To aid direct searches for poems, all of the currently available poems are listed below with the associated poet, poetic form, and initial publication year. Poems can also be filtered by these criteria using the sidebar on the right.
Poem Title | Poet | Poetic Form | Publication Year |
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On Imagination | Phillis Wheatley | Couplet | 1773 |
Why, Oh Why, the Doily? | Janice N. Harrington | Other | 2010 |
The Fish | Elizabeth Bishop | Free verse | 1946 |
Daddy | Sylvia Plath | Free verse | 1960 |
Lady Lazarus | Sylvia Plath | Free verse | 1962 |
The Man-Moth | Elizabeth Bishop | Free verse | 1946 |
At the Fishhouses | Elizabeth Bishop | Free verse | 1955 |
Filling Station | Elizabeth Bishop | Free verse | 1965 |
Questions of Travel | Elizabeth Bishop | Free verse | 1965 |
The Armadillo | Elizabeth Bishop | Quatrain | 1965 |
In the Waiting Room | Elizabeth Bishop | Free verse | 1976 |
The Pink Dog | Elizabeth Bishop | Tercet | 1979 |
One Art | Villanelle | 1976 | |
Commander Lowell | Robert Lowell | Other | 1959 |
"To Speak of Woe That Is In Marriage" | Robert Lowell | Couplet | 1959 |
Memories of West Street and Lepke | Robert Lowell | Free verse | 1959 |
Skunk Hour | Robert Lowell | Free verse | 1959 |
For the Union Dead | Robert Lowell | Quatrain | 1960 |
Epilogue | Robert Lowell | Free verse | 1977 |
Dream Song 1 | John Berryman | Other | 1964 |
Dream Song 4 | John Berryman | Other | 1964 |
Dream Song 5 | John Berryman | Other | 1964 |
Dream Song 14 | John Berryman | Other | 1964 |
Dream Song 29 | John Berryman | Other | 1964 |
Middle Passage | Robert Hayden | Free verse | 1962 |
Runagate Runagate | Robert Hayden | Free verse | 1962 |
A Letter from Phillis Wheatley | Robert Hayden | Blank verse | 1978 |
Those Winter Sundays | Robert Hayden | Blank verse | 1962 |
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves | Robert Hayden | Quatrain | 1978 |
of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery | Gwendolyn Brooks | Ballad | 1945 |