Poem of the Day Archive - alphabetical by author

Howard Pyle
The Strolling Friar's Song from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The Wooing of Sir Keith from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Francisco de Quevedo
Death-Warnings
The Lord of Dollars

Lawrence Raab
Why it Often Rains in the Movies

A.K. Ramanujan
Self-Portrait

Jessy Randall
Superhero Pregnant Woman

John Crowe Ransom
Piazza Piece
Winter Remembered

Victoria Redel
Bedecked

Ralph Renaude
Slow Fades the Sunlight

Carol Coffee Reposa
Vegetable Love in Texas

Kenneth Rexroth
Another Spring
Gic to Har
Toward an Organic Philosophy

Charles Reznikoff
Epitaphs
It had long been dark, though still an hour before supper-time

Adrienne Rich
8/8/68: I
Boundary
The Diamond Cutters
Diving Into the Wreck
For the Dead
From a Chapter on Literature
In the North
The Knight
The Knot
Moth Hour
New Year Morning
Orion
Peeling Onions
Power
Prospective Immigrants Please Take Note
The Roofwalker
Rural Reflections
Sisters
Storm Warnings
The Tree
The Ultimate Act
Versailles
Why Else But To Forestall This Hour

James Richardson
In Shakespeare

Laura Riding
The Troubles of a Book

James Whitcomb Riley
A Boy's Mother
A Country Pathway
Eternity

Rainer Maria Rilke
I live my life in growing orbits
I love the dark hours of my being
The Man Watching
My life is not this steeply sloping hour
October Day
The Panther
Pont du Carrousel
The Solitary Man
The Song the Widow Sings
Sunset
A Walk
What birds plunge through is not the intimate space
You darkness, that I come from

Alberto Ríos
The Death of Anselmo Luna
Mi Abuelo

Dale Ritterbusch
Green Tea

Amélie Rives
Abandonment

Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Dark Hills
Dear Friends
Miniver Cheevy
Reuben Bright
Richard Cory

Edwin Meade Robinson
Limericised Classics

Theodore Roethke
Elegy for Jane
In a Dark Time
The Waking
Wish for a Young Wife

Liz Rosenberg
City Baseball

J. Allyn Rosser
Subway Seethe

Christina Rossetti
After Death
Echo
In the Bleak Midwinter
Remember
Song
Up-hill

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel
Sudden Light

J.K. Rowling
Harry's Singing Valentine from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Muriel Rukeyser
Poem
To be a Jew in the twentieth century

Rumi
In your light I learn how to love
Ode 2180
Why Cling

Kay Ryan
Houdini
Repulsive Theory

St. Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
A Poem on Easter

Joe Salerno
Poetry is the Art of Not Succeeding

Carl Sandburg
Anecdote of Hemlock for Two Athenians
Ever a Seeker
Fog Numbers
Grass
Is Wisdom a Lot of Language?
The Lawyers Know Too Much
Under the Harvest Moon
Upstream

May Sarton
August Third
The Phoenix Again

Siegfried Sassoon
Dreamers

John Godfrey Saxe
The Blind Men and the Elephant

Mary Jo Schimelpfenig
A Geography of Lunch

Delmore Schwartz
The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital

Ruth L. Schwartz
Tangerine

Sir Walter Scott
Lucy Ashton's Song Marmion, Canto I

Alan Seeger
Rendezvous

Robert William Service
Home and Love

Vikram Seth
All You Who Sleep Tonight
Protocols
A Style of Loving

Anne Sexton
All My Pretty Ones
As It Was Written
Courage
Her Kind
I Remember
The Starry Night
The Truth the Dead Know

William Shakespeare
As a decrepit father takes delight
Double, double, toil and trouble from Macbeth
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
Full fathom five
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
More strange than true: I never may believe from A Midsummer Night's Dream
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
O, never say that I was false of heart
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
They that have power to hurt and will do none
Tis now the very witching time of night from Hamlet
Unsex me here from Macbeth
Was the hope drunk wherein you dress'd yourself from Macbeth
When I do count the clock that tells the time
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

Karl Shapiro
The Piano Tuner's Wife

Angela Shaw
Children in a Field

Julie Sheehan
Hate Poem

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art thou pale for weariness
Bereavement
A Dirge
Hellas
Hymn of Pan
The Indian Serenade
A Lament
Lift not the painted veil which those who live
Love's Philosophy
Music, when soft voices die
Mutability
One Word Is Too Often Profaned
Ozymandias
Remorse
Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
Time
To a Singer
To Wordsworth

