Lists of poems

See also: Category:Poems

This is a list of poems, individual poems (not poetry collections or anthologies), of any length, often published in book form if long enough, or, if a short poem, as a tract or broadside.

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• "1914" - Wilfred Owen

A

• "A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer" – Gene Ziegler (1994)
• "A Question" - Robert Frost
• "A Terre" - Wilfred Owen
• Absalom and Achitophel - John Dryden (1681, continuation attrib. to Nahum Tate)
• "Adam's Curse" - William Butler Yeats
• "Address to the Deil" - Robert Burns
• Aeneid - Virgil (1st century BC)
• "After Apple-Picking" - Robert Frost
• The Age of Anxiety - W. H. Auden (1948)
• "And did those feet in ancient time" - William Blake
• "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" - Richard Brautigan (1967)
• "Amar Sonar Bangla" – Rabindranath Tagore
• Aniara (Verse novel) - Harry Martinson (1956)
• "Anne Hathaway" - Carol Ann Duffy
• Annus Mirabilis - John Dryden
• "Anthem for Doomed Youth" - Wilfred Owen (1917)
• L'après-midi d'un faune - Stéphane Mallarmé
• Areopagitica - John Milton
• Argonautica - Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century BC)
• "Ariel" - Sylvia Plath (1962)
• Arinbjarnarkviða - Egill Skalla-Grímsson
• Ash Wednesday - T. S. Eliot
• "Asleep" - Wilfred Owen
• Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

B

• Bahuk - Chinu Modi
• "Bangamata" – Rabindranath Tagore
• "The Bell Buoy" - Rudyard Kipling
• Beppo - Lord Byron
• "The Betrothed" - Rudyard Kipling
• Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata – Rabindranath Tagore
• "Birpurush" – Rabindranath Tagore
• Borodino - Mikhail Lermontov
• "Brahma" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

C

• Cad Goddeu - attrib. Taliesin (6th century)
• "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise" – Jerrold H. Zar (1994)
• The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Cantos - Ezra Pound
• "Casabianca" - Felicia Hemans, early 19th century
• "Casey at the Bat" - Ernest Thayer (1888)
• "Catrin" - Gillian Clarke
• The Changing Light at Sandover - James Merrill (1982)
• "Changsha" - Mao Zedong (1925)
• "The Charge of the Light Brigade" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "Chicago" - Carl Sandburg
• "The Child" – Rabindranath Tagore
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Lord Byron
• "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" - Robert Browning (1855)
• "Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo" or Where the mind is without fear – Rabindranath Tagore
• "Cimmeria" - Robert E. Howard
• "The Circus Animals' Desertion" - William Butler Yeats
• "The City" - Constantine Cavafy
• Clarel - Herman Melville
• "Cold Iron" - Rudyard Kipling
• "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" - William Wordsworth, (1802)
• "The Conqueror Worm" - Edgar Allan Poe
• The Coral Sea – Patti Smith
• "The Cuckoo Song" – Anonymous, c.1240

D

• "D-Day" - Pól Ó Muirí
• "Daddy" - Sylvia Plath (1962)
• "The Dark Man" - Stephen King
• "Days" - Philip Larkin
• "Deor" - Old English
• "Dies irae" (Hymn) - Tommaso da Celano (13th century)
• "Dui Bigha Jomi" – Rabindranath Tagore
• "A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998" - Gillian Clarke
• "A Dirge" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• John Gilpin - William Cowper
• "A Divine Image" - William Blake
• Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (1307–1321)
• "Don Juan" - Lord Byron (1821)
• "Dover Beach" - Matthew Arnold (1867)
• "The Dream" - John Donne
• "The Dream" - Lord Byron
• Dream of the Rood - Old English, Vercelli Book (10th century)
• "The Duel" - Eugene Field
• "Dulce et Decorum est" - Wilfred Owen (1917)

E

• The Eagle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• East Coker - T. S. Eliot
• Easter, 1916 - William Butler Yeats
• Ekla Chalo Re – Rabindranath Tagore
• "El Golem" - Jorge Luis Borges
• "Eldorado" - Edgar Allan Poe
• "The End" - Wilfred Owen
• Endymion (1817) - John Keats
• An Essay on Criticism - Alexander Pope
• An Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
• Eugene Onegin (verse novel) - Alexander Pushkin
• The Eve of St. Agnes - John Keats
• "Every Morning" - Suman Pokhrel
• The Excursion - William Wordsworth

F

• Fables and Parables - Ignacy Krasicki
• The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
• The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream - John Keats
• "Fare Thee Well" - Lord Byron
• "The Female of the Species" - Rudyard Kipling
• "Fern Hill" - Dylan Thomas
• "Fire and Ice" - Robert Frost (1920)
• "The First Decade" - Niccolò Machiavelli
• "The First Kiss of Love" - Lord Byron
• "First they came ..." - Martin Niemöller
• "Flen flyys" - Anon. 15th century
• "The Fly" - William Blake
• Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot
• Fra Lippo Lippi - Robert Browning

G

• Gayatri Mantra (Verse from hymn)
• Epic of Gilgamesh
• "The Girls of Llanbadarn" - Dafydd ap Gwilym
• "Godiva" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Gododdin - Aneirin
• "El Golem" - Jorge Luis Borges
• Grażyna - Adam Mickiewicz
• Grímnismál - Poetic Edda
• Grógaldr - Poetic Edda
• Gunslinger - Ed Dorn

H

• "Ha! Ha! Houdini!" - Patti Smith
• "Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox" - Allen Ginsberg
• "Half-Caste" - John Agard
• "Halloween" - Robert Burns
• "The Haunted Palace" - Edgar Allan Poe
• Hávamál - Poetic Edda
• Hellas - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• "The Hero" - Rabindranath Tagore
• Hero and Leander - Christopher Marlowe
• "The Highwayman" - Alfred Noyes
• "Hildina" - traditional
• "The Hollow Men" - T. S. Eliot
• "Howl" - Allen Ginsberg (1955)
• The Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Carroll
• "Hymn to Proserpine" - Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866)
• Hyperion - John Keats

I

• "I Sing the Body Electric" - Walt Whitman
• "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" - William Wordsworth (1804)
• "I want a president" - Zoe Leonard (1992)
• Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "If—" - Rudyard Kipling (c.1895)
• Il Penseroso - John Milton
• Iliad - attrib. Homer (c. 850 BC)
• "In a Station of the Metro" - Ezra Pound (1913)
• In Blackwater Woods - Mary Oliver
• "In Flanders Fields" - John McCrae
• "In Memoriam A.H.H." - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "Invictus" - William Ernest Henley
• Iron Horse - Allen Ginsberg
• "Is acher in gaíth in-nocht..." - Old Irish (9th century)
• "Island Man" - Grace Nichols

J

• "Jabberwocky" - Lewis Carroll (1871)
• "Jana Gana Mana" – Rabindranath Tagore
• "Jete Nahi Dibo" – Rabindranath Tagore
• Job - Old Testament
• John Brown's Body - Stephen Vincent Benét
• Judith - Old English, the Nowell Codex

K

• "Kaddish" - Allen Ginsberg (1961)
• Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot (19th century)
• "Kali the Mother" - Vivekananda
• Konrad Wallenrod - Adam Mickiewicz
• "The Kraken" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

L

• "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" - John Keats
• "Lady Lazarus" - Sylvia Plath (1962)
• "The Lady of Shalott" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• L'Allegro - John Milton
• "The Last Laugh" - Wilfred Owen
• "The Last Rose of Summer" - Thomas Moore (c.1807)
• "Laughing Song" - William Blake
• "Leda and the Swan" - William Butler Yeats (1929)
• "Lenore" - Edgar Allan Poe (1841)
• "Lepanto" - G.K. Chesterton
• "The Letter" - Wilfred Owen
• "Limbo" - Edward Kamau Brathwaite
• Limbo - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• "A Little Boy Lost" - William Blake (1794)
• "A Little Girl Lost" - William Blake (1794)
• "The Little Boy Lost" - William Blake (1789)
• Lokasenna - Poetic Edda
• London - Samuel Johnson
• "Lost in Translation" - James Merrill (1974)
• The Lotos-Eaters - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "Lotta Svärd" - Johan Ludvig Runeberg
• "Love After Love" - Derek Walcott
• "Love Among the Ruins" - Robert Browning
• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - T. S. Eliot (1917)
• "Love's Philosophy" - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)
• Luceafărul - Mihai Eminecsu
• The Lusiads - Luís Vaz de Camões
• "Lycidas" - John Milton (1634)

