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A Barred Owl By Richard Wilbur
A Birthday By Christina Rossetti
A Black Man Talks of Reaping By Arna Bontemps
A Blessing By James Wright
A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky By Lewis Carroll
A Country Boy in Winter By Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Incident By May Sarton
A Display of Mackerel By Mark Doty
A Dream Within a Dream By Edgar Allan Poe
A Farmer Remembers Lincoln By Witter Bynner
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme By Ben Jonson
A Fixed Idea By Amy Lowell
A Hundred Bolts of Satin By Kay Ryan
A Hymn to God the Father By John Donne
A Locked House By W. D. Snodgrass
A narrow Fellow in the Grass By Emily Dickinson
A Noiseless Patient Spider By Walt Whitman
A Psalm of Life By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Red, Red Rose By Robert Burns
A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now By A. E. Housman
A Song for Soweto By June Jordan
a song in the front yard By Gwendolyn Brooks
A Supermarket in California By Allen Ginsberg
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning By John Donne
A Virginal By Ezra Pound
Abandoned Farmhouse By Ted Kooser
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight By Vachel Lindsay
Actaeon By A.E. Stallings
Adding It Up By Philip Booth
Advice to a Prophet By Richard Wilbur
After Apple Picking By Robert Frost
After working sixty hours again for what reason By Bob Hicok
Agoraphobia By Linda Pastan
Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun By Emily Jane Brontë
All This and More By Mary Karr
“Alone” By Edgar Allan Poe
Altruism By Molly Peacock
America By Claude McKay
American Solitude By Grace Schulman
Amor Mundi By Christina Rossetti
An Introduction to My Anthology By Marvin Bell
Analysis of Baseball By May Swenson
And Soul By Eavan Boland
Anecdote of the Jar By Wallace Stevens
Anne Rutledge By Edgar Lee Masters
Another Feeling By Ruth Stone
Anthem for Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen
Apollo By Elizabeth Alexander
Ars Poetica By Archibald MacLeish
As Children Know By Jimmy Santiago Baca
As Kingfishers Catch Fire By Gerard Manley Hopkins
At Cross Purposes By Samuel Menashe
At Melville’s Tomb By Hart Crane
At the Vietnam Memorial By George Bilgere
Author’s Prayer By Ilya Kaminsky

Backdrop addresses cowboy By Margaret Atwood
Banneker By Rita Dove
Barter By Sara Teasdale
Battle Hymn of the Republic By Julia Ward Howe
Battlefield By Mark Turcotte
‘Be Music, Night’ By Kenneth Patchen
Beautiful Wreckage By W.D. Ehrhart
Becoming a Redwood By Dana Gioia
Before the Birth of One of Her Children By Anne Bradstreet
Bereavement By William Lisle Bowles
Black Boys Play the Classics By Toi Derricotte
Blackberrying By Sylvia Plath
Blind Curse By Simon J. Ortiz
"Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" By William Shakespeare
Booker T. and W.E.B. By Dudley Randall
Boy and Egg By Naomi Shihab Nye
Break, Break, Break By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Break of Day By John Donne
Break of Day in the Trenches By Isaac Rosenberg
Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art By John Keats
Broken Promises By David Kirby
Buick By Karl Shapiro

Cabezón By Amy Beeder
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day By Delmore Schwartz
Camouflaging the Chimera By Yusef Komunyakaa
Candles By Carl Dennis
Carmel Highlands By Janet Loxley Lewis
Carmel Point By Robinson Jeffers
Cartoon Physics, part 1 By Nick Flynn
Catch a Little Rhyme By Eve Merriam
Celebration for June 24 By Thomas McGrath
Channel Firing By Thomas Hardy
Chicago By Carl Sandburg
Chicago and December By W. S. Di Piero
Childhood By Margaret Walker
Childhood’s Retreat By Robert Duncan
Chord By Stuart Dybek
Chorus Sacerdotum By Fulke Greville
Clothespins By Stuart Dybek
Coda By Basil Bunting
Cold Blooded Creatures By Elinor Wylie
Come into Animal Presence By Denise Levertov
Concord Hymn By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confessions By Robert Browning
Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15) By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Contraction By Ravi Shankar
Cool Tombs By Carl Sandburg
Courtesy By David Ferry
Crepuscule with Muriel By Marilyn Hacker
Crossing the Bar By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Dancers Exercising By Amy Clampitt
Danse Russe By William Carlos Williams
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree By P. K. Page
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg By Richard Hugo
Deliberate By Amy Uyematsu
Difference By Stephen Vincent Benét
Dirge Without Music By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Discrimination By Kenneth Rexroth
Do Not! By Stevie Smith
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas
Dog By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Domestic Violence By Eavan Boland
Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
Dreamers By Siegfried Sassoon
Dressing My Daughters By Mark Jarman
Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River By Robert Bly
Drowning in Wheat By John Kinsella

Eagle Plain By Robert Francis
Eagle Poem By Joy Harjo
Early Affection By George Moses Horton
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest By B. H. Fairchild
Eating Poetry By Mark Strand
Eating Together By Li-Young Lee
Echo By Daryl Hine
Elegy on Toy Piano By Dean Young
Emplumada By Lorna Dee Cervantes
England in 1819 By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Envoi By Ezra Pound
Epilogue By Robert Lowell
Epilogue By Robert Browning
Epistle to Mrs. Tyler By Christopher Smart
Epitaph By Katherine Philips
Equus Caballus  By Joel Nelson
Eros Turannos By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Ex Machina By Linda Gregerson
Experience By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fairy-tale Logic By A.E. Stallings
Faith By David Baker
Falling: The Code By Li-Young Lee
Famous By Naomi Shihab Nye
Father By Edgar Albert Guest
Father Son and Holy Ghost By Audre Lorde
Fermanagh Cave By Sherod Santos
Fern Hill By Dylan Thomas
Fever By Hailey Leithauser
Filling Station By Elizabeth Bishop
“Find Work” By Rhina P. Espaillat
Fire and Ice By Robert Frost
First Job By Joseph Campana
First Poem for You By Kim Addonizio
Fishing By A.E. Stallings
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July By Billy Collins
Flaxman By Margaret Fuller
Flies Buzzing By Mark Turcotte
Flirtation By Rita Dove
Floating Island By Dorothy Wordsworth
Flood: Years of Solitude By Dionisio D. Martinez
Flounder By Natasha Trethewey
Follow Thy Fair Sun By Thomas Campion
Football By Louis Jenkins
For Allen Ginsberg By X J Kennedy
For Love By Robert Creeley
For My Contemporaries By J. V. Cunningham
For My Daughter By Weldon Kees
For the young who want to By Marge Piercy
Fortuna By Thomas Carlyle
Four Portraits of Fire By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Full Moon By Elinor Wylie

Garden By H. D.
Ghazal By Agha Shahid Ali
Gitanjali 35 By Rabindranath Tagore
Give All to Love By Ralph Waldo Emerson
God's Grandeur By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Golden Retrievals By Mark Doty
Good People By W. S. Merwin
Grandfather By Michael S. Harper
Gravelly Run By A. R. Ammons
Grief By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hap By Thomas Hardy
Happiness By Jane Kenyon
Harp Song of the Dane Women By Rudyard Kipling
Hartley Field By Connie Wanek
[He Lived-Childhood Summers] By Lorine Niedecker
Hearing your words, and not a word among them By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Helen By H. D.
Her Head By Joan Murray
Her Kind By Anne Sexton
Here By Joshua Mehigan
Here Is an Ear Hear By Victor Hernández Cruz
Here Where Coltrane Is By Michael S. Harper
Hero By Paul Engle
History Lesson By Natasha Trethewey
Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God By John Donne
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud By John Donne
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - By Emily Dickinson
How many times these low feet staggered By Emily Dickinson
How We Made a New Art on Old Ground By Eavan Boland
Hush By David St. John
Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness By John Donne
Hysteria By Dionisio D. Martinez

