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A list of poetry by publication year, when accurate publication information is available. For a complete list of poems in RPO click here.

1896

  1. Cape Cod
  2. To. W. P.
  3. Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
  4. The Reformer
  5. To Julia in Shooting Togs
  6. A Song of Renunciation
  7. A Ballad of a Bun
  8. Child! do not Throw this Book about
  9. The Frog
  10. The Microbe
  11. Nuit d’été

1897

  1. The Purple Cow: Suite
  2. De Nice Leetle Canadienne
  3. How Bateese Came Home
  4. Le Vieux Temps
  5. The Wreck of the "Julie Plante"
  6. The Men We Might Have Been
  7. The Solitary Woodsman
  8. The Unnamed Lake
  9. New Year's Chimes
  10. Old Mates
  11. Sir Wilfrid Laurier -- Diplomatist
  12. Tour Abroad of Wilfrid the Great
  13. "Kaiser and Co."; or, "Hoch der Kaiser"
  14. Self
  15. The Vampire
  16. Recessional
  17. Drake's Drum
  18. Vitai Lampada
  19. A Vision out West
  20. Paysage fauve

1898

  1. By the Aurelian Wall
  2. The Onondaga Madonna
  3. The Ballad of Reading Gaol
  4. The Battle of Omdurman
  5. I Feel I'm Growing Old
  6. Little Libbie
  7. Where the Brumbies Come to Water
  8. How the Fire Queen Crossed the Swamp
  9. “Absent Friends!”
  10. Canadians
  11. The Inquest
  12. Epitaph
  13. Hap
  14. The Explorer
  15. Lilith
  16. By the Marshes of Tantramar
  17. Alone?
  18. Among the Foot-hills of the Rockies
  19. Refreshment

1899

  1. Bereavement of the Fields
  2. White Nassau
  3. A Man Said to the Universe
  4. Battle
  5. Holy Sonnets: Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear
  6. A Last Word
  7. Evening
  8. A Thunderstorm
  9. Voices of Earth
  10. We too shall Sleep
  11. Winter Evening
  12. The Song of the Darling River
  13. The Teams
  14. Little Ditties I
  15. A Channel Crossing
  16. Dead Love
  17. The Lust of the Eyes
  18. Worn Out
  19. The Good Conceit
  20. Slain
  21. An Idolator
  22. Eros
  23. Consolation
  24. The White Man's Burden
  25. The Secret Rose
  26. The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart
  27. He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
  28. An A B C, for Baby Patriots

1900

  1. I bended unto me a Bough
  2. Chicago Weather
  3. A January Morning
  4. On the Companionship with Nature
  5. A Sunset at Les Eboulements
  6. To a Millionaire
  7. Winter Uplands
  8. Song in the Songless
  9. Courage
  10. The United States to the Filipinos
  11. To Julia under Lock and Key
  12. La romance du vin
  13. Clair de lune intellectuel

1901

  1. The Beira Malaria
  2. The Parson's Grave
  3. Little Bateese
  4. The Log Jam
  5. Homeward Bound
  6. The Never-Never Country
  7. Sunrise along Shore
  8. The Skater
  9. "Less than the Dust"
  10. To the Hills!
  11. The Choice
  12. Labor’s Greeting

1902

  1. The Darkling Thrush
  2. In Tenebris
  3. The Ruined Maid
  4. The To-be-forgotten
  5. There was was a girl of Lahore
  6. There once was an old man of Lyme
  7. There was a young lady named Laura
  8. There once was an old monk of Basing
  9. The Great and Little Weavers
  10. Variations of Greek Themes. I. A Happy Man
  11. Be Still. The Hanging Gardens were a Dream
  12. Live Blindly and upon the Hour
  13. Mnemosyne
  14. Tho' Lack of Laurels and of Wreaths Not One
  15. You Say, Columbus with his Argosies
  16. Land of Hope and Glory
  17. Each in his own Tongue
  18. Requiem
  19. The Broken Men
  20. The Sailing of the Long-ships
  21. Sea-Fever
  22. Cape Horn Gospel -- I
  23. Vagabond
  24. In the Hand of the Wind

