1. Abushanab, Chad "Visiting My Own Grave" (Versedaily)
  2. Akhmatova, Anna "Lot's Wife" (Poets.org)
  3. Alexander, Elizabeth "Tending" (Poets.org)
  4. Angelou, Maya "Phenomenal Woman" (Poets.org)
  5. Angelou, Maya "Still I Rise" (Poets.org)
  6. Arnold, Matthew "Dover Beach" (Bartleby.com)
  7. Ashberry, John "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape" (Poetry Foundation) [sestina]
  8. Baer, William "Snowflake" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  9. Baraka, Amiri "An Agony. As Now" (Poetry Foundation)
  10. Bass, Ellen "Elegy for a Gopher" (Poetry.org) [elegy]
  11. Bell, Marvin "Ending with a Line from Lear" (Literature Resource Center)
  12. Bell, Marvin "To Dorothy" (Poets.org)
  13. Bishop, Elizabeth, "Filling Station" (Poetry Foundation)
  14. Bishop, Elizabeth "One Art" (Poetry Foundation) [villanelle]
  15. Blaeser, Kimberly "Haiku Journey" (Poetry Foundation) [haiku]
  16. Bly, Robert "An Open Rose" (Literature Resource Center) [prose poem] (audio only)
  17. Bly, Robert "Seeing the Eclipse in Maine" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  18. Bogan, Louise "Leave-Taking" (Poetry Foundation) [aubade]
  19. Boland, Eavan "Atlantis--A Lost Sonnet" (Poets.org) [sonnet]
  20. Braggs, Earl "The Half Life of Chocolate" (Auburn Avenue)
  21. Braggs, Earl "Of Course, the Brochure Doesn't Mention Mrs. Abbot" (The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South by Nikky Finney at Google Books)
  22. Braggs, Earl S. "Why What Now (One Long Question Mark)" (Truth to Power - Cutthroat)
  23. Brehm, John "The Poems I Have Not Written" (Poets.org)
  24. Brewer Gaylord - Upon My Offering Her an Easter Chocolate, My Wife Screams that She Won't Let Me Make Her Fat (The Writers Almanac)
  25. Brooks, Gwendolyn "kitchenette building" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  26. Brown, Jericho "Another Elegy" (Poetry Foundation) [elegy]
  27. Brown, Jericho "Odd Jobs" (Poets.org)
  28. Brown, Jericho "Psalm 150" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  29. Brown, Jericho "Prayer of the Backhanded" (Poets.org)
  30. Bukowski, Charles "A Farewell Thing While Breathing" (Literature Resource Center)
  31. Capra-Thomas, Caylin "Cult of the Deer Goddess" (Poetry.org)
  32. Castillo, Sandra M. "Christmas, 1970" (Poetry Foundation)
  33. Clifton, Lucille "homage to my hips" (Poetry Foundation)
  34. Clifton, Lucille "Wishes for Sons" (Poets.org)
  35. Cole, Henri "Oil & Steel" (Poets.org) [sonnet]
  36. Coleman, Wanda "American Sonnet (10) (Poets.org) [sonnet]
  37. Collins, Billy "Introduction to Poetry" (Poetry 180) [ars poetica]
  38. Collins, Billy "Marginalia" (Poetry Foundation)
  39. Collins, Billy "Workshop" (Poets.org) [ars poetica]
  40. Converse, Harriet Maxwell "The Thanksgivings" (Poets.org)
  41. cummings, e. e. "she being brand" (YouTube)
  42. Davis, Teri Ellen Cross "Thank You Jesus" (Poets.org)
  43. Deaver, Philip F. "Your Mars Looming" (Anhinga Press)
  44. Dennis, Carl "Thanksgiving Letter from Harry" (Poets.org)
  45. Derricotte, Toi "Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing" (Poetry Foundation
  46. Dickinson, Emily "After great pain, a formal feeling comes" (Poetry Foundation)
  47. Disch, Tom "Christmas Guilt" (Poetry Foundation)
  48. Disch, Tom "To Our Christmas Tree" (Poetry Foundation)
  49. Dobyns, Stephen "[over a cup of coffee]" (Poetry Foundation)
  50. Donne, John "Death Be Not Proud" (Bartleby.com)
  51. Doty, Mark "Charlie Howard's Descent" (Poetry Foundation)
  52. Duhamel, Denise - Delta Flight 659 (Poets.org) [sestina]
