Joe Horn’s Archive of Great Poetry

A	Cecil Adams Schrödinger’s Cat: The Straight Dope
	Franklin P. Adams It Was A Famous Victory No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
	Arthur St John Adcock The Divine Tragedy
	Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) Bread and Music
	Anna Jean Allen Breakfast
	Hervey Allen Dead Men: To a Metaphysician
	Bill Anderson As Much As I Can Stand
	John Atherton Threes
	W. H. Auden (1907-1973) August 1968 Conspicuous Courage Foxtrot From a Play Funeral Blues The More Loving One O What Is That Sound? The Secret Is Out Musee des Beaux Arts
B	Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929) America the Beautiful
	James Beattie (1735-1803) Law
	Michael Bell Our Silence
	Marie Bellet Don’t You Think I Count?
	Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) The Catholic Sun Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably George, Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions
	Ivan Berger Commuter Flight
	John Betjeman The Lift Man
	Laurence Binyon How to Make a Memory
	Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) One Art
	William Blake (1757-1827) A Poison Tree
	Michael Blumenthal Light, at Thirty-Two
	Stirling Bowen Cages
	Ray Bradbury Remembrance
	Joseph Brodsky For Schoolchildren
	Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) Grantchester, ah Grantchester! Heaven
	Gwendolyn Brooks The Mother
	Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet #43
	Robert Browning (1812-1889) The Pied Piper of Hamelin
	Mike Buscemi The Average Child
C	Scott Cairns The Spiteful Jesus
	Archie Campbell Trouble in the Amen Corner
	Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898) Hiawatha’s Photographing
	William Herbert Carruth Each in His Own Tongue Ghosts of Dreams
	Charles Edward Carryl A Nautical Ballad
	Guy Wetmore Carryl The Domineering Eagle and the Inventive Bratling The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet How Jack Found that Beans May Go Back on a Chap The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven
	Jimmy Carter A Contemplation of What Has Been Created, And Why
	G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Elegy in a Country Churchyard
	Will D. Cobb Waltz Me Around Again, Willie
	Martin Cooper The Biplane Evermore
	Wendy Cope A Reading
	Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The Ball of Gold I Saw a Man Pursuing Many Workmen
	Jim Croce (1943-1973) Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues
	Davy Crockett (1786-1836) Motto
	Countee Cullen (1903-1946) Incident
	e. e. cummings (1894-1962) maggie and milly and molly and may “next to of course god america i
D	Lt. Cmdr. Data Ode to Spot
	William Henry Davies Leisure
	Billy Dean Billy the Kid
	Jimmy Dean Little Black Book
	Philip F. Deaver The Worriers’ Guild
	Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) Bones The Listeners
	Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston The Ill-Assorted Guards
	Neil Diamond Brooklyn Roads
	Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) A Book A Narrow Fellow in the Grass I Never Saw a Moor
	Austin Dobson On the Future of Poetry
	Natalie Dorsch Just Because
	John Dryden (1631-1700) Happy the Man
F	Eleanor Farjeon Jenny White and Johnny Black
	Eugene Field (1850-1895) At Cheyenne At The Door Consistency Grandma’s Prayer Human Nature Intry-Mintry Jessie Little Boy Blue Long Ago The Night Wind One Day I Got A Missive Pittypat and Tippytoe Seein’ Things Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks Sometime The Two Coffins
	James T. Fields The Tempest
	Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) The Calf-Path The Ideal Husband to His Wife Odium Theologicum
	William Percy French Mountains O’Mourne
	Gary Friedman I Am The Very Model of an Engineering Graduate
	Robert Frost (1874-1963) Acquainted with the Night Dust of Snow Fire and Ice Nothing Gold Can Stay Once by the Pacific On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations Out, Out — The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Two Tramps in Mud Time
	Mary Elizabeth Frye I Am Not There
G	David Galef Enthalpy
	Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) The Silver Swan
	Walker Gibson Advice to Travelers
	Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) The Modern Major-General
	Dana Gioia Planting a Sequoia
	Edward Gorey The Ghastly Crumb Tines
	Howard Greenfield Crying in the Rain
	Edgar Guest (1881-1959) Father
	Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943) The Chip on the Shoulder Heritage My Hills of Dreams On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness Our New Religion Pershing at the Front Pithecanthropus Erectus Sea Sickness Strictly Germ-Proof
	Arlo Guthrie Mooses Come Walking
H	Ruth Hulburt Hamilton Song for a Fifth Child
	Alan Harris Experts and Folk Here and the Ground Sharing Copedom A Younger Friend
	Sara Henderson Hay The Builders
	Samuel Hoffenstein I Burned My Candle At Both Ends
	Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) The Deacon’s Masterpiece, or, the Wonderful One-hoss Shay: A Logical Story
	Thomas Hood (1799-1845) I Remember, I Remember
	A.D. Hope Inscription for a War
	Joseph K. Horn An Ode to Richard M. Nixon
	A. E. Housman (1859-1936) The Laws of God, The Laws of Man Loveliest of Trees Oh Who Is That Young Sinner Oh, When I Was in Love With You Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff
	Mary Howitt The Spider and the Fly
	Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Theme for English B
	Brian Humpres The Hands of an Ancient Clock
	James Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) Abou Ben Adhem
	John Hunter Dreams and Deeds
J	Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) October’s Bright Blue Weather
	Kathryn and Byron Jackson Open Range
	Frank Jacobs Rudyard Kipling as a Job Consultant
K	Garrison Keillor The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (altered version)
	David Keppel Trouble
	X. J. Kennedy What We Might Be, What We Are
	Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) The House with Nobody In It To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself Trees
	Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) The Female of the Species
	Dave Kneeshaw The “Third Decree”
	Maxine Kumin The Microscope
L	Joseph Lauren The Frogs Who Wanted a King
	D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Piano
	Edward Lear (1812-1888) The Jumblies
	Tom Lehrer The Elements We Will All Go Together When We Go
	Leiber and Stoller Don Juan Love Potion Number Nine
	Carolyn Leigh Pass Me By
	Madeleine L’Engle Patrick’s Rune
	Alan Jay Lerner The Lusty Month of May (1960)
	Steven Levine A Better Model
	Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Memory
	Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) Factory Windows Are Always Broken The Leaden-Eyed The Unpardonable Sin
	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) The Children’s Hour The Fire of Driftwood: Devereux Farm, near Marblehead A Psalm of Life The Poem of Thy Choice Success
	Henry F. Lyte Abide with Me
M	Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) The End of the World
	John Gillespie Magee, Jr. High Flight
	Douglas Malloch Good Timber
	John Mansfield C. L. M.
