To create this list, I have taken the “Best Poems of All Time” meta-list and organized it chronologically. A couple of notes. First, I was unable to find exact dates for some of the poems. For purposes of chronology, I have assumed that the undated poems were written in the last year of the poet’s life or, for living poets, in the year 2014. These dates are designated with a “c.” If you can direct me to a source with the date that the poem was written or first published, I would appreciate it. For a ranked list of the best poems, with links to the actual text of each poem, go here. For a list of the best poets (organized in order of birthdate) and their best poems, go here.
2000 BCE
- The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 BCE) – Anonymous
1500 BCE
- Rig Veda (c. 1500 BCE) – Anonymous
1000 BCE
900 BCE
800 BCE
- The Iliad (c. 750 BCE) – Homer (attrib.)
- The Odyssey (c. 750 BCE) – Homer (attrib.)
700 BCE
- Theogony (c. 700 BCE) – Hesiod
- Works and Days (c. 700 BCE) – Hesiod
600 BCE
- Classic of Poetry (Book of Odes) (Shijing) (c. 600 BCE) – Anonymous
- With His Venom (c. 570 BCE) – Sappho
- Fragment 42 (c. 570 BCE) – Sappho
- Fragment 155 (c. 570 BCE) – Sappho
500 BCE
- Odes (c. 444 BCE) – Pindar
400 BCE
300 BCE
- Argonautica (Jason and the Argonauts) (c. 220 BCE) – Apollonius of Rhodes
200 BCE
- Idylls (c. 200 BCE) – Theocritus
100 BCE
- Attis (c. 65-54 BCE) – Catullus
- De Rerum Natura (On The Nature of Things) (50 BCE) – Lucretius
- Eclogues(39-38 BCE) – Virgil
- Satires (35-30 BCE) – Horace
- Georgics (37-29 BCE) – Virgil
- The Aeneid (29-19 BCE) – Virgil
- Elegies (c. 15 BCE) – Sextus Propertius
- Odes (esp. Book 1: 25 “The Young Men Come Here Less Often”) (8 BCE) – Horace
1 CE
- The Art of Love (1 CE) – Ovid
- Metamorphoses (2-8 CE) – Ovid
- Pharsalia (On The Civil War) (61-65 CE) – Lucan
100 CE
- Ramayana (c. 100 CE) – Valmiki (attrib.)
- Satires (c. 138 CE) – Juvenal
200 CE
300 CE
- Mahabharata (c. 300 CE) – Vyasa (attrib.)
400 CE
- The Cloud Messenger (Meghaduta) (c. 400 CE) – Kālidāsa
- Returning to Live in the Country (c. 427 CE) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian)
- Reading the Classic of Hills and Seas (c. 427 CE) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian)
- Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine (esp. #5) (c. 427 CE) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian)
- The Return (c. 427 CE) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian)
- Begging for Food (c. 427 CE) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian)
- On Moving House (c. 427 CE) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian)
- In The Sixth Month of 408, Fire (c. 427 CE) – Tao Yuanming (Tao Qian)
500 CE
- The Three Centuries (Satakatraya) (c. 500 CE) – Bhartrihari
600 CE
- The Hanging Poems (Mu’allaqat) (c. 550-630 CE) – Anonymous
700 CE
- Deer Park (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Farewell (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Replying To Subprefect Zhang (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- A Green Stream (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- The Bamboo Grove (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Autumn Evening in a Mountain Retreat (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Passing Hidden Fragrance Temple (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Birds Calling in the Ravine (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Drifting on the Lake (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Mourning Yin Yao (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- A Song of an Autumn Night (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- A Song of Peach Blossom River (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Huazi Ridge (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Temple Tree Path (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- At the Lake Pavilion (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- A Message from My Lodge at Wangchuan to Pei Di (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- At Parting (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Lament for Mêng Hao-Jan (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- One-Hearted (c. 759 CE) – Wang Wei
- Man’yōshū (c. 760 CE) – Anonymous
- Jade Stairs Lament (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (A Poem of Changgan) (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- A Quiet Night Thought (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Long Yearning (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Farewell to Meng Hao-Jan (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Drinking Alone in the Moonlight (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- The Moon at the Fortified Pass (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Chuang Tzu and the Butterfly (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- The Exile’s Letter (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Drinking with Someone in the Mountains (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Taking Leave of a Friend (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- On Climbing in Nan-King to the Terrace of Phoenixes (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Alone, Looking at the Mountain (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Amidst the Flowers a Jug of Wine (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Autumn River Song (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- About Du Fu (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- To Du Fu from Shantung (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Climbing West of Lotus Flower Peak (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Confessional (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Looking for a Monk and Not Finding Him (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Visiting a Taoist Priest on Tiatien Mountain (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- To Wang Lun (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- For Meng Hao-Jan (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Waking From Drunkenness on a Spring Day (c. 762 CE) – Li Bai (Li Po)
- Song of an Old Cypress (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- To My Retired Friend Wei (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- Thinking of Li Bai at the End of the Sky (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- Spring Night in the Left Office (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- Moonlit Night (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- Ballad of the Army Carts (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- A Spring View (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- Thinking of My Brothers on a Moonlit Night (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- Four Rhymes to See Off General Yan at Fenji Station (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- On Meeting Li Guinian Again, South of the River (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
- Reply to a Friend’s Advice (c. 770 CE) – Du Fu (Tu Fu)
800 CE
900 CE
- Wulf and Eadwacer (c. 960-990 CE) – Anonymous
1000
- Beowulf (c. 1000 CE) – Anonymous
- Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) (1010) – Ferdowsi
1100
- The Song of Roland (c. 1100) – Anonymous
- Dreaming of my Deceased Wife on the Night of the 20th Day of the First Month (c. 1101) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
- Impromptu Verse (“My frosty hair blows loosely in the wind”) (c. 1101) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
- Mid-Autumn Moon (c. 1101) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
- New Year’s Watch (c. 1101) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
- Visiting The Temple of Auspicious Fortune Alone on Winter Solstice (c. 1101) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
- Visiting the Temple of the God of Mercy on a Rainy Day (c. 1101) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
- Written While Drunk in Lake-View Pavilion on the 27th Day of the Sixth Month (c. 1101) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
- Remembrance (c. 1101) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
- The Immortal by the River (c. 1101) – Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
- The Assemblies of Al-Hariri (Maqamat Al-Hariri) (c. 1100-1122) – Al-Hariri of Basra
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (c. 1131) – Omar Khayyam
- To the Tune of ‘Fisherman’s Pride’ (c. 1151) – Li Qingzhao
- To the Tune of ‘Intoxicated Under the Shadow of Flowers’ (c. 1151) – Li Qingzhao
- To the Tune of ‘Like a Dream’ (c. 1151) – Li Qingzhao
- Confession (c. 1165) – Archpoet (pseud.)