  53. Eliot, T.S. "Journey of the Magi" (Poetry Archive)
  54. Espada, Martíne "Aubade with Concussion" (Poetry Foundation) [aubade]
    55. Everson, Landis "Before Christmas" (Poetry Foundation)
  55. Fennelly, Beth Ann "Letter from Gauguin's Daughter" (Literature Resource Center)
  56. Fennelly, Beth Ann - "Souvenir" (Poets.org)
  57. Fennelly, Beth Ann - Selected works from Tender Hooks (Google Books)
  58. Fennelly, Beth Ann - "Why We Shouldn't Write Love Poems or If We Must, Why We Shouldn't Publish Them" (Dactyls and Drakes)
  59. Ferlinghhetti, Lawrence "Constantly Risking Absurdity" (Poetry Foundation)
  60. Flynn, Keith "Lincoln's Life Mask" (Versedaily)
  61. Flynn, Nick "Sleeping Beauty" (Versedaily)
  62. Fountain, Carrie "Will You?" (Poets.org)
  63. Fuller, John "Song" (Poetry Foundation) [villanelle]
  64. Giovanni, Nikki "Kidnap Poem" (Literature Resource Center) [ars poetica] (audio only)
  65. Gonzalez, Angel "Death in the Afternoon" (Poets.org)
  66. Green, Chris "Christmas Tree Lots" (Poetry Foundation)
  67. Guest, Paul "Lullaby" (Poetry Foundation)
  68. Guest, Paul "Users' Guide to Physical Debilitation" (Poets.org)
  69. Guerrero, Laurie Ann "Blessing" (Poets.org)
  70. Hall, Donald "Affirmation" (Poets.org)
  71. Hansen, Danielle - The bird eats a building (Willow Springs Magazine)
  72. Hansen, Danielle "Heaven's a Bar in Atlanta, Expensive as Hell, and You Have to Pay All Those Demons" (Cortland Review)
  73. Hardy, Thomas "The Oxen" (Poetry Foundation)
  74. Harjo, Joy "For Keeps" (Poets.org)
  75. Harjo, Joy "Perhaps the World Ends Here" (Poets.org)
  76. Hayden, Robert "Those Winter Sundays" (Poets.org)
  77. Heaney, Seamus "Digging" (Poetry Foundation)
  78. Hecht, Anthony "Lizards and Snakes" (Collected Earlier Poems)
  79. Heimowitz, Rachel "Evening Walk Near Jericho" (Truth to Power - Cutthroat)
  80. Hicok, Bob "Go Greyhound" (American Academy of Poets)
  81. Hilberry, Conrad "Christmas Night" (Poetry Foundation)
  82. Hirsch, Edward "Early Sunday Morning" (Poetry Foundation)
  83. Hirsch, Edward "In Memoriam Paul Celan" (Poets.org)
  84. Hogan, Linda "One Creation" (Truth to Power - Cutthroat)
  85. Holub, Miroslav "Brief reflection on killing the Christmas carp" (Poetry Foundation)
  86. Hopkins, Gerard Manley "Hurrahing in Harvest" (Bartleby.com)
  87. Hopkins, Gerard Manley "Pied Beauty" (Bartleby.com)
  88. Issa, Kobayashi "Selected Haiku" trans. Robert Haas (Poetry Foundation) [haiku]
  89. Jackson, Richard "CLVIII: The Ruins [After Petrarch]" (Literature Resource Center)
  90. Jackson, Richard "It Is If You Say It Is" (Truth to Power - Cutthroat)
  91. Jackson, Richard "The Prayer" (The Writer's Almanac)
  92. Jackson, Richard "Silences" (Rattle) [ars poetica]
  93. Jackson, Richard "That's What I'm Talking About" (Cerise Press)
  94. Jarman, Mark "Ground Swell" (Poets.org) [ars poetica]
  95. Jarman, Mark "Unholy Sonnet 1" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  96. Jarman, Mark "Unholy Sonnet 4" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  97. Jarman, Mark "Unholy Sonnet 11" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  98. Jarrell, Randall "90° North" (Poetry Foundation)
  99. Jauss, David "Cyrano" (Literature Resource Center)
  100. Jones, Rodney "The Boomers Take the Field" (Blackbird)
  101. Joseph, Allison "Little Epiphanies" (Valparaiso Poetry Review)
  102. Joseph, Allison "Running While Black" (Sliver of Stone Magazine)
  103. Joseph, Allison "When You Get Tired of Being Called Ugly" (Crow Hollow Books)
