Updated 2015
Poetry for Students
(Author List)
A
Ackerman, Diane
On Location in the Loire Valley - V19
Acosta, Teresa Palomo
My Mother Pieced Quilts - V12
Addonizio, Kim
Knowledge - V25
Ai
Reunions with a Ghost - V16
Aiken, Conrad
The Room - V24
Akhmatova, Anna
Everything is Plundered - V32
I Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land - V36
Midnight Verses - V18
Requiem - V27
Alegri´a, Claribel
Accounting - V21
Alexander, Elizabeth
The Toni Morrison Dreams - V22
Alexie, Sherman
The Powwow at the End of the World - V39
Alvarez, Julia
Exile - V39
Amichai, Yehuda
Not like a Cypress - V24
Seven Laments for the War-Dead - V39
Ammons, A. R.
The City Limits - V19
Angelou, Maya
Harlem Hopscotch - V2
On the Pulse of Morning - V3
Phenomenal Woman - V42
Still I Rise - V38
Woman Work - V33
Anonymous
Barbara Allan - V7
Go Down, Moses - V11
Lord Randal - V6
The Seafarer - V8
Sir Patrick Spens - V4
Swing Low Sweet Chariot - V1
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Always - V24
Arnold, Matthew
Dover Beach - V2
Arvio, Sarah
Memory - V21
Ashbery, John
Paradoxes and Oxymorons - V11
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - V28
Atwood, Margaret
Mushrooms - V37
Siren Song - V7
Auden, W. H.
As I Walked Out One Evening - V4
Funeral Blues - V10
Musée des Beaux Arts - V1
September 1, 1939 - V27
The Unknown Citizen - V3
B
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Who Understands Me but Me - V40
Baggott, Julianna
What the Poets Could Have Been - V26
Bang, Mary Jo
Allegory - V23
Baraka, Amiri
In Memory of Radio - V9
Barbarese, J. T.
Walk Your Body Down - V26
Barot, Rick
Bonnard's Garden - V25
Barrett, Elizabeth
Sonnet 43 - V2
Basho, Matsuo
Falling Upon Earth - V2
The Moon Glows the Same - V7
Temple Bells Die Out - V18
Bass, Ellen
And What If I Spoke of Despair - V19
Baudelaire, Charles
Hymn to Beauty - V21
Invitation to the Voyage - V38
Behn, Robin
Ten Years after Your Deliberate Drowning - V21
Bell, Marvin
View - V25
Berry, Wendell
The Peace of Wild Things - V30
Berryman, John
Dream Song 29 - V27
Bialosky, Jill
Seven Seeds - V19
Bidart, Frank
Curse - V26
Biele, Joelle
Rapture - V21
Birney, Earle
Vancouver Lights - V8
Bishop, Elizabeth
Brazil, January 1, 1502 - V6
Filling Station - V12
The Fish - V31
The Man-Moth - V27
Blake, William
The Fly - V34
The Lamb - V12
London - V40
A Poison Tree - V24
The Tyger - V2
Blumenthal, Michael
Inventors - V7
Bly, Robert
Come with Me - V6
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter - V17
Bogan, Louise
Song for the Last Act - V39
Words for Departure - V21
Boland, Eavan
Anorexic - V12
Domestic Violence - V39
It's a Woman's World - V22
Outside History - V31
Bontemps, Arna
A Black Man Talks of Reaping - V32
Borges, Jorge Luis
Borges and I - V27
Bradstreet, Anne
The Author to Her Book - V42
To My Dear and Loving Husband - V6
Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 - V33
Brock-Broido, Lucie
After Raphael - V26
Brodsky, Joseph
Odysseus to Telemachus - V35
Bronte¨, Emily
Old Stoic - V33
Remembrance - V43
Brooke, Rupert
The Soldier - V7
Brooks, Gwendolyn
The Bean Eaters - V2
The Explorer - V32
The Mother - V40
The Sonnet-Ballad - V1
Strong Men, Riding Horses - V4
We Real Cool - V6
Brouwer, Joel
Last Request - V14
Brown, Fleda
The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives - V28
Brown, Rosellen
What are Friends For? - V41
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Aurora Leigh - V23
Sonnet 43 - V2
Sonnet XXIX - V16
Browning, Robert
Love Among the Ruins - V41
My Last Duchess - V1
Porphyria's Lover - V15
Bruchac, Joseph
Birdfoot's Grampa - V36
Bryant, William Cullen
Thanatopsis - V30
Bukowski, Charles
The Tragedy of the Leaves - V28
Burns, Robert
A Red, Red Rose - V8
Byrne, Elena Karina
In Particular - V20
Byron, Lord
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - V35
The Destruction of Sennacherib - V1
She Walks in Beauty - V14
When We Two Parted - V29
C
Carroll, Lewis
Jabberwocky - V11
The Walrus and the Carpenter - V30
Carruth, Hayden
I, I, I - V26
Carson, Anne
New Rule - V18
Carson, Ciaran
The War Correspondent - V26
Carver, Raymond
The Cobweb - V17
Castillo, Ana
While I Was Gone a War Began - V21
Cavafy, C. P.
