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Alone: Edgar Allan Poe Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love ("A Sunset Of The City"): Gwendolyn Brooks Although it is a cold evening ("At the Fishhouses"): Elizabeth Bishop Although she feeds me bread of bitterness ("America"): Claude McKay Always the setting forth was the same ("Odysseus"): W.S. Merwin Amaryllis: Thomas Campion America: Claude McKay The American Zen Master: Dick Allen Among twenty snowy mountains ("Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"): Wallace Stevens And God stepped out on space ("The Creation"): James Weldon Johnson And I behold once more ("The River"): Ralph Waldo Emerson And now our government ("Bird With Two Right Wings"): Lawrence Ferlinghetti And thus declared the Arab lady ("Solomon and the Witch"): W.B.Yeats And wilt thou, Oscar, from us flee ("Lines to our New Censor"): William Watson And Yet the Books: Czeslaw Milosz Animula: T.S. Eliot The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise ("Lightenings"; No.VIII): Seamus Heaney Anthem for Doomed Youth: Wilfred Owen An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic: Vachel Lindsay Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes ("The Harlem Dancer"): Claude McKay archy interviews a pharaoh: Don Marquis The Armada: Brian Patten Ars Poetica?: Czeslaw Milosz As a child, they could not keep me from wells ("Personal Helicon"): Seamus Heaney As a friend to the children commend me the Yak ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc Ashes of Life: Edna St.Vincent Millay
As imperceptibly as Grief: Emily Dickinson As I went by the church to-day ("The Church of Unbent Knees"): Christopher Morley As o'er the hill we roam'd at will ("Wanderers"): Charles Stuart Calverley As virtuous men pass mildly away ("A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning"): John Donne Atavism: Elinor Wylie At Evening: Vikram Seth At low tide like this how sheer the water is ("The Bight"): Elizabeth Bishop At 75: Rereading an Old Book: Hayden Carruth At The Closed Gate of Justice: James Corrothers At the Fishhouses: Elizabeth Bishop At the Smithville Methodist Church: Stephen Dunn At the Tavern: Paul Laurence Dunbar At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me: A.P. Herbert At this time of day ("Late Afternoon: The Onslaught of Love"): Anthony Hecht Aubade: Philip Larkin August 1914: John Masefield August 1968: W.H. Auden Autumn (+Winter): Walter de la Mare Autumn: Georgia Douglas Johnson Autumnal Sonnet: William Allingham Ave Imperatrix: Oscar Wilde Avoid the reeking herd ("The Eagle and the Mole"): Elinor Wylie Away Above a Harborful: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Away with silks, away with lawn ("Clothes Do But Cheat and Cozen Us"): Robert Herrick Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ("Old Ironsides"): Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Because God put His adamantine fate ("Failure"): Rupert Brooke Because I could not stop for Death: Emily Dickinson because the moon comes ("Whatever Became of Me"): Richard Shelton Because with alarming accuracy ("Connubial"): Stephen Dunn Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry: Howard Nemerov Before I knew, the Dawn was on the road ("The Road to Dieppe"): John Finley Before me lies a mass of shapeless days ("A Blockhead"): Amy Lowell Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn ("Learning the Trees"): Howard Nemerov Begging Another: Ben Jonson Behold the hippopotamus ("The Hippopotamus"): Ogden Nash La Belle Dame Sans Merci: John Keats The Belly Dancer in the Nursing Home: Ronald Wallace Beloved, In what other lives or lands ("Refusal"): Maya Angelou Bent double, like old beggars under sacks ("Dulce et Decorum est"): Wilfred Owen Beowulf (excerpts): Seamus Heaney (transl.) Beside the gravel pile ("Of His Life"): Wayne Dodd Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm ("On Seeing a Heavy Piece of Artillery Brought into Action"): Wilfred Owen Between Two Hills: Carl Sandburg Biftek aux Champignons: Henry A. Beers The Big Baboon is found upon The plains of Cariboo ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc
Birches: Robert Frost A Bird came down the Walk: Emily Dickinson Bird With Two Right Wings: Lawrence Ferlinghetti The Bistro Styx: Rita Dove The Black Mammy: James Weldon Johnson Black Woman: Emily Georgia Douglas Johnson The blast from Freedom's Northern hills ("Massachusetts to Virginia"): John Greenleaf Whittier A Blade of Grass: Brian Patten Bleezer's Ice Cream: Jack Prelutsky Blessings (happen): Ronald Wallace The Blind Men and the Elephant: John G. Saxe A Blockhead: Amy Lowell A bloody and a sudden end ("John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore"): W.B. Yeats Blue: Paul Laurence Dunbar Bluebeard: Guy Wetmore Carryl A Boat,Beneath a Sunny Sky: Lewis Carroll The Body Reclining: Grace Nichols Bogland: Seamus Healey Booth led boldly with his big bass drum ("General William Booth Enters into Heaven"): Vachel Lindsay Bored: Margaret Atwood boss i went and interviewed the mummy ("Archy Interviews a Pharaoh"): Don Marquis The Brandy Glass: Louis MacNeice Brass Spittoons: Langston Hughes Bright Star: John Keats Bringers: Carl Sandburg The bronze General Grant riding a bronze horse in Lincoln Park ("Bronzes"): Carl Sandburg Bronzes: Carl Sandburg
Brothers: James Weldon Johnson The Buck in the Snow: Edna St.Vincent Millay Buckwheat's Lament: Cornelius Eady Buildings above the leafless trees ("Central Park at Dusk"): Sara Teasdale Burial: Alice Walker Busy old fool, unruly Sun ("The Sun Rising"): John Donne By heaven and hell, and all the fools between them ("The Last Man"): Thomas L. Beddoes By the road to the contagious hospital ("Spring and All"): Walter Carlos Williams By the time you swear you're his ("Unfortunate Coincidence"): Dorothy Parker C
Champagne, 1914-15: Alan Seeger Changed: Charles Stuart Calverley The Changing Light: Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Channel Passage: Rupert Brooke Charge of the Light Brigade: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charlotte Brontë in Leeds Point: Stephen Dunn The Charm: Thomas Campion Chaucer: Ted Hughes Chicago: Carl Sandburg Child: Sylvia Plath Children, if you dare to think ("Warning to Children"): Robert Graves Children picking up our bones ("A Postcard from the Volcano"): Wallace Stevens A child said What is the grass ("Song of Myself – No.6"): Walt Whitman Choose something like a Star: Robert Frost Choosing to Think of It: Stephen Dunn Christmas: 1915: Percy MacKaye Christmas in the Trenches: John McCutcheon Church Going: Philip Larkin The Church of Unbent Knees: Christopher Morley Cinquevalli: Edwin Morgan Clancy of the Overflow: A.B."Banjo" Paterson Clean the spittoons, boy ("Brass Spittoons"): Langston Hughes Clearances (No.3 & 5): Seamus Heaney Clerical Affectation: William Cowper Clothes Do But Cheat and Cozen Us: Robert Herrick Clouded With Snow ("Winter"): Walter de la Mare A Coat ("Three-Piece"): Seamus Heaney A cold coming we had of it ("Journey of the Magi"): T.S. Eliot Colin, worshipping some frail ("Caught in the Undertow"): Christopher Morley Cologne: Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Colossus: Sylvia Plath The Colour of His Hair: A.E.Housman Come Death, I'd have a word with thee ("The Fool Rings his Bells"): Walter de la Mare Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are ("The Garret"): Ezra Pound
Come, My Celia: Ben Jonson Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace: Philip Sidney Come with me, under my coat ("The Coolin"): James Stephens Coming up England by a different line ("I Remember, I Remember"): Philip Larkin Comment: Dorothy Parker The Common Cormorant: Christopher Isherwood Complacencies of the peignoir ("Sunday Morning"): Wallace Stevens A complete environment of raw furniture ("Interior Designers in the Forest"): Matthew Francis Composed Upon Westminster Bridge: William Wordsworth Conceptual Art: Holly Iglesias The Conquerors: Phyllis McGinley Connubial: Stephen Dunn Consolation: Billy Collins The Consent: Howard Nemerov A Considerable Speck: Robert Frost Constantly Risking Absurdity: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Contraband: Denise Levertov Conversation With Jeanne: Czeslaw Milosz The Coolin: James Stephens The cool that came off the sheets just off the line ("Clearances"; No.5): Seamus Heaney Corners on the Curving Sky: Gwendolyn Brooks Cover me over in dusk and dust and dreams ("Bringers"): Carl Sandburg The crazy ladies are singing again ("The Belly Dancer in the Nursing Home"): Ronald Wallace The Creation: James Weldon Johnson Credo: Philip Appleman A Creed: John Masefield Cremation: Robinson Jeffers
