William Blake

My mother groaned, my father wept

into the dangerous world I leapt

It's about the newborn baby

Sylvia Plath

I've eaten a bag of green apples,

boarded this train and theres no getting off

Its about being pregnant

Emily Dickinson

I heard a fly buzz--when i died--

the stillness in the room

was like the stillness in the air--

poems about death, and dying

Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow

i feel my fate in what i cannot fear.

i learn by going where i have to go.

poems about life, and being awake as the same thing

Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool, We

left school

poems repetitive with the use of We in the line before, and talks of rebellious kids 

Joy Harho

She had horses who lied

She had horses who cried in their beer

Whole poem begins with She had horses

Langston Hughes

I've known rivers;

Old ancient rivers

Poem mentions many popular rivers and compares them to other things

Venus'-Flytraps

Yusef Komunyakaa

I am five,

wading into deep

sunny grass

poem is very descriptive and told through the eyes of a 5 year old

Percy Shelley

i met a traveler from an antique land

who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert

poem is about a civilization that is covered in sand. nature always overcomes

William Wordsworth

ten thousand saw i at a glance

and tossed their head in a sprightly dance

Jesse Redmon Fauset

Better the choking sigh, the sobbing breath

than passions death!

poem is about the speaker asking if this is life? and if thats all there is?

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Dont knock at my heart little child

Poem is about a woman telling a child she can't give birth to him/her

Claude McKay

Like men, we'll face the murderous cowardous pack

pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back

poem is about fighting as hard as you can, uses words like foe, and Kinsmen

13 ways of looking at a blackbird

Wallace Stevens

The blackbird is flying,

the river must still be flowing

poem is about birds representing life/death

Charles Baudelaire

Whether its through poetry, wine or virtue, just be drunk

poem about being passionate about something

Robert hass

double mastectomy

poem about a composer who doesnt sleep with a woman because she has no breasts and she gives him a bowl of roses and bees

Carolyn Forche'

ears on the floor and everywhere.. its gross

randall jarell

when i died they washed me out of the turret with the hose

sonnett XL

edna st vincent millay

its about love, and says love, and entomb

rob frost

talks about walking around at night

frank ohara

its about lana turner collapsing

langston hughes

talks about america, kitchen tables and how beautiful he is

ezra pound

two lines, talks about strangers

lethe

hilda doolittle

poem looks like waves, and every entry begins with Nor