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250+ Poems Beginning with "I"

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172 C
182 D
138 E
114 F
175 G
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193 I
259 J
34 K
22 L
211 M
246 N
108 O
194 P
182 Q
11 R
99 S
497 T
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I

I Am a Little World Made Cunningly by John Donne

I Am Christ’s by Leslie Alexis

I Am In Need of Music by Elizabeth Bishop

I Am Lonely by George Eliot

I Am Much Too Alone in this World, Yet Not Alone Enough by Rainer Maria Rilke

I am not that Woman by Kishwar Naheed

I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

I am Only a Name by Gabriel Okara

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul

I Am The Only Being Whose Doom by Emily Brontë

I am the Reaper by William Ernest Henley

I am Trying to Break Your Heart by Kevin Young

I am Vertical by Sylvia Plath

I am very bothered by Simon Armitage

i am water by Rupi Kaur

I Am! by John Clare

I Ate Too Much Turkey by Jack Prelutsky

I can wade Grief- by Emily Dickinson

I Cannot Live With You by Emily Dickinson

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in by E.E Cummings

I cautious, scanned my little life by Emily Dickinson

I could bring You Jewels—had I a mind to by Emily Dickinson

I did not reach Thee by Emily Dickinson

I died for beauty but was scarce by Emily Dickinson

I Do Not by Michael Palmer

I Do Not Love Thee by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

I do not love you by Pablo Neruda

I Don’t Miss It by Tracy K. Smith

I dreaded that first Robin by Emily Dickinson

I Dream a World by Langston Hughes

I dream of you, to wake by Christina Rossetti

I Dream’d in a Dream by Walt Whitman

I dwell in Possibility by Emily Dickinson

I Feel it in the Air by Edna Reed

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickinson

I Find no Peace by Thomas Wyatt

I Gave Myself To Him by Emily Dickinson

I Give You Thanks My God by Bernard Dadié

I had been hungry, all the Years by Emily Dickinson

I have a Bird in spring by Emily Dickinson

I have a dream by Martin Luther King Jr.

I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger

I Have Crossed a Great Ocean of Loneliness by John Mark Green

I Have Fallen in Love by Akka Mahadevi

I have led her Home, my love, my only friend by Alfred Lord Tennyson

I have never seen “Volcanoes” by Emily Dickinson

I Have News by Juliette A. H. Cavendish

I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

I Hear An Army by James Joyce

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died by Emily Dickinson

I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party by Chen Chen

I kill an ant by Shuson Kato

I Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke

I Know a Man by Robert Creeley

I Know My Soul by Claude Mckay

I Know, You Walk— by Hermann Hesse

I like a look of Agony by Emily Dickinson

I Like For You To Be Still by Pablo Neruda

I like to see it lap the Miles by Emily Dickinson

I Live Too Near the Slaughterhouse by Charles Bukowski

I look into my glass by Thomas Hardy

I Looked Up from My Writing by Thomas Hardy

I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I Loved You by Alexander Pushkin

I measure every Grief I meet by Emily Dickinson

I Never Saw a Moor by Emily Dickinson

I now had only to retrace by Charlotte Brontë

I Remember, I Remember by Philip Larkin

I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood

I Said To Love by Thomas Hardy

I saw a man pursuing the horizon by Stephen Crane

I Saw From the Beach by Thomas Moore

I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman

I saw no Way – The Heavens were stitched by Emily Dickinson

I Say unto Waris Shah by Amrita Pritam

I Shall Not Pass This Way Again by Eva Rose York

I Shall Paint My Nails Red by Carole Satyamurti

I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman

I Sit and Sew by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

I Sit and Think by J.R.R. Tolkien

I so liked Spring by Charlotte Mew

I Started Early – Took my Dog by Emily Dickinson

I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed by Emily Dickinson

I Taught Myself to Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova

i thank You God for most this amazing by E.E. Cummings

I Thought a Tree Dying by Sandra Doller

I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl by Emily Dickinson

I Travelled among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day by Gerard Manley Hopkins

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke

I Want to Die While You Love Me by Georgia Douglas Johnson

I want to sleep by Masaoka Shiki

I Was Made Erect and Lone by Henry David Thoreau

I Was Not False To Thee by Caroline Norton

I Was Sitting in McSorley’s by E E Cummings

I Will Go With My Father a-Ploughing by Joseph Campbell

I wish I could remember that first day by Christina Rossetti

I Worried by Mary Oliver

I would I might Forget that I am I by George Santayana

I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine by Liz Lochhead

I Years had been from Home by Emily Dickinson

I, Being born a Woman and Distressed by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You by Charles Olson

I, the Poet by Leonard Gorski

I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes

I’m “wife” – I’ve finished that by Emily Dickinson

I’m a Fool to Love You by Cornelius Eady

I’m Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson

I’ve Got an Apple Ready by John Walsh

IC

Icarus by Edward Field

ID (4 poems)

Identity by Abhimanyu Kumar

Identity by Elizabeth Jennings

Identity by Julio Noboa Polanco

Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwish

IF (17 poems)

“If thou must love me…” (Sonnet 14) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If Ever the Lid Gets off my Head by Emily Dickinson

if everything happens that can’t be done by e.e. cummings

If I can stop one heart from breaking by Emily Dickinson

If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden

If I Was Dead by Carol Ann Duffy

If I Were King by A.A. Milne

If I were loved, as I desire to be by Lord Alfred Tennyson

If it were not too late! by Stephen Spender

If This Be All by Anne Brontë

If those I loved were lost by Emily Dickinson

If We Must Die by Claude McKay

If You Come Softly by Audre Lorde

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

If you were coming in the Fall by Emily Dickinson

If— by Rudyard Kipling

If, my darling by Philip Larkin

IL

I’ll Open the Window by Anna Swir

IM (7 poems)

