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 Estlin 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 Chapter 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 352. To a Dark Girl by Gwendolyn Bennett
353. Failure of Communication by Judith Wright 354. The Toys by Coventry Patmore
355. The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 356. Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti
357. Spiritual Song of the Aborigine Poem by Hyllus Maris 358. I Wish I Could Remember That First Day by Christina Rossetti
359. The Child is not Dead by Ingrid Jonker 360. Bora Ring by Judith Wright
361. Sea Fever by John Masefield 362. Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran
363. It Couldn’t Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest 364. First Poem for You by Kim Addonizio
365. Crossing the Border by Joy Harjo 366. Little Tree by E.E Cummings
367. I Thank You God for most this Amazing by E.E. Cummings 368. Fear by Gabriela Mistral
369. Stay Calm by Grenville Klesier 370. Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell
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 451-486

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
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