M

• "Mandalay" - Rudyard Kipling
• "Mariana" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Masque of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819)
• Meeting The British - Paul Muldoon
• Meghnad Badh Kavya – Michael Madhusudan Dutta
• Messiah - Alexander Pope
• "Michael" - William Wordsworth
• Milton: A Poem in Two Books - William Blake
• "Miniver Cheevy" - Edwin Arlington Robinson
• "Minyas" - Ancient Greece (6th century BC)
• "The Mirror" - Dafydd ap Gwilym
• "The Munich Mannequins" - Sylvia Plath (1963)
• "My Boy Jack" - Rudyard Kipling
• "My Last Duchess" - Robert Browning

N

• Nachuk Tahate Shyama - Vivekananda
• "The Next War" - Wilfred Owen
• Night-Thoughts - Edward Young
• The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• "Not My Business" - Niyi Osundare
• "Nothing Gold Can Stay" - Robert Frost
• "Nothing's Changed" - Tatamkhulu Afrika

O

• Oddrúnargrátr - the Codex Regius
• "Ode on a Grecian Urn" - John Keats
• "Ode on Indolence" - John Keats
• "Ode on Melancholy" - John Keats
• "Ode to a Nightingale" - John Keats (1819)
• "Ode to Psyche" - John Keats
• "Ode to the West Wind" - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819)
• Odyssey - attrib. Homer
• The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel - Nikos Kazantzakis (1938)
• Old English rune poem - Old English (8th century)
• "O Amar Desher Mati" – Rabindranath Tagore
• "On Another's Sorrow" - William Blake
• "On being asked for a War Poem" - William Butler Yeats
• "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" - John Keats
• "On His Blindness" - John Milton
• "On My First Sonne" - Ben Jonson
• "On the Train" - Gillian Clarke
• Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto (1516)
• Orlando Innamorato - Matteo Maria Boiardo (1486)
• The Owl and the Nightingale - anon. (13th century)
• "The Owl and the Pussycat" - Edward Lear
• "Ozymandias" - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)

P

• Pale Fire (verse novel) - Vladimir Nabokov
• "Pange Lingua" (hymn) - Thomas Aquinas
• "Pangur Bán" - Old Irish (9th century)
• "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" - Wilfred Owen (c.1917)
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• Paradise Regained - John Milton
• Paris: A Poem - Hope Mirrlees (1920)
• Parlement of Foules - Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century)
• "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" - Christopher Marlowe
• Paterson - William Carlos Williams (1963)
• "Patrolling Barnegat" - Walt Whitman
• Pearl - Middle English (14th century)
• "Pharaoh" - Old English, The Exeter Book (10th century)
• "The Phoenix" - Old English
• "Pierrot" - Langston Hughes
• Piers Plowman - William Langland (versions 1360–1399)
• "Plutonian Ode" - Allen Ginsberg
• The Poem of the End - Marina Tsvetaeva 1924
• Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - a listing of all poems published by EAP
• Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - a listing of major Longfellow works
• "The Poet and the Grey Friar" - Dafydd ap Gwilym
• "Porphyria's Lover" - Robert Browning
• "Prayer Before Birth" - Louis MacNeice
• The Prelude - William Wordsworth (posthumous publication in 1850)
• The Princess - Alfred, Lord Tennyson (published 1847)
• Psalms - Old Testament
• "Pull My Daisy" - Allan Ginsberg

Q

• "The Queen of Hearts" - anonymous
• "A Question" - Robert Frost

R

• Ramanan - Changampuzha
• Ramayana - Valmiki (c.250 BC)
• "Rani" - Thirunalloor Karunakaran
• The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare
• The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
• "The Raven" - Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
• "Recessional" - Rudyard Kipling
• "The Red Wheelbarrow" - William Carlos Williams (1923)
• "Refugee Blues" - W. H. Auden
• "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" - William Butler Yeats
• "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" - Gil Scott-Heron
• "The Rhyming Poem" - The Exeter Book (Medieval English, Tenth Century)
• "Richard Cory" - Edwin Arlington Robinson
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Ring and the Book - Robert Browning
• "The Road Not Taken" - Robert Frost
• Rokeby - Walter Scott
• Roman de la Rose - Guillaume de Loris (c.1230), Jean de Meun (c.1275)
• The Rose Tree - William Butler Yeats
• Rubaiyat - Omar Khayyam
• "The Ruin" - Dafydd ap Gwilym
• Rune Poems