I Am Learning To Abandon the World By Linda Pastan
I Am Offering this Poem By Jimmy Santiago Baca
I Am the People, the Mob By Carl Sandburg
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] By E. E. Cummings
I Close My Eyes By David Ignatow
I Dreamed That I Was Old By Stanley Kunitz
I felt a Funeral in my Brain By Emily Dickinson
I Genitori Perduti By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I Hear America Singing By Walt Whitman
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591) By Emily Dickinson
I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You By Hayden Carruth
I think I should have loved you presently By Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, Too By Langston Hughes
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth
I'm a Fool to Love You By Cornelius Eady
Ice By Gail Mazur
Ice Bound By Walter Bargen
Ice Child By John Haines
Idea LXI By Michael Drayton
[if mama / could see] By Lucille Clifton
Ikebana By Cathy Song
Immigrant Picnic By Gregory Djanikian
Immortal Autumn By Archibald MacLeish
Immortal Sails By Alfred Noyes
In By Andrew Hudgins
In a London Drawingroom By George Eliot
In California: Morning, Evening, Late January By Denise Levertov
[in Just-] By E. E. Cummings
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. By June Jordan
In My Craft or Sullen Art By Dylan Thomas
In Praise of My Bed By Meredith Holmes
In Praise of Pain By Heather McHugh
In School-days By John Greenleaf Whittier
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store By Ted Kooser
In the Desert By Stephen Crane
In the Past By Trumbull Stickney
Incident By Countee Cullen
Infelix By Adah Isaacs Menken
Inside Out By Diane Wakoski
Insomnia By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Insomnia By Dana Gioia
Insomnia and the Seven Steps to Grace By Joy Harjo
Introduction to the Songs of Innocence By William Blake
Invictus By William Ernest Henley
Invitation to Love By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Is My Team Ploughing By A. E. Housman
Isla By Virgil Suárez
Israfel By Edgar Allan Poe
It Couldn’t Be Done By Edgar Albert Guest
It Isn’t Me By James Lasdun
It sifts from Leaden Sieves By Emily Dickinson
It was not death, for I stood up By Emily Dickinson
It would be neat if with the New Year By Jimmy Santiago Baca
It's the Little Towns I Like By Thomas Lux

Janet Waking By John Crowe Ransom
January, 1795 By Mary Robinson
John Lennon By Mary Jo Salter
['Joy of my life, full oft for loving you'] By Edmund Spenser

Keeping Things Whole By Mark Strand
Kindness By Yusef Komunyakaa
kitchenette building By Gwendolyn Brooks
Knucks By Carl Sandburg
Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad By John Keats
La Figlia che Piange By T. S. Eliot
Land By Agha Shahid Ali
Larkinesque By Michael Ryan
Late Echo By John Ashbery
Layabout By John Brehm
Learning to Love America By Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Learning to swim By Bob Hicok
Leda By H. D.
Leda and the Swan By William Butler Yeats
Let Evening Come By Jane Kenyon
Let It Be Forgotten By Sara Teasdale
Let the Light Enter By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Life By Edith Wharton
Life in a Love By Robert Browning
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing By James Weldon Johnson
Light Shining out of Darkness By William Cowper
Like Rousseau By Amiri Baraka
Lincoln By Vachel Lindsay
Lions By Sandra McPherson
Lissadell By Wendy Cope
Listening By Jean Valentine
London By William Blake
Looking into History By Richard Wilbur
Love (III) By George Herbert
Love Armed By Aphra Behn
Love Lives beyond the Tomb By John Clare
"Love of My Flesh, Living Death" By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lovers' Infiniteness By John Donne
Lucinda Matlock By Edgar Lee Masters
Luke Havergal By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Luna Moth By Carl Phillips
Lunar Baedeker By Mina Loy

Meditation at Lagunitas By Robert Hass
Medusa By Louise Bogan
Memory As a Hearing Aid By Tony Hoagland
Mending Wall By Robert Frost
Mezzo Cammin By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mingus at the Showplace By William Matthews
Miniver Cheevy By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mirror By James Merrill
Mortal Sorrows By Rodney Jones
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday By Robert Hayden
Movement Song By Audre Lorde
Mrs. Adam By Kathleen Norris
Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things By Gregory Djanikian
Mrs. Kessler By Edgar Lee Masters
Much Madness is divinest Sense - By Emily Dickinson
mulberry fields By Lucille Clifton
My Brother, the Artist, at Seven By Philip Levine
My Father in the Night Commanding No By Louis Simpson
My Grandmother’s Love Letters By Hart Crane

