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• 100 Pipers — Trad #709
• 221B — Vincent Starrett #875

A

• Aaron Stark — Edwin Arlington Robinson #636
• The ABC — Spike Milligan #1196
• Abdul Abulbul Amir — Percy French #358
• Abide with me — Henry F Lyte #1007
• Abou Ben Adhem — James Leigh Hunt #153
• About Tu Fu — Li Po #504
• Above the Dock — T E Hulme #726
• Absences — Dom Moraes #1618
• An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow — Les Murray #387
• Acceptance — Robert Frost #1373
• Accident in Art — Richard Hovey #729
• Acquainted with the Night — Robert Frost #1564
• Adam's Complaint — Denise Levertov #1131
• Address to a Haggis — Robert Burns #1154
• Adlestrop — Edward Thomas #1192
• Admired Miranda! — William Shakespeare #413
• Advice to a Prophet — Richard Wilbur #1195
• Advice to Women — Eunice deSouza #682
• Ae Fond Kiss — Robert Burns #1474
• Aedh Laments the Loss of Love — William Butler Yeats #1668
• The Aeneid: I, 1-7 — Virgil #1480
• The Aerial — Wendy Cope #1745
• Aerialist — Sylvia Plath #1650
• aesop revised by archy — Don Marquis #1458
• After — Lizette Woodworth Reese #791
• After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics — W H Auden #1450
• After the Funeral (In memory of Ann Jones) — Dylan Thomas #335
• Afternoons — Philip Larkin #1558
• Afton Water — Robert Burns #1526
• Against Entropy — John M Ford #1934
• Against Sundials — Plautus #1901
• The Age Demanded — Ernest Hemingway #1113
• Ah, Love! Could Thou and I with Fate Conspire — Omar Khayyam #1354
• The Akond of Swat — Edward Lear #356
• The Albatross — Charles Baudelaire #534
• All Along The Watch-Tower — Bob Dylan #890
• All Day Permanent Red (extract) — Christopher Logue #1487
• All in green went my love riding — e e cummings #1536
• All the World's a Stage — William Shakespeare #1873
• All You who Sleep Tonight — Vikram Seth #650
• Almighty Ruler of the All — Robert A Heinlein #1162
• Altarwise by Owl-Light (Stanzas I - IV) — Dylan Thomas #405
• Among School Children — William Butler Yeats #1441
• The Amores: Book 1, Poem #3 — Ovid #1389
• Ample Make This Bed — Emily Dickinson #1337
• Ancestors — Adrian Mitchell #397
• An Ancient Gesture — Edna St Vincent Millay #1827
• Ancient one, I'm drunk with the voice — Eugenio Montale #1815
• The Ancients of the World — R S Thomas #152
• And Death Shall Have No Dominion — Dylan Thomas #1486
• And the days are not full enough — Ezra Pound #123
• Angel Wings — Brian Patten #1052
• Angelica the Doorkeeper — Anonymous #156
• The Angler — Thomas Buchanan Read #359
• Annabel Lee — Edgar Allan Poe #1170
• Anonymous Drawing — Donald Justice #503
• Antenna-forest — Rolf Jacobsen #1719
• The Anvil — Rudyard Kipling #586
• Anyone for Tennis? (The Savage Seven Theme) — Cream #867
• Anyone lived in a pretty how town — e e cummings #1260
• Apartment in Leme — Elizabeth Bishop #1863
• An Apology — F J Bergmann #1759
• archy interviews a pharoh — Don Marquis #76
• Ariadne auf Naxos — Hugo von Hofmannsthal #1679
• Ariel — Sylvia Plath #129
• The Armful — Robert Frost #1935
• Ars Poetica — Archibald MacLeish #188
• Ars Poetica — Czeslaw Milosz #1545
• The Artist — William Carlos Williams #213
• An Arundel Tomb — Philip Larkin #756
• As Kingfishers Catch Fire — Gerard Manley Hopkins #1594
• As the poets have mournfully sung — W H Auden #1403
• As Well as They Can — A D Hope #1620
• As You Came from the Holy Land — Sir Walter Raleigh #1695
• Ashes of Life — Edna St Vincent Millay #956
• Asides on the Oboe — Wallace Stevens #1652
• Ask to Embla, XIII — A S Byatt #1370
• Astro-Gymnastics — Piet Hein #823
• At a Fishing Settlement — Alistair Campbell #573
• At a Lecture — Joseph Brodsky #1588
• At Funchal (Island of Madeira) — Tomas Transtromer #1621
• At Stratford-Upon-Avon — Thomas Bailey Aldrich #1018
• At the last watch — Rabindranath Tagore #1417
• At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me — A P Herbert #732
• Atavism — William Stafford #1057
• Atavism — Laurence Hope #1862
• The Atavist — Robert Service #1866
• An Attempt At Unrhymed Verse — Wendy Cope #1764
• Auguries of Innocence — William Blake #368
• August 1968 — W H Auden #895
• The Auk and the Orchid — Robert Williams Wood #1292
• Auld Lang Syne — Robert Burns #1585
• Aunt Jennifer's Tigers — Adrienne Rich #674
• Auntie's Skirts — Robert Louis Stevenson #450
• Autumn — Rainer Maria Rilke #1384
• Autumn Day — Anne Ridler #1372
• Autumn Song — Margurite Kingman #578
• Away With Rum — Theodore Bikel #1916

B

• Baccalaureate — Archibald MacLeish #1903
• Back From Vacation — John Updike #538
• The Bagel — David Ignatow #1329
• Bagpipe Music — Louis MacNeice #18
• The Bait — John Donne #1002
• Ballad of a Homeless Bat — John Kendall #947
• The Ballad of East and West — Rudyard Kipling #67
• The Ballad of Father Gilligan — William Butler Yeats #237
• Ballad of Hector in Hades — Edwin Muir #1233
• A Ballad of John Nicholson — Sir Henry Newbolt #731
• The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard — Anonymous #303
• The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly — James Joyce #389
• The Ballad of Sally in our Alley — Henry Carey #959
• Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster) — Peggy Seeger #1386
• Ballad of the Canal — Phoebe Cary #607
• The Ballad of the Imam and the Shah — James Fenton #1147
• The Ballad Of William Bloat — Raymond Calvert #1165
• The Ballad of Yukon Jake — Edward E Paramore Jr #1171
• Ballad: The Sorcerer's Song — W S Gilbert #900
• A Ballade of Suicide — G K Chesterton #1892
• Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph) — Francois Villon #556
• Balloon Fight — Roger McGough #1335
• Banalata Sen — Jibanananda Das #446
• The Band Played Waltzing Matilda — Eric Bogle #981
• The Bangle Sellers — Sarojini Naidu #1375
• Barbara Allen — Anonymous #548
• Barmaid — William Ernest Henley #1054
• A Barred Owl — Richard Wilbur #1844
• Base Details — Siegfried Sassoon #385
• Baseball's Sad Lexicon — Franklin P Adams #1648
• The Battle of Blenheim — Robert Southey #203
• Battle Song — Patrick Barrington #1655
• The Battle-Hymn of the Republic — Julia Ward Howe #473
• Bavarian Gentians — D H Lawrence #77
• Be Near Me — Faiz Ahmed Faiz #748
• Bearhug — Michael Ondaatje #1326
• Beat! Beat! Drums! — Walt Whitman #887
• Beatrix is Three — Adrian Mitchell #810
• The Beautiful Lie — Sheenagh Pugh #792
• Beautiful Lofty Things — William Butler Yeats #511
• Beautiful Soup — Lewis Carroll #898
• Beauty — John Masefield #695
• Bed in Summer — Robert Louis Stevenson #290
• The Bee Box — Lowell Parker #1923
• Bees — Norman Rowland Gale #558
• Before Action — W N Hodgson #480
• Before an Examination (Campus Sonnets: 1) — Stephen Vincent Benét #1904
• The Beginning — Rupert Brooke #972
• Behold — David Lee #1243
• Being Boring — Wendy Cope #1444
• Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms — Thomas Moore #1841
• The Bell Buoy — Rudyard Kipling #1817
• The Bells — Edgar Allan Poe #101
• The Bells of Heaven — Ralph Hodgson #1700
• Beloved Dust — Edna St Vincent Millay #1293
• The Best School of All — Sir Henry Newbolt #1232
• Bethsabe's Song — George Peele #149
• Betrayal — A S J Tessimond #1155
• The Betrothed — Rudyard Kipling #1922
• Beyond the Ash Rains — Agha Shahid Ali #1858
• Big River — Zachary Richard #1590
• Big Whorls Have Little Whorls — Lewis F Richardson #797
• Big Yellow Taxi — Joni Mitchell #1005
• Bilbo's Last Song — J R R Tolkien #1112
• Birches — Robert Frost #1272
• Bird — Pablo Neruda #164
• The Birth of Shaka — Oswald Mtshali #1257
• The Birthright — Eiluned Lewis #1297
• Black Rook in Rainy Weather — Sylvia Plath #1048
• Blackberry-picking — Seamus Heaney #934
• A blade of grass — Brian Patten #998
• Bleezer's Ice Cream — Jack Prelutsky #1055
• The Blessed Damozel — Dante Gabriel Rossetti #715
• The Blind Men and the Elephant — John Godfrey Saxe #1179
• The Bloody Orkneys — Hamish Blair #1521
• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks — William Shakespeare #200
• Blowin' in the Wind — Bob Dylan #1707
• The Body Reclining — Grace Nichols #1045
• Bonsai — Edith Tiempo #1931
• The Book of Job — Anonymous #40
• The Book of Pilgrimage, II, 22 — Rainer Maria Rilke #902
• The Bookworm — Anonymous #958
• Borderland — Henry Lawson #1897
• Boston — John Collins Bossidy #365
• Both Sides Now — Joni Mitchell #1556
• Boy at the Window — Richard Wilbur #1885
• The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus — Ogden Nash #1964
• Brahma — Andrew Lang #949
• Brave World — Tony Hoagland #1250
• The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range — Roger Waters #1684
• The Bread-Knife Ballad — Robert Service #1688
• Break, break, break — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #31
• Breakfast — Jacques Prevert #1932
• Breaking Up — Yevgeny Yevtushenko #1532
• Bregalad's Lament — J R R Tolkien #440
• Bright College Days — Tom Lehrer #1906
• Broadway — Mark Doty #1175
• Broken Hearts — Jeremy Reed #1790
• The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken — Vachel Lindsay #1477
• The Brook (excerpt) — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #80
• Brother Mick — Sigerson Clifford #1222
• Brothers — Giuseppe Ungaretti #1481
• Brown Penny — William Butler Yeats #1963
• Brueghel's Winter — Walter de la Mare #483
• Buckingham Palace — A A Milne #1022
• Buddha And The Goddess — Rick Fields #1258
• The Buddha at Kamakura — Rudyard Kipling #379
• Buffalo Bill's/ defunct — e e cummings #139
• The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna — Charles Wolfe #115
• Butterfly — S Thomas Ansell #563
• The Butterfly — Arun Kolatkar #680
• By Heart — John Thomas #1089
• By The Sea — Christina Rossetti #140
• By-the-Way — Patrick MacGill #186
• Byzantium — William Butler Yeats #60

