List of Poets
Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966)
Ah, You Thought
Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)
The Last War
Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Momma Welfare Roll
Anonymous
Madrigal
Western Wind
The Three Ravens
Matthew Arnold (1822 -1888)
Dover Beach
John Ashbery (1927 - )
My Erotic Double
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
W. H. Auden (1907 -1973)
Lullaby
Separation
Stop all the clocks
The Unknown Citizen
Imamu Amiri Baraka (1934 - )
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
George Barker (1913 - 1991)
To My Mother
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898 - 1943)
The Ballad of William Sycamore
Michael Benedikt (1935 - 2007)
Thoughts
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902 - 1981)
To a Dark Girl
Wendell Berry (1934 - )
The Peace of Wild Things
John Berryman (1914 -1972)
He stared at ruin
Sonnet 115
This world is gradually becoming a place
Elizabeth Bishop (1911 -1979)
One Art
William Blake (1757 -1827)
And did those feet in ancient time
How sweet I roamed
London
The Lamb
The Tiger
Arna Bontemps (1902 -1972)
Idolatry
Book of Psalms
The Lord is my shepherd
Anne Bradstreet (1612 -1672)
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Joseph Brodsky (1940 -1996)
Six Years Later
Rupert Brooke (1887 -1915)
Oh Death Will Find Me
The Hill
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
How Do I Love Thee?
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Meeting at Night
My Last Duchess
Parting at Morning
Prospice
The Lost Mistress
Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
A Red, Red Rose
Highland Mary
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
So, we'll go no more a-roving
Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Advice to a Girl
Thomas Carew (1598 - 1639)
To My Inconstant Mistress
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
Jabberwocky
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400)
The Canterbury Tales
Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907)
Unpunished
We never said farewell
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
Kubla Khan
Frances Cornford (1886 - 1960)
The Watch
Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946)
Yet Do I Marvel
e. e. cummings (1894 - 1962)
if i have
made, my lady
may i feel
said he
next to of course god america i
the Cambridge ladies who live in
furnished souls
What if a much of a which of a wind
when god lets my body be
Waring Cuney (1906 - 1975)
No Images
J. V. Cunningham (1911 - 1985)
To My Wife
John, Lord Cutts (1661 - 1707)
Only Tell Her that I Love
William Henry Davies (1871 - 1940)
The Villain
Walter de la Mare (1873 - 1956)
Goodbye
Silver
James Dickey (1923 - 1997)
The Performance
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Because I could not stop for Death
God is indeed a jealous God
I dwell in possibility
I taste a liquor never brewed
Much madness is divinest sense
Parting
The heart asks pleasure first
The soul selects her own society
John Donne (1573 - 1631)
Death be not proud
Woman's Constancy
Ernest Dowson (1867 - 1900)
Dregs
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae
Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part
To His Coy Love
William Drummond (1585 - 1648)
Madrigal
George du Maurier (1834 - 1896)
Music
T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Preludes
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Terminus
Sir George Etherege (1653 -1691)
To a Lady asking him how long he would love her
Mari Evans (1923 - )
If There Be Sorrow
The Rebel
Where Have You Gone
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919 - )
Constantly Risking Absurdity
Jane Flanders(1940 - 2001)
Nightingales in America
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
A Line-Storm Song
Acquainted with the Night
After Apple Picking
Bereft
Death of a Hired Man
Departmental
Directive
Reluctance
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Storm Fear
The Pasture
The Road Not Taken
Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)
A Supermarket in California
from "Howl"
Louise Glück (1943 - )
Mock Orange
Mitchell Goodman (1924 - 1997)
Man and Wife
Donald Hall (1928 - )
Gold
Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
A Wife Waits
Robert Hayden (1913 - 1980)
Those Winter Sundays
Seamus Heaney (1939 - )
Digging
The Punishment
The Wife's Tale
Anthony Hecht (1923 - 2004)
Third Avenue in Sunlight
William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
Invictus
Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Delight in Disorder
Night Piece, to Julia
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Ralph Hodgson (1871 - 1962)
The Gypsy Girl
Lawrence Hope (1865 - 1904)
Request
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Felix Randal
Inversnaid
Pied Beauty
Spring and Fall
A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
Because I Liked You Better
Here dead lie we because we did not
choose
Is My Team Plowing?
Oh, when I was in love with you
The Carpenter's Son
To an Athlete Dying Young
When green buds hang in the elm
With rue my heart is laden
Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910)
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
50-50
Dream Variations
I, too, sing America
Night Funeral in Harlem
Preference
Same in Blues
Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
Losses
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)
Antrim
Hurt Hawks
New Mexican Mountain
Vulture
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886 - 1966)
I want to die while you love me
Helene Johnson (1907 - 1995)
Invocation
James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938)
The Creation
Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
To Celia
James Joyce (1572 - 1637)
I Hear an Army
Donald Justice (1925 - 2004)
In Bertram's Garden
Men at Forty
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
When I Have Fears
X. J. Kennedy (1929 - )
Nude Descending a Staircase
Galway Kinnell (1927 - )
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
If—
Recessional
The Way Through the Woods
When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted
Etheridge Knight (1931 - 1991)
For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide
Hard Rock Returns to Prison
Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002)
Permanently
Stanley Kunitz (1905 - 2006)
End of Summer
Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864)
I strove with none
D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
Lightning
Love on the Farm
Piano
Emma Lazarus (1849 - 1887)
The New Colossus
Denise Levertov (1923 - 1997)
The Ache of Marriage
The Runes
To the Reader
What Were They Like?
