

The Sheep Who Fastened the Sky to the Ground
By Oni Buchanan

The Sheets First appeared in Poetry
By Anonymous

from The Shepheardes Calender: April
By Edmund Spenser

from The Shepheardes Calender: October
By Edmund Spenser

The Ship Pounding
By Donald Hall

The Shipfitter’s Wife
By Dorianne Laux

The Ships Move On
By Hilda Morley

The Shires
By John Fuller

The Shirt
By Jane Kenyon

The Shoes First appeared in Poetry
By Brent Pallas

The Shooting of Dan McGrew
By Robert W. Service

The Shopping-Bag Lady
By Linda Gregg

The Shore
By David St. John

The Shore of Life
By Robert Fitzgerald

The Shout
By Simon Armitage

from The Shrubberies [“quincunx of succulents”]
By Ronald Johnson

The Shrubbery
By William Cowper

The Sick Rose
By William Blake

The Siege of the City of Gorky
By Donald Revell

The Sight First appeared in Poetry
By David Orr

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada

The Silk Road
By Arthur Sze

The Siller Croun
By Susanna Blamire

The Silver Lily
By Louise Glück

The Silver Swan
By Anonymous

The Simplon Pass
By William Wordsworth

The Simulacra First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

The Singers First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Hearon

The Singing Place First appeared in Poetry
By Lily A. Long

The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Skylark
By John Clare

The Slave Auction
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Slave Mother
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Sleeper
By Walter De La Mare

The Sleeper
By Edgar Allan Poe

from The Sleepers
By Walt Whitman

The Sleigh-Bells
By Susanna Moodie

The Slop Barrel: Slices of the Paideuma for All Sentient Beings
By Philip Whalen

The Slow Pacific Swell
By Yvor Winters

The Small Hours First appeared in Poetry
By Vona Groarke

The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Smell of Rat Rubs Off First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

The Smile
By William Blake

The Snail
By Richard Lovelace

The Snail
By Marin Sorescu

The Snake
By William Matthews

The Snake Doctors
By Frank Stanford

The Snow Is Deep on the Ground
By Kenneth Patchen

The Snow Leopard First appeared in Poetry
By Jason Gray

The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens

The Snow-Storm
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Snowbound City
By John Haines

The Snowmass Cycle First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dunn

The So-called Singer of Nab First appeared in Poetry
By Sarah Lindsay

The Soft City
By Tennessee Williams

The Soldier
By David Ferry

The Soldier and the Snow
By Miguel Hernández

The Soldiers in the Garden
By Martín Espada

The Solipsist First appeared in Poetry
By Troy Jollimore

The Solitary Reaper
By William Wordsworth

The Solitude of Night
By Li Po

The Son of the Wall First appeared in Poetry
By Avot Yeshurun

The Song of Lewes
By Anonymous

from The Song of Solomon, Chapter 2
By Solomon

The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling

The Song of the Birds First appeared in Poetry
By Anonymous

The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
By Mina Loy

The Song of the Smoke
By W. E. B. Du Bois

The Song of the Traveller
By Thomas James Merton

The Song of the Wage-slave
By Robert W. Service

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

The Sonnet
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Sorrow of Love
By William Butler Yeats

The Soul of Spain With McAlmon and Bird the Publishers
By Ernest M. Hemingway

The Sound of One Fork
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Sound of the Sun
By George Bradley

The Sound of Trees
By Robert Frost

The South
By Emma Lazarus

The Spanish Hour
By J. D. McClatchy

The Speakers First appeared in Poetry
By Weldon Kees

The Spell of the Yukon
By Robert W. Service

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

The Spire
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

The Spirit and the Soul
By Jack Gilbert

The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument
By Anne Stevenson

The Spleen
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

from The Spleen
By Matthew Green

The Sponge First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Mehigan

The Spool
By Ben Belitt

The Spring
By Thomas Carew

The Springtime
By Denise Levertov

The Squaw Trade
By G. E. Murray

The Star
By Ann Taylor

The Star
By Henry Vaughan

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

The Starlight Night
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Starry Night
By Anne Sexton

