Poets

Below are my favorite poets listed alphabetically with links to my favorite poems of theirs. This is an ever growing list that will continue to mature right alongside me.

Fleur Adcock

• Things
• The Video

Kim Addonizio

• Chicken
• First Poem For You

Conrad Aiken

• Nuit Blanche: North End
• Preludes For Memnon, LVI
• The Time Has Come, The Clock Says Time Has Come
• Music I Heard With You

Rafael Alberti

• Bosch

John Alspaugh

• Death
• The Dreambody
• Dustdevil
• The Last Day Of The Year
• Today Your Clear Blue Eyes

Patty Martino Alspaugh

• As I Lift Myself Along
• My Sister’s Scream
• To My Erudite Lover

Julia Alvarez

• How I learned To Sweep
• Naming The Fabrics
• Sonnet 42

Anacreon

• On Drinking
• Cupid Swallowed

Simon Armitage

• Paper Aeroplane

George Arnold

• Beer

John Ashbery  

• My Philosophy Of Life

W.H. Auden

• Funeral Blues
• On The Circuit

Bertha Adams Backus

• Then Laugh

Anna Loetitia Barbauld

• Life

Bashō

• Untitled

John Bennett

• The Merry Pieman’s Song

Charles Bernstein

• My/My/My
• Solidarity Is The Name We Give To What We Cannot Hold

John Berryman

• Dream Song 14
• Henry By Night

• First Death In Nova Scotia
• One Art
• Visits To St. Elizabeths

• A Poison Tree

Francis William Bourdillon

• The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

Anne Bradstreet

• The Author to Her Book
• Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children
• Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House, July 10th, 1666
• To My Dear and Loving Husband
• To My Dear Children

Anna Hempstead Branch

• Grieve Not, Ladies

Richard Brautigan

• 15%
• I’ve Never Had It Done So Gently Before
• Love Poem
• Your Catfish Friend

Joseph Brodsky

• A Song
• Blues
• Love Song
• Song Of Welcome

William Bronk

• The Body

Gwendolyn Brooks

• A Song In The Front Yard
• Beverly Hills, Chicago
• Infirm
• The Mother
• We Real Cool
• The Sonnet-Ballad

Sterling A. Brown

• Choices
• Old Lem
• Sharecroppers

Robert Browning

• Youth and Art
• Pippa Passes (song)

Charles Bukowski

• comments upon my last book of poesy
• freaky time
• my old man

 Robert Burns

• A Red, Red Rose

William Allen Butler

• Nothing To Wear

Lord Byron

• A Publisher To His Client
• All For Love

William Canton

• A New Poet

Lewis Carroll

• Hiwatha’s Photographing

Blaise Cendrars

• My Mother’s Belly
• Letter

G.K. Chesterton

• What A Friend We Have In Cheeses
• A Ballade Of Suicide

 Ho Chi-fang

• Get Drunk

Sandra Cisneros

• Ass
• Beautiful Man — France
• Champagne Poem For La Josie
• Fishing Calamari By Moon
• For All Tuesday Travelers
• I Am So Depressed I feel Like Jumping In The River Behind My House But Won’t Because I’m Thirty-Eight and Not Seventeen
• I Told Susan Reyna
• Letter To Jahn Franco — Venice
• Once Again I Prove The Theory Of Relativity
• Original Sin
• Vinto Tinto
• You Bring Out The Mexican In Me

Ahmed Tidjani-Cissé

• Of Colours And Shadows

Lucille Clifton

• Admonitions 
• [at last we killed the roaches]
• homage to my hips
• Miss Rosie
• The Thirty-Eighth Year