- The Conference of the Birds (1177) – Attar of Nishapur (Farid Al-Din Attar)
- Perceval, The Story of the Grail (1181-1190) – Chrétien de Troyes
- Lais of Marie de France (c. 1180-1199) – Marie de France
1200
- Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) – Anonymous
- The Poem of the Cid (1195-1207) – Anonymous
- Parzifal (1200-1220) – Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Romance of the Rose, Part One (1230) – Guillaume de Lorris
- Bani Adam (All Human Beings Are In Truth Akin) (1258) – Saadi Shirazi (Sa’di)
- Bustan (Bostan) (The Orchard) (1257) – Saadi Shirazi (Sa’di)
- Gulistan (Golestan) (The Rose Garden) (1258) – Saadi Shirazi (Sa’di)
- Birdsong (c. 1273) – Jalalu’l-din Rumi
- A Stone I Died (c. 1273) – Jalalu’l-din Rumi
- Come, Come, Whoever You Are (c. 1273) – Jalalu’l-din Rumi
- At the Twilight (c. 1273) – Jalalu’l-din Rumi
- Romance of the Rose, Part Two (1275) – Jean de Meun
- The New Life (1295) – Dante Alighieri
1300
- Song of Govinda (Gita Govinda) (c. 1300) – Jayadeva
- The Divine Comedy (1265-1321) – Dante Alighieri
- Meditation on the Past at Tong Pass (c. 1329) – Zhang Yanghao
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1350) – Anonymous
- Sonnets To Laura In Life 109 (“Alas, When Love Makes His Assaults on Me”) (c. 1374) – Petrarch
- Sonnets To Laura In Life 156 (“I Saw Angelic Virtue on Earth”) (c. 1374) – Petrarch
- O Beautiful Wine Bearer, Bring Forth the Cup (Ghazal 1) (c. 1385) – Hafez
- That Beautiful Shirazi Turk, Took Control and My Heart Stole (Ghazal 5) (c. 1385) – Hafez
- Where Is My Ruined Life? (Ghazal 12) (c. 1385) – Hafez
- Last Night, As Half Asleep I Dreaming Lay (Ghazal 44) (c. 1385) – Hafez
- Wild Deer (c. 1385) – Hafez
- Rubaiyat 1 (“Nothing Comes in our Eyes except Your Face”) (c. 1385) – Hafez
- Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1385) – Geoffrey Chaucer
- Piers Plowman (c. 1386) – William Langland
1400
- The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387-1400) – Geoffrey Chaucer
- Adam Lay I-Bowndyn (Adam Lay Ybounden) (c. 1400) – Anonymous
- I Syng of A Mayden (As Dew In April) (c. 1400) – Anonymous
- The Unquiet Grave (Child Ballad No. 78) (c. 1400) – Anonymous
- Orlando Innamorato (c. 1494) – Matteo Maria Boiardo
1500
- To Mistress Margaret Hussey (1523) – John Skelton
- Western Wind (Westron Wynde) (c. 1530) – Anonymous
- Orlando Furioso (1532) – Ludovico Ariosto
- Whoso List To Hunt (c. 1542) – Sir Thomas Wyatt
- They Flee From Me (c. 1542) – Sir Thomas Wyatt
- The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken (c. 1542) – Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Epic of Layla and Majnun (Dâstân-I Leylî Vü Mecnun) (c. 1556) – Fużūlī
- Tichborne’s Elegy (1586) – Chidiock Tichborne
- Astrophel and Stella (1591) – Philip Sidney
- The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (1592) – Walter Raleigh
- The Lie (1592) – Walter Raleigh
- The Passionate Shepherd To His Love (c. 1593) – Christopher Marlowe
- The Burning Babe (1595) – Robert Southwell
- The Faerie Queen (1590, 1596) – Edmund Spenser
- A Fairy Song (From A Midsummer Night’s Dream) (1596) – William Shakespeare
- My Love Is Like To Ice, and I To Fire (c. 1599) – Edmund Spenser
- All The World’s A Stage (The Seven Ages of Man) (From As You Like It) (1599) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 138 (“When My Love Swears She Is Made of Truth”) (1599) – William Shakespeare
1600
- Summer’s Last Will And Testament: Spring (1600) – Thomas Nashe
- Tom O’ Bedlam (Tom O’ Bedlam’s Song) (c. 1600) – Anonymous
- Sir Patrick Spens (Child Ballad No. 58) (c. 1600) – Anonymous
- The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage (1603) – Walter Raleigh
- Sonnet 1 (“From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 12 (“When I Do Count The Clock That Tells The Time”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 18 (“Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 20 (“A Woman’s Face With Nature’s Own Hand Painted”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 29 (“When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men’s Eyes”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 30 (“When To The Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 55 (“Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 65 (“Since Neither Brass Nor Stone”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 71 (“No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 73 (“That Time of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 76 (“Why Is My Verse So Barren of New Pride”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 94 (“They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 106 (“When In The Chronicle of Wasted Time”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 107 (“Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 116 (“Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 127 (“In The Old Age Black Was Counted Fair”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 129 (“The Expense of Spirit In A Waste of Shame”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 130 (“My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 146 (“Pour Soul, The Centre of My Sinful Earth”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 147 (“My Love Is A Fever, Longing Still”) (1609) – William Shakespeare
- Holy Sonnets No. 7 (“At The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners”) (1609) – John Donne
- Holy Sonnets No. 10 (“Death Be Not Proud”) (1609) – John Donne
- Holy Sonnets No. 14 (“Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God”) (1609) – John Donne
1610
- Holy Sonnets No. 1 (“Thou Has Made Me, And Shall Thy Work Decay”) (1609-1611) – John Donne
- The Three Ravens (Child Ballad No. 26) (c. 1611) – Anonymous
- Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward (1613) – John Donne
- Song To Celia (“Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes”) (1616) – Ben Jonson
- On My First Son (1616) – Ben Jonson
- To Penshurst (1616) – Ben Jonson
1620
- Rose-Cheeked Laura (c. 1620) – Thomas Campion
- Lord Randall (c. 1629) – Anonymous
- On The Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629) – John Milton
1630
- Holy Sonnets No. 5 (“I Am A Little World Made Cunningly”) (c. 1631) – John Donne
- Song (“Go and Catch a Falling Star”) (c. 1631) – John Donne
- The Good-Morrow (c. 1631) – John Donne
- The Anniversary (c. 1631) – John Donne
- The Canonization (c. 1631) – John Donne
- The Ecstasy (c. 1631) – John Donne
- The Flea (c. 1631) – John Donne
- The Funeral (c. 1631) – John Donne
- The Sun Rising (c. 1631) – John Donne
- A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (c. 1631) – John Donne
- Woman’s Constancy (c. 1631) – John Donne
- L’Allegro (1631) – John Milton
- Il Penseroso (1631) – John Milton
- The Collar (1633) – George Herbert
- The Pulley (1633) – George Herbert
