List of poems

This is a list of poems that have a page about them in Wikipedia.

• Aeneid - Virgil (1st century BC)
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1797 -1798)
• And did those feet in ancient time - William Blake
• Aniara (Verse novel) - Harry Martinson (1956)
• Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen (1917)
• Argonautica - Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century BC)
• Battle of Maldon (10th century)
• La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad - John Keats (1819)
• Beowulf (10th century)
• Cad Goddeu - attrib. Taliesin (6th century)
• Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning (1855)
• Dies Irae (Hymn) - Thomas of Celaeno (13th century)
• The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (1307-1321)
• Don Juan - Lord Byron (1821)
• Dream of the Rood
• Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen (1917)
• ''Endymion (1818)
• Eugene Onegin (Verse novel) - Alexander Pushkin
• The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
• Fata Morgana - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas
• Gayatrimantra (Verse from hymn)
• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Gododdin - Aneirin
• The Golden Gate (Verse novel) - Vikram Seth
• Grimnismal - attrib. Saemund
• ''Hadda be Playin' on a Jukebox - Allen Ginsberg
• Havamal
• Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
• ''High Flight - John Gillespie Magee, Junior
• The House On The Hill (poem) - Edwin Arlington Robinson 1922
• Howl - Allen Ginsberg (1955)
• The Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Carroll
• Hyperion (poem) - John Keats
• Hymn to Proserpine - Algernon Swinburne (1866)
• If - - Rudyard Kipling (C.1895)
• Iliad - attrib Homer (c. 850 BC)
• In a Station of the Metro - Ezra Pound (1913)
• In Flanders Fields - John McCrae
• Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll (1871)
• Book of Job
• ''John Gilpin - William Cowper
• Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot (19th century)
• ''Leda and the Swan - William Butler Yeats (1929)
• Lokasenna - attrib. Saemund
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot (1917)
• Mahabharata
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell William Blake (1790-1793)
• Metamorphoses - Ovid (1 AD)
• On the Nature of Things - Lucretius
• Nibelungenlied - Anon (13th century)
• Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats (1819)
• Odyssey - attrib Homer
• The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel - Nikos Kazantzakis (1938)
• Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto (1516)
• Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
• Pale Fire (Verse novel) - Vladimir Nabokov
• Pange Lingua (Hymn) - Thomas Aquinas
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning 1849
• Piers Plowman - William Langland (versions 1360-[1399]])
• ''Plutonian Ode - Allen Ginsberg
• Ramayana - Valmiki (c.250 BC)
• ''Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
• The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
• ''Roman de la Rose - Guillaume de Loris (c.1230), Jean de Meun (c.1275)
• Skirnismal attrib. Saemund
• Song of Myself - Walt Whitman - (1855)
• The Song of Roland - Roland
• Song of Solomon - Solomon
• The Shahnameh - Ferdowsi (1000)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Solomon and Saturn
• Theogony - Hesiod
• Thrymskvitha - attrib. Saemund
• Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth
• To Autumn - John Keats (1819)
• To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell
• The Triumph of Time
• Vafthruthnismal attrib. Saemund
• Voluspa attrib. Saemund
• The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats (1889)
• The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot (1922)

See also: List of poetry collections.

Where verse is set to music, the distinction between poem and song may become artificial. This is perhaps recognised in the way popular songs have lyrics: so see list of songs by name. The verse, however, may precede the tune (in the way that Rule Britannia was set to music, and And did those feet in ancient time has become the hymn Jerusalem); the tune may be lost over time but the words survive; a number of alternate tunes may fit (for some hymns and ballads this is commonly seen). Possible classifications proliferate (under anthem, ballad, blues, carol, folk song, hymn, libretto, lied, lullaby, march, praise song, spiritual). Nursery rhymes may be songs, or doggerel: the term doesn't imply a distinction. See rap, roots of rap music also, on the boundaries: verse+music against verse against verse set to music.

Verse drama might normally be judged (at its best) as poetry, but not consisting of poems. Again there are genres as far apart as masque and pantomime.

See anyway:-

• List of national anthems
  • Patriotic songs
  • Royal anthem
• Rock and roll anthems
• List of Irish ballads
• Traditional British ballads
  • Lilliburlero
  • Scarborough Fair
  • Tam Lin
  • Thomas the Rhymer
• Stagger Lee
• Lift Every Voice and Sing
• Nursery rhymes
  • Ladybird, ladybird
  • Lizzie Borden
• Green grow the rushes
• Desolation Row - Bob Dylan