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier By Rupert Brooke
No Coward Soul Is Mine By Emily Jane Brontë
No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night By Etheridge Knight
Nocturne By Li-Young Lee
Not Guilty By David Rivard
Not Here By Jane Kenyon
Not Waving but Drowning By Stevie Smith
November Cotton Flower By Jean Toomer
Nude Descending a Staircase By X J Kennedy
Numbers By Mary Cornish
Nurture By Maxine W. Kumin

O Carib Isle! By Hart Crane
Ode for the American Dead in Asia By Thomas McGrath
Ode on Solitude By Alexander Pope
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow By Robert Duncan
['Often rebuked, yet always back returning'] By Emily Jane Brontë
“oh antic God” By Lucille Clifton
Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes By Charlotte Smith
Old Ironsides By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old Men Playing Basketball By B. H. Fairchild
On a Drop of Dew By Andrew Marvell
On An Unsociable Family By Elizabeth Hands
On Inhabiting an Orange By Josephine Miles
On Monsieur’s Departure By Queen Elizabeth I
On Pickiness By Rodney Jones
On Quitting By Edgar Albert Guest
On Shakespeare. 1630 By John Milton
On the Death of Richard West By Thomas Gray
On the Existence of the Soul By Pattiann Rogers
On the Lawn at the Villa By Louis Simpson
On Virtue By Phillis Wheatley
One Art By Elizabeth Bishop
Onions By William Matthews
Over and Under By John Brehm
Over the Roofs By Sara Teasdale
Ox Cart Man By Donald Hall
Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Part for the Whole By Robert Francis
Passing By Toi Derricotte
Past-Lives Therapy By Charles Simic
Peach By Jennifer Tonge
Piano By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Piute Creek By Gary Snyder
Planetarium By Adrienne Rich
Pleasures By Denise Levertov
Poem about People By Robert Pinsky
Poem for My Twentieth Birthday By Kenneth Koch
Poem with One Fact By Donald Hall
Poor Angels By Edward Hirsch
Possible Answers to Prayer By Scott Cairns
Prayer By Jorie Graham
Prayer for My Father By Robert Bly
Prayer Rug By Agha Shahid Ali
Preludes By T. S. Eliot
Pride By Yusef Komunyakaa
Prison Song By Alan Dugan
Prisoners By Denise Levertov

Queen-Anne’s Lace By William Carlos Williams
Queens Cemetery, Setting Sun By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Recuerdo By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Reflections on History in Missouri By Constance Urdang
Remarks on Poetry and the Physical World By Mary Barnard
Requests for Toy Piano By Tony Hoagland
Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Revenge By Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Reverie in Open Air By Rita Dove
Richard Cory By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Riprap By Gary Snyder
Rock and Hawk By Robinson Jeffers
Romance By Claude McKay
Rondeau By Leigh Hunt
Russell Market By Maurya Simon

Sad Boy's Sad Boy By Charles Bernstein
Sadie and Maud By Gwendolyn Brooks
Safe in their alabaster chambers By Emily Dickinson
Saguaro By Brenda Hillman
Saint Francis and the Sow By Galway Kinnell
Sanctuary By Jean Valentine
Saturday’s Child By Countee Cullen
Say not the Struggle nought Availeth By Arthur Hugh Clough
Scary Movies By Kim Addonizio
Self-Employed By David Ignatow
Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview By Gary Soto
Self-Portrait By Chase Twichell
Self-Portrait By Robert Creeley
Semblance: Screens By Liz Waldner
Shall earth no more inspire thee By Emily Jane Brontë
Shawl By Albert Goldbarth
She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Sheet Music By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862) By Herman Melville
Shine, Perishing Republic By Robinson Jeffers
Sign By George Starbuck
Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt By David Bottoms
Silence By Thomas Hood
Since There Is No Escape By Sara Teasdale
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight By Yvor Winters
Skunk Hour By Robert Lowell
Slant By Suji Kwock Kim
Snow Day By Billy Collins
Snowflake By William Baer
Snowy Owl Near Ocean Shores By Duane Niatum
So This Is Nebraska By Ted Kooser
So We'll Go no More a Roving By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Solitude By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Somewhere to Paris By Richard Blanco
Song By Edmund Waller
Song After Campion By Robert Fitzgerald
Song for the Last Act By Louise Bogan
Song of the Powers By David Mason
Song to Celia By Ben Jonson
Song: Go and catch a falling star By John Donne
Song: To Celia By Ben Jonson
Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds By William Shakespeare
Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? By William Shakespeare
Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint By John Milton
Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes By William Shakespeare
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I Love thee? Let me Count the Ways By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Spring By William Shakespeare
Spring By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Stanzas in Meditation: Stanza LXXXIII By Gertrude Stein
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost
Strange Meeting By Wilfred Owen
Sugar Dada By J. Allyn Rosser
Summer at North Farm By Stephen Kuusisto
Surfaces By Kay Ryan
Susie Asado By Gertrude Stein
Sweetness By Stephen Dunn
Syrinx By Amy Clampitt

