Favourite Poems

Haiku
A Heifer Clambers Up	— Gary Snyder	Rolling In	— Gary Snyder
Robin 1 2 3 4	— Gary Snyder	After Work	— Gary Snyder
Black Hair	— Afghan of Muhammadji	Crossing the Bar	— Lord Tennyson
Black Marigolds	— quoted in Steinbeck	Black Marigolds, Full	— Chaura-panchasika
The Cherry Tree	— A.E. Housman	Twa Corbies	— Popular
To His Coy Mistress	— Andrew Marvell	'Daffodils'	— William Wordsworth
Distich	— Oumara	Japanese drink song	— Street song
The Eagle	— Lord Tennyson	The Fisherman	— Li Po
I heard a fly buzz	— Emily Dickinson	Ghazal	— Isch
Amazing Grace	— Traditional	Hammer and a Nail	— Emily Saliers (lyric)
your slightest look...	— E.E. Cummings (film)	your slightest look...	— E.E. Cummings (full)
Julia	— Robert Herrick	London	— William Blake
A certain slant of light	— Emily Dickinson	The Tyger	— William Blake
Values	— from the Arabic	Vengeance	— Caucases ballad
The Willow-Leaf	— Chang Chiu Ling	A Girl's Yearning	— Li Yu
on Westminster Bridge	— William Wordsworth	Song	— Christina Rossetti
Uphill	— Christina Rossetti	A Thing Remembered	— ? from the Arabic
I Asked A Thief	— William Blake	The Sick Rose	— William Blake
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	— Langston Hughes	Song of the Pines	— Po Chu-I
The Poison Tree	— William Blake	Ripe Plums Are Falling	— Book of Songs
Shade of the Orange Leaves	— Tin-Tun-Ling	In a Station of the Metro	— Ezra Pound
may i feel said he	— E.E. Cummings	The Red Wheelbarrow	— William Carlos Williams
Moon Song	— Mildred P. Meigs	The Raggedy Man	— James W. Riley
The Swing	— R. L. Stevenson	Harlem	— Langston Hughes
Jamaican Farewell	— Traditional	Paramitas	— Zen
To A Poor Old Woman	— William Carlos Williams	A Red, Red Rose	— Robert Burns
To Lady Mori	— Ikkyu	Nature's Way	— Ikkyu
By the Winding River I	— Tu Fu	New Moon	— Tu Fu
Country Cottage	— Tu Fu	Sunset	— Tu Fu
Ode to Ironing	— Pablo Neruda	Water	— Pablo Neruda
Love Sonnet XII	— Pablo Neruda	The Panther	— Rainer Maria Rilke
In the Palace	— Tu Sin Yu	Submission	— from the Siamese
Proposal of Marriage	— Song of Kafiristan	Some Beasts	— Pablo Neruda
The Planned Child	— Sharon Olds	Tao Te Ching	— tr. Ray Grigg
The White Pony	— Book of Songs	Lament in Good Weather	— Lucia Perillo
Mercutio dreams	— Shakespeare	Take the I Out	— Sharon Olds
Tso Banquet	— Tu Fu	Love Song of Tibet	— tr. Powys Mathers
Pour Us Wine	— Ibn Kolthum	Peace of Wild Things	— Wendell Berry
Garden of Bright Waters	— E. Powys Mathers	Abla	— E. Powys Mathers
Custard the Dragon	— Ogden Nash	I can no longer take my life for granted	— Hillary North
Lesbia Railing	— Catullus/Swift	In January	— Ted Kooser
Selecting a Reader	— Ted Kooser	Flying at Night	— Ted Kooser
A Birthday Poem	— Ted Kooser	My Husband's Back	— Susan Minot
The Cylons	— Battlestar Galactica	Loafing	— Raymond Carver
Hoeing	— John Updike	Sunday Morning, Late August	— Deborah Cummins
My Mind's Eye Opens Before The Light Gets Up	— Deborah Cummins	Passage	— Deborah Cummins
Creed	— Meg Kearney	The Trouble with Creation	— Meg Kearney
Little Sisters	— Sonia Gernes	Anger	— C.K. Williams
Unforeseen	— Reid Bush	Alcatraz	— Sharon Olds
Please Fire Me	— Deborah Garrison	The Poet	— Jane Hirshfield
The Faces of Children	— Elizabeth Spires	Westron wind, when wilt thou blow	— Anonymous
Days	— Philip Larkin	Jenny Kiss'd Me	— Leigh Hunt
Juliet	— Hilaire Belloc	A Thunderstorm in Town	— Thomas Hardy
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	— Robert Herrick	Chop-Cherry	— Robert Herrick
Picture in a Frame	— Tom Waits	Betty's Diner	— Carrie Newcomer
Getting By	— Gary L. Lark	Self-Exam	— Sharon Olds
I Close My Eyes	— David Ignatow	The Museum of Stones	— Carolyn Forch