  104. Justice, Donald "Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy " (Poets.org)
  105. Justice, Donald "Poem" (Google Books) [ars poetica]
  106. Kaminski, Ilya "Toast" (Poets.org)
  107. Katrovas, Richard "Love Poem for an Enemy" (Poetry Foundation)
  108. Kinnell, Galway "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" (Poetry Foundation)
  109. Komunyakaa, Yusef "Facing It" (Favorite Poem.org)
  110. Kooser, Ted "Christmas Mail" (Poetry Foundation)
  111. Kunitz, Stanley "Robin Redbreast" (Poetry Foundation)
  112. Larkin, Philip "Aubade" (Poetry Foundation) [aubade]
  113. Larkin, Philip "Home is so Sad" (NY Books)
  114. Leahy, Anna "The Day of Fire and Light" (Drunken Boat)
  115. Leahy, Anna - The Nuclear Age (Zocalo Public Square) [prose poem]
  116. Lechay, Dan "Ghost Villanelle" (Poetry Foundation) [villanelle]
  117. Lerman, Eleanor "Starfish" (Poets,org)
  118. Levertov, Denise "Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell" (Poets.org)
  119. Levertov, Denise "The Jacob's Ladder" (Liternet.bg)
  120. Levertov, Denise "St. Peter and the Angel" (Poets.org)
  121. Levine, Philip "He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do" (Atlantic Monthly)
  122. Levine, Philip "The Music of Time" (Literature Resource Center)
  123. Lippman, Matthew "Slowly in Prayer" (Poets.org)
  124. Lowell, Robert "Skunk Hour" (Poets.org)
  125. Lorde, Audre, "Hanging Fire" (Poetry Foundation)
  126. Lorde, Audre, "A Litany for Survival" (Poetry Foundation)
  127. MacLeish, Archibald "Ars Poetica" by (Poetry Foundation)
  128. Macri, Angle "The Labyrinth of a Tree" (Poetry.org) [sonnet]
  129. Mandelstam, Osip from Stone: 24 "Leaves scarcely breathing" (Poetry Foundation)
  130. Mason, David "Questions at Christmas" (Poetry Foundation)
  131. Matthews, William "The Bear at the Dump" (Poet.org)
  132. Matthews, William, "Talking to the Moon" (William Matthews: Rising and Falling)
  133. Meadows, Carrie - Finishing Sequence (The Common)
  134. Meredith, William "Walter Jenks' Bath" (Efforts at Speech: New and Selected Poems)
  135. Merwin, W. S. "For the Anniversary of My Death" (Poetry Foundation)
  136. Merwin, W. S. "Good People" (Poetry Foundation)
  137. Merwin, W. S. "Thanks" (Poet.org)
  138. Merwin, W. S. "Separation" (Poetry Foundation) [haiku]
  139. Milosz, Czeslaw "Ars Poetica?" (Poetry Foundation)
  140. Milosz, Czeslaw "A Song on the End of the World" (Poets.org)
  141. Moore, Marianne "Poetry" (Poets.org) [ars poetica]
  142. Nelson, Marilyn "Dusting" (Poets.org)
  143. Nemerov, Howard "The Vacuum" (Poetry Out Loud)
  144. Neruda, Pablo "A Dog Has Died" (Poetry Foundation)
  145. Neruda, Pablo "Nothing But Death" (Poets.org)
  146. Neruda, Pablo "Ode to My Socks" (Poets.org) [Ode]
  147. Nezhukumatathil, Aimee "Hummingbird Abecedarian" (Poets.org) [abecedarian]
  148. Nordhaus, Jean "Posthumous" (Poetry Foundation)
  149. Novak, Boris "Decisions" (Poems and Pickaxes)
  150. Nye, Naomi Shihab "Kindness" (Poets.org)
  151. Nye, Naomi Shihab "Red Brocade" (Poets.org)
  152. Olds, Sharon "First Thanksgiving" (Poetry Foundation)
  153. Olds, Sharon "Frosted Elfin" (Literature Resource Center)
  154. Oliver, Mary "August" (Poetry Foundation)
  155. Oliver, Mary "Breakage" (Poetry Foundation)
  156. Oliver, Mary "White Eyes" (Poetry Foundation)
  157. Oliver, Mary "Wild Geese" (Poets.org)
  158. Ortiz, Simon J. "My Father's Song" (The Writer's Almanac)
  159. Osherow, Jacqueline "Autumn Psalm" [terza rima]
  160. Paschen, Elise "Whale Song" (Truth to Power - Cutthroat)
  161. Parker, Dorothy "A Hymn of Hate" (Literature Resource Center)
