Poem of the Day Archive - alphabetical by author

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Elegy to the Reader from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Jesse James
Remember Remember the Fifth of November

Kim Addonizio
Santuario at Chimayo
The Sound

Aeschylus
Oh, the torment bred in the race from The Libation Bearers

Deborah Ager
Morning
Santa Fe in Winter

Conrad Aiken
Music
Music I Heard
The Room

Deborah A. Akers
Texas Greater Fritillary

Anna Akhmatova
You Will Hear Thunder

Louisa May Alcott
Goldfin and Silvertail
In the Garret from Little Women
Little Nell
Little Paul
My Beth from Little Women
Thoreau's Flute
To Mother
To My Father on His 86th Birthday

Richard Aldington
Choricos
The Faun Sees Snow for the First Time

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Memory
Unguarded Gates

Elizabeth Alexander
Autumn Passage
Blues

Sherman Alexie
Defending Walt Whitman
Grandmother
Water

Henry Alford
Epimenides
You and I

Agha Shahid Ali
The Dacca Gauzes

Glen Allen
The Woman I Am

William Allingham
Autumnal Sonnet

A.R. Ammons
So I Said I Am Ezra

Daniel Anderson
Elegy for the Dying Dog
Sunflowers in a Field

Ginger Andrews
Rolls-Royce Dreams

Maya Angelou
Just for a Time
The Lesson
Phenomenal Woman
Still I Rise
The Traveler
Willie
The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart
Woman Work

Frances Angermayer
Conversion

Evelyn Corry Appelbee
Turning of the Blackgum

Matthew Arnold
The Buried Life
Dover Beach
Immortality
Longing

Michael Arnzen
Why Zombies Lumber

John Ashbery
Paradoxes and Oxymorons

Margaret Atwood
A Boat
The Bus to Alliston, Ontario
Eurydice
Five Poems for Dolls
How To Tell One Country From Another
The Loneliness of the Military Historian
Manet's Olympia
The Moment
Orpheus (1) and Orpheus (2)
Precognition
Red Fox
A Sad Child
Secrecy
Siren Song
Women's Novels

W.H. Auden
As I Walked Out One Evening
Epitaph on a Tyrant
Funeral Blues
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
Lullaby
Musée des Beaux Arts
September 1, 1939
The Shield of Achilles
This Lunar Beauty
We're Late
Who's Who

Bertha Adams Backus
Then Laugh

David Baker
Neighbors in October
Romanticism

Linda Banks
Eighteen Days on the Ground

Charles Baudelaire
The Balcony
Music

Ethel Lynn Beers
All Quiet Along the Potomac
Which Shall It Be?

Hilaire Belloc
Henry King
Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull

Stephen Vincent Benét
Army of Northern Virginia
The Ballad of William Sycamore
The Breaking Point
Difference

William Rose Benét
Gaspara Stampa
The Horse Thief
How to Catch Unicorns

Wendell Berry
Do not be ashamed
The Peace of Wild Things
The Real Work
Ripening
To My Mother
The Vacation
What We Need Is Here

John Berryman
Eleven Addresses to the Lord, #1
The Traveller

Mary Ursula Bethell
Time

John Betjeman
The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
Slough
A Subaltern's Love-Song

Alan Birkelbach
Early in the Morning, on the Road, near Franklin, Texas

Elizabeth Bishop
North Haven
One Art
Roosters
Sestina

William Blake
A Cradle Song
The Crystal Cabinet
The Divine Image
Europe: A Prophecy
The Garden of Love
Holy Thursday from Songs of Experience
Holy Thursday from Songs of Innocence
Introduction from Songs of Innocence
Jerusalem
London
Nurse's Song
On Another's Sorrow
A Poison Tree
Prologue, Intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth
The Sick Rose
To the Evening Star
The Tyger

Joe Blanda
Heat of August

Robert Bly
Kneeling Down to Peer into a Culvert

Louise Bogan
The Alchemist
Cassandra
The Dream
Evening in the Sanitarium
Medusa
Night
Women

Eavan Boland
The Pomegranate

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who Am I?

