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 Fixed Idea By Amy Lowell
A Hundred Bolts of Satin By Kay Ryan
A Locked House By W. D. Snodgrass
A narrow Fellow in the Grass By Emily Dickinson
A Psalm of Life By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Red, Red Rose By Robert Burns
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General By Jonathan Swift
A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now By A. E. Housman
A Song for Soweto By June Jordan
A Supermarket in California By Allen Ginsberg
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning By John Donne
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight By Vachel Lindsay
Actaeon By A.E. Stallings
Adding It Up By Philip Booth
After Apple Picking By Robert Frost
After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa By Robert Hass
Agoraphobia By Linda Pastan
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 By Martín Espada
All This and More By Mary Karr
Altruism By Molly Peacock
America By Claude McKay
America Remembers By Paul Engle
American Solitude By Grace Schulman
An Introduction to My Anthology By Marvin Bell
Analysis of Baseball By May Swenson
Ancapagari By Carolyn Forché
And Soul By Eavan Boland
Annabel Lee By Edgar Allan Poe
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
At Cross Purposes By Samuel Menashe
At Melville’s Tomb By Hart Crane
At the Vietnam Memorial By George Bilgere
Authority By W. S. Merwin

Backdrop addresses cowboy By Margaret Atwood
Ballad of Birmingham By Dudley Randall
Banneker By Rita Dove
Barbara Frietchie By John Greenleaf Whittier
Barter By Sara Teasdale
Battle Hymn of the Republic By Julia Ward Howe
Battlefield By Mark Turcotte
Beat! Beat! Drums! By Walt Whitman
Beautiful Black Men By Nikki Giovanni
Beauty By Tony Hoagland
Bent to the Earth By Blas Manuel De Luna
Bilingual/Bilingüe By Rhina P. Espaillat
Birches By Robert Frost
Black Boys Play the Classics By Toi Derricotte
Blind Curse By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Booker T. and W.E.B. By Dudley Randall
Boy and Egg By Naomi Shihab Nye
Break of Day in the Trenches By Isaac Rosenberg
Break, Break, Break By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Broken Promises By David Kirby
Buckroe, After the Season, 1942 By Virginia Hamilton Adair
Buick By Karl Shapiro
Buried at Springs By James Schuyler

Cabezón By Amy Beeder
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day By Delmore Schwartz
Carmel Point By Robinson Jeffers
Casey at the Bat By Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Catch a Little Rhyme By Eve Merriam
Celebration for June 24 By Thomas McGrath
Channel Firing By Thomas Hardy
Chicago By Carl Sandburg
Childhood’s Retreat By Robert Duncan
Chord By Stuart Dybek
Chorus Sacerdotum By Baron Brooke Fulke Greville
Coda By Basil Bunting
Cold Blooded Creatures By Elinor Wylie
Concord Hymn By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation By Ai
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 F. Hugo
Deliberate By Amy Uyematsu
Detroit, Tomorrow By Philip Levine
Dialog Outside the Lakeside Grocery By Ishmael Reed
Difference By Stephen Vincent Benét
Discrimination By Kenneth Rexroth
Do Not! By Stevie Smith
Domestic Violence By Eavan Boland
Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
Dream Song 14 By John Berryman
Dreamers By Siegfried Sassoon
Dressing My Daughters By Mark Jarman
Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River By Robert Bly
Dulce et Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen
Dunk! By Gregory K. Pincus