- Easter Wings (1633) – George Herbert
- Jordan (1633) – George Herbert
- Redemption (1633) – George Herbert
- Virtue (1633) – George Herbert
- Bitter-Sweet (1633) – George Herbert
- Lycidas (1637) – John Milton
- To John Donne (c. 1637) – Ben Jonson
- Orsames’ Song (“Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?”) (from Aglaura) (1638) – Sir John Suckling
1640
- To My Inconstant Mistress (c. 1640) – Thomas Carew
- To Althea, From Prison (1642) – Richard Lovelace
- The Argument of His Book (1648) – Robert Herrick
- Upon Julia’s Clothes (1648) – Robert Herrick
- Delight in Disorder (1648) – Robert Herrick
- To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time (1648) – Robert Herrick
- Corinna’s Going A-Maying (1648) – Robert Herrick
- To Lucasta, Going To The Wars (1649) – Richard Lovelace
1650
- The Retreat (1650) – Henry Vaughan
- They Are All Gone into the World of Light (1655) – Henry Vaughan
- Sonnet XVIII. On The Late Massacre in Piedmont (1655) – John Milton
- Sonnet XIX. On His Blindness (1655) – John Milton
- Sonnet XXIII. On His Deceased Wife (1656) – John Milton
1660
- Paradise Lost (1667) – John Milton
- An Exequy To His Matchless, Never-To-Be-Forgotten Friend (c. 1669) – Henry King
- Exequy on his Wife (c. 1669) – Henry King
1670
- Paradise Regained (1671) – John Milton
- To My Dear and Loving Husband (c. 1672) – Anne Bradstreet
- To Daffodils (c. 1674) – Robert Herrick
- To His Coy Mistress (c. 1678) – Andrew Marvell
- Bermudas (c. 1678) – Andrew Marvell
- The Definition of Love (c. 1678) – Andrew Marvell
- The Garden (c. 1678) – Andrew Marvell
- Mac Flecknoe (c. 1678) – John Dryden
1680
- To The Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684) – John Dryden
- A Song For St. Cecilia’s Day (1687) – John Dryden
- Song (“Go, Lovely Rose”) (c. 1687) – Edmund Waller
1690
- An Old Pond (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- First Day of Spring (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Four Haiku (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- A Bee (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- The Dragonfly (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Fleas, Lice (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- A Caterpillar (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- A Cicada Shell (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- What Fish Feel (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- A Wild Sea (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Spring Rain (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Autumn Moonlight (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- First Snow (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Winter Solitude (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Winter Garden (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Stillness (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- The Oak Tree (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- A Field of Cotton (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Awake at Night (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Moonlight Slanting (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- The Clouds Come and Go (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- How Admirable (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Won’t You Come and See (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- None Is Travelling (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Don’t Imitate Me (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
- Bashō’s Death Poem (c. 1694) – Matsuo Bashō
1700
- A Description of the Morning (1709) – Jonathan Swift
1710
- Essay on Criticism (1711) – Alexander Pope
- The Rape of the Lock (1712) – Alexander Pope
1720
1730
- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1734) – Alexander Pope
1740
- Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes (1747) – Thomas Gray
- The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) – Samuel Johnson
1750
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) – Thomas Gray
1760
- The Beautiful Night (1768) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1770
- The Deserted Village (1770) – Oliver Goldsmith
- Olney Hymn 35 (“Light Shining Out of Darkness”) (1779) – William Cowper
1780
- The Erlking (1782) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- To the Evening Star (1783) – William Blake
- Buying Leeks (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- A Bat Flits (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Ploughing the Land (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Washing the Hoe (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Straw Sandal Half Sunk (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- The Behavior of the Pigeon (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Calligraphy of Geese (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- His Holiness the Abbot (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- He’s on the Porch (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Coolness (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Hokku Poems in Four Seasons (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- The Spring Sea Rising (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- The End of Spring (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Early Summer Rain (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Harvest Moon (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- The Willow Leaves Fallen (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Haiku (The Winter River…) (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Dawn (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Not Quite Dark Yet (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Evening Wind (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Blown from the West (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Lighting One Candle (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- My Arm for a Pillow (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Sparrow Singing (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- They End Their Flight (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Before The White Chrysanthemum (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Blow of an Ax (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Old Well (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju (c. 1784) – Yosa Buson
- On Being Brought from Africa to America (c. 1784) – Phillis Wheatley
- On Imagination (c. 1784) – Phillis Wheatley
- To S. M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works (c. 1784) – Phillis Wheatley
- On Virtue (c. 1784) – Phillis Wheatley
- Ode To Joy (1785) – Friedrich Schiller
- Holy Willie’s Prayer (1785) – Robert Burns