Jorge Luis Borges
Chess

Tomás Borrás
Castilla

Francis William Bourdillon
Eurydice
Night

Anne Bradstreet
As Weary Pilgrim
The Author to Her Book
In Reference to Her Children, 23 June, 1659
The Prologue
To My Dear and Loving Husband

John Brandi
Late Afternoon Over a Bottle of Sake

Kamau Brathwaite
Trane

Matthew Bridges
Crown Him with Many Crowns

Anne Brontë
Appeal
If This Be All
Last Lines
The Narrow Way

Charlotte Brontë
Life
On the Death of Anne Brontë
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë
Parting
The Poor Orphan Child from Jane Eyre
Presentiment
Speak of the North
The Teacher's Monologue
The truest love that ever heart from Jane Eyre

Emily Brontë
A Death-Scene
Faith and Despondency
Hope
The Prisoner
Remembrance
Stanzas
To Imagination
Sympathy

Patrick Brontë
The Cottager's Hymn
An Elegy
The Spider and the Fly

Maria Gowen Brooks
Song (of Egla)

Dan Brown
Missing It

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cry of the Children
How Do I Love Thee?
My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
Perplexed Music

Robert Browning
Andrea del Sarto
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
From Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"
Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
My Last Duchess
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Rabbi Ben Ezra

William Cullen Bryant
October
Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
The Yellow Violet

David Budbill
Dilemma
The Sixth of January

Charles Bukowski
Consummation of Grief
Rain

Basil Bunting
What the Chairman Told Tom

John Bunyan
Valiant-for-Truth's Song

Robert Burns
Auld Lang Syne
Halloween
Mary Morison
A Red, Red Rose
Tam o' Shanter

George Gordon, Lord Byron
Darkness
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Fill the Goblet Again
I Would I Were a Careless Child
The Prisoner of Chillon
Prometheus
She Walks in Beauty
So, we'll go no more a-roving
When We Two Parted

Thomas Campbell
Ye Mariners of England

Lewis Carroll
The Crocodile
Jabberwocky
A Sea Dirge
Size and Tears
The Walrus and the Carpenter

Charles Edward Carryl
Robinson Crusoe's Story
The Walloping Window-Blind

Raymond Carver
Happiness
Loafing
What the Doctor Said

Alice Cary
Make Believe
The Sea-Side Cave

Johnny Cash
There must have been a reason from Man in Black: His own story in his own words

Robin Cate
Texas Poker

Willa Cather
Grandmither, Think Not I Forget
Prairie Spring from O Pioneers
Spanish Johnny

Constantine P. Cavafy
An Old Man
Supplication
Thermopylae
Waiting for the Barbarians

Frances Chesterton
How far is it to Bethlehem

G.K. Chesterton
A Christmas Carol
Sonnet to a Stilton Cheese

Lydia Maria Child
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day
The World I Am Passing Through

Marilyn Chin
Autumn Leaves

John Ciardi
My Father's Watch

Mary Cimarolli
Sonnet for a Songbird

Amy Clampitt
Beach Glass
The Field Pansy
Gradual Clearing
A Hedge of Rubber Trees
Meridian
Syrinx

John Clare
First Love
Summer

Sarah N. Cleghorn
The Incentive
Saint R.L.S.