Ithaka - V19
Celan, Paul
Late and Deep - V21
Cervantes, Lorna Dee
Freeway 280 - V30
Chang, Diana
Most Satisfied by Snow - V37
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Canterbury Tales - V14
Ch'ien, T'ao
I Built My Hut beside a Traveled Road - V36
Chin, Marilyn
The Floral Apron - V41
How I Got That Name - V28
Cisneros, Sandra
Once Again I Prove the Theory of Relativity - V19
Clampitt, Amy
Iola, Kansas - V27
Syrinx - V39
Clifton, Lucille
Climbing - V14
homage to my hips - V29
In the Inner City - V41
Miss Rosie - V1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Frost at Midnight - V39
Kubla Khan - V5
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - V4
Collins, Billy
The Afterlife - V18
The History Teacher - V42
Cooper, Jane
Rent - V25
Crane, Stephen
War Is Kind - V9
Creeley, Robert
Fading Light - V21
Cruz, Victor Hernandez
Business - V16
Cullen, Countee
Any Human to Another - V3
Incident - V42
cummings, e. e.
anyone lived in a pretty how town - V30
i was sitting in mcsorley's - V13
in just - V40
l - V1
maggie and milly and molly and may - V12
old age sticks - V3
since feeling is first - V34
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond - V19
D
Dao, Bei
All - V38
Dawe, Bruce
Drifters - V10
de la Cruz, Juana Ines
Vicarious Love - V43
de la Mare, Walter
The Listeners - V39
Dennis, Carl
The God Who Loves You - V20
Dickey, James
The Heaven of Animals - V6
The Hospital Window - V11
Dickinson, Emily
Because I Could Not Stop for Death - V2
The Bustle in a House - V10
“Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers - V3
I Died for Beauty - V28
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain - V13
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died— V5
I'm Nobody! Who Are You? - V35
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense - V16
My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close - V8
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass - V11
The Soul Selects Her Own Society - V1
Success Is Counted Sweetest - V32
Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant - V42
There's a Certain Slant of Light - V6
This Is My Letter to the World - V4
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
My Mother Combs My Hair - V34
Dobyns, Stephen
It's like This - V23
Donne, John
The Canonization - V41
Holy Sonnet 10 - V2
Song - V35
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning - V11
Dorfman, Ariel
Hope - V43
Doty, Mark
A Display of Mackerel - V41
The Wings - V28
Dove, Rita
Geometry - V15
Grape Sherbet - V37
This Life - V1
Dubie, Norman
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals - V12
Du Bois, W. E. B.
The Song of the Smoke - V13
Duffy, Carol Ann
Originally - V25
Dugan, Alan
How We Heard the Name - V10
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Sympathy - V33
We Wear the Mask - V40
Duncan, Robert
An African Elegy - V13
Dunn, Stephen
The Reverse Side - V21
Duration (Paz) - V18
E
Eliot, T. S.
