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