Poems

In the Grove: The Poet at Ten, by Jane Kenyon
In the Kitchen, by Steve Kronen
In The Metropolitan Museum, by Sara Teasdale
In the Morning, by Steve Kowit
Instrument of Choice, by Robert Phillips
Intensities of Emphasis and Wonder, by Farrah Field
Invictus, by William Henley
Jam, by Karen Chase
Janet Waking, by John Crowe Ransom
Jenny Kissed Me, by Leigh Hunt
June: The Gianicolo, by Mary Jo Salter
Kissing, by Fleur Adcock
Lament, by Mary Jo Salter
Last Things, by C.K. Williams
Late Fragment, by Raymond Carver
Late Hours, by Lisel Mueller
Leisure, by William Henry Davies
Let Evening Come, by Jane Kenyon
Living, by Denise Levertov
Lost, by David Wagoner
Love After Love, by Derek Walcott
love is a place, by e. e. cummings
Love Without Hope, by Robert Graves
Luck, by Langston Hughes
Lullaby for a Daughter, by Mary Jo Salter
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota, by James Wright
Mae West, by Edward Field
Marriage, by Gregory Corso
Mary Bly, by James Wright
May, by Mary Oliver
may i feel said he, by e. e. cummings
Midsummer, Tobago, by Derek Walcott
Miracle Glass Co., by Charles Simic
Moles, by Mary Oliver
Money, by Richard Armour
Moonlight, by Paul Verlaine
Morning, by Billy Collins
Morning Exercises, by Nina Cassian
Morning Person, by Vassar Miller
Mother, in Love at Sixty, by Susanna Styve
Musée des Beaux Arts, by W. H. Auden
Museum Piece, by Richard Wilbur
My Agent Says, by R. S. Gwynn
My Cup, by Robert Friend
my sweet old etcetera, by e. e. cummings
Myself and My Person, by Anna Swir
Natural History, by E. B. White
next to of course god america i, by e. e. cummings
Not in Vain, by Emily Dickinson
note, passed to superman, by Lucille Clifton
Notice, by Steve Kowit
Novelists, by Howard Nemerov
Nude Descending a Staircase, by X.J. Kennedy
O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie, by Philip Appleman
O Taste and See, by Denise Levertov
Ode, by Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Ode on the death of a favorite cat,
drowned in a tub of goldfishes, by Thomas Gray
Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents, by Frances Cornford
Ode to Spring, by Frederick Seidel
Oh, When I Was In Love With You, by A. E. Housman
On a Night of Snow, by Elizabeth Coatsworth
On a Squirrel, Crossing the Road in Autumn, In New England, by Richard Eberhart
On the Sussex Downs, by Sara Teasdale
On Turning Fifty, by Steve Kronen
Once by the Pacific, by Robert Frost
Ordinance on Arrival, by Naomi Lazard
Otherwise, by Jane Kenyon
Paradox, by Anna Wickham
Poem, by Tom Clark
Poem, by Matthew Rohrer
Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!), by Frank O’Hara
Poem Without A Category, by Gensei
Prayer for a Marriage, by Steve Scafidi
Rain, by Edward Thomas
Rejection Letter, by Louis Zukofsky
Reluctance, by Robert Frost
Remembered Morning, by Janet Lewis
Requiem, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Résumé, by Dorothy Parker
Richard Cory, by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Romantics, by Lisel Mueller
Routine, by Arthur Guiterman
Saturday Morning, by Hugo Williams
Sea Fever, by John Masefield
Seen fleetingly, from a train, by Bronislaw Maj
September Twelfth, 2001, by X.J. Kennedy
September, the First Day of School, by Howard Nemerov
Shopper, by Connie Bensley
Sigh No More, Ladies (from Much Ado About Nothing), by William Shakespeare
since feeling is first, by e. e. cummings
Since Nine—, by C. P. Cavafy
Since There’s No Help, by Michael Drayton
Smell!, by William Carlos Williams
Snowflake, by William Baer
Some say that my teaching is nonsense, by Stephen Mitchell Lao Tzu
Sometimes, by Sheenagh Pugh
Song, by Donald Justice
Song (from Twelfth Night), by William Shakespeare
Sonnet, by Elizabeth Bishop
Sonnet 129, by William Shakespeare