The Stars and the Moon
By Grace Schulman

The Stars Are First appeared in Poetry
By Samuel Menashe

The Statesmen
By Ambrose Bierce

The Statue
By Ella Higginson

The Steel Glass
By George Gascoigne

The Step Mother
By Susanna Moodie

The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten
By Edgar Bowers

The Stone Axe
By Robinson Jeffers

The Stories
By Robin Blaser

The Storm Is Over First appeared in Poetry
By Jason Guriel

The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker

The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
By Edmund Waller

The Story of the End of the Story
By James Galvin

The Story, Around the Corner
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Strange People
By Louise Erdrich

The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods
By Rigoberto González

The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Strength of Fields
By James L. Dickey

The Strife between the Poet and Ambition
By Thomas James Merton

The Subculture of the Wrongfully Accused First appeared in Poetry
By Thylias Moss

The Subject
By Rae Armantrout

The Suburban Classes
By Stevie Smith

The Summer Bower
By Henry Timrod

The Summer Image
By Léonie Adams

The Sun First appeared in Poetry
By Dan Chiasson

The Sun Rising
By John Donne

The Sun-Struck Eagle
By Eleanor Percy Lee, Catherine Ana Warfield

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Surrealist Learns To Fly First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer O'Grady

The Swamp Angel
By Herman Melville

The Swarm
By Jorie Graham

The Sweater of Vladimir Ussachevsky
By John Haines

The Swing
By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Swiss Just Do Whatever First appeared in Poetry
By Sharon Mesmer

The Sympathizers
By Josephine Miles

The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth

The Tale of Sunlight
By Gary Soto

The Tapestry
By Forrest Gander

The Tartar Swept
By August Kleinzahler

from The Task, Book I: The Sofa
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Taxi
By Amy Lowell

The Tay Bridge Disaster
By William McGonagall

The Tear
By Richard Crashaw

The Telegraph Operator
By Robert W. Service

The Temper (I)
By George Herbert

The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books
By Alice Notley

The Tennis Court Oath
By John Ashbery

from The Testament of John Lydgate
By John Lydgate

from The Testament of Love
By Robert Bridges

The Testing-Tree
By Stanley Kunitz

The Thanksgivings
By Harriet Maxwell Converse

from The Theatre of Illusion First appeared in Poetry
By Pierre Corneille

The Theory 0f Hats First appeared in Poetry
By David Biespiel

The Things
By Conrad Aiken

The Things in Black Men’s Closets
By E. Ethelbert Miller

The Third Hour of the Night First appeared in Poetry
By Frank Bidart

The Thorn
By William Wordsworth

The Thought of Something Else
By Wendell Berry

The Three Enemies
By Christina Rossetti

The Three-Legged Dog at the Heart of Our Home First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Gregerson

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
By Thomas Moore

The Time of Youth is to be Spent
By Henry VIII, king of England

The To-be-forgotten
By Thomas Hardy

The Tongues We Speak
By Patricia Goedicke

The Toothless Wonder
By Phil Bolsta

The Topography of History
By Thomas McGrath

The Tourist From Syracuse
By Donald Justice

The Town Dump
By Howard Nemerov

The Toys
By Coventry Patmore

The Tragedy of Hats First appeared in Poetry
By Clarinda Harriss

The Train First appeared in Poetry
By David Orr

The Transfiguration
By Edwin Muir

The Transmigration of Souls
By Deborah Digges

the trash men
By Charles Bukowski

The Treasure
By Robinson Jeffers

The Tree
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Trees are Down
By Charlotte Mew

The Trees Delete Themselves Inside a Fog-Sphere First appeared in Poetry
By Francis Ponge

The Trespasser
By Ben Belitt

The Trickle-Down Theory of Happiness First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Appleman

The Triple Fool
By John Donne

The Triumph of Life
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

from The Triumph of Love
By Geoffrey Hill

The Triumph of Time
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Tropics in New York
By Claude McKay

The Troubles That Women Start Are Men
By Rodney Jones

The Trout
By James Laughlin

The True Born Englishman
By Daniel Defoe

The True-Blue American
By Delmore Schwartz

The Truth
By Carl Phillips

The Truth
By Frank Stanford

The Truth First appeared in Poetry
By Tim Dlugos

The Truth about Small Towns
By David Baker

The Truth Is Laughter 10
By Robin Blaser

The Truth the Dead Know
By Anne Sexton

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Tummy Beast
By Roald Dahl

The Tune He Saw
By Cynthia Macdonald

The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Twins
By Robert W. Service

The Two Boys
By Mary Lamb

The Two Children
By Emily Jane Brontë

The Two Streams
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Tyger
By William Blake

