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 a 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 of their lives, 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"Collected Poems" is a compilation by a poet or an editor of a poet's work that is often both published and previously unpublished, drawn over a set span of years of the poet's work, or the entire poet's life, that represents a more complete or definitive edition of the poet's work.Mills, Billy. "Do collected poems provide a complete account of an author? As well as providing an unwelcome memento mori, they can obscure as much as they reveal about a poet's work" from The Guardian (20 July 2009). Retrieved 21 May 2013. 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.Kilgore-Caradec, Jennifer, and Aji, Hélène. Selected Poems From Modernism to Now. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). This work was the result of a March 2008 colloquium at Université de Caen . 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
Abol Tabol (1923) - Sukumar Ray 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 The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962) - J.R.R. Tolkien Aforesaid (1954) - Robert Frost Agnibeena - Kazi Nazrul Islam Al Que Quiere! (1917) - William Carlos Williams The Animal Family (1965) - Randall Jarrell Another Black Girl Miracle (2017) - Tonya Ingram Another Time (1940) - W.H. Auden Ariel - Sylvia Plath The Apprentice of Fever (1998) - Richard Tayson Arogyo - Rabindranath Tagore Auguries of Innocence - Patti Smith The Auroras of Autumn (1950) - Wallace Stevens Auto Wreck (1942) - Karl Shapiro Babel - Patti Smith Badmash Darpan (1895, collection of Bhojpuri Ghazals) - Teg Ali Teg Bairagi Kailaka Kabitaharu (1974) - Bairagi Kainla Bana-Phul - Rabindranath Tagore Basic Heart (2009) - Renée Ashley The Bat-Poet (1964) - Randall Jarrell Bhagna Hriday - Rabindranath Tagore Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali - Rabindranath Tagore Blood for A Stranger (1942) - Randall Jarrell Book of Blues (1954–1961) - Jack Kerouac Book of Haikus (posthumous, 2003) - Jack Kerouac Book of Psalms Book of Sketches (1952–1957) - Jack Kerouac The Bourgeois Poet (1964) - Karl Shapiro A Boy's Will (1913) - Robert Frost The Broken Span (1941) - William Carlos Williams Buah Rindu (1941) – Amir Hamzah Das Buch der Bilder (trans. The Book of Images) (1902–1906) - Rainer Maria Rilke Cables to the Ace (1968) - Thomas Merton Caedmon manuscript Canzoni (1911) - Ezra Pound Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer 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 A City Winter and Other Poems (1951) - Frank O'Hara City Without Walls and Other Poems (1969) - W.H. Auden Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia (1948) - William Carlos Williams The Cod Head (1932) - William Carlos Williams Coda: Last Poems (posthumous, 2008) - Karl Shapiro Collective Amnesia (2017) - Koleka Putuma Come In, and Other Poems (1943) - Robert Frost Contention of the bards (early 17th century) Cosmopolitan Greetings Poems: 1986–1993 (1994) - Allen Ginsberg The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) - W. B. Yeats The Creator (2012) (trans. of Tvoritelj, 2000) - Dejan Stojanović A Curious Collection of Cats (2009) - Betsy Franco The Cynic in Extremis (2018) - Jacob M. Appel
Titles: D–F Day by Day (1977) - Robert Lowell Death and Fame: Poems 1993–1997 (1999) - Allen Ginsberg The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954) - William Carlos Williams Dhanu Dnyaniyaachi (2016) - Dhanashree Ganatra Dictee (1982) - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha The Dolphin (1973) - Robert Lowell A Door Somewhere (2016) - Jaydeep Sarangi The Double Man (1941) - W.H. Auden 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 An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935) - William Carlos Williams 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 Empty Mirror: Early Poems (1961) - Allen Ginsberg Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems (1972) - W.H. Auden The Exeter Book Exultations (1909) - Ezra Pound The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1973) - Allen Ginsberg Feminine Gospels - Carol Ann Duffy (2002) First Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs 1971 - 1974 (1975) - Allen Ginsberg Les Fleurs du mal - Charles Baudelaire (1857) The Fly (1942) - Karl Shapiro 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 A Further Range (1936) - Robert Frost
Titles: G–J
The Gates of Wrath: Rhymed Poems 1948–1951 (1972) - Allen Ginsberg The Geography of Lograire (posthumous, 1969) - Thomas Merton Georgics (c. 29 BCE) - Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) Ghumne Mechmathi Andho Manche (1969) - Bhupi Sherchan The Gingerbread Rabbit (1965) - Randall Jarrell Gitabitan - Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali (1910) - Rabindranath Tagore (also published in English as Song Offerings in 1912, for which Tagore received the Nobel Prize in 1913) Go Go (1923) - William Carlos Williams Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) - Christina Rossetti The Gold Hesperidee (1935) - Robert Frost A Green Bough (1933) - William Faulkner 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 shimmer sometimes too (2019) - Porsha Olayiwola 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 Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience (2019) - Chrysanthemum Tran is 5 (1926) - E. E. Cummings Jeevanko Chheubaata (trans. From the Bank of Life) - Suman Pokhrel Journey to Love (1955) - William Carlos Williams Journey to a War (1939; verse and prose)
Titles: K–M
Kabi-Kahini - Rabindranath Tagore Kaddish and Other Poems (1961) - Allen Ginsberg Kari o Komal - Rabindranath Tagore Khushbu - Parveen Shakir Das Knaben Wunderhorn 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 Letters from Iceland (1936, verse and prose) - W.H. Auden Life Studies (1959) - Robert Lowell Little Friend, Little Friend (1945) - Randall Jarrell The Lone Striker (1933) - Robert Frost Look, Stranger! (1936) - W.H. Auden Lord Weary's Castle (1946) - Robert Lowell Losses (1948) - Randall Jarrell The Lost World (1965) - Randall Jarrell lot of my sister (2001) - Alison Stine Love Poems (Tentative Title) (1965) - Frank O'Hara A Lume Spento (1908) - Ezra Pound 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 A Man in the Divided Sea (1946) - Thomas Merton The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937) - Wallace Stevens Manasi - Rabindranath Tagore The Marble Faun (1924) - William Faulkner The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake 1790–1793 The Mayfield Deer (1941) - Mark Van Doren 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 The Mills of The Kavanaughs (1951) - Robert Lowell 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 The Museum of Lost Wings (2006) - Renée Ashley My Facebook Wall (2016) - Dhanashree Ganatra My Life (1980) - Lyn Hejinian My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter (2017) - Aja Monet
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 No Thanks (1935) - E. E. Cummings Nones (1951) - W.H. Auden 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 The Old Horsefly (1993) - Karl Shapiro 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 The Orators: An English Study (1932, verse and prose) - W.H. Auden Our Lady Peace - Mark Van Doren Owl's Clover (1936) - Wallace Stevens The Palm at the End of the Mind (posthumous, 1972) - 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 The Pisan Cantos (1948) - Ezra Pound The Place of Love (1943) - Karl Shapiro Plutonian Ode: Poems 1977–1980 (1981) - Allen Ginsberg Poems (1930) - W.H. Auden Poems (1920) - T.S. Eliot Poems (1920) - Wilfred Owen Poems (1833) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poems (1842) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poems (1909) - William Carlos Williams Poems about God (1919) - John Crowe Ransom Poems All Sizes (posthumous, 1992) - Jack Kerouac