C

• The Cable Ship — Harry Edmund Martinson #1065
• Cain and Abel — Paul Durcan #1242
• The Cake That Drifts In Water — Ho Xuan Huong #617
• Caliban at Sunset — P G Wodehouse #408
• Call Me by My True Names — Thich Nhat Hanh #1944
• Calling it Quits — Aimee Mann #1871
• The Camp — Mary Robinson #209
• Candlesong — Lee Tzu Pheng #925
• The Canonization — John Donne #866
• The Cantelope — Bayard Taylor #369
• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night (Delia LIV) — Samuel Daniel #1009
• Carentan O Carentan — Louis Simpson #1013
• Cargoes — John Masefield #74
• Carmen XLVI — Gaius Valerius Catullus #1706
• Carpe Diem Baby — James Hetfield #1341
• The Carpenter's Son — A E Housman #1262
• Casabianca — Elizabeth Bishop #999
• Casabianca — Felicia Hemans #1000
• Casey At The Bat — Ernest Lawrence Thayer #90
• Cat — Jibanananda Das #662
• Cat — J R R Tolkien #1008
• The Cat and the Moon — William Butler Yeats #577
• Cat in an Empty Apartment — Wislawa Szymborska #1608
• The Cataract of Lodore — Robert Southey #652
• Cats — A S J Tessimond #1010
• Caught in the Rain on My Way to the Sandy Lake — Su Shi (Su Dongpo) #1470
• Caught in the Undertow — Christopher Morley #553
• Causa Belli — Andrew Motion #1143
• Central Park at Dusk — Sara Teasdale #464
• certain maxims of archy — Don Marquis #122
• Chain Lightning — Steely Dan #965
• The Chambered Nautilus — Oliver Wendell Holmes #1705
• Channel Firing — Thomas Hardy #939
• Chant for Dark Hours — Dorothy Parker #560
• Chapter Heading — Ernest Hemingway #976
• Chard Whitlow — Henry Reed #468
• Charge of the Light Brigade — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #355
• The Chariot — Emily Dickinson #458
• Charlie Freak — Steely Dan #921
• The Cherry Tree Carol — Traditional #1578
• Cherrylog Road — James Dickey #1193
• Chicago — Carl Sandburg #5
• Chief Seattle's Reply — Chief Sealth (Seattle) #184
• Child — Sylvia Plath #366
• Child of Europe — Czeslaw Milosz #837
• Childhood — Frances Cornford #1867
• Children — Kahlil Gibran #1194
• The Children’s Hour — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #1396
• A Child's Nightmare — Robert Graves #663
• The Chilterns — Rupert Brooke #514
• Chorus from 'Atalanta in Calydon' — Algernon Charles Swinburne #857
• Christ in the Universe — Alice Meynell #1927
• Christian — Ambrose Bierce #924
• Christmas Eve — Bill Watterson #1369
• Christmas Oratio — W H Auden #1413
• Cinderella — Anne Sexton #978
• Cinderella — Roald Dahl #1416
• The Cinnamon Peeler — Michael Ondaatje #1516
• The City in the Sea — Edgar Allan Poe #141
• Clancy of the Overflow — A B "Banjo" Paterson #566
• Clenched Soul — Pablo Neruda #941
• Clerihews — Edmund Clerihew Bentley #207
• Climbing You — Erica Jong #1322
• Clockwork Doll — Dalia Ravikovitch #1754
• The Clod and the Pebble — William Blake #1452
• Coda — Octavio Paz #442
• A Code Poem For The French Resistance — Leo Marks #197
• Coffee In Heaven — John Agard #1071
• The Cold Within — James Patrick Kinney #1248
• Cologne — Samuel Taylor Coleridge #361
• The Colour of His Hair — A E Housman #1412
• Come, My Celia — Ben Jonson #1465
• Come, Night; Come, Romeo — William Shakespeare #570
• Come Together — John Lennon #995
• Come-By-Chance — A B "Banjo" Paterson #1277
• The Comforters — Dora Sigerson Shorter #470
• Comin' Thro the Rye — Robert Burns #675
• The Coming War — Sam Walter Foss #455
• Comment — Dorothy Parker #192
• Common Cold — Ogden Nash #325
• The Common Collection of Distichs (Excerpts) — Dionysius Cato #1269
• The Common Cormorant — Christopher Isherwood #1111
• A Complaint — William Wordsworth #759
• Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 — William Wordsworth #462
• The Composer — W H Auden #1845
• Conceit — Mervyn Peake #664
• Concerto for Double Bass — John Fuller #963
• The Connoisseuse of Slugs — Sharon Olds #1003
• Conquistador — Keith Reid #743
• The Consecration Of Coffee — Rafael Jesús González #1074
• A Considerable Speck — Robert Frost #917
• Consolation for Tamar — A E Stallings #1847
• Contagion — Spike Milligan #1044
• Contours — Noel Coward #444
• A Contribution to Statistics — Wislawa Szymborska #1267
• The Conundrum of the Workshops — Rudyard Kipling #305
• The Cool Web — Robert Graves #298
• The Coromandel Fishers — Sarojini Naidu #1612
• Corsica — Gerard Bacher #1015
• Cottleston Pie — A A Milne #91
• Couplets — Thomas Lynch #461
• Covering Two Years — Weldon Kees #1740
• A Cradle Song — William Butler Yeats #1633
• A Cranefly in September — Ted Hughes #1306
• The Cremation of Sam McGee — Robert Service #698
• The cricket sang — Emily Dickinson #950
• Critics Nightwatch — Gwen Harwood #1399
• Crossing the Frontier — A D Hope #1807
• Crucible — Carl Sandburg #205
• Cuckoo Song — Anonymous #1709
• Curly-locks — Traditional #1686
• The Curse — J M Synge #1519

D

• Daddy — Sylvia Plath #404
• Daffodils — William Wordsworth #63
• The Dalliance of the Eagles — Walt Whitman #268
• The Dark and Turbulent Sea — Stephen Dobyns #657
• The Darkling Thrush — Thomas Hardy #977
• The Day Flies Off Without Me — John Stammers #1960
• Day Flight — Jack Davis #1959
• The Day is Done — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #884
• The Day Lady Died — Frank O'Hara #722
• The Day That You Love Me — Alfredo Lepera #1355
• A Daydream — Emily Bronte #1942
• Days — Philip Larkin #100
• Dead Man's Chest — Robert Louis Stevenson #1943
• Dead Man's Dump — Isaac Rosenberg #746
• A Dead Mole — Andrew Young #168
• The Dead Wingman — Randall Jarrell #1957
• Deadline — Barbara Kingsolver #1212
• dear Captain Poetry — bpNichol #189
• Dear Mr Lee — U A Fanthorpe #488
• Death — Thomas Hood #672
• Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnets: X) — John Donne #796
• Death News — Allen Ginsberg #1133
• Death of a Friendship — Harry Guest #1085
• The Death of Emmett Till — Bob Dylan #1151
• The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner — Randall Jarrell #707
• The Death Of The Bird — A D Hope #571
• Death the Leveller — James Shirley #942
• Decalogue — Ambrose Bierce #735
• Dedication — Salman Rushdie #1359
• Deep Sorriness Atonement Song — Glyn Maxwell #602
• A Deep-Sworn Vow — William Butler Yeats #1950
• Delay — Elizabeth Jennings #249
• Delayed Action — Christian Morgenstern #753
• Delight In Disorder — Robert Herrick #332
• The Deluge — G K Chesterton #1746
• The Dentist — A P Herbert #1830
• Description — Shel Silverstein #1850
• Desiderata — Max Ehrmannn #761
• Desolation Row — Bob Dylan #227
• The Destruction of Sennacherib — George Gordon, Lord Byron #718
• Devonshire Street W.1 — John Betjeman #1050
• The Diameter of the Bomb — Yehuda Amichai #1448
• The Diatonic Dittymunch — Jack Prelutsky #899
• Diatribe Against the Dead — Angel Gonzalez #1751
• Did I Miss Anything — Tom Wayman #1940
• Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free) — Traditional #1185
• Dilemma — David Budbill #1752
• The Dilettante: A Modern Type — Paul Laurence Dunbar #1081
• The Diplomatic Platypus — Patrick Barrington #1028
• A Dirge — Percy Bysshe Shelley #500
• Dirge Without Music — Edna St Vincent Millay #926
• Disabled — Wilfred Owen #1211
• The Discovery of Daily Experience — William Stafford #1283
• The Discovery of the Pacific — Thom Gunn #1851
• Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock — Wallace Stevens #154
• Disobedience — A A Milne #463
• The Distracted Centipede — Anonymous #1664
• The Divine Image — William Blake #771
• Diving into the Wreck — Adrienne Rich #1787
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night — Dylan Thomas #38
• Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep — Mary Frye #1704
• The Doctor — A P Herbert #1800
• Doggerel by a Senior Citizen — W H Auden #1771
• The Dolly on the Dustcart — Pam Ayres #1755
• Dolor — Theodore Roethke #1075
• Don Juan: Canto I (excerpt) — George Gordon, Lord Byron #1852
• Donal Og — Anonymous #974
• The Dong with a Luminous Nose — Edward Lear #628
• The Donkey — G K Chesterton #1530
• Don't Go Far Off — Pablo Neruda #1149
• Don't let that horse — Lawrence Ferlinghetti #1836
• A Doubt If It Be Us — Emily Dickinson #891
• The Dove — Leonard Cohen #1949
• Dover Beach — Matthew Arnold #89
• The Dover Bitch — Anthony Hecht #1930
• Down With Fanatics! — Roger Woddis #1049
• Dreadful — Shel Silverstein #1247
• The Dream — George Gordon, Lord Byron #1252
• A Dream at Night — Mei Yao Ch'en #1254
• Dream Deferred — Langston Hughes #1006
• Dream Interpretation — Piet Hein #1653
• The Dream of Eugene Aram — Thomas Hood #720
• A Dream Pang — Robert Frost #1276
• Dream Song 14 — John Berryman #1368
• A Dream Within a Dream — Edgar Allan Poe #1715
• Dream-Pedlary — Thomas Lovell Beddoes #1253
• Dreams — Robert Herrick #665
• Drinking Song — J K Stephen #1473
• A Drinking Song — William Butler Yeats #1811
• The Dry Salvages: Canto III — T S Eliot #1443
• Dublin — Louis MacNeice #1362
• Dulce Et Decorum Est — Wilfred Owen #132
• During Wind and Rain — Thomas Hardy #96
• Dust — Carl Sandburg #163
• Dust — Rupert Brooke #1244
• The Dynasts — Thomas Hardy #1749

E

• Each in his own Tongue — William Herbert Carruth #1197
• The Eagle (a fragment) — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #15
• Eärendil was a mariner — J R R Tolkien #93
• Earth — John Hall Wheelock #432
• Easter, 1916 — William Butler Yeats #1011
• Easter Wings — George Herbert #567
• Eating Poetry — Mark Strand #676
• The Ecclesiast — John Ashbery #1425
• The Echoing Green — William Blake #1663
• Edward, Edward — Anonymous #656
• Electronically Yours — Gerald Jonas #1418
• Elegies — Guillevic #751
• Elegy — Ambrose Bierce #400
• Elegy — Machine Head #1804
• An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog — Oliver Goldsmith #286
• Elegy to a Calf (Lamento pastorello) — Sarah Binks #1560
• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard — Thomas Gray #1091
• The Elements — Tom Lehrer #490
• Elephants Are Different to Different People — Carl Sandburg #1181
• Elizabeth — Michael Ondaatje #1708
• The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet — Guy Wetmore Carryl #94
• The Emperor of Ice-Cream — Wallace Stevens #180
• Emptiness — Jalaluddin Rumi #841
• The End — A A Milne #1097
• The End of the World — Archibald MacLeish #457
• English Monarchs — Anonymous #1361
• Enigma — Duncan Campbell Scott #478
• Envoi (1919) — Ezra Pound #583
• Epigram — Martial #856
• Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness — Alexander Pope #666
• Episode of Hands — Hart Crane #1837
• Epitaph for a Darling Lady — Dorothy Parker #486
• Epitaph for the Race of Man: X — Edna St Vincent Millay #1589
• Epitaph on a pessimist — Thomas Hardy #414
• Epitaph on a tyrant — W H Auden #1038
• Epitaph on Charles II — John Wilmot #669
• Erinna — Antipater of Sidon #1493
• The Erl-King — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #920
• Especially when the October wind — Dylan Thomas #568
• An Ethical Grook — Piet Hein #1523
• Etiquette — W S Gilbert #1285
• Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare — Edna St Vincent Millay #604
• Eurydice — Sue Hubbard #1367
• Even If You Grab A Piece of Time — Ruth Forman #1394
• Even Such is Time — Sir Walter Raleigh #1832
• Evening — Gulzar #1296
• Every Town a Home Town — Kaniyan Punkunran #1459
• Everybody Knows — Leonard Cohen #1918
• Everyone Sang — Siegfried Sassoon #1030
• Everything Changes — Cicely Herbert #938
• Evolution — Langdon Smith #550
• Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom — A K Ramanujan #1692
• Executive — John Betjeman #543
• Exequy on his Wife — Henry King #1600
• An Exile's Lament — Jacqueline Carey #1454
• The Explorer — Rudyard Kipling #1586
• The Explosion — Philip Larkin #1387
• Extended Family — A K Ramanujan #434
• Eyes — Czeslaw Milosz #1758

