| Author |
Title |
| Alexie, Sherman |
"The Facebook Sonnet" |
| Anonymous |
"Bonny Barbara Allan" |
| Anonymous |
"The Frog" |
| Anonymous |
"Western Wind" |
| Arnold, Matthew |
"Dover Beach" |
| Atwood, Margaret |
"You Fit into Me" |
| Beatty, Jan |
"My Father Teaches Me to Dream" |
| Behn, Aphra |
"Song: Love Armed" |
| Blake, William |
"London" |
| Blake, William |
"A Poison Tree" |
| Blake, William |
"The Lamb" |
| Blake, William |
"Infant Sorrow" |
| Blake, William |
"The Tyger" |
| Bradstreet, Anne |
"The Author to Her Book" |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn |
"We Real Cool" |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett |
"How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" |
| Browning, Robert |
"My Last Duchess" |
| Bryant, William Cullen |
Thanatopsis |
| Bryant, William Cullen |
To a Waterfowl |
| Bryant, William Cullen |
The Prairies |
| Buller, Arthur Henry Reginald |
"There Was a Young Lady Named Bright" |
| Burns, Robert |
"A Red, Red Rose" |
| Carroll, Lewis |
"Jabberwocky" |
| Cather, Willa |
"Prairie Spring" |
| Chitwood, Michael |
"Men Throwing Bricks" |
| Clifton, Lucille |
"Come Home From the Movies" |
| Clifton, Lucille |
"in the inner city" |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
"Mnemonic" |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
"What is an Epigram?" |
| Collins, Billy |
"Introduction to Poetry" |
| Conti, Edmund |
"Pragmatist" |
| Crane, Stephen |
"A Man Said to the Universe" |
| Crane, Stephen |
"The Wayfarer" |
| Crapsey, Adelaide |
"November Night" |
| Creeley, Robert |
"I Know a Man." |
| Cummings, E.E. |
"l(a" |
| Cummings, E.E. |
"Next to of Course God America I" |
| Cummings, E.E. |
"O Sweet Spontaneous" |
| Dickinson, Emily |
A Bird came down the Walk- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
A Clock stopped- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
A little overflowing word |
| Dickinson, Emily |
A Man may make a Remark- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
A Route of Evanescence |
| Dickinson, Emily |
A spider sewed at Night |
| Dickinson, Emily |
A Word made Flesh is seldom |
| Dickinson, Emily |
After great pain, a formal feeling comes- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
All overgrown by cunning moss |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Apparently with no surprise |
| Dickinson, Emily |
As imperceptibly as Grief |
| Dickinson, Emily |
A narrow Fellow in the Grass- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Because I could not stop for Death- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Besides the Autumn poets sing |
| Dickinson, Emily |
"Faith" is a fine invention |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Further in Summer than the Birds |
| Dickinson, Emily |
He fumbles at your Soul |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Her- "last Poems"-- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I'm "wife"-- I've finished that- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I've seen a Dying Eye |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I never lost as much but twice |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I cannot dance upon my Toes- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I taste a liquor never brewed- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I like a look of Agony |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I dreaded that first Robin, so |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I died for Beauty- but was scarce |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I heard a fly Buzz- when I died- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I would not paint- a picture- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I started Early- Took my Dog- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I think I was enchanted |
| Dickinson, Emily |
I should not dare to be so sad |
| Dickinson, Emily |
It was not Death, for I stood up |
| Dickinson, Emily |
It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
It sounded as if the Streets were running |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Long Years apart- can make no |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Longing is like the Seed |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Mine- by the Right of the White Election! |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Much Madness is divinest Sense- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
My Cocoon tightens- Colors teaze- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
My life closed twice before its close |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Myself was formed- a Carpenter |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Nature- sometimes sears a Sapling- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Of all the Souls that stand create- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Of God we ask one favor |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Oh Sumptuous moment |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Pain- has an Element of Blank- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
