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AmericanPoets
Poets and their Works
| Poet | Works |
|---|---|
| Angelou, Maya | "On the Pulse of Morning" |
| Auden, W.H. | The Double Man; The Dyer's Hand; "September 1, 1939" |
| Benet, Stephen Vincent | John Brown's Body |
| Bradstreet, Anne | The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn | Annie Allen |
| Bryant, William Cullen | "Thanatopsis"; "To a Waterfowl" |
| Cummings, E.E. | The Enormous Room; Chansons Innocentes |
| Dickinson, Emily | "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"; "I'm Nobody"; "I Never Saw a Moor"; "There Is No Frigate Like a Book" |
| Dunbar, Paul Laurence | Oak and Ivy, Majors and Minors; Lyrics of the Lowly Life |
| Eliot, T.S. | "The Wasteland"; "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; "The Hollow Men" |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Concord Hymn"; "The Rhodora"; "Voluntaries"; "The Snow-Storm"; "Threnody" |
| Field, Eugene | "The Duel"; "Little Boy Blue"; "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" |
| Ferlinghetti, Lawrence | A Coney Island of the Mind |
| Freneau, Philip | "The British Prison Ship"; "On the Memorable Victory" |
| Frost, Robert | "Mending Wall"; "Birches"; "The Road Not Taken"; "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"; "The Death of the Hired Man"; "The Gift Outright" |
| Ginsberg, Allen | Howl and Other Poems |
| Guest, Edgar | A Heap o'Living; Life's Highway, "Home" |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell | "The Chambered Nautilus"; "The Deacon's Masterpiece"; "Old Ironsides"; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |
| Hughes, Langston | The Weary Blues; "Harlem"; "Mother to Son"; "I, Too" |
| Jeffers, Robinson | Tamar |
| Johnson, James Weldon | God's Trombones |
| Kilmer, Joyce | "Trees" |
| Lanier, Sidney | "Song of the Chattahoochee"; "Corn"; "The Marshes of Glynn"; "The Symphony" |
| Lazarus, Emma | "The New Colossus" |
| Lindsay, Vachel | "General Booth Enters Into Heaven"; "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"; The Congo and Other Poems |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Evangeline; The Courtship of Miles Standish; The Song of Hiawatha, "Paul Revere's Ride"; "The Wreck of the Hesperus"; "The Village Blacksmith" |
| Lowell, Amy | "Patterns" |
| Lowell, James Russell | The Biglow Papers; The Vision of Sir Launfal |
| Markham, Edwin | "The Man With the Hoe" |
| Masters, Edgar Lee | Spoon River Anthology |
| Millay, Edna St. Vincent | A Few Figs from Thistles; "First Fig"; "Renascence" |
| Moore, Clement C. | "A Visit from St. Nicholas" or ""Twas the Night Before Christmas" |
| Nash, Ogden | Hard Lines; You Can't Get There From Here; "Reflections on Ice Breaking" |
| Plath, Sylvia | Ariel; "Daddy"; "Medusa"; "Lady Lazarus" |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | "The Raven"; "The Bells"; "To Helen"; "Annabel Lee" |
| Sandburg, Carl | The American Songbag; "Chicago"; "Grass"; "A.E.F."; "Fog" |
| Thayer, Ernest Lawrence | "Casey at the Bat" |
| Pound, Ezra | Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, Cantos |
| Riley, James Whitcomb | The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems; "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"; "Little Orphant Annie"; "The Raggedy Man" |
| Robinson, Edwin Arlington | Collected Poems; The Man Who Died Twice; Merlin; Lancelot, Tristram; "Richard Corey"; "Miniver Cheevy"; "Mr. Flood's Party" |
| Sandburg, Carl | "Chicago"; "Fog"; "Austerlitz and Waterloo"; Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (2 volumes); Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (4 volumes) |
| Seeger, Alan | "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" |
| Wheatley, Phillis | Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral; "To His Excellency General Washington" |
| Whitman, Walt | Leaves of Grass; "Song of Myself"; "I Hear America Singing"; "O Captain! My Captain!"; "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"; "Out of the Cradle- Endlessly Rocking" |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf | "Ichabod"; "The Barefoot Boy"; "Maud Muller"; "Barbara Frietchie" |