Poets

• Li-Young Lee
  • From Blossoms
• Denise Levertov
  • Living
  • O Taste and See
  • Witness
• Janet Lewis
  • Remembered Morning
• Kate Light
  • There Comes The Strangest Moment
• Richard Lovelace
  • To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her hair
• Louis MacNeice
  • The Slow Starter
• Bronislaw Maj
  • Seen fleetingly, from a train
• Katherine Mansfield
  • Camomile Tea
• Andrew Marvell
  • from Thoughts in a Garden
• Mary Jo Salter
  • Boulevard du Montparnasse
  • Half a Double Sonnet
  • June: The Gianicolo
  • Lament
  • Lullaby for a Daughter
  • Summer 1983
  • Video Blues
• John Masefield
  • Sea Fever
• Roger McGough
  • Summer With Monika
• Anne McNaughton
• Herman Melville
  • The Maldive Shark
• W. S. Merwin
  • Utterance
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Afternoon on a Hill
  • Dirge Without Music
  • I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear
  • I, being born a woman and distressed
  • Sonnet II
  • Sonnet XLII
• Vassar Miller
  • Morning Person
• Stephen Mitchell
  • A good traveler has no fixed plans
  • Some say that my teaching is nonsense
• Thomas Moore
  • Venetian Air
• Lisel Mueller
  • Late Hours
  • Romantics
• Edwin Muir
  • The Confirmation
• Ogden Nash
  • The Parent
• Leonard Nathan
  • Bladder Song
  • I Talk To My Body
  • Thank You, My Fate
  • The Greatest Love
  • The Second Madrigal
  • Toast
• Howard Nemerov
  • A Primer of the Daily Round
  • Novelists
  • September, the First Day of School
• Alden Nowlan
  • The Last Waltz
• Frank O’Hara
  • Animals
  • Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)
• Arthur O’Shaughnessy
  • Ode
• Sharon Olds
  • I Go Back to May 1937
  • The Death of Marilyn Monroe
• Mary Oliver
  • An Old Whorehouse
  • Happiness
  • Honey At The Table
  • May
  • Moles
  • The Honey Tree
  • The Roses
  • The Snakes
  • The Summer Day
  • The Sun
  • What I Have Learned So Far
  • Wild Geese
  • Wild, Wild
• Grace Paley
  • Here
• Dorothy Parker
  • Résumé
  • Unfortunate Coincidence
• Linda Pastan
  • To a Daughter Leaving Home
• Petronius
  • Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short
• Robert Phillips
  • Instrument of Choice
• Marge Piercy
  • A Work of Artifice
• Edgar Allen Poe
  • The Bells
• Vasko Popa
  • Give Me Back My Rags
• Ezra Pound
  • And the Days Are Not Full Enough
• Sheenagh Pugh
  • Sometimes
• John Crowe Ransom
  • Janet Waking
• Kenneth Rexroth
  • A Dialogue of Watching
  • A Singing Voice
  • Another Spring
  • I May Live On
  • Sunset
  • Winter Dawn
• Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Ah, not to be cut off
  • Buddha in Glory
  • Going Blind
• Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Richard Cory
• Lee Robinson
  • The Rules of Evidence
• Theodore Roethke
  • I Knew a Woman
• Matthew Rohrer
  • Poem
• Liz Rosenberg
  • Susquehanna
• Christina Rossetti
  • The First Day
• Ryokan
  • Too lazy to be ambitious
• Carl Sandberg
  • Grass