F

• A Fable — J H Frere #1287
• The face that launch'd a thousand ships — Christopher Marlowe #75
• Faces in the Street — Henry Lawson #1016
• Faint Music — Walter de la Mare #1024
• Fairies — Marchette Gaylord Chute #640
• The Fairies — William Allingham #919
• Faithless Sally Brown — Thomas Hood #1331
• The Fall of Rome — W H Auden #494
• Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord — Ezra Pound #524
• Farewell — Agha Shahid Ali #1129
• A Farewell — Charles Kingsley #1191
• Fast Food — Richard Thompson #932
• Fata Morgana — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #1646
• Fear no more the heat o' the sun — William Shakespeare #477
• Fern Hill — Dylan Thomas #138
• The Fiddle and the Drum — Joni Mitchell #1676
• Finding a Long Gray Hair — Jane Kenyon #1004
• Fine Days — Orhan Veli #1534
• A Fine Thing — Rosemary Dobson #1434
• Fire and Ice — Robert Frost #779
• Firelight — Edwin Arlington Robinson #1874
• Fires — Joseph Campbell #338
• First Fig — Edna St Vincent Millay #34
• A First on TV — David Ignatow #1202
• The Fish — Elizabeth Bishop #1780
• Fisher v. Lowe — Michigan Court of Appeals #1725
• The Fitful Alternations of the Rain — Percy Bysshe Shelley #416
• Five Songs - II — W H Auden #708
• Five Ways to Kill a Man — Edwin Brock #105
• The Floor and the Ceiling — William Jay Smith #1086
• The Flowers — Rudyard Kipling #1332
• The Flower-School — Rabindranath Tagore #673
• The Fly — William Blake #97
• Flying at Night — Ted Kooser #1796
• Fog — Carl Sandburg #282
• Foolish, not Social — Sankha Ghosh #1765
• Footsteps — Constantine Cavafy #296
• For A Poet — Countee Cullen #598
• For an Old Girlfriend, Long Dead — William Logan #1757
• For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty — Countee Cullen #1497
• For The Fallen — Laurence Binyon #765
• For the Man Who Taught Tricks to Owls — David Wagoner #1610
• For the Union Dead — Robert Lowell #1295
• The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower — Dylan Thomas #58
• Forced March — Miklos Radnoti #1325
• Forever — Charles S Calverley #255
• The Former Miner Returns from His First Day as a Service Worker (at a McDonald's somewhere in Appalachia) — Mark Defoe #537
• A Forsaken Garden — Algernon Charles Swinburne #1308
• Frogs — Norman MacCaig #863
• From A Letter From Lesbia — Dorothy Parker #1467
• From a Railway Carriage — Robert Louis Stevenson #84
• From Among Hundreds of Masts — Mihail Eminescu #381
• from An Essay on Man — Alexander Pope #331
• From Beppo — George Gordon, Lord Byron #1601
• From Catullus V — Sir Walter Raleigh #1464
• from Midsummer — Derek Walcott #1953
• from The Dog Beneath The Skin — W H Auden #728
• from The Estranging Sea — Derek Walcott #1592
• from The Faerie Queen — Edmund Spenser #328
• From the Frontier of Writing — Seamus Heaney #1806
• From the Wreck — Adam Lindsay Gordon #1278
• Frost at Midnight — Samuel Taylor Coleridge #1606
• Frustration — Dorothy Parker #878
• Full Fathom Five — William Shakespeare #16
• Full many a glorious morning have I seen (Sonnets XXXIII) — William Shakespeare #219
• Full Moon and Little Frieda — Ted Hughes #723
• Funeral Blues — W H Auden #256
• Further in Summer than the Birds — Emily Dickinson #1761
• Futility — Wilfred Owen #288

G

• Gacela of the Dark Death — Federico García Lorca #1439
• The Garden — Ezra Pound #191
• The Garden — Andrew Marvell #1693
• The Gardener (LXXXV) — Rabindranath Tagore #1231
• The Gates of Damascus — James Elroy Flecker #518
• Gay Chaps at the Bar — Gwendolyn Brooks #1651
• Geetanjali — Rabindranath Tagore #1714
• The General — Siegfried Sassoon #1789
• The General Public — Stephen Vincent Benét #983
• Generations — Amy Lowell #102
• Geometry — Alfred Kreymborg #306
• Geometry — Rita Dove #599
• Get Drunk! — Charles Baudelaire #581
• Ghazal of the Lagoon — John Drury #1161
• Ghazal (Untitled) — Ghalib #1160
• The Gift — Carole Oles #533
• Gift — Leonard Cohen #624
• The Gift of God - — Edwin Arlington Robinson #300
• The Gift Outright — Robert Frost #994
• The Gipsy Girl — Ralph Hodgson #517
• Girl in a Wheelchair Dancing to U2 in Lansdowne Stadium 1997 — Mark Granier #1371
• Gitanjali (excerpt) — Rabindranath Tagore #1772
• Give All To Love — Ralph Waldo Emerson #1616
• Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff — John Keats #1496
• A Glass of Beer — David O'Bruadair #185
• The Glove and the Lions — James Leigh Hunt #275
• Gnomic Stanzas — Anonymous #333
• Go and play in the middle — John Hegley #1583
• Go, Lovely Rose — Edmund Waller #582
• Goats and Monkeys — Derek Walcott #1319
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen — Trad #647
• God's Grandeur — Gerard Manley Hopkins #606
• Going to Sleep — Hermann Hesse #1357
• The Golden Road to Samarkand — James Elroy Flecker #509
• The Golf Links — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn #216
• Gone Are The Days — Norman MacCaig #755
• Gone Fishing — Chris Rea #1415
• Good — R S Thomas #392
• Good Gnus — P G Wodehouse #1537
• Good Linemen Live in a Closed World — James Whitehead #1505
• A Good Poem — Roger McGough #1100
• A Good Poem — Tukaram #1575
• The Good-morrow — John Donne #1168
• Grackles, Goodbye — Robert Penn Warren #968
• The Grain of Sound — Robert Morgan #1391
• The Grammar Lesson — Steve Kowit #1948
• Grand Rapids Cricket Club — Julia A Moore #948
• Grass — Carl Sandburg #1747
• The Grass so little has to do - — Emily Dickinson #341
• A Grave — Marianne Moore #986
• The Great Bird of Love — Paul Zimmer #346
• The Great Grey Plain — Henry Lawson #569
• The Great Panjandrum — Samuel Foote #208
• A Great Poem — Gavin Ewart #283
• A Green Crab's Shell — Mark Doty #1838
• The Green Eye of the Yellow God — J Milton Hayes #1124
• The Green Hills of Earth — Robert A Heinlein #241
• Greensleeves — Anonymous #1027
• Grendel — Anonymous #897
• The Grey Squirrel — Humbert Wolfe #766
• A Grievance — J K Stephen #1889
• Growltiger's Last Stand — T S Eliot #574
• Grown-up — Edna St Vincent Millay #817
• The Gruffalo — Julia Donaldson #1615
• The Guards Came Through — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #181
• Gunga Din — Rudyard Kipling #1127
• Gus: The Theatre Cat — T S Eliot #955
• Gypsy Songs — Ben Jonson #313

H

• The Hag — Robert Herrick #593
• Haiku — Matsuo Basho #23
• Haiku — Matsuo Basho #56
• Haiku — Yosa Buson #277
• Haiku — Yosa Buson #712
• Haiku — Matsuo Basho #802
• Haiku — Yosa Buson #908
• Haiku — Michael P Garofalo #1645
• Hall and Knight — E V Rieu #601
• Hamlet — Spike Milligan #1207
• The Hand That Signed The Paper — Dylan Thomas #1035
• Hap — Thomas Hardy #1201
• Happiness — A A Milne #1051
• Happiness — Raymond Carver #1099
• A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall — Bob Dylan #1770
• Harp Song of the Dane Women — Rudyard Kipling #143
• Harry Wilmans — Edgar Lee Masters #1875
• Hawk Roosting — Ted Hughes #42
• He chanted a song of wizardry — J R R Tolkien #142
• He Fell Among Thieves — Sir Henry Newbolt #456
• He wishes for the cloths of heaven — William Butler Yeats #597
• Health Fanatic — John Cooper Clarke #1549
• The Health-Food Diner — Maya Angelou #383
• Heaven — Rupert Brooke #1579
• The Heaven of Animals — James Dickey #1657
• Helen — H D #449
• Helen in Egypt — H D #689
• Hello In There — John Prine #1966
• Hemingway Never Did This — Charles Bukowski #1420
• Her Beauty — Max Plowman #551
• Heraclitus — William Johnson Cory #380
• Here Dead We Lie — A E Housman #1227
• Hesperus — John Clare #1842
• Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye — Leonard Cohen #1823
• Hiawatha's Departure — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #362
• Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus — Francis Brett Young #1440
• High Flight — Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee #276
• The Highwayman — Alfred Noyes #13
• The Hill — Nissim Ezekiel #1426
• A Hillside Thaw — Robert Frost #1284
• The Hippopotamus — Hilaire Belloc #124
• The Hippopotamus — Oliver Herford #844
• The Hippopotamus — T S Eliot #846
• The Hippopotamus — Ogden Nash #848
• His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell — A D Hope #1567
• History of the Night — Jorge Luis Borges #584
• H.M.S. Foudroyant — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #1121
• Home Thoughts From Abroad — Robert Browning #65
• Home-thoughts, from the Sea — Robert Browning #1117
• Hoochie Coochie Man — Willie Dixon #173
• Hope — Edith Sodergran #1122
• Hope — Emily Dickinson #1382
• Horatius — Thomas Babbington Macaulay #489
• The Horses — Edwin Muir #1378
• Hospital Haiku — Dr K D Beernink #1239
• House on a Cliff — Louis MacNeice #1062
• The House on the Hill — Edwin Arlington Robinson #872
• The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm — Wallace Stevens #1249
• How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted — Guy Wetmore Carryl #273
• How do I love thee? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning #269
• How Doth the Little Crocodile — Lewis Carroll #964
• Howl — Allen Ginsberg #293
• The Hug — Thom Gunn #637
• Huge Vapours Brood Above the Clifted Shore — Charlotte Smith #345
• The Hunter — Ogden Nash #1825
• Hunters in the Snow — William Carlos Williams #484
• Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel — Joseph Langland #485
• The Huron Carol — St Jean de Brébeuf #1794
• Hyacinths — Muslih-uh-Din Sa'di #1882
• Hymn to Diana — Ben Jonson #724