Lucille Clifton
Moonburn

Helena Coleman
Candle-Flame
In the Garden
Vanished Years

Hartley Coleridge
Full well I know—my friends—ye look on me
Long time a child, and still a child, when years

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Child's Evening Prayer
Kubla Khan
Work Without Hope
Youth and Age

Billy Collins
Forgetfulness
The Lanyard
Litany
My Life
The Names
Nightclub
Passengers

Martha Collins
The Story We Know

Padraic Colum
She Moved Through the Fair

Jean L. Connor
The Garden Gate
Of Some Renown

Frances Cornford
The Old Witch in the Copse
The Watch

Gregory Corso
I Held a Shelley Manuscript
Marriage

William Cowper
The Castaway
The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Friendship
Sunday Morning Bells

Hart Crane
Voyages

Stephen Crane
Fast rode the knight
I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night
A Man Said to the Universe

Roy Croft
Love

e e cummings
all which isn't singing is mere talking
i thank You God for most this amazing day
if i love You
if you like my poems let them
in Just—
my sweet old etcetera

Samuel Daniel
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night
Love is a Sickness

Mary Carolyn Davies
Free
If I Had Known

Dick Davis
6 A.M. Thoughts
Aubade

Grace Stricker Dawson
To a Friend

Cecil Day-Lewis
The Ecstatic
Song

Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Renegade)
Haiku

Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Because I could not stop for Death
The Bustle in a House
A Day
Faith is a fine invention
He fought like those Who’ve nought to lose—
Heart, not so heavy as mine
Hope is the thing with feathers
I dwell in Possibility—
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
I measure every grief I meet
I taste a liquor never brewed—
I'm Nobody
Nobody knows this little Rose—
One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—
A poor—torn heart—a tattered heart—
The Soul selects her own Society—
Success is counted sweetest
Tell all the truth but tell it slant
There is no frigate like a book
This World is not Conclusion
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
We grow accustomed to the Dark—
You love me—you are sure—

Thomas M. Disch
A Bookmark

Mary Mapes Dodge
Emerson
The Stars

May Doney
Comfort

John Donne
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow
Death Be Not Proud
The Good-Morrow
Love's Alchemy
The Sun Rising
A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning

Mark Doty
The Embrace

Lord Alfred Douglas
To Sleep

Rita Dove
Anti-Father
Demeter Mourning
Describe Yourself in Three Words or Less
The House Slave
Pearls
Primer for the Nuclear Age
Rosa
Roses

Ernest Dowson
A Last Word
Spleen

Carol Ann Duffy
Medusa
Valentine

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ships that Pass in the Night
Sympathy

Robert Duncan
Passage over Water

Mark Dunn
My Ice Cream Cone from Ibid: A Life

T.S. Eliot
Journey of the Magi
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Morning at the Window
Preludes

Jane Elliott
A Lament for the Flodden

Emma C. Embury
The Widow's Wooer

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bacchus
Terminus

Louise Erdrich
Captivity

James Fenton
God, a Poem

Edward Field
Both My Grandmothers
The Farewell

Eugene Field
The Dinkey-Bird
The Duel
Little Boy Blue
Red
Wynken, Blynken and Nod

Jean de la Fontaine
The Jealous Husband

R. Foreman
If you were busy being kind

Robert Frost
After Apple-Picking
Birches
Choose Something Like a Star
Etherealizing
The Gift Outright
The Investment
Mending Wall
My November Guest
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
An Old Man's Winter Night
One Step Backward Taken
Reluctance
Stars
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Neil Gaiman
Instructions
Locks

Tess Gallagher
I Stop Writing the Poem

Erica-Lynn Gambino
This Is Just to Say

Albert Garcia
August Morning

Wilfrid Gibson
Home

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Conservative
To Labor

Dana Gioia
Summer Storm

Gary Mex Glazner
Maps and Wings

Louise Glück
Penelope's Song
The Wild Iris
Witchgrass

Albert Goldbarth
Tuvalu

Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village

Lorna Goodison
Guinea Woman

James Stone Goodman
Sander and Tea

Karin Gottshall
The Raspberry Room

Robert Graves
The Cruel Moon
She tells her love while half asleep
Sick Love

Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Renée Gregorio
Transforming the Strange

Nanette Guadiano-Campos
Los Muertos

Laurie A. Guerrero
High Noon and Texas Beckons

Arthur Guiterman
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness

H.D.
Eurydice
Garden
Helen
Let Zeus
Mid-Day
Orchard
Oread
Sea Rose
Sea Violet
Sheltered Garden

