List of poetry collections

The cover of T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations, published in 1917, a collection of twelve poems including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" referenced in the title

A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku). Typically the poems included in single volume of poetry, or a cycle of poems, are linked by their style or thematic material. Most poets publish several volumes of poetry through the course their life while other poets publish one (e.g. Walt Whitman's lifelong expansion of Leaves of Grass).

The notion of a "collection" differs in definition from volumes of a poet's "collected poems", "selected poems" or from a poetry anthology. Typically, a volume entitled "Collected Poems" is a compilation by a poet or an editor of a poet's work that is often both published and previously unpublished, drawn over a set span of years of the poet's work, or the entire poet's life, that represents a more complete or definitive edition of the poet's work.^[1] Comparatively, a volume titled "selected poems" often includes a small but not definitive selection of poems by a poet or editor drawn from several of the poet's collections.^[2] A poetry anthology differs in concept because it draws together works from multiple poets chosen by the anthology's editor.

By title in alphabetical order[]

Because there is often confusion as to what constitutes a "collection", the list below only includes single volumes of poetry that were published at the direction of the author as a stand-alone collection and not any compiled editions of "collected works" or "selected works."

Titles: A–C[]

A Lume Spento, by Ezra Pound (1908)

• A Boy's Will (1913) - Robert Frost
• A City Winter and Other Poems (1951) - Frank O'Hara
• "A Door Somewhere"" (2016)-Jaydeep Sarangi
• A Further Range (1936) - Robert Frost
• A Green Bough (1933) - William Faulkner
• A Lume Spento (1908) - Ezra Pound
• A Man in the Divided Sea (1946) - Thomas Merton
• A Quinzaine for This Yule (1908) - Ezra Pound
• A Remembrance Collection of New Poems (1959) - Robert Frost
• As I see it - A Poetry Collection (2015) -
• A Witness Tree (1942) - Robert Frost
• About the House (1965) -- W.H. Auden
• Adam & Eve & The City (1936) - William Carlos Williams
• Adult Bookstore (1976) - Karl Shapiro
• Advent (1898) - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Aforesaid (1954) - Robert Frost
• Agnibeena – Kazi Nazrul Islam
• Al Que Quiere! (1917) - William Carlos Williams
• An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935) - William Carlos Williams
• Another Time (1940) -- W.H. Auden
• Ariel - Sylvia Plath
• Arogyo – Rabindranath Tagore
• Auguries of Innocence – Patti Smith
• Auto Wreck (1942) - Karl Shapiro
• Babel – Patti Smith
• Bairagi Kailaka Kabitaharu (1974) – Bairagi Kainla
• Bana-Phul – Rabindranath Tagore
• Basic Heart (2009) - Renée Ashley
• Bhagna Hriday – Rabindranath Tagore
• Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali – Rabindranath Tagore
• Blood for A Stranger (1942) - Randall Jarrell
• (1954–1961) - Jack Kerouac
• Book of Haikus (posthumous, 2003) - Jack Kerouac
• Book of Psalms
• Book of Sketches (1952–1957) - Jack Kerouac
• Buah Rindu (1941) – Amir Hamzah
• Cables to the Ace (1968) - Thomas Merton
• Caedmon manuscript
• Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
• Canzoni (1911) - Ezra Pound
• The Cantos - Ezra Pound
• Cathay (1915) - Ezra Pound
• Chaitali – Rabindranath Tagore
• Chhabi O Gan – Rabindranath Tagore
• Child Whispers (1922) - Enid Blyton
• Chills and Fever (1924) - John Crowe Ransom
• Chiryaa, Titli, Phool - Tanwir Phool
• Chitra – Rabindranath Tagore
• Circling: 1978-1987 (2012) (trans. of Krugovanje: 1978-1987, 1993) - Dejan Stojanović
• City Without Walls and Other Poems (1969) -- W.H. Auden
• Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia (1948) - William Carlos Williams
• Coda: Last Poems (posthumous, 2008) - Karl Shapiro
• Come In, and Other Poems (1943) - Robert Frost
• Collective Amnesia (2017) - Koleka Putuma^[3]
• Contention of the bards - infighting among the last of the Gaelic bards in 17thC. Ireland, as their order collapsed.
• Cosmopolitan Greetings Poems: 1986–1993 (1994) - Allen Ginsberg

Titles: D–F[]