- To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough (1785) – Robert Burns
- John Anderson My Jo (1789) – Robert Burns
- The Lamb (1789) – William Blake
- The Little Black Boy (1789) – William Blake
- The Chimney Sweeper (1789) – William Blake
- A Cradle Song (1789) – William Blake
1790
- The Clod and the Pebble (1794) – William Blake
- Holy Thursday (1794) – William Blake
- The Sick Rose (1794) – William Blake
- The Tyger (1794) – William Blake
- The Garden of Love (1794) – William Blake
- London (1794) – William Blake
- A Poison Tree (1794) – William Blake
- My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose (1794) – Robert Burns
- Nearness of the Beloved (1795) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Farewell (1797) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Glove (1797) – Friedrich Schiller
- Kubla Khan (1797) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Frost at Midnight (1798) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798) – William Wordsworth
1800
- Lucy Gray (1800) – William Wordsworth
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (1802) – William Wordsworth
- London, 1802 (1802) – William Wordsworth
- Dejection: An Ode (1802) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Mock On, Mock On! Voltaire, Rousseau (1800-1803) – William Blake
- Auguries of Innocence (1803) – William Blake
- Archimedes (c. 1805) – Friedrich Schiller
- Evening (c. 1805) – Friedrich Schiller
- The Artists (c. 1805) – Friedrich Schiller
- Daffodils (“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”) (1807) – William Wordsworth
- The World Is Too Much With Us (1807) – William Wordsworth
- My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold (1807) – William Wordsworth
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood (1807) – William Wordsworth
- Resolution and Independence (1807) – William Wordsworth
- The Solitary Reaper (1807) – William Wordsworth
1810
- Jerusalem (“And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time”) (1804-1810) – William Blake
- She Walks In Beauty (1814) – George Gordon, Lord Byron
- The Destruction of Sennacherib (1815) – George Gordon, Lord Byron
- On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer (1816) – John Keats
- Endymion (1817) – John Keats
- So, We’ll Go No More A-Roving (1817) – George Gordon, Lord Byron
- When We Two Parted (1817) – George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Thanatopsis (1817) – William Cullen Bryant
- When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be (1818) – John Keats
- At Midnight Hour (1818) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Ozymandias (1818) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Stanzas Written In Dejection – December 1818, Near Naples (1818) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ode to the West Wind (1819) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- England in 1819 (1819) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Masque of Anarchy (1819) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819) – John Keats
- Ode on Melancholy (1819) – John Keats
- Ode to a Nightingale (1819) – John Keats
- Ode to Psyche (1819) – John Keats
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1819) – John Keats
- To Autumn (1819) – John Keats
- Bright Star (1819) – John Keats
1820
- Love’s Philosophy (1820) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- To A Skylark (1820) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Eve of St. Agnes (c. 1821) – John Keats
- Music, When Soft Voices Die (1821) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821) – Percy Bysshe Shelley
- To A Waterfowl (1821) – William Cullen Bryant
- Don Juan (1824) – George Gordon, Lord Byron
- All The Time I Pray To Buddha (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- The Snow Is Melting (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Even with Insects (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Writing Shit about New Snow (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- A Cuckoo Sings (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- I’m Going Out (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- How Much (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Don’t Know about the People (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Ducks Bobbing on the Water (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Even on the Smallest Islands (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Blossoms at Night (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- In This World (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- With My Father (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- It Once Happened (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Pissing in the Snow (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Last Time, I Think (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- That Pretty Girl (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Summer Night (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Windy Fall (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Seen (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- New Year’s Morning (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- The Crow (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- Don’t Worry, Spiders (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- A Bath When You’re Born (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- In Spring Rain (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- A Huge Frog and I (c. 1828) – Kobayashi Issa
- I Loved You (1829) – Alexander Pushkin
- Alone (1829) – Edgar Allan Poe
1830
- Mariana (1830) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- To Helen (1831) – Edgar Allan Poe
- Mignon’s Longing (c. 1832) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Permanence in Change (c. 1832) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Fisherman (c. 1832) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Dance of Death (c. 1832) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Eugene Onegin (1825-1832) – Alexander Pushkin
- Ulysses (1833) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Lotos-Eaters (1833) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Abou Ben Adhem (1834) – James Henry Leigh Hunt
- The Canti (1835) – Giacomo Leopardi
- Break, Break, Break (1835) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Concord Hymn (1836) – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A Psalm of Life (1838) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1840
- The Snow-Storm (1841) – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sic Vita (1841) – Henry David Thoreau
- The Demon (1829-1841) – Mikhail Lermontov
- The Village Blacksmith (1842) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- My Last Duchess (1842) – Robert Browning