The Unforgiven
By Russell Edson

The Unfortunate Damsel
By Fleetwood Habergham

The Unfortunate Lover
By Andrew Marvell

The Uniform
By Marvin Bell

The Universal Prayer
By Alexander Pope

The Unknown
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Unknown Citizen
By W. H. Auden

The Unknown Dead
By Henry Timrod

The Unquiet Grave
By Anonymous

The Unruly Child
By Bob Perelman

The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy
By G. E. Murray

The Untamed
By R. S. Thomas

The Untrustworthy Speaker
By Louise Glück

The Unveiling
By Jane Miller

The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan

the vacant lot
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Vacuum
By Howard Nemerov

The Vagrant’s Romance
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Vain Advice
By Catherine Cockburn

The Valley of Unrest
By Edgar Allan Poe

from The Vanity of Human Wishes
By Samuel Johnson

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The Vegetables First appeared in Poetry
By James McMichael

The Veggie Life First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Steffen

The Velocipede
By Michael Longley

The Venus Hottentot
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Verification of Vulnerability: Bog Turtle First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Very Rich Hours First appeared in Poetry
By James McMichael

The Veteran
By Fanny Howe

The Victor Dog First appeared in Poetry
By James Merrill

The Victory
By Anne Stevenson

The Victory of the Beet-Fields
By Louis Untermeyer

The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov

The View from Here
By W. S. Di Piero

The Vigil First appeared in Poetry
By Aaron Poochigian

The Village: Book I
By George Crabbe

The Vine
By Robert Herrick

The Violet
By Jane Taylor

The Virgin
By William Wordsworth

The Virgin Considered as a Picture
By Edgar Bowers

The Visit First appeared in Poetry
By Carole Bernstein

The Visitation
By Samuel Menashe

The Voice
By Thomas Hardy

The Voyage Home First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Appleman

The Waking
By Theodore Roethke

The Waking
By Arthur Sze

The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll

The Want of Peace
By Wendell Berry

The War Horse
By Eavan Boland

The War in the Air
By Howard Nemerov

The Warning
By Robert Creeley

The Washingtonian
By May Miller

The Waste Carpet
By William Matthews

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Water Carrier
By Chase Twichell

The Water Diviner
By Dannie Abse

The Water-fall
By Henry Vaughan

The Watergaw
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Way
By Marin Sorescu

The Way
By Rae Armantrout

The Way I Learned to Write
By Kate Gale

The Way She Figured He Figured It
By Adrian Blevins

The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
By Bernadette Mayer

The Way to the River
By W. S. Merwin

The Weakness
By Toi Derricotte

The Weary Blues
By Langston Hughes

the weather is hot on the back of my watch
By Charles Bukowski

The Weather Shifts
By Arthur Sze

The Weaver
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Wedding Vow
By Sharon Olds

The Weight
By Linda Gregg

The Well Rising
By William E. Stafford

The West Country
By Alice Cary

The West Window in Moveen
By Thomas P. Lynch

The Western Emigrant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

The Whale
By Hilaire Belloc

The Wheel First appeared in Poetry
By Vinda Karandikar

The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Wheelchair Butterfly
By James Tate

The Wheels on the Bus
By Anonymous

The whistle
By Marin Sorescu

The Whistle
By Kathy Mangan

The White City
By Claude McKay

The White Faces
By Charlie Smith

The White Island, or Place of the Blest
By Robert Herrick

The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The White Porch
By Cathy Song

The Whitsun Weddings
By Philip Larkin

The Whole Mess ... Almost
By Gregory Corso

The Widow of Naim
By Thomas James Merton

The Widow’s Lament in Springtime First appeared in Poetry
By William Carlos Williams

The Widower’s Courtship
By Elizabeth Hands

The Widows’ House
By Sarah Orne Jewett

The Wife
By Marjorie Pickthall

The Wife of Manibozho Sings
By Janet Loxley Lewis

The Wife Speaks
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

The Wild Common
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Wild Old Wicked Man
By William Butler Yeats

The Wild Swans at Coole
By William Butler Yeats

The Willing Mistriss
By Aphra Behn

The Wind at the Door
By William Barnes

The Wind Chimes
By Shirley Buettner

The Wind, the Sun and the Moon
By Anne Stevenson

The Wind’s Measure First appeared in Poetry
By Peter Munro

The Windhover
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Window First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Creeley