1903

  1. "I Loved Thee, Atthis, in the Long Ago"
  2. "If Death be Good"
  3. Lord of my Heart's Elation
  4. Don't Take Your Troubles to Bed
  5. How Did You Die?
  6. At the Tavern
  7. The Debt
  8. The Haunted Oak
  9. The Old Front Gate
  10. Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine)
  11. Eden
  12. Innocence
  13. Wonder
  14. Make we Mery bothe More and Lasse
  15. The Coming of Eve
  16. Le vaisseau d’or
  17. Automne
  18. Sérénade triste
  19. Soir d’hiver

1904

  1. Geert
  2. The Politician
  3. A Song before Sailing
  4. The Dinkey Bird
  5. Pittypat and Tippytoe
  6. Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
  7. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
  8. To Hannah
  9. Reliance
  10. December
  11. The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
  12. A Sestina of Memories
  13. Never give all the Heart
  14. Give my Regards to Broadway

1905

  1. The Blind Caravan
  2. The Higher Kinship
  3. Said the West Wind
  4. A Runnable Stag
  5. Rain along Shore
  6. The Forsaken
  7. Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon
  8. Rapids at Night
  9. And, the Last Day Being Come, Man Stood Alone
  10. I Hear a River thro' the Valley Wander
  11. I Used to Think
  12. Leave him now Quiet by the Way
  13. Near Helikon
  14. The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued
  15. Service
  16. Sir, Say no More
  17. Six O'Clock
  18. The Net of Memory
  19. When a Little Farm I Keep

1906

  1. "Alone"
  2. "Decalogue"
  3. "Elegy"
  4. "Freedom"
  5. "Piety"
  6. "Safety-Clutch"
  7. The Things We Dare not Tell
  8. Kwannon
  9. The Half-Breed Girl
  10. May no Man Slepe in youre Halle
  11. Inscriptions
  12. The Violin
  13. Corallina
  14. Fifth Villain

1907

  1. On the Plaza
  2. Birthday Wishes to a Physician
  3. Lynching
  4. Monition
  5. O Earth, Sufficing All our Needs
  6. Miniver Cheevy
  7. The Cremation of Sam McGee
  8. The Shooting of Dan McGrew
  9. The Song of the Wage-slave
  10. Al Nist by the Rose
  11. Ich am of Irlaunde
  12. Maiden in the Mor Lay
  13. Spende, and Gode schal Sende
  14. They say that I was in my youth
  15. Faults
  16. April on a Waggon Hill
  17. Sometimes
  18. Upon being Asked by a Reader whether the Verses Contained in this Book were True.
  19. Jim, Who Ran away from his Nurse, and was Eaten by a Lion

1908

  1. Daisy Time
  2. Nature's Epitaph
  3. Mammy
  4. Mrs. Johnson Objects
  5. A New Profession
  6. "The Guineas"

1909

  1. Burial
  2. Magwere, Who Waits Wondering
  3. The Puff-adder
  4. A Toast to the Men
  5. The Dead Man Walking
  6. The Man He Killed
  7. Autumn
  8. The Embankment
  9. The Centipede
  10. Thunder at Night
  11. The Woodlouse
  12. The Lamp of Poor Souls
  13. The Telegraph Operator
  14. The Curse
  15. On an Anniversary
  16. Queens
  17. Shelley
  18. The Wanderer

1910

  1. To the Bartholdi Statue
  2. The Statesmen
  3. The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ
  4. Stella Flammarum: An Ode to Halley's Comet
  5. Danny
  6. News
  7. Walking
  8. The Baby in the Ward
  9. Memory
  10. Baseball's Sad Lexicon
  11. No Second Troy
  12. All Things can tempt Me

1911

  1. Matthew Arnold On hearing him read his Poems in Boston
  2. Epithalamion
  3. No Coward's Song
  4. Tenebris Interlucentem
  5. To a Kaffir Baby
  6. The Seafarer
  7. The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
  8. Hymn of Joy
  9. Echoes from the Greek Anthology
  10. The Mother
  11. Union Square
  12. The Female of the Species
  13. The Everlasting Mercy
  14. Upon Julia's Clothes