S

• "Saint Peter" - Henry Lawson
• "St. Simeon Stylites" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Samson Agonistes - John Milton (1671)
• "The Scholars" - William Butler Yeats
• "The Sea and the Mirror" - W. H. Auden
• Seafarer - Old English, the Exeter Book
• "The Seagull" - Dafydd ap Gwilym
• The Seasons - James Thomson
• The Second Coming - W. B. Yeats
• The Second Decade - Niccolò Machiavelli
• "Sen dollotar Ulaid ..." - Old Irish (10th century)
• "September 1913" - William Butler Yeats
• Shahnameh - Ferdowsi (1000)
• A Shropshire Lad - A. E. Housman
• The Siege of Corinth - Lord Byron
• Siege of Thebes - John Lydgate
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - 14th century
• Sir Orfeo - anon. c.1300
• Skírnismál - Codus Regius (13th century)
• "The Snow" - Dafydd ap Gwilym (attrib.)
• "The Soldier" - Rupert Brooke
• Soldier's Dream - Wilfred Owen
• "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" - Robert Browning
• Solomon and Saturn - Old English (9th or 10th century)
• "A Song in Storm" - Rudyard Kipling
• "A Song for Simeon" - T. S. Eliot
• The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
• "Song of Myself" - Walt Whitman (1855)
• The Song of Roland - Roland
• "Song of Solomon" - Old Testament
• The Song of the Happy Shepherd - William Butler Yeats
• "Song of the Open Road" - Walt Whitman
• "Sonnet 68" - William Shakespeare
• Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "Spring" - William Blake
• "Spring Offensive" - Wilfred Owen
• "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" - Robert Frost
• "Strange Meeting" - Wilfred Owen
• "Stream of Life" – Rabindranath Tagore
• "Submarines" - Rudyard Kipling
• "Sunday Morning" - Wallace Stevens

T

• Tabaré - Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
• The Tale of Kieu - Nguyen-Du
• "Tam o' Shanter" - Robert Burns
• "Tamerlane" - Edgar Allan Poe
• Theogony - Hesiod
• "Thinking" - Walter D. Wintle
• "This Be The Verse" - Philip Larkin
• "This Room" - Imtiaz Dharker
• Thrymskvitha - Poetic Edda
• "Tintern Abbey" - William Wordsworth
• "To a Louse" - Robert Burns
• "To a Waterfowl" – William Cullen Bryant (1821)
• "To an Athlete Dying Young" - A. E. Housman
• "To Autumn" - John Keats (1819)
• "To His Coy Mistress" - Andrew Marvell
• "To the Fourth of July" - Vivekananda
• "To William Wordsworth" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• "Training" - Wilfred Owen
• "The Triumph of Time" - Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Trivia - John Gay
• "Trouble at a Tavern" - Dafydd ap Gwilym
• "Tulips" - Sylvia Plath (1961)
• "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" - John Byrom
• "The Tyger" - William Blake, c.1793

U

• "Ubique" - Rudyard Kipling
• "Ulysses" - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

V

• "V" – Tony Harrison (1985)
• Vafthrúthnismáll – Poetic Edda
• "Vainglory" – Old English, The Exeter Book (10th century)
• "Valerik" – Mikhail Lermontov
• Venus and Adonis – William Shakespeare
• The Village – George Crabbe
• "Vocation" – Rabindranath Tagore
• Völuspá – Poetic Edda
• "Vultures" – Chinua Achebe

W

• "The Walrus and the Carpenter" - Lewis Carroll (1871)
• The Wanderer - Old English, the Exeter Book (10th century)
• The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats (1889)
• The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot (1922)
• "We Are Seven" - William Wordsworth
• "What Were They Like?" - Denise Levertov
• "The Wild Swans at Coole" - William Butler Yeats
• "The Wind" - Dafydd ap Gwilym
• "Woolgathering" – Patti Smith (1992)

Y

• ¿Y Tu Abuela Donde Esta? - Fortunato Vizcarrondo

See also

• List of poetry anthologies
• List of poetry collections