The Window Just Over the Street
By Alice Cary

The Window, at the Moment of Flame
By Alicia Ostriker

The Windows
By George Herbert

The Windy City [sections 1 and 6]
By Carl Sandburg

The Wine of Love
By James Thomson

The Winter
By Dafydd ap Gwilym

The Wires of the Night
By Billy Collins

The Wish
By Lady Mary Chudleigh

The Witnesses
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Wolves
By Frank Stanford

The Woman at the Washington Zoo
By Randall Jarrell

The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window
By Joy Harjo

The Woman Who Collects Noah's Arks
By Janet McCann

The Woman Who Laughed on Calvary
By Heather McHugh

The Woman Who Loved Worms
By Colette Inez

from The Woman’s Labor. An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck
By Mary Collier

The Wonder of the World
By Janet Loxley Lewis

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

The Wooden Toy First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Simic

The Woodpecker Keeps Returning
By Jane Hirshfield

The Woodspurge
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Words Under the Words
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Work
By Tom Sleigh

The Workforce
By James Tate

The World First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Creeley

The World
By Henry Vaughan

The World below the Brine
By Walt Whitman

from The World Doesn't End
By Charles Simic

The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández

The World Is Too Much With Us
By William Wordsworth

The Worm
By Ralph Bergengren

The Worship of Nature
By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Wound
By Ruth Stone

The Wounded Bullfighter
By Clarence Major

The Wounded Cupid. Song
By Anacreon

The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith

The Wreckage
By Donald Hall

The Wreckage Entrepreneur
By Alice Fulton

The X-Ray First appeared in Poetry
By Heidy Steidlmayer

The Yak
By Hilaire Belloc

The Years First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Hofmann

The Yellow Bicycle
By Robert Hass

The Yellowhammer's Nest
By John Clare

The Young First appeared in Poetry
By Roddy Lumsden

The Young Hebbel First appeared in Poetry
By Gottfried Benn

The Youngest Daughter
By Cathy Song

Their Bodies First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

Theme for English B
By Langston Hughes

Theme in Yellow
By Carl Sandburg

from Theme of Farewell First appeared in Poetry
By Milo De Angelis

Then
By Roddy Lumsden

Then and Now
By Babette Deutsch

Then Another Petal
By Hilda Morley

Then too there is this First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz

Therapy from the Garden First appeared in Poetry
By Glenn Morazzini

There Are Black
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

There Came a Soul
By Rita Dove

There Is
By Louis Simpson

There Is A Garden In Her Face
By Thomas Campion

There Is Another Way
By Pat Schneider

There Is No Age
By Eva Gore-Booth

There is no Frigate like a Book (1286)
By Emily Dickinson

There Is No One Story and One Story Only
By Adrienne Rich

There may be Chaos still around the World
By George Santayana

There She Is
By Linda Gregg

There was a Boy
By William Wordsworth

There was a little girl
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There Was a Little Turtle
By Anonymous

There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear

There's a certain Slant of light, (320)
By Emily Dickinson

There's Nothing More First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Videlock

There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House
By Emily Dickinson

These Lacustrine Cities
By John Ashbery

These Poems, She Said
By Robert Bringhurst

They
By Wendell Berry

They are all Gone into the World of Light
By Henry Vaughan

They are hostile nations
By Margaret Atwood

They Are Human After All First appeared in Poetry
By Gottfried Benn

They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni

They Come First appeared in Poetry
By Cathy Park Hong

They eat out
By Margaret Atwood

They Feed They Lion
By Philip Levine

They Flee From Me
By Thomas Wyatt

They shut me up in Prose – (445)
By Emily Dickinson

They Sit Together on the Porch
By Wendell Berry

They Will Say
By Carl Sandburg

Thine Own
By Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard

Thing Language
By Jack Spicer

Things
By Louis Simpson

Things
By William Jay Smith

Things I’m Not Good At
By Jeff Moss

Things of the Past
By Theodore Weiss

Things We Dreamt We Died For First appeared in Poetry
By Marvin Bell

Thinking About the Enemy First appeared in Poetry
By J. P. White

Thinking of Darwin
By Herbert Morris

Third Avenue in Sunlight
By Anthony Hecht

Thirteen Blackbirds Look at a Man
By R. S. Thomas

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
By Wallace Stevens

Thirty Years Later I Meet Your Seventeen-Year-Old Daughter the Poet
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Thirty-Eight. To Mrs ____y
By Charlotte Smith