Eagle Poem By Joy Harjo
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest By B. H. Fairchild
Eating Together By Li-Young Lee
Echo By Daryl Hine
Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room By Victoria Chang
Elegy on Toy Piano By Dean Young
England in 1819 By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Envoi By Ezra Pound
Epilogue By Robert Lowell
Epitaph By Katherine Philips
Eros Turannos By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Ex Machina By Linda Gregerson
Experience By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fable for Blackboard By George Starbuck
Facing It By Yusef Komunyakaa
Faith By David Baker
Fallout By David Bottoms
Famous By Naomi Shihab Nye
Father By Edgar Albert Guest
Father Son and Holy Ghost By Audre Lorde
Father’s Old Blue Cardigan By Anne Carson
Fermanagh Cave By Sherod Santos
Fever 103° By Sylvia Plath
Fib Time By Gregory K. Pincus
Fib to a Knit Dweeb By Mary Roberts
Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch By Alice Fulton
Fire and Ice By Robert Frost
First Job By Joseph Campana
First Poem for You By Kim Addonizio
Flaxman By Margaret Fuller
Flirtation By Rita Dove
Flood: Years of Solitude By Dionisio D. Martinez
Follow Thy Fair Sun By Thomas Campion
For “Fiddle-de-de” By John Hollander
For 1939 By Paul Engle
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
Forgetfulness By Billy Collins
Fortuna By Thomas Carlyle
Four Fibs By A.E. Stallings
Frederick Douglass By Robert E. Hayden

Garden By H. D.
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven By Vachel Lindsay
Ghazal By Agha Shahid Ali
Gitanjali 35 By Rabindranath Tagore
God's Grandeur By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Golden Retrievals By Mark Doty
Grandfather By Michael S. Harper
Gravelly Run By A. R. Ammons

Hap By Thomas Hardy
Happiness By Jane Kenyon
Harlem By Langston Hughes
Hartley Field By Connie Wanek
Hearing your words, and not a word among them By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Heaven By Cathy Song
Helen By H. D.
Here Where Coltrane Is By Michael S. Harper
Here
Is an Ear
Hear By Victor Hernández Cruz
Heritage By Paul Engle
Hero By Paul Engle
His take on Fibs in Fib format By Alan Reynolds
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud By John Donne
How I Discovered Poetry By Marilyn Nelson
How We Made a New Art on Old Ground By Eavan Boland
Hush By David St. John

I Am Learning To Abandon the World By Linda Pastan
I Am Waiting By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I Am! By John Clare
I Close My Eyes By David Ignatow
I Dreamed That I Was Old By Stanley J. Kunitz
I Genitori Perduti By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I Go Back to May 1937 By Sharon Olds
I Grant You Ample Leave By George Eliot
I Hear America Singing By Walt Whitman
I Knew a Woman By Theodore Roethke
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 Wandered Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth
I, Too By Langston Hughes
Ice Child By John Haines
If— By Rudyard Kipling
Ikebana By Cathy Song
Immigrant Picnic By Gregory Djanikian
In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo By Paul Engle
In a Dark Time By Theodore Roethke
In California: Morning, Evening, Late January By Denise Levertov
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. By June Jordan
In Praise of Pain By Heather McHugh
In the Basement of the Goodwill Store By Ted Kooser
In the Desert By Stephen Crane
Inside Out By Diane Wakoski
Insomnia By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Insomnia and the Seven Steps to Grace By Joy Harjo
Interior at Petworth: From Turner By Rosanna Warren
Introduction to the Songs of Innocence By William Blake
It Couldn’t Be Done By Edgar Albert Guest
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
July By Kazim Ali

Keeping Things Whole By Mark Strand
Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye By Gerald Stern
Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

La Belle Dame sans Merci By John Keats
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
Leda By H. D.
Let Evening Come By Jane Kenyon
Let It Be Forgotten By Sara Teasdale
Life By Edith Wharton
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing By James Weldon Johnson
Light Shining out of Darkness By William Cowper
Like Rousseau By Amiri Baraka
Lions By Sandra McPherson
Lissadell By Wendy Cope
Litany By Billy Collins
Little Father By Li-Young Lee
London By William Blake
Looking into History By Richard Wilbur
Love (III) By George Herbert
Love Armed By Aphra Behn
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

