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Anonymous
Song of the Ill-Married
Anonymous
(10th Century)
The Wife's Complaint
Anonymous
(from the eighteenth century)
Traditional
Algerian
haufi (women's songs)
Betti
Alver (of Estonia)
A Tailor Called Sorrow
Bella
Akhmadulina
Silence
Anna
Akhmatova
A well known, well respected Russian poet during the 1920s - 1940s, many of
her poems deal with the Stalin era of suppressing the people. There are roughly
15-20 poems in this file, most unnamed.
Yehuda
Amichai
Quick and Bitter
Astrid
Hjertenaes Andersen
Before the sun goes down
W.H.
Auden
Lay Your Sleeping Head
For what as easy
Dear, though the night is gone
Maria
Banus
Eighteen
Charles
Baudelaire
The Jewels
Francis
Beaumont
Fie on Love
John
Berryman
The Ball Poem
Go, ill-sped book
Keep Your Eyes Open
Earle
Birney
There Are Delicacies
William
Blake
The Lamb
The Tyger
The Sick Rose
To Winter
Ana
Blandiana
I need only fall asleep
Wilfrid
Blunt
Farewell to Juliet
Louise
Bogan
Song for the Last Act
Roman Fountain
Anne
Bradstreet
The Author to Her Book
A Dialog Between Old England and New
The Prologue
Before the Birth of One of Her
Children
The Vanity of All Worldly Things
Here Follows Some Verses upon
the Burning of Our House
Upon a Fit of Sickness
Upon Some Distemper of Body
A Letter to Her Husband
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Another
Another (II)
To Her Father with Some Verses
In Reference to Her Children
Gwendolyn
Brooks
my dreams, my works, must wait
till after hell
Emily
Bronte
Hope
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese (#43)
Robert
Browning
Life in a Love
from in a Gondola
Meeting at Night
Edith
Bruck
You Hide
William
Cullen Bryant
To the Fringed Gentian
Marguerite
Burnat-Provins
The fruits you give me
Robert
Burns
To a Mouse
George
Gordon, Lord Byron
When We Two Parted
Thomas
Campion
When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
My Sweetest Lesbia
Thomas
Carew
Mediocrity in Love Rejected
On the Marriage of T.K. and C.C.
(The Morning Stormy)
Lewis
Carroll
Jabberwocky
Geoffrey
Chaucer
Against Women Unconstant
from Merciless Beauty
John Clare
First Love
Lucille
Clifton
I Once Knew a Man
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
William
Collins
Ode Written in the Beginning
of the Year 1746
Hart
Crane
My Grandmother's Love Letters
Carrier Letter
Stephen
Crane
Many Workmen
A Man Said to the Universe
Many Red Devils
A God in Wrath
Sor
Juana Ines de la Cruz
In Which She Satisfies a Fear with
the Rhetoric of Tears
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e cummings
anyone lived in a pretty how
town
since feeling is first
"next to of course god america i
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly
beyond
l(a
what if a much of a which of a wind
if i
it may not always be so...
my father moved through dooms
of love
Samuel
Daniel
Are They Shadows
James
Dickey
Adultery
Emily
Dickinson
'Tis not that Dying hurts us so--
Much Madness is divinest Sense --
There is a pain -- so utter --
My life closed twice before its close --
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
My life closed twice
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
John
Donne
Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going
to Bed
Death, be not proud
Batter my heart
Woman's Constancy
The Sun Rising
Thou hast made me...
The Undertaking
Hilda
Doolittle
Helen
Pear Tree
Evadne
Ernest
Dowson
Cynara
Michael
Drayton
A Parting
Truce
Annette
Von Droste-Hulshoff
The Last Day of the Year
Max
Eastman
The April Earth
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The Rhodora
Grace
Days
William
Empson
Missing Dates
DJ
Enright
The Typewriter Revolution
Louise
Erdrich
The Glass and the Bowl
Sir
Richard Fanshawe
Of Beauty
Arthur
Davison Ficke
Fate with Devoted...
Sara
Bard Field
November 2am Conspiracy
Lucia
Fox
Dream of the Forgotten Lover
Robert
Frost
Fire and Ice
The Oven Bird
[But outer Space,]
One Step Backward Taken
Design
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Tree at my Window
The Silken Tent
Leaves Compared with Flowers
They Were Welcome To Their Belief
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall
Agnes
Gergely
Crazed Man in Concentration Camp
Nikki
Giovanni
Kidnap Poem
Barnabe
Googe (1540-1594)
To Alexander Neville
Robert
Graves
The Cool Web
The Thieves
Call It a Good Marriage
Lost Loves
Thomas
Gray
Ode
Marilyn
Hacker
Bloomingdale's I
Lacoste IV
Fitz-Greene
Halleck
Marco Bozzaris
Pauline
Hanson
And I Am Old to Know
From Creature to Ghost
Thomas
Hardy
Hap
I Look into My Glass
The Darkling Thrush
A Broken Appointment
In The Vaulted Way
The Voice
Sir
John Harington
Of An Heroical Answer
John
Heath-Stubbs
The Unpredicted
Lady
Heguri
A Thousand Years
William
Earnest Henley
There's a Regret
Invictus
George
Herbert
Redemption
Bitter-Sweet
Love (III)
Church Monuments
Robert
Herrick
To his mistress, objecting to
him neither toying or talking
To the Virgins
Geoffrey
Hill
The Guardians
Thomas
Hood
Faithless Nelly Gray
I Remember, I Remember
A.D.
Hope
Advice to Young Ladies
The Gateway
A.E.
Housman
When I Watch the Living Meet
Henry
Howard, Earl of Surrey
Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within
My Thought
Leigh
Hunt
Jenny Kissed Me
Magda
Isanos
Apricot Tree
Robinson
Jeffers
Salmon-Fishing
Ben
Jonson
Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell
To the Reader
To Fine Lady Would-Be
On Gut
Song: To Celia
Still to Be Neat
James
Joyce
On the Beach at Fontana
Donald
Justice
In Bertram's Garden
Patrick
Kavanagh
Shancoduff
John
Keats
When I Have Fears
Ode on a Grecian Urn
This Living Hand
Walter
Savage Landor
Death Stands Above Me, Whispering
Low
To Robert Browning
Else
Lasker-Schuler
Jacob and Esau
Louise
Labe
I
Else
Lasker-Schuler
A Love Song
Edward
Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Laurie
Lee
Milkmaid
Denise
Levertov
Triple Feature
Alun
Lewis
Postscript: For Gweno
Cecil
Day Lewis
Come, live with me and be my love
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
Paul Revere's Ride
Richard
Lovelace
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
To Althea, from Prison
Amy
Lowell
The Taxi
Dreams in War Time
Wind and Silver
Carrefour
Robert
Lowell
Man and Wife
Mina
Loy
Letters of the Unliving
Patrick
MacDonogh
She Walked Unaware
Archibald
MacLeish
Ars Poetica
Louis
MacNeice
The Sunlight on the Garden
Illeana
Malancioiu
Bear's Blood
Walter
de la Mare
Silver
Andrew
Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
The Fair Singer
The Definition of Love
Edgar
Lee Masters
Fiddler Jones
Meleager
translated from the Greek
George
Meredith
Modern Love
Lucifer in Starlight
W.S.
Merwin
Separation
Charlotte
Mew
The Farmer's Bride
Edna
St. Vincent Millay, 1917. Renascence and Other Poems.
John
Milton
How Soon Hath Time
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
On Shakespeare
Gabriela
Mistral
Dusk
Death Sonnet I
Sister
Thomas
Moore
Did Not
Edwin
Morgan
Strawberries
Howard
Moss
The Hand
Ogden
Nash
Reflections On Ice Breaking
Requiem
Columbus
Howard
Nemerov
Fugue
Pablo
Neruda
Drunk as drunk on turpentine
Wilfred
Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Ovid
Elegy 5
Dorothy
Parker
Unfortunate Coincidence
Resume
One Perfect Rose
Brian
Patten
Party Piece
Octavio
Paz
Touch
Katherine
Philips
Against Love
Florencia
del Pinar
Another Song of the Same Woman
Victor
Plarr
Epitaphium Citharistriae
Edgar
Allan Poe
A Dream Within a Dream
Eldorado
The City in the Sea
Ezra
Pound
Salutation
A Pact
A Virginal
Marie-Francoise
Prager
I'll act out a weird dream
Jonathan
Price
A Considered Reply to a Child
F.T.