Donald Hall
O Cheese
The Old Pilot
To a Waterfowl
Waters

Marcie Hans
Hurt

C.G. Hanzlicek
Egg

Thomas Hardy
At the Altar-Rail
Bereft
A Broken Appointment
Hap
New Year's Eve
Shut Out That Moon

Frances E. W. Harper
Learning to Read

Lola Haskins
Grandmother Speaks of the Old Country
To Play Pianissimo

Matthea Harvey
Strawberry on the Drawbridge

Robert Hass
Sonnet

Kaylin Haught
God Says Yes To Me

Robert Hayden
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
Those Winter Sundays

Francis Heaney
BRR, FOOTREST ROBERT FROST

Seamus Heaney
Blackberry-Picking

Kurt Heinzelman
Midday, Midsummer

William Hendry
We Die Proud

Henry VIII, King of England
Green grows the holly

George Herbert
Faith
The Flower
Love

Robert Herrick
The Argument of His Book
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Upon Julia's Clothes

Geoffrey Hill
Two Formal Elegies

Margaret Ellis Hill
The Grackle in His Black Silk Suit

Michael Hill
The Trough, Barbarosa, Texas

Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Joining the Colours
The Last Voyage

Jane Hirshfield
The Fish

Tony Hoagland
Grammar
The Word

Bill Holm
Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe
The Icelandic Language

Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Last Leaf
Old Ironsides

The Holy Bible
Philippians 2:5-11 from the New International Version

Thomas Hood
Fair Ines
I Remember, I Remember
A Parental Ode to My Son
The Song of the Shirt

A.D. Hope
Beware of Ruins

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars
God's Grandeur
My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
Pied Beauty

A.E. Housman
The Oracles
When I was one-and-twenty
With rue my heart is laden

Marie Howe
The Star Market

Mary Howitt
The Fossil Elephant
The Spider and the Fly

Helen Hoyt
Memory

Andrew Hudgins
Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead

Steven Huff
With Some Poets In Baltimore, 2003

Langston Hughes
As Befits a Man
A Dream Deferred
Dreams
Hope
Let America Be America Again
Mother to Son
Quiet Girl

Rupert Hughes
With a First Reader

Ted Hughes
Cactus-Sickness
Come Thunder
Earth-Moon
Full Moon and Little Frieda
Moon-Shadow Beggars
Moon-Whales
Music on the Moon

Victor Hugo
The Grave and the Rose
More Strong Than Time

Cindy Huyser
Rosemary

Jean Ingelow
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire

Helen Hunt Jackson
Two Truths

Randall Jarrell
Bats

Robinson Jeffers
Hurt Hawks
Vulture

Judy Jensen
Blind Lemon Jefferson’s Body Is Brought from Chicago to Wortham, Texas, by Pianist and Labelmate Will Ezell

Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Heart of a Woman

James Weldon Johnson
The Creation
O Black and Unknown Bards

Adrienne Jones
The Affair
Dog Dream
Expedition
...for the Uninvited Ghost
Guardians
Guilt
It's Simpler Than You Think
Sleep and I are strange bedfellows; true
The Spare Room
The Voice in the Mirror

June Jordan
Notes on the Peanut

James Joyce
Are you not weary of ardent ways from A Portratt of the Artist as a Young Man

Donald Justice
The Grandfathers
In the Attic
The Tourist from Syracuse
Variations on a Text by Vallejo

Chung-Ming Kao
God's Way

Patrick Kavanagh
Stony Grey Soil

John Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
Fancy
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode to a Nightingale
Robin Hood
Song
When I have fears that I may cease to be

