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| Aiken, Conrad: | Hatteras Calling Winter For a Moment Takes the Mind | |
| Allen, Dick: | The American Zen Master | |
| Allen, Paula Gunn: | Hoop Dance | |
| Allingham, William: | Autumnal Sonnet Irish History Writing | |
| Angelou, Maya: | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Men Refusal On the Pulse of Morning (The Rock Cries Out to Us) Still I Rise Touched By an Angel | |
| Appleman, Philip: | Credo Memo to the Twenty-first Century O Karma Will | |
| Arnold, Matthew: | Dover Beach The Future To Marguerita | |
| Atwood, Margaret: | Bored In the Secular Night Night Poem Postcards The Rest Variations on the Word "Sleep" | |
| Auden, W.H.: | August 1968 In Memory of W. B. Yeats Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love Musée des Beaux Arts The Novelist September 1, 1939 The Unknown Citizen | |
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| Barbauld, Anna L.: | The Caterpillar An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr.Priestley's Study Life! I know not what thou art | |
| Basler, Roy: | Exodus | |
| Beddoes, Thomas Lovell: | The Last Man | |
| Beers, Henry A.: | Biftek aux Champignons The Dying Pantheist to the Priest Fly-leaves From Arnold's Latin Prose Composition Sixpence For a Kiss What's in a Name? | |
| Belin, Esther: | Spirit in Me | |
| Belloc, Hilaire: | From: The Bad Child's Book of Beasts Ballade of the Heresiarchs Drinking Song: On the Excellence of Burgundy Wine October The Pelagian Drinking Song Sonnet on Being Rich (Sonnet 34) Tarantela | |
| Berryman, John: | The Ball Poem The Moon and the Night and the Men | |
| Betjeman, Sir John: | Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order Inexpensive Progress In Westminster Abbey A Subaltern's Love Song | |
| Bierce, Ambrose: | Day of Wrath The Decalogue The New Decalogue Freedom The Statesmen Weather | |
| Bishop, Elizabeth: | At the Fishhouses The Bight In the Waiting Room Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore | |
| Blake, William: | Piping Down the Valleys Wild The Tyger | |
| Boland, Eavan: | Mise Éire The Oral Tradition | |
| Borges, Jorge Luis: | Elegy History of the Night Limits The Other Tiger | |
| Brooke, Rupert: | A Channel Passage Failure The Life Beyond The Old Vicarage, Grantchester The Soldier The Song of the Pilgrims | |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn : | The Ballad of Rudolph Reed Corners on the Curving Sky The Sonnet – Ballad A Sunset Of The City | |
| Brown, Sterling: | Old Lem Riverbank Blues Slim Greer in Hell | |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: | The First Time How Do I Love Thee If Thou Must Love Me A Musical Instrument | |
| Browning, Robert: | Development Fears and Scruples My Last Duchess Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister | |
| Bukowski, Charles | don't come round but if you do... For Jane the life of Borodin | |
| Byron, Lord (George Gordon): | Darkness Epitaph for Lord Castlereagh She Walks in Beauty So we'll go no more a-roving | |
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| Calverley, Charles Stuart: | Changed Forever Lines on Hearing the Organ Love Morning Precious Stones Waiting Wanderers | |
| Campion, Thomas: | Amaryllis The Charm Now Winter Nights Enlarge Follow thy fair sun | |
| Carew, Thomas: | The Spring | |
| Carroll, Lewis: | A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky Father William How Doth the Little Crocodile Jabberwocky Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur The Walrus and the Carpenter The White Knight's Song | |
| Carruth, Hayden: | The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill At 75: Rereading an Old Book February Morning On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey When I Wrote a Little | |
| Carryl, Guy Wetmore: | Bluebeard The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted How Jack Made the Giants Uncommonly Sore The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven | |
| Cartwright, William: | No Platonique Love | |
| Chasin, Helen: | Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe | |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey: | The Canterbury Tales – General Prologue | |
