Random Poems and Poetry to Enjoy

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Maud Muller- John Greenleaf Whittier
W. B. Yeats poems (love & anti-love)
Erotic Works from literature through the centuries
More Erotic Works with many humorous limericks.

Sir Richard Fanshawe
Of Beauty

Edmund Waller
Go, lovely Rose

Theodore Weiss
'Yes, But...'

James Dickey
Adultery

James Schevill
Green Frog at Roadstead, Wisconsin
A Screamer Discusses Methods of Screaming

W.H. Auden
For what as easy

Louis MacNeice
The Sunlight on the Garden

Patrick Kavanagh
Shancoduff

Robert Browning
Meeting at Night

St. John of the Cross
Upon a gloomy night

Kathleen Raine
The Wilderness

Marguerite Burnat-Provins
The fruits you give me

Marie-Francoise Prager
I'll act out a weird dream

Geoffrey Hill
The Guardians

Carl Rakosi
Woman

Pauline Hanson
And I Am Old to Know
From Creature to Ghost

Robert Graves
Call It a Good Marriage

Sir John Harington
Of An Heroical Answer

Max Eastman
The April Earth

e e cummings
my father moved through dooms of love

Nikki Giovanni
Kidnap Poem

Emily Dickinson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers

Sir Walter Scott
An Hour With Thee

John Milton
On Shakespeare

added 1/29/97

Anne Bradstreet
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

Hart Crane
Carrier Letter

John Donne
The Undertaking

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Love and Sleep

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan

Dylan Thomas
In My Craft or Sullen Art

Hilda Doolittle
Helen
Pear Tree
Evadne

Robert Creeley
Song
The World

Robert Graves
Lost Loves

Louise Bogan
Song for the Last Act
Roman Fountain

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory

Sappho
Mother, I cannot mind my wheel
Sappho, if you do not come out
Honestly I wish I were dead!

Astrid Hjertenaes Andersen
Before the sun goes down

Shirley Williams
If He Let Us Go Now

W.H. Auden
Dear, though the night is gone

D.H. Lawrence
Piano

Cecil Day Lewis
Come, live with me and be my love

Ezra Pound
Salutation
A Pact
A Virginal

Laurie Lee
Milkmaid

Edgar Lee Masters
Fiddler Jones

Pierre de Ronsard
Corinna in Vendome

Robert Herrick
To the Virgins

Ana Blandiana
I need only fall asleep

Kenneth Rexroth
Song for a Dancer

Howard Nemerov
Fugue

Sir Phillip Sidney
With how sad steps

Henry David Thoreau
What's the Railroad to Me?
Woof of the Sun, Ethereal Gauze

Else Lasker-Schuler
Jacob and Esau

Charlotte Mew
The Farmer's Bride

William Spencer
Too Late I Stayed

Anonymous
She lay all naked

Fitz-Greene Halleck
Marco Bozzaris

Howard Moss
The Hand

Royall Tyler
A Love Song

Stephen Crane
Many Workmen
A Man Said to the Universe
Many Red Devils
A God in Wrath

