Violet Sinnarkar

Here is a selection of my favorite poems. Thanks to The Library of Congress, Poetry Foundation, Academy of American Poets and The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation for securing permission to reprint the works still under copyright.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

-Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches, p. 38

Title Author Nationality Era
Funeral Blues W.H. Auden English Modernist
The More Loving One W.H. Auden English Modernist
The Thing Is Ellen Bass American Contemporary
Epitaph to a Dog Lord Byron English Romantic
Late Fragment Raymond Carver American Contemporary
On Turning Ten Billy Collins American Modernist
Osso Buco Billy Collins American Modernist
Life Abraham Cowley English Metaphysical
You Are Tired, (I think) E.E. Cummings American Modernist
Television Roald Dahl English Contemporary
Death, be not proud John Donne English Metaphysical
No Man is an Island John Donne English Metaphysical
Desiderata Max Ehrmann American Contemporary
Ranjish Hi Sahi (Even If In Resentment) Ahmed Faraz Pakistani Contemporary
Fire and Ice Robert Frost American Modernist
Stopping By The Woods Robert Frost American Modernist
On Love Khalil Gibran Lebanese-American Modernist
On Marriage Khalil Gibran Lebanese-American Modernist
On Pleasure Khalil Gibran Lebanese-American Modernist
Those Winter Sundays Robert Haydon American Modernist
Scaffolding Seamus Heaney Irish Contemporary
Invictus William Ernest Henley English Victorian
Blur Andrew Hudgins American Contemporary
Young and Old Charles Kingsley British Victorian
If Rudyard Kipling British Victorian
The New Colossus Emma Lazarus American Romantic
The Fire of Driftwood Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Romantic
The Ladder of Saint Augustine Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Romantic
No Enemies Charles Mackay Scottish Victorian
The Lesson of the Moth Don Marquis American Modernist
To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell British Metaphysical
Ashes of Life Edna St. Vincent Millay American Modernist
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Edna St. Vincent Millay American Modernist
I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently Edna St. Vincent Millay American Modernist
Lament Edna St. Vincent Millay American Modernist
Love is Not All Edna St. Vincent Millay American Modernist
Pity Me Not Edna St. Vincent Millay American Modernist
Don't Go Far Off Pablo Neruda Chilean Contemporary
Soneto XVII Pablo Neruda Chilean Contemporary
Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines Pablo Neruda Chilean Contemporary
Next Time Mary Oliver American Contemporary
Wild Geese Mary Oliver American Contemporary
Dulce Et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen British Modernist
Her Ashwinee Panda American Contemporary
But Not Forgotten Dorothy Parker American Contemporary
I Know I Have Been Happiest Dorothy Parker American Contemporary
Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song Dorothy Parker American Contemporary
Recurrence Dorothy Parker American Contemporary
Story of Mrs. W Dorothy Parker American Contemporary
The Lady's Reward Dorothy Parker American Contemporary
Veteran Dorothy Parker American Contemporary
On Being a Woman Dorothy Parker American Contemporary
Autumn Valentine Dorothy Parker American Contemporary
Eingang (Initiation) Rainer Maria Rilke Austrian Modernist
Her Kind Anne Sexton American Confessional
Starry Night Anne Sexton American Confessional
Young Anne Sexton American Confessional
Hymn to the Penates Robert Southey British Romantic
Ozymandius Percy Bysshe Shelley British Romantic
Suicide in the Trenches Siegfried Sassoon British Modernist
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas Welsh Modernist
When You Are Old William Butler Yeats Irish Modernist

Most of Auden's work will enter the public domain in 2044. Raymond Carver's A New Path to the Waterfall will enter in 2059. Roald Dahl's work will enter in 2061.


You can read more from the authors mentioned above at these websites:

e.e. cummings free poetry archive

Dorothy Parker Society

Anniina Jokinen's Luminarium: Metaphysical Poets