"Presentiment- Is That Long Shadow- On the Lawn-" |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Publication- is the Auction |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Remembrance has a Rear and Front- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Remorse- is memory- awake- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Shall I take thee, the Poet said |
| Dickinson, Emily |
She rose to His Requirement- dropt |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Success is counted sweetest |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
That sacred Closet when you sweep- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
The difference between Despair |
| Dickinson, Emily |
The Robin's my Criterion for Tune- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
The Wind begun to knead the Grass- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
The Bustle in a House |
| Dickinson, Emily |
The Soul selects her own Society- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
The farthest Thunder that I heard |
| Dickinson, Emily |
The Heart asks Pleasure- first- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
The Brain- is wider that the Sky |
| Dickinson, Emily |
The Bible is an antique Volume- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
These are the days when Birds come back- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
There's a certain Slant of light |
| Dickinson, Emily |
There came a Wind like a Bugle- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
This was a Poet- It is That |
| Dickinson, Emily |
This World is not Conclusion |
| Dickinson, Emily |
This Consciousness that is aware |
| Dickinson, Emily |
This is my letter to the World |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Title divine- is Mine! |
| Dickinson, Emily |
To flee from memory |
| Dickinson, Emily |
To be forgot by thee |
| Dickinson, Emily |
We talked with each other about each other |
| Dickinson, Emily |
What I see not, I better see- |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Wild Nights- Wild Nights! |
| Dickinson, Emily |
You cannot make Remembrance grow |
| Donne, John |
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" |
| Donne, John |
"Song" |
| Dunbar, Paul Laurence |
"To a Captious Critic" |
| Dunbar, Paul Laurence |
"Theology" |
| Dunbar, Paul Laurence |
"Sympathy" |
| Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) |
"In a London Drawing Room" |
| Eliot, T.S. |
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
"Days" |
| Espada, Martin |
"Coca-Cola and Coco Frio." |
| Fisher, Diane |
"Explosion at Winco No. 9" |
| Fisher, Diane |
"Violet's Wash" |
| Fisher, Diane |
"Pink Hollyhocks" |
| Fisher, Diane |
"A Reporter from New York Asks Edith Mae Chapman, Age Nine, What Her Daddy Tells Her about the Strike" |
| Fisher, Diane |
"My Dearest Hazel" |
| Fisher, Diane |
"Sheepskin" |
| Fisher, Diane |
"Dear Diary" |
| Fisher, Diane |
"Lick Creek Tent Colony" |
| Fisher, Diane |
"David" |
| Francis, Robert |
"Catch" |
| Francis, Robert |
"The Pitcher" |
| Frost, Robert |
"Acquainted With the Night" |
| Frost, Robert |
"Birches" |
| Frost, Robert |
"Design" |
| Frost, Robert |
"Dust of Snow" |
| Frost, Robert |
"Fire and Ice" |
| Frost, Robert |
"Home Burial" |
| Frost, Robert |
"Mending Wall" |
| Frost, Robert |
"Out, Out-" |
| Frost, Robert |
"The Pasture" |
| Frost, Robert |
"The Road Not Taken" |
| Frost, Robert |
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| Frost, Robert |
"The Woodpile" (1914) |
| Gioia, Dana |
"Money" by Dana Gioia Heaney, Seamus. |
| Gwynn, R.S. |
"Shakespearean Sonnet" |
| Hardy, Thomas |
"At the Altar-Rail" |
| Hardy, Thomas |
"The Convergence of the Twain" |
| Hardy, Thomas |
"I Looked Up From My Writing" |
| Harper, Frances E.W. |
"Learning to Read" |
| Hayden, Robert |
"Those Winter Sundays" |
| Heaney, Seamus |
"Digging." |
| Hernandez, David |
"All-American" |
| Herrick, Robert |
"To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time" |
| Herrick, Robert |
"Delight in Disorder" |
| Herrick, Robert |
"Upon Julia's Clothes" |
| Heyen, William |
"The Trains" |
| Hoagland, Tony |
"America" |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley |
"Spring and Fall" |
| Housman, A.E. |
"Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now" |
| Hughes, Langston |
"Harlem" |
| Ignatow, David |
"The Jobholder" |
| Jarrell, Randall |
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" |
| Johnson, Georgia Douglas |
"Prejudice" |
| Jonson, Ben |
"On My First Son" |
| Jonson, Ben |
"To Celia" |
| Keats, John |
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
| Keats, John |
"To Autumn" |
| Keats, John |
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" |
| Keats, John |
"Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art-" |