What Wild Dawns There Were
Philip Levine (1928 - )
Belle Isle, 1949
Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
The Leaden-Eyed
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 -1882)
Paul Revere's Ride
Snowflakes
Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)
Chinoiseries
Seeing you stand once more before my eyes
Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977)
Epilogue
Man and Wife
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Skunk Hour
Archibald MacLeish (1892 - 1982)
Ars Poetica
Epistle to Be Left in the Earth
The End of the World
You, Andrew Marvell
John Gillespie Magee (1922 - 1941)
High Flight
Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)
To His Coy Mistress
John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
Her Heart
On Growing Old
Sea Fever
John McCrae (1872 - 1918)
In Flanders Fields
Phyllis McGinley (1905 - 1978)
Portrait of Girl with Comic Book
Claude McKay (1889 - 1948)
If We Must Die
The Harlem Dancer
James Merrill (1926 - 1994)
A Renewal
W. S. Merwin (1927 - )
Grandfather in the Old Men's Home
Separation
Charlotte Mew (1869 -1928)
I Have Been Through the Gates
The Farmer's Bride
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Above These Cares
At least my dear
God's World
I Shall Go Back
Love is not all
Modern Declaration
Night is my sister
Oh, Oh, you will be sorry for that word
Spring
Time does not bring relief
What lips my lips have kissed
John Milton (1608 - 1674)
On His Blindness
On His Deceased Wife
John Frederick Nims (1913 - 1999)
Love Poem
Alfred Noyes (1880 - 1959)
The Highwayman
Sharon Olds (1942 - )
35/10
The One Girl at the Boys Party
Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Arms and the Boy
Dulce et Decorum Est
The Send-Off
P. K. Page (1916 - 2010)
Young Girls
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
Lady Lazarus
Morning Song
Edgar Allen Poe (1809 - 1849)
To Helen
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
On a Certain Lady at Court
Ezra Pound (1885 -1972)
Coda
The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618)
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Dudley Randall (1914 - 2000)
Blackberry Sweet
John Crowe Ransom (1888 - 1974)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Henry Reed (1914 - 1986)
Naming of Parts
Charles Reznikoff (1894 - 1976)
Let other people come as streams
I will write songs against you
Adrienne Rich (1929 - )
The Roofwalker
Two Songs
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935)
Reuben Bright
Richard Cory
Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
Dolor
Elegy for Jane
I Knew a Woman
In a Dark Time
My Papa's Waltz
Night Journey
Root Cellar
Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Remember
When I Am Dead
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Buttons
Chicago
Fog
from "The People Yes"
Grass
Jack
Jazz Fantasia
Joy
Limited
Mag
Mill Doors
Poetry
Prayers of Steel
Soiled Dove
They Ask: Is God, Too, Lonely?
Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967)
Base Details
Counterattack
The Rear Guard
Delmore Schwartz (1913 - 1966)
Baudelaire
Winfield Townley Scott (1910 - 1968)
Mrs. Severin
To L. B. S.
Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974)
[I'm Dreaming the My Lai Soldier Again]
Cinderella
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
Her Kind
Ringing the Bells
That Day
The Earth
The Firebombers
The Moss of His Skin
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
All the world's a stage
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!
If we are marked to die
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Once more unto the breach
Our revels now are ended
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
That time of year thou mayst in me
behold
To be, or not to be
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 -1822)
A Dirge
England in 1819
The Waning Moon
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
Sleep
May Riley Smith (1842 - 1927)
The Last Dance
W. D. Snodgrass (1926 - 2009)
Mementos, 1
The Examination
Gary Snyder (1930 - )
How Poetry Comes To Me
Milton by Firelight
Siwashing it out once in Siuslaw Forest
Stephen Spender (1909 - 1995)
Ultima Ratio Regum
Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -1894)
Requiem
Mark Strand (1850 - 1894)
Coming to This
Sir John Suckling (1609 - 1641)
The Constant Lover
May Swenson (1919 - 1989)
Question
Staying at Ed's Place
Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
Wanderer's Song
J. M. Synge (1871 - 1900)
A Question
In May
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
The Bird
Takelma Indian Song
Medicine Formula
Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
I am Not Yours
Sleepless
Song Making
Weariness
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
Break, Break, Break
Crossing the Bar
O that 'twere possible
The Eagle
Ulysses
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Fern Hill
The Hunchback in the Park
When I was a boy
Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)
The Dark Forest
Darwin T. Turner (1931 - 1991)
Love
Vidyakara's "Treasury"
(11th century)
Four Poems
Alice Walker (1944 - )
Love is Not Concerned
Margaret Walker (1915 - 1998)
For My People
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893 - 1978)
The House Grown Silent
John Hall Wheelock (1886 - 1978)
Earth
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
A Woman Waits for Me
An Army Corps on the March
I hear America Singing
Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice
O Captain! My Captain!
One's-Self I Sing
Reconciliation
from "Song of Myself"
The Dalliance of Eagles
The Last Invocation
Anna Wickham (1884 - 1947)
Divorce
Meditation at Kew
Richard Wilbur (1921 - )
A Simile for Her Smile
Love Calls us to Things of This World
Piazza di Spagna,
Early Morning
Playboy
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Requiescat
C. K. Williams (1936 - )
Alzheimer's: The Wife
It Is This Way with Men
William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Danse Russe
The Artist
The Dance
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The World is Too Much with Us
Charles Wright (1935 - )
Clear Night
James Wright (1927 - 1980)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Beginning
Complaint
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island,
Minnesota
Elinor Wylie (1885 - 1928)
Prophecy
Puritan Sonnet
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Down by the salley gardens
Leda and the Swan
Politics
Sailing to Byzantium
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Second Coming
The Song of the Wandering Aengus
When You Are Old