I Love The Way Men Crack	— Ellen Bass	Testament	— Hayden Carruth
Life On Earth...	— David Keplinger	Coats	— Jane Kenyon
Day Bath	— Debra Spencer	Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child	— Thomas Lux
Toast	— Susan Deborah King	Gate C22	— Ellen Bass
Getting By	— Gary L. Lark	Three Songs at the End of Summer	— Jane Kenyon
Love's Philosophy	— Percy Bysshe Shelley	Baby Girl Found	— Francette Cerulli
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	— W. B. Yeats	A Drinking Song	— W. B. Yeats
The Faces of Children	— Elizabeth Spires	Above Pate Valley	— Gary Snyder
February	— Margaret Atwood	Echocardiogram	— Suzanne Cleary
In The Middle of the Road	— Elizabeth Bishop	I Married You	— Linda Pastan
Things You Didn't Put On Your Resumé	— Joyce Sutphen	Great Cathedrals	— George Bilgere
In The Middle	— Barbara Crooker	The Rites of Manhood	— The Rites of Manhood
Grapefruit	— Ted McMahon	Afraid So	— Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Top Of My Lungs	— Natalie Goldberg	Looking for a Rest Area	— Stephen Dunn
The Waitresses	— Matt Cook	Marry Me	— Veronica Patterson
A Primer of the Daily Round	— Howard Nemerov	Vinegar and Oil	— Jane Hirschfield
Lesson	— Robin Robertson	The Park Drunk	— Robin Robertson
Dream of the Huntress	— Robin Robertson	Venery	— Robin Robertson
Artichoke	— Robin Robertson	What the Horses See at Night	— Robin Robertson
Wedding The Locksmith's Daughter	— Robin Robertson	Ticket	— Meg Kearney
French Horn	— Jane Hirshfield	The Cherry Tree	— David Wagoner
Forgotten Fountain	— W.S. Merwin	Rendezvous	— Ted McMahon
Everybody	— Marie Sheppard Williams	i like my body	— E.E. Cummings
Baby Wrens' Voices	— Thomas R. Smith	The Most Careless Girl in the Class Had the Most Exquisite Body	— Erica Ehrenberg
The Accompanist	— Dick Allen	Bushwick: Latex Flat	— D. Nurkse
Father, Child, Water	— Gary Dop	Ozymandias	— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Grecian Temples	— George Bilgere	Ground Waters	— Alison Apotheker
To Daffodils	— Robert Herrick	After a Noisy Night	— Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Ground Waters	— Alison Apotheker	The Faces of Children	— Elizabeth Spires
For the Anniversary of My Death	— W.S. Merwin	Ode to The God of Atheists	— Ellen Bass
When You Return	— Ellen Bass	Complaint	— William Carlos Williams
the hookers, the madmen and the doomed	— Charles Bukowski	I started Early – Took my Dog	— Emily Dickinson
Manna	— Joseph Stroud	At the Office Holiday Party	— Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
The Sum of a Man	— Norah Pollard	Waiting	— William Carlos Williams
Smell	— William Carlos Williams	Missoula in a Dusty Light	— John Haines
Onions	— William Matthews	Cher	— Dorianne Laux
Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market	— Pablo Neruda	First Thanksgiving	— Sharon Olds
The Glass and the Bowl	— Louise Erdrich	Life Cycle of a Helium Balloon	— Amy Baldwin
Old Bones	— Gary Snyder	Spring is like a perhaps hand	— e.e. cummings
Goods	— Wendell Berry	In the Late Season	— Tom Hennen
VII	— Wendell Berry	The Country	— Billy Collins
Those Winter Sundays	— Robert Hayden	The Rockettes	— John Updike
Claim	— Kasey Jueds	For Fathers of Girls	— Stephen Dunn
The Fishermen's Farewell	— Robin Robertson	Leaning In	— Sue Ellen Thompson
Thaw	— Edward Thomas	Cher	— Dorianne Laux
At the Very Lengthy Meeting	— Kevin McCaffrey	Directions	— Joseph Stroud
By the Front Door	— W. S. Merwin	Spring Evening on Blind Mountain	— Louise Erdrich
a song with no end	— Charles Bukowski	April Rain Song	— Langston Hughes
Husbands	— Pauletta Hansel	I Have A Time Machine	— Brenda Shaughnessy
My Life's Stem Was Cut	— Helen Dunmore		—
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