- Home-Thoughts, From Abroad (1845) – Robert Browning
- I Am (1845) – John Clare
- The Arrow And The Song (1845) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Raven (1845) – Edgar Allan Poe
- Sonnets from the Portuguese 14 (“If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Nought”) (1845-1846) – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Sonnets from the Portuguese 43 (“How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways”) (1845-1846) – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Remembrance (1846) – Emily Brontë
- The Rhodora (1847) – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Annabel Lee (1849) – Edgar Allan Poe
- A Dream within a Dream (1849) – Edgar Allan Poe
1850
- The Blessed Damozel (1850) – Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- The Prelude (1850) – William Wordsworth
- The Eagle (1851) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Thee, Thee, Only Thee (c. 1852) – Thomas Moore
- Tis The Last Rose of Summer (c. 1852) – Thomas Moore
- The Meeting of the Waters (c. 1852) – Thomas Moore
- Oft in the Stilly Night (c. 1852) – Thomas Moore
- The Scholar Gipsy (1853) – Matthew Arnold
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Echo (1854) – Christina Rossetti
- Two in the Campagna (1855) – Robert Browning
- Song of Myself (1855) – Walt Whitman
- In An Artist’s Studio (1856) – Christina Rossetti
- Carrion (A Carcass) (1857) – Charles Baudelaire
- Invitation to a Voyage (1857) – Charles Baudelaire
- The Chambered Nautilus (1858) – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- My Lost Youth (1858) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Goblin Market (1859) – Christina Rossetti
- Jenny Kiss’d Me (c. 1859) – James Henry Leigh Hunt
1860
- To You (1860) – Walt Whitman
- The Latest Decalogue (c. 1861) – Arthur Hugh Clough
- Say Not The Struggle Naught Availeth (c. 1861) – Arthur Hugh Clough
- Hymn to Beauty (1861) – Charles Baudelaire
- Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861) – Julia Ward Howe
- A Birthday (1861) – Christina Rossetti
- Remember (1862) – Christina Rossetti
- Up-Hill (1862) – Christina Rossetti
- Song (1862) – Christina Rossetti
- The Children’s Hour (1863) – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (c. 1864) – Walter Savage Landor
- Rose Aylmer (c. 1864) – Walter Savage Landor
- Dirce (c. 1864) – Walter Savage Landor
- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher (c. 1864) – Walter Savage Landor
- Piers Plowman (c. 1864) – Walter Savage Landor
- First Love (c. 1864) – John Clare
- Barbara Frietchie (1864) – John Greenleaf Whittier
- O Captain! My Captain! (1865) – Walt Whitman
- When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom’d (1865) – Walt Whitman
- Snowbound (1866) – John Greenleaf Whittier
- When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer (1867) – Walt Whitman
- I Hear America Singing (1867) – Walt Whitman
- Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me (1867) – Walt Whitman
- Whoever You Are Now Holding Me Now in Hand (1867) – Walt Whitman
- Dirge for Two Veterans (1867) – Walt Whitman
- The Runner (1867) – Walt Whitman
- Dover Beach (1867) – Matthew Arnold
- Rhyme? and Reason? (Phantasmagoria) (1869) – Lewis Carroll
1870
- The Earthly Paradise (1868-1870) – William Morris
- The Sleeper in the Valley (1870) – Arthur Rimbaud
- Sensation (1870) – Arthur Rimbaud
- Romance (1870) – Arthur Rimbaud
- The Drunken Boat (1871) – Arthur Rimbaud
- The Owl and the Pussycat (1871) – Edward Lear
- Jabberwocky (1871) (from Through The Looking Glass) – Lewis Carroll
- As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days (1871) – Walt Whitman
- President Lincoln’s Burial Hymn (1871) – Walt Whitman
- Song of the Redwood Tree (1874) – Walt Whitman
- Invictus (1875) – William Ernest Henley
- The Hunting of the Snark (1876) – Lewis Carroll
- God’s Grandeur (1877) – Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Windhover (1877) – Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Pied Beauty (1877) – Gerard Manley Hopkins
- A Forsaken Garden (1878) – Algernon Charles Swinburne
1880
- Spring And Fall: To A Young Child (1880) – Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Felix Randal (1880) – Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Requiem (1880) – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Inversnaid (1881) – Gerard Manley Hopkins
- A Clear Midnight (1882) – Walt Whitman
- In Paths Untrodden (1882) – Walt Whitman
- Shut Not Your Doors (1882) – Walt Whitman
- A Noiseless Patient Spider (1882) – Walt Whitman
- Days (c. 1882) – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Carrion Comfort (1885) – Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Old Ironsides (1885) – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The End of Satan (Et Nox Facta Es) (1886) – Victor Hugo
- Success Is Counted Sweetest (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- ‘Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- There’s A Certain Slant of Light (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- The Soul Selects Her Own Society (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- A Bird Came Down The Walk (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- I Heard A Fly Buzz – When I Died (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Because I Could Not Stop For Death (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- A Narrow Fellow in the Grass (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- I’m Nobody! Who Are You? (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Wild Nights! Wild Nights! (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- This Is My Letter to the World (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- As Imperceptibly As Grief (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- The Bible Is An Antique Volume (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Fame Is A Bee (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- I Like A Look of Agony (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- I Never Lost As Much But Twice (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- I Reckon – When I Count At All (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- I Would Not Paint – A Picture (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- A Little Over [or, East of] Jordan (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- My Life Had Stood – A Loaded Gun (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- On A Columnar Self (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- The Bustle in a House (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Publication Is The Auction (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Renunciation Is A Piercing Virtue (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- A