Crossing the Bar: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Crow realized God loved him ("Crow's Theology"): Ted Hughes Crow's Theology: Ted Hughes The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"): Thomas Gray The Curse: John Millington Synge The cymbals crash ("The Victory Dance"): Alfred Noyes D
Deep Sorriness Atonement Song: Glyn Maxwell Delight in Disorder: Robert Herrick Democracy: Langston Hughes Democracy will not come ("Democracy"): Langston Hughes The Dependencies: Howard Nemerov A Description of the Morning: Jonathan Swift Desert: Richard Shelton Development: Robert Browning The Devil's Bag: James Stephens Did anyone tell you that in each subway train ("The Subway Piranhas"): Edwin Morgan The Dinner Party: Amy Lowell Directions: William Matthews Dirge Without Music: Edna St.Vincent Millay Do not go gentle into that good night: Dylan Thomas Don't be polite ("How to eat a Poem"): Eve Merriam don't come round but if you do...: Charles Bukowski Dover Beach: Matthew Arnold The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life: Anthony Hecht Down, Wanton, Down!: Robert Graves Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? ("Tarantela"): Hilaire Belloc A Dream: Stephen Phillips Dreams: Edgar Allan Poe Drink to me only with thine eyes ("Song to Celia"): Ben Jonson The Dromedary ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc The Dromedary is a cheerful bird ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc Dublin: Louis MacNeice Dulce et Decorum est: Wilfred Owen Dumb, bloodied, the severed head ("A Grafted Tongue"): John Montague A dying firelight slides along the quirt ("The End of the Weekend"): Anthony Hecht The Dying Pantheist to the Priest: Henry A. Beers
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The Flea: John Donne Flounder: Natasha Trethewey Flyleaves from Arnold's Latin Prose Composition: Henry A. Beers Fog: Amy Clampitt Fog: Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet ("Fog"): Carl Sandburg Follow thy fair sun: Thomas Campion For a Lady I Know: Countee Cullen For All Who Mourn: Arthur Guiterman For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead ("The War in the Air"): Howard Nemerov The Forest Greeting: Paul Laurence Dunbar Forever: Charles Stuart Calverley Forgetfulness: Billy Collins Forgiveness: John Greenleaf Whittier For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love ("The Canonization"): John Donne For Jane: Charles Bukowski For love's sake, kiss me once again ("Begging Another"): Ben Jonson For Nanao: Simon Ortiz For no other reason than I love him wholly ("Her Song"): Brian Patten For the Anniversary of My Death: W.S. Merwin For this your mother sweated in the cold ("To Jesus On His Birthday"): Edna St.Vincent Millay The fountains mingle with the river ("Love's Philosophy"): Percy Bysshe Shelley Four Seasons fill the measure of the year ("The Human Seasons"): John Keats Fragment: James Weldon Johnson
A free bird leaps on the back ("I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"): Maya Angelou Freedom: Ambrose Bierce A free voice, filling mountains and valleys ("The Poor Poet"): Czeslaw Milosz The Frog ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge ("Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"): Elizabeth Bishop From childhood's hour I have not been as others were ("Alone"): Edgar Allan Poe From her window marshland stretched for miles ("Charlotte Brontë in Leeds Point"): Stephen Dunn From the Dark Tower: Countee Cullen The Future: Matthew Arnold G
Going Home to Mayo, Winter, 1949: Paul Durcan Golden Oldie: Rita Dove Go, Lovely Rose: Edmund Waller Good: R.S. Thomas Good hunting! – aye, good hunting ("The Forest Greeting"): Paul Laurence Dunbar The Goose Fish: Howard Nemerov Grants, Okie town ("Grants to Gallup, New Mexico"): Simon Ortiz Grants to Gallup, New Mexico: Simon Ortiz Green Madrigal [I]: Lynette Roberts Grinder, who serenely grindest ("Lines on Hearing the Organ"): Charles Stuart Calverley Gr-r-r — there go, my heart's abhorrence ("Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"): Robert Browning A guardian of long-distance conduits in the desert (Study of Loneliness): Czeslaw Milosz Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine ("Haunted"): Robert Graves Gus - The Theatre Cat: T.S. Eliot H
The Haunted Oak: Paul Dunbar Have but one God: thy knees were sore ("The New Decalogue"): Ambrose Bierce Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay ("The Deacon's Masterpiece"): Oliver Wendell Holmes Have You Seen But a Bright Lily Grow: Ben Jonson Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all ("Ballad of the Goodly Fere"): Ezra Pound He alone could get me out of this: Lynette Roberts He came and took me by the hand ("The Mystery"): Ralph Hodgson He clasps the crag with crooked hands ("The Eagle"): Alfred, Lord Tennyson He comes riding on the wind ("Male rain, Female rain, Awakening"): Agnes Tso He could not forget that he was a Sidney ("The Knight in Disguise"): Vachel Lindsay He disappeared in the dead of winter ("In Memory Of W.B. Yeats"): W.H. Auden He'd slip a rubber band around a glass of rye ("Uncle Millet"): Rita Dove He fractured white light into seven colours, ("The Movement of Bodies"): Sheenah Pugh The Height of the Ridiculous: Oliver Wendell Holmes Hélas: Oscar Wilde Helen: "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle) Here, she said, put this on your head. ("Flounder"): Natasha Trethewey Here's my case. Of old I used to love him ("Fears and Scruples"): Robert Browning Heretics all, whoever you may be ("Ballade of the Heresiarchs"): Hilaire Belloc Here we go round the ivy-bush ("La Ronde du Diable"): Amy Lowell Heritage: Countee Cullen Heritage: James Still Her Song: Brian Patten Hesitation Blues: Cornelius Eady He wakes, who never thought to wake again ("The Life Beyond"): Rupert Brooke He was about four, I think ("The Beautiful Lie"): Sheenagh Pugh He was found by the Bureau of Statistics ("The Unknown Citizen"): W.H. Auden He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven: W.B. Yeats He would drink by himself ("Casualty"): Seamus Heaney
A Hill: Anthony Hecht The Hill We Climb: Amanda Gorman The Hippopotamus ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc The Hippopotamus: Ogden Nash his paper propped against the electric toaster ("Daniel at Breakfast"): Phyllis McGinley His spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven ("The Lynching"): Claude McKay History of the Night: Jose Luis Borges Hog Butcher for the World ("Chicago"): Carl Sandburg The Holy Office: James Joyce Hoop Dance: Paula Gunn Allen Home: William Alexander Percy The Hound of Heaven: Francis Thompson How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted: Guy Wetmore Carryl How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer ("Consolation"): Billy Collins How blest the land that counts among her sons so many good and wise ("The Statesmen"): Ambrose Bierce How Do I Love Thee?: Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Doth the Little Crocodile: Lewis Carroll How happy he, who free from care ("Ode to Solitude"): Alexander Pope How it was in that place, how light hung in a bright pool ("Wolfpen Creek"): James Still How Jack Made the Giants Uncommonly Sore: Guy Wetmore Carryl How many years I must have yearned ("The Kiss"): Stephen Dunn How shall I be a poet ("Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur"): Lewis Carroll How she sat there ("Rosa"): Rita Dove How simple the pleasures of those childhood days ("Lot's Wife"): Anthony Hecht How soon hath Time the subtle thief of youth ("On Arriving at the Age of Twenty-Three"): John Milton How still this quiet cornfield is to-night ("August, 1914"): John Masefield How strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves ("The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"): Henry W.Longfellow How to eat a Poem: Eve Merriam