Prince
Alexander
Pushkin
I Loved You
Kathleen
Raine
The Wilderness
Carl
Rakosi
Woman
Dudley
Randall
The Profile on the Pillow
Thomas
Randolph
Phyllis
John
Crowe Ransom
Piazza Piece
Kenneth
Rexroth
Song for a Dancer
Adrienne
Rich
Final Notations
II
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Living in Sin
Moving in Winter
(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)
XX
Edwin
Arlington Robinson
The Mill
Mr. Flood's Party
Richard Cory
W.
R. Rodgers
The Net
Theodore
Roethke
I Knew a Woman
She
Pierre
de Ronsard
Corinna in Vendome
Christina
Rossetti
Passing Away, Saith the World,
Passing Away
Remember
In Progress
In an Artist's Studio
The First Day
Echo
Dante
Gabriel Rossetti
Sudden Light
Lost on Both Sides
St.
John of the Cross
Upon a gloomy night
Sappho
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel
Sappho, if you do not come
out
Honestly I wish I were dead!
James
Schevill
Green Frog at Roadstead, Wisconsin
A Screamer Discusses Methods
of Screaming
Sir
Walter Scott
An Hour With Thee
Percy
Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
Lines: When the Lamp Is Shattered
Lines
Love's Philosophy
William
Shakespeare
Sonnet #130
Sonnet #71
Sonnet #24
Shall I Compare Thee
Tomorrow and tomorrow...
All the world's a stage
To Be or Not To Be
Murasaki
Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
Chu
Shu-chen (ca. 1200)
Stormy Night in Autumn
Sir
Phillip Sidney
With how sad steps
Stevie
Smith
Not Waving But Drowning
W.D.
Snodgrass No Use
Stephen
Spender
Daybreak
William
Spencer
Too Late I Stayed
Edmund
Spenser
Sonnet 75
Sonnet 67
Gaspara
Stampa
Untitled
Wallace
Stevens
The Snow Man
Ruth
Stone
Dark Conclusions
Winter
Alfonsina
Storni
I Am Going to Sleep
They've Come
Algernon
Charles Swinburne
Love and Sleep
Arthur
Symons
Leves Amores
Genevieve
Taggard
The Quiet Woman
Sara
Teasdale
I Shall Not Care
Alfred,
Lord Tennyson
Come down, O maid...
Dylan
Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good
Night
In My Craft or Sullen Art
Henry
David Thoreau
What's the Railroad to Me?
Woof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze
Royall
Tyler
A Love Song
Fyodor
Tyutchev
Last Love
Edmund
Waller
On a Girdle
Go, lovely Rose
William
Walsh
Love and Jealousy
Richard
Weber
Elizabeth in Italy
Theodore
Weiss
'Yes, But...'
John
Hall Wheelock
The Letter
This Quiet Dust
Walt
Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider
The Dalliance of the Eagles
O Captain! My Captain!
Reconciliation
John
Greenleaf Whittier
Brown of Ossawatomie
Maud Muller
Shirley
Williams
If He Let Us Go Now
William
Carlos Williams
Nantucket
This Is Just to Say
William
Wordsworth
My Heart Leaps Up
Surprised by Joy
The World Is Too Much with Us
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
It Is a Beauteous Evening
Sir
Thomas Wyatt
They Flee From Me
The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor
I abide and abide...
Elinor
Wylie
Spring Pastoral
Down to the Puritan marrow
Sanctuary
William
Butler Yeats
An Irish Airman Foresees His
Death
A Prayer for My Daughter
William
Butler Yeats
- Many Love & Anti-Love poems
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Bartleby - A far-off place to find all sorts of poets and poems of quality.
(including all these Millay poems)
Paul
Simon lyrics from Rhythm of the Saints
Alanis
Morissette lyrics from Jagged Little Pill
Erotic
Works from literature through the centuries More
Erotic Works with many humorous limericks.
