To aid direct searches for poems, all of the currently available poems are listed below with the associated poet, poetic form, and initial publication year. Poems can also be filtered by these criteria using the sidebar on the right.
Poem Title | Poet | Poetic Form | Publication Year |
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Parsley | Rita Dove | Free verse | 1983 |
The Sheep Child | James Dickey | Free verse | 1967 |
Falling | James Dickey | Free verse | 1981 |
Son of Msippi | Henry Dumas | Free verse | 1967 |
Knees of a Natural Man | Henry Dumas | Couplet | 1967 |
Black Star Line | Henry Dumas | Free verse | 1967 |
I Sit and Sew | Alice Dunbar-Nelson | Other | 1920 |
We Wear the Mask | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Other | 1895 |
When Malindy Sings | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Other | 1895 |
Sympathy | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Other | 1899 |
The Haunted Oak | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Quatrain | 1903 |
#258 (320) ("There's a certain Slant of light,") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1862 |
#712 (479) ("Because I could not stop for Death-") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1862 |
#754 (764) ("My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1863 |
#303 (409) ("The Soul selects her own Society-") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1862 |
#280 (340) ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1862 |
#341 (372) ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1862 |
#508 (353) ("I'm ceded-I've stopped being Theirs-") | Emily Dickinson | Other | 1862 |
#520 (656) ("I started Early-Took my Dog-") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1863 |
#601 (517) ("A still-Volcano-Life-") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1863 |
#613 (445) ("They shut me up in Prose-") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1862 |
#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-") | Emily Dickinson | Quatrain | 1862 |
#1072 (194) ("Title divine-is mine!") | Emily Dickinson | Free verse | 1861 |
#1129 (1263) ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-") | Emily Dickinson | Other | 1872 |
#1705 (1691) ("Volcanoes be in Sicily") | Emily Dickinson | Other | |
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow | Robert Duncan | Free verse | 1968 |
The Torso (Passages 18) | Robert Duncan | Free verse | 1968 |
Up Rising (Passages 25) | Robert Duncan | Free verse | 1968 |
My Mother Would Be a Falconress | Robert Duncan | Free verse | 1968 |
Return of the Wolves | Anita Endrezze | Free verse | 1988 |