How wise I am to have instructed the butler ("I do, I will, I have"): Ogden Nash How would you have us, as we are? ("To America"): James W. Johnson The Human Seasons: John Keats The Hush: Stephen Phillips I
If any God should say ("Rebirth: 1914-18"): Rudyard Kipling If but some vengeful god would call to me ("Hap"): Thomas Hardy I feel the spring far off, far off ("Spring in War-Time"): Sara Teasdale I felt a Funeral, in my Brain: Emily Dickinson If everything happens that can't be done: E.E.Cummings If I should die, think only this of me ("The Soldier"): Rupert Brooke If I were called in To construct a religion ("Water"): Philip Larkin If I when my wife is sleeping ("Danse Russe"): William Carlos Williams I fled Him, down the nights and down the days ("The Hound of Heaven"): Francis Thompson If thou didst feed on western plains of yore ("To a Goose"): Robert Southey If Thou Must Love Me: Elizabeth Barrett Browning If we must die: Claude McKay If you can keep your head when all about you ("If"): Rudyard Kipling If you come my way that is ... ("Poem from Llanybri"): Lynette Roberts If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet ("The Smugglers Song"): Rudyard Kipling If You Were Coming in the Fall: Emily Dickinson i go back to the day i was driving ("Spirit in Me"): Esther Belin I Go Back to the House for a Book: Billy Collins i got acquainted with a parrot ("pete the parrot and shakespeare"): Don Marquis I had a dream, which was not all a dream ("Darkness"): George Gordon, Lord Byron I had a little Sorrow ("The Penitent"): Edna St.Vincent Millay I had written him a letter ("Clancy of the Overflow"): A.B."Banjo" Paterson I hardly remember my mother's face now ("Phillis"): Naomi Long Madgett I have a need of silence and of stars ("Home"): William Alexander Percy I have always aspired to a more spacious form ("Ars Poetica?"): Czeslaw Milosz I have a rendezvous with Death ("Rendezvous"): Alan Seeger I have been wondering ("A Letter"): Anthony Hecht I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox ("This is Just to Say"): William Carlos Williams I have done it again ("Lady Lazarus"): Sylvia Plath I have had enough. I gasp for breath. ("Sheltered Garden"): "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle) I have love and a child ("Losses"): Carl Sandburg I have met them at close of day ("Easter 1916"): W.B. Yeats I heard a bird at break of day ("Overtones"): William Alexander Percy I hear the halting footsteps of a lass ("Harlem Shadows"): Claude McKay I hold that when a person dies ("A Creed"): John Masefield I imagine this midnight moment's forest ("The Thought-Fox"): Ted Hughes I? I walk alone ("Soliloquy of the Solipsist"): Sylvia Plath I know I have the best of time and space ("Song of Myself" – No.46): Walt Whitman I know not why my soul is rack'd ("Changed"): Charles Stuart Calverley I know that I shall meet my fate ("An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"): W.B. Yeats I know what's happening, see what's coming ("Thursday afternoon: Life is Sweet"): Holly Iglesias I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou I leant upon a coppice gate ("The Darkling Thrush"): Thomas Hardy "I'll make you one," he said, "and balance it ("Three-Piece" – A Suit): Seamus Heaney
I love the tongue of Cicero ("Fly-leaves From Arnold's Latin Prose Composition"): Henry A. Beers I love the wet-lipped wind that stirs the hedge ("To My Best Friend"): Francis Ledwidge I made it home early ("Golden Oldie"): Rita Dove I'm a Fool to Love You: Cornelius Eady Imagine Larkin going among the dead ("Larkin"): Howard Nemerov I met a traveller from an antique land ("Ozymandias of Egypt"): Percy Bysshe Shelley I'm thinking about you ("Postcards"): Margaret Atwood I must confess that I, too, like it ("The McPoem"): Ronald Wallace I must do as you do? ("Advice"): Ella Wheeler Wilcox I must down to the seas again ("Sea-fever"): John Masefield I'm writing just after an encounter ("Whatever You Say, Say Nothing"): Seamus Heaney In 1864: Luci Tapahonso In Breughel's great picture, The Kermess ("The Dance"): William Carlos Williams The Indian Problem: Greta Hogan (Moon Child) Inessential Things: Brian Patten An ingenuity too astonishing ("The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews"): Amy Clampitt In Italy, where this sort of thing can occur ("A Hill"): Anthony Hecht In Köln, a town of monks and bones ("Cologne"): Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inland: Edna St.Vincent Millay In Lyonesse was beauty enough ("Lyonesse"): Alan Seeger In Madurai, city of temples and poets ("A River"): A.K. Ramanujan In man or woman, but far most in man ("Clerical Affectation"): William Cowper In Memory of W. B. Yeats: W.H. Auden In Mind: Denise Levertov In my craft or sullen art: Dylan Thomas In No Strange Land: Francis Thompson In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic: Stephen Spender Interior Designers in the Forest: Matthew Francis In the deep moist hollows, on the burnt acres ("Farm"): James Still In the glad revels, in the happy fêtes ("Champagne, 1914-15"): Alan Seeger In the Matter of Two Men: James Corrothers In the Night: William Watson In The Secular Night: Margaret Atwood In the Waiting Room: Elizabeth Bishop
In those days the oatfields ("Stacking the Straw"): Amy Clampitt Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself ("The Allies"): Amy Lowell An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr.Priestley's Study: Anna L. Barbauld Invictus: William Ernest Henley Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore: Elizabeth Bishop In Warsaw: Czeslaw Milosz In Worcester, Massachusetts ("In the Waiting Room"): Elizabeth Bishop I prithee send me back my heart: John Suckling I Remember, I Remember: Philip Larkin An Irish Airman Foresees His Death: W.B. Yeats An Irish child weeps at school ("A Grafted Tongue"): John Montague Irish History: William Allingham I rose from dreamless hours: James Elroy Flecker I Said to Poetry: Alice Walker I Sang: Carl Sandburg 'Is anybody there?' said the Traveller ("The Listeners"): Walter de la Mare I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon: Stephen Crane I saw her in a Broadway car ("The Old Maid"): Sara Teasdale I saw him once before ("The Last Leaf"): Oliver Wendell Holmes I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing: Walt Whitman I saw the Devil walking down the lane ("The Devil's Bag"): James Stephens I saw the sky descending, black and white ("Where the Rainbow Ends"): Robert Lowell I Shall Forget You: Edna St.Vincent Millay I shall never get you put together entirely ("The Colossus"): Sylvia Plath I shall not leave these prisoning hills ("Heritage"): James Still I shoot the Hippopotamus ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc I sing the body reclining ("The Body Reclining"): Grace Nichols I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street ("September 1, 1939"): W.H. Auden I sit on the tracks: James Tate Island of bitter memories, thickly sown ("Irish History"): William Allingham Issues from the hand of God, the simple soul ("Animula"): T.S. Eliot I Stood Musing in a Black World: Stephen Crane