  162. Pastan, Linda "The New Dog" (Cortland Review)
  163. Paz, Octavio "Touch" (Casa Poema)
  164. Perez, Craig Santos "Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene, 2015
  165. Pessoa, Fernando "Discontinuous Poems" (Poetry Foundation)
  166. Piercy, Marge "Sign" (Literature Resource Center)
  167. Piercy, Marge "To Be of Use" (Poetry Foundationr)
  168. Piercy, Marge "Sign" (Literature Resource Center)
  169. Pinsky, Robert "Daughter" (Literature Resource Center)
  170. Plumly, Stanley "At Night" (poets.org)
  171. Poch, John "Elegy for a Suicide" (Poetry Foundation) [elegy]
  172. Reese, Kevin "What Came Looking For Me" (Poets.org)
  173. Rich, Adrienne, "Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem II]"
  174. Rios, Alberto "When Giving Is All We Have" (poets.org)
  175. Root, William Pitt "Half Shift" (Poetry Foundation)
  176. Sadre-Orafai, Jenny "What They Passed Down" (Frigg Magazine)
  177. Saiser, Marjorie "Thanksgiving for Two" (Poetry Foundation)
  178. Salamun, Tomaz "I Love You" (Literature Resource Center)
  179. Sappho, "One Girl" (Poetry Foundation)
  180. Sarah, Robyn "Blowing the Fluff Away" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  181. Shakespeare, William "That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold" (Poets.org)
  182. Simic, Charles "The Future" (Literature Resource Center)
  183. Simic, Charles "My Shoes" (Poets.org)
  184. Simic Charles "My Guardian Angel is Afraid of the Dark" (Literature Resource Center) [prose poem]
  185. Solonche, J. R. "To My Beard" (Casa Poema)
  186. Stafford, William E. "Traveling through the Dark" (Poetry Foundation)
  187. Stern, Gerald "Box of Cigars" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  188. Stern, Gerald "Glut" (Poets.org)
  189. Swenson, May "Earth Your Dancing Place" (Poets.org)
  190. Tate, James "The Painter of the Night" (Poetry Foundation)
  191. Tate, James "Teaching the Ape to Write Poems" (Poets.org) [ars poetica]
  192. Teasdale, Sara "Christmas Carol" (Poetry Foundation)
  193. Tennyson, Alfred (Lord), "Ulysses" (Poetry Foundation)
  194. Terris, Susan "Dish of Mashed Peas" (Poets.org)
  195. Thomas, Dylan "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (Poets.org) [villanelle]
  196. Trethewey, Natasha "Enlightenment" (Poetry Foundation)
  197. Trethewey, Natasha "History Lesson" (Poetry Foundation)
  198. Tribble, Jon "Hookslide" (Ghost Town Lit Magazine)
  199. Uschuk, Pamela "The Ratcheting" (Superstition Review) (scroll down)
  200. Vinz, Mark "Driving Through" (Poetry Foundation) [sonnet]
  201. Wagner, Pamela Spiro "How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual" (Poets.org)
  202. Walker, Alice "Expect Nothing" (Casa Poema)
  203. Weaver, Afaa Michael "Rambling" (Poetry Foundation) [Bop]
  204. Whitman, Walt "A Noiseless, Patient Spider" (Bartleby.com)
  205. Wilbur, Richard. "The Pardon" (Poetry: An Introduction by Ruth Miller and Robert A. Greenberg)
  206. Williams, Norman "A Christmas Song" (Poetry Foundation)
  207. Williams, William Carlos "This is Just to Say" (Poets.org)
  208. Woloch, Cecilia "My Mother's Pillow" (Poetry Foundation) (villanelle)
  209. Wright, Charles "Chickamauga" (Poetry Foundation)
  210. Wright, Charles "My Own Little Civil War" (Literature Resource Center)
  211. Wright, James "A Blessing" (Poetry Foundation)
  212. Wright, James "The Journey" (Poetry Foundation)
  213. Wylie, Elinor "Pretty Words" (Casa Poema) [ars poetica]
  214. Yeats, William Butler "The Second Coming" (Poetry Foundation)
This collection compiled by Bill Stifler