Annette Von Droste-Hulshoff
The Last Day of the Year

added 11/96
Richard Weber
Elizabeth in Italy

Bella Akhmadulina
Silence

Meleager
translated from the Greek

George Herbert
Church Monuments

Thomas Randolph
Phyllis

Thomas Hood
Faithless Nelly Gray
Christina Rossetti
The First Day

Lucille Clifton
I Once Knew a Man

W. R. Rodgers
The Net

William Shakespeare
Tomorrow and tomorrow...
All the world's a stage

Alun Lewis
Postscript: For Gweno

Louise Erdrich
The Glass and the Bowl

John Berryman
Go, ill-sped book

Robert Frost
The Tuft of Flowers
Mending Wall

Thomas Moore
Did Not

W.D. Snodgrass
No Use

William Cullen Bryant
To the Fringed Gentian

Robert Lowell
Man and Wife

Barnabe Googe (1540-1594)
To Alexander Neville

Edgar Allan Poe
The City in the Sea

Donald Justice
In Bertram's Garden

John Berryman
The Ball Poem

John Heath-Stubbs
The Unpredicted

John Greenleaf Whittier
Brown of Ossawatomie

Pablo Neruda
Drunk as drunk on turpentine

Robinson Jeffers
Salmon-Fishing

Charles Baudelaire
The Jewels

Chu Shu-chen (ca. 1200)
Stormy Night in Autumn

Christina Rossetti
Echo

Emily Dickenson
My life closed twice

Wilfrid Blunt
Farewell to Juliet

Betti Alver (of Estonia)
A Tailor Called Sorrow

Mina Loy
Letters of the Unliving

Edith Bruck
You Hide

Marilyn Hacker
Bloomingdale's I
Lacoste IV

Thomas Hardy
The Voice

Pauline Hanson
From Creature to Ghost

Fyodor Tyutchev
Last Love

Thomas Hood
I Remember, I Remember

F.T. Prince
The Question

William Shakespeare
To Be or Not To Be

Theodore Roethke
She

Walt Whitman
Reconciliation

Updated 11/20/96
Ovid
Elegy 5

Jonathan Price
A Considered Reply to a Child

Patrick MacDonogh
She Walked Unaware

Edwin Morgan
Strawberries

Robert Graves
The Thieves

Octavio Paz
Touch

Brian Patten
Party Piece

John Berryman
Keep Your Eyes Open

Stephen Spender
Daybreak

Andrew Marvell
The Definition of Love

Lady Heguri
A Thousand Years

Anonymous (10th Century)
The Wife's Complaint

Thomas Carew
On the Marriage of T.K. and C.C. (The Morning Stormy)

William Walsh
Love and Jealousy

Yehuda Amichai
Quick and Bitter

Thomas Hardy
In The Vaulted Way

William Collins
Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746

William Shakespeare
Shall I Compare Thee

John Crowe Ransom
Piazza Piece

Anonymous
(from the eighteenth century)

Traditional Algerian
haufi (women's songs)

Geoffrey Chaucer
from Merciless Beauty

William Ernest Henley
Invictus

Earle Birney
There Are Delicacies

William Empson
Missing Dates

Alexander Pushkin
I Loved You

DJ Enright
The Typewriter Revolution

A.D. Hope
The Gateway

Denise Levertov
Triple Feature

W.H. Auden
Lay Your Sleeping Head

(added 9/14/96)

Arthur Symons
Leves Amores

e e cummings
if i
it may not always be so...

James Joyce
On the Beach at Fontana

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Lost on Both Sides

William Earnest Henley
There's a Regret

Illeana Malancioiu
Bear's Blood

Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream Within a Dream
Eldorado

Robert Browning
Life in a Love
from in a Gondola

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Come down, O maid...

Walter de la Mare
Silver

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's Philosophy

Sir Thomas Wyatt
I abide and abide...

D.H. Lawrence
Intimates

(added 8/14/96)

Gaspara Stampa
Untitled

Gabriela Mistral
Dusk
Death Sonnet I
Sister

Robert Frost
The Silken Tent
Leaves Compared with Flowers
They Were Welcome To Their Belief
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Magda Isanos
Apricot Tree

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rhodora
Grace
Days

Arthur Davison Ficke
Fate with Devoted...

Sara Teasdale
I Shall Not Care

Elinor Wylie
Spring Pastoral
Down to the Puritan marrow
Sanctuary

Michael Drayton
A Parting
Truce

Genevieve Taggard
The Quiet Woman

Katherine Philips
Against Love

Florencia del Pinar
Another Song of the Same Woman

Victor Plarr
Epitaphium Citharistriae

John Hall Wheelock
The Letter
This Quiet Dust

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines

Francis Beaumont
Fie on Love

John Donne
Thou hast made me...

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Say what you will...
Here is a wound...

Sara Bard Field
November 2am Conspiracy

Alfonsina Storni
I Am Going to Sleep
They've Come

Thomas Carew
Mediocrity in Love Rejected

Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji

Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man

(added 7/12/96)

Else Lasker-Schuler
A Love Song

Edna St.Vincent Millay
I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed

Christina Rossetti
In an Artist's Studio

Leigh Hunt
Jenny Kissed Me

John Keats
This Living Hand

Robert Graves
The Cool Web

A.D. Hope
Advice to Young Ladies

Theodore Roethke
I Knew a Woman

Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
In Which She Satisfies a Fear with the Rhetoric of Tears

Geoffrey Chaucer
Against Women Unconstant

A.E. Housman
When I Watch the Living Meet

Edmund Waller
On a Girdle

William Blake
To Winter

Walter Savage Landor
Death Stands Above Me, Whispering Low
To Robert Browning

Maria Banus
Eighteen

Louise Labe
I

Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica

Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain!