I taste a liquor never brewed: Emily Dickinson I think continually of those who were truly great: Stephen Spender It is a Beauteous Evening: William Wordsworth It is common knowledge to every schoolboy ("Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man"): Ogden Nash It is not that I love you less ("The Self Banished"): Edmund Waller It is portentous, and a thing of state ("Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"): Vachel Lindsay It is time to be old ("Terminus"): Ralph Waldo Emerson It is 12:20 in New York a Friday ("The Day Lady Died"): Frank O'Hara It little profits that an idle king ("Ulysses"): Alfred, Lord Tennyson It nearly cancels my fear of death, my dearest said ("Cremation"): Robinson Jeffers I, too, dislike it ("Poetry"): Marianne Moore I, too: Langston Hughes I, too, sing America ("I, too"): Langston Hughes I touch God in my song ("Fireflies"): Rabindranath Tagore It's dark on purpose so just listen ("Visiting the Oracle"): Lawrence Raab It seems vainglorious and proud ("The Conquerors"): Phyllis McGinley It's hard to enter ("Hoop Dance"): Paula Gunn Allen I turn around on the gravel ("I Go Back to the House for a Book"): Billy Collins It was not Death, for I stood up: Emily Dickinson It was six men of Indostan ("The Blind Men and the Elephant"): John G. Saxe It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week ("At the Smithville Methodist Church"): Stephen Dunn 'It was Wrong to do this,' said the Angel: Stephen Crane It was like this once ("Memo to the 21st Century"): Philip Appleman I've been list'nin' to them lawyers ("The Lawyers' Ways"): Paul Laurence Dunbar I walk down the garden paths ("Patterns"): Amy Lowell I walked with Maisie long years back ("The Ballad of Camden Town"): James Elroy Flecker I wander'd lonely as a cloud ("Daffodils"): William Wordsworth I want to stroll with Karl Schlechter ("Stalemate"): Sheenagh Pugh I want to write a new poem ("The Nearest Forty-two"): Roger McGough I was always afraid of Somes's Pond ("Atavism"): Elinor Wylie I was reading gas meters in Rialto ("The Day Kerry Became Dublin"): Paul Durcan I was standing there at the end of a reading ("The Oral Tradition"): Eavan Boland I went out to the hazel wood ("The Song of the Wandering Aengus"): W.B.Yeats
I will put chaos into fourteen lines: Edna St.Vincent Millay I will teach you my townspeople ("Tract"): William Carlos Williams I Wonder, By My Troth: John Donne I won't go back to it("Mise Éire"): Eavan Boland I work all day, and get half-drunk at night ("Aubade"): Philip Larkin I would like to watch you sleeping (Variations on the word "Sleep"): Margaret Atwood I wrote some lines once on a time ("The Height of the Ridiculous"): Oliver Wendell Holmes J K
Lady Lazarus: Sylvia Plath La Figlia Che Piange: T.S. Eliot The Lake Isle of Innisfree: W.B. Yeats Lamentation: Lynette Roberts Landscape with Figures: Howard Nemerov The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there ("Righteous Anger"): James Stephens Larkin: Howard Nemerov The Last Leaf: Oliver Wendell Holmes The Last Man: Thomas L. Beddoes Late Afternoon: The Onslaught of Love: Anthony Hecht Late in November, on a single night ("The Consent"): Howard Nemerov The Latest Decalogue: Arthur Hugh Clough La Vie c'est la Vie: Jessie Redmon Fauset The Lawyers' Ways: Paul Laurence Dunbar Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love: W.H. Auden Learning by Doing: Howard Nemerov Learning the Trees: Howard Nemerov Leaving behind us the alien, foreign city of Dublin ("Going Home to Mayo, Winter, 1949"): Paul Durcan The legislature passed a law ("What's in a Name?"): Henry A. Beers The legs of the elk punctured the snow's crust ("To Christ Our Lord"): Galway Kinnell Let a joy keep you ("Joy")" Carl Sandburg Let America be America again: Langston Hughes Let it not your wonder move ("Charis: His Excuse for Loving"): Ben Jonson Let me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord ("Monosyllabic"): Carl Sandburg Let me not to the marriage of true minds: William Shakespeare
A Letter: Anthony Hecht Let us go then, you and I ("The Love Song of J.Arthur Prufrock"): T.S. Eliot Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne ("Conversation With Jeanne"): Czeslaw Milosz Let us quarrel for these reasons ("Quarrel"): Elinor Wylie Let us walk in the white snow ("Velvet Shoes"): Elinor Wylie Libertatis Sacra Fames: Oscar Wilde Lie on your back on stone ("Canyon de Chelly"): Simon Ortiz The Life Beyond: Rupert Brooke Life! I know not what thou art: Anna Lætitia Barbauld Life is real, life is earnest ("Parody on 'A Psalm of Life'"): Oliver Wendell Holmes the life of Borodin: Charles Bukowski Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing: James Weldon Johnson Lightenings (No's.1 & 8): Seamus Heaney Light splashed this morning ("The Round"): Stanley Kunitz A lilt and a swing, And a ditty to sing ("At the Tavern"): Paul Laurence Dunbar Limericks Limits: Jorge Luis Borges Lines on Hearing the Organ: Charles Stuart Calverley Lines to our New Censor: William Watson The Listeners: Walter de la Mare Listen, now, verse should be as natural ("Poetry for Supper"): R.S. Thomas Litany: Billy Collins Little Miss Muffet discovered a tuffet ("The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet"): Guy W. Carryl
Lolotte, who attires my hair ("Noblesse Oblige"): Jessie Redmon Fauset London, 1802: William Wordsworth London's Summer Morning: Mary Robinson Long gone the smoke-and-pepper childhood smell ("Sarabande on Attaining the Age of 77"): Anthony Hecht Long, long ago ("The Armada"): Brian Patten Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's face ("October"): Hilaire Belloc Look out how you use proud words ("Primer Lesson"): Carl Sandburg Lord, confound this surly sister ("The Curse"): John Millington Synge Losses: Carl Sandburg Lost in Translation: James Merrill Lot's Wife: Anthony Hecht Love: Charles Stuart Calverley Love and Black Magic: Robert Graves Love Come and Gone: Georgia Douglas Johnson Love has gone and left me ("Ashes of Life"): Edna St.Vincent Millay Love is an Outlaw: Lynette Roberts Love is not All: Edna St.Vincent Millay Love Letter: Sylvia Plath The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: T.S. Eliot Love's Philosophy: Percy Bysshe Shelley Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show: Philip Sidney Low, like another's, lies the laurelled head ("Lachrymae Musarum"): William Watson Low Tide: Lynette Roberts Lump of Coal: William Matthews The lump of coal my parents teased ("Lump of Coal"): William Matthews The Lynching: Claude McKay Lyonesse: Alan Seeger
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Meditatio: Ezra Pound The Meek in Death Shall Bleed: Holly Iglesias Meeting poets: Eunice deSouza Memo to the Twenty-first Century: Maya Angelou Men: Maya Angelou Mending Wall: Robert Frost Men Made Out Of Words: Wallace Stevens Merry-Go-Round: Langston Hughes The Messages: Wilfrid W. Gibson Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it ("Peekabo, I almost see you"): Ogden Nash The Midnight wooed the Morning Star ("The Barrier"): Paul Laurence Dunbar I've come this far to freedom and I won't turn back ("Midway"): Naomi Long Madgett The mighty forces of mysterious space ("Uncontrolled"): Ella Wheeler Wilcox Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour ("London, 1802"): William Wordsworth Mimi, do you remember ("Biftek aux Champignons"): Henry A. Beers The Minister for Exams: Brian Patten Miniver Cheevy: Edwin Arlington Robinson Mise Éire: Eavan Boland
A modern hour from London ("The The Tavern of Last Times"): Ella Wheeler Wilcox A moment the wild swallows like a flight ("A Thunderstorm"): Archibald Lampman Momus, God of Laughter: Ella Wheeler Wilcox Monet's Waterlilies: Robert Hayden Money: Howard Nemerov Monosyllabic: Carl Sandburg The Moon and the Night and the Men: John Berryman The Moon and the Yew Tree: Sylvia Plath The moon? It is a griffin's egg ("Yet Gentle Will the Griffin be"): Vachel Lindsay More or less sound of mind and memory ("Will"): Philip Appleman Morning: Charles Stuart Calverley The morning after the night ("Raymond of the Rooftops"): Paul Durcan The morning of the equinox ("Poem of Summer's End"): James Merrill the most unforgettable character i've ever met gives advice to the young poet: Roger McGough Mother Night: James Weldon Johnson Mother says, ‘Be in no hurry ("To Marry or Not to Marry"): Ella Wheeler Wilcox A motorist once said to me ("Days of Pie and Coffee"): James Tate Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames: Luis d'Antin van Rooten The mountain and the squirrel ("Fable"): Ralph Waldo Emerson The Movement of Bodies: Sheenagh Pugh Mr. Flood's Party: Edwin Arlington Robinson Much Madness is Divinest Sense: Emily Dickinson Musée Des Beaux Arts: W.H. Auden Mushrooms: Sylvia Plath
