Collinson Library: A-Z POETRY: Contents

This site features 51 poets and 91 poems, covering both classic and contemporary poetry, suitable for Years 7 -12. Most are supported by contextual information, reviews, analysis and/or literary commentary. Wherever possible an audio file, videos and a LitChart summary have been included.

They are available for classroom instruction, online learning and independent recreational reading.

Use either the Author Index (available from the tabs - left) or the Title Index to find a poem.

Contents: Title [Alphabetical order, excluding “A”, “An” and “The.”]

A	B	C	D D
After Apple Picking [Frost] Alone [Angelou] Annabel Lee [Poe] The Arrow and the Song [Longfellow] As Kingfishers Catch Fire [Hopkins]	The Ballad of the Drover [Lawson] Bayonet Charge [Hughes] Because I could not stop for Death [Dickinson] Bell Birds [Kendall] Birches [Frost] Blind Men and the Elephant, The [Saxe] Bright Star [Keats] The Bustle in a House [Dickinson]	The Canonization [Donne] Clancy of the Overflow [Paterson] Concord Hymn [Emerson]	Daddy [Plath] The Day is Done [Longfellow] Death be not Proud [Donne] Death of a Naturalist [Heaney] The Deserted Plantation [Dunbar] Do not go Gentle into that Good Night [Thomas] Dover Beach [Arnold] A Dream within a Dream [Poe] Dreams [Hughes] Dulce et Decorum Est [Owen]
E - F - G	H	I - J	K - L
Easter 1916 [Yeats] Fire and Ice [Frost] The Flea [Donne] Funeral Blues [Auden] The Great Realisation [Roberts]	Harlem [Hughes] Harlem Hopscotch [Angelou] The Haunted Oak [Dunbar] Hawk Roosting [Hughes] He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven [Yeats] Home Burial [Frost] Hope is the Thing with Feathers [Dickinson] How do I Love Thee? [Barrett Browning] Human Family [Angelou] The Humble Bee [Emerson]	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [Angelou] I, Too [Hughes] If [Kipling] The Iliad [Homer] In the Park [Harwood] In the Waiting Room [Bishop] Invictus [Henley] I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud [Wordsworth] Jabberwocky [Carroll]	Kubla Khan [Coleridge] Lady Lazarus [Plath] The Lake Isle of Innisfree [Yeats] Laughing Song [Blake] Lift Every Voice and Sing [Johnson] Lost Generation [Reed] Love and Friendship [Bronte] Love's Philosophy [Shelley] The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [Eliot]
M	N	O	P
The Man from Snowy River [Paterson] Mending Wall [Frost] Mithridates [Emerson] The Moon is Distant from the Sea [Dickinson] Morning Song [Plath] Mother to Son [Hughes] My Brilliant Image [Hafez] My Country [Mackellar] My Last Duchess [Browning]	The New Colossus [Lazarus]	O Captain my Captain [Whitman] O Me! O Life! [Whitman] October [Frost] Ode on a Grecian Urn [Keats] Ode to a Nightingale [Keats] The Odyssey [Homer] On his Blindness [Milton] On the Pulse of Morning [Angelou] One Art [Bishop] Ozymandias [Shelley]	Paradise Lost [Milton] Parsley [Dove] The Past [Emerson] Phenomenal Woman [Angelou] Pied Beauty [Hopkins] Pike [Hughes] Poems & Limericks [Lear] A Psalm of Life [Longfellow]
R	S	T - V	V - W - Z
The Raven [Poe] Red, Red Rose [Burns] Refugees [Bilston] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [Coleridge] The Road Not Taken [Frost]	The Second Coming [Yeats] Selected Poems [E. Bronte] She Walks in Beauty [Byron] The Shield of Achilles [Auden] Song of Myself [Whitman] Sonnet 18 [Shakespeare] Sonnet 29 [Shakespeare] Sonnet 116 [Shakespeare] Spirits of the Dead [Poe] Still I Rise [Angelou] Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [Frost] The Summer Day [Oliver] Sympathy [Dunbar]	They Shut me up in Prose [Dickinson] Tiger/Tyger [Blake] Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird [Stevens] The Thought Fox [Hughes] To a Stranger [Whitman] A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning [Donne]	The Walrus and the Carpenter [Carroll] The Waste Land [Eliot] Water [Emerson] The Weary Blues [Hughes] We are Going [Noonuccal] We Real Cool [Brooks] We Wear the Mask [Dunbar] When Death Comes [Oliver] When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd [Whitman] When Malindy Sings [Dunbar] Wild Geese [Oliver] Wind [Hughes] The Wreck of the Hesperus [Longfellow] The World Below the Brine [Whitman] The World is Too Much With Us [Wordsworth]