| Chudleigh, Mary, Lady: | To the Ladies | |
| Clampitt, Amy: | Beach Glass Fog Stacking the Straw The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews | |
| Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: | (See: Mark Twain) | |
| Clifton, Lucille: | Admonitions Good Times Memory Seeker of Visions There is a Girl Inside the thirty eighth year | |
| Clough, Arthur Hugh: | The Latest Decalogue | |
| Cohen, Leonard: | Gift | |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: | Cologne | |
| Collins, Billy: | Consolation Elk River Falls Forgetfulness I Go Back to the House for a Book Japan Litany Marginalia Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes | |
| Corrothers, James D: | At the Closed Gate of Justice In the Matter of Two Men | |
| Cowper, William: | Clerical Affectation To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 | |
| Crane, Stephen: | A God in Wrath I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon I Stood Musing in a Black World 'It Was Wrong to Do This,' Said the Angel A Man Saw a Ball of Gold A Newspaper is... A Slant of sun The successful man 'Think as I Think,' Said a Man The trees in the garden | |
| Cullen, Countee: | For a Lady I Know From the Dark Tower Heritage Yet Do I Marvel | |
| E.E. Cummings: | If everything happens that can't be done My sweet old etcetera Think of it What if a much of a which of a wind | |
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| David (the King): | The Psalms | |
| de la Mare, Walter: | "Autumn" & "Winter" The Fool Rings his Bells The Listeners Old Susan The Song of Shadows | |
| deSouza, Eunice: | Marriages are Made Meeting Poets | |
| Dickinson, Emily: | After great pain, a formal feeling comes As imperceptibly as Grief Because I could not stop for Death A Bird came down the Walk A Cemetery The First Day's Night Had Come I felt a Funeral, in my Brain If You Were Coming in the Fall | I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed It was not Death, for I stood up Much Madness is Divinest Sense The Soul has Bandaged moments The Soul Selects Her Own Society There Came a Wind like a Bugle There's a certain slant of Light |
| Dodd, Wayne: | Of His Life | |
| Donne, John: | Batter my Heart, three-personed God The Canonization Death Be Not Proud The Flea I Wonder, By My Troth The Sun Rising A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning | |
| Doolittle, Hilda ("H.D."): | Helen Oread Pursuit Sheltered Garden | |
| Douglas, Norman: | From "Some Limericks" | |
| Dove, Rita: | The Bistro Styx Golden Oldie My Mother Enters the Work Force Parsley Rosa Sunday Greens Uncle Millet | |
| Drayton, Michael: | Since There's no Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part | |
| Dunbar, Paul Laurence: | At the Tavern The Barrier Blue The Forest Greeting The Haunted Oak The Lawyers' Ways Religion Retort We Wear The Mask | |
| Dunn, Stephen: | At the Smithville Methodist Church Charlotte Brontë in Leeds Point Choosing to Think of It Connubial The Kiss The Snowmass Cycle | |
| Durcan, Paul: | The Day Kerry Became Dublin Fernando's Wheelbarrows, Copacabana Going Home to Mayo, Winter, 1949 Raymond of the Rooftops Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail | |
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| Eady, Cornelius: | Buckwheat's Lament Fetchin' Bones Hesitation Blues I'm a Fool to Love You | |
| Eliot, T.S.: | Animula Gus - The Theatre Cat La Figlia Che Piange Journey of the Magi The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes Rhapsody on a Windy Night Spleen | |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo: | Days Fable The River Terminus | |
| Endrezze, Anita: | Song-Maker This is a Poem About Indians We Came This Way | |
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| Fauset, Jessie Redmon: | La Vie C'est la Vie Noblesse Oblige | |
| Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: | Away Above a Harborful Bird With Two Right Wings The Changing Light Constantly Risking Absurdity Number 20 Sometime During Eternity | |
| Finley, John: | The Road to Dieppe | |