1912

  1. The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
  2. The Ships of Yule
  3. Brier: Good Friday
  4. The Pilot of the Plains
  5. Shadow River: Muskoka
  6. The Song my Paddle Sings
  7. In Memory of a Child
  8. "It's Great When You Get In"
  9. A Regular Sort of a Guy
  10. Villanelle of Ye Young Poet's First Villanelle to his Ladye and Ye Difficulties Thereof
  11. To Winter
  12. A Saxon Epitaph
  13. Portrait d'une Femme
  14. Ghosts
  15. Meintjes Kopje
  16. Flint and Feather
  17. Charing Cross
  18. The "Student"
  19. Titanic
  20. Antarctic
  21. C. L. M.
  22. It's a Long Way to Tipperary
  23. On Donne's Poem "To a Flea"
  24. Depression

1913

  1. Oak and Olive
  2. Cruelty and Love / Love on the Farm
  3. A Youth Mowing
  4. At Mass
  5. Further Instructions
  6. The Garden
  7. In a Station of the Metro
  8. A Pact
  9. The Gardener 38
  10. The Gardener 66
  11. The Gardener 85
  12. Gitanjali 35
  13. From Shanklin
  14. Browning's Funeral
  15. An Agnostic Hymn
  16. Reparation
  17. Danny Boy

1914

  1. The Bells of Hell
  2. I Don't Want to Die
  3. Mademoiselle from Armentières
  4. A little east of Jordan (59)
  5. On the Future of Poetry
  6. After Apple Picking
  7. The Death of the Hired Man
  8. Mending Wall
  9. The Pasture
  10. The Wood-pile
  11. It Couldn't Be Done
  12. "When I Set Out for Lyonnesse"
  13. Trees
  14. Gloire de Dijon
  15. Tease
  16. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
  17. The Lion
  18. The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
  19. Sorrow
  20. Meditatio
  21. A Girl Strike-leader
  22. City of Huge Buildings
  23. The Jewish Conscript
  24. Gethsemane
  25. A Servant
  26. Two Canadian Memorials
  27. Common Form
  28. Introductory Rhymes
  29. September 1913
  30. The Magi
  31. A Coat
  32. For the Fallen
  33. We sat entwined an hour or two together
  34. Autumn: the year breathes dully towards its death
  35. Dies Dominica! the sunshine burns
  36. Black on the depths of blackest skies
  37. Deep mists of longing blur the land
  38. I am shut out of mine own heart
  39. I cry to you as I pass your windows in the dusk
  40. The land I came thro' last was dumb with night
  41. I said, This misery must end
  42. 1908
  43. Red Hibiscus in a Sydney Street

1915

  1. 1914 I. Peace
  2. 1914 II. Safety
  3. 1914 III. The Dead
  4. 1914 IV. The Dead
  5. 1914 V. The Soldier
  6. Heaven
  7. Tiare Tahiti
  8. Aunt Helen
  9. The Boston Evening Transcript
  10. Cousin Nancy
  11. Hysteria
  12. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  13. Portrait of a Lady
  14. Preludes
  15. Rhapsody on a Windy Night
  16. The Tuft of Flowers
  17. Into Battle
  18. Channel Firing
  19. The Convergence of the Twain
  20. Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study
  21. The Voice
  22. Two Old Crows
  23. In Flanders Fields
  24. Ashes of Life
  25. A Request
  26. To an Intra-mural Rat
  27. Ancient Music
  28. Lament of the Frontier Guard
  29. The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter
  30. Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
  31. Expectans Expectavi
  32. Peter Quince at the Clavier
  33. Sunday Morning
  34. Pastoral
  35. Benjamin Pantier
  36. Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
  37. Conrad Siever
  38. Sarah Brown
  39. Margaret Fuller Slack
  40. Dora Williams
  41. The Circuit Judge
  42. State's Attorney Fallas
  43. Eugenia Todd
  44. Yee Bow
  45. Washington McNeely
  46. The Unknown
  47. Widow McFarlane
  48. Carl Hamblin
  49. Mrs. Kessler
  50. Lambert Hutchins
  51. Seth Compton
  52. Lyman King
  53. Anne Rutledge
  54. Rutherford McDowell

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