Poems

A Country Life By Randall Jarrell

A Letter From Mother To Child By Elizabeth M. PIllari

A Memory By William Stanley Braithwait

The Brass Bed By Ameen Rihani

The Greenish Bluish Tones Of Cerulean By Anonymous

Hymn To Life By Nazim Hikmet

Looking For God By John Marrison

Communication By Mark Van Doren

Written On The Due Date Of A Son Never Born By David Wojahn

The Harlem Dancer By Claude McKay

Palea By Tory Dent

Washington Square—New York, 1941 By Molly Fisk

Cramp By Anonymous

Venice By Herman Melville

The Last Call By Michael Ashby

After The Thunderstorm By James Thomson

He Giveth His Beloved Sleep By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Something Whispered In The Shakuhachi By Garrett Hongo

Illusion Of Time By Ndue Ukaj

Blue Monday By Diane Wakoski

Sunny Soul By M. A. Kidder

Crocodile Tears By Kay Ryan

The Knight’s Epitaph By William Cullen Bryant

Curtains By Stuart Dybek

Ecce Puer By James Joyce

The Bistro Styx By Rita Dove

Arthritis Is One Thing, The Hurting Another By Camille T. Dungy

Driving Through West Texas Poem By Larry D. Thomas

The Carpenter’s Son By Sara Teasdale

Out Of Hiding By Li-Young Lee

Her Kind By Anne Sexton

Things That Happened During Petsitting That I Remind Myself Are Not Metaphors For My Heart By Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

Gentleman Alone By Pablo Neruda

The Voice By Thomas Hardy

Sonnet—To Science By Edgar Allen Poe

Winged Mystery By Anonymous

Diving Into The Wreck By Adrienne Rich

Gratitude By Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Monday By Alex Dimitrov

Killing Chickens By Bruce Weigl

Water By Philip Larkin

Body Song By Gregory Richard Barden

A Kiss On The Cheek By Tara Nolan

A River from “The State Of The Planet” By Robert Hass

Undressing You By Witter Bynner

Courting Second Chances By Oganga Mangiti

Cheerfulness By Edwin Oscar Gale

Communication By Amy

Suck My Stomach In By Vangile Gantsho

Vanity And Pride By Mart Taylor

Resurrection By Sally Wen Mao

Femme Futures By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

The Arbor By Sappho

How I Changed My Name, Felice By Felix Stefanile

The Ruinous Heads By Rose Marie Juan Austin

Reincarnation By Karla Cordero

Los Angeles Poem By Randy Briggs

Father And Child By William Butler Yeats

I Love You By Roy Croft

Pity Ascending with the Fog By James Tate

Of Baboons And Lions By Anonymous

A Carol By Rudyard Kipling

Tattoo By Nick Flynn

A December Morning By James Power Irvine

The Message Of The Liberty Bell By Mrs. Elvira Robinson

The Old Love By Katharine Tynan

The Want Of You By Angelina Weld Grimké

Jail Poems By Bob Kaufman

Perspective By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Communication Poem By Aisha Sherazi

The Song Of Despair By Pablo Neruda

If It Should Be By Anonymous

Love Under The Skies By Delia Mears

On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Ancient Order Of Hibernians And The Agitation Against Immoral Literature By William Butler Yeats

Neighbours By Rudyard Kipling

The Seventh Inning By Donald Hall

Polarities By Kenneth Siessor

The Land Of Story-Books By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Lamplight Camp By Madison Cawein

Good Luck By Edgar Albert Guest

Subway Sandwich By Mrcheese

Ode To A Snail By S.Zaynab Kamoonpury

Coughs And Sneezes By John Carter Brown

Away, Sad Voices By Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

My Mother’s Nerves Are Shot By Omotara James

About God & Things By Wanda Coleman

Crossing New Mexico With Weldon Kees By Ray Gonzalez

The Wild Swan By Isaac McLellan

Prayer For A Bamboo-Flowering Famine By Karen An-Hwei Lee

Days By Janet Lewis

Pebbles By Frank Dempster Sherman

Fusion By Dan Franch

Worldly Woes By Ralph Taylor

This Land Sonnet By Lauren Norris

As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Vermont By Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