William Shakespeare
XXIX

Ernest Dowson
Cynara

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sudden Light

W.S. Merwin
Separation

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese (#43)

Robert Herrick
To his mistress, objecting to him neither toying or talking

(added 6/12/96)

Lucia Fox
Dream of the Forgotten Lover

George Herbert
Redemption
Bitter-Sweet

Amy Lowell
The Taxi
Dreams in War Time
Wind and Silver

Gwendolyn Brooks
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell

Adrienne Rich
Final Notations
II

William Wordsworth
My Heart Leaps Up
Surprised by Joy
The World Is Too Much

Ben Jonson
Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell

Robert Frost
Fire and Ice

Ogden Nash
Reflections On Ice Breaking
Requiem
Columbus

(added 6/1/96)

e e cummings
anyone lived in a

Thomas Campion
When to Her Lute

John Donne
Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going to Bed

Thomas Hardy
Hap
I Look into My Glass

Robert Frost
The Oven Bird
[But outer Space,]
One Step Backward Taken
Design
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

Christina Rossetti
Passing Away, Saith the World, Passing Away

William Shakespeare
Sonnet #130
Sonnet #71

Hart Crane
My Grandmother's Love Letters

Agnes Gergely
Crazed Man in Concentration Camp

Samuel Daniel
Are They Shadows

John Clare
First Love

(added 5/28/96)

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.

(added 5/16/96)

Dorothy Parker
Unfortunate Coincidence
Resume
One Perfect Rose

e e cummings
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
l(a
what if a much of a

which of a wind

Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est

Ben Jonson
To the Reader
To Fine Lady Would-Be
On Gut
Song: To Celia
Still to Be Neat

Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
The Fair Singer

Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
To Althea, from Prison

(added 4/27/96)

William Butler Yeats
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
A Prayer for My Daughter

William Blake
The Lamb
The Tyger
The Sick Rose

Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 75
Sonnet 67

Thomas Gray
Ode

Robert Burns
To a Mouse

Christina Rossetti
Remember

Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky

(added 4/22/96)
Adrienne Rich
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Living in Sin
Moving in Winter

Emily Dickenson
'Tis not that Dying hurts us so--

Ruth Stone
Dark Conclusions
Winter

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1917. Renascence and Other Poems.

Renascence

Interim

The Suicide

God's World

Afternoon on a Hill

Sorrow

Tavern

Ashes of Life

The Little Ghost

Kin to Sorrow

Three Songs of Shattering

The Shroud

The Dream

Indifference

Witch-Wife

Blight

When the Year Grows Old

Unnamed Sonnets I-V

Sonnet VI [Bluebeard]

(added 3/31/96)

George Gordon, Lord Byron
When We Two Parted
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
Lines: When the Lamp Is Shattered
Emily Bronte
Hope
Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
George Meredith
Modern Love
Lucifer in Starlight
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
A Broken Appointment
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Mill
Mr. Flood's Party
Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider
The Dalliance of the Eagles

Stevie Smith
Not Waving But Drowning
Anne Bradstreet
The Author to Her Book
Christina Rossetti
In Progress
Emily Dickenson
'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,
Anonymous
Song of the Ill-Married
Lady Ise
Seeing the Returning Geese
Seeing the Plum Blossoms by the River
Even in my dreams
Because we suspected
Amy Lowell
Carrefour
Adrienne Rich
(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)
XX

Robert Frost
Tree at my Window
William Carlos Williams
Nantucket
This Is Just to Say
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Dudley Randall
The Profile on the Pillow
Sir Thomas Wyatt
They Flee From Me
The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought
John Donne
Death, be not proud
Batter my heart
Woman's Constancy
The Sun Rising
George Herbert
Love (III)
John Keats
When I Have Fears
Ode on a Grecian Urn

Project Bartleby - A far-off place to find all sorts of poets and poems of quality. (including all these Millay poems)

William Butler Yeats
- Love & Anti-Love poems

Paul Simon lyrics from Rhythm of the Saints
Alanis Morissette lyrics from Jagged Little Pill

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