A.H. Clough

• Spectator Ab Extra

Billy Collins

• Advice to Writers
• After the Funeral
• Aimless Love
• Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep A Gun In The House
• A Portrait of the Reader with a Bowl of Cereal
• The Best Cigarette
• Books
• Carpe Diem
• Dining Alone
• Envoy
• Greek and Roman Statuary
• Insomnia
• Journal
• Man Listening To Disc
• Morning
• On The Death Of A Next-Door Neighbor
• The Revenant
• The Suggestion Box
• Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes
• The Trouble With Poetry
• Tuesday, June 4th, 1991
• The Unfortunate Traveler
• The Waitress

Wendy Cope

• Some Rules
• Some More Light Verse

Cid Corman

• The Container

Gregory Corso

• Marriage
• Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday

Cullen Countee

• Incident
• In Praise of Boys
• Red
• Tableau
• Yet Do I Marvel

e.e. cummings 

• the boys i mean are not refined
• Chansons Innocentes: in just
• Chansons Innocentes: little tree
• i carry your heart with me
• i sing of Olaf glad and big
• i thank You God for most this amazing
• My Sweet Old Etcetera
• No Thanks: may i feel said he
  
• Songs: the sky
• Sonnets Actualities: i like my body when it is with your
• Viva: you in winter
• XAIPE: dying is fine

Stephen Cushman

• Make The Bed

Philip Dacey

• The Feet Man
• Four Men In A Car

Jim Daniels

• Between Periods
• Talking About The Day

Emily Dickinson

• Because I Could Not Stop For Death
• Could I But Ride Indefinite
• Drowning Is Not So Pitiful
• The Grass
• I DIED For Beauty, But Was Scarce
• If I Should Die
• I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
• Is Bliss,Then, Such Abyss
• The Railway Train
• Returning
• The Snow
• Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
• To Know Just How He Suffered Would Be Dear

Tove Ditlevsen

• The Eternal Three

Henry Austin Dobson

• The Collector To His Library
• A ‘Pepys’ Diary
• The Ballad Of Prose And Rhyme

Rita Dove

• After Reading ‘Mickey in the Night Kitchen’
• The Wake

Alan Dugan

• Love Song: I and Thou
• On A Seven-Day Diary

Denise Duhamel

• The Bottom
• Please Don’t Sit Like A Frog, Sit Like A Queen

Mona Van Duyn

• The Gentle Snorer
• The Stream
• The Vision Test

Cornelius Eady

• Insomnia

Max Ehrmann

• Desiderata

T.S. Eliot

• The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock

Colin Ellis

• The Last Bottle

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Humble Bee
• Poet

Accidental Emo

• My Diary

John Erskine

• Valentine To One’s Wife

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15)
• Pictures of the Gone World (#8)
• Pictures of the Gone World (#11)
• Populist Manifesto

Eugene Field

• The Dinkey Bird
• The Little Peach

Sam Walter Foss

• The Ideal Husband To His Wife

Robert Frost

• Acquainted With The Night
• The Road Not Taken

John Gay

• A New Song Of New Similies

Strickland Gillilan

• Watch Yourself Go By

Allen Ginsberg

• A Supermarket In California
  
• Hymn To Marijuana
• Sickness Blues

Nikki Giovanni

• Allowables
• De-Planeing
• Laughter
• Raise Your Hand
• Spring

Louise Glück

• August
• New World
• The Triumph of Achilles
• Walking at Night

Lorna Goodison

• Of Bitterness Herbs
• Songs Of The Fruits And Sweets Of Childhood

Sir Arthur Gorges

• Her Face, Her Tongue, Her Wit

Amanda Gorman

• The Hill We Climb
• In This Place

Edmund Gosse

• Impression

Harry Graham

• Poetical Economy

Nikki Grimes

• Aftermath
• Broken
• English Class
• Genius
• Grandma Sally
• Intruder
• Journey
• Nightmare

Angelina Weld Grimké

• A Mona Lisa
• Fragment

Arthur Guiterman

• Strictly Germ-Proof

Marilyn Hacker

• Canzone
• Elysian Fields
• Invocation

Donald Hall

• Her Garden
• Letter With No Address
• When The Young Husband

Alysia Nicole Harris

• That Girl
• This Woman

Miguel Hernández

• Elegy
• Everything Is Full Of You
• I Have Plenty Of Heart
• It Kills Me, You’re So Pure And Chaste
• Sad Wars