I

• I Am — John Clare #1507
• I am listening to Istanbul — Orhan Veli #819
• I am Raftery the poet — Anthony Raftery #171
• I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre — Anonymous #175
• I am Very Bothered — Simon Armitage #1310
• I Asked No Other Thing — Emily Dickinson #1925
• I Bended Unto Me a Bough of May — Tom Brown #527
• I Cannot Live with You — Emily Dickinson #1436
• I Come and Stand at Every Door — Nazim Hikmet #742
• I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell — Tom Brown #877
• I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You — Pablo Neruda #1798
• I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden — Percy Bysshe Shelley #1946
• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain — Emily Dickinson #871
• I Had a Hippopotamus — Patrick Barrington #1576
• I Hear a River Thro' the Valley Wander — Trumbull Stickney #396
• I Hear America Singing — Walt Whitman #246
• I Met a Lady in the Wood — Patrick Barrington #1596
• I Missed His Book, But I Read His Name — John Updike #788
• I Need Air — Alan Lerner #1954
• I Remember, I Remember — Philip Larkin #73
• I remember to have wept with a sense of the unnecessary — William Empson #1880
• I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing — Walt Whitman #508
• I Say I Say I Say — Simon Armitage #596
• I Sit and Look Out — Walt Whitman #1042
• I So Liked Spring — Charlotte Mew #1141
• I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight — George Santayana #1475
• I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed — Emily Dickinson #1743
• I Want To Write — Margaret Walker #822
• I will put Chaos into fourteen lines — Edna St Vincent Millay #905
• I Wish My Tongue were a Quiver — Louis Alexander MacKay #876
• I wish to leave the world — José Martí #452
• I Wish You Were a Wave of the Sea — John Whitworth #360
• I Wrote A Good Omelet — Nikki Giovanni #632
• Ice — Anonymous #145
• The Ice-Cart — Wilfred Gibson #622
• The Icelandic Language — Bill Holm #1349
• Icham of Irlaunde — Anonymous #372
• The Idea of Order at Key West — Wallace Stevens #988
• The Ideal — James Fenton #1380
• The Idiot Boy — Rudyard Kipling #962
• If — Rudyard Kipling #271
• if everything happens that can't be done (LIV) — e e cummings #1132
• If Gray Had Had to Write His Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River Instead of in That of Stoke Poges — Sir John Collings Squire #1680
• If I have made, my lady, intricate — e e cummings #454
• If You Forget Me — Pablo Neruda #1410
• If you were coming in the fall — Emily Dickinson #529
• I'm Explaining a Few Things — Pablo Neruda #816
• I'm Going To Say It Now — Phil Ochs #1909
• I'm Nobody! Who are you? — Emily Dickinson #711
• I'm not Lonely — Nikki Giovanni #1540
• I'm not saying anything against Alexander — Bertolt Brecht #927
• Impressions of a Pilot — Gary Claude Stoker #1951
• In a Bath Teashop — John Betjeman #1810
• In A Disused Graveyard — Robert Frost #1472
• In a Library — Emily Dickinson #1347
• In a Station of the Metro — Ezra Pound #319
• In an Artist's Studio — Christina Rossetti #1712
• In California During the Gulf War — Denise Levertov #1184
• In Flanders Fields — John McCrae #11
• In Harbor — Constantine Cavafy #522
• In Just- — e e cummings #1635
• In Memoriam A. H. H., Section 5 — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #1809
• In Memory of W. B. Yeats — W H Auden #50
• In my craft or sullen art — Dylan Thomas #476
• In Paris with You — James Fenton #1142
• In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself — Wislawa Szymborska #1848
• In Praise of My Sister — Wislawa Szymborska #1546
• In Prison — William Morris #1639
• In Railway Halls, on Pavements Near the Traffic — Stephen Spender #836
• In Search of Cinderella — Shel Silverstein #1182
• In the desert — Stephen Crane #196
• In the Microscope — Miroslav Holub #800
• In the Middle of the Road — Carlos Drummond de Andrade #1471
• In the Poppy Field — James Stephens #1134
• In the Quiet Night — Li Po #794
• In the Smoking Car — Richard Wilbur #322
• In the Waiting Room — Elizabeth Bishop #734
• In Time of 'The Breaking Of Nations' — Thomas Hardy #429
• In Time of War, XII — W H Auden #913
• In Westminster Abbey — John Betjeman #613
• Incident — Norman MacCaig #699
• Incident — Countee Cullen #1304
• Incident of the French Camp — Robert Browning #778
• The Indian Serenade — Percy Bysshe Shelley #399
• Indiscipline — King Crimson #745
• Indoor Games near Newbury — John Betjeman #1098
• An Infinite Number of Monkeys — Ronald Koertge #1483
• Inland — Edna St Vincent Millay #317
• The Inner Part — Louis Simpson #1449
• The Insect God — Edward Gorey #811
• Insensibility — Wilfred Owen #232
• Instant Fish — Peter Porter #64
• The Instruction Manual — John Ashbery #1150
• The International Terminal — Les Murray #1958
• Intimates — D H Lawrence #110
• Introduction to Poetry — Billy Collins #1397
• Introduction To Poetry — Billy Collins #1773
• The Invaders — A D Hope #1774
• Inversnaid — Gerard Manley Hopkins #3
• Invictus — William Ernest Henley #221
• The Invitation — Oriah Mountain Dreamer #738
• Ireland, Ireland — Sir Henry Newbolt #41
• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death — William Butler Yeats #32
• Is there any reward? — Hilaire Belloc #176
• The Isles of Greece — George Gordon, Lord Byron #547
• It dropped so low in my regard — Emily Dickinson #829
• It Isn't Time That's Passing — Ruskin Bond #1364
• It was not death, for I stood up — Emily Dickinson #1649
• Ithaka — Constantine Cavafy #217
• It's Dark in Here — Shel Silverstein #1670
• It's raining in love — Richard Brautigan #1456
• I've Dreamed of You So Much — Robert Desnos #1339
• I've Got a Little List — W S Gilbert #135

J

• Jabberwocky — Lewis Carroll #52
• The January Man — Dave Goulder #648
• Japanese Jokes — Peter Porter #198
• Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair — Stephen Foster #418
• Jenny Kissed Me — James Leigh Hunt #103
• Jerusalem — William Blake #26
• Jewish Wedding in Bombay — Nissim Ezekiel #1570
• Jim — Hilaire Belloc #809
• Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle — John Hay #1286
• Jimmy Giuffre Plays 'The Easy Way' — Adrian Mitchell #337
• Joan of Arc — Leonard Cohen #744
• John Anderson My Jo — Robert Burns #19
• John Keats — J D Salinger #1500
• John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore — William Butler Yeats #918
• John Muir on Mt. Ritter — Gary Snyder #1541
• The Jolly Company — Rupert Brooke #1857
• The Journey of the Magi — T S Eliot #291
• The Joys of the Road — Bliss Carman #1717
• Jubilate Agno — Christopher Smart #661
• Juggler, Magician, Fool - A Pantoum — Peter Schaeffer #195
• Juliet — Hilaire Belloc #315
• jump mama — Kurtis Lamkin #1629
• The Jungle Husband — Stevie Smith #421
• Just a Smack at Auden — William Empson #1311

K

• Keeping Things Whole — Mark Strand #453
• The Kerry Christmas Carol — Sigerson Clifford #970
• The King — Rudyard Kipling #1902
• King of the River — Stanley Kunitz #501
• The King's Breakfast — A A Milne #562
• Kipling's Vermont — Ogden Nash #388
• The Knight's Portrait — Geoffrey Chaucer #327
• The Kraken — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #896
• Krishnakali — Rabindranath Tagore #367
• Kubla Khan — Samuel Taylor Coleridge #30

L

• l(a — e e cummings #1956
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci — John Keats #182
• La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl) — T S Eliot #9
• Lady Xi — Wang Wei #855
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree — William Butler Yeats #309
• L'Allegro — John Milton #279
• L'Allegro — John Milton #281
• The Lama — Ogden Nash #1080
• The Lamb — William Blake #1405
• A Lame Beggar — John Donne #403
• Lament for Boromir — J R R Tolkien #46
• Lament for Eorl the Young — J R R Tolkien #220
• Lament for Sion — Lewys Glyn Cothi #1152
• Lament for Thomas MacDonagh — Francis Ledwidge #1607
• Lament for Zenocrate — Christopher Marlowe #506
• Landscape: I — bpNichol #497
• Last Answers — Carl Sandburg #713
• The Last Laugh — Wilfred Owen #1037
• The Last Man — Thomas Lovell Beddoes #595
• The Last of the Light Brigade — Rudyard Kipling #357
• Last Poems #13 — Rabindranath Tagore #1203
• Last Poems: XI — A E Housman #539
• The Last Quadrille — Winthrop Mackworth Praed #1919
• Last Sonnet — John Keats #696
• The Latest Decalogue — Arthur Hugh Clough #159
• Law Like Love — W H Auden #1502
• The Law Locks Up the Man or Woman — Anonymous #1120
• The Law of the Yukon — Robert Service #781
• The Law the Lawyers Know About — H D C Pepler #1392
• The Lawyers Know Too Much — Carl Sandburg #1393
• Lay of Ancient Rome — Thomas Ybarra #499
• The Lay of the Troubled Golfer — Edgar Guest #496
• Lay your sleeping head, my love — W H Auden #307
• The Leaden-Eyed — Vachel Lindsay #1069
• The Leader — Roger McGough #1788
• Learn by Heart This Poem of Mine — George Faludy #1228
• Learning — Judith Viorst #1694
• Leaves of Grass, Section 14, Poem 6 — Walt Whitman #1760
• Leave-Taking — Algernon Charles Swinburne #923
• Leda and the Swan — William Butler Yeats #451
• Lepanto — G K Chesterton #1280
• the lesson of the moth — Don Marquis #36
• Let America be America Again — Langston Hughes #1802
• Let Evening Come — Jane Kenyon #1066
• Let It Go — William Empson #233
• Let Me Die a Youngman's Death — Roger McGough #1627
• Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet CXVI) — William Shakespeare #363
• Let Me Think — Faiz Ahmed Faiz #1442
• Let the memorial hill remember — Yehuda Amichai #1548
• Let's be discreet — Amanda Townsend #1288
• Leviathan — Anonymous #903
• The Lie — Sir Walter Raleigh #1289
• Lighter than a feather — Diana Bridge #536
• The Lights of London — Louise Imogen Guiney #610
• Like Snow — Robert Graves #467
• A Likeness — Willa Sibert Cather #705
• The Limerick Packs Laughs Anatomical — Anonymous #909
• Lineage — Ted Hughes #671
• The Line-Gang — Robert Frost #1535
• Lines on and from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" — Franklin P Adams #1017
• Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin — Patrick Kavanagh #1878
• The Lion and Albert — Marriott Edgar #1671
• The Lion For Real — Allen Ginsberg #1674
• The List of Most Difficult Words — Len Roberts #1291
• The Listeners — Walter de la Mare #2
• Litany — Billy Collins #1095
• The Litany for Doneraile — Patrick O'Kelly #266
• The Little Boy and the Old Man — Shel Silverstein #996
• Little Gidding — T S Eliot #532
• Little Tree — e e cummings #1581
• Lobachevsky — Tom Lehrer #1316
• The Lobster Quadrille — Lewis Carroll #935
• Loch Lomond — Lady John Scott #719
• The Loch Ness Monster's Song — Edwin Morgan #215
• Lochinvar — Sir Walter Scott #125
• Locksley Hall — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #1106
• London — William Blake #1431
• London, 1802 — William Wordsworth #128
• London Airport — Christopher Logue #1351
• Long Distance II — Tony Harrison #969
• The Look — Sara Teasdale #937
• Look at all those monkeys — Spike Milligan #1554
• Look, Delia, How We 'Steem the Half-blown Rose (Delia XXXIX) — Samuel Daniel #375
• The Looking Glass — Kamala Das #804
• Looking Out — Mitsuye Yamada #1808
• The Lord Chancellor's Song — W S Gilbert #1887
• Lord Ullin's Daughter — Thomas Campbell #199
• the lost baby poem — Lucille Clifton #1246
• A Lost Chord — Adelaide Procter #520
• The Lost Leader — Robert Browning #130
• The Lost Mistress — Robert Browning #1721
• The Lotos-Eaters — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #989
• Lot's Wife — Anna Akhmatova #1511
• Love among the Ruins — Robert Browning #1273
• Love and Tensor Algebra — Stanislaw Lem #1205
• Love bade me welcome — George Herbert #820
• Love: Beginnings — C K Williams #1538
• Love in a Bathtub — Sujata Bhatt #843
• Love Letter — Sylvia Plath #612
• Love Minus Zero / No Limit — Bob Dylan #832
• Love Over Gold — Mark Knopfler #1667
• A Love Poem — Sivakami Velliangiri #1261
• Love Song — Dorothy Parker #1460
• The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock — T S Eliot #193
• Love Sonnet XI — Pablo Neruda #1157
• Love Without Hope — Robert Graves #763
• Loveliest of trees, the cherry now — A E Housman #377
• The Lover Compareth his State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea — Thomas Wyatt #1624
• The Lovers — Phoebe Cary #915
• Lovers and a Reflection — Charles S Calverley #1068
• Love's Philosophy — Percy Bysshe Shelley #531
• The Lowest Trees Have Tops — Edward Dyer #1839
• Lucile: Part 1, Canto 2 — Owen Meredith #1461
• Luke Havergal — Edwin Arlington Robinson #1219
• Luthien Tinuviel — J R R Tolkien #1138
• Lying — Jane Hirshfield #1833
• Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota — James Wright #616