• Das Buch der Bilder (trans. The Book of Images) (1902–1906) - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Das Knaben Wunderhorn
• Das Stunden-Buch (trans. The Book of Hours) (1899-1903) - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Day by Day (1977) - Robert Lowell
• 1993–1997 (1999) - Allen Ginsberg
• Dhanu Dnyaniyaachi (2016) -
• Dictee (1982) — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
• Dramatic Lyrics — Robert Browning
• Dramatic Romances and Lyrics — Robert Browning
• Dramatis Personae — Robert Browning
• Duisener Elegien (trans. Duino Elegies) (1922) - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Dumb Instrument (1976) - Denton Welch
• Early Work – Patti Smith
• Eclogues (c. 37 BCE) – Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
• Edda, Elder Edda
• Emblems of a Season of Fury (1963) - Thomas Merton
• Empire of Dreams (1988) - Giannina Braschi
• (1961) - Allen Ginsberg
• Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems (1972) -- W.H. Auden
• Exultations (1909) - Ezra Pound
• The Exeter Book
• Feminine Gospels - Carol Ann Duffy (2002)
• First Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs 1971 - 1974 (1975) - Allen Ginsberg
• Fly by Night (1976) - Randall Jarrell
• For the Time Being (1944) -- W.H. Auden
• For the Union Dead (1964) - Robert Lowell
• Four Quartets (1943) – T. S. Eliot
• From Snow to Snow (1936) - Robert Frost

Titles: G–J[]

First edition cover of Howl and Other Poems (1956), by Allen Ginsberg

• Georgics (c. 29 BCE) – Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
• Ghumne Mechmathi Andho Manche (1969) – Bhupi Sherchan
• Gitabitan – Rabindranath Tagore
• Gitanjali (1910) – Rabindranath Tagore (also published in English as Song Offerings in 1912, for that Tagore received Nobel Prize in 1913)
• Go Go (1923) - William Carlos Williams
• Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) - Christina Rossetti
• Harmonium (1923) - Wallace Stevens
• Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems (2007)Kelly Cherry
• Heaven and Other Poems (posthumous, 1977) - Jack Kerouac
• His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968) - John Berryman
• Homage to Clio (1960) -- W.H. Auden
• Homage to Sextus Propertius (1934) - Ezra Pound
• Homeric Hymns
• How to be Drawn (2015) - Terrance Hayes
• Howl and Other Poems (1956) - Allen Ginsberg
• I Wrote This For You (2011) - Iain S. Thomas
• Ideas of Order (1936) - Wallace Stevens
• Idylls of the King – Alfred Tennyson
• Imaginations (posthumous, 1970) - William Carlos Williams
• Imitations (1961) - Robert Lowell
• In the Clearing (1962) - Robert Frost
• In the Seven Woods (1903) - W.B. Yeats
• is 5 (1926) - E. E. Cummings
• Jeevanko Chheubaata (trans. From the Bank of Life) -Suman Pokhrel
• Journey to a War (1939; verse and prose)
• Journey to Love (1955) - William Carlos Williams

Titles: K–M[]

The cover page of the 1860-61 edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass printed by the Boston firm of Thayer and Eldridge

• Kabi-Kahini – Rabindranath Tagore
• Kaddish and Other Poems (1961) - Allen Ginsberg
• Kari o Komal– Rabindranath Tagore
• Khushbu - Parveen Shakir
• Kytice (A Bouquet) – Karel Jaromír Erben
• Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820) - John Keats
• Land of Unlikeness (1944) - Robert Lowell
• Larenopfer (trans. Lares' Sacrifice) (1895) - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman (1855-1891)
• Leben und Lieder (trans. Life and Songs) (1894) - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Les Fleurs du mal – Charles Baudelaire (1857)
• Letters from Iceland (1936, verse and prose) -- W.H. Auden
• Life Studies (1959) - Robert Lowell
• Little Friend, Little Friend (1945) - Randall Jarrell
• Look, Stranger! (1936) -- W.H. Auden
• Lord Weary's Castle (1946) - Robert Lowell
• Losses (1948) - Randall Jarrell
• lot of my sister (2001) - Alison Stine
• Love Poems (Tentative Title) (1965) - Frank O'Hara
• Lunch Poems (1964) - Frank O'Hara
• Lustra (1916) - Ezra Pound
• Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798) – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Main Street and Other Poems (1917) - Joyce Kilmer
• Manasi – Rabindranath Tagore
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell – William Blake 1790-1793
• Meditations in an Emergency (1957) - Frank O'Hara
• Men and Women – Robert Browning
• Mexico City Blues (1959) - Jack Kerouac
• Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) - W.B. Yeats
• Mind Breaths (1978) - Allen Ginsberg
• Mississippi Poems (posthumous, 1979) - William Faulkner
• Mohan Koiralaka Kavita (1973) – Mohan Koirala
• Monks Pond: No. 1, 1968 (1968) - Thomas Merton
• Monokuma's Poetry Collection (2012) - Monokuma
• Monolithos – Jack Gilbert
• Mother Goose (generic for collections of nursery rhymes)
• Mountain Interval (1916) - Robert Frost
• Muna Madan - Laxmi Prasad Devkota
• My Facebook Wall (2016) -
• My Life (1980) - Lyn Hejinian