| Flecker, James Elroy: | The Ballad of Camden Town I Rose From Dreamless Hours Oak and Olive | |
| Francis, Matthew: | Interior Designers in the Forest Power Cut | |
| Francisco, Nia: | Navajo Inn Onion and Fried Potatoes | |
| Frost, Robert: | Birches Choose Something Like a Star A Considerable Speck Mending Wall The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
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| Gibson, Wilfrid W.: | Back Lament The Messages Stone | |
| Graves, Robert: | Down, Wanton, Down! Haunted Love and Black Magic Warning to Children | |
| Gray, Thomas: | On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
| Guiterman, Arthur: | First Dentistry Was Painless For All Who Mourn Ode To The Amoeba On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness What One Approves, Another Scorns | |
| Gorman, Amanda: | The Hill We Climb | |
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| Hardy, Thomas: | Afterwards The Darkling Thrush Hap | |
| Hayden, Robert: | Frederick Douglass Monet's Waterlilies Night, Death, Mississippi The Prisoners Those Winter Sundays The Whipping | |
| "H.D" | (See "Doolittle, Hilda") | |
| Heaney, Seamus: | Beowulf (excerpts from his translation) Bogland Casualty from "Clearances": No.3: When all the others were away at Mass No.5: The cool that came off the sheets just off the line Electric Light from "Lightenings": No.1: Shifting brilliancies. Then winter light No.8: The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Personal Helicon Three-Piece Whatever You Say, Say Nothing | |
| Hecht, Anthony: | The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life The End of the Weekend A Hill Late Afternoon: The Onslaught of Love A Letter Lot's Wife Samuel Sewall Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-seven Third Avenue in Sunlight | |
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| Henley, William Ernest: | Barmaid Invictus Where forlorn sunsets flare and fade | |
| Herbert. A.P.: | At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me | |
| Herrick, Robert: | Clothes Do But Cheat and Cozen Us Delight in Disorder On Julia's Clothes To Virgins, To Make Much of Time | |
| Hirshfield, Jane: | The Poet A Story | |
| Hodgson, Ralph: | The Mystery | |
| Hogan, Greta: | The Indian Problem | |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell: | The Deacon's Masterpiece The Last Leaf The Height of the Ridiculous Old Ironsides Parody on "A Psalm of Life" | |
| Housman, A.E: | The Colour of His Hair When I Was One-and-Twenty Yonder see the morning blink | |
| Hughes, Langston: | Brass Spittoons Daybreak in Alabama Democracy Harlem - A Dream Deferred I, Too, Sing America Juke Box Love Song Justice Let America be America again Merry-Go-Round | |
| Hughes, Ted: | Chaucer Crow's Theology The Harvest Moon The Thought-Fox Wind Work and Play | |
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| Iglesias, Holly: | Conceptual Art Kindling The Meek in Death Shall Bleed Sermonette Swan Boat Gondolier Thursday Afternoon: Life is Sweet | |
| Isherwood, Christopher: | The Common Cormorant | |
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| Jeffers, Robinson: | Cremation | |
| Johnson, Emily Pauline: | Shadow River When George Was King | |
| Johnson, Georgia Douglas: | Autumn Black Woman Love Come and Gone Old Black Men | |
| Johnson, James Weldon: | The Black Mammy Brothers The Creation Father, Father Abraham Fragment Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing Mother Night O Black and Unknown Bards To America The White Witch | |
| Jonson, Ben: | Begging Another Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving Come, My Celia Have You Seen But a Bright Lily Grow Song to Celia To Shakespeare | |
| Joseph, Jenny: | Warning | |
| Joyce, James: | The Holy Office | |
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| Keats, John: | La Belle Dame Sans Merci Bright Star The Human Seasons Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
| Kinnell, Galway: | To Christ Our Lord | |
| Kipling, Rudyard: | If Rebirth, 1914-18 The Smugglers Song | |
| Kunitz, Stanley: | End of Summer The Quarrel The Round The Snakes of September The Testing-Tree Touch Me | |