The Hollow Men - V33
Journey of the Magi - V7
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - V1
The Waste Land - V20
Emerson, Claudia
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery - V27
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Concord Hymn - V4
The Rhodora - V17
The Snow-Storm - V34
Erdrich, Louise
Bidwell Ghost - V14
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways - V43
Espada, Marti´n
Colibri - V16
My Father as a Guitar - V43
We Live by What We See at Night - V13
Evans, Mari
When In Rome - V36
F
Farrokhzaad, Faroogh
A Rebirth - V21
Fenton, James
The Milkfish Gatherers - V11
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Christ Climbed Down - V28
Constantly Risking Absurdity - V41
Finch, Anne
A Nocturnal Reverie - V30
Forche´, Carolyn
The Colonel - V43
The Garden Shukkei-en - V18
Francis, Robert
The Base Stealer - V12
Fraser, Kathleen
Poem in Which My Legs Are Accepted - V29
Frost, Robert
Acquainted with the Night - V35
After Apple Picking - V32
Birches - V13
The Death of the Hired Man - V4
Fire and Ice - V7
Home Burial - V41
Mending Wall - V5
Nothing Gold Can Stay - V3
Out, Out— V10
The Road Not Taken - V2
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - V1
The Wood-Pile - V6
Fu, Tu
Jade Flower Palace - V32
Fulton, Alice
Art Thou the Thing I Wanted? V25
G
Gallagher, Tess
I Stop Writing the Poem - V16
Garci´a Lorca, Federico
Gacela of the Dark Death - V20
The Guitar: V38
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias - V31
Ginsberg, Allen
Howl - V29
A Supermarket in California - V5
Gioia, Dana
The Litany - V24
Giovanni, Nikki
Ego-Tripping - V28
Knoxville, Tennessee - V17
Winter - V35
The World is not a Pleasant Place to be - V42
Glu¨ck, Louise
The Gold Lily - V5
The Mystery - V15
Goodison, Lorna
The River Mumma wants out - V25
Graham, Jorie
The Hiding Place - V10
Mind - V17
Gray, Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - V9
Gregg, Linda
A Thirst Against - V20
Grennan, Eamon
Station - V21
Gunn, Thom
The Missing - V9
H
H.D.
Helen - V6
Sea Rose - V28
Hacker, Marilyn
The Boy - V19
Hahn, Kimiko
Pine - V23
Hall, Donald
Names of Horses - V8
HaNagid, Shmuel
Two Eclipses - V33
Hardy, Thomas
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? V4
The Convergence of the Twain - V42
The Darkling Thrush - V18
The Man He Killed - V3
Harjo, Joy
Anniversary - V15
Remember - V32
Hartnett, Michael
A Farewell to English - V10
Hashimoto, Sharon
What I Would Ask My Husband's Dead Father - V22
Hass, Robert
The World as Will and Representation - V37
Hayden, Robert
Runagate Runagate - V31
Those Winter Sundays - V1
Heaney, Seamus
Digging - V5
A Drink of Water - V8
Follower - V30
The Forge - V41
Midnight - V2
The Singer's House - V17
He´bert, Anne
The Alchemy of Day - V20
Hecht, Anthony
“More Light! More Light!” - V6
Heine, Heinrich
The Lorelei - V37
Hejinian, Lyn
Yet we insist that life is full of happy chance - V27
Henley, William Ernest
Invictus - V43
Herbert, George
Easter Wings - V43
Virtue - V25
Herbert, Zbigniew
Why The Classics - V22
Herrick, Robert
Corrina's Going A-Maying - V39
The Night Piece: To Julia - V29
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time - V13
Hikmet, Nazim
The Cucumber - V41
Letter to My Wife - V38
Hillman, Brenda
Air for Mercury - V20
Hirsch, Edward
Omen - V22
Hirshfield, Jane
Three Times My Life Has Opened - V16
Hoagland, Tony
Social Life - V19
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The Chambered Nautilus - V24
Old Ironsides - V9
Hongo, Garrett
And Your Soul Shall Dance - V43
The Legend - V25
What For - V33
Hope, A. D.
Beware of Ruins - V8
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Pied Beauty - V26
Spring and Fall: To a Young Girl - V40
Housman, A. E.