| Keats, John |
"Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition" |
| Kenyon, Jane |
"Not Writing" |
| Kooser, Ted |
"Selecting a Reader" |
| Kumin, Maxine |
"The Excrement Poem." |
| Lameris, Danusha |
"Names" |
| Larkin, Philip |
"A Study of Reading Habits" |
| Lawrence, D.H. |
"How Beastly the Bourgeois is" |
| Lazarus, Emma |
"The New Colossus" |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
A Psalm of Life |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
Excelsior |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
My Lost Youth |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
The Slave's Dream |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
The Fire of Drift-wood |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport |
| Lowell, Amy |
"Last Night it Rained" |
| Machan, Katharyn Howd |
"Hazel Tells Laverne" |
| Maloney, John |
"Good!" |
| Marvell, Andrew |
"To His Coy Mistress" |
| Marzan, Julio |
"Ethnic Poetry" |
| Marzan, Julio |
"The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers" |
| Mayers, Florence Cassen |
"All-American Sestina" |
| McCord, David |
"Epitaph on a Waiter" |
| McKay, Claude |
"The Lynching" |
| Milton, John |
"When I Consider How My Light is Spent" |
| Morales, Aurora L. |
"Child of the Americas" |
| Muldoon, Paul |
"Symposium" |
| Murray, Joan |
"We Old Dudes" |
| Niemoller, Martin |
"They first came for the Communists" |
| Nims, John Frederick |
"Love Poem" |
| Nowlan, Alden |
"The Bull Moose" |
| Owen, Wilfred |
"Dulce Et Decorum Est" |
| Piercy, Marge |
"To Be of Use" |
| Poe, Edgar Allan |
"To Helen" |
| Poe, Edgar Allan |
Sonnet- To Science |
| Poe, Edgar Allan |
"The Haunted Palace" |
| Pope, Alexander |
"Ode on Solitude" |
| Rios, Alberto |
"Seniors" |
| Robinson, Edwin Arlington |
"Richard Cory" |
| Roethke, Theodore |
"My Papa's Waltz." |
| Rossetti, Christina Georgina |
"Uphill" |
| Ryan, Kay |
"Dew" |
| Ryan, Michael |
"I" |
| Sandburg, Carl |
"A Fence" |
| Shakespeare, William |
From Macbeth (Act V, Scene V) Lines 19-28 |
| Shakespeare, William |
"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" |
| Shakespeare, William |
"My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" |
| Shakespeare, William |
"That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold" |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe |
"Ozymandias" |
| Shumate, David |
"Shooting the Horse" |
| Sigourney, Lydia Huntley |
"Indian Names" |
| Simic, Charles |
"Fork" |
| Snyder, Gary |
"A Dent in a Bucket" |
| Southey, Robert |
From "The Cataract of Lodore" |
| Sutphen, Joyce |
"Guys Like That" |
| Tennyson, Alfred |
"The Eagle" |
| Tennyson, Alfred |
"Ulysses" |
| Thomas, Dylan |
"The Hand That Signed the Paper" |
| Thomas, Dylan |
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" |
| Toomer, Jean |
"Unsuspecting" |
| Trethewey, Natasha |
"On Captivity" |
| Trowbridge, William |
"Drumming Behind You in the High School Band" |
| Updike, John |
"Dog's Death" |
| Whitman, Walt |
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown |
| Whitman, Walt |
A Sight in the Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim |
| Whitman, Walt |
As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life |
| Whitman, Walt |
As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado |
| Whitman, Walt |
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia's Woods |
| Whitman, Walt |
Beat! Beat! Drums! |
| Whitman, Walt |
Cavalry Crossing a Ford |
| Whitman, Walt |
Facing West from California's Shores |
| Whitman, Walt |
From Pent-up Aching Rivers |
| Whitman, Walt |
Here the Frailest Leaves of Me |
| Whitman, Walt |
From "I Sing the Body Electric" (verse 9) |
| Whitman, Walt |
Once I Pass'd through a Populous City |
| Whitman, Walt |
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking |
| Whitman, Walt |
Reconciliation |
| Whitman, Walt |
Scented Herbage of My Breast |
| Whitman, Walt |
From "Song of the Open Road" |
| Whitman, Walt |
Spirit Whose Work Is Done |
| Whitman, Walt |
Spontaneous Me |
| Whitman, Walt |
"The Dalliance of the Eagles" |
| Whitman, Walt |
The Wound-Dresser |
| Whitman, Walt |
Trickle, Drops |
| Whitman, Walt |
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd |
| Whitman, Walt |
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" |
| Whitman, Walt |
Whoever You Are, Holding Me Now in Hand |
| Whitman, Walt |
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night |
| Williams, William Carlos |
"Poem" |
| Williams, William Carlos |
"To Waken an Old Lady" |
| Williams, William Carlos |
"The Red Wheelbarrow" |
| Wordsworth, William |
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" |
| Wordsworth, William |
"Mutability" |
| Wordsworth, William |
"My Heart Leaps Up" |
| Wordsworth, William |
"The World is Too Much With Us" |
| Yeats, William Butler |
"Leda and the Swan" |
| Yeats, William Butler |
"That the Night Come" |
| Yeats, William Butler |
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" |