Poets

• Steve Scafidi
  • Prayer for a Marriage
• Frederick Seidel
  • Ode to Spring
• Anne Sexton
  • Welcome Morning
• William Shakespeare
  • Sigh No More, Ladies (from Much Ado About Nothing)
  • Song (from Twelfth Night)
  • Sonnet 129
  • Sonnet 29
• Angela Shaw
  • Children in a Field
• Charles Simic
  • Miracle Glass Co.
  • The Altar
• Tom Simon
  • Sunshine
• Maurya Simon
  • Angels
• Louis Simpson
  • Ed
• Hal Sirowitz
  • The Benefits of Ignorance
• Pamela Spiro Wagner
  • How to Read a Poem: Beginner’s Manual
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Requiem
• Susanna Styve
  • Mother, in Love at Sixty
• Anna Swir
  • A Woman Writer Does Laundry
  • Four Very Fat Legs
  • I Talk To My Body
  • Myself and My Person
  • Tell Me
  • Thank You, My Fate
  • The First Madrigal
  • The Greatest Love
  • The Sea and the Man
  • The Second Madrigal
  • There is a Light in Me
• James Tate
  • The Promotion
• Sara Teasdale
  • A Prayer
  • I Am Not Yours
  • In The Metropolitan Museum
  • On the Sussex Downs
  • The Kiss
  • Those Who Love
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • The Eagle
  • The Lady of Shalott
• Dylan Thomas
  • Do not go gentle into that good night
• Edward Thomas
  • Rain
• Tu Fu
  • Sunset
  • Winter Dawn
• Lao Tzu
  • A good traveler has no fixed plans
  • Some say that my teaching is nonsense
• John Updike
  • Evening Concert, Sainte-Chapelle
• Paul Verlaine
  • Moonlight
• David Wagoner
  • Lost
• Derek Walcott
  • Love After Love
  • Midsummer, Tobago
• Alice Walker
  • I’m Really Very Fond
• May Thielgaard Watts
  • Vision
• E. B. White
  • Natural History
• Walt Whitman
  • A noiseless patient spider
  • from “Song of the Open Road”
  • I Am The Poet
• Anna Wickham
  • Paradox
• Richard Wilbur
  • Museum Piece
• Hugo Williams
  • Saturday Morning
• C.K. Williams
  • Gas
  • Last Things
  • Tantrum
• William Carlos Williams
  • Smell!
  • The Red Wheelbarrow
  • This Is Just To Say
  • To a Poor Old Woman
• William Wordsworth
  • Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802
  • The world is too much with us
• James Wright
  • A Blessing
  • Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
  • Mary Bly
• Thomas Wyatt
  • They Flee from Me
• William Butler Yeats
  • Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors
  • He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  • The Second Coming
  • To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
  • When You Are Old
• Adam Zagajewski
  • Balance
• Louis Zukofsky
  • Rejection Letter