To an Athlete Dying Young - V7
Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now - V40
When I Was One-and-Twenty - V4
Howe, Marie
What Belongs to Us - V15
Hudgins, Andrew
Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead - V14
Hughes, Langston
Dream Variations - V15
I, Too - V30
Harlem - V1
Mother to Son - V3
The Negro Speaks of Rivers - V10
Theme for English B - V6
The Weary Blues - V38
Hughes, Ted
Hawk Roosting - V4
The Horses - V32
Perfect Light - V19
Hugo, Richard
For Jennifer, 6, on the Teton - V17
Huong, Ho Xuan
Spring-Watching Pavilion - V18
I
J
Jacobsen, Josephine
Fiddler Crab - V23
Jarrell, Randall
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner - V2
Losses - V31
Jeffers, Robinson
Hurt Hawks - V3
Shine Perishing Republic - V4
Johnson, James Weldon
The Creation - V1
Jonson, Ben
On My First Son - V33
Song: To Celia - V23
Justice, Donald
Incident in a Rose Garden - V14
K
Keats, John
La Belle Dame sans Merci - V17
Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art - V9
Ode on a Grecian Urn - V1
Ode to a Nightingale - V3
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket - V32
To Autumn - V36
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be - V2
Kelly, Brigit Pegeen
The Satyr's Heart - V22
Kenyon, Jane
Having it Out with Melancholy - V17
Let Evening Come - V39
“Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School” - V9
Monologue for an Onion - V24
King James Bible
Psalm 8 - V9
Psalm 23 - V4
Kinnell, Galway
Another Night in the Ruins - V26
Blackberry Eating - V35
Saint Francis and the Sow - V9
Kipling, Rudyard
If - V22
Recessional - V42
Kizer, Carolyn
To an Unknown Poet - V18
Knight, Etheridge
The Idea of Ancestry - V36
Koch, Kenneth
Paradiso - V20
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Camouflaging the Chimera - V37
Facing It - V5
Ode to a Drum - V20
Slam, Dunk, & Hook - V30
Kooser, Ted
At the Cancer Clinic - V24
The Constellation Orion - V8
Kumin, Maxine
Address to the Angels - V18
400-Meter Freestyle - V38
Kunitz, Stanley
The War Against the Trees - V11
Kyger, Joanne
September - V23
L
Lanier, Sidney
Song of the Chattahoochee - V14
Larkin, Philip
Aubade - V42
An Arundel Tomb - V12
High Windows - V3
Toads - V4
Lauterbach, Ann
Hum - V25
Laux, Dorianne
For the Sake of Strangers - V24
Lawrence, D. H.
Piano - V6
Layton, Irving
A Tall Man Executes a Jig - V12
Lazarus, Emma
The New Colossus - V37
Lazic´, Radmila
Death Sentences - V22
Lee, Li-Young
Early in the Morning - V17
For a New Citizen of These United States - V15
The Gift - V37
The Weight of Sweetness - V11
Levertov, Denise
The Blue Rim of Memory - V17
In the Land of Shinar - V7
A Tree Telling of Orpheus - V31
What Were They Like?- V42
Levine, Philip
Starlight - V8
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin
Pantoun for Chinese Women - V29
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The Arsenal at Springfield - V17
Paul Revere's Ride - V2
A Psalm of Life - V7
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls - V39
The Wreck of the Hesperus - V31
Lorde, Audre
Hanging Fire - V32
What My Child Learns of the Sea - V16
Lovelace, Richard
To Althea, From Prison - V34
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars - V32
Lowell, Amy
Lilacs - V42
The Taxi - V30
Lowell, Robert
Hawthorne - V36
For the Union Dead - V7
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket - V6
Loy, Mina
Moreover, the Moon - V20
M
MacBeth, George
Bedtime Story - V8
Machado, Antonio
The Crime Was in Granada - V23
MacLeish, Archibald
Ars Poetica - V5
Madgett, Naomi Long
Alabama Centennial - V10
Malroux, Claire
Morning Walk - V21
Marlowe, Christopher
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - V22
Marvell, Andrew
To His Coy Mistress - V5
Masefield, John
Cargoes - V5
Masters, Edgar Lee
Lucinda Matlock - V37
Matsuo Bashō
Falling Upon Earth - V2
The Moon Glows the Same - V7
Temple Bells Die Out - V18
Maxwell, Glyn
The Nerve - V23
McCrae, John
In Flanders Fields - V5
McElroy, Colleen
A Pièd - V3
McGinley, Phyllis
The Conquerors - V13
Reactionary Essay on Applied Science - V9
McHugh, Heather
Three To's and an Oi - V24
McKay, Claude
The Tropics in New York - V4
Merriam, Eve
Onomatopoeia - V6
Two People I Want to Be Like - V37
Merrill, James
Lost in Translation - V23
Merwin, W. S.