Titles: N–P[]

• Nadi – Rabindranath Tagore
• Near the Ocean (1967) - Robert Lowell
• Neue Gedichte (trans. New Poems) (1907) - Rainer Maria Rilke
• New Hampshire (1923) - Robert Frost
• Nones (1951) -- W.H. Auden
• No Thanks (1935) - E. E. Cummings
• North of Boston (1914) - Robert Frost
• Nyanyi Sunyi (1937) - Amir Hamzah
• Odes (1960) - Frank O'Hara
• Ohio Violence (2009) - Alison Stine
• Old Angel Midnight (posthumous, 1973) - Jack Kerouac
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) - T. S. Eliot
• Olney Hymns
• Opus Posthumous (posthumous, 1957) - Wallace Stevens
• Oranges: 12 pastorals (1953) - Frank O'Hara
• Our Lady Peace - Mark Van Doren
• Owl's Clover (1936) - Wallace Stevens
• Parts of a World (1942) - Wallace Stevens
• Paulicéia Desvairada (trans. "Untapped São Paulo" or "Hallucinated City") (1922) - Mário de Andrade
• Person, Place, and Thing (1942) - Karl Shapiro
• Personae (1908) - Ezra Pound
• Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962) - William Carlos Williams
• Pierrot Lunaire - Albert Giraud
• Place of Love (1943) - Karl Shapiro
• 1977–1980 (1981) - Allen Ginsberg
• Poems (1833) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Poems (1842) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Poems (1909) - William Carlos Williams
• Poems (1920) - T.S. Eliot
• Poems (1930) -- W.H. Auden
• Poems (1920) - Wilfred Owen
• Poems about God (1919) - John Crowe Ransom
• (posthumous, 1992) - Jack Kerouac
• Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) - William Wordsworth
• Poems of a Jew (1950) - Karl Shapiro
• Prabhat Samgiita (5018 songs) – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
• Prabhat Sangeet – Rabindranath Tagore
• Provenca (1910) - Ezra Pound
• Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) - T.S. Eliot

Titles: Q–S[]

First edition of Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), by John Ashbery

• Quia Pauper Amavi (1908) - Ezra Pound
• Ramprasadi (devotional songs) – Ramprasad Sen
• Ripostes (1912) - Ezra Pound
• Rubaiyat - Omar Khayyám (trans. Edward Fitzgerald)
• Sad Dust Glories: poems during work summer in woods (1975) - Allen Ginsberg
• Sagarmatha Ko Gahirai (2017) - Nawaraj Parajuli
• Salt (1992) - Renée Ashley
• San Francisco Blues (posthumous, 1991) - Jack Kerouac
• Sandhya Sangeet – Rabindranath Tagore
• Scattered Poems (posthumous, 1971) - Jack Kerouac
• Second Avenue (1960) - Frank O'Hara
• Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) - John Ashbery
• Seventh Heaven – Patti Smith
• Shaishab Sangeet – Rabindranath Tagore
• Shards of Crystal (book) - Fern G. Z. Carr
• A Shropshire Lad - A. E. Housman
• Silent Days (Cyberwit.net,2013)-Jaydeep Sarangi
• Skirrid Hill - Owen Sheers (2006)
• Sonar Tari – Rabindranath Tagore
• Songs of Experience - William Blake
• Songs of Innocence - William Blake
• Sonette an Orpheus (trans. Sonnets to Orpheus) (1922) - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for Christian Year (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2012) — Malcolm Guite ISBN 978-1848252745
• Sour Grapes (1921) - William Carlos Williams
• Spring and All (1923) - William Carlos Williams
• Spring Thunder (1924) - Mark Van Doren
• State of Love and Trust -
• Steeple Bush (1947) - Robert Frost
• Summer of Love (1911) - Joyce Kilmer
• Svipdagsmál (Old Norse)

Titles: T–V[]