M

• Macavity: The Mystery Cat — T S Eliot #258
• Mad About You — Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner #287
• Mad Dogs and Englishmen — Noel Coward #1896
• The Mad Gardener's Song — Lewis Carroll #265
• The Mad Philosopher — Ambrose Bierce #879
• Madeira, M'Dear — Michael Flanders #1710
• Madhushala (The Tavern) — Harivansh Rai Bachchan #72
• Magna est Veritas — Coventry Patmore #1641
• Mahi-Mahi — Mairead Byrne #1738
• Maiden Name — Philip Larkin #886
• Maintrunk Country Roadsong — Sam Hunt #1565
• The Major General's Song — W S Gilbert #88
• The Maldive Shark — Herman Melville #775
• A Man Doesn't Have Time In His Life — Yehuda Amichai #1398
• A Man Feared... (The Black Riders LVI) — Stephen Crane #253
• The Man He Killed — Thomas Hardy #479
• The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon — J R R Tolkien #643
• The Man into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball — Thomas Lux #1407
• A Man Said to the Universe — Stephen Crane #1200
• The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad — Wallace Stevens #373
• The Man-Moth — Elizabeth Bishop #1395
• March — Boris Pasternak #419
• The March of the Dead — Robert Service #980
• Margaritae Sorori — William Ernest Henley #1206
• Marginalia — Billy Collins #1130
• Mariana in the Moated Grange — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #852
• The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo — Phil Ochs #1843
• Marmion — Sir Walter Scott #495
• Marriage — Gregory Corso #1569
• Marriage a la mode — John Dryden #721
• Marriages Are Made — Eunice deSouza #603
• A Martian Sends A Postcard Home — Craig Raine #131
• The Masque of Anarchy (extract) — Percy Bysshe Shelley #1605
• Math Is Beautiful and So Are You — Becky Dennison Sakellariou #1314
• Mathematical Problem — Bhaskaracharya #1313
• Mathematicians at Work — Judith Saunders #1315
• Matsushima — Matsuo Basho #1021
• Maybe — Carl Sandburg #679
• MCMXIV — Philip Larkin #502
• The Meadow Mouse — Theodore Roethke #267
• Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam — John Lennon #631
• Meeting at Night — Robert Browning #1736
• Meeting Poets — Eunice deSouza #1076
• Meeting Point — Louis MacNeice #1301
• Meeting the British — Paul Muldoon #1153
• mehitabel and her kittens — Don Marquis #1079
• Memorabilia — Robert Browning #425
• Memory — Thomas Bailey Aldrich #236
• Men at Forty — Donald Justice #1647
• Mending Wall — Robert Frost #730
• Mercian Hymns — Geoffrey Hill #37
• The Messenger — H P Lovecraft #692
• The Metre Columbian — Anonymous #561
• Metrical Feet -- A Lesson for a Boy — Samuel Taylor Coleridge #549
• Middle-Age Enthusiasms — Thomas Hardy #1631
• The Midnightmouse — Christian Morgenstern #252
• Midsummer, Tobago — Derek Walcott #993
• Milk for the Cat — Harold Monro #727
• The Mill — Edwin Arlington Robinson #821
• Mimi on the Beach — Jane Siberry #1937
• Miners — Wilfred Owen #1385
• Miniver Cheevy — Edwin Arlington Robinson #234
• A Minuet of Mozart's — Sara Teasdale #1634
• Miranda — W H Auden #762
• Mirror — Sylvia Plath #678
• Mirror, Mirror — Spike Milligan #1661
• The Misanthrope — Moliere #1643
• Miss Charlotte Brown, Librarian, Goes Mad — Felix Jung #907
• Miss Gee — W H Auden #1298
• Missed — P G Wodehouse #179
• Missing Dates — William Empson #202
• Misty — Ruth Padel #1148
• Mmenson — Edward Kamau Braithwaite #1178
• The Modern Hiawatha — George A Strong #559
• A Modest Wit — Selleck Osborn #1890
• Monet Refuses the Operation — Lisel Mueller #1737
• Money — Philip Larkin #1330
• The Moon and the Yew tree — Sylvia Plath #881
• The Moon is Distant from the Sea — Emily Dickinson #1786
• Moonrise — Gerard Manley Hopkins #260
• The Moonsheep — Christian Morgenstern #424
• The More Loving One — W H Auden #618
• Morning — Sara Teasdale #113
• Morning — Robert Creeley #552
• Morning Song of Senlin — Conrad Aiken #525
• Morning XXVII — Pablo Neruda #1263
• Mort aux Chats — Peter Porter #572
• Moses' Poem — Anonymous #1783
• A mosquito was heard to complain — Dr D D Perrin #801
• 'MOST ANGLERS ARE VERY HUMANE'--Daily Paper — Norman Rowland Gale #284
• The Mother — Padraic H Pearse #1188
• Mother's Little Helper — Mick Jagger and Keith Richards #933
• The Mouse's Tale — Lewis Carroll #600
• The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ — Omar Khayyam #545
• Mr Toad — Kenneth Grahame #799
• Mrs. Thatcher — Sue Townsend #1609
• Mr.Tambourine Man — Bob Dylan #112
• Mulch — Peter Meinke #815
• Musee des Beaux Arts — W H Auden #68
• Music — Stephen Vincent Benét #1158
• The Music Crept By Us — Leonard Cohen #339
• A Musical Instrument — Elizabeth Barrett Browning #839
• My Death — Raymond Carver #1632
• My Father — Yehuda Amichai #1437
• My Father's Love Letters — Yusef Komunyakaa #1290
• My Last Duchess — Robert Browning #104
• My Library — Lucy Maud Montgomery #1422
• My Little One — Tennessee Williams #1763
• My Lost Youth — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #1166
• My Love is Theosophist — Patrick Barrington #1551
• My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnets CXXX) — William Shakespeare #44
• My Mom and Dad — Bill Watterson #1408
• My Name — Mark Strand #1831
• My November Guest — Robert Frost #1552
• My Rifle (The Creed of a United States Marine) — Maj Gen WH Rupertus #1110
• My Star — Robert Browning #352
• My Sweet, Crushed Angel — Hafiz #447
• My Sweetest Lesbia — Thomas Campion #1466
• Myfanwy at Oxford — John Betjeman #1908
• The Mysterious Naked Man — Alden Nowlan #824
• Myth — Muriel Rukeyser #651

N

• The Name — Alexander Pushkin #760
• Named — Stephen Dunn #1063
• Naming of Parts — Henry Reed #395
• Naming the Stars — Joyce Sutphen #523
• Napoleon — Walter de la Mare #272
• A Narrow Fellow in the Grass — Emily Dickinson #1732
• National Brotherhood Week — Tom Lehrer #1539
• National Identity — F R Scott #782
• The Navajo Night Way Ceremony — Anonymous #344
• Nearer, my God, to Thee — Sarah Flower Adams #806
• The Need of Being Versed in Country Things — Robert Frost #170
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers — Langston Hughes #410
• Nephelidia — Algernon Charles Swinburne #99
• Neutral Tones — Thomas Hardy #1611
• A Newer Kingdom — Anonymous #1952
• next to of course god america i — e e cummings #1072
• Nice To Be Here — Ray Thomas #1924
• Nicholas Cricket — Joyce Maxner #686
• A Night Abroad — Du Fu #1159
• The Night has a Thousand Eyes — Francis William Bourdillon #1240
• Night in Arizona — Sara Teasdale #1856
• Night Is On The Downland — John Masefield #702
• Night Mail — W H Auden #1281
• Night of the Scorpion — Nissim Ezekiel #714
• The Night Piece, To Julia — Robert Herrick #398
• Night Vision — Suzanne Vega #885
• The Night Wind — Emily Bronte #1658
• The Nightingale Near the House — Harold Monro #1822
• Night-Song in the Jungle — Rudyard Kipling #166
• No! — Thomas Hood #251
• No Coward Soul is Mine — Emily Bronte #262
• No, I'll not take the half... — Yevgeny Yevtushenko #850
• No Images — William Waring Cuney #1237
• No One So Much As You — Edward Thomas #1174
• No Road — Philip Larkin #793
• No Second Troy — William Butler Yeats #655
• No Swan So Fine — Marianne Moore #1492
• No worst, there is none — Gerard Manley Hopkins #870
• The Noble Nature — Ben Jonson #301
• nobody loses all the time — e e cummings #1696
• A Noiseless Patient Spider — Walt Whitman #445
• Nonadaptation — Czeslaw Milosz #1731
• The North Ship — Philip Larkin #254
• The North Wind Doth Blow — Anonymous #646
• Northwest Passage — Stan Rogers #783
• Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off — Adrian Mitchell #95
• A Nostalgist's Map of America — Agha Shahid Ali #1401
• Not From The Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck (Sonnets XIV) — William Shakespeare #808
• Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet LV) — William Shakespeare #1574
• Not my Best Side — U A Fanthorpe #438
• Not only the Eskimos — Lisel Mueller #1430
• Not Waving But Drowning — Stevie Smith #1180
• A Note — Wislawa Szymborska #1797
• Nothing Gold Can Stay — Robert Frost #1012
• Nothing to Fear — Kingsley Amis #1813
• Now I'm Easy — Eric Bogle #1557
• Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #825
• Now Winter Nights Enlarge — Thomas Campion #565
• Nude Descending a Staircase — X J Kennedy #1230
• The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd — Sir Walter Raleigh #1001

O

• O Captain! My Captain! — Walt Whitman #157
• O sweet spontaneous — e e cummings #945
• O What Is That Sound — W H Auden #371
• O Where Are You Going? — W H Auden #1508
• The Oblation — Algernon Charles Swinburne #1703
• The Ocean — Dar Williams #1682
• October — Hilaire Belloc #226
• Octopus — Arthur Clement Hilton #1118
• Octopusses — Simon Goodway #1428
• Ode — Arthur O'Shaughnessy #6
• Ode on a Grecian Urn — John Keats #1603
• Ode On the Death of Pius the Twelfth — A D Hope #1673
• Ode to a Nightingale — John Keats #316
• Ode to Joy — Friedrich Schiller #1509
• Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd — Mark Twain #1190
• Ode to the Lemon — Pablo Neruda #1701
• Ode to the West Wind — Percy Bysshe Shelley #329
• Odes: Book 1, Verse 11 — Horace #633
• Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man — Horace #1365
• Of Human Knowledge — Sir John Davies #1336
• Of You — Norman MacCaig #1299
• Offering and Rebuff — Carl Sandburg #1630
• Office Friendships — Gavin Ewart #540
• Oh! Death Will Find Me, Long Before I Tire — Rupert Brooke #1047
• Oh! Ever Thus, From Childhood's Hour — Thomas Moore #1938
• oh yes — Charles Bukowski #901
• The Old Astronomer — Sarah Williams #1769
• Old Folks laugh — Maya Angelou #645
• The Old Fools — Philip Larkin #1968
• The Old Issue — Rudyard Kipling #1414
• The Old Ships — James Elroy Flecker #685
• An Old Sicilian Song — Dario Fo #1404
• The Old Woman — Joseph Campbell #1713
• On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes — Thomas Gray #1555
• On a New Year's Eve — June Jordan #1102
• On A Night of Snow — Elizabeth Coatsworth #660
• On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below — Horace Smith #285
• On A Wedding Anniversary — Dylan Thomas #1067
• On Being Asked for a War Poem — William Butler Yeats #1040
• On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam — Hayden Carruth #1214
• On Death, without Exaggeration — Wislawa Szymborska #1911
• On Discovering a Butterfly — Vladimir Nabokov #1498
• On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer — John Keats #12
• On Giving — Kahlil Gibran #1750
• On His Blindness — John Milton #106
• On His Queerness — Christopher Isherwood #704
• On His Seventy-fifth Birthday — Walter Savage Landor #10
• On Laws (The Prophet, Chapter 13) — Kahlil Gibran #1734
• On Monsieur's Departure — Queen Elizabeth I #1662
• On Passing the New Menin Gate — Siegfried Sassoon #1644
• On Problems — Piet Hein #668
• On Shakespear — John Milton #127
• On the Beach at Night — Walt Whitman #984
• On the Birth of his Son — Su Shi (Su Dongpo) #1217
• On the Death of Smet-Smet, the Hippopotamus-Goddess — Rupert Brooke #847
• On the Eve of His Execution — Chidiock Tichborne #144
• On the Grasshopper and the Cricket — John Keats #910
• On The Hurry Of This Time — Henry Austin Dobson #1900
• On the Nature of Love — Rabindranath Tagore #1094
• On the Porch — Michael Ondaatje #1864
• On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness — Arthur Guiterman #24
• On Those that Hated the 'Playboy of the Western World', 1907 — William Butler Yeats #1520
• On Turning Ten — Billy Collins #1096
• On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble — A E Housman #703
• Once by the Pacific — Robert Frost #985
• One Art — Elizabeth Bishop #639
• One Cigarette — Edwin Morgan #1591
• One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand (Amoretti LXXV) — Edmund Spenser #1820
• One Sung of Thee who Left the Tale Untold — Percy Bysshe Shelley #1604
• One Trick Pony — Paul Simon #785
• Ooly Pop a Cow — David Huddle #1346
• Opening Words — Denise Levertov #1302
• The Orange Tree — John Shaw Neilson #1818
• Ordinance on Arrival — Naomi Lazard #1312
• Oread — H D #310
• The Other Tiger — Jorge Luis Borges #475
• Otherwise — Jane Kenyon #474
• Our revels now are ended — William Shakespeare #126
• Out of Control — Neil Young #1427
• Out of Danger — James Fenton #1423
• Out of the East — James Fenton #1183
• Outsong in the Jungle — Rudyard Kipling #700
• Overheard In An Asylum — Alfred Kreymborg #752
• Overheard on a Salmarsh — Harold Monro #594
• Overture to a Dance of Locomotives — William Carlos Williams #1636
• The Owl — Edward Thomas #1577
• The Owl and the Pussy-Cat — Edward Lear #165
• Oxford Canal — James Elroy Flecker #1877
• The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry — Adrian Mitchell #211
• Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelley #22

