Poems Explore our poems Our growing archive extends from past to present, gathering celebrated poets of history alongside great contemporary writers Showing 1-40 of 291 poems All Text Films Grid List Ars Poetica #100: I Believe By Elizabeth Alexander Read poem → Butter By Elizabeth Alexander Read poem → I Want the Confidence of By Raymond Antrobus Read poem → To Sweeten Bitter By Raymond Antrobus Read poem → Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris By Raymond Antrobus Read poem → Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold Read poem → Isolation: To Marguerite By Matthew Arnold Read poem → The Buried Life By Matthew Arnold Read poem → To Marguerite: Continued By Matthew Arnold Read poem → Little Prayer By Mona Arshi Read poem → The Bird By Mona Arshi Read poem → from Academic Graffiti By W. H. Auden Read poem → Funeral Blues By W. H. Auden Read poem → In Memory of W. B. Yeats By W. H. Auden Read poem → Lullaby By W. H. Auden Read poem → O Tell Me the Truth About Love By W. H. Auden Read poem → September 1, 1939 By W. H. Auden Read poem → Song of the Master and Boatswain By W. H. Auden Read poem → Who’s Who By W. H. Auden Read poem → Life By Anna Lætitia Barbauld Read poem → Washing Day By Anna Lætitia Barbauld Read poem → Fantasy By Gwendolyn Bennett Read poem → Nocturne By Gwendolyn Bennett Read poem → Auguries of Innocence By William Blake Read poem → The Sick Rose By William Blake Read poem → Imaginary Exile By Richard Blanco Read poem → Contemplations By Anne Bradstreet Read poem → The Author to Her Book By Anne Bradstreet Read poem → The Flesh and the Spirit By Anne Bradstreet Read poem → Bullet Points By Jericho Brown Read poem → Crossing By Jericho Brown Read poem → Duplex (A poem is a gesture toward home) By Jericho Brown Read poem → Stake By Jericho Brown Read poem → The Tradition By Jericho Brown Read poem → Advice from the Lights By Stephanie Burt Read poem → First Astronomy Globe By Stephanie Burt Read poem → Wildflower Meadow, Medawisla By Stephanie Burt Read poem → Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read poem → The Rime of the Ancient Mariner By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read poem → Postlude for Four Hands at the Great Organ By Maryann Corbett Read poem → 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next page →