The Horizons of Rooms - V15
Leviathan: V5
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
An Ancient Gesture - V31
Conscientious Objector - V34
I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XVIII) - V41
The Courage That My Mother Had - V3
Wild Swans - V17
Milosz, Czeslaw
From the Rising of the Sun - V29
In Music - V35
Song of a Citizen - V16
Milton, John
[On His Blindness] Sonnet 16 - V3
On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three - V17
Mirabai
All I Was Doing Was Breathing - V24
Mistral, Gabriela
Fear - V37
Serene Words - V42
Mitchell, Susan
The Dead - V35
Momaday, N. Scott
Angle of Geese - V2
New World - V41
A Simile - V37
To a Child Running With Outstretched Arms in Canyon de Chelly - V11
Montague, John
A Grafted Tongue - V12
Montale, Eugenio
On the Threshold - V22
Moore, Marianne
The Fish - V14
Marriage - V38
Poetry - V17
Mora, Pat
Elena - V33
Legal Alien - V40
Uncoiling - V35
Mort, Valzhyna
Grandmother - V34
Muldoon, Paul
Meeting the British - V7
Pineapples and Pomegranates - V22
Mueller, Lisel
Blood Oranges - V13
The Exhibit - V9
Muske-Dukes, Carol
Our Side - V24
N
Nash, Ogden
The Hippopotamus - V31
Nemerov, Howard
Deep Woods - V14
The Phoenix - V10
Neruda, Pablo
Fully Empowered - V33
The Heights of Macchu Picchu - V28
Sonnet LXXXIX - V35
Tonight I Can Write - V11
United Fruit Co. - V41
Nowlan, Alden
For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St.-Castin - V12
Noyes, Alfred
The Highwayman - V4
Nye, Naomi Shihab
All Things Not Considered - V42
Kindness - V24
Shoulders - V33
O
O'Hara, Frank
Autobiographia Literaria - V34
Having a Coke with You - V12
Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed) - V38
Why I Am Not a Painter - V8
Okita, Dwight
In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to
Relocation Centers - V32
Olds, Sharon
I Go Back to May 1937 - V17
Oliver, Mary
The Black Snake - V31
The Journey - V40
Music Lessons - V8
Wild Geese - V15
Ondaatje, Michael
The Cinnamon Peeler - V19
To a Sad Daughter - V8
Ortiz, Simon
Hunger in New York City - V4
My Father's Song - V16
Ortiz Cofer, Judith
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica - V37
Ostriker, Alicia
His Speed and Strength - V19
Mastectomy - V26
Metamorphoses - V22
Owen, Wilfred
Anthem for Doomed Youth - V37
Dulce et Decorum Est - V10
P
Pak Tu-Jin
River of August - V35
Parker, Dorothy
The Last Question - V18
Pastan, Linda
The Cossacks - V25
Ethics - V8
Grudnow - V32
I am Learning to Abandon the World - V40
Pavese, Cesare
Two Poems for T. - V20
Paz, Octavio
Duration - V18
Sunstone - V30
Two Bodies - V38
Petrarch, Francesco
Rime 140 - V42
Phillips, Carl
All It Takes - V23
Piercy, Marge
Apple sauce for Eve - V22
Barbie Doll - V9
For the Young Who Want to - V40
To Be of Use - V32
Pinsky, Robert
Song of Reasons - V18
Plath, Sylvia
Blackberrying - V15
Daddy - V28
Mirror - V1
Morning Song - V43
Mushrooms - V33
Po, Li
Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon - V20
The Moon at the Fortified Pass - V40
Poe, Edgar Allan
Annabel Lee - V9
A Dream within a Dream - V42
The Bells - V3
The Raven - V1
Ponsot, Marie
One Is One - V24
Pope, Alexander
The Rape of the Lock - V12
Pound, Ezra
In a Station of the Metro - V2
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter - V8
Purdy, Al
Lament for the Dorsets - V5
Wilderness Gothic - V12
Pushkin, Alexander
The Bridegroom - V34
The Bronze Horseman - V28
Q
R
Raine, Craig
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home - V7
Raleigh, Walter, Sir
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd - V14
Ramanujan, A. K.