Ma Rainey By Sterling A. Brown
Meditation at Lagunitas By Robert Hass
Medusa By Louise Bogan
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
Mother to Son By Langston Hughes
Movement Song By Audre Lorde
Mr. Edwards and the Spider By Robert Lowell
Mrs. Adam By Kathleen Norris
Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things By Gregory Djanikian
Mrs. Kessler By Edgar Lee Masters
Mrs. Krikorian By Sharon Olds
Musical Moment By Virginia Hamilton Adair
My Father in the Night Commanding No By Louis Simpson
My Grandmother’s Love Letters By Hart Crane
My Last Duchess By Robert Browning
My Papa’s Waltz By Theodore Roethke
My Sad Captains By Thom Gunn

Next Day By Randall Jarrell
Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier By Rupert Brooke
No Coward Soul Is Mine By Emily Jane Brontë
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
Nurture By Maxine W. Kumin

O Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman
O Carib Isle! By Hart Crane
Ode on Solitude By Alexander Pope
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes By Thomas Gray
Of Memory and Distance By Russell Edson
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 Hurricane Jackson By Alan Dugan
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 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
One Perfect Rose By Dorothy Parker
Onions By William Matthews
Ovation By Carol Muske-Dukes
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
Pied Beauty By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Piute Creek By Gary Snyder
Planetarium By Adrienne Rich
Playing Dead By Andrew Hudgins
Pleasures By Denise Levertov
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
Proem to American Song By Paul Engle
Progressive Health By Carl Dennis

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
Report to Crazy Horse By William E. Stafford
Return in Autumn By Paul Engle
Revenge By Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Reverie in Open Air By Rita Dove
Rhapsody By Frank O’Hara
Richard Cory By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Riprap By Gary Snyder
Rock and Hawk By Robinson Jeffers
Romance By Claude McKay
Rondeau By Leigh Hunt
Rough Music By Deborah Digges
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
Salomé By Ai
Saturday’s Child By Countee Cullen
Scary Movies By Kim Addonizio
Self-Employed By David Ignatow
Self-Portrait By Robert Creeley
Sentimental By Albert Goldbarth
Shall earth no more inspire thee By Emily Jane Brontë
She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron
Sheet Music By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Shine, Perishing Republic By Robinson Jeffers
Shirt By Robert Pinsky
Sign By George Starbuck
Since There Is No Escape By Sara Teasdale
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight By Yvor Winters
Siren Song By Margaret Atwood
Skunk Hour By Robert Lowell
Slant By Suji Kwock Kim
Snow Day By Billy Collins
So This Is Nebraska By Ted Kooser
So We'll Go no More a Roving By Lord Byron
Solitude By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Somehow They Got Three Stories Up By W. S. Di Piero
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
Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds By William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXXX: My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun By William Shakespeare
Sonnet from the Portuguese 44: How do I Love thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments 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
Spring Letter By Carl Dennis
Still I Rise By Maya Angelou
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost
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
Switchblade By Michael Ryan
Sympathy By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Syrinx By Amy Clampitt