James Shirley
Death the Leveller from The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses

David Shulman
Washington Crossing the Delaware

Dora Sigerson Shorter
The Comforters
The Wind on the Hills

Sir Philip Sidney
His Lady's Cruelty
Come Sleep, O Sleep! the certain knot of peace

Lydia Huntley Sigourney
The Bell of the Wreck

Leslie Marmon Silko
Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story

Shel Silverstein
Batty
Bear in There
A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing
How Not To Have To Dry the Dishes
It's Hot
Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony
The Little Boy and the Old Man
The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt
Messy Room
Nobody
One Two
Peckin'
The Pirate
Prayer of the Selfish Child
Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out
Sick
Wild Strawberries

Charles Simic
Cameo Appearance
The Inner Man
The Partial Explanation
Stone
Tapestry

Jim Simmerman
The Last Word

Naomi Stroud Simmons
With Reservations

Paul Simon
Richard Cory

Louis Simpson
Lives of the Poets

Hal Sirowitz
Lending Out Books

Edith Sitwell
Still Falls the Rain

David R. Slavitt
Titanic

Sarah Jane Sloat
Used Books

Charlotte Smith
To Sleep

Dave Smith
Leafless Trees, Chickahominy Swamp

Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Despondency
The Drowned Mariner

May Riley Smith
My Life is a Bowl

R.T. Smith
Shades

Gary Snyder
Civilization
Kyoto: March
Riprap

Gary Soto
The Drought
Oranges

Robert Southey
His Books
The Race of Banquo

Stephen Spender
An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
The Truly Great

Edmund Spenser
Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day
One day I wrote her name upon the strand

William Stafford
An Afternoon in the Stacks
Ask Me
Passing Remark
A Ritual Read to Each Other
Scars
Vocation

Victor Starbuck
Moon-Madness

Wallace Stevens
The Death of a Soldier
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour
Of Modern Poetry
The Motive for Metaphor
The Plain Sense of Things
The Plot Against the Giant
The Poems of Our Climate
The Snow Man
So and So Reclining on Her Couch
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Dumb Soldier
Foreign Lands
The Land of Counterpane
The Moon
My Bed is a Boat
My Shadow
Pirate Story
Requiem
The Swing
Winter-Time

Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Other World

Mark Strand
The Coming of Light
Eating Poetry

Emmeline Stuart-Wortley
Past and Future

May Swenson
The Centaur

Jonathan Swift
Clever Tom Clinch Going to be Hanged, 1727

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hope and Fear

Wislawa Szymborska
ABC
The End and the Beginning
Some People Like Poetry
The Terrorist, He Watches

John Bannister Tabb
Anonymous

John Tagliabue
The Bare Arms of Trees

James Tate
The Booksigning

Bruce Taylor
Our Back Yards

Henry Taylor
A Crosstown Breeze
Elevator Music

Sara Teasdale
After Love
The Answer
Debt
Jewels
I Shall Not Care
Moonlight
The Old Maid
The Solitary
Spring Night
There Will Come Soft Rains
Those Who Love
To Arcturus Returning

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Charge of the Light Brigade
Crossing the Bar
The Eagle
God and the Universe
Home they brought her warrior dead
The Lady of Shallott
Marriage Morning
Maud
St. Agnes' Eve
Tears, Idle Tears
To—
Ulysses

Ernest Thayer
Casey at the Bat

Diane Thiel
Family Album

Dylan Thomas
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Fern Hill
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
I See the Boys of Summer
Poem in October

Edward Thomas
Rain

Francis Thompson
The Hound of Heaven

Sue Ellen Thompson
No Children, No Pets

James Thomson
Through foulest fogs

Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight

Godfrey Thring
Crown Him with Many Crowns

Eunice Tietjens
The Great Man
Imprisoned
My Mother's House
Old Friendship
Parting After a Quarrel

J.R.R. Tolkien
Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings
Fish Riddle from The Lord of the Rings
Gandalf's Lament from The Lord of the Rings
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go from The Lord of the Rings
I sang of leaves from The Lord of the Rings
I sit beside the fire and think from The Lord of the Rings
Legolas from The Lord of the Rings
O Boromir! from The Lord of the Rings
Of Beren and Lúthien from The Silmarillion
Oliphaunt from The Lord of the Rings
One Ring to Rule Them All from The Lord of the Rings
Song of the Ents from The Lord of the Rings