P

• Pagett, M.P. — Rudyard Kipling #1894
• The Palace — Rudyard Kipling #940
• Palanquin Bearers — Sarojini Naidu #390
• Pangur Ban — Anonymous #167
• The Panther — Rainer Maria Rilke #136
• Parable of the Madman — Friedrich Nietzsche #953
• The Parable of the Old Man and the Young — Wilfred Owen #979
• Parabolic Balad — Andrei Voznesensky #557
• The Paradigm — Nammalwar #1381
• Paradise Lost (excerpt) — John Milton #1213
• The Pardon — Richard Wilbur #1256
• Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth — William Shakespeare #48
• Parting — Li Po #749
• Parting at Morning — Robert Browning #814
• Partition — W H Auden #868
• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love — Christopher Marlowe #997
• Past Carin’ — Henry Lawson #1568
• Past One O'Clock — Vladimir Mayakovsky #1531
• A Patch of Old Snow — Robert Frost #336
• The Patriot — Robert Browning #364
• The Patriot — Nissim Ezekiel #516
• Patriotism — Sir Walter Scott #1690
• Patterns — Amy Lowell #644
• Paul Revere's Ride — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #172
• Peace — Rupert Brooke #1762
• Peace of Mind — Neil Young #1479
• The Pelagian Drinking Song — Hilaire Belloc #78
• The Penitent — Edna St Vincent Millay #108
• Pennsylvania — Carl Sandburg #235
• The pennycandystore beyond the El — Lawrence Ferlinghetti #614
• Pentecost — Derek Walcott #1411
• Peonies — Mary Oliver #1234
• People — Yevgeny Yevtushenko #1561
• The People of Spain Think Cervantes — Edmund Clerihew Bentley #1446
• A Performance of Henry V at Stratford-upon-Avon — Elizabeth Jennings #1019
• The Perfume — A D Hope #1748
• The Perils of Modern Living — Harold P Furth #795
• The Persian Version — Robert Graves #515
• Persimmons — Li-Young Lee #1245
• Personal Helicon — Seamus Heaney #883
• Petra — John William Burgon #487
• PG Wooster, Just as he Useter — Ogden Nash #353
• The Philosopher's Drinking Song — Monty Python #615
• The Photograph — Constantine Cavafy #1582
• Phyllis is my only joy — Sir Charles Sedley #634
• The Piano Has Been Drinking — Tom Waits #1681
• A Pict Song — Rudyard Kipling #493
• A Piece Of The Storm — Mark Strand #1478
• Pied Beauty — Gerard Manley Hopkins #134
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin — Robert Browning #242
• Pigtail — Tadeusz Ròzewicz #1034
• The Pilgrim — John Bunyan #1699
• pity the poor spiders — Don Marquis #230
• pity this busy monster, manunkind — e e cummings #57
• A Place To Be — Nick Drake #1782
• Planting a Sequoia — Dana Gioia #1826
• The Player Piano — Randall Jarrell #747
• The Plea of the Simla Dancers — Rudyard Kipling #1077
• Please Fire Me — Deborah Garrison #1344
• Please Remember To Wash Your Hands — Sandra Greaves #1812
• The Pobble Who Has No Toes — Edward Lear #297
• Poem — Ernest Dowson #394
• Poem — William Carlos Williams #659
• Poem 42 — e e cummings #492
• Poem for Everyone — John T Wood #1617
• Poem I — Sappho #1791
• Poem In October — Dylan Thomas #225
• Poem in Thanks — Thomas Lux #1305
• A Poem on the Underground Wall — Paul Simon #119
• Poem to be read at 3 a.m. — Donald Justice #1343
• Poems — Tom Disch #443
• The Poems of our Climate — Wallace Stevens #1891
• Poet — Hugo Claus #1829
• Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher — Nissim Ezekiel #1735
• Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur — Lewis Carroll #409
• The Poetics of Desire — Rina Singh #642
• Poetry — Marianne Moore #1169
• Poetry — Pablo Neruda #1271
• Poetry for Supper — R S Thomas #187
• Poetry Reading — D M Thomas #1513
• The Poet's Testament — George Santayana #25
• Point of View — Shel Silverstein #1462
• A Poison Tree — William Blake #1087
• Polterguest, My Polterguest — Ogden Nash #1348
• Porphyria's Lover — Robert Browning #1109
• Portrait of a Lady — T S Eliot #1683
• Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man — Ogden Nash #402
• Postcard — Margaret Atwood #786
• A Pot Of Tea — Robert Service #1742
• Power and Glory — Phil Ochs #1803
• Prayer — Carol Ann Duffy #987
• Prayer before Birth — Louis MacNeice #1039
• A Prayer For My Daughter — William Butler Yeats #1020
• A Prayer to the Sun — Geoffrey Hill #349
• Prayer (to the sun above the clouds) — Piet Hein #1029
• Preacher, Don't Send Me — Maya Angelou #1435
• Preludes — T S Eliot #107
• Pretty Words — Elinor Wylie #862
• A Prison Evening — Faiz Ahmed Faiz #118
• The Prodigal, 3.II — Derek Walcott #1733
• The Prodigal Son — Rudyard Kipling #1026
• The Professor — Nissim Ezekiel #579
• Prohibition — Franklin P Adams #1914
• Prologue — Dylan Thomas #14
• Prologue to "Rhymes to be Traded for Bread" — Vachel Lindsay #1718
• The Prologue to 'Sweeney Todd' — Stephen Sondheim #960
• Prospice — Robert Browning #1103
• Protocols — Vikram Seth #754
• Proud Maisie — Sir Walter Scott #931
• Psalm 23 — David #218
• A Psalm of Life — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #888
• Psalm Of the Valleys — Alex Pascall #374
• A Psychological Tip — Piet Hein #1156
• Psycholophon — Gelett Burgess #334
• The Pub with No Beer — Gordon Parsons #1898
• The Puffin and Nuffin — Robert Williams Wood #1835
• The Pulley — George Herbert #391
• The Pumpkin — John Greenleaf Whittier #1119
• The Puppet — Charles de Lint #1553
• The Purist — Ogden Nash #1510
• The Purple Cow — Gelett Burgess #120

Q

• Qingdao: December — Vikram Seth #1356
• The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd — William Shakespeare #1501
• The Queerness of it All — bpNichol #1455
• The Question — Wilfred Gibson #830
• Question — Rabindranath Tagore #1910
• Question and Answer in the Mountains — Li Po #916
• Quiescent, a Person Sits Heart and Soul — Ring Lardner #928
• The Quiet World — Jeffrey McDaniel #1377
• Quiquern (Chapter Heading) — Rudyard Kipling #1685

R

• Raglan Road — Patrick Kavanagh #971
• The Railway Children — Seamus Heaney #1547
• Rain — Naomi Shihab Nye #1379
• The Rain — Robert Creeley #1665
• The Rain and the Wind — William Ernest Henley #117
• Rain in Summer — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #1895
• The Rainy Day — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #1912
• Ramon — Bret Harte #1321
• The Ram's Skull — Ann Drysdale #1625
• Range Finding — Robert Frost #1036
• The Raven — Edgar Allan Poe #85
• Ray — Hayden Carruth #774
• Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles — Billy Collins #691
• The Realists — William Butler Yeats #160
• Reasons For Waiting — Ian Anderson #741
• Recessional — Rudyard Kipling #151
• Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich — Shel Silverstein #845
• Recompense — Robert E Howard #261
• The Red Cockatoo — Po Chü-i #1073
• Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland — William Butler Yeats #79
• A Red, Red Rose — Robert Burns #81
• The Red Wheelbarrow — William Carlos Williams #83
• Reflection on the Fallibility of Nemesis — Ogden Nash #1881
• Reflections on Ice-Breaking — Ogden Nash #667
• Refugee Blues — W H Auden #1869
• Regime Change — Andrew Motion #1215
• Remembrance — Emily Bronte #1345
• A Reminiscence of Cricket — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #1893
• A Renewal — James Merrill #528
• Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?" — Eve Merriam #428
• Requiem — Robert Louis Stevenson #20
• Requiem (excerpt) — Anna Akhmatova #231
• Requiem: The Soldier — Humbert Wolfe #1504
• Research in Jiangsu Province — Vikram Seth #1266
• Resignation — Nikki Giovanni #1623
• Response — Mary Ursula Bethell #1849
• Resume — Dorothy Parker #150
• The reticent volcano keeps — Emily Dickinson #1294
• The Return — Ezra Pound #1941
• Reveille — A E Housman #973
• The Revenge : A Ballad of the Fleet — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #1320
• Reverie of Mahomed Akram at the Tamarind Tank — Laurence Hope #627
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised — Gil Scott-Heron #1527
• Rhapsody on a Windy Night — T S Eliot #466
• Rhymes (?) — Henry S Leigh #1711
• Richard Cory — Edwin Arlington Robinson #1317
• The Riddle of the World — Alexander Pope #39
• The Rider at the Gate — John Masefield #1251
• Rigid Body Sings — James Maxwell #805
• Rimer — Ambrose Bierce #320
• Ring Out, Wild Bells — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #653
• Rioupéroux — James Elroy Flecker #944
• Ripple — Robert Hunter #292
• A Ritual to Read to Each Other — William Stafford #1580
• A River — A K Ramanujan #382
• River — Joni Mitchell #1409
• The River — Pare Lorentz #1424
• The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter — Ezra Pound #70
• The Road at My Door — William Butler Yeats #641
• The Road Goes Ever On — J R R Tolkien #4
• The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost #51
• Rocket Show — James K Baxter #1506
• The Rolling English Road — G K Chesterton #228
• The Roman Road — Thomas Hardy #519
• Roman Wall Blues — W H Auden #491
• Romance — W J Turner #238
• Romance Sonambulo — Federico García Lorca #210
• Rose — William Carlos Williams #1235
• The Rose of the World — William Butler Yeats #1656
• Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction, Joy — Rainer Maria Rilke #1451
• Round and Round — Vikram Seth #460
• A Route of Evanescence — Emily Dickinson #174
• The Rover — Robert Service #1638
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam #162
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam #342
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam #750
• The Ruin — Dafydd ap Gwilym #1489

S

• Saddest Poem — Pablo Neruda #605
• Sadness in Spring — Anonymous #1187
• Sadness of Summer — Stéphane Mallarmé #772
• Said Hanrahan — John O'Brien #1572
• Sailing — Henrik Nordbrandt #1046
• Sailing to Byzantium — William Butler Yeats #21
• Salutation — Ezra Pound #790
• The Salutation — Thomas Traherne #1390
• Sandinista Avioncitos — Lawrence Ferlinghetti #1114
• The Santa Fe Trail — Vachel Lindsay #1264
• Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth — Arthur Hugh Clough #1659
• Scarborough Fair — Anonymous #7
• The Scholars — William Butler Yeats #1482
• A School Song — Rudyard Kipling #1905
• The Schooner 'Flight' — Derek Walcott #1041
• Scotland Small? — Hugh MacDiarmid #1172
• Scrabble — Louis McKee #869
• Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey — Hayden Carruth #684
• A Scroll Painting — Arthur Yap #767
• The Sea — Barry Cornwall #1352
• The Sea and the Hills — Rudyard Kipling #29
• Sea Calm — Langston Hughes #990
• A Sea Dirge — Lewis Carroll #1014
• Sea Fever — John Masefield #27
• Sea Love — Charlotte Mew #431
• Sea-Change — John Masefield #758
• The Seafarer — Anonymous #326
• Sea-Gulls — E J Pratt #787
• Seascape — Stephen Spender #991
• The Second Coming — William Butler Yeats #289
• Second Honeymoon — Tony Scanlon #1619
• The Secret Sits — Robert Frost #681
• Seduction — Harry Graham #1512
• The Seed Shop — Muriel Stuart #1840
• Selecting A Reader — Ted Kooser #1666
• Self-Abandonment — Li Po #826
• Self-Improvement — Tony Hoagland #1236
• Sensation — Arthur Rimbaud #1524
• The Sentence — Robert Creeley #1400
• Separation — W S Merwin #1107
• September 1, 1939 — W H Auden #889
• September Twelfth, 2001 — X J Kennedy #1929
• Serenade — Oscar Wilde #658
• The Sergeant's Weddin' — Rudyard Kipling #880
• The Sermon on the Mount — Anonymous #314
• Sestina — Elizabeth Bishop #1799
• Seven Laments for the War-Dead — Yehuda Amichai #1108
• Sex Without Love — Sharon Olds #812
• Shake and Shake the Ketchup Bottle — Richard Armour #1816
• Shakesperian Readings - 3 — Phoebe Cary #1083
• Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnets XVIII) — William Shakespeare #71
• Shaper Shaped — Harindranath Chattopadhyaya #1438
• Shawondasee — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #1669
• She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways — William Wordsworth #376
• She Speaks of Death — Barbara Pescan #1209
• She Walks in Beauty — George Gordon, Lord Byron #169
• The Sheep-Child — James Dickey #507
• Shijo — Chong Chol #1503
• Shine, Perishing Republic — Robinson Jeffers #1115
• The Shipfitter's Wife — Dorianne Laux #1517
• The Shooting of Dan McGrew — Robert Service #1126
• The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina — Miller Williams #904
• A Shropshire Lad - XV — A E Housman #439
• A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI — A E Housman #33
• The Sick Rose — William Blake #546
• Silence — Thomas Hood #512
• Silence — Marianne Moore #1828
• Silent Noon (Sonnet XIX) — Dante Gabriel Rossetti #1388
• Silent Poem — Robert Francis #323
• Silver — Walter de la Mare #725
• The Silver Swan — Orlando Gibbons #1491
• Similarity — Piet Hein #1303
• Simplify Me When I'm Dead — Keith Douglas #1945
• The Simplon Pass — William Wordsworth #441
• Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part (Idea: LXI) — Michael Drayton #936
• Sing a Song of Europe — Anonymous #1917
• A Singular Metamorphosis — Howard Nemerov #1859
• Sir Beelzebub — Edith Sitwell #849
• Sir Patrick Spens — Anonymous #437
• Sit — Vikram Seth #966
• Six Significant Landscapes — Wallace Stevens #1587
• The Skater — Charles G D Roberts #851
• Skunk Hour — Robert Lowell #1309
• Sky Line — Prescott Hoard #206
• The Slave's Dream — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #629
• Slough — John Betjeman #1522
• Small Blue Thing — Suzanne Vega #1660
• The Smoking Frog — Robert Service #1137
• Snake — D H Lawrence #1282
• The Sniffle — Ogden Nash #625
• Snow — Louis MacNeice #864
• The Snow Man — Wallace Stevens #1432
• Snowball — Shel Silverstein #1128
• So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnets XXI) — William Shakespeare #943
• So We'll Go No More a-Roving — George Gordon, Lord Byron #62
• The Social Plan — Stephen Leacock #789
• The Soldier — Rupert Brooke #280
• The Soldiers at Lauro — Spike Milligan #831
• The Soldiers of our Queen — W S Gilbert #1023
• Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister — Robert Browning #635
• The Solitary Reaper — William Wordsworth #82
• Solomon and the Witch — William Butler Yeats #407
• Someday Someone Will Bet That You Can't Name All Fifty States — Judith Viorst #1358
• Sometimes — Sheenagh Pugh #874
• Sometimes it Happens — Brian Patten #1084
• somewhere i have never travelled — e e cummings #619
• Song — Christina Rossetti #8
• Song — Seamus Heaney #61
• Song — John Donne #384
• Song — Anna Wickham #406
• Song — Rupert Brooke #1872
• Song Against Natural Selection — Edward Hirsch #1468
• Song at the Year's Turning — R S Thomas #1135
• Song Five — Gaius Valerius Catullus #1463
• Song for the Rainy Season — Elizabeth Bishop #1469
• Song, from Pippa Passes — Robert Browning #133
• Song of a Nightclub Proprietress — John Betjeman #1865
• A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover — John Wilmot #1058
• Song of Creation — Anonymous #739
• Song of Perfect Propriety — Dorothy Parker #638
• The Song of Songs — Anonymous #423
• The Song of Steel — Charles Buxton Going #1720
• The Song Of The Dead — Rudyard Kipling #1163
• The Song of the Little Hunter — Rudyard Kipling #1307
• Song of the Stygian Naiades — Thomas Lovell Beddoes #1542
• A Song of the Weather — Michael Flanders #649
• The Song of Wandering Aengus — William Butler Yeats #1
• Songs from an Evil Wood — Lord Dunsany #259
• A Sonnet — J K Stephen #530
• Sonnet — Billy Collins #1216
• The Sonnet — William Wordsworth #1920
• Sonnet -- To Science — Edgar Allan Poe #1528
• Sonnet: Dolce stil novo — Gavin Ewart #263
• Sonnet: England in 1819 — Percy Bysshe Shelley #592
• Sonnet II, from "To W.P." — George Santayana #1767
• Sonnet: Love Is Not All — Edna St Vincent Millay #860
• Sonnet Reversed — Rupert Brooke #589
• Sonnet with a Different Letter at the End of Every Line — George Starbuck #194
• Sonnet XIV — Elizabeth Barrett Browning #591
• Sonnet XLIII — Edna St Vincent Millay #590
• Sonnet XVII: Love — Pablo Neruda #422
• Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint — John Milton #1602
• Sorrows of Werther — William Makepeace Thackeray #183
• The Soul Cages — Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner #114
• Souls And Rain-Drops — Sidney Lanier #1490
• Soup — Carl Sandburg #834
• A Southern Girl — Samuel Minturn Peck #1884
• Spanish Dancer — Rainer Maria Rilke #861
• The Spider's Web — E B White #608
• Splendour in the Grass — William Wordsworth #1173
• Split the Lark — Emily Dickinson #580
• Split the Lark — R T Smith #585
• Spring and all — William Carlos Williams #1846
• Spring and Fall, to a Young Child — Gerard Manley Hopkins #59
• Spring Giddiness — Jalaluddin Rumi #472
• Spring is like a perhaps hand — e e cummings #1947
• Spring Song, Meirionydd — John Dressel #1457
• Spring Wedding — Andrew Motion #1675
• The Stare's Nest by My Window — William Butler Yeats #1144
• The Star-Spangled Banner — Francis Scott Key #1729
• Stately as a Galleon — Joyce Grenfell #1241
• The Steeple-Jack — Marianne Moore #1043
• Stew Much — Sukumar Ray #853
• Still Falls the Rain — Edith Sitwell #1595
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening — Robert Frost #155
• The Stories — Stephen Dunn #1728
• The Story of Prince Agib — W S Gilbert #505
• The Story We Know — Martha Collins #1854
• Story-Time — Edgar Guest #733
• Strange Meeting — Wilfred Owen #321
• Strawberries — Edwin Morgan #827
• Stray Birds — Rabindranath Tagore #1785
• A Strike Among the Poets — Anonymous #1340
• Strugnell's Haiku — Wendy Cope #693
• Strugnell's Rubaiyat — Wendy Cope #587
• Strugnell's Sonnets (iv) — Wendy Cope #1573
• Strugnell's Sonnets (VI) — Wendy Cope #1323
• Stupid Pencil Maker — Shel Silverstein #892
• A Style of Loving — Vikram Seth #1913
• A Subaltern's Love Song — John Betjeman #764
• The Subway Piranhas — Edwin Morgan #304
• Success is counted sweetest — Emily Dickinson #687
• The Sudden Light And The Trees — Stephen Dunn #1533
• The Suicide — Louis MacNeice #521
• Summer — Mary Oliver #1678
• Summoned by Bells (excerpt) — John Betjeman #1164
• The Sun Rising — John Donne #465
• Sun-corner — Tarjei Vesaas #1402
• The Sunlight on the Garden — Louis MacNeice #757
• Sunrise Along Shore — Lucy Maud Montgomery #1105
• A Supermarket in California — Allen Ginsberg #244
• suppose — e e cummings #1628
• Surprised by joy — William Wordsworth #1571
• Survivors — Siegfried Sassoon #1189
• Suzanne — Leonard Cohen #116
• Sweeney Among the Nightingales — T S Eliot #248
• The Swing — Robert Louis Stevenson #1955
• The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven — Guy Wetmore Carryl #137
• Symphony in Yellow — Oscar Wilde #992
• Synchronicity II — Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner #929

T

• The Tables Turned — William Wordsworth #411
• Take This Waltz — Leonard Cohen #1447
• Taking My Business Elsewhere — Richard Thompson #299
• Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes — Billy Collins #1139
• The Tale of Custard the Dragon — Ogden Nash #1672
• The Talented Man — Winthrop Mackworth Praed #1868
• Taliesin — R S Thomas #554
• Talk — Yevgeny Yevtushenko #1776
• The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one — June Jordan #1724
• Tall ships and tall kings — J R R Tolkien #318
• Tangmalangaloo — John O'Brien #1795
• Tao Te Ching: Verse 57 — Lao-Tzu #1593
• Tarantella — Hilaire Belloc #294
• The Tavern — Jalaluddin Rumi #513
• The Tay Bridge Disaster — William McGonagall #343
• Tears of a Clown — William 'Smokey' Robinson #1053
• The Teasers — William Empson #351
• Teeth — Spike Milligan #701
• The Telephone — Robert Frost #1324
• Television — Roald Dahl #818
• Tell Brave Deeds of War — Stephen Crane #690
• Tell Her That I Fell — Leo Connellan #435
• Telnet Song — Guy L Steele, Jr #1419
• Temporary Well Being — Kenneth Burke #1613
• Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody — Adrian Mitchell #623
• Terence, this is stupid stuff — A E Housman #588
• A Terrible Infant — Frederick Locker-Lampson #1870
• Thais — Newman Levy #1025
• Thanatopsis — William Cullen Bryant #302
• Theme for English B — Langston Hughes #1637
• Then Wear the Gold Hat — Thomas Parke D'Invilliers #1476
• Theology — Ted Hughes #768
• There is a motionless tree — Octavio Paz #412
• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods — George Gordon, Lord Byron #510
• There is no god, the wicked sayeth — Arthur Hugh Clough #69
• There Was a Little Girl — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #835
• There Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire (The Black Riders LXII) — Stephen Crane #264
• There Was an Old Man with a Beard — Edward Lear #378
• There Will Come Soft Rains — Sara Teasdale #223
• There's a certain Slant of light — Emily Dickinson #92
• They Say — Ben Okri #838
• Thief — Robert Graves #1525
• A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for Ever — John Keats #770
• Things I Didn't Know I Loved — Nazim Hikmet #1350
• Things I miss the most — Steely Dan #1353
• Think, in this Batter'd Caravanserai — Omar Khayyam #654
• Thinking of Russia — Harold Harwell (H H) Lewis #1784
• Thirteen Blackbirds Looking at a Man — R S Thomas #621
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird — Wallace Stevens #620
• Thirty Bob a Week — John Davidson #420
• This Is Just To Say — William Carlos Williams #274
• This is the Horror that, Night After Night — Gerald Gould #1186
• This Will Not Win Him — Jalaluddin Rumi #1238
• This world lives — Ilam Peruvaluti #471
• Thistles — Ted Hughes #417
• Thomas Hood — Edwin Arlington Robinson #1061
• Those Winter Sundays — Robert Hayden #975
• The Thought Fox — Ted Hughes #98
• Three Movements — William Butler Yeats #324
• Three Rings for the Elven Kings — J R R Tolkien #257
• Three Songs of Shattering - I — Edna St Vincent Millay #1739
• Threnody — Dorothy Parker #1768
• Thunder Road — Bruce Springsteen #1853
• The Time I've Lost in Wooing — Thomas Moore #1274
• Timid Frieda — Jacques Brel #1529
• Tit for Tat — Christopher Morley #914
• Tithonus — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #1697
• To a Cat — Jorge Luis Borges #401
• To a Fat Lady Seen From the Train — Frances Cornford #906
• To a Goose — Robert Southey #842
• To a Millionaire — Archibald Lampman #784
• To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, With The Plough — Robert Burns #776
• To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence — James Elroy Flecker #1225
• To A Sad Daughter — Michael Ondaatje #1270
• To a Skylark — Percy Bysshe Shelley #1495
• To a Young Poet — R S Thomas #1726
• To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour — Franklin P Adams #212
• To Autumn — John Keats #1781
• To Brooklyn Bridge — Hart Crane #1101
• To Celia — Ben Jonson #340
• To His Coy Mistress — Andrew Marvell #158
• To Maeve — Mervyn Peake #1488
• To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only — Czeslaw Milosz #1598
• To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat — John Keats #575
• To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems — Oscar Wilde #1226
• To Raja Rao — Czeslaw Milosz #1883
• To Sit In Solemn Silence... — W S Gilbert #247
• To Sleep — Statius #1342
• To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 — William Cowper #448
• To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us — Ben Jonson #1494
• To the Moon — Percy Bysshe Shelley #1741
• To the Reader — Denise Levertov #201
• To The Supreme Being — Michelangelo Buonarroti #1622
• To Thine Own Self Be True — William Shakespeare #1204
• To Tu Fu from Shantung — Li Po #683
• To Virgins, to Make Much of Time — Robert Herrick #1965
• To Walter de la Mare — T S Eliot #630
• To Whom It May Concern — Adrian Mitchell #28
• Toads — Philip Larkin #544
• Tobacco is a Dirty Weed — Graham Lee Hemminger #1915
• Tobacco Is Like Love — Tobias Hume #1921
• Tobacco's But an Indian Weed — Traditional #1926
• A Toccata of Galuppi's — Robert Browning #526
• Tommy — Rudyard Kipling #43
• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow — William Shakespeare #229
• Topography — Sharon Olds #1961
• The Touch Of The Master's Hand — Myra Brooks Welch #1199
• Towards Freedom — Orhan Veli #469
• Town Called Malice — Paul Weller #930
• Trade Winds — John Masefield #555
• Tra-la-la, tra-la-la — A A Milne #576
• Transit — Richard Wilbur #1116
• the trash can — Charles Bukowski #1421
• Travel — Edna St Vincent Millay #1064
• The Traveled Man — Ella Wheeler Wilcox #911
• The Travellers' Curse after Misdirection — Robert Graves #840
• The Tree of Song — Sara Teasdale #1198
• Trees — Joyce Kilmer #146
• Tricks with Mirrors — Margaret Atwood #1363
• Troll sat alone on his seat of stone — J R R Tolkien #370
• True Love — Wislawa Szymborska #694
• True Love at Last — D H Lawrence #1805
• The Truth of Woman — Sir Walter Scott #415
• Twenty Tons of TNT — Michael Flanders #1268
• Twenty Ways to Insult a Nose — Edmond Rostand #626
• The Two — W H Auden #427
• Two Figures in Dense Violet Light — Wallace Stevens #459
• The Two Friends — Norman MacCaig #1088
• Two Songs Of A Fool — William Butler Yeats #1599
• Two Tanka — Otomo No Yakamochi #87
• Two Worlds — Edgar Fawcett #240
• The Tyger — William Blake #66
• Tyre — Bayard Taylor #1333