My Cherrystones! I prize them ("Precious Stones"): Charles Stuart Calverley My cousin Elena is to be married ("Marriages Are Made"): Eunice deSouza My dead love came to me, and said ("A Dream"): Stephen Phillips My enemy came nigh ("Hate"): James Stephens My father's a sealed tin of dust ("Fetchin' Bones"): Cornelius Eady My family tells me this white gang I run with ("Buckwheat's Lament"): Cornelius Eady My father used to say ("Silence"): Marianne Moore My Father was a scholar and knew Greek ("Development"): Robert Browning My grandmother, my Nali ("Onion and Fried Potatoes"): Nia Francisco My hands, my fists, my small bells ("Oh Yes"): William Matthews My heart was heavy ("Forgiveness"): John Greenleaf Whittier My Last Duchess: Robert Browning My locks are shorn for sorrow ("Ophelia"): Elinor Wylie My Mother Enters the Work Force: Rita Dove My name is Francis Tolliver ("Christmas in the Trenches"): John McCutcheon My prayers have been answered ("At 75: Rereading an Old Book"): Hayden Carruth Myself unto myself will give this name, Katharsis-Purgative ("The Holy Office"): James Joyce My Song: Rabindranath Tagore The Mystery: Ralph Hodgson My sweet old etcetera: E.E. Cummings N
The new road runs into the old road ("Directions"): William Matthews A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices ("War is Kind"): Stephen Crane the next time you listen to Borodin ("the life of Borodin"): Charles Bukowski Night, Death, Mississippi: Robert Hayden The night is black and the forest has no end ("On the nature of love"): Rabindranath Tagore Night Poem: Margaret Atwood Noblesse Oblige: Jessie Redmon Fauset No, helpless thing, I cannot harm thee now ("The Caterpillar"): Anna Lætitia Barbauld A Noiseless Patient Spider: Walt Whitman No Platonique Love: William Cartwright The Norsemen: John Greenleaf Whittier No Second Troy: W.B. Yeats Not easy to state the change you made ("Love Letter"): Sylvia Plath Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame ("The New Colossus"): Emma Lazarus Not of the princes and prelates ("Salt-Water Ballads"): John Masefield The Novelist: W.H. Auden Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs ("Fern Hill"): Dylan Thomas Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods ("Autumnal Sonnet"): William Allingham Now hardly here and there an hackney coach ("A Description of the Morning"): Jonathan Swift Now Has Day Come: James Still Now is the midnight of the nations ("Christmas: 1915"): Percy MacKaye Now that the winter's gone ("The Spring"): Thomas Carew Now Winter Nights Enlarge: Thomas Campion Number 20: Lawrence Ferlinghetti The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd: Walter Raleigh
Oak and Olive: James Elroy Flecker O, brothers mine, take care! Take care! ("The White Witch"): James Weldon Johnson "O come, O come," the mother pray'd ("Waiting"): Charles Stuart Calverley October: Hilaire Belloc Ode on a Grecian Urn: John Keats Ode To Solitude: Alexander Pope Ode To The Amoeba: Arthur Guiterman Odysseus: W.S. Merwin Of all the ill-fated Boys ever created ("How Jack Made the Giants Uncommonly Sore"): Guy Wetmore Carryl Of all the streets that blur into the sunset ("Limits"): Jorge Luis Borges Of His Life: Wayne Dodd O generation of the thoroughly smug ("Salutation"): Ezra Pound The Ogre does what ogres can ("August 1968"): W.H. Auden Oh destiny of Borges ("Elegy"): Jorge Luis Borges Oh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head ("A Certain Lady"): Dorothy Parker Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth ("High Flight"): John Gillespie Magee, Jr. Oh, I should like to ride the seas ("Song of Perfect Propriety"): Dorothy Parker Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song ("Comment"): Dorothy Parker Oh mother, mother, where is happiness ("The Sonnet – Ballad"): Gwendolyn Brooks Oh! That my young life were a lasting dream ("Dreams"): Edgar Allan Poe Oh who is that young sinner... ("The Colour of His Hair"): A.E.Housman Oh Yes: William Matthews O Karma: Philip Appleman Old Black Men: Georgia Douglas Johnson Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night ("Mr. Flood's Party"): Edwin Arlington Robinson Old Ironsides: Oliver Wendell Holmes Old lame Bridget doesn't hear ("The Shadow People"): Francis Ledwidge The Old Language: R.S. Thomas Old Lem: Sterling Brown An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ("Sonnet: England in 1819"): Percy Bysshe Shelley The Old Maid: Sara Teasdale
The old man takes a nap ("February Morning"): Hayden Carruth The Old Men Used to Sing: Alice Walker An Old Pain: Francis Ledwidge The old rude church, with bare, bald tower, is here ("Wordsworth's Grave"): William Watson Old Susan: Walter de la Mare The Old Vicarage, Grantchester: Rupert Brooke The old woman across the way ("The Whipping"): Robert Hayden O Lord, Our Father ("The War Prayer"): Mark Twain On Arriving at the Age of Twenty-Three: John Milton On a Volume of Scholastic Philosophy: George Santayana On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam: Hayden Carruth Once I am sure there's nothing going on ("Church Going"): Philip Larkin Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see ("Weather"): Ambrose Bierce One does such work as one will not ("In the Matter of Two Men"): James Corrothers On Educating the Natives: P.K. Page 164 East 72nd Street: James Merrill One night a poem came up to a poet ("The Right Mask"): Brian Patten One Perfect Rose: Dorothy Parker One road leads to London ("Roadways"): John Masefield One time in Alexandria ("Thaïs"): Newman Levy On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven: Edna St.Vincent Millay On His Blindness: John Milton Onion and Fried Potatoes: Nia Francisco On Julia's Clothes: Robert Herrick Only let it form within his hands once more ("The Brandy Glass"): Louis MacNeice On my way home from school ("The Testing-Tree"): Stanley Kunitz On seeing a Heavy Piece of Artillery brought into Action: Wilfred Owen On Shakespeare: John Milton
On the day the world ends ("Song on the End of the World"): Czeslaw Milosz On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes: Thomas Gray On the long shore, lit by the moon ("The Goose Fish"): Howard Nemerov On the nature of love: Rabindranath Tagore On the night of the Belgian surrender ("The Moon and the Night and the Men"): John Berryman On the Porch at the Frost Place: William Matthews On the Pulse of Morning: Maya Angelou On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness: Arthur Guiterman O, once, by Cuckmere Haven ("The Sussex Sailor"): Alfred Noyes Ophelia: Elinor Wylie The Optimist: Ella Wheeler Wilcox The Oral Tradition: Eavan Boland Ordinance On Arrival: Naomi Lazard Oread: "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle) O Star (the fairest one in sight) ("Choose Something Like a Star"): Robert Frost The Other Tiger: Jose Luis Borges O to break loose, like the chinook ("Waking Early Sunday Morning"): Robert Lowell Our earth is round ("Corners on the Curving Sky"): Gwendolyn Brooks Out of the Night that covers me ("Invictus"): William Ernest Henley Overnight, very whitely, discreetly ("Mushrooms"): Sylvia Plath Overtones: William Alexander Percy O whitened head entwined in turban gay ("The Black Mammy"): James Weldon Johnson O world, I cannot hold thee close enough ("God's World"): Edna St.Vincent Millay O world invisible, we view thee ("In No Strange Land"): Francis Thompson Ozymandias of Egypt: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Parody on 'A Psalm of Life'(Longfellow): Oliver Wendell Holmes Parsley: Rita Dove The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Christopher Marlowe The past and present wilt ("Song of Myself" – No.51): Walt Whitman The Path to ABC Business School ("My Mother Enters the Work Force"): Rita Dove Patterns: Amy Lowell Paul of Tarsus, I have enquired of Jesus ("An Epistle From Corinth"): William Alexander Percy Pavement slippery, people sneezing ("January 1795"): Mary Robinson Pay Up or Else: Luci Tapahonso Peace, my stranger is a tree ("Green Madrigal [I]"): Lynette Roberts Peekabo, I Almost See You: Ogden Nash The Pelagian Drinking Song: Hilaire Belloc Pelagius lived at Kardanoel ("The Pelagian Drinking Song"): Hilaire Belloc The Penitent: Edna St.Vincent Millay The pennycandystore beyond the El ("Number 20"): Lawrence Ferlinghetti People that build their houses inland ("Inland"): Edna St.Vincent Millay Personal Helicon: Seamus Heaney pete the parrot and shakespeare: Don Marquis Phillis: Naomi Long Madgett Piano: D.H. Lawrence Piping Down the Valleys Wild: William Blake Poem of Summer's End: James Merrill A Poem for the End of the Century: Czeslaw Milosz Poem from Llanybri: Lynette Roberts Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur: Lewis Carroll A poet had a cat ("How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted"): Guy Wetmore Carryl Poetry: Marianne Moore Poetry for Supper: R.S. Thomas