This Be the Verse
By Philip Larkin

This blue belongs to no one.
By Jean-Michel Maulpoix

This Can’t Be
By Bruce Smith

This Gentle Surgery First appeared in Poetry
By Malachi Black

This Hour and What Is Dead
By Li-Young Lee

This is a Letter
By Rebecca Dunham

This Is It
By Gerald Stern

This is the Latest First appeared in Poetry
By Ange Mlinko

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This Little Glade, Remember
By Pattiann Rogers

This Little Piggy
By Anonymous

This Morning in a Morning Voice First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Boss

This Room
By John Ashbery

This Room and Everything in It
By Li-Young Lee

Thistles First appeared in Poetry
By Heidy Steidlmayer

Tho’ Lack of Laurels and of Wreaths Not One
By Trumbull Stickney

Thomas Hardy
By Norman Dubie

Thomas Jefferson
By Lorine Niedecker

Thompson’s Lunch Room—Grand Central Station
By Amy Lowell

Those Being Eaten by America
By Robert Bly

Those Various Scalpels
By Marianne Moore

Those Winter Sundays
By Robert E. Hayden

Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth

Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell
By Ben Jonson

Though some Saith that Youth Ruleth me
By Henry VIII, king of England

Though that Men do Call it Dotage
By Henry VIII, king of England

Thought First appeared in Poetry
By Thomas Pfau

Thoughtless Cruelty
By Charles Lamb

Thoughts
By Marjorie Pickthall

Thoughts about the Person from Porlock
By Stevie Smith

Thoughts in a Zoo
By Countee Cullen

Thoughts of a Solitary Farmhouse
By Franz Wright

Thoughts on One’s Head
By William Meredith

Thread
By Jonathan Galassi

Three Haiku, Two Tanka
By Philip Appleman

Three Men Walking, Three Brown Silhouettes
By Alicia Ostriker

Three Poems on Demand First appeared in Poetry
By Jordan Davis

Three Poets First appeared in Poetry
By Robert West

Three Six Five Zero First appeared in Poetry
By Conor O'Callaghan

Three Songs at the End of Summer First appeared in Poetry
By Jane Kenyon

Three Sonnets
By James Galvin

Three Teenage Girls: 1956
By Steve Orlen

Three Trees
By Mary Jo Bang

Three Years She Grew
By William Wordsworth

Threshold
By R. S. Thomas

Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes
By Thomas Campion

Through a Glass Eye, Lightly
By Carolyn Kizer

Through these Pale Cold Days
By Isaac Rosenberg

Thrushes
By Siegfried Sassoon

Thy Brother’s Blood
By Jones Very

Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
By Matthew Arnold

Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke

Tide of Voices
By Lynda Hull

Tides
By Helen Hunt Jackson

Tierra del Fuego
By Adam Zagajewski

Tiger Butter
By Diane Glancy

Tigris Song First appeared in Poetry
By Ibn Al-`Arabi

Time
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters

Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

from Time in the Rock
By Conrad Aiken

Time Long Past
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time of the Missile
By George Oppen

Time Passes
By Cesare Pavese

Time Problem
By Brenda Hillman

Time to Come
By Walt Whitman

Time to Kill
By Carl Rakosi

Time to Play First appeared in Poetry
By Landis Everson

Tintype on the Pond, 1925
By J. Lorraine Brown

Tipping over the actuarial tables
By Dionisio D. Martinez

Tithonus
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To -
By Sarah Helen Whitman

To -
By John Keats

To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe

To ----
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Captive Owl
By Henry Timrod

To a Cat
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

To a Child
By Sophie Jewett

To a Child in Heaven
By Richard Emil Braun

To a Child Trapped in a Barbershop
By Philip Levine

To a Copper Paper Weight
By Ruth Lilly

To a Dead Lover First appeared in Poetry
By Louise Bogan

To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl
By Hartley Coleridge

To a Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks on His Barbed Wire
By David Wagoner

To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing First appeared in Poetry
By William Butler Yeats

To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, Aged One Year
By Phillis Wheatley

To a Greek Marble First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Aldington

To a Highland Girl
By William Wordsworth

To a Husband First appeared in Poetry
By Amy Lowell

To a Lady that Desired I Would Love Her
By Thomas Carew

To A Lady Who Said It Was Sinful to Read Novels
By Christian Milne

To a Lady, Who Sent the Author a Present of a Fashionable Bonnet
By Elizabeth Moody