Robert Herrick

• To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time
• The Argument Of His Book
• The Poetry of Dress

Thomas Heywood

• Pack, Clouds, Away

 Nazim Hikmet

• Letter From My Wife
• On Living

Edward Hirsch

• Fall

Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Height Of Ridiculous
• My Aunt

Thomas Hood

• The Bridge Of Sighs
• Dog-grel Verses, By A Poor Blind
• The Drowning Ducks
• Hymeneal Retrospections
• I Love Thee
• Love
• A Nocturnal Sketch
• Pair’d Not Match’d 
• To Mary Housemaid On Valentine’s Day

Horace

•  Carpe Diem
• To Leuconoë

Mary Howitt

• The Spider And The Fly

Langston Hughes

• Ballad of the Landlord
• Blue Monday
• Dreams
• Dressed Up
• Early Evening Quarrel
• Epilogue 
• Harlem
• Homecoming
• Ku Klux
• Merry-Go-Round 
• Morning After
• Mother To Son
• Question
• Still Here
• Too Blue
• The Weary Blues

Ted Hughes

• The Cat

J. H. Leigh Hunt

• A Library Of One

 Josephine Jacobson

• Florida Friday

Randall Jarrell

• Next Day

Richard Jones

• Apology To Andrew

Jenny Joseph

• Warning

Bob Kaufman

• No More Jazz At Alcatraz 
• West Coast Sounds-1956

 John Keats

• A Thing Of Beauty
• Ode On The Poets
• Welcome Joy And Welcome Sorrow

Jane Kenyon

• Insomnia At The Solstice
• Otherwise

Jack Kerouac

• Mexican Loneliness
• Mexico City Blues (104th Chorus)
• Mexico City Blues (190th Chorus)
• The Moon
• Observations
• Old Love-Light
• Poems of the Buddhas of Old
• Running Through—Chinese Poem Song
• Sept. 16, 1961, Poem
• Skid Row Wine
• Song of the New Chinese

Ben King

• The Pessimist

                                          Galway Kinnell                                         

• For William Carlos Williams
• Shelley
• When The Towers Fell

Rudyard Kipling

• The Betrothed

Etheridge Knight

• At A VA Hospital In The Middle Of The United States of America: An Act In A Play
• Feeling Fucked Up
• Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
• Various Protestations From Various People
• A Wasp Woman Visits A Black Junkie In Prison

Elmast Kozloyan

• Facial Heritage

                                           Stanley Jasspon Kunitz                                          

• The Layers
• The Portrait

Charles Lamb

• A Farewell to Tobacco
  
• At A Bookstall

W.S. Landor

• To Leigh Hunt, On An Omission In His ‘Feast Of The Poets’

 Philip Larkin

• Aubade
  
• The Mower
• Lines On A Young Lady’s Photograph Album
• This Be The Verse

Joseph Lauren

• The Butterfly And The Caterpillar

Richard Le Gallienne

• When I Am Very Old

Henry Sambrooke Leigh

• Very Dietary
• The Twins

 Priscilla Leonard

• Happiness

Denise Levertov 

• Bedtime
• The Mutes

Vachel Lindsay

• The Congo: A Study Of The Negro Race
• The Spider And The Ghost Of The Fly

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• A Psalm Of Life
• The Rainy Day

Adelaide Love

• Walk Slowly
• A Book
• The Lien
• Silence Alone
• Joyous Affidavit
• Pregnant
• Of An Older Woman
• Tragic Youth

Amy Lowell

• Anticipation
• Appuldurcombe Park
• Patterns

Robert Lowell

• The Drinker
• Memories of West Street and Lepke
• To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage

Charles Fletcher Lummis

• A Poem Of Passion

Archibald Macleish

• Ars Poetica

Norman Mailer

• Gourmandise

Caroline Atherton Briggs Mason

• When I Am Old

Phyllis McGinley

• The Bonus
• Dirge For An Era
• Malediction
• Meditations During A Permanent Wave
• Melancholy Reflections After A Lost Argument
• Reflections At Dawn

Claude McKay

• The Harlem Dancer
• If We Must Die
• The Lynching
• Mulatto
• Outcast
• To The White Fiends

Yuan Mei

• Growing Old (II)

 George H. Miles

• Said The Rose

James Montgomery

• Night

Marianne Moore

• Poetry

Angela Morgan

• Work

Thylias Moss

• Botanical Fanaticism
• Lessons From A Mirror
• Raising A Humid Flag
• The Day Before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959

Erin Murphy

• Birthday Poem
• Does this Poem Make My Butt Look Big?

Vladimir Nabokov

• A Literary Dinner

Ogden Nash

• A Drink With Something In It
• A Word To Husbands
• Complaint To Four Angels
• Peekaboo, I Almost See You
• So That’s Who I Remind Me Of
• The People Upstairs
• The Trouble With Women Is Men

Linda Neal

• Born To Be In Mirrors
• You Call From Tucson

Pablo Neruda

• Love Sonnet 11
• Love Sonnet 94
• Ode To The Cat

Wilbur D. Nesbit

• Who Hath A Book

Naomi Shihab Nye

• Kindness
• Wedding Cake

Frank O’Hara

• A Step Away From Them
• Poem
• The Day Lady Died
• Why I Am Not A Painter

Ben Okri 

• An African Elegy
• And If You Should Leave Me

Ernest Oldmeadow

• The Winebibber’s Alphabet

Sharon Olds

• 35/10
• First Birth
• Her First Week
• The Knowing
• The Pope’s Penis
• Q
• The Race
• Topography
• The Victims

Peter Orlovsky

• Some One Liked Me When I Was Twelve
• Writing Poems Is A Saintly Thing

Wilfred Owen

• Disabled

Dorothy Parker

• Résumé
• Symptom Recital
• The Lady’s Reward

Thomas Parnell

• The Bookworm
• My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free

Nicanor Parra

• The Last Toast
• Rest In Peace

Linda Pastan

• In The Orchard
• Insomnia
• Musings Before Sleep
• Prosody 101

Molly Peacock

• Cancelled Elegy
• The Spell

Marge Piercy

• For Strong Women
• For the Young Who Want to
• My Mother’s Novel
• Right to Life

Robert Pinsky

• Shirt

Sylvia Plath

• The Applicant
• Daddy
• Face Lift
• Family Reunion
• Fiesta Melons
• Happy Birthday To You!
• I Am Vertical
• Insomnia
• Jilted
• Last Words
• Midsummer Mobile
• Morning Song
• Southern Sunrise
• Untitled

Edgar Allan Poe

• Dreams
• For Annie
• The Raven
• To Helen

Alexander Pope

• Solitude

Ezra Pound

• And Thus In Nineveh

Jack Prelutsky

• Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face
• Bleezer’s Ice Cream

A.G. Prys-Jones

• The Wife Of Carcassone

John Crowe Ransom

• Blue Girls
• Piazza Piece
• Survey Of Literature

Nan Terrell Reed

• Vases
• The Movie
• Some Folks

Lizette Woodworth Reese

• Herbs
• Lydia Is Gone This Many A Year

Arthur Rimbaud

• Romance
• Vowels

Ishigaki Rin

• Hands

• Dinky
• Dolor
• I Knew A Woman
• My Papa’s Waltz
• Prayer
• The Waking

Christina Rossetti

• A Birthday
• A Peal Of Bells
• [A Pin has a head, but has no hair]
• Beauty Is Vain
• Farewell
• Freaks Of Fashion
• Goblin Market
• Love From The North
• My Friend
• The Queen Of Hearts
• Remember
• Soeur Louise De La Misericorde