The Poor Poet: Czeslaw Milosz Poppy Fields: William Alexander Percy Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man: Ogden Nash A Postcard from the Volcano: Wallace Stevens Postcards: Margaret Atwood Posterity will ne'er survey ("Epitaph for Lord Castlereagh"): George Gordon, Lord Byron Power Cut: Matthew Francis A Prayer: Claude McKay Prayer Before Birth: Louis MacNeice Pray why are you so bare, so bare ("The Haunted Oak"): Paul Dunbar Precious Stones: Charles Stuart Calverley Preludes: T.S. Eliot Primer Lesson: Carl Sandburg The Prisoners: Robert Hayden The Proclamation: John Greenleaf Whittier Prologue: Dylan Thomas psalm: Alicia Ostriker The Psalms: King David (et al.) Pursuit: "H.D" (Hilda Doolittle) Q
Rain on the Cumberlands: James Still A raven sat upon a tree ("The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven"): Guy Wetmore Carryl Raymond of the Rooftops: Paul Durcan Razors pain you (Resumé): Dorothy Parker Reactionary Essay on Applied Science: Phyllis McGinley Rebirth: 1914-18: Rudyard Kipling Recall from Time's abysmal chasm ("Ode to the Amoeba"): Arthur Guiterman Refusal: Maya Angelou Rein your sorry nags boys, buckle the polished saddle ("Dance on Pushback"): James Still Religion: Paul Laurence Dunbar Rendezvous: Alan Seeger Reply to the Question: "How Can You Become a Poet?": Eve Merriam A reporter said ("This is a Poem About Indians"): Anita Endrezze Requiem for Sonora: Richard Shelton The Rest: Margaret Atwood Resumé: Dorothy Parker Retort: Paul Laurence Dunbar Rhapsody on a Windy Night: T.S. Eliot Richard Cory: Edwin Arlington Robinson The Riddle of the World: Alexander Pope riding by a bar called " nn" ("Navajo Inn"): Nia Francisco Righteous Anger: James Stephens The Right Mask: Brian Patten A River: A.K. Ramanujan The River: Ralph Waldo Emerson Riverbank Blues: Sterling Brown The Road at My Door: W.B. Yeats The Road not taken: Robert Frost The Road to Dieppe: John Finley Roadways: John Masefield A Rock, A River, A Tree ("On the Pulse of Morning"): Maya Angelou The Rock Cries Out to Us Today: Maya Angelou
Rosa: Rita Dove Rose of All the World: D.H. Lawrence The Round: Stanley Kunitz Rudolph Reed was oaken ("The Ballad of Rudolph Reed"): Gwendolyn Brooks Rumpelstiltskin: Glyn Maxwell S
She even thinks that up in heaven ("For a Lady I Know"): Countee Cullen Shelley dreamed it. Now the dream decays. ("Song of the Year's Turning"): R.S.Thomas Sheltered Garden: "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle) She made me one of hard silk thread ("Three-Piece" – A Tie): Seamus Heaney She Walks in Beauty: George Gordon, Lord Byron She wants to hear wine pouring ("Sunday Greens"): Rita Dove She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness ("The Bistro Styx"): Rita Dove She wonders how people get babies ("The Facts of Life"): Ronald Wallace Shifting brilliancies. Then winter light ("Lightenings" No.I): Seamus Heaney Silence: Marianne Moore Silence: Edgar Allan Poe Since There's no Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part: Michael Drayton A single flow'r he sent me, since we met ("One Perfect Rose"): Dorothy Parker Sirs, if the truth must needs be told ("Hate"): William Watson Sit, drink your coffee here; your work can wait awhile ("Sit"): Vikram Seth Sixpence For a Kiss: Henry A. Beers The skies they were ashen and sober ("Ulalume"): Edgar Allan Poe A slant of sun on dull brown walls ("War is Kind"): Stephen Crane Slim Greer in Hell: Sterling Brown Slim Greer went to heaven ("Slim Greer in Hell"): Sterling Brown a small child of a wind ("Requiem for Sonoma"): Richard Shelton The Smugglers Song: Rudyard Kipling The snails have made a garden of green lace ("After Rain"): P.K. Page Snake: D.H. Lawrence A snake came to my water-trough ("Snake"): D.H. Lawrence The Snakes of September: Stanley Kunitz The Snowmass Cycle: Stephen Dunn So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went ("The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"): Wilfred Owen Soap Suds: Louis MacNeice Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me ("Piano"): D.H. Lawrence
The Soldier: Rupert Brooke Soldier's Dream: Wilfred Owen Soliloquy of the Solipsist: Sylvia Plath Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister: Robert Browning Solomon and the Witch: W.B.Yeats Some day, when trees have shed their leaves ("After the Winter"): Claude McKay Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman ("I'm a Fool to Love You"): Cornelius Eady Something there is that doesn't love a wall ("Mending Wall"): Robert Frost Sometime During Eternity: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire ("An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic"): Vachel Lindsay Sometimes I'm happy: la la la la la la la ("Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe"): Helen Chasin Sometimes the notes are ferocious ("Marginalis"): Billy Collins Sometimes the sun is still trying ("Desert"): Richard Shelton Sometimes this middle of the road business ("Hard To Take"): Luci Tapahonso Song at the Year's Turning: R.S.Thomas Song-Maker: Anita Endrezze Song of Mehitabel: Don Marquis From "Song of Myself": No.6 – No.14 – No.21 – No.46 – No.51: Walt Whitman Song of Perfect Propriety: Dorothy Parker The Song of the Pilgrims: Rupert Brooke The Song of Shadows: Walter de la Mare The Song of Wandering Aengus: W.B.Yeats Song on the End of the World: Czeslaw Milosz Song to Celia: Ben Jonson The Sonnet – Ballad: Gwendolyn Brooks Sonnet: England in 1819: Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonnet on Being Rich (Sonnet 34): Hilaire Belloc
Sonnet On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters: Oscar Wilde So That's Who I Remind Me Of: Ogden Nash So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl ("The Dover Bitch: A Criticism of Life"): Anthony Hecht So . . . they said ("The Dinner Party"): Amy Lowell The Soul has Bandaged moments: Emily Dickinson The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Emily Dickinson Southeast, and storm, and every weathervane ("Hatteras Calling"): Conrad Aiken So we'll go no more a-roving: George Gordon, Lord Byron Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle ("Because You Asked about the Line"): Howard Nemerov The species Man and Marmozet Are intimately linked ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc A speck that would have been beneath my sight ("A Considerable Speck"): Robert Frost Spenser's Ireland: Marianne Moore Spirit in Me: Esther Belin Spleen: T.S. Eliot Spoon River Anthology: Edgar Lee Masters The Spring: Thomas Carew Spring and All: William Carlos Williams Springfield Magical: Vachel Lindsay Spring in War-Time: Sara Teasdale Sssnnnwhuffffll? ("The Loch Ness Monster's Song"): Edwin Morgan Stacking the Straw: Amy Clampitt Stalemate: Sheenagh Pugh Standin' at de winder, Feelin' kind o' glum ("Blue"): Paul Laurence Dunbar Stand on the highest pavement of the stair ("La Figlia Che Piange"): T.S. Eliot Starting at the Bottom: Simon Ortiz The Statesmen: Ambrose Bierce
Still I Rise: Maya Angelou Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: Robert Frost A Story: Jane Hirshfield Storyville Diary: Natasha Trethewey Stranger maiden, when you waken ("Sixpence For a Kiss"): Henry A. Beers A stream of tender gladness ("Shadow River"): Emily Pauline Johnson Strict Care, Strict Joy: James Stephens Study Of Loneliness: Czeslaw Milosz A Subaltern's Love Song: John Betjeman The Subway Piranhas: Edwin Morgan Success Comes to Cow Creek: James Tate The successful man has thrust himself ("War is Kind"): Stephen Crane Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window: Lawrence Raab A Suit ("Three-Piece"): Seamus Heaney Summer is late, my heart ("Touch Me"): Stanley Kunitz Sunday Greens: Rita Dove Sunday Morning: Wallace Stevens Sundays too my father got up early ("Those Winter Sundays"): Robert Hayden Sunday: this satisfied procession ("Spleen"): T.S. Eliot The sun has moved down that way a bit ("Rain"): Ofelia Zepeda The sun has moved over that way a bit ("We Are Papago"): Ofelia Zepeda The Sunlight on the Garden: Louis MacNeice The Sun Rising: John Donne