Teaching English from an Old Composition Book By Gary Soto
Testimonial By Rita Dove
The Affliction of Richard By Robert Bridges
The Albatross By Kate Bass
The Alphabet By Karl Shapiro
The American Soldier By Philip Freneau
The Animals By Josephine Jacobsen
The animals in that country By Margaret Atwood
The Arrow and the Song By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Author to Her Book By Anne Bradstreet
The Bearer By Hayden Carruth
The Birth of John Henry By Melvin B. Tolson
The Blackstone Rangers By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bloody Sire By Robinson Jeffers
The Bones of My Father By Etheridge Knight
The Campus on the Hill By W. D. Snodgrass
The Canonization By John Donne
The Charge of the Light Brigade By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Children of the Poor By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Children's Hour By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow By William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young By William Blake
The Cities Inside Us By Alberto Ríos
The City of Sleep By Rudyard Kipling
The Clouded Morning By Jones Very
The Coming of the Plague By Weldon Kees
The Convergence of the Twain By Thomas Hardy
The Cross of Snow By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Daring One By Edwin Markham
The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy
The Days Gone By By James Whitcomb Riley
The Death of Allegory By Billy Collins
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee By N. Scott Momaday
The Destruction of Sennacherib By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
The Donkey By G. K. Chesterton
The Emperor of Ice-Cream By Wallace Stevens
The Empty Dance Shoes By Cornelius Eady
The Enigma By Anne Stevenson
The Fair Singer By Andrew Marvell
The Faithful By Jane Cooper
The Film By Kate Northrop
The Gift By Li-Young Lee
The Goddess Who Created This Passing World By Alice Notley
The Good-Morrow By John Donne
The Great Blue Heron By Carolyn Kizer
The Greatest Grandeur By Pattiann Rogers
The Healing Improvisation of Hair By Jay Wright
The Heaven of Animals By James L. Dickey
The Hill By Joshua Mehigan
The Hospital Window By James L. Dickey
The Idler By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
The Illiterate By William Meredith
The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats
The Lamb By Linda Gregg
The Larger By Joanie Mackowski
The Last Laugh By Wilfred Owen
The Legend By Garrett Hongo
The Light the Dead See By Frank Stanford
The Listeners By Walter De La Mare
The Lost Land By Eavan Boland
The Luggage By Constance Urdang
The Maid’s Lament By Walter Savage Landor
The Maldive Shark By Herman Melville
The Man He Killed By Thomas Hardy
The Man with Night Sweats By Thom Gunn
The Man with the Hoe By Edwin Markham
The Meaning of the Shovel By Martín Espada
The Metal and the Flower By P. K. Page
The Minks By Toi Derricotte
The Negro Speaks of Rivers By Langston Hughes
The Net By Babette Deutsch
The New Colossus By Emma Lazarus
The New Decalogue By Ambrose Bierce
The New World By Amiri Baraka
The Night of the Shirts By W. S. Merwin
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd By Sir Walter Ralegh
The Obligation to Be Happy By Linda Pastan
The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. By Larry Levis
The Origin of Order By Pattiann Rogers
The Other Side of This World By Calvin Forbes
The Painter By John Ashbery
The Paradox By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love By Christopher Marlowe
The People, Yes By Carl Sandburg
The Pilgrim By John Bunyan
The Poet By Yone Noguchi
The Poet at Seventeen By Larry Levis
The Poet Orders His Tomb By Edgar Bowers
The Powwow at the End of the World By Sherman Alexie
The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Properly Scholarly Attitude By Adelaide Crapsey
The Pulley By George Herbert
The Redeemer By Siegfried Sassoon
The River Now By Richard Hugo
The River of Bees By W. S. Merwin
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter By Ezra Pound
The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost
The Rose By Jean Valentine
The Second Coming By William Butler Yeats
The Secret Garden By Rita Dove
The Snow Is Deep on the Ground By Kenneth Patchen
The Snow Man By Wallace Stevens
The Snow-Storm By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Song of the Smoke By W. E. B. Du Bois
The Speakers By Weldon Kees
The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument By Anne Stevenson
The Star By Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor
The Statesmen By Ambrose Bierce
The Strength of Fields By James L. Dickey
The Sun Rising By John Donne
The Sweater of Vladimir Ussachevsky By John Haines
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing By Thomas Moore
The Treasure By Robinson Jeffers
The Tree By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The True-Blue American By Delmore Schwartz
The Tyger By William Blake
The Uniform By Marvin Bell
The Vacuum By Howard Nemerov
The War Horse By Eavan Boland
The War in the Air By Howard Nemerov
The Well Rising By William E. Stafford
The White City By Claude McKay
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime By William Carlos Williams
The Windhover By Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Wooden Toy By Charles Simic
The World By Robert Creeley
The World Is Too Much With Us By William Wordsworth
Their Bodies By David Wagoner
There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House By Emily Dickinson
These Poems, She Said By Robert Bringhurst
They are hostile nations By Margaret Atwood
They Feed They Lion By Philip Levine
They Flee From Me By Thomas Wyatt
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird By Wallace Stevens
Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden
Thou Art My Lute By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Thoughtless Cruelty By Charles Lamb
Thoughts in a Zoo By Countee Cullen
Through a Glass Eye, Lightly By Carolyn Kizer
Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time of the Missile By George Oppen
To - By Sarah Helen Whitman
To a Mouse By Robert Burns
To Althea, from Prison By Richard Lovelace
To an Athlete Dying Young By A. E. Housman
To Autumn By John Keats
To David, About His Education By Howard Nemerov
To Elsie By William Carlos Williams
To Fashion By Elizabeth Moody
To Helen By Edgar Allan Poe
To Live with a Landscape By Constance Urdang
To Luck By W. S. Merwin
To My Dear and Loving Husband By Anne Bradstreet
To the Desert By Benjamin Alire Sáenz
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham By John Dryden
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time By Robert Herrick
To the Western World By Louis Simpson
Tomorrow By Dennis O'Driscoll
Torque By David Rivard
Translations from the English By George Starbuck
Traveling through the Dark By William E. Stafford
Trees By Joyce Kilmer
Truth Serum By Naomi Shihab Nye
Two Guitars By Victor Hernández Cruz

Ultima Thule By Linda Bierds
Under the Vulture-Tree By David Bottoms
Unholy Sonnet 1 By Mark Jarman
Up-Hill By Christina Rossetti

Valentine By Elinor Wylie
Valentine By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Video Blues By Mary Jo Salter
Vixen By W. S. Merwin

Waking from Sleep By Robert Bly
War Widow By Chris Abani
Ways of Talking By Ha Jin
Weighing In By Rhina P. Espaillat
[What horror to awake at night] By Lorine Niedecker
What Kind of Times Are These By Adrienne Rich
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why By Edna St. Vincent Millay
What Work Is By Philip Levine
When All My Five and Country Senses See By Dylan Thomas
When I Consider How my Light is Spent By John Milton
When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be By John Keats
When You Are Old By William Butler Yeats
Who Understands Me but Me By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Windows By Linda Bierds
Without Regret By Eleanor Wilner
Women By Louise Bogan
Words By Barbara Guest
Writing By Howard Nemerov

Yet Do I Marvel By Countee Cullen
You, Andrew Marvell By Archibald MacLeish
You charm'd me not with that fair face By John Dryden

Zoom! By Simon Armitage