To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

To a Marsh Hawk in Spring
By Henry David Thoreau

To a Mountain Daisy
By Robert Burns

To a Mouse
By Robert Burns

To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams

To a Real Standup Piece of Painted Crockery
By George Starbuck

To a Ring I Lost Planting Bulbs First appeared in Poetry
By Sarah Barber

To a Skylark
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Skylark
By William Wordsworth

To a Waterfowl
By William Cullen Bryant

To a Wedding First appeared in Poetry
By William Logan

To a Wren on Calvary
By Larry Levis

To a Young Lady, With Some Lampreys
By John Gay

To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer

To a Young Writer
By Yvor Winters

To Alexander Graham
By W. S. Graham

from To Alexis In Answer to His Poem Against Fruition
By Aphra Behn

To Althea, from Prison
By Richard Lovelace

To an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman

To Anthea
By Robert Herrick

To Anthea, who may Command him Anything
By Robert Herrick

To Any Reader
By Robert Louis Stevenson

To Arielle and the Moon
By David Trinidad

To Asra
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To Aunt Rose
By Allen Ginsberg

To Autumn
By John Keats

To Autumn
By Louise Glück

To Ben Jonson
By Thomas Carew

To Catullus
By Robert Bridges

To Cupid
By Joanna Baillie

To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand First appeared in Poetry
By Howard Nemerov

To Daffodils
By Robert Herrick

To David, About His Education
By Howard Nemerov

To Death
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

To Do First appeared in Poetry
By Derek Sheffield

To Double Lock
By Pierre Reverdy

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
By Ben Jonson

To Elsie
By William Carlos Williams

To Emily Dickinson
By Yvor Winters

To Failure
By Philip Larkin

To Fanny
By John Keats

To Fashion
By Elizabeth Moody

To Find God
By Robert Herrick

To Fishermen First appeared in Poetry
By Carol Frost

To Flush, My Dog
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To Fool or Knave
By Ben Jonson

To Go to Lvov
By Adam Zagajewski

To Have a Friend
By Tomaz Salamun

To Heaven
By Ben Jonson

To Helen
By Edgar Allan Poe

To Help the Monkey Cross the River
By Thomas Lux

To Her Father with Some Verses
By Anne Bradstreet

To his Conscience
By Robert Herrick

To His Coy Mistress
By Andrew Marvell

To His Lady First appeared in Poetry
By Giacomo Leopardi

To His Mistress
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

To His Mistress Going to Bed
By John Donne

To His Watch, When He Could Not Sleep
By Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury

To Homer
By John Keats

To J. S.
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To J.G. On the News of His Marriage
By Ephelia

To James Fenton
By John Fuller

To Jane: The Invitation
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To John Clare
By John Clare

To John Donne
By Ben Jonson

To Judgment: An Assay First appeared in Poetry
By Jane Hirshfield

To Katharine: At Fourteen Months
By Joelle Biele

To Kill a Deer
By Carol Frost

To learn what to say to unlearn
By Michael Palmer

To Live in the Mercy of God
By Denise Levertov

To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses
By Robert Herrick

To Live with a Landscape
By Constance Urdang

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
By Richard Lovelace

To Luck First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
By Ben Jonson

To Lysander
By Aphra Behn

To Madame Curie
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To Margaret W------
By Charles Lamb

To Marguerite: Continued
By Matthew Arnold

To Matthew Dodsworth, Esq., On a Noble Captain Declaring that His Finger Was Broken by a Gate
By Anna Dodsworth

To Mistress Margaret Hussey
By John Skelton

To Mr. H. Lawes, On His Airs
By John Milton

To Mr. Henry Lawes
By Katherine Philips

To Mr. Lawrence
By John Milton

To Mr. [S.T.] C[oleridge]
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris
By Helen Maria Williams

To Mrs. M. A. Upon Absence
By Katherine Philips

To My Brother
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

To My Daughter in a Red Coat
By Anne Stevenson

To My Daughter On Being Separated from Her on Her Marriage
By Anne Hunter

To My Dear and Loving Husband
By Anne Bradstreet

To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy Call'd the Double Dealer
By John Dryden

To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship
By Katherine Philips

To My Father on His Birthday
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To My Father's Business First appeared in Poetry
By Kenneth Koch

