Poems for Homework
Over the course of this poetry unit, you will be reading and responding to several of these poems,
which are categorized into three types below.
Sonnets:
“That Time of Year thou may’st in me Behold” – William Shakespeare (710)
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” – John Keats (746)
“Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God” – John Donne (946)
“God’s Grandeur” – Gerard Manlye Hopkins (952)
“Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds” – William Shakespeare (981)
“My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” – William Shakespeare (982)
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge” – William Wordsworth (994)
Poems of Average Difficulty:
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” – Robert Frost (674)
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” – Adrienne Rich (678)
“In The Orchard” – Muriel Stuart (690)
“The Battle”—Louis Simpson (713)
“The Word Plum”—Helen Chasin (736)
“Dover Beach” – Matthew Arnold (786) and “The Dover Bitch” (787)
“The Last Night that She Lived” – Emily Dickinson (843)
“Channel Firing” – Thomas Hardy (948)
“The Altar” – George Herbert (950)
“To an Athlete, Dying Young” – A.E. Housman (954)
“When I was one and twenty” – A.E. Housman (954)
“One Art” – Elizabeth Bishop (1005)
“The Tropics in New York” – Claude McKay (1020)
“The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” – Ezra Pound (1024)
“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” – Dylan Thomas (1034)
“Spring and All” – William Carlos Williams (1037)
“Today I am Envying the Glorious Mexicans” – Michael Blumenthal (1050)
“Homage to my hips” – Lucille Clifton (1056)
More Challenging Poems:
“My Last Duchess” – Robert Browning (688)
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” – William Wordsworth (697)
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” – William Butler Yeats (706)
“me up at does” – e.e. cummings (727)
“A Dream of Death” – William Butler Yeats (760)
“I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”—Emily Dickinson (833)
“I Died for Beauty – but was Scarce”—Emily Dickinson (841)
“Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” – John Donne (943)
“The Windhover” – Gerrd Manley Hopkins (952)
“On my First Son” – Ben Jonson (956)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” – John Keats (969)
“To His Coy Mistress”—Andrew Marvell (972)
“A Litany in Time of Plague”—John Milton (975)
“anyone lived in a pretty how town” – e.e. cummings (1008)
“Blackberrying” – Sylvia Plath
“Leda and the Swan” – William Butler Yeats (1042)
“Wild Swans at Coole” – William Butler Yeats (1041)