A Sunset Of The City: Gwendolyn Brooks The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews: Amy Clampitt The sun was shining on the sea ("The Walrus and the Carpenter"): Lewis Carroll The Sussex Sailor: Alfred Noyes The swallow of summer, she toils all the summer ("Work and Play"): Ted Hughes Swan Boat Gondolier: Holly Iglesias Sweep thy faint strings, Musician ("The Song of Shadows"): Walter de la Mare A sweet disorder in the dress ("Delight in Disorder"): Robert Herrick Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease ("On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven"): Edna St.Vincent Millay The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven: Guy Wetmore Carryl T
The Temple Road: Lynette Roberts Tents, marquees, and baggage-waggons ("The Camp"): Mary Robinson Terminus: Ralph Waldo Emerson The Testing-Tree: Stanley Kunitz Thaïs: Newman Levy That he was near to you so many a year ("For All Who Mourn"): Arthur Guiterman That is no country for old men ("Sailing to Byzantium"): W.B. Yeats That justice is a blind goddess ("Justice"): Langston Hughes That's my last Duchess painted on the wall ("My Last Duchess"): Robert Browning That time you came back ("For Nanao"): Simon Ortiz There are some qualities — some incorporate things ("Silence"): Edgar Allan Poe There Came a Wind like a Bugle: Emily Dickinson There is a drunk on Main Avenue ("Song-Maker"): Anita Endrezze There is a hush before the thunder-jar ("The Hush"): Stephen Phillips There is a parrot imitating spring ("Parsley"): Rita Dove There is nothing to be afraid of ("Night Poem"): Margaret Atwood There is wind where the rose was ("Autumn"): Walter de la Mare There must be a wound ("Feelings"): Spike Milligan There's a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street ("The Barrel-Organ"): Alfred Noyes There's a certain slant of Light: Emily Dickinson There's in my mind a woman ("In Mind"): Denise Levertov There was a carpenter at my door ("The Temple Road"): Lynette Roberts These are the desolate, dark weeks ("These"): William Carlos Williams These are the letters which Endymion wrote ("Sonnet On the Sale ... of Keats' Love Letters"): Oscar Wilde These city apartment windows ("164 East 72nd Street"): James Merrill These Long Drives: Luci Tapahonso They ask me where I've been ("Back"): Wilfrid W. Gibson They didn't have much trouble ("Teaching the Ape to Write Poems"): James Tate They have fenced in the dirt road ("Burial"): Alice Walker They're taking down a tree at the front door ("Learning by Doing"): Howard Nemerov They said, "Wait." Well, I waited. ("Alabama Centennial"): Naomi Long Madgett They who can from palm leaves and from grasses ("On Educating the Natives"): P.K. Page 'Think as I think,' said a Man: Stephen Crane
Think of it: E.E. Cummings Think you I am not fiend and savage too? ("To the White Fiends"): Claude McKay Third Avenue in Sunlight: Anthony Hecht Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: Wallace Stevens the thirty eighth year: Lucille Clifton This brand of soap has the same smell ("Soap Suds"): Louis MacNeice This day winding down now ("Prologue"): Dylan Thomas This house has been far out at sea all night ("Wind"): Ted Hughes This is a Poem About Indians: Anita Endrezze This is a song to celebrate banks ("Bankers are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer"): Ogden Nash This is Just to Say: William Carlos Williams This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary ("The Moon and the Yew Tree"): Sylvia Plath this is the song of mehitabel ("song of mehitabel"): Don Marquis This morning, between two branches of a tree ("The Dependencies"): Howard Nemerov This morning I take as my text ("Sermonette"): Holly Iglesias This morning we shall spend a few minutes ("Money"): Howard Nemerov This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies ("A Cemetery"): Emily Dickinson This song of mine will wind its music around you ("My Song"): Rabindranath Tagore Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme ("Epilogue"): Robert Lowell Those Winter Sundays: Robert Hayden "Thou art a fool," said my head to my heart ("Retort"): Paul Laurence Dunbar Thou Blind Man's Mark: Philip Sidney Though, if you ask her name, she says Elise ("Barmaid"): William Ernest Henley The Thought-Fox: Ted Hughes
Thou shalt have one God only ("The Latest Decalogue"): Arthur Hugh Clough Thou shalt no God but me adore ("Decalogue"): Ambrose Bierce Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness ("Ode on a Grecian Urn"): John Keats Three hours ago he blundered up the trench ("The Working Party"): Siegfried Sassoon Three-Piece: Seamus Heaney Thrice toss these oaken ashes in the air ("The Charm"): Thomas Campion Throughout the course of the generations ("History of the Night"): Jose Luis Borges Through the stricken air ("Rain on the Cumberlands"): James Still A Thunderstorm: Archibald Lampman Thursday Afternoon: Life is Sweet: Holly Iglesias A Tie ("Three-Piece"): Seamus Heaney A tiger comes to mind ("The Other Tiger"): Jose Luis Borges 'Tis the hour when white-horsed Day ("Morning"): Charles Stuart Calverley To a Goose: Robert Southey To America: James W. Johnson To a Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I am Wearing Them: Ogden Nash Toast: Sheenagh Pugh To a Very Young Lady: Edmund Waller To be a Negro in a day like this ("At the Closed Gate of Justice"): James Corrothers To Christ Our Lord: Galway Kinnell Today I felt as poor O’Brien did ("Strict Care, Strict Joy"): James Stephens Today as the news from Selma and Saigon ("Monet's Waterlilies"): Robert Hayden Today I pass the time reading ("Japan"): Billy Collins Today, ten thousand people will die ("Choosing to Think of It"): Stephen Dunn Today we have naming of parts ("Naming of Parts"): Henry Reed To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name ("To the Memory of ... Shakespeare"): Ben Jonson To drift with every passion ("Hélas"): Oscar Wilde To Failure: Philip Larkin To His Coy Mistress: Andrew Marvell To Jesus On His Birthday: Edna St.Vincent Millay
To Marry or Not to Marry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox To My Best Friend: Francis Ledwidge To speak of everyday things with ease ("The Shadow Remains"): Lynette Roberts To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut...: William Cowper To the Ladies: Mary, Lady Chudleigh To the Memory of ... Shakespeare: Ben Jonson To the village of lace and stone ("Lamentation"): Lynette Roberts To the White Fiends: Claude McKay To the woods, to the woods is the wizard gone ("Love and Black Magic"): Robert Graves Touched by an Angel: Maya Angelou Touch Me: Stanley Kunitz To Virgins, To Make Much of Time: Robert Herrick Toward the Unknown Region: Walt Whitman Tract: William Carlos Williams The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason ("Contraband"): Denise Levertov The trees in the garden rained flowers ("War is Kind"): Stephen Crane Troths: Carl Sandburg The truth is, most of us didn't know ("Starting at the Bottom"): Simon Ortiz Turning and turning in the widening gyre ("The Second Coming"): W.B. Yeats The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls ("On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness"): Arthur Guiterman 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe ("Jabberwocky"): Lewis Carroll 'Twas on a lofty vase's side ("On the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes"): Thomas Gray Twelve o'clock ("Rhapsody on a Windy Night"): T.S. Eliot 225 days under grass ("For Jane"): Charles Bukowski Two roads diverged in a yellow wood ("The Road Not Taken"): Robert Frost Two universes mosey down the street ("Walking the Dog"): Howard Nemerov The Tyger: William Blake