I’m Thankful for Turkey by Kenn Nesbitt

Images by Richard Aldington

Imaginary Conversation by Linda Pastan

Imagining Their Own Hymns by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Imitation of Spenser by John Keats

Immigrant Blues by Li-Young Lee

Immigration by Ali Alizadeh

IN (94 poems)

In 1492 – Columbus sailed the ocean blue

In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke

In a London Drawing Room by George Eliot

In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

In a Wood by Thomas Hardy

In an Artist’s Studio by Christina Rossetti

In An Illuminated Missal by Charles Kingsley

In and Out of Time by Maya Angelou

In April Here Beneath the Scented Thorn by William Wordsworth

In Celebration of My Uterus by Anne Sexton

In Cold Storm Light by Leslie Marmon Silko

In drear-nighted December by John Keats

In Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom by Lloyd Schwartz

In Exchange for my Absence by Cynthia Guardado

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

In Heaven by Stephen Crane

In Her Splendor Islanded by Octavio Paz

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth by Anne Bradstreet

in Just- by E.E. Cummings

In Kyoto by Matsuo Bashō

In Memory of a Happy Day in February by Anne Brontë

In Memory of Major Robert Gregory by William Butler Yeats

In Memory of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh

In Memory of the Utah Stars by William Matthews

In Memory of W.B. Yeats by W. H. Auden

In Mrs Tilscher’s Class By Carol Ann Duffy

In My Craft Or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas

In No Man’s Land by Stephen Spender

In Paris With You by James Fenton

In Paths Untrodden by Walt Whitman

In Possum Land by Henry Lawson

In Praise of Creation by Elizabeth Jennings

In Praise of Limestone by W. H. Auden

In Railway Halls (XXX) by Stephen Spender

In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned by James Wright

In Response to Executive Order 9066 by Dwight Okita

In Retrospect by Maya Angelou

In Romney Marsh by John Davidson

In Tenebris: I by Thomas Hardy

In The Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu

In the Bleak Midwinter (A Christmas Carol) by Christina Rossetti

In the Desert by Stephen Crane

In the Light of the Moon by Delmira Agustini

In the moonlight by Yosa Buson

In The Park by Gwen Harwood

In the Prison Pen by Herman Melville

In the Reading-Room of the British Museum by Louise Imogen Guiney

In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857 by Christina Rossetti

In the Servants’ Quarters by Thomas Hardy

In the Seven Woods by William Butler Yeats

In the Seventh Year by Jackie Kay

In the Time of Plague by N. Scott Momaday

In the twilight rain by Matsuo Bashō

In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop

In the Western Lands by J.R.R. Tolkien

In This Place (An American Lyric) by Amanda Gorman

In this short life that only lasts an hour by Emily Dickinson

In Those Days by Randall Jarrell

In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ by Thomas Hardy

In Wales, wanting to be Italian by Imtiaz Dharker

In Westminster Abbey by John Betjeman

In Your Heart by Thomas S. Carver

In Your Mind by Carol Ann Duffy

Inauguration by Lorenzo Thomas

Incident by Countee Cullen

Incident by Natasha Trethewey

Indeed, Indeed I Cannot Tell by Henry David Thoreau

Independence by A. A. Milne

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich

Indian Weavers by Sarojini Naidu

Inexorable Deities by Edgar Lee Masters

Inexpensive Progress by John Betjeman

Infant Joy by William Blake

Infant Sorrow by William Blake

Ingrid Jonker by Sally Bryer

Inheritance by Owen Sheers

Inniskeen Road: July Evening by Patrick Kavanagh

Innocence by Patrick Kavanagh

Insect by Annie Finch

Insensibility by Wilfred Owen

Insomniac by Sylvia Plath

Inspection by Wilfred Owen

Intermission by Owen Sheers

Interview by Daya Dissanayake

Into My Own by Robert Frost

Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

Introduction to the Songs of Experience by William Blake

Introduction to the Songs of Innocence by William Blake

Introit by Gabriel Okara

Inventory by Dorothy Parker

Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Invisible Fish by Joy Harjo

Invocation by Percy Bysshe Shelley

IR (5 poems)

Ireland With Emily by John Betjeman

Ireland, 2002 by Paul Durcan

Iris by David St. John

Iris by Sujata Bhatt

Irish Poets Open Your Eyes by Patrick Kavanagh

IS (5 poems)

Is it Still the Same by Eavan Boland

Is My Team Ploughing by A. E. Housman

Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me (from Macbeth)

Is/Not by Margaret Atwood

Island Man by Grace Nichols

IT (13 poems)

It Couldn’t Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest

It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free by William Wordsworth

It Is Here by Harold Pinter

It Is Not Always May by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It sifts from Leaden Sieves by Emily Dickinson

It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth

It was not Death, for I stood up by Emily Dickinson

It’s Raining by Guillaume Apollinaire

It’s Not by Tracy K. Smith

Italia Mia by Petrarch

Ithaca by Carol Ann Duffy

Ithaka by C. P. Cavafy

Itsy Bitsy Spider

IV

I’ve made out a will; I’m leaving myself by Simon Armitage

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