Terminator Too By Tom Clark
That Country By Grace Paley
The Affliction of Richard By Robert Bridges
The Alphabet By Karl Shapiro
The Animals By Josephine Jacobsen
The Arrow and the Song By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Bad Old Days By Kenneth Rexroth
The Bearer By Hayden Carruth
The Bells of San Blas By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Birth of John Henry By Melvin B. Tolson
The Blackstone Rangers By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bloody Sire By Robinson Jeffers
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's Hour By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young By William Blake
The Cremation of Sam McGee By Robert W. Service
The Cross of Snow By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Daring One By Edwin Markham
The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee By N. Scott Momaday
The Destruction of Sennacherib By Lord Byron
The Donkey By G. K. Chesterton
The Emperor of Ice-Cream By Wallace Stevens
The Empty Dance Shoes By Cornelius Eady
The Evening of the Mind By Donald Justice
The Fire Fetched Down By George Bradley
The Flea By John Donne
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment By Richard Eberhart
The Gift By Li-Young Lee
The Glove and the Lions By Leigh Hunt
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 Groundhog By Richard Eberhart
The Healing Improvisation of Hair By Jay Wright
The Heaven of Animals By James L. Dickey
The Hermit Crab By Mary Oliver
The Hospital Window By James L. Dickey
The Illiterate By William Meredith
The Kiss By W. S. Di Piero
The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats
The Lamb By Linda Gregg
The Lifeguard By James L. Dickey
The Listeners By Walter De La Mare
The Lost Land By Eavan Boland
The Luggage By Constance Urdang
The Maldive Shark By Herman Melville
The Man with the Hoe By Edwin Markham
The Man-Moth By Elizabeth Bishop
The Meaning of the Shovel By Martín Espada
The Minks By Toi Derricotte
The Negro Speaks of Rivers By Langston Hughes
The New Colossus By Emma Lazarus
The New Decalogue By Ambrose Bierce
The Night of the Shirts By W. S. Merwin
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd By Sir Walter Ralegh
The Old Swimmin' Hole By James Whitcomb Riley
The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. By Larry Levis
The Orange By Wendy Cope
The Origin of Order By Pattiann Rogers
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat By Edward Lear
The Painter By John Ashbery
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love By Christopher Marlowe
The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry
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 Pomegranate and the Big Crowd By Alberto Ríos
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 F. 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 Second Coming By William Butler Yeats
The Secret Garden By Rita Dove
The Secret of the Machines By Rudyard Kipling
The Slave Auction By Frances Harper
The Snow Is Deep on the Ground By Kenneth Patchen
The Song of the Smoke By W. E. B. Du Bois
The Speakers By Weldon Kees
The Spider By Richard Eberhart
The Star By Ann Taylor
The Statesmen By Ambrose Bierce
The Strength of Fields By James L. Dickey
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Treasure By Robinson Jeffers
The Tree By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The Truth about Small Towns By David Baker
The Tyger By William Blake
The Uniform By Marvin Bell
The Vacuum By Howard Nemerov
The Waking By Theodore Roethke
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
Theme for English B By Langston Hughes
They are hostile nations By Margaret Atwood
They Flee From Me By Sir Thomas Wyatt
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird By Wallace Stevens
Those Winter Sundays By Robert E. Hayden
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 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 — By Sarah Helen Whitman
To Elsie By William Carlos Williams
To Helen By Edgar Allan Poe
To His Coy Mistress By Andrew Marvell
To Live with a Landscape By Constance Urdang
To my Dear and Loving Husband By Anne Bradstreet
To My Mother By Wendell Berry
To Spareness By Jane Hirshfield
To the Desert By Benjamin Alire Sáenz
To the Ladies By Lady Mary Chudleigh
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
Torque By David Rivard
Touch Me By Stanley J. Kunitz
Tourist By Paul Engle
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
Twenty Below By Paul Engle

Ultima Thule By Linda Bierds
Under the Vulture-Tree By David Bottoms
Unholy Sonnet 1 By Mark Jarman
Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward By Anne Sexton
Up-Hill By Christina Rossetti

Valentine By Elinor Wylie
Valentine By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Vita Nova By Louise Glück

Waking from Sleep By Robert Bly
Walking Down Park By Nikki Giovanni
Waving Goodbye By Gerald Stern
Ways of Talking By Ha Jin
We Wear the Mask By Paul Laurence Dunbar
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why By Edna St. Vincent Millay
When All My Five and Country Senses See By Dylan Thomas
When I Am Asked By Lisel Mueller
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 I Was Fair and Young By Queen Elizabeth I
When You Are Old By William Butler Yeats
Why I Am Not a Painter By Frank O’Hara
Windigo By Louise Erdrich
Windows By Linda Bierds
Winter By Marie Ponsot
Without Regret By Eleanor Wilner
Women By Louise Bogan
Words By Barbara Guest
Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem By Gregory Corso
Writing By Howard Nemerov

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