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| Lampman, Archibald: | A Thunderstorm Voices of Earth | |
| Larkin, Philip: | Aubade Church Going Days I Remember, I Remember Maiden Name To Failure Water | |
| Lawrence, D.H.: | The English Are So Nice Maximus Piano Rose of All the World Snake | |
| Lazard, Naomi: | Ordinance On Arrival | |
| Lazarus, Emma: | The New Colossus | |
| Ledwidge, Francis: | June An Old Pain The Shadow People To My Best Friend | |
| Levertov, Denise: | Contraband In Mind | |
| Levy, Newman: | Thaïs | |
| Lindsay, Vachel: | Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic General William Booth Enters Into Heaven The Knight in Disguise Springfield Magical The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be | |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: | The Jewish Cemetery at Newport A Psalm of Life | |
| Lowell, Amy: | The Allies A Blockhead The Dinner Party Patterns La Ronde du Diable | |
| Lowell, Robert: | Epilogue Fall 1961 Waking Early Sunday Morning Where the Rainbow Ends | |
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| MacKaye, Percy: | Christmas: 1915 | |
| MacLeish, Archibald: | The End of the World | |
| MacNeice, Louis: | The Brandy Glass Dublin Prayer Before Birth Soap Suds The Sunlight on the Garden | |
| Madgett, Naomi Long: | Alabama Centennial Midway Phillis | |
| Magee, John Gillespie, Jr.: | High Flight | |
| Mare, Walter de la: | See de la Mare, Walter | |
| Margetson, George Reginald | Every Man has got a Hobby | |
| Marlowe, Christopher | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | |
| Marquis, Don: | aesop revised by archy archy interviews a pharaoh pete the parrot and shakespeare song of mehitabel | |
| Marvell, Andrew | To His Coy Mistress | |
| Masefield, John | August 1914 A Creed Roadways Salt-Water Ballads Sea-fever The "Wanderer" | |
| Masters, Edgar Lee | Spoon River Anthology | |
| Matthews, William: | Directions Lump of Coal Oh Yes On the Porch at the Frost Place | |
| Maxwell, Glyn: | Deep Sorriness Atonement Song Rumpelstiltskin | |
| McCutcheon, John: | Christmas in the Trenches | |
| McGinley, Phyllis: | A Ballad of Anthologists The Conquerors Daniel at Breakfast Reactionary Essay on Applied Science | |
| McGough, Roger: | A Good Poem The Nearest Forty-two the most unforgettable character i've ever met gives advice to the young poet | |
| McKay, Claude: | After the Winter America The Harlem Dancer Harlem Shadows If We Must Die The Lynching A Prayer To the White Fiends The White House | |
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| Merriam, Eve: | How To Eat a Poem Reply to the Question: "How Can You Become a Poet?" | |
| Merrill, James: | 164 East 72nd Street Lost in Translation Poem of Summer's End | |
| Merwin, W.S.: | For the Anniversary of My Death Odysseus | |
| Millay, Edna St.Vincent: | Ashes of Life The Buck in the Snow Dirge Without Music God's World Inland I Shall Forget You I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines Love is not All: It is not Meat nor Drink On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven The Penitent To Jesus On His Birthday What Lips My Lips Have Kissed | |
| Milligan, Spike: | Feelings | |
| Milosz, Czeslaw: | And Yet the Books Ars Poetica? Conversation With Jeanne In Warsaw Meaning The Poor Poet A Poem for the End of the Century Song on the End of the World Study Of Loneliness | |
| Milton, John: | On Arriving at the Age of Twenty-Three On His Blindness On Shakespeare | |
| Montague, John: | A Grafted Tongue | |
| Moore, Marianne: | Poetry Silence Spenser's Ireland | |
| Morgan, Edwin: | Cinquevalli The Loch Ness Monster's Song The Subway Piranhas The Unspoken | |
| Morley, Christopher: | Caught in the Undertow The Church of Unbent Knees | |
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| Nash, Ogden: | Bankers are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer The Hippopotamus I Do, I Will, I Have Peekabo, I Almost See You Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man So That's Who I Remind Me Of To a Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I am Wearing Them | |