Route of Evanescence (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Split The Lark and You’ll Find the Music (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- They Shut Me Up in Prose (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- I Cannot Live With You (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- If Those I Loved Were Lost (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- There Is Another Sky (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- “Why Do I Love” You, Sir? (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- “Faith” Is A Fine Invention (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- To Hear An Oriole Sing (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Ample Make This Bed (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- This Grass So Little Has To Do (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- One Need Not Be A Chamber – To Be Haunted (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Surgeons Must Be Very Careful (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- To Fight Aloud, Is Very Brave (c. 1886) – Emily Dickinson
- Crossing the Bar (1889) – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin (c. 1889) – Robert Browning
1890
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1890) – W.B. Yeats
- Evil (c. 1891) – Arthur Rimbaud
- The Seekers of Lice (c. 1891) – Arthur Rimbaud
- A Winter Dream (c. 1891) – Arthur Rimbaud
- Dance of The Hanged Men (c. 1891) – Arthur Rimbaud
- Ophelia (c. 1891) – Arthur Rimbaud
- Good-Bye My Fancy! (1891) – Walt Whitman
- When You Are Old (1892) – W.B. Yeats
- Gunga Din (1892) – Rudyard Kipling
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (c. 1892) – Walt Whitman
- To A Locomotive in Winter (c. 1892) – Walt Whitman
- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night (c. 1892) – Walt Whitman
- Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae (1894) – Ernest Dowson
- In the Desert (1895) – Stephen Crane
- A Shropshire Lad II (“Loveliest of Trees The Cherry Now”) (1896) – A.E. Housman
- A Shropshire Lad XIX (To An Athlete Dying Young) (1896) – A.E. Housman
- A Shropshire Lad LIV (“With Rue My Heart Is Laden”) (1896) – A.E. Housman
- A Shropshire Lad LXII (“Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff”) (1896) – A.E. Housman
- Recessional (1897) – Rudyard Kipling
- Richard Cory (1897) – Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Luke Havergal (1897) – Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Three Sunsets (1898) – Lewis Carroll
- Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1899) – W.B. Yeats
1900
- The Darkling Thrush (1901) – Thomas Hardy
- The Ruined Maid (1901) – Thomas Hardy
- The Man He Killed (1902) – Thomas Hardy
- A Mountain Village (c. 1902) – Masaoka Shiki
- A Hollyhock (c. 1902) – Masaoka Shiki
- Night (c. 1902) – Masaoka Shiki
- A Quart of Phlegm (c. 1902) – Masaoka Shiki
- For Love and For Hate (c. 1902) – Masaoka Shiki
- Waiting for the Barbarians (1904) – Constantine P. Cavafy
- Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes (1904) – Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Highwayman (1906) – Alfred Noyes
- The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907) – Robert William Service
- To Mother (1907) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- Self-Portrait (Retrato) (1908) – Antonio Machado
- In Paris (1909) – Marina Tsvetaeva
1910
- Miniver Cheevy (1910) – Edwin Arlington Robinson
- If (1910) – Rudyard Kipling
- The Way Through The Woods (1910) – Rudyard Kipling
- Endless Time (Gitanjali #1) (1910) – Rabindranath Tagore
- A Moment’s Indulgence (Gitanjali #5) (1910) – Rabindranath Tagore
- The Lotus (Gitanjali #20) (1910) – Rabindranath Tagore
- The City (1910) – Constantine P. Cavafy
- The Goat (1910) – Umberto Saba
- Ithaka (1911) – Constantine P. Cavafy
- Leisure (1911) – W.H. Davies
- The Listeners (1912) – Walter de la Mare
- Susie Asado (1912) – Gertrude Stein
- The Gardener #38 (“My Love Once Upon A Time”) (1913) – Rabindranath Tagore
- Silver (1913) – Walter de la Mare
- Zone (1913) – Guillaume Apollinaire
- A Station of the Metro (1913) – Ezra Pound
- Trees (1913) – Joyce Kilmer
- For My Poems, Written So Young (1913) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- You Walk, Looking Just Like Me (1913) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- Chicago (1914) – Carl Sandburg
- The Soldier (1914) – Rupert Brooke
- Tender Buttons (1914) – Gertrude Stein
- Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries (1914) – A.E. Housman
- Mending Wall (1914) – Robert Frost
- After Apple-Picking (1914) – Robert Frost
- The Convergence of the Twain (1914) – Thomas Hardy
- The Voice (1914) – Thomas Hardy
- Channel Firing (1914) – Thomas Hardy
- In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ (1915) – Thomas Hardy
- Spoon River Anthology (1915) – Edgar Lee Masters
- Peter Quince at the Clavier (1915) – Wallace Stevens
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) – T.S. Eliot
- The Girlfriend (cycle) (1914-1915) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- Where Does Such Tenderness Come From? (1916) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- The Trees of My Childhood (1916) – Edith Sodergran
- Break of Day in the Trenches (1916) – Isaac Rosenberg
- Danse Russe (1916) – William Carlos Williams
- Fog (1916) – Carl Sandburg
- The Garden (1916) – Ezra Pound
- The Road Not Taken (1916) – Robert Frost
- An Old Man’s Winter Night (1916) – Robert Frost
- Birches (1916) – Robert Frost
- Out, Out (1916) – Robert Frost
- The Oven Bird (1916) – Robert Frost
- Patterns (1916) – Amy Lowell
- Easter 1916 (1916) – W.B. Yeats
- The Wild Swans at Coole (1917) – W.B. Yeats
- Afterwards (1917) – Thomas Hardy
- During Wind and Rain (1917) – Thomas Hardy
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1917) – Wallace Stevens
- La Figlia Che Piange (1917) – T.S. Eliot
- Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (1917) – E.E. Cummings
- Dulce et Decorum Est (1917) – Wilfred Owen
- Anthem for Doomed Youth (1917) – Wilfred Owen
- Strange Meeting (1918) – Wilfred Owen
- The Fish (1918) – Marianne Moore
- The Twelve (1918) – Alexander Blok
- Grass (1918) – Carl Sandburg
- Piano (1918) – D.H. Lawrence
- Anecdote of the Jar (1919) – Wallace Stevens
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (1919) – W.B. Yeats
- Poetry (1919) – Marianne Moore
1920
- The Necklace (“Take From My Palms”) (1920) – Osip Mandelstam
- Preludes (1920) – T.S. Eliot
- Sweeney Among The Nightingales (1920) – T.S. Eliot
- The Second Coming (1920) – W.B. Yeats
- I Carry Your Heart with Me (1920) – E.E. Cummings
- Mother to Son (1920) – Langston Hughes
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1920) – Langston Hughes
- Mr. Flood’s Party (1921) – Edwin Arlington Robinson
