List of Poets

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John Agard

• Toussaint L’Ouverture acknowledges Wordsworth Sonnet To Toussaint L’Ouverture

Maya Angelou

• On The Pulse of Morning

W. H. Auden

• ‘A. E. Housman’
• Let The More Loving One Be Me
• The Secret Agent

Joseph Auslander

• The Protest

James Baldwin

• Amen
• Le Sporting Club de Monte Carlo (For Lena Horne)

Rachel Bluwstein

• Perhaps

Robert Bly

• Seeing The Eclipse In Maine

Bertolt Brecht

• Sonnet No. 19 (One thing I do not want, you flee from me.)

Gwendolyn Brooks

• Sonnet – Ballad
• We Real Cool

Lord Byron

• She Walks In Beauty
• To Augusta

Guido Calvalcanti

• Sonnet XI

Lewis Carroll

• Phantasmagoria Canto I (The Trysting)

Gaius Valerjus Cattullus

• Carmen 5

Michael Ceraolo

• Shakespearean Baseball Sonnet #25

Leonard Cohen

• A Thousand Kisses Deep

Wanda Coleman

• American Sonnet

William Congreve

• The Mourning Bride End of Act 5 – Epilogue
• The Mourning Bride – Final Lines of Play

Billy Collins

• Sonnet
• The Last Cigarette

Hart Crane

• At Melville’s Tomb
• To Emily Dickinson

Stephen Crane

• A Man Went Before A Strange God

Robert Creeley

• The Rain

Harry Crosby

• Invocation To The Mad Queen
• Salome
• Study For A Soul
• Temple de la Douleur

Sor Juana de la Cruz

• Love Opened A Mortal Wound
• Sonnet 145
• Sonnet 165
• The Dream
• You Foolish Men

Countee Cullen

• From The Dark Tower
• Song In Spite of Myself
• Yet Do I Marvel

e. e. cummings

• how many moments must (amazing each)
• {i carry your heart with me (i carry it in}
• Love Is A Place

Emily Dickinson

• My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
• Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant

Evelyn Douglas

• LIII (As a flower springs up….)
• LIV (Wave after wave arises….)
• Sonnet

Ann Drysdale

• Nuns Skating

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

• If
• Slow Through The Dark

Theodore Watts Duncan

• Dickens Returns On Christmas Day

T. S. Elliot

• The Wasteland (Excerpt)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• And Lo

Robert Frost

• A Dust Of Snow
• A Prayer In Spring
• Fire And Ice
• Nothing Gold Can Stay

T. A. Fry

• A Pitcher Named Sylvester
• Boning In The Bone Yard
• Change
• Crooked Handle
• Gallant Ghosts, Undaunted
• Greenland
• In The Hand Of Heaven
• Lucky Penny Lover
• My True Verse
• Not As One, But As A Tribe
• Not Too Many
• Oh Darkest Night
• On Bended Knee
• Peace Tears
• Salvation
• Simple Praise
• To Ezra Pound

Mary Fry

• High Water

Neil Gaiman

• Sonnet

Marcus Garvey

• Those Who Know

Johann Goethe

• New Love, New Life

Hazel Hall

• Flash
• Two Sewing

Jonas Hallgrimsson

• Hell
• Quatrains

Robert Hayden

• Fredrick Douglas
• Those Winter Sundays

Terrance Hayes

• American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin

Juan Felipe Herrera

• Let Me Tell You What A Poem Brings

Thomas Hardy

• She, To Him

Henry Wilmarth Hazzen

• The New Year

Earnest Hemingway

• The Age Demanded

George Herbert

• Gratefulness
• Sonnet No. 1 

Robert Herrick

• Twelfth Night

A. E. Housman

• A Shropshire Lad:XXXII 
• Because I Liked You Better
• He Would Not Stay For Me
• Oh Who Is That Young Sinner

Sarah Howe

• Relativity

Langston Hughes

• A House In Taos
• Georgia Dusk
• When Sue Wears Red

T. E. Hulme

• The Embankment
• Trenches: St. Eloi

Robinson Jeffers

• Hope Is Not For The Wise

Tyehimba Jess

• Sonnet Crown for Blind Tom (Excerpt)

