List of 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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A

• Absalom and Achitophel - John Dryden (1681, continuation attrib. to Nahum Tate)
• Aeneid - Virgil (1st century BC)
• The Age of Anxiety - W. H. Auden (1948)
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1797 -1798)
• And did those feet in ancient time - William Blake
• Aniara (Verse novel) - Harry Martinson (1956)
• Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen (1917)
• Areopagitica - John Milton
• Argonautica - Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century BC)
• Ariel - Sylvia Plath (1962)

C

• Cad Goddeu - attrib. Taliesin (6th century)
• Casabianca - Felicia Hemans, early 19th century
• Casey at the Bat - Ernest Thayer (1888)
• The marsh of Indolence
• Charge of the Light Brigade- Tennyson
• The Changing Light at Sandover - James Merrill (1982)
• Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning (1855)
• The Conqueror Worm - Edgar Allan Poe
• The Coral Sea – Patti Smith

D

• Daddy - Sylvia Plath (1962)
• Dies Irae (Hymn) - Tommaso da Celano (13th century)
• The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (1307-1321)
• Don Juan - Lord Byron (1821)
• Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold (1867)
• Dream of the Rood
• Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen (1917)

E

• Endymion (1817) - John Keats
• Eugene Onegin (Verse novel) - Alexander Pushkin

F

• Fables and Parables - Ignacy Krasicki
• The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
• Fata Morgana - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas
• Fire and Ice - Robert Frost (1920)
• On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - John Keats
• First they came... - Martin Niemöller
• Flen flyys Anon. 15th century

G

• Gayatrimantra (Verse from hymn)
• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Gododdin - Aneirin
• The Golden Gate (Verse novel) - Vikram Seth
• Grímnismál - Poetic Edda
• Grógaldr - Poetic Edda

H

• Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox - Allen Ginsberg
• Hávamál - Poetic Edda
• High Flight - John Gillespie Magee, Junior
• The House On The Hill - Edwin Arlington Robinson 1922
• Howl - Allen Ginsberg (1955)
• The Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Carroll
• Hyperion - John Keats
• Hymn to Proserpine - Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866)

I

• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth
• Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• If—  - Rudyard Kipling (C.1895)
• Iliad - attrib Homer (c. 850 BC)
• In a Station of the Metro - Ezra Pound (1913)
• In Flanders Fields - John McCrae
• Invictus - William Ernest Henley

J

• Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll (1871)
• Book of Job
• John Gilpin - William Cowper
• Judith - anon. Old English

K

• Kaddish - Allen Ginsberg (1961)
• Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot (19th century)
• Kim Van Kieu - Nguyen-Du
• The Kraken - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

L

• Lady Lazarus - Sylvia Plath (1962)
• The Last Rose of Summer - Thomas Moore (c.1807)
• Leda and the Swan - William Butler Yeats (1929)
• Lenore - Edgar Allan Poe (1841)
• Lokasenna - Poetic Edda
• Lost in Translation - James Merrill (1974)
• Love's Philosophy - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T. S. Eliot (1917)
• Lycidas - John Milton (1634)
• The Lake - Edgar Allan Poe

M

My Last Farewell

O

• Ode on a Grecian Urn - John Keats
• Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats (1819)
• Ode to the West Wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819)
• Odyssey - attrib Homer
• The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel - Nikos Kazantzakis (1938)
• 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
• The Parable of the old man and the young - Wilfred Owen (c.1917)
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• Paradise Regained - John Milton
• Parlement of Foules -Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century)
• Pass Through The Fire
• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe
• Paterson - William Carlos Williams (1963)
• Pearl
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning 1849
• Piers Plowman - William Langland (versions 1360-1399)
• Plutonian Ode - Allen Ginsberg
• The Poem of the End - Marina Tsvetaeva 1924
• Prayer before birth - Louis McNeice
• The Prelude - William Wordsworth (posthumous publication in 1850)
• The Princess - Alfred Lord Tennyson - published 1847

R

• Ramayana - Valmiki (c.250 BC)
• The Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
• The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
• Roman de la Rose - Guillaume de Loris (c.1230), Jean de Meun (c.1275)
• Rubaiyat-Omar Khayyam

S

• Samson Agonistes - John Milton (pub. 1671)
• Seafarer
• The Second Coming - W. B. Yeats
• A Shropshire Lad - A. E. Housman
• Skírnismál
• The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
• Song of Myself - Walt Whitman - (1855)
• The Song of Roland - Roland
• Song of Solomon
• The Shahnameh - Ferdowsi (1000)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Sir Orfeo - anon. c.1300
• Solomon and Saturn

T

• Theogony - Hesiod
• This Be The Verse - Philip Larkin
• The Cuckoo Song Anonymous, c.1240
• The Hero - Rabindranath Tagore
• The Locket - John Montague
• The Munich Mannequins - Sylvia Plath (1963)
• The Red Wheelbarrow - William Carlos Williams (1923)
• The Triumph of Time
• The Tyger - William Blake, c.1793
• Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth
• To a Louse - Robert Burns
• To a Waterfowl – William Cullen Bryant (1821)
• To Autumn - John Keats (1819)
• To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell
• Thrymskvitha - Poetic Edda
• Tulips - Sylvia Plath (1961)
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee - John Byrom

V

• Vafthrúthnismáll - Poetic Edda
• Völuspá - Poetic Edda

W

• The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats (1889)
• The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot (1922)
• Woolgathering – Patti Smith (1992)

See also

• List of poetry anthologies
• List of poetry collections