Poems Poems Summary, Analysis, Theme & Explanation Serial 1-50 1. Pakistan Movement by Alamgir Hashmi 2. The Loss of India by Zulfikar Gose 3. Payam-e-Azadi by Azimullah Khan (1857) 4. Kubla Khan 5. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal 6. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe 7. The Good Morrow by John Donne 8. On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer 9. Happy Insensibility by John Keats 10. She Was a Phantom of Delight by William Wordsworth 11. The Indian Serenade by PB Shelley 12. When the Lamp is Shattered 13. Background, Casually by Nissim Ezekiel 14. Woman to Man by Judith Wright 15. Rockpool by Judith Wright 16. Ananse by Kamau Brathwaite 17. Negus by Kamau Brathwaite 18. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 19. Middle English Period Characteristics 20. Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel 21. The Sea is History by Derek Walcott 22. The Rime of The Ancient Mariner by ST Coleridge 23. The Wasteland by TS Eliot 24. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth 25. On His Blindness by John Milton, 26. Ode to West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley 27. The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson 28. The Second Coming By W.B. Yeats 29. Crossing the Bar 30. The Jaguar by Ted Hughes 31. Spelling by Margaret Atwood 32. Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda 33. Wind by Ted Hughes 34. A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes 35. Dream by Langston Hughes 36. Life is Fine by Langston Hughes 37. Still Here by Langston Hughes 38. I Too Sing America by Langston Hughes 39. Did I Miss Anything Poem by Tom Wayman 40. The Night has a Thousand Eyes by Francis William Bourdillon 41. The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes 42. The Harp of India by Henry Derozio 43. La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats 44. Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou 45. The Tide Rises the Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 46. Imagine by John Lennon 47. Freedom by Jayanta Mahapatra 48. Philosophy by Nissim Ezekiel 49. Hunger by Jayanta Mahapatra 50. The Professor Poem by Nissim Ezekiel Serial 51-100 51. To India My Native Land by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio 52. The Orphan Girl by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio 53. A River by AK Ramanujan 54. Obituary By AK Ramanujan 55. Dawn at Puri by Jayanta Mahapatra 56. Late Fragment by Raymond Carver 57. A Photograph by Shirley Toulson 58. A Nation’s Strength by William Ralph Emerson 59. The Hollow Men by TS Eliot 60. The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur 61. This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams 62. The Frog and the Nightingale by Vikram Seth 63. Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney 64. The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson 65. Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 66. 9 Poems About Spring Season 67. Self Portrait by A.K. Ramanujan 68. A Legend of the Northland by Phoebe Cary 69. Father to Son by Elizabeth Jennings 70. The Tale of Melon City by Vikram Seth 71. Crabbed Age and Youth by William Shakespeare 72. The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth 73. Ozymandias by PB Shelley 74. A Psalm of Life by H.W. Longfellow 75. Mountain Climbing by Phil Soar 76. Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare 77. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich 78. Still I Rise by Maya Angelou Summary 79. Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou 80. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 81. Birches by Robert Frost 82. Mending Wall by Robert Frost 83. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 84. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas 85. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Summary 86. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Analysis 87. After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost 88. Home Burial by Robert Frost 89. Out, Out Poem by Robert Frost 90. Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost 91. The Gift Outright by Robert Frost 92. How to Tell the Wild Animals by Carolyn Wells 93. Animals by Walt Whitman 94. The Trees by Adrienne Rich 95. Fog by Carl Sandburg 96. For Anne Gregory by WB Yeats 97. Where the Mind is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore 98. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Theme 99. Still I Rise by Maya Angelou Theme 100. America by Claude McKay Serial 101-150 101. Love Is Not All By Edna St. Vincent Millay 102. Mutability by P. B. Shelley 103. To Be or Not to Be by William Shakespeare 104. We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar 105. The Man with the Saxophone by Ai Ogawa 106. I Felt a Funeral in My Brain by Emily Dickinson 107. My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Huebner Roethke 108. On Turning Ten by Billy Collins 109. One Art by Elizabeth Bishop 110. The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop 111. The Negro speaks of Rivers by James Mercer Langston 112. If You Come Softly by Audre Lorde 113. To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell 114. Her Kind by Anne Sexton 115. Holy Sonnets, Death Be Not Proud by John Donne 116. Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes 117. The Rain by W. H. Davies 118. The Lake Isle of Innisfree by WB Yeats 119. Of Mothers Among Other Things by AK Ramanujan 120. Breezy April by Rabindranath Tagore 121. Trees by Joyce Kilmer 122. Green Snake by BR Lakshman Rao 123. Sonnet 106 – When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time by William Shakespeare 124. Fear No More by William Shakespeare 125. The Duck and the Kangaroo by Edward Lear 126. We Go This Way But Once 127. Taking One for the Team by Sara Holbrook 128. We Are The Music Makers by Arthur O’ Shaughnessy 129. The Traffic Police by M. Ghaji 130. Comparisons 131. Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden 132. Dover Beach by Mathew Arnold 133. I Am Offering This by Jimmy Santiago Baca 134. The Myth of Music by Rachel M. Harper 135. Annabel Lee By Edgar Allan Poe 136. Epilogue By Robert Browning 137. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning By John Donne 138. Where I’m From By George Ella Lyon 139. Song: Go and catch a falling star By John Donne 140. Lady Lazarus By Sylvia Plath 141. The Colonel By Carolyn Forche 142. On the Ignorance of the Learned By William Hazlitt 144. I Have A Dream By Martin Luther King Jr 144.I Hear America Singing By Walter Whitman 145. The Mystic Drum By Gabriel Imomotimi Okara 146. Sonnets From The Portuguese 43 By Elizabeth Barrett Browning 147.No Man is an Island By John Donne 148. Daffodils By William Wordsworth 149. The Hill We Climb By Amanda S. C. Gorman 150. Witches Loaves By O. Henry Serial 151-200 151. Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me By William Shakespeare 152. It Couldn’t Be Done By Edgar Albert Guest 153. An American Sunrise By Laureate Joy Harjo 154. Buffalo Bill’s By Edward Estling Cummings 155. The Man He Killed By Thomas Hardy 156. The Small Key Story By Paz Latorena 157. The New Colossus By Emma Lazarus 158. The Glove and the Lions By Leigh Hunt 159. Prayer Before Birth By Louis MacNeice 160. In Just By Edward Estling Cummings 161. Eating Together By Li-Young Lee 162. Sonnet 138 By William Shakespeare 163. Hymn Before Action by Rudyard Kipling 164. The Homes of England By Felicia Dorothea Hemans 165. Bogland By Seamus Heaney 166. To the Virgins to Make Much of Time By Robert Herrick 167. A Dream By Tabassum Khan 168. Sonnet 116 By William Shakespeare 169. The Juggler By Richard Wilbur 170. The Retreat By Henry Vaughan 171. Afternoons By Philip Larkin 172. The Library By John Greenleaf Whittier 173. Two Headed Calf By Laura Gilpin 174. From the Dark Tower By Countee Cullen 175. Cetacean By Peter Reading 176. The Mortician in San Francisco By Randall Mann 177. Willow By William Carlos William 178. Living In Sin By Adrienne Cecile Rich 179. Chicago By Carl Sandburg 180. The Slave Auction By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 181. Storm Warnings By Adrienne Rich 182. To Make A Prairie By Emily Dickinson 183. Beloved Ch 2 Novel By Toni Morrison 184. The Chimney Sweeper By William Blake 185. Pied Beauty By Gerard Manley Hopkins 186. The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost 187. The Gift By Li-Young Lee 188. Reapers By Jean Toomer 189. Richard Cory By Edwin Arlington Robinson 190. The Bells By Edgar Allan Poe 191. My Life had stood a Loaded gun By Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 192. Cut By Sylvia Plath 193. Where The Sidewalk Ends By Sheldon Allan Silverstein 194. Lana Turner Has Collapsed By Frank O’Hara 195. Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes 196. Amoretti by Edmund Spenser 197. An Ode to Death by Daud Kamal 198. A Song of Opposites by John Keats 199. When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman 200. A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body by Andrew Marvell Serial 201-250 201. Alone by Edgar Allan Poe 202. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost 203. Redemption By George Herbert 204. The Slave Mother By Francis Ellen Watkins Harper 205. Death Of A Young Son By Drowning By Margaret Atwood 206. Lazarus Song By St. John The Apostle 207. The Heart Of A Woman By Georgia Douglas Johnson 208. The Mother By Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks 209. XIV By Derek Walcott 210. Harlem By Langston Hughes 211. Spring And All By William Carlos Williams 212. There Will Come Soft Rains By Sara Teasdale 213. Icarus By Edward Field 214. To A Waterfowl By William Cullen Bryant 215. Old Ironsides By Oliver Wendell Holmes 216. The White Man’s Burden By Joseph Rudyard Kipling 217. Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art By John Keats 218. In Memory Of My Dear Grandchild By Anne Bradstreet 219. Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird By Wallace Stevens 220. A Supermarket In California By Irwin Allen Ginsberg 221. Lady Of Shalott By Alfred Lord Tennyson 222. I Being Born A Woman And Distressed By Edna St. Vincent Millay 223. Wild Geese By Mary Jane Oliver 224. To The Snake By Denise Levertov 225. A Narrow Fellow In The Grass By Emily Dickinson 226. My Parents By Stephen Spender 227. When all the Others Were Away at Mass By Seamus Heaney 228. The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson 229. Theme For English B By Langston Hughes 230. First Love/Late Spring Song 231. Dream of the Rood 232. Dear Basketball by Kobe Bryant 233. Sonnet 65 by William Shakespeare 234. Sonnet 2 “When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow,” by William Shakespeare 235. Sonnet 129 by William Shakespeare 236. Disillusionment by Faiz Ahmed Faiz 237. Mango Seedling by Chinua Achebe 238. Success is Counted Sweetest by Emily Dickinson 239. I Carry Your Heart With Me by E. E. Cummings 240. Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling 241. Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare 242. The Rhodora by Emerson 243. She tries her tongue, her silence softly breaks by M N Philip 244. Search for my Tongue by Sujata Bhatt 245. A Mother in a Refugee Camp by Chinua Achebe 246. Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes 247. Two Views of a Cadaver Room by Sylvia Plath 248. Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson 249. The Last Visit by Taufiq Rafat 250. The Woman by R. S. Thomas Serial 251-300 251. The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes 252. To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 253. Two Planets by Allama Muhammad Iqbal 254. A Constable Calls by Seamus Heaney 255. Poppies in October by Sylvia Plath 256. Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats 257. Ariel by Sylvia Path 258. Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney 259. Casting and Gathering by Seamus Heaney 260. A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas 261. Ode On A Grecian Urn by John Keats 262. You’re By Sylvia Plath 263. Alone by Edgar Allan Poe 264. The Dream by John Donne 265. Whose Mouth Do I Speak With by Suzanne Rancourt 266. Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet 267. Rosa by Rita Dove 268. Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen 269. Howl By Allen Ginsberg 270. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost 271. Remember by Christina Rossetti 272. Michael by William Wordsworth 273. New Day’s Lyric by Amanda S. C. Gorman 274. The Eagle by Alfred Tennyson 275. At A Window by Carl Sandburg 276. Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare 277. Hanging Fire by Audre Lorde 278. The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams 279. A Hymn To God The Father’ by John Donne 280. A Hymn To Christ’ by John Donne 281. The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes 282. Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen 283. Literary Works by Marianne Moore 284. What Work Is by Philip Levine 285. The Garden by Andrew Marvell 286. The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet 287. Ode On Melancholy By John Keats 288. First March By Ivor Gurney 289. The Cross of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 290. Nikki-Rosa by Nikki Giovanni 291. The Hunchback In The Park by Dylan Thomas 292. The Black Walnut Tree by Mary Oliver 293. A Study of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin 294. Nostalgia by Carol Ann Duffy 295. Mirror by Sylvia Plath 296. Batter My Heart, Three Person’d-God by John Donne 297. In Harmony With Nature by Matthew Arnold 298. Sylvia’s Death by Anne Sexton 299. When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 300. Desert Places by Robert Frost Serial 301-350 301. The Relic’ by John Donne 302. On the Religion of Nature by Philip Freneau 303. The Silken Tent by Robert Frost 304. I’m Nobody! Who are you?” by Emily Dickinson 305. Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats 306. Advice to Women by Eunice de Souza Poem 307. I’m wife I’ve finished that by Emily Dickinson 308. I Cannot Live Without You by Emily Dickinson 309. Crow Testament by Sherman Alexie 310. The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron 311. The Dunce by Jacques Prevert 312. Bequest by Eunice de Souza 313. If You Were Coming In The Fall by Emily Dickinson 314. Design Poem by Robert Frost 315. A Coat by William Butler Yeats 316. Wild Nights ! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson 317. When my play was With Thee by Rabindranath Tagore 318. Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson 319. Dream Variations by Langston Hughes 320. For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell 321. Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art by John Keats 322. Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring by John Berryman 323. Light, oh where is the light? by Rabindranath Tagore 324. No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats 325. Sweeney Among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot 326. Listening by Amy Lowell 327. West Indies, U.S.A. by Stewart Brown 328. Birdshooting Season by Olive Senior 329. The Flower by Alfred Lord Tennyson 330. October by Robert Frost 331. Pretty Ugly by Abdullah Shoaib 332. Friends by Abbie Farwell Brown 333. An African Thunderstorm by David Rubadiri 334. Coal by Audre Lorde 335. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 336. Dreaming Black Boy by James Berry 337. Test Match Sabina Park by Stewart Brown 338. Flower on the Road by Chitra Padmanabhan 339. A Stone’s Throw by Elma Mitchell 340. God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley-Hopkins 341. It is the Constant Image of your Face by Dennis Brutus 342. The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed her Son by Lorna Goodison 343. Orchids by Hazel Simmons-McDonald 344. Deep In the Quiet Wood by James Weldon Johnson 345. Advice to a Teenage Daughter by Isobel Thrilling 346. The Starry Night by Anne Sexton 347. After Death by Christina Rossetti 348. South by Kamau Brathwaite 349. Ole Higue by Mark McWatt 350. I Shall Paint My Nails Red by Carole Satyamurti Serial 351-400 351. This is the Dark Time, My Love By Martin Carter 352. What is Life by John Clare 353. Laugh and Be Merry by John Masefield 354. I Am! by John Clare 355. Who Understands Me but Me by Jimmy Santiago Baca 356. Easter by Jill Alexander Essbaum 357. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright 358. Aboriginal Australia by Jack Davis 359. The Awakening by James Weldon Johnson 360. The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 361. Little Boy Crying by Mervyn Morris 362. To a Dark Girl by Gwendolyn Bennett 363. Failure of Communication by Judith Wright 364. The Toys by Coventry Patmore 365. The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 366. Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti 367. Spiritual Song of the Aborigine Poem by Hyllus Maris 368. I Wish I Could Remember That First Day by Christina Rossetti 369. The Child is not Dead by Ingrid Jonker 370. Bora Ring by Judith Wright 371. Freedom to the Slave by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio 372. Spring by Edna St Vincent Millay 373. The Heart asks Pleasure – first by Emily Dickinson 374. The Moon was but a Chin of Gold by Emily Dickinson 375. To Fight aloud, is very Brave by Emily Dickinson 376. As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes 377. Conscientious Objector by Edna St Vincent Millay 378. Advice to Women by Eunice De Souza 379. An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay 380. Casablanca by Felicia Hemans 381. Talking in Their Sleep by Edith Matilda Thomas 382. Visitors to the Black Belt by Langston Hughes 383. Song for a Dark Girl by Langston Hughes 384. Iron by Elizabeth Acevedo 385. The Huntsman by Edward Lowbury 386. The Woman by Kristina Rungano 387. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why by Edna St Vincent Millay 388. For Desire by Kim Addonizio 389. In a Library by Emily Dickinson 390. Time does not bring relief; you all have lied by Edna St Vincent Millay 391. What Do Women Want? By Kim Addonizio 392. I’m “wife” I’ve finished that by Emily Dickinson 393. I had no time to hate because by Emily Dickinson 394. A Sad Child by Margaret Atwood 395. Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich 396. A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by Emily Dickinson 397. Equinox by Elizabeth Alexander 398. Butter by Elizabeth Alexander 399. The Survivor by Marilyn Chin 400. What Work is by Philip Levine Serial 401-450 401. Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper by Martin Espada 402. Dreamtime by Oodgeroo Noonuccal 403. They are Hostile Nations by Margaret Atwood 404. Housing Targets by Kelwyn Sole 405. My True Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sydney 406. The Animals in That Country by Margaret Atwood 407. The Brain, within its Groove by Emily Dickinson 408. Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwish 409. Journey to the Interior by Margaret Atwood 410. Love in a Life by Robert Browning 411. The Writer by Richard Wilbur 412. Something Told the Wild Geese by Rachel Field 413. The Flower-School by Rabindranath Tagore 414. When I Was Fair and Young by Queen Elizabeth I 415. Morning by Mary Oliver 416. Every Morning by Mary Oliver 417. Muse by Meena Alexander 418. The Nightingale by Sir Philip Sydney 419. Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon 420. The Powwow at the End of the World by Sherman Alexie 421. Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World by Sherman Alexie 422. Evolution by Sherman Alexie 423. Rehabilitation by Shankha Ghosh 424. Twenty-sixth January by Sahir Ludhianvi 425. Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson 426. Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson 427. The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson 428. Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson 429. I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood 430. Gold! by Thomas Hood 431. What Thing is Love? By George Peele 432. The Man of Life Upright by Thomas Campion 433. Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? by Sir John Suckling 434. Root Cellar by Theodore Roethke 435. Night Journey by Theodore Roethke 436. I am Vertical by Sylvia Plath 437. Across the Border by Sophie Jewett 438. Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon 439. Sonnet 54 by Edmund Spenser 440. No Crooked Leg, No Bleared Eye by Queen Elizabeth I 441. Golden Slumbers By Thomas Dekker 442. Sonnet 11 by Lady Mary Wroth 443. I Understand the Large Hearts of Heroes by Walt Whitman 444. A Child said, What is the Grass? by Walt Whitman 445. In the Depths of Solitude by Tupac Shakur 446. Sita by Toru Dutt 447. The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska 448. Splendour in the Grass by William Wordsworth 449. The City Planners by Margaret Atwood 450. To a Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams Serial 451-496 451. To a Stranger by Walt Whitman 452. One’s Self I Sing by Walt Whitman 453. Assembly Line by Gong Peiyu 454. Spring, the Sweet Spring by Thomas Nashe 455. Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser 456. What is our Life? by Sir Walter Raleigh 457. He Never Expected Much by Thomas Hardy 458. On Another’s Sorrow by William Blake 459. Friends and Flatterers by William Shakespeare 460. Our Revels Now Are Ended by William Shakespeare 461. Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden 462. The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument by Anne Stevenson 463. Rain by Edward Thomas 464. The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn 465. Night Sweat by Robert Lowell 466. Under a Certain Little Star by Wislawa Szymborska 467. Portrait in Georgia by Jean Toomer 468. I, Too by Langston Hughes 469. Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley 470. On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book by Charles Tennyson Turner 471. Had I the Choice by Walt Whitman 472. Now I knew I Lost Her by Emily Dickinson 473. Drinking Alone Under the Moon by Li Po 474. Come Slowly by Emily Dickinson 475. Elegy for Jane by Theodore Roethke 476. The Telephone Call by Fleur Adcock 477. The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 478. I was Passionate by Lal Ded 479. Street Dog by Amrita Pritam 480. Of a Minister by Chandrakanta Murasingh 481. I Want to be Killed by an Indian Bullet by Thangjam Ibopishak 482. The Old Pond by Matsuo Bash 483. Easter Wings by George Herbert 484. Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver 485. Becoming a Brahmin by Meena Kandasamy 486. A Bird, came down the Walk by Emily Dickinson 487. Sea Fever by John Masefield 488. Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran 489. It Couldn’t Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest 490. First Poem for You by Kim Addonizio 491. Crossing the Border by Joy Harjo 492. Little Tree by E.E Cummings 493. I Thank You God for most this Amazing by E. E. Cummings 494. Fear by Gabriela Mistral 495. Stay Calm by Grenville Klesier 496. Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell
