Poems #
This is a list of poems that have resonated with me over the years, for one reason or another.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Ulysses
- Anne Sexton - The Truth the Dead Know
- Arthur Guiterman - On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
- Billy Collins - Vade Mecum
- Bukowski - So you want to be a writer
- Carol Ann Duffy - Prayer
- Clive James - Apotheosis at the Signing Table
- Clive James - A Perfect Market
- Clive James - Return of the Kogarah Kid
- Clive James - Japanese Maple
- Clive James - Natural Selection
- Clive James - Event Horizon
- Clive James - Signing Ceremony
- Clive James - A Valediction for Philip Larkin
- D. H. Lawrence - Piano
- Donald Hall - Affirmation
- Donald Hall - Safe Sex
- Donika Kelly - The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.
- Edward Thomas - Adlestrop
- Emily Dickinson - The brain is wider than the sky
- Frank O’Hara - Mayakovsky
- Fred Marchant - The Salt Stronger
- Les Murray - The Burning Truck
- Linda Gregg - The Presence in Absence
- Louise Gluck - Nostos
- Maggie Smith - Good Bones
- Mary Elizabeth Frye - Do not stand at my grave and weep
- Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
- Mary Oliver - The Journey
- Mary Ruefel - Blood Soup
- Michael Ondaatje - Lock
- Michael Ondaatje - The Cinnamon Peeler
- Nick Cave - The Spanish Lady
- Philip Larkin - This Be the Verse
- Philip Larkin - Sad Steps
- Philip Larkin - Aubade
- Philip Larkin - The Mower
- Philip Larkin - Church, Going
- Randall Jarrell - The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
- Robert Hass - Faint Music
- Robert Frost - Fire and Ice
- Rudyard Kipling - If
- Stevie Smith - Not Waving but Drowning
- Stevie Smith - Oblivion
- Ted Kooser - So This Is Nebraska
- Thomas Hardy - Self-unconscious
- Tony Harrison - Marked with D
- Tony Harrison - Long distance I, II
- Tony Harrison - Illumination I
- Tony Harrison - Turns
- Tracy K Smith - My God, It’s Full of Stars
- TS Eliot - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
- Wallace Stevens - The Snow Man
- WB Yeats - When You Are Old
- Wendell Berry - The Vacation
- Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est
- Wislawa Szymborska - A Note, Vermeer
- William Wordsworth - Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room