- The Snow Man (1921) – Wallace Stevens
- Tea at the Palaz of Hoon (1921) – Wallace Stevens
- The Emperor of Ice Cream (1922) – Wallace Stevens
- Design (1922) – Robert Frost
- The Waste Land (1922) – T.S. Eliot
- First Fig (1922) – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Gray Hair (1922) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- The Window (1923) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- Dialogue Between Hamlet and His Conscience (1923) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- You Who Loved Me with the Falseness (1923) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- Shine, Perishing Republic (1923) – Robinson Jeffers
- Fire and Ice (1923) – Robert Frost
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) – Robert Frost
- Duino Elegies (1912-1923) – Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Red Wheelbarrow (1923) – William Carlos Williams
- Snake (1923) – D.H. Lawrence
- Sunday Morning (1923) – Wallace Stevens
- Piazza Piece (1924) – John Crowe Ransom
- Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter (1924) – John Crowe Ransom
- The Eye (1925) – Robinson Jeffers
- The Deer Lay Down Their Bones (1925) – Robinson Jeffers
- The Hollow Men (1925) – T.S. Eliot
- Suicide’s Note (1925) – Langston Hughes
- Voyages (1921-1926) – Hart Crane
- Since Feeling Is First (1926) – E.E. Cummings
- Ars Poetica (1926) – Archibald MacLeish
- Journey of the Magi (1927) – T.S. Eliot
- Gypsy Ballads (1927) – Federico García Lorca
- Acquainted with the Night (1928) – Robert Frost
- Leda and the Swan (1928) – W.B. Yeats
- Sailing to Byzantium (1928) – W.B. Yeats
- Dead Water (1928) – Wen Yiduo
- Conversation with a Genius (1928) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- Mack the Knife (1928) – Bertolt Brecht
- Ode to the Confederate Dead (1928) – Allen Tate
1930
- The Bridge (1930) – Hart Crane
- Seven-Sided Poem (1930) – Carlos Drummond de Andrade
- Autopsychography (1931) – Fernando Pessoa
- O Lord, Help Me To Live Through This Night (1931) – Osip Mandelstam
- Sonnet XLI (“I, Being Born A Woman and Distressed”) (1931) – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (1932) – Mary Elizabeth Frye
- Bavarian Gentians (1932) – D.H. Lawrence
- The Ship of Death (1933) – D.H. Lawrence
- To Be Great, To Be Whole (1933) – Fernando Pessoa
- The Stalin Epigram (1933) – Osip Mandelstam
- The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower (1933) – Dylan Thomas
- The Idea of Order at Key West (1934) – Wallace Stevens
- This Is Just To Say (1934) – William Carlos Williams
- The Yachts (1935) – William Carlos Williams
- The Steeplejack (1935) – Marianne Moore
- Mythistorema (1935) – George Seferis
- Walking Around (1935) – Pablo Neruda
- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (1935) – Federico García Lorca
- The Unfaithful Wife (c. 1936) – Federico García Lorca
- Provide, Provide (1937) – Robert Frost
- Perched on Nothing’s Branch (1922-1937) – Attila József
- I Am Writing to You from a Far-off Country (1938) – Henri Michaux
- Black Stone Lying on a White Stone (c. 1938) – Cesar Vallejo
- Bagpipe Music (1938) – Louis MacNeice
- Funeral Blues (1938) – W.H. Auden
- Musée des Beaux Arts (1938) – W.H. Auden
- Among School Children (c. 1939) – W.B. Yeats
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion (c. 1939) – W.B. Yeats
- Lapis Lazuli (For Henry Clifton) (c. 1939) – W.B. Yeats
- No Second Troy (c. 1939) – W.B. Yeats
1940
- Requiem (1935-1940) – Anna Akhmatova
- Lullaby (1940) – W.H. Auden
- In Memory of W.B. Yeats (1940) – W.H. Auden
- Don’t Ask Me For That Love Again (1941) – Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- What Are Years? (1941) – Marianne Moore
- Little World (c. 1941) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- The Demon in Me (c. 1941) – Marina Tsvetaeva
- The Most of It (1942) – Robert Frost
- The Gift Outright (1942) – Robert Frost
- The Pleasures of the Door (1942) – Francis Ponge
- And Suddenly It’s Evening (1942) – Salvatore Quasimodo
- My Papa’s Waltz (1942) – Theodore Roethke
- Lessons of the War: 1. Naming of Parts (1942) – Henry Reed
- Canto General (1943) – Pablo Neruda
- The Mind Is An Enchanting Thing (1944) – Marianne Moore
- Nevertheless (1944) – Marianne Moore
- Vergissmeinnicht (c. 1944) – Keith Douglas
- A Song on the End of the World (1944) – Czeslaw Milosz
- Dedication (1945) – Czeslaw Milosz
- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (1945) – Randall Jarrell
- The Mother (1945) – Gwendolyn Brooks
- Fern Hill (1945) – Dylan Thomas
- Four Quartets (1945) – T.S. Eliot
- I’ve Dreamed of You So Much (1945) – Robert Desnos
- Family Portrait (1945) – Carlos Drummond de Andrade
- Guillaume Apollinaire (c. 1946) – Gertrude Stein
- Stanzas in Meditation (1946) – Gertrude Stein
- Winter Night (1946) – Boris Pasternak
- In My Craft or Sullen Art (1946) – Dylan Thomas
- The Fish (1946) – Elizabeth Bishop
- A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London (1947) – Dylan Thomas
- Directive (1947) – Robert Frost
- Angina Pectoris (1948) – Nâzim Hikmet
- Since Akkad, Since Elam, Since Sumer (1948) – Aime Cesaire
- Death Fugue (1948) – Paul Celan
- Prison Poems (Songs From A Prison Diary) (c. 1949) – Ho Chi Minh
1950
- Kinaxixi (1950) – Agostinho Neto
- Elegy for Jane (1950) – Theodore Roethke
- Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (1951) – Dylan Thomas
- Dream Deferred (1951) – Langston Hughes
- If You Forget Me (1952) – Pablo Neruda
- Carmel Point (1953) – Robinson Jeffers
- The Waking (1953) – Theodore Roethke
- I Knew a Woman (1954) – Theodore Roethke
- At the Fishhouses (1955) – Elizabeth Bishop
- Church Going (1955) – Philip Larkin
- Sunflower Sutra (1955) – Allen Ginsberg
- A Supermarket in California (1956) – Allen Ginsberg
- Howl (1956) – Allen Ginsberg
- America (1956) – Allen Ginsberg
- An Arundel Tomb (1956) – Philip Larkin
- Love Calls Us to the Things of This World (1956) – Richard Wilbur
- Radio Poem (c. 1956) – Bertolt Brecht
- I Want To Go with the One I Love (c. 1956) – Bertolt Brecht
- On the Critical Attitude (c. 1956) – Bertolt Brecht
- Parting (c. 1956) – Bertolt Brecht
- Contemplating Hell (c. 1956) – Bertolt Brecht
- The Mask of Evil (c. 1956) – Bertolt Brecht
- To Be Read in the Morning and at Night (c. 1956) – Bertolt Brecht
- United Front Song (c. 1956) – Bertolt Brecht
- What’s Bad (c. 1956) – Gottfried Benn
- The Eel (1956) – Eugenio Montale
- For John Clare (1956) – John Ashbery
- Glazunoviana (1956) – John Ashbery
- Not Waving but Drowning (1957) – Stevie Smith
- The Thought-Fox (1957) – Ted Hughes
- Paterson (1946-1958) – William Carlos Williams
- A Jellyfish (1959) – Marianne Moore
- To Axion Esti (It Is Worthy) (1959) – Odysseas Elytis
- My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow (1959) – Robert Lowell
- We Real Cool (1959) – Gwendolyn Brooks
- Matiere de Bretagne (1959) – Paul Celan
- Tenebrae (1959) – Paul Celan
- The Day Lady Died (1959) – Frank O’Hara
1960
- Brazil, January 1, 1502 (1960) – Elizabeth Bishop
- Talking in Bed (1960) – Philip Larkin
- How To Paint A Water Lily (1960) – Ted Hughes
- The Colossus (1960) – Sylvia Plath
- Babi Yar (1961) – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- Poet’s Obligation (1961) – Pablo Neruda
- Miniature (1961) – Yiannis Ritsos
- Advice to a Prophet (1961) – Richard Wilbur
- Elegy of Fortinbras (1961) – Zbigniew Herbert
- The Fly (1961) – Miroslav Holub
- Those Winter Sundays (1962) – Robert Hayden
- The Heaven of Animals (1962) – James Dickey
- Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (1962) – Nâzim Hikmet
- The Dance (1962) – William Carlos Williams
- Daddy (1962) – Sylvia Plath
- Lady Lazarus (1962) – Sylvia Plath
- The Truth The Dead Know (1962) – Anne Sexton
- Birds and Fishes (1963) – Robinson Jeffers
- A Blessing (1963) – James Wright
- Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio (1963) – James Wright
- A Word to Husbands (1964) – Ogden Nash
- Poetry (1964) – Pablo Neruda
- Dream Song 14 (1964) – John Berryman
- For the Union Dead (1964) – Robert Lowell
- The Broken Home (1964) – James Merrill
- Breyten Prays for Himself (1964) – Breyten Breytenbach
- This Is a Photograph of Me (1964) – Margaret Atwood
- Digging (1966) – Seamus Heaney
- Telephone Conversation (1967) – Wole Soyinka
- Dreams (c. 1967) – Langston Hughes
- More Light! More Light! (1967) – Anthony Hecht
- Men at Forty (1967) – Donald Justice
- Threadsuns (1968) – Paul Celan
- Song for the Last Act (1968) – Louise Bogan
- Juan’s Song (1968) – Louise Bogan
- Gretel in Darkness (1968) – Louise Glück
- The Cantos (1917-1969) – Ezra Pound
1970
- The Explosion (1970) – Philip Larkin
- Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape (1970) – John Ashbery
- The Carrier of Ladders (1970) – W.S. Merwin
- Crow’s Fall (1970) – Ted Hughes
- A Mirror (c. 1971) – Jean Follain
- Face the Animal (c. 1971) – Jean Follain
- A Girl (c. 1972) – Ezra Pound
- Under One Small Star (1972) – Wisława Szymborska
- A Kind of Loss (c. 1973) – Ingeborg Bachmann
- Aria 1 (c. 1973) – Ingeborg Bachmann
- The Envoy of Mr. Cogito (1973) – Zbigniew Herbert
- Diving into the Wreck (1973) – Adrienne Rich
- Where The Sidewalk Ends (1974) – Shel Silverstein
- Siren Song (1974) – Margaret Atwood
- Backdrop Addresses Cowboy (1974) – Margaret Atwood
- In Praise of Darkness (1974) – Jorge Luis Borges
- What Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell (1974) – Zbigniew Herbert
- I Am Root (1973-1975) – Claribel Alegría
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) – John Ashbery
- The Harvest Moon (1975) – Ted Hughes
- Funeral Rites (1975) – Seamus Heaney
- The Grauballe Man (1975) – Seamus Heaney
- The Tollund Man (1975) – Seamus Heaney
- The School Children (1975) – Louise Glück
- Love After Love (1976) – Derek Walcott
- In Praise of My Sister (1976) – Wisława Szymborska
- The Wishing Bone Cycle (1976) – Jacob Nibenegenesabe
- Epilogue (1977) – Robert Lowell
- One Art (1977) – Elizabeth Bishop
- In the Waiting Room (1977) – Elizabeth Bishop
- Syringa (1977) – John Ashbery
- The Layers (1978) – Stanley Kunitz
- “A” (1978) – Louis Zukofsky
- Phenomenal Woman (1978) – Maya Angelou
- Still I Rise (1978) – Maya Angelou
- At Blackwater Pond (1979) – Mary Oliver
- Filling Station (1979) – Elizabeth Bishop
1980
- Empire of Dreams (1980) – Charles Simic
- The Schooner ‘Flight’ (1980) – Derek Walcott
- The Season of Phantasmal Peace (1981) – Derek Walcott
- Easter Morning (1981) – A.R. Ammons
- In Memoriam Mae Noblitt (1981) – A.R. Ammons
- Old Leaves from the Chinese Earth (c. 1982) – Sadanand Rege
- The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) – James Merrill
- A Ballad of Going Down to the Store (c. 1983) – Miron Bialoszewski
- Caged Bird (1983) – Maya Angelou
- August (1983) – Mary Oliver
- A Meeting (1983) – Mary Oliver
- Parsley (1983) – Rita Dove
- Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face (1984) – Jack Prelutsky
- The Second Madrigal (c. 1984) – Anna Swir
- She Does Not Remember (c. 1984) – Anna Swir
- You Tell Us What To Do (c. 1984) – Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- Before You Came (c. 1984) – Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- Just Walking Around (1984) – John Ashbery
- Oranges (1985) – Gary Soto
- War Photographer (1985) – Carol Ann Duffy
- The Journey (1986) – Mary Oliver
- Wild Geese (1986) – Mary Oliver
- Variation on the Word Sleep (1986) – Margaret Atwood
- A Prayer That Will Be Answered (c. 1986) – Anna Kamienska
- Caedmon (1987) – Denise Levertov
- Residue (c. 1987) – Carlos Drummond de Andrade
- Don’t Kill Yourself (c. 1987) – Carlos Drummond de Andrade
- Clearances (1987) – Seamus Heaney
- I Go Back to May 1937 (1987) – Sharon Olds
- Torture Chamber (c. 1988) – Enrique Lihn
- The One Day (1988) – Donald Hall
- The Answer (1988) – Bei Dao
1990
- The End of Dodona 2 (c. 1990) – Yiannis Ritsos
- Omeros (1990) – Derek Walcott
- As Soon As Fred Gets Out of Bed (1990) – Jack Prelutsky
- Words, Wide Night (1990) – Carol Ann Duffy
- The Summer Day (1990) – Mary Oliver
- St. Sava’s Journey (c. 1991) – Vasko Popa
- When Death Comes (1992) – Mary Oliver
- Valentine (1993) – Carol Ann Duffy
- Havisham (1993) – Carol Ann Duffy
- Stuffed (1993) – Carol Ann Duffy
- The End and the Beginning (1993) – Wisława Szymborska
- Milkweed and Monarch (1994) – Paul Muldoon
- Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing (1995) – Margaret Atwood
- The Moment (1995) – Margaret Atwood
- Morning in the Burned House (1995) – Margaret Atwood
- In the Secular Night (1995) – Margaret Atwood
- The Key of Water (c. 1998) – Octavio Paz
- Zito the Magician (c. 1998) – Miroslav Holub
- A Woman Unconscious (c. 1998) – Ted Hughes
- Old Age Gets Up (c. 1998) – Ted Hughes
- Wind (c. 1998) – Ted Hughes
- Forgetfulness (1999) – Billy Collins
- Anne Hathaway (1999) – Carol Ann Duffy
- The Emptiness of Being A Man (The Emptiness of Man) (c. 1999) – João Cabral De Melo Neto
2000
- We Have Done Our Duty (c. 2000) – Yehuda Amichai
- A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention (c. 2000) – Yehuda Amichai
- My Mother Once Told Me (c. 2000) – Yehuda Amichai
- I Am Alone (c. 2001) – Léopold Sédar Senghor
- To New York (c. 2001) – Léopold Sédar Senghor
- An Improvisation for Angular Momentum (c. 2001) – A.R. Ammons
- Gravelly Run (c. 2001) – A.R. Ammons
- Hymn (c. 2001) – A.R. Ammons
2010
- The Tree, The Lamp (c. 2014) – Yves Bonnefoy
- A Sketch for a Modern Love Poem (c. 2014) – Tadeusz Rozewicz
- For the Anniversary of My Death (c. 2014) – W.S. Merwin
- Funeral Sermon, Soweto (c. 2014) – Wole Soyinka
- Ballad of the Dogs (c. 2014) – Lars Gustafsson
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