James Weldon Johnson

• Sonnet

Helene Johnson

• Poem
• Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem

June Jordan

• Poem For My Love
• Sunflower Sonnet Number 2

Elizabeth Clementine Kinney

• Fading Autumn

Phillip Larkin

• Money

Denise Levertov

• Making Peace

Thomas Lynch

• Refusing at Age 52 To Write Sonnets

Pablo Neruda

• Sonnet XVII (I do not love you)

John McCrae

• The Anxious Dead

Claude McKay

• I Shall Return
• Poetry
• The Tired Worker
• The Tropics of New York
• To Winter

George Meredith

• Modern Love XXIX
• Modern Love XXX

Michelangelo

• Michelangelo: To Giovani da Pistoia

Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Four Sonnets (I)
• Four Sonnets (III) 
• Four Sonnets (IV)
• Love Is Not All
• Sometimes When I Am Wearied Suddenly
• Sonnet XLI
• I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines

John Milton

• On His Blindness

Gabriela Mistral

• Death Sonnets II

Merrill Moore

• A Hymn For Water
• The Book of How

Ogden Nash

• Always Marry An April Girl

Mary Oliver

• Beans
• Mysteries, Yes 

Wilfred Owen

• Anthem For Doomed Youth
• Dulce et Decorum Est
• Music

Dorothy Parker

• Once When I Was Young and True
• Sonnet On An Alpine Night
• Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence
• Unforgettable Coincidence

George Peale

• A Farewell To Arms

Francesco Petrarch

• Sonnet 61

Sylvia Plath

• Sonnet:  To Time

Edgar Allen Poe

• To Science

Ezra Pound

• Balatetta
• A Virginal
• Poetic Eggs
• The Seeing Eye

Doug Ramspeck

• The Parable of Snow

Kenneth Rexroth

• A Letter To William Carlos Williams

D. G. Rosetti

• A Sonnet

Bobby Sands

• The Rhyme of Time

Carl Sandburg

• Buffalo Dusk
• Languages
• Sonnet 9

Sir Walter Scott

• Lucy Ashton’s Song

Anna Seward

• Autumn Leaves
• December Morn

William Shakespeare

• Sonnet 15 (When I consider everything that grows)
• Sonnet 29 (When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes)
• Sonnet 30 (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought)
• Sonnet 58 (That god forbid, that made me first your slave)
• Sonnet 100 (Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long)
• Sonnet 130 (My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun)
• Sonnet 134 (So now I have confessed that he is thine)
• Under The Greenwood Tree (A Song from As You Like It)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Ozymandias
• To Wordsworth

Danez Smith

• Summer, Somewhere

Tracy K. Smith

• Sci – Fi

Edmund Spenser

• Amoretti XXX: My Love Is Like To Ice, And I to Fire

William Stafford

• Ask Me

Gertrude Stein

• The House Was Just Twinkling In The Moonlight

Wallace Stevens

• Explain My Spirit
• Sonnet

Jeffrey Sward

• Sonnet To Baseball

Charles Algernon Swinburne

• A Sequence of Sonnets On The Death of Robert Browning
• Dickens

Sir Phillip Sydney

• Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 100

Allen Tate

• More Sonnets At Christmas

Lord Alfred Tennyson

• In Memoriam (Ring Out, Wild Bells)

Jean Toomer

• Banking Coal
• November Cotton Flower

Walt Whitman

• Full Of Life Now
• Song of Myself (Excerpt 51 and 52)

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• The New Year
• Protest

William Carlos Williams

• Arrival
• Patterson (Excerpts)
• Slow Movement
• Spring And All
• The Descent
• Uses Of Poetry

William Wordsworth

• Composed On Westminster Bridge
• I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
• London, 1802
• Scorn Not The Sonnet
• To Toussaint L’Ouverture

Theodore Wratislaw

• Sonnet Macabre

James Arlington Wright

• A Blessing Poem
• Northern Pike