Waterfalls in a Bank - V27
Randall, Dudley
Ballad of Birmingham - V5
Ravikovitch, Dahlia
Pride - V38
Reed, Ishmael
Beware: Do Not Read This Poem - V6
Revard, Carter
Birch Canoe - V5
Rich, Adrienne
Diving into the Wreck - V29
Ghost of a Chance - V39
Rusted Legacy - V15
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Archaic Torso of Apollo - V27
Childhood - V19
Rimbaud, Arthur
The Drunken Boat - V28
Ri´os, Alberto
Island of the Three Marias - V11
Robinson, E. A.
Miniver Cheevy - V35
Richard Cory - V4
Roethke, Theodore
My Papa's Waltz - V3
Night Journey - V40
The Waking - V34
Rogers, Pattiann
The Greatest Grandeur - V18
Rose, Wendy
For the White poets who would be Indian - V13
Rossetti, Christina
A Birthday - V10
Goblin Market - V27
Remember - V14
Up-Hill - V34
Ruefle, Mary
Sentimental Education - V26
Rukeyser, Muriel
Ballad of Orange and Grape - V10
St. Roach - V29
Ryan, Kay
All Shall Be Restored - V36
S
Sachs, Nelly
But Perhaps God Needs the Longing - V20
Saje´, Natasha
The Art of the Novel - V23
Salter, Mary Jo
Trompe L'oeil - V22
Sanchez, Sonia
An Anthem - V26
Sandburg, Carl
Chicago - V3
Cool Tombs - V6
Hope Is a Tattered Flag - V12
Jazz Fantasia - V33
Moon Rondeau - V36
Santos, Sherod
Portrait of a Couple at Century's End - V24
Sapia, Yvonne
Defining the Grateful Gesture - V40
Sappho
Fragment 16 - V38
Fragment 2 - V31
Hymn to Aphrodite - V20
Sassoon, Siegfried
“Blighters” - V28
Schnackenberg, Gjertrud
Darwin in 1881 - V13
Supernatural Love - V25
Senghor, Le´ opold Se´ dar
Prayer to the Masks - V36
Service, Robert W.
The Cremation of SamMcGee - V10
Sexton, Anne
Cinderella - V41
Courage - V14
Oysters - V4
Self in 1958 - V36
Young - V30
Shahid Ali, Agha
The Country Without a Post Office - V18
Shakespeare, William
Seven Ages of Man - V35
Sonnet 18 - V2
Sonnet 19 - V9
Sonnet 29 - V8
Sonnet 30 - V4
Sonnet 55 - V5
Sonnet 116 - V3
Sonnet 106 - V43
Sonnet 130 - V1
Shapiro, Karl
Auto Wreck - V3
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Ode to the West Wind - V2
Ozymandias - V27
Song to the Men of England - V36
To a Sky-Lark - V32
Sidney, Philip
Ye Goatherd Gods - V30
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Four Mountain Wolves - V9
Story from Bear Country - V16
Simic, Charles
Butcher Shop - V7
Classic Ballroom Dances - V33
Prodigy - V36
Simpson, Louis
American Poetry - V7
Chocolates - V11
In the Suburbs - V14
Smith, Stevie
Not Waving but Drowning - V3
Snodgrass, W. D.
