Poems by Others

Selected Favourite Poems

• A Blessing — James Wright

• Adam’s Curse — W. B. Yeats

• Advice to Young Writers — Ron Padgett

• Anagrammer — Peter Pereira

• Archaic Torso of Apollo — Rainer Maria Rilke

• Ars Poetica [excerpt] — George Amabile

• Ars Poetica — Archibald Macleish

• Ars Poetica — Linda Pastan

• Ars Poetica (for Billy Collins) — Linda Pastan

• Blackberry Eating — Galway Kinnell

• Blandeur — Kay Ryan

• Bloodying August Polito’s Nose — James Bertolino

• The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered — Clive James

• The Book of Questions III — Pablo Neruda

• Che Fece . . . Il Gran Rifiuto — C. P. Cavafy

• Cherry Blossoms — Toi Derricotte

• Choices — Tess Gallagher

• Content — David Ignatow

• Cradle — Roberto Ascalon

• Credo — Judith Roche

• The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner — Randall Jarrell

• Digging — Seamus Heaney

• Dust of Snow — Robert Frost

• Eating Poetry — Mark Strand

• Even Such Is Time — Sir Walter Raleigh

• First Drift — Ron Padgett

• The Fish — Elizabeth Bishop

• Go to the Limits of Your Longing — Rainer Maria Rilke

• The Guest House — Rumi

• Happiness — Raymond Carver

• How I Go to the Woods — Mary Oliver

• How to Be a Poet — Wendell Berry

• How to Be Perfect — Ron Padgett

• I Could Take — Hayden Carruth

• if everything happens that can’t be done — E. E. Cummings       +

• If the moon came out only once a month — Cathy Ross

• if you like my poems — E. E. Cummings

• I Long to Hold the Poetry Editor’s Penis in My Hand — Francesca Bell

• Ink Bottle Poems — Robert Sund

• In the Workshop After I Read My Poem Aloud — Don Colburn

• Introduction to Poetry — Billy Collins

• I Taught Myself to Live Simply — Anna Akhmatova

• The Japanese Garden — Ron Padgett

• l(a — E. E. Cummings

• The Lake Isle of Innisfree — W. B. Yeats

• The Laughing Heart — Charles Bukowski

• Leah bribed Jacob — Samuel Menashe

• Let Evening Come — Jane Kenyon

• let's start a magazine — E. E. Cummings (see the origin of this website’s name)

• The Longest Word — Peggy Barnett

• Losing Private Sutherland — Jerry Kilbride (haibun)

• Love Poem — Curtis Dunlap

• Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota — James Wright

• Maybe Love Is More Like an Onion — Lana Hechtman Ayers

• Monsieur Joliat — Wilson MacDonald

• Nantucket — William Carlos Williams

• The New Poetry Handbook — Mark Strand

• New Season — Wendy Cope

• One Does Not Write — Naomi Beth Wakan

• On Nothing — Antonio Porchia

• On the Fishing Fly — Thomas Lynch (haibun)

• Ox Cart Man — Donald Hall

• The Peace of Wild Things — Wendell Berry

• Poetics — A. R. Ammons

• Poetry — Marianne Moore

• Poetry Reading — Anna Swir

• Poet’s Work — Lorine Niedecker

• Purple — Alexis Rotella

• The Real Work — Wendell Berry

• The Red Wheelbarrow — William Carlos Williams

• Relax — Ellen Bass

• Ring Out, Wild Bells (In Memoriam) — Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Silence — William Carlos Williams

• Sound and Sense — Alexander Pope

• A Story About the Body — Robert Hass

• The Summer Day — Mary Oliver

• Thank You for Saying Thank You — Charles Bernstein

• That Brat — Anna Swir

• That Little Beast — Mary Oliver

• There Are Poems — Linda Pastan

• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird — Wallace Stevens

• This Kind of Unknowing — Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean

• The Times-Herald that day had good news — Susan Oakes

• To Doris Thurston on Her Eightieth Birthday — Sam Hamill

• This Is Just to Say — William Carlos Williams

• Trees Need Not Walk the Earth — David Rosenthal

• [untitled] — Saadi

• The Use of Trees — Naomi Beth Wakan

• Wayfarer’s Night Song — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Welcome Morning — Anne Sexton

• When I Am Among the Trees — Mary Oliver

• Why Are Your Poems So Dark? — Linda Pastan

• Why I Am Happy — William Stafford

• Wild Geese — Mary Oliver

• Young Poets — Nicanor Parra

• Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain — Li Po

For Fun and Edification

• Candidate for a Pullet Surprise — Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar

• The English Lesson — Anonymous

• English Pronunciation — G. Nolst Trenité

• maggie and milly and molly and may — E. E. Cummings

• Miss Snooks, Poetess — Stevie Smith

• Monsieur Joliat — Wilson MacDonald

• My Daddy — Ogden Nash

• The Reading — Wendy Cope     +

• Smart — Shel Silverstein

• Thirty-Two Statements About Writing Poetry — Marvin Bell