The Nigerian Dream By John Chizoba Vincent

Song Of The Bookmark By Ruby Archer

The Worm By Elizabeth Madox Roberts

The Rejection Slip By Rev. Dr. A. Jacob Hassler

Leaves By Lillie Belle Dimond

Pride And Humility By Sri Chinmoy

The House By Warsan Shire

The Earth Opens And Welcomes You By Abdellatif Laâbi

To A Lizard By W. S. Landor

Spoon Ode By Sharon Olds

The Bed Of The World By Erica Jong

He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead By William Butler Yeats

O Stony Grey Soil By Patrick Kavanagh

The Pink By Henry King

Ballade Of Indignation By Gail White

Greeting By Annette Wynne

Pens Make Word Pictures By Annette Wynne

The Woodman And Mercury By Jean De La Fontaine

Wild Bees By John Clare

Awaiting Your Smile By Tim Smith

Counting By Margarita Engle

The Storm Hath Passed By Margaret Miller Davidson

Change Assured By Anonymous

Stranded In South Dakota Poem By Dorsey Baker

A Frog He Would A-wooing Go By Popular Baby Song

Homecoming By W.S. Merwin

The Mill In The Forest By Douglas Malloch

Lamp Or Mirror By Tony Barnstone

Delight In Disorder By Robert Herrick

To A Cloud By William Cullen Bryant

Lavender Mist By Henry Crawford

Polturam The Globe Trotter: Antigua & Barbuda By Sriranji Aratisankar

Old Sis Snow By Madison Cawein

San Francisco By Edward Robeson Taylor

Delight It Is In Youth And May By A. E. Housman

Places By Sara Teasdale

Light By Which I Read By Eric Pankey

After Wings Poem By Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt

Huntington’s Disease By Amanda Kell

Candles On A Birthday Cake By Pamela Joyce Randolph

A Poem Of Love In Eleven Lines By Gerrit Lansing

Hello Beautiful By Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha

What Life Should Be By Pat A. Fleming

Mutability (The Flower That Smiles To-Day) By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Try Again By John Hartley

Are They Shadows By Samuel Daniel

Poetry Is A Sickness By Ed Bok Lee

Bahrain By Layla Maghribi

You Have To Be Careful By Naomi Shihab Nye

America The Beautiful Lyrics By Katharine Lee Bates

Guantanamo, Written By Oscar Cruz

October By Isaac McLellan

Puzzle Crunching By Clayton Grow

Woes And Joys By Laura Marchetti-Schein

Horoscope By Ralph Waldo Emerson

To A Daisy By John Hartley

Grateful To Janitors By Bob Robinson Sr

The White Hare By James G. Brooks

Knoxville, Tennessee Poem By Jennifer Huynh

A Man Young And Old:- The Secrets Of The Old By William Butler Yeats

Chaos By Amna Masroor

Music On Christmas Morning By Ann Brontë

Sad Steps By Philip Larkin

Grass Man Of Ohio Poem By Holly Somer

March By Mary B. C. Slade

Lead, Kindly Light By John Henry Newman

My Cloud By Kate Slaughter McKinney

Poison By William Aggeler

The Wind And The Moon By George Macdonald

Thanksgiving By Ed Blair

Practice Standing Unleashed And Clean By Patricia Smith

White Things By Anne Spencer

Talking To Someone Poem By Moth Harris

Greece By Dimítris Dimitriádis

Today By Daniel G. Hoffman

I Stopped By Susan Jarvis Bryant

Haiku By Adam Smith

The Grasshoper And The Ant By Hannah Flagg Gould

Ship Of Theseus By Rodney Gomez

Little Snowdrop By Anonymous

All In Favor By Ima Ryma

Begging Aid By David Rubadiri

Work Without Hope By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Planet Mercury By Martin Gedge

Remembrance By Sir Thomas Wyatt

Constancy By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

I Keep Six Honest By Rudyard Kipling

The Four Monarchyes, The Assyrian Being The First, Beginning Under Nimrod, 131. Years After The Flood By Anne Bradstreet

The Most Wonderful Blessing By Catherine Pulsifer

An Inconvenience By John B. Tabb

Nike By Bliss Carman

J Is For Jarasandha By Divya Victor

You’re Not Black By Amy Saunders

The James Bond Movie By May Swenson

You By Hayan Charara

The Parable Of The Butterfly And The Cockroach By Katrina Armour

Los Angeles Poem By Charlotte Ballard

Perseverance By Alice Cary

A Winter’s Tale By Sylvia Plath

Walls By Ernestine Northover

Song Of The Powers By David Mason

Some Days By Billy Collins

The Bee By Emily Dickinson

The Proposal By L.L. Barkat