Muriel Rukeyser 

• Citation for Horace Gregory
• George Robinson: Blues
• Yes

Jaime Sabines

• I’m Not Dying Of Love

Edna St. Vincent Millay

• What Lips My Lips Have Kissed And Where And Why
• Recuerdo
• Spring

Sonia Sanchez

• Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman
• Personal Letter No. 3
• Song No. 2
• Song No. 3
• Towhomitmayconcern

Carl Sandburg

• Chicago Poet
• Fog
• Sleep Is A Suspension

Gjertrud Schnackenberg

• Love Letter
• Supernatural Love

Alan Seeger

• I Have A Rendezvous With Death

Anne Sexton

• Welcome Morning

William Shakespeare

• A Madrigal
• Hamlet’s Soliloquy
• Sonnet II
• Sonnet XXVII

Karl Shapiro

• Haircut
• Hollywood

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• To A Skylark
• Love’s Philosophy

Frank Dempster Sherman

• The Book Hunter

Charles Simic

• Bed Music
• My Beloved

Gary Soto

• Chit-Chat With The Junior League Women
• Hands

Robert Southey

• The Cataract Of Lodore
• The Scholar In His Library

Charles Sprague

• To My Cigar

Gertrude Stein

• Christian Berard

Wallace Stevens

• Another Weeping Woman
• The Dwarf
• The Emperor of Ice-Cream
• Floral Decorations for Bananas
• Mozart, 1935
• Study of Two Pears
• Sunday Morning

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Bed In Summer

Mark Strand

• Eating Poetry
• Elegy For My Father

Sharan Strange

• Childhood
• Froggy’s Class

Robert Sward

• Uncle Dog: The Poet At 9

May Swenson

• Neither Wanting More

Wislawa Szymborska

• The End And The Beginning (trans. by Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh)
• A Terrorist Is Watching (trans. by Austin Flint)
• The One Twenty Pub (trans. by Dennis O’Driscoll)

Kuan Tao-sheng

• Married Love

James Tate

• Distance From Loved Ones
• Dream On
• The Prayer

Dylan Thomas

• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Henry David Thoreau

• My Life Has Been The Poem I Would Have Writ
• Sic VitaSouth

Natasha Trethewey

• Blond
• Graveyard Blues
• Letter Home
• Limen
• My Mother Dreams Another Country
• Southern History

Louis Untermeyer

• Return To Birds
• Food And Drink
• Planting Rhyme 

Charles Vildrac

• The Big White Bird
• By Myself
• Happy-Go-Lucky

Paul Violi

• • Abundance
  • Appeal To The Grammarians
  • At The Cottage of Messer Violi
  • Counterman
  • Extenuating Circumstances

Judith Viorst

• Happiness (Reconsidered)
• True Love

Ellen Bryant Voigt

• Amaryllis
• Lesson

Voltaire

• Stanzas Upon The Epic Poets

Prince P.A. Vyazemsky

• The Russian God

Franklin Waldheim

• Help Wanted

John Whitaker Watson

• Beautiful Snow

R. G. Wells

• Growing Older

Richard Wilbur

• A Later Aubade
• A Summer Morning

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• Solitude

Oscar Wilde

• The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

Tennessee Williams

• Cinder Hill
• Poem For Paul

                   William Carlos Williams                     

• The Act
• The Artist
• The Negro Woman
• Smell!
• This Is Just To Say
• Waiting
• The Red Wheelbarrow
• The Young Housewife

                                                William Wordsworth                                              

• The Tables Turned
• The World Of Books

Ivan Leonard Wright

• The Want Of You

James Arlington Wright

• Complaint

Lois Wyse

• Non-Stop
• Nothing
• Sunday
• Yes

William Butler Yeats

• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
• The Coming Of Wisdom With Time 
• When You Are Old