| Nemerov, Howard: | Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry The Consent The Dependencies The Goose Fish Landscape with Figures Larkin Learning by Doing Learning the Trees The Makers Money Walking the Dog The War in the Air | |
| Nichols, Grace: | The Body Reclining | |
| Noyes, Alfred: | The Barrel-Organ The Sussex Sailor The Victory Dance | |
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| O'Hara, Frank: | The Day Lady Died | |
| Ortiz, Simon: | Canyon de Chelly For Nanao Grants to Gallup, New Mexico Starting at the Bottom | |
| Ostriker, Alicia: | Everywoman Her Own Theology psalm | |
| Owen, Wilfred: | Anthem for Doomed Youth Dulce et Decorum est The Parable of the Old Man and the Young The Send-off The Sentry Soldier's Dream Sonnet – On seeing a Heavy Piece of Artillery brought into Action | |
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| Page, P.K.: | After Rain On Educating the Natives | |
| Parker, Dorothy: | A Certain Lady Comment Epitaph for a Darling Lady One Perfect Rose Resumé Song of Perfect Propriety Unfortunate Coincidence | |
| Paterson, A.B."Banjo": | Clancy of the Overflow | |
| Patten, Brian: | The Armada A Blade of Grass Her Song Inessential Things The Minister for Exams The Right Mask | |
| Percy, William Alexander: | An Epistle from Corinth Home Overtones Poppy Fields | |
| Phillips, Stephen: | A Dream The Hush | |
| Plath, Sylvia: | Child The Colossus I am Vertical Lady Lazarus Love Letter The Moon and the Yew Tree Mushrooms Soliloquy of the Solipsist Winter Landscape, With Rocks | |
| Poe, Edgar Allan: | Alone Dreams Silence Ulalume | |
| Pope, Alexander: | Ode to Solitude The Riddle of the World | |
| Porter, Peter: | Your Attention Please | |
| Pound, Ezra: | Ballad of the Goodly Fere The Garret Meditatio Salutation | |
| Prelutsky, Jack: | Bleezer's Ice Cream | |
| Pugh, Sheenagh: | The Beautiful Lie The Movement of Bodies Stalemate Toast | |
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| Raab, Lawrence: | Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window Visiting the Oracle | |
| Raleigh, Walter: | The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | |
| Ramanujan, A.K.: | A River | |
| Reed, Henry: | Naming of Parts | |
| Roberts, Lynette: | Green Madrigal [I] He alone could get me out of this Lamentation Love is an Outlaw Low Tide Poem from Llanybri The Shadow Remains The Temple Road | |
| Robinson, Edwin Arlington: | Dear Friends Karma Miniver Cheevy Mr. Flood's Party Richard Cory Walt Whitman | |
| Robinson, Mary: | The Camp January 1795 London's Summer Morning | |
| Rooten, Luis d'Antin van: | Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames | |
| Sandburg, Carl: | Aprons of Silence At a Window Between two hills Bringers Bronzes Chicago Fellow Citizens Fog The Hangman at Home Happiness I sang Joy Losses Monosyllabic Primer Lesson Troths White shoulders | |
| Santayana, George: | On a Volume of Scholastic Philosophy | |
| Sassoon, Siegfried: | The Working Party | |
| Saxe, John G.: | The Blind Men and the Elephant | |
| Seeger, Alan: | Champagne, 1914-15 Lyonesse Rendezvous Up at his Attic Sill Why Should You Be Astonished | |
| Seth, Vikram: | Sit At Evening Why, Asks a Friend, Attempt Tetrameter? | |
| Shakespeare, William: | When I consider everything that grows Shall I compare thee to a summer's day When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes When to the sessions of sweet silent thought When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced When in the chronicle of wasted time Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
All the world's a stage(As You Like It) And thereof came it(Comedy of Errors) Our revels now are ended(The Tempest) Now is the winter(Richard III) To be, or not to be(Hamlet) Tomorrow, and tomorrow(Macbeth) What a piece of work(Hamlet) |
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| Shelley, Percy Bysshe: | Love's Philosophy Ozymandias Sonnet: England in 1819 | |
| Shelton, Richard: | Desert Ozymandias Requiem for Sonora Whatever Became of Me | |
| Sidney, Philip: | Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace Thou blind man's mark, thou fool's self chosen snare | |
| Southey, Robert: | To A Goose | |