Heart's Needle - V29
Snyder, Gary
Anasazi - V9
True Night - V19
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
A Storm in the Mountains - V38
Song, Cathy
Lost Sister - V5
The Youngest Daughter - V43
Soto, Gary
Oranges - V30
Small Town with One Road - V7
Soyinka, Wole
Civilian and Soldier - V40
Telephone Conversation - V27
Spender, Stephen
An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum - V23
What I Expected - V36
Spenser, Edmund
Sonnet 75 - V32
Spires, Elizabeth
Ghazal - V21
Stafford, William
At the Bomb Testing Site - V8
Fifteen - V2
Ways to Live - V16
Stein, Gertrude
Stanza LXXXIII - V38
Stern, Gerald
One of the Smallest - V26
Stevens, Wallace
Anecdote of the Jar - V41
The Idea of Order at Key West - V13
Of Modern Poetry - V35
Sunday Morning - V16
Stewart, Susan
The Forest - V22
Stone, Ruth
Another Feeling - V40
Ordinary Words - V19
Strand, Mark
The Continuous Life - V18
Eating Poetry - V9
Svenbro, Jesper
Lepidopterology - V23
Swenson, May
The Centaur - V30
Fable for When There's No Way Out - V38
Southbound on the Freeway - V16
Swift, Jonathan
A Description of the Morning - V37
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General - V27
Swir, Anna
Maternity - V21
Szymborska, Wisława
Astonishment - V15
Conversation with a Stone - V27
The End and the Beginning - V41
Possibilities - V34
Some People Like Poetry - V31
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Tagore, Rabindranath
60 - V18
Tate, James
Dear Reader - V10
Smart and Final Iris - V15
Taylor, Edward
Huswifery - V31
Taylor, Henry
Landscape with Tractor - V10
Teasdale, Sara
There Will Come Soft Rains - V14
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
The Charge of the Light Brigade - V1
The Eagle - V11
The Lady of Shalott - V15
Proem - V19
Tears, Idle Tears - V4
Ulysses - V2
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
Casey at the Bat - V5
Thomas, Dylan
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night - V1
Fern Hill - V3
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower - V8
Toomer, Jean
Reapers – V43
Storm Ending - V31
Transtro¨mer, Tomas
Answers to Letters - V21
Trethewey, Natasha
Flounder - V39
Native Guard - V29
Tsvetaeva, Marina
An Attempt at Jealousy - V29
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Ungaretti, Giuseppe
Variations on Nothing - V20
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Valentine, Jean
Seeing You - V24
Vallejo, Ce´sar
The Black Heralds - V26
Van Duyn, Mona
Memoir - V20
Vazirani, Reetika
Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta - V25
Viereck, Peter
For An Assyrian Frieze - V9
Kilroy - V14
Vinh, Nguyen Thi
Thoughts of Hanoi - V39
Voigt, Ellen Bryant
The Lotus Flowers - V33
Practice - V23
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Wakoski, Diane
Inside out – V43
Walcott, Derek
A Far Cry from Africa - V6
Midsummer, Tobago - V34
Sea Canes - V39
Waldner, Liz
Witness - V26
Walker, Alice
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning - V30
Women - V34
Walker, Margaret
Lineage - V31
Warren, Rosanna
Daylights - V13
Lake - V23
Wheatley, Phillis
An Hymn to the Evening - V36
On Being Brought from Africa to America - V29
To His Excellency General Washington - V13
Whitman, Walt
Cavalry Crossing a Ford - V13
I Hear America Singing - V3
Miracles - V39
A Noiseless Patient Spider - V31
O Captain! My Captain! - V2
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer - V22
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Snow-Bound - V36
Wilbur, Richard
Beowulf - V11
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World - V29
Merlin Enthralled - V16
On Freedom's Ground - V12
Williams, William Carlos
Overture to a Dance of Locomotives - V11
Queen-Ann's-Lace - V6
The Red Wheelbarrow - V1
This Is Just to Say - V34
Wordsworth, William
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - V33
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey - V2
The World Is Too Much with Us - V38
Wright, Charles
Black Zodiac - V10
Words Are the Diminution of All Things - V35
Wright, James
A Blessing - V7
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio - V8
Wright, Judith
Drought Year - V8
Wyatt, Thomas
Whoso List to Hunt - V25
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Yau, John
Russian Letter - V26
Yeats, William Butler
Easter 1916 - V5
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death - V1
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - V15
Leda and the Swan - V13
Sailing to Byzantium - V2
The Second Coming - V7
The Stolen Child - V34
The Wild Swans at Coole - V42
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Babii Yar - V29
Young, Kevin
Chorale - V25
Youssef, Saadi
America, America - V29
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Zagajewski, Adam
Self-Portrait - V25