	Edwin Markham Outwitted
	Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) To His Coy Mistress
	John Masefield (1878-1967) Cargoes Sea Fever
	Marcia Masters April
	C. W. McCall Convoy
	Dr. John McCrae (1872-1918) In Flanders Fields Penance
	Phyllis McGinley The Angry Man A Garland of Precepts Homework for Annabelle In Praise of Diversity Report on a Situation Text for Today
	Roger McGough Goodbat, Nightman
	Fr. Ladislas Mécs, O.Praem. The Prince’s Three Sorrows Something Pleased Me Very Much
	W. E. Mientka Hiawatha Designs an Experiment
	Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Ashes of Life The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Dirge Without Music Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare First Fig Lines for a Grave-Stone The Little Ghost Never May the Fruit Be Plucked Recuerdo
	John Milton (1608-1674) Sonnet On His Blindness
	Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) A Visit from Saint Nicholas
	Jeffrey Moss The Butterfly Jar
	Mountain Therapy Silent Cry
	Joseph Francis Murphy Value Judgement
N	Ogden Nash (1902-1971) Compliments of a Friend Confessions to be Traced on a Birthday Cake Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty Listen... Old Men One From One Leaves Two The Pig Pretty Halcyon Days The Solitary Huntsman Tableau at Twilight The Tale of Custard the Dragon To A Lady Passing Time Better Left Unpassed A Word to Husbands
O	Charles Osgood Pretty Good
P	Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Bric-A-Brac One Perfect Rose Résumé Sanctuary The Searched Soul Song in the Worst Possible Taste
	Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) The Toys
	Tom Paxton Jimmy Newman
	Keith H. Peterson Tele Types
	Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) A Dream Within A Dream The Raven
	Ezra Pound (1885-1972) An Immorality
R	Kevin Rettig MACBETH.ZIP
	Malvina Reynolds Little Boxes
	Jessie B. Rittenhouse Vision
	Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1886-1941) Mumps
	Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) Cliff Klingenhagen Mr. Flood’s Party Richard Cory
	Theodore Roethke (1908-63) The Bat Child on Top of a Greenhouse The Waking My Papa’s Waltz
	Charles Henry Ross John, Tom, and James
	Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Remember
	Paul Rugg and John P. McCann Ballad of Magellan
S	Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) Base Details Suicide in the Trenches
	John Godfrey Saxe The Blind Men and the Elephant
	Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Bible Inscription Breathes There The Man
	Jack Segal Scarlet Ribbons
	Robert W. Service (1874-1958) The Cremation of Sam McGee My Madonna
	William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Sonnet 116
	Jessica Shaver HBRW Methods
	Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Ozymandias
	Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887) The Fool’s Prayer Opportunity Truth at Last
	Shel Silverstein (1932-1999) A Boy Named Sue The Little Blue Engine The Little Boy and the Old Man My Nose Garden Peanut-Butter Sandwich Won’t You?
	Mark Smith-Soto Manhattan Buddha
	Robert Southey (1774-1843) The Battle of Blenheim
	Carlotta Eike Stankiewicz Mommy Brain
	George Sterling (1869-1926) The Black Vulture
	Ray Stevens Mississippi Squirrel Revival
	Marc Anthony Henderson (Rev. George A. Strong, 1832–1912) The Song of Milkanwatha
	Muriel Stuart The Seed Shop
T	John Banister Tabb A Child’s Prayer
	Jane Taylor The Star
	Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) Barter There Will Come Soft Rains
	Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) The Eagle
	Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
	Conway Twitty Saturday Night Special
	Blake Tyler CuppuhJoe
U	Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) Dorothy Dances Prayer
	John Updike (1932-?) Cosmic Gall
V	P. R. Van Buskirk ’Twas the Bike before Christmas
	Henry Van Dyke America for Me Joyful Journey
W	Bill Watterson 4+5=? Calvin’s Snowball Prayer
	John Hall Wheelock Earth
	Margaret Widdemer The Watcher
	Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) From The Ballad of Reading Gaol
	Dixie Willson The Mist and All
	Johnny Wilson Roses for Mama
	Samuel Woodworth The Old Oaken Bucket (original version)
	Frederick A. Wright Letter to the City Clerk
Y	William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The Song of Wandering Aengus Those Images When You Are Old
Z	Gene Ziegler What if Dr. Seuss Wrote Technical Manuals? (original title: A Grandchild’s Guide to Using Grandpa’s Computer)
?	Anonymous On Bodies and Spirits The Bonny Streets of Fyve-io The Ethical Major-General The Flower Get Thee to a Punnery The Golden Vanity Hush, Little Baby If Christmas Day on Monday Be The King’s English Methuselah’s Diet A Monk’s Bookplate My Get-Up-And-Go Has Got Up And Went The Old Oaken Bucket (As Revised by the Board of Health) Our Lips and Ears Prints in the Sand (parody) The Race Ravin’ Saints and Sinners Super Hero Surprise in Heaven Tree Truth Never Dies The Twelve Days of Christmas Violet Vestments and Fishsticks on Fridays