Garrison Keillor
Molly Ivins Enlivens Us All

Brigit Pegeen Kelly
The Leaving

Fanny Kemble
A Petition

Jane Kenyon
Happiness
Otherwise

Aline Kilmer
The Masquerader

Joyce Kilmer
Trees

Ben King
The Pessimist

Charles Kingsley
Young and Old

Rudyard Kipling
Gentlemen-Rankers
If
Recessional
The Storm Cone

Bill Kloefkorn
Opus 21

Kenneth Koch
Mending Sump
One Train May Hide Another
Permanently
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
You Were Wearing

John Koethe
Hamlet

Yusef Komunyakaa
Facing It

Lynn Kozma
Phases of the Moon

Maxine Kumin
The Bangkok Gong
How It Is
Purgatory

Stanley Kunitz
Day of Foreboding
The Layers
The Portrait
The Round

Lucy Larcom
Plant a Tree
"They Said"

Philip Larkin
Church Going
Faith Healing
Talking in Bed

Karma Larsen
Moonflowers

Gary Larson
Distant Hills

Mary T. Lathrap
A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
A Song Before Grief

Dorianne Laux
For the Sake of Strangers
Kissing Again

D.H. Lawrence
Bei Hennef
The English Are So Nice!
Perfidy
Piano
Self-Pity
The Ship of Death
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
A Winter's Tale

Robert Lax
Alley Violinist

Emma Lazarus
Gifts
The New Colossus

Mary Leader
Her Door

Edward Lear
The Jumblies
The Owl and the Pussy-cat
The Pobble Who Has No Toes
The Quangle Wangle's Hat

Agnes Lee
Motherhood

Li-Young Lee
Early in the Morning
Eating Alone
The Gift

Eugene Lee-Hamilton
Sunken Gold

Denise Levertov
Aware
Caedmon
In Mind
September 1961
Talking to Grief
To the Snake

C.S. Lewis
Sonnet

Vachel Lindsay
The Leaden-eyed

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Aftermath
The Children's Hour
The Cumberland
Dante
Excelsior
It Is Not Always May
Mezzo Cammin
Nature
Paul Revere's Ride
The Poets
A Psalm of Life
Rain in Summer
The Rainy Day
The Sound of the Sea
The Village Blacksmith
The Wreck of the Hesperus

Federico García Lorca
The Old Lizard
Ode to Salvador Dali
The Poet Asks His Love to Write Him
Sonnet of the Garland of Roses
Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
Wounds of Love

Adelaide Love
Walk Slowly

Amy Lowell
1777
A Blockhead
Carrefour
Convalescence
A Decade
The Dinner-Party
The Letter
New Heavens for Old
Patterns
Stalactite
To a Friend
Venus Transiens
Vintage

James Russell Lowell
She Came and Went

Robert Lowell
Epilogue

Mina Loy
Gertrude Stein

Thomas MacDonagh
On a Poet Patriot

Antonio Machado
Last Night As I Was Sleeping
The wind, one brilliant day

Dorothea Mackellar
My Country

Archibald MacLeish
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Ars Poetica
Immortal Autumn
Nocturne

Louis MacNeice
Charon
Nature Morte
Snow
The Sunlight on the Garden

Derek Mahon
Afterlives

Amit Majmudar
Patient Histories

Katherine Mansfield
Camomile Tea

Walter de la Mare
Slim Cunning Hands

Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
Who Are My People?

Jeff Daniel Marion
Reunion

Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships

E. Marquina
The Sun Has Set in Flanders

Edwin Markham
In Death Valley

Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress

John Masefield
A Ballad of John Silver
Sea Fever

William Topaz McGonagall
To Mr James Scrymgeour, Dundee

Claude McKay
America
The Harlem Dancer
If We Must Die
Outcast

James McKean
Bindweed

Herman Melville
Lone Founts
Monody
Shiloh
The Swamp Angel

William Meredith
Last Things

Karla Linn Merrifield
The Love of Aurelia labiata

W.S. Merwin
For a Coming Extinction
Rain Travel

Albert Midlane
Topsy Turvey World

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Afternoon on a Hill
Alms
An Ancient Gesture
Apostrophe to Man
Ashes of Life
Assault
Autumn Daybreak
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
The Betrothal
Blight
Bluebeard
The Concert
Conscientious Objector
Departure
Dirge Without Music
Ebb
Elaine
Epitaph
Feast
First Fig
From a Very Little Sphinx
Gazing upon him now, severe and dead
God's World
Grown Up
I, being born a woman and distressed
I know I am but summer to your heart
I pray you if you love me, bear my joy
I see so clearly now my similar years
I Shall Forget You Presently
If I should learn, in some quite casual way
If, in the Foggy Aleutians
Intention to Escape From Him
Interim
Justice Denied in Massachusetts
Kin to Sorrow
Lament
Lines Written in Recapitulation
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Loving you less than life, a little less
Mariposa
Midnight Oil
Not in a silver casket cool with pearls
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word
On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven
On Thought in Harness
Once more into my arid days like dew
The Penitent
The Philosopher
Pity me not because the light of day
The Plaid Dress
The Poet and His Book
Prayer to Persephone
Recuerdo
Renascence
The Return
Scrub
Sorrow
Souvenir
Spring
The Spring and the Fall
The Suicide
Thursday
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
To a Friend Estranged From Me
To Inez Milholland
To Those Without Pity
The True Encounter
Two Sonnets in Memory
The Unexplorer
A Visit to the Asylum
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why

Vassar Miller
Apology
An Athenian Reminisces
Bagatelle
Bedtime Prayer
Beside a Deathbed
Bitterness
Embarrassed
Fait Accompli
Faux Pas
From an Old Maid
The Grace of Remembrance
Heritage
In Consolation
Insomniac's Prayer
Invitation
Love Song out of Nothing
Mrs. Lot
The New Icarus
Prayer Upon Waking
Renewal
To Jesus on Easter

Czeslaw Milosz
Love
A Song On the End of the World

John Milton
Lycidas
On His Deceased Wife
Sonnet XIX: On His Blindness

Charlotte Mish
Stray Dog

James Stuart Montgomery
The Swashbuckler's Song

L.M. Montgomery
November Dusk

Clement Clarke Moore
A Visit from St. Nicholas

Marianne Moore
Critics and Connoisseurs
A Grave
What Are Years?

Thomas Moore
Oft in the Stilly Night
Venetian Air

Ruth Moose
The Crossing

Robert Morgan
Working in the Rain

Christopher Morley
Washing the Dishes

William Morris
The Defence of Guenevere

Mother Goose
The House That Jack Built

Karla K. Morton
When Texas No Longer Fits in the Glove Box

Louise Chandler Moulton
Louisa May Alcott, In Memoriam
A Painted Fan

Lisel Mueller
Hope
When I Am Asked

Edwin Muir
Ballad of Hector in Hades

Paul Muldoon
Hedgehog

Vladimir Nabokov
On Discovering a Butterfly

Ogden Nash
Kind of an Ode to Duty
Peekaboo, I Almost See You
So That's Who I Remind Me Of
Very Like a Whale

Howard Nemerov
Reading Pornography in Old Age

Pablo Neruda
If You Forget Me (Si Tu Me Olvidas)
Your laughter (Tu risa)

Thomas Noel
Old Winter

John Noelke
More than Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Sculpture

Kim Noriega
Heaven, 1963

Alfred Noyes
The Elfin Artist
The Highwayman
The Loom of Years
Necromancy
A Song of Sherwood

Naomi Shihab Nye
All Things Not Considered
The Art of Disappearing
Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things
Breaking My Favorite Bowl
Changed
Different Ways to Pray
Famous
For Mohammed on the Mountain
For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15
Full Day
Genetics
The Grieving Ring
High Hopes
I Feel Sorry for Jesus
Isle of Mull, Scotland
Jerusalem
Kindness
The Little Brother Poem
Mad
Making a Fist
The Music Box
My Father and the Figtree
My Grandmother in the Stars
Observer
Pause
Please Describe How You Became a Writer
Prayer in my Boot
Remembered
Shoulders
Sifter
So Much Happiness
The Song
Stain
Supple Cord
The Tray
Valentine For Ernest Mann
A Way Around
What He Said to His Enemies
What is Supposed to Happen
What People Do
What She Was Doing At Home
The Words Under the Words
Yeast
Yellow Glove
You Have to Be Careful
You Know Who You Are

Frank O'Hara
Why I Am Not a Painter

Katherine Durham Oldmixon
El Árbol Milagroso

Sharon Olds
I Go Back to May 1937
My Son the Man

Mary Oliver
The Arrowhead
August
Blue Iris
The Hummingbird
The Journey
"Just a minute," said a voice...
Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me
The Lily
The Loon
Luna
Messenger
Mindful
Mockingbird
The Old Poets of China
One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day
Walking To Oak-Head Pond, And Thinking Of The Ponds I Will Visit In The Next Days And Weeks
When Death Comes
Why I Wake Early
Wild Geese
You Are Standing at the Edge of the Woods

Hans Ostrom
Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven

Wilfred Owen
Apologia pro Poemate Meo
Dulce et Decorum Est
Futility

Mary Gomez Parham
Breakfast at Denny's in Pasadena

Dorothy Parker
Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom
One Perfect Rose
Oscar Wilde
Résumé

Linda Pastan
Bess
Emily Dickinson
On Seeing My Poems Translated into Chinese
Rereading Frost

Padraic Pearse
The Wayfarer

Robert Newton Peck
Four of July

Fernando Pessoa
How long it's been, ten years perhaps (Fernando Pessoa-himself)
If sometimes I say that flowers smile (Alberto Caeiro)
Poor flowers in the flower beds of manicured gardens (Alberto Caeiro)

Patrick Phillips
Matinee

Sarah Morgan Piatt
Giving Back the Flower
Out of Tune

Marge Piercy
Argiope
Arriving
Attack of the squash people
The doughty oaks
Intimacy
To be of use
Waiting outside

Sylvia Plath
Aerialist
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Blackberrying
The Colossus
Cut
Daddy
The Disquieting Muses
Ennui
In Plaster
Words

Joseph Mary Plunkett
Your Fear

Edgar Allan Poe
Alone
Annabel Lee
The Bells
The City in the Sea
The Coliseum
A Dream
A Dream Within a Dream
Dreamland
Dreams
Eldorado
An Enigma
Evening Star
Lenore
The Raven
Romance
Spirits of the Dead
To Helen
To [Sarah] Helen [Whitman]
To M—
To One in Paradise
To Science
The Valley of Unrest

Alexander Pope
Eloisa to Abelard
Sound and Sense

Ezra Pound
Further Instructions
The Rest
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

Aliene Pylant
Iron Works

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

A.K. Ramanujan
Self-Portrait

Jessy Randall
Superhero Pregnant Woman

John Crowe Ransom
Piazza Piece

Ralph Renaude
Slow Fades the Sunlight

Carol Coffee Reposa
Vegetable Love in Texas

Kenneth Rexroth
Another Spring

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

Amélie Rives
Abandonment

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

Edwin Meade Robinson
Limericised Classics

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

Liz Rosenberg
City Baseball

Christina Rossetti
After Death
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

Rumi
Ode 2180
Why Cling

Kay Ryan
Houdini

St. Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
A Poem on Easter

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
Upstream

May Sarton
August Third
The Phoenix Again

Siegfried Sassoon
Dreamers

John Godfrey Saxe
The Blind Men and the Elephant

Delmore Schwartz
The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital

Ruth L. Schwartz
Tangerine

Sir Walter Scott
Marmion, Canto I

Alan Seeger
Rendevous

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
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
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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
Unsex me here from Macbeth
Was the hope drunk wherein you dress'd yourself from Macbeth