U

• An Ulster Twilight — Seamus Heaney #1793
• Ulysses — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #121
• The Uncertainty of the Poet — Wendy Cope #1499
• Unclaimed — Vikram Seth #1861
• Uncle and Auntie — John Hegley #1766
• Under Milk Wood — Dylan Thomas #270
• Under One Small Star — Wislawa Szymborska #224
• Under Which Lyre — W H Auden #1082
• The Unexplorer — Edna St Vincent Millay #49
• Unfortunate Coincidence — Dorothy Parker #1090
• The Unknown Citizen — W H Auden #386
• The Unknown God — AE #350
• The Unspoken — Edwin Morgan #147
• Untitled — Anonymous #295
• Untitled — Bhartrihari #308
• Untitled — e e cummings #311
• Untitled — Cid Corman #348
• Untitled — Bhartrihari #773
• Untitled — Fernando Pessoa #1104
• Untitled — Issa #1136
• Untitled — Yamabe no Akahito #1208
• Untitled — Matsuo Basho #1259
• Untitled — Plato #1279
• Untitled — Donald Monat #1360
• Untitled — Tanith Lee #1366
• Untitled — Wendell Berry #1383
• Untitled — Anise #1485
• Untitled — Vikram Seth #1566
• Untitled — Stephen King #1642
• Untitled — Samuel Beckett #1702
• Untitled — Dag Hammarskjöld #1716
• Untitled — Piet Hein #1722
• Untitled — Dorothy Parker #1744
• Untitled — Michael Leunig #1936
• Untitled - Haiku — Issa #1543
• Untitled (Epitaph for Lord Castlereagh) — George Gordon, Lord Byron #1123
• An Unusual Cat-Poem — Wendy Cope #1059
• Uphill — Christina Rossetti #47
• Upon Julia's Clothes — Robert Herrick #777

V

• Vacana #105 — Basavanna #1777
• The Vagabond — Robert Louis Stevenson #780
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning — John Donne #330
• Valentine — Carol Ann Duffy #865
• Vanitas Vanitatum — John Webster #1753
• Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams — Kenneth Koch #278
• Variations on the Word "Sleep" — Margaret Atwood #1093
• V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick — John Updike #798
• Vegan Delight — Benjamin Zephaniah #1584
• Vergissmeinnicht — Keith Douglas #710
• Verity — Drummond Allison #952
• Verses Turned... — John Betjeman #1834
• Very Like a Whale — Ogden Nash #854
• Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night — Walt Whitman #1559
• The Vigil-at-Arms — Louise Imogen Guiney #1860
• The Viking Terror — Anonymous #109
• The Village Schoolmaster — Oliver Goldsmith #1220
• The Villain — W H Davies #740
• Villanelle — W H Auden #677
• Villanelle — William Empson #706
• Villanelle for an Anniversary — Seamus Heaney #1515
• Villanelle (minimalist): One Drunken Night — Peter Schaeffer #393
• The Vision of a Giant who Migrated from Baja to Tiburon Island — Anonymous #204
• Visitor — Les Murray #1176
• Visits to St. Elizabeth's — Elizabeth Bishop #1563
• Vitaï Lampada — Sir Henry Newbolt #946
• A Vow — Allen Ginsberg #1223
• Voyages - I — Hart Crane #1597
• The Vulture and the Husbandman — Arthur Clement Hilton #1907

W

• Waiting for the Barbarians — Constantine Cavafy #1056
• The Waking — Theodore Roethke #912
• Wallace (extract) — Blind Harry #1167
• The Walrus and the Carpenter — Lewis Carroll #347
• Walt Whitman — Edwin Arlington Robinson #250
• Waltzing Matilda — A B "Banjo" Paterson #1125
• A Wandering Minstrel I — W S Gilbert #1814
• War Song of the Saracens — James Elroy Flecker #1145
• Warning — Jenny Joseph #716
• Warning to Children — Robert Graves #564
• warty bliggens the toad — Don Marquis #1723
• Wash of Cold River — H D #893
• Washing the Dishes — Christopher Morley #833
• The Wasp — John Kendall #1775
• Waste Land Limericks — Wendy Cope #859
• The Waste Land (Part IV) — T S Eliot #354
• The Waste Land (Part V) — T S Eliot #858
• Watch Your Step - I'm Drenched — Adrian Mitchell #894
• Water — Philip Larkin #178
• Water Lilies — Sara Teasdale #1078
• The Way I Am — Eminem #1177
• The Way Through the Woods — Rudyard Kipling #17
• The Ways We Touch — Miller Williams #1855
• We Real Cool — Gwendolyn Brooks #1626
• We Should Talk about This Problem — Hafiz #1654
• The Weary Blues — Langston Hughes #1876
• Weathers — Thomas Hardy #813
• The Weight — Jaime 'Robbie' Robertson #1374
• Well I Remember — Walter Savage Landor #1821
• A Well Worn Story — Dorothy Parker #697
• Welsh Incident — Robert Graves #55
• What Any Lover Learns — Archibald MacLeish #1886
• What Did You Do On Your Weekend In Vancouver? — Mark Granier #1445
• What Do I Care? — Sara Teasdale #1210
• What Father Knows — Edgar Guest #922
• What He Said — Cempulappeyanirar #1255
• what if a much of a which of a wind — e e cummings #769
• What Love is Like — Piet Hein #1092
• What One Approves, Another Scorns — Arthur Guiterman #1140
• What the Bullet sang — Bret Harte #1033
• What We Heard About the Japanese — Rachel Rose #982
• What We Might Be, What We Are — X J Kennedy #1327
• What's the Railroad to Me? — Henry David Thoreau #670
• When Death Comes — Mary Oliver #1376
• When First We Faced — Philip Larkin #1778
• When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be — John Keats #1824
• When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer — Walt Whitman #54
• When I was fair and young, and favour graced me — Queen Elizabeth I #1514
• When I Was One-and-Twenty — A E Housman #86
• When I Was Three — Richard Edwards #1614
• When I was Young and Ignorant — Patrick Barrington #1698
• When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes (Sonnet XXIX) — William Shakespeare #1689
• When that I was and a little tiny boy — William Shakespeare #243
• When The Great Gray Ships Come In — Guy Wetmore Carryl #1727
• When You Are Old — William Butler Yeats #436
• Where Everything Is Music — Jalaluddin Rumi #1334
• Where Go the Boats? — Robert Louis Stevenson #828
• Where Lesbians Come From — Jan Sellers #1933
• Where the bee sucks — William Shakespeare #312
• Where The Mind is Without Fear — Rabindranath Tagore #177
• Where's Madge then, — e e cummings #214
• Whitman — Alfred Kreymborg #245
• Who By fire — Leonard Cohen #481
• Who is in Charge of the Clattering Train? — Anonymous #1888
• Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind — Thomas Wyatt #957
• Why, Asks a Friend, Attempt Tetrameter? (Golden Gate 5.4) — Vikram Seth #1453
• Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell — John Keats #433
• Why marry at all? — Marge Piercy #111
• Why so Pale and Wan? — John Suckling #1687
• Wife Poem — Hayden Carruth #951
• Wild Asters — Sara Teasdale #430
• Wild Geese — Mary Oliver #426
• The Wild Iris — Louise Glück #1224
• Wild Strawberries — Robert Graves #1031
• The Wild Swans at Coole — William Butler Yeats #1939
• Will Consider Situation — Ogden Nash #542
• Wind — Ted Hughes #882
• The Wind — Vikram Seth #1318
• The Wind and the Sea — Paul Lawrence Dunbar #1275
• The Windhover — Gerard Manley Hopkins #35
• Windows is Shutting Down — Clive James #1879
• Winged Man — Stephen Vincent Benét #609
• Winter — William Shakespeare #611
• Winter — Anonymous #1433
• Winter '84 — Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta #1792
• Winter Evening — Archibald Lampman #873
• Winter Landscape — John Berryman #482
• Winter landscape, with rocks — Sylvia Plath #53
• Winter Night — Boris Pasternak #45
• A Winter Ode to the Old Men of Lummus Park, Miami, Florida — Donald Justice #1967
• The Winter Palace — Philip Larkin #1819
• Winter Reigns — Mary Youngquist #1429
• Wires — Philip Larkin #1070
• Wisdom — Sara Teasdale #1677
• Witchery — Frank Dempster Sherman #239
• With a Book — Ambrose Bierce #148
• With God on our Side — Bob Dylan #1801
• Within You Without You — George Harrison #954
• Wodwo — Ted Hughes #1550
• The Wolf's Postcript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' — Agha Shahid Ali #961
• Woman to Man — Judith Wright #1221
• A Woman Well Set Free! How Free I Am — Sumangalamata #1265
• The Wombat — Ogden Nash #1484
• The Word — Tony Hoagland #1969
• The Word of God — Catherine Faber #803
• Words — Edward Thomas #1032
• The Workbox — Thomas Hardy #1928
• A Worker Reads History — Bertolt Brecht #1406
• Working Girls — Redgum #807
• The Working Party — Siegfried Sassoon #535
• The Workman's Friend — Flann O'Brien #1300
• The World and I — Laura Riding #1060
• The World Below the Brine — Walt Whitman #498
• The World But Seems To Be — Fakhruddin 'Iraqi #1899
• The World Is A Box — Sophie Hannah #1518
• The World is Too Much With Us — William Wordsworth #1338
• The World was Young, the Mountains Green — J R R Tolkien #736
• The Wreck of the Hesperus — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #717
• Writing — William Allingham #737
• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod — Eugene Field #967

Y

• The Yak — Hilaire Belloc #688
• The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" — W S Gilbert #161
• Yasmin — James Elroy Flecker #1218
• The Year — Ella Wheeler Wilcox #1962
• Yellow Tulips — James Fenton #1756
• You — Carol Ann Duffy #1779
• You, Andrew Marvell — Archibald MacLeish #1691
• You are old, Father William — Lewis Carroll #1544
• You cannot put a fire out — Emily Dickinson #1328
• You know, my Friends, how Long since in my House — Omar Khayyam #1640
• You Whose Name — Czeslaw Milosz #1229
• You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly — U A Fanthorpe #541
• The Young British Soldier — Rudyard Kipling #1146
• The Young Fools — Paul Verlaine #1562
• Young Poets — Nicanor Parra #190
• Your Attention Please — Peter Porter #222
• You're the Top — Cole Porter #1730