Keith's Poetry Archive

The following is a collection of poems that have struck my fancy at one time or another. This is not meant, in any way, to be a comprehensive collection of poets or poetry. The poems marked with an asterisk (*), are ones that I believe are still under copyright. Except where I have received permission from the copyright holder, these poems (almost everything written in the 20th century) are not accessible except from my machine.

A listing of my current favorites is also available.

Anonymous

• The Demon Lover
• Madrigal

Scott Ardley

• Doggerel

Matthew Arnold

• Dover Beach
• Self-Dependence

Margaret Atwood

• After Heraclitus*
• Dreams of the Animals*
• Bedside*
• Harvest*
• Is/Not*
• Lesson on Snakes*
• Manet's Olympia*
• Mothers*
• Orpheus*
• The Puppet of the Wolf*
• Snake Woman*
• They Eat Out*
• Variation on the Word Sleep*
• Variations on the Word Love*

Hilaire Belloc

• The Yak

William Blake

• The Tyger

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Sonnet #28, From the Portuguese [My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!]
• Sonnet #43, From the Portuguese [How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.]

Robert Browning

• Prospice

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Frost at Midnight

Billy Collins

• Sonnet*

Samuel Daniel

• Ulysses and the Siren

Jim Daniels

• Falling Bricks*

W.H. Davies

• The Hawk

John Donne

• The Apparition
• The Bait
• Break of Day
• Elegy XIX. To His Mistress Going To Bed
• Holy Sonnets #10   [Death be not proud...]
• The Sun Rising
• A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
• Woman's Constancy

Michael Drayton

• Idea - Sonnet #14

John Engman

• Think of Me in D Major*

D.J. Enright

• Blue Umbrellas*
• God Creating Adam*
• The Noodle-Vendor's Flute
• R-and-R Centre: An Incident from the Vietnam War*

Robert Graves

• Ulysses*

Thomas Hardy

• His Immortality

Robert Hayden

• Those Winter Sundays*

A.D. Hope

• Advice to Young Ladies*

A.E. Housman

• Loveliest of Trees

Langston Hughes

• Life is Fine*
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• Theme for English B

Ted Hughes

• Hawk Roosting*

Randall Jarrell

• The State*
• The Truth*

Robinson Jeffers

• The Beaks of Eagles*
• Boats in a Fog*
• The Cruel Falcon*
• Hurt Hawks*
• Rock and Hawk*
• Shiva*
• To the Stone-Cutters*
• Vulture*

John Keats

• Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast
• Ode On A Grecian Urn
• On The Sea

Kenneth Koch

• Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams*

Yusef Komunyakaa

• My Father's Loveletters*

D.H. Lawrence

• Piano

Robert Lowell

• Epilogue*
• For The Union Dead*
• Returning Turtle

Archibald MacLeish

• Calypso's Isle*

Andrew Marvell

• To His Coy Mistress

William Meredith

• The Illiterate

W.S. Merwin

• Odysseus*

Paul Muldoon

• Making the Move*

Ogden Nash

• The Boy Who Laughed At Santa Claus*
• Polterguest, My Polterguest*
• The Tale of Custard the Dragon*
• Tin Wedding Whistle*

Edward Randolph

• da (blessed burden fatherhood)*

Kenneth Rexroth

• An Easy Song*
• Precession of the Equinoxes*
• Still on Water*
• Survival of the Fittest*
• The Wheel Revolves*
• The Love Poems of Marichiko*
  • II
  • IV
  • VII
  • VIII
  • XV
  • XX

Theordore Roethke

• For an Amorous Lady*

Siegfried Sassoon

• Suicide in the Trenches

William Shakespeare

• Sonnet #18   [Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?]
• Sonnet #29   [When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes]
• Sonnet #73   [That time of year thou mayst in me behold]
• Sonnet #116   [Let me not to the marriage of true minds]
• Sonnet #130   [My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun]
• Sonnet #138   [When my love swears that she is made of truth]

Gary Snyder

• Four Poems for Robin*

Edmund Spenser

• Amoretti, Sonnet #75 [One day I wrote her name upon the strand]

Wallace Stevens

• Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock*
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• The Eagle
• Ulysses

Robert Penn Warren

• After the Dinner Party*
• Little Girl Wakes Early*
• Mortal Limit*

E.B White

• Natural History*

Walt Whitman

• O Captain! My Captain!
• The Dalliance of the Eagles

William Carlos Williams

• Death*
• This is Just to Say*

James Wright

• You and I Saw Hawks Exchanging the Prey*

Elinor Wylie

• Pretty Words*

William Butler Yeats

• Aedh Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven*
• The Cap and Bells*
• Easter 1916*
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree*
• Her Triumph*

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