To My Husband
By Eliza

To my Inconstant Mistress
By Thomas Carew

To My Mother First appeared in Poetry
By Wendell Berry

To My Old City
By W. S. Di Piero

To My Rival
By Ephelia

To My Wife
By J. V. Cunningham

To My Young Lover
By Jane Barker

To Myself
By Franz Wright

To Night
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To One in Paradise
By Edgar Allan Poe

To One That Asked Me Why I Lov’d J.G.
By Ephelia

To One Unknown First appeared in Poetry
By Helen Dudley

To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
By John Keats

To Our Land
By Mahmoud Darwish

To Penshurst
By Ben Jonson

To Play Pianissimo
By Lola Haskins

from To Priapus: Elegies 1.iv
By Tibullus

To Put It Differently First appeared in Poetry
By Natan Zach

To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair
By Jonathan Swift

To R.D., March 4th 1988
By Denise Levertov

To Robert Browning
By Walter Savage Landor

To Rosa
By Abraham Lincoln

To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer

To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works
By Phillis Wheatley

To Shakespeare
By Frances Anne Kemble

To Sir Henry Cary
By Ben Jonson

To Sleep
By John Keats

To Solitude
By Alice Cary

To Spareness
By Jane Hirshfield

To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday
By Wendell Berry

To the Bartholdi Statue
By Ambrose Bierce

To the Blank Spaces First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode
By James Clerk Maxwell

To the Consolations of Philosophy First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

To the Cuckoo
By William Wordsworth

To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey

To the Desert
By Benjamin Alire Sáenz

To the Destroyers of Ballots
By Donald Revell

To the Executive Director of the Actual:
By Bruce Smith

To the Fair Clorinda
By Aphra Behn

To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman

To the Harbormaster
By Frank O'Hara

To The House
By Robinson Jeffers

To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir
By Ben Jonson

To The Indifferent Women
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

To the Infant Martyrs
By Richard Crashaw

To the King on his Navy
By Edmund Waller

To the Ladies
By Lady Mary Chudleigh

To the Light of September First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

To the Lord General Cromwell
By John Milton

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden

To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare
By Ben Jonson

To the Moon
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To the Muse
By James Wright

To the Muses
By William Blake

To the Negro Farmers of the United States
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
By John Dryden

To the Poetry* of Hugh McCrae
By Kenneth Slessor

To the Poor
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

To the Quarry and Back First appeared in Poetry
By Katia Kapovich

To the Reader
By Jorie Graham

To the Reader
By Ben Jonson

To the Reader: If You Asked Me
By Chase Twichell

To the Reader: Twilight
By Chase Twichell

To the Republic
By James Galvin

To the Returned Girls
By Franklin Pierce Adams

To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth
By Phillis Wheatley

To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
By William Butler Yeats

To the Same Purpose
By Thomas Traherne

To the Sea
By Marin Sorescu

To the Shade of Burns
By Charlotte Smith

To the Sour Reader
By Robert Herrick

To the States,
By Walt Whitman

To The Stone-Cutters
By Robinson Jeffers

To the Virginian Voyage
By Michael Drayton

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
By Robert Herrick

To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber) First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

To the Western World
By Louis Simpson

To the Young Wife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

To Theodore
By George Marion McClellan

To Those of You Alive in the Future First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Manuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's Death
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

to where First appeared in Poetry
By David Ferry

To Whistler, American First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

To Wordsworth
By Felicia Dorothea Hemans

To Wordsworth
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To You First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin A. González

To You
By Kenneth Koch

To Yvor Winters, 1955
By Thom Gunn

To. W. P.
By George Santayana

Today First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Today
By Thomas Carlyle

Today First appeared in Poetry
By William Hathaway

Today’s News
By David Tucker

Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Together
By R. S. Thomas

Togetherness First appeared in Poetry
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Tokens
By William Barnes

Tom Deadlight (1810)
By Herman Melville

Tom O’ Bedlam among the Sunflowers
By Thomas James

Tomahawk
By Mark Rudman

Tomb of Baudelaire
By Michael Palmer

Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer

Tone Deficit First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin McFadden

Tonight First appeared in Poetry
By Elfriede Jelinek

Tonight
By Agha Shahid Ali

Too Many Daves
By Theodor Geisel

Too Much of a Good Thing
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

toon tune First appeared in Poetry
By gustave morin

Tor House
By Robinson Jeffers

Torcello First appeared in Poetry
By Catherine Sasanov

Tormented First appeared in Poetry
By Pura López-Colomé

Tornado Child
By Kwame Dawes

Torque
By David Rivard

Tortoise Gallantry
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Tortoise Shout
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Tossing and Turning
By John Updike