• Tamerlane and Other Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
• Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974) -- W.H. Auden
• The Animal Family (1965) - Randall Jarrell
• The Antigone Poems (2014) - Marie Slaight
• The Auroras of Autumn (1950) - Wallace Stevens
• The Bat-Poet (1964) - Randall Jarrell
• The Bourgeois Poet (1964) - Karl Shapiro
• The Broken Span (1941) - William Carlos Williams
• The Cod Head (1932) - William Carlos Williams
• The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) - W.B. Yeats
• The Creator (2012) (trans. of Tvoritelj, 2000 ) - Dejan Stojanović
• The Cynic in Extremis (2018) - Jacob M. Appel
• The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954) - William Carlos Williams
• The Dolphin (1973) - Robert Lowell
• The Double Man (1941) -- W.H. Auden
• The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1973) - Allen Ginsberg
• The Fly (1942) - Karl Shapiro
• 1948–1951 (1972) - Allen Ginsberg
• The Geography of Lograire (posthumous, 1969) - Thomas Merton
• The Gingerbread Rabbit (1965) - Randall Jarrell
• The Gold Hesperidee (1935) - Robert Frost
• (2012) - Joseph D. Smith
• The Lone Striker (1933) - Robert Frost
• The Lost World (1965) - Randall Jarrell
• The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937) - Wallace Stevens
• The Marble Faun (1924) - William Faulkner
• The Mayfield Deer (1941) - Mark Van Doren
• The Mills of The Kavanaughs (1951) - Robert Lowell
• The Museum of Lost Wings (2006) - Renée Ashley
• The Old Horsefly (1993) - Karl Shapiro
• The Orators: An English Study (1932, verse and prose) -- W.H. Auden
• The Palm at the End of the Mind (posthumous, 1972) - Wallace Stevens
• The Pisan Cantos (1948) - Ezra Pound
• The Place of Love (1943) - Karl Shapiro
• The Princess: A Medley (1847) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Revisionist's Dream (2001) - Renée Ashley
• The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960) - Jack Kerouac
• The Seven League Crutches (1951) - Randall Jarrell
• The Seven Seas (1896) - Rudyard Kipling
• The Shape (2012) (trans. of Oblik, 2000 ) - Dejan Stojanović
• The Shield of Achilles (1955) -- W.H. Auden
• The Sign and Its Children (2012) (trans. of Znak i njegova deca, 2000 ) - Dejan Stojanović
• The Singing Bowl (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2013) — Malcolm Guite ISBN 978-1848255418
• The Snow Man (1921) - Wallace Stevens
• The Story-Teller - Mark Van Doren
• The Strange Islands: Poems (1957) - Thomas Merton
• The Tears of the Blind Lions (1949) - Thomas Merton
• The Tempers (1913) - William Carlos Williams
• The Tower (1928) - W.B. Yeats
• The Various Reason of Light (1998) - Renée Ashley
• The Verbs of Desiring (2010) - Renée Ashley
• The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems - W. B. Yeats (1889)
• The Wedge (1944) - William Carlos Williams
• The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) - W.B. Yeats
• The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) - W.B. Yeats
• The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations (1960) - Randall Jarrell
• Thirty Poems (1944) - Thomas Merton
• Three Stories and Ten Poems - Ernest Hemingway
• Trees and Other Poems (1914) - Joyce Kilmer
• To Square A Circle (2018) - T. K. Lee
• Transport to Summer (1947) - Wallace Stevens
• Traumgekrönt (trans. Dream-Crowned) (1897) - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Trial of a Poet (1947) - Karl Shapiro
• Tulips and Chimneys (1923) - E. E. Cummings
• Two Gentlemen in Bonds (1927) - John Crowe Ransom
• Umbra (1920) - Ezra Pound
• Vision in Spring (1921) - William Faulkner
• ViVa (1931) - E. E. Cummings
• V-Letter and Other Poems (1945) - Karl Shapiro

Titles: W–Z[]

• WAIT (2011) - Alison Stine
• West-Running Brook (1929) - Robert Frost
• White Haired Lover (1968) - Karl Shapiro
• White Shroud Poems: 1980–1985 (1986) - Allen Ginsberg
• Winter Diary (1935) - Mark Van Doren
• Witt – Patti Smith
• XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950) - E. E. Cummings
• XLI Poems (1925) - E. E. Cummings
• You Come Too (1959) - Robert Frost

Titles beginning with numbers[]

• 1 × 1 (1944) - E. E. Cummings
• 50 Poems (1940) - E. E. Cummings
• 73 Poems (1963) - E. E. Cummings (posthumous)
• 77 Dream Songs (1964) - John Berryman
• 95 Poems (1958) - E. E. Cummings
• 108 Verges Until Now - Will Inman (Carlton Press, 1964)

Titles beginning with symbols[]

• & (1925) - E. E. Cummings

See also[]

• Anthology
• Glossary of poetry terms
• History of poetry
• List of anonymously published works
• List of poems
• List of poetry anthologies
• List of poetry groups and movements
• Lists of poets
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Lists of books
• Outline of poetry
• Song cycle
• The Poetry Collection – a collection of 100,000 volumes of 20th century English-language poetry at the University of Buffalo

References[]

External links[]

• Bartleby.com - Verse: Poetry Anthologies and Tens of Thousands of Poems (includes several poetry collections)
• The Poetry Collection (at University of Buffalo libraries)