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Waiting: Charles Stuart Calverley Waking Early Sunday Morning: Robert Lowell Walking the Dog: Howard Nemerov The Walrus and the Carpenter: Lewis Carroll Walt Whitman: Edwin Arlington Robinson The "Wanderer": John Masefield A wanderer is man from his birth ("The Future"): Matthew Arnold Wanderers: Charles Stuart Calverley The War in the Air: Howard Nemerov Warning: Jenny Joseph Warning to Children: Robert Graves The War Prayer: Mark Twain Water: Philip Larkin Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone ("Winter Landscape, With Rocks"): Sylvia Plath We Alone Can Devalue Gold: Alice Walker We Are Papago: Ofelia Zepeda Weather: Ambrose Bierce We caught the tread of dancing feet ("The Harlot's House"): Oscar Wilde We Came This Way: Anita Endrezze The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos: Vachel Lindsay We have no prairies ("Bogland"): Seamus Heaney We have not heard the music of the spheres ("Voices of Earth"): Archibald Lampman Welcome to you who have managed to get here ("Ordinance On Arrival"): Naomi Lazard We must resign! ("Upon the Last Storm"): Edmund Waller Well I have ("On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam"): Hayden Carruth "We're not a mile off it," I heard him say ("Three-piece" – A Coat): Seamus Heaney We shall not always plant while others reap ("From The Dark Tower"): Countee Cullen We, unaccustomed to courage ("Touched By an Angel"): Maya Angelou We Wear The Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar The Whale ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc The Whale that wanders round the Pole ("The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"): Hilaire Belloc 'Whan that Aprille...' ("Chaucer"): Ted Hughes Whan that Aprille, with his shoures soote ("The Canterbury Tales"): Geoffrey Chaucer What a dream of a landscape ("Landscape with Figures"): Howard Nemerov What are days for? ("Days"): Philip Larkin What are you doing here, poet ("In Warsaw"): Czeslaw Milosz
What do cats remember of days ("Inessential Things"): Brian Patten What do I care that the stream is trampled ("Pursuit"): "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle) What does a hangman think about ("The Hangman at Home"): Carl Sandburg Whatever Became of Me: Richard Shelton Whatever You Say, Say Nothing: Seamus Heaney What happens to a dream deferred? ("Harlem - A Dream Deferred"): Langston Hughes What if a much of a which of a wind: E.E. Cummings What is Africa to me ("Heritage"): Countee Cullen What is the boy now, who has lost his ball ("The Ball Poem"): John Berryman What light of unremembered skies ("The Song of the Pilgrims"): Rupert Brooke What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: Edna St.Vincent Millay What need you, being come to sense ("September 1913"): William Butler Yeats What old, old pain is this that bleeds anew ("An Old Pain"): Francis Ledwidge What One Approves, Another Scorns: Arthur Guiterman What passing-bells for these who die as cattle ("Anthem For Doomed Youth"): Wilfred Owen What should we be without the sexual myth ("Men Made Out Of Words"): Wallace Stevens What's In a Name?: Henry A. Beers What was he doing, the great god Pan ("A Musical Instrument"): Elizabeth Barrett Browning When all the others were away at Mass ("Clearances"; No.3): Seamus Heaney When April with his showers sweet ("The Canterbury Tales – Prologue"): Geoffrey Chaucer When as in silks my Julia goes ("On Julia's Clothes"): Robert Herrick Whenever Richard Cory went down town ("Richard Cory"): Edwin Arlington Robinson When everything was fine ("A Poem for the End of the Century"): Czeslaw Milosz When George Was King: Emily Pauline Johnson
When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs ("Meditatio"): Ezra Pound When I consider everything that grows: William Shakespeare When I consider how my light is spent ("On His Blindness"): John Milton When I consider men of golden talents ("So That's Who I Remind Me Of"): Ogden Nash When I die, I Will see the lining of the world ("Meaning"): Czeslaw Milosz When I get to be a composer ("Daybreak in Alabama"): Langston Hughes When I go down the Gloucester lanes ("Oak and Olive"): James Elroy Flecker When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced: William Shakespeare When I heard the learn'd astronomer: Walt Whitman When I'm old, I'll say the summer ("Toast"): Sheenagh Pugh When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes: William Shakespeare When in the chronicle of wasted time: William Shakespeare When I see birches bend to left and right ("Birches"): Robert Frost When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty ("Frederick Douglass"): Robert Hayden When I was a child I sat an exam ("The Minister for Exams"): Brian Patten When I Was One-and-Twenty: A.E. Housman When I was young, I used to ("Men"): Maya Angelou When I Wrote a Little: Hayden Carruth
When the end came, the surprise was ("Kindling"): Holly Iglesias When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay ("Afterwards"): Thomas Hardy When the troopship was pitching round the Cape ("The Unspoken"): Edwin Morgan When the world turns completely upside down ("Wild Peaches"): Elinor Wylie When to the sessions of sweet silent thought: William Shakespeare When You Are Old: W.B. Yeats Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley ("Spoon River Anthology [The Hill]"): Edgar Lee Masters Where did the time go? The clocks went out ("Power Cut"): Matthew Francis Where forlorn sunsets flare and fade: William Ernest Henley Where hast thou floated, in what seas ("To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut..."): William Cowper Where is the Jim Crow section ("Merry-Go-Round"): Langston Hughes Where the mind is without fear: Rabindranath Tagore Where the Rainbow Ends: Robert Lowell While the younger daughter slept ("In 1864"): Luci Tapahonso While you walk the water's edge ("Fog"): Amy Clampitt The Whipping: Robert Hayden Whirl up, sea ("Oread"): "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle) The White House: Claude McKay The White Knight's Song: Lewis Carroll White Shoulders: Carl Sandburg White sky, over the hemlocks bowed with snow ("The Buck in the Snow"): Edna St.Vincent Millay The White Witch: James Weldon Johnson Who can remember back to the first poets ("The Makers"): Howard Nemerov Who has not waked to list the busy sounds ("London 1795): Mary Robinson Whose woods these are I think I know ("Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"): Robert Frost Why, Asks a Friend, Attempt Tetrameter?: Vikram Seth
Why should I blame her that she filled my days ("No Second Troy"): W.B. Yeats Why Should You Be Astonished: Alan Seeger Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?: John Suckling The wide Pacific waters ("The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotos"): Vachel Lindsay Wife and servant are the same ("To the Ladies"): Mary, Lady Chudleigh Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail: Paul Durcan The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night ("Song of Myself" – No.14): Walt Whitman Wild Peaches: Elinor Wylie Will: Philip Appleman Wind: Ted Hughes Winter (+Autumn): Walter de la Mare Winter for a Moment Takes the Mind: Conrad Aiken Winter Landscape, With Rocks: Sylvia Plath The winter's evening settles down ("Preludes"): T.S. Eliot Wolfpen Creek: James Still A woman tells me the story of a small wild bird ("A Story"): Jane Hirshfield A Word for the Hour: John Greenleaf Whittier The word I spoke in anger ("The Quarrel"): Stanley Kunitz Wordsworth's Grave: William Watson Work and Play: Ted Hughes The Working Party: Siegfried Sassoon Would that I had 300,000 (Pounds) ("Sonnet on Being Rich" - Sonnet 34): Hilaire Belloc Writing: William Allingham X,Y,Z
Yonder see the morning blink: A.E.Housman You are old, Father William ("Father William"): Lewis Carroll You are the bread and the knife ("Litany"): Billy Collins You ask for a poem ("A Blade of Grass"): Brian Patten You do not come dramatically, with dragons ("To Failure"): Philip Larkin You may think it strange, Sam ("The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill"): Hayden Carruth You may write me down in history ("Still I Rise"): Maya Angelou Your Attention Please: Peter Porter Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing ("Child"): Sylvia Plath Your door is shut against my tightened face ("White Houses"): Claude McKay Your hair is growing long, Uncle Ambrose ("Uncle Ambrose"): James Still "Your name is Rumpelstiltskin!" cried the Queen ("Rumpelstiltskin"): Glyn Maxwell You say this poppy blooms so red ("Poppy Fields"): William Alexander Percy You tell me that silence ("Gift"): Leonard Cohen Your white shoulders I remember ("White Shoulders"): Carl Sandburg Zen also is to be found, he tried to instruct us ("The American Zen Master"): Dick Allen
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