Totem
By Eamon Grennan

Toth Farry First appeared in Poetry
By Sharon Olds

Touch First appeared in Poetry
By Trevor West Knapp

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

Touring the Doll Hospital
By Amy Gerstler

Tourist
By Paul Engle

Tourists
By Lynn Emanuel

Toussaint L’Ouverture
By Henrietta Cordelia Ray

Toward an Organic Philosophy
By Kenneth Rexroth

Towards the Primeval Lightning Field
By Will Alexander

Town Eclogues: Monday; Roxana or the Drawing-Room
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Thursday; the Bassette-Table
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Tuesday; St. James's Coffee-House
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Wednesday; The Tête à Tête
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement First appeared in Poetry
By Pierre Martory

Toys in a Field
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Tracings
By Michael Anania

Tract
By William Carlos Williams

Tradition
By Lorine Niedecker

Train Above Pedestrians First appeared in Poetry
By Reginald Gibbons

Transcendence of Janus
By Frank Stanford

Transformation & Escape
By Gregory Corso

Transgressing the Real (Passages 27)
By Robert Duncan

Translation First appeared in Poetry
By Deirdre O'Connor

Translations from the English
By George Starbuck

Translator's note
By Bob Hicok

Trapped
By Adelaide Crapsey

Trauma (Storm)
By Gregory Orr

Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford

Traveling through the Dark
By n/a

Tree
By Jane Hirshfield

Tree
By Nikki Grimes

Tree Ferns
By Stanley Plumly

Tree Marriage
By William Meredith

Trees
By Joyce Kilmer

Triad
By Adelaide Crapsey

Tricyclist and a Turtle First appeared in Poetry
By Molly McQuade

Trillium
By Louise Glück

Triolet First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra McPherson

Triolets in the Argolid First appeared in Poetry
By Rachel Hadas

Triptych
By Samuel Menashe

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book I
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book II
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Trollius and trellises
By Charles Bukowski

Troop Train
By Karl Shapiro

Tropics
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Trouble Deaf Heaven
By Bin Ramke

trouble with spain
By Charles Bukowski

Trout First appeared in Poetry
By Kathryn Starbuck

True Confessions Variations
By Lynn Crosbie

True Love
By Sharon Olds

Truly Pathetic First appeared in Poetry
By Neal Bowers

Trust First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Kinsolving

Trust
By Thomas R. Smith

Trust
By Lizette Woodworth Reese

Truth Serum
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Truth-Taking Stare
By David Wojahn

Trying to Have Something Left Over
By Jack Gilbert

Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Trying to Write a Poem While the Couple in the Apartment Overhead Make Love
By David Wagoner

Tuesdays
By Kate Gale

Tulips
By Sylvia Plath

Tulips First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Tuning
By Diane Glancy

Turning Forty
By Kevin Griffith

Turning Forty
By Jonathan Galassi

Turtle
By Kay Ryan

Tutelary First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Ryan

Tutto è Sciolto First appeared in Poetry
By James Joyce

Twang Chic: Sam Buckhannon Explores the Latest Fashion
By R. T. Smith

Twelfth Birthday First appeared in Poetry
By Rachel Hadas

Twenty Below
By Paul Engle

Twenty-third First appeared in Poetry
By Christina Pugh

Twenty-year Marriage
By Ai

Twickham Tweer
By Jack Prelutsky

Twilight Blues
By Samuel Menashe

Twilight Train
By Eileen Myles

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
By Jane Taylor

Two Aunts
By Thomas James

Two Girls First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

Two Guitars
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Two in August
By John Crowe Ransom

Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning

Two Little Dickie Birds
By Anonymous

Two Old Crows
By Vachel Lindsay

Two Pigeons
By Mary Jo Salter

Two Poems from “The Day” First appeared in Poetry
By Kenneth Goldsmith

Two Poems from Language
By Jack Spicer

Two Portraits
By Henry Timrod

Two Quits and a Drum, and Elegy for Drinkers
By Alan Dugan

Two Stones with One Bird First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Bernstein

Two Tales of Clumsy
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Two Views of Buson
By Robert Hass

Two Violins First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Two Went up into the Temple to Pray
By Richard Crashaw