| Spender, Stephen: | In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic I think continually of those who were truly great | |
| Stephens, James: | The Coolin The Devil's Bag The Goat Paths Hate Righteous Anger Strict Care, Strict Joy | |
| Stevens, Wallace: | Men Made Out Of Words A Postcard from the Volcano Sunday Morning Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | |
| Still, James: | Dance on Pushback Farm Heritage Now Has Day Come Rain on the Cumberlands Uncle Ambrose Wolfpen Creek | |
| Suckling, John: | I prithee send me back my heart Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? | |
| Swift, Jonathan: | A Description of the Morning | |
| Synge, John Millington: | The Curse | |
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| Tagore, Rabindranath: | Fireflies My Song On the Nature of Love Where The Mind is Without Fear | |
| Tapahonso, Luci: | Hard to Take In 1864 Pay Up or Else These Long Drives | |
| Tate, James: | Days of Pie and Coffee Success Comes to Cow Creek Teaching the Ape to Write Poems | |
| Teasdale, Sara: | Central Park at Dusk The Old Maid Spring in War-Time | |
| Tekahionwake: | See: E.Pauline Johnson | |
| Tennyson, Alfred Lord: | Charge of the Light Brigade Crossing the Bar The Eagle Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Ulysses | |
| Tessimond, A.S.J.: | Cats | |
| Thomas, Dylan: | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Especially When the October Wind Fern Hill In my craft or sullen art Prologue | |
| Thomas, R.S.: | Good The Old Language Poetry for Supper Song at the Year's Turning | |
| Thompson, Francis: | The Hound of Heaven In No Strange Land | |
| Trethewey, Natasha: | Flounder Storyville Diary | |
| Truth, Sojourner: | Ain't I a Woman? | |
| Tso, Agnes: | Male rain, Female rain, Awakening | |
| Twain, Mark: | The War Prayer | |
| Updike, John: | Back From Vacation | |
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| Van Rooten, Luis d'Antin. See at Rooten | ||
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| Walker, Alice: | Burial Expect Nothing I Said to Poetry The Old Men Used to Sing We Alone Can Devalue Gold | |
| Wallace, Ronald: | The Belly Dancer in the Nursing Home Blessings The Facts of Life The McPoem | |
| Waller, Edmund: | Go, Lovely Rose! The Self Banished To a Very Young Lady Upon the Late Storm | |
| Watson, William: | Hate How Weary is our Heart In the Night Lachrymae Musarum Lines to our New Censor Wordsworth's Grave | |
| Whitman, Walt: | Beat! Beat! Drums! I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing A Noiseless Patient Spider From "Song of Myself": No.6: A child said What is the grass? No.14: The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night No.21: I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul No.46: I know I have the best of time and space No.51: The past and present wilt Toward the Unknown Region When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf: | Forgiveness Massachusetts to Virginia The Norsemen The Proclamation A Word for the Hour | |
| Wilcox, Ella Wheeler: | Advice Momus, God of Laughter The Optimist The Tavern of Last Times To Marry or not to Marry? Uncontrolled | |
| Wilde, Oscar: | Ave Imperatrix The Harlot's House Hélas Libertatis Sacra Fames Sonnet on Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel Sonnet On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters | |
| Williams, William Carlos: | The Dance Danse Russe Spring and All These This is Just to Say Tract | |
| Wordsworth, William: | Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Daffodils It is a Beauteous Evening London, 1802 | |
| Wylie, Elinor: | Atavism The Eagle and the Mole Ophelia Quarrel Velvet Shoes Wild Peaches | |
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| Yeats, W.B.: | Easter 1916 He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven An Irish Airman Foresees His Death John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore The Lake Isle of Innisfree No Second Troy The Road at My Door Sailing to Byzantium The Second Coming September 1913 Solomon and the Witch The Song of Wandering Aengus When You Are Old | |
| Zepeda, Ofelia: | Rain We Are Papago |