Classical Realism

 

Realism, Realist movement in poetry. This section is reserved for classical realism, and not socialist realism or avant-garde naturalism  Here are poems written largely in the so-called “realist” style by diverse and unrelated authors representing different, often dissimilar cultural traditions.

• The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux poem – A. E. Housman
• Tell me not here, it needs not saying poem – Alfred Edward Housman
• Tell me not here, it needs not saying poem – Alfred Edward Housman
• Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
• Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
• Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
• Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
• Reveille poem – A. E. Housman
• Others, I Am Not the First poem – A. E. Housman
• Others, I Am Not the First poem – A. E. Housman
• On Your Midnight Pallet Lying poem – A. E. Housman
• On Your Midnight Pallet Lying poem – A. E. Housman
• On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
• On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
• On the Idle Hill of Summer poem – A. E. Housman
• On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
• On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
• Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
• Oh, when I was in love with you poem – A. E. Housman
• Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
• Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
• Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers poem – A. E. Housman
• Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers poem – A. E. Housman
• Oh fair enough are sky and plain poem – A. E. Housman
• Oh fair enough are sky and plain poem – A. E. Housman
• O Why Do You Walk poem – A. E. Housman
• Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black poem – Alfred Edward Housman
• Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black poem – Alfred Edward Housman
• March poem – A. E. Housman
• March poem – A. E. Housman
• Look not in my eyes, for fear poem – A. E. Housman
• Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman
• Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman
• It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers poem – A. E. Housman
• Into My Heart an Air that Kills poem – A. E. Housman
• In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
• In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
• If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
• If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman
• If By Chance Your Eye Offend You poem – A. E. Housman
• I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
• I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
• Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman
• Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman
• Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
• Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
• Here Dead We Lie poem – A. E. Housman
• From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman
• From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman
• Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
• Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
• Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
• Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries poem – A. E. Housman
• Could Man Be Drunk Forever poem – A. E. Housman
• Bring, In This Timeless Grave To Throw poem – A. E. Housman
• Bredon Hill poem – A. E. Housman
• As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre poem – A. E. Housman
• Along the field as we came poem – A. E. Housman
• Night by Sidney Lanier
• My Springs by Sidney Lanier
• Martha Washington by Sidney Lanier
• Marsh Hymns by Sidney Lanier
• Laus Mariae by Sidney Lanier
• Laughter In The Senate by Sidney Lanier
• June Dreams, In January by Sidney Lanier
• Jones’s Porvate Argyment by Sidney Lanier
• Ireland. by Sidney Lanier
• In The Foam. by Sidney Lanier
• In Absence. by Sidney Lanier
• Hymns Of The Marshes. by Sidney Lanier
• From The Flats. by Sidney Lanier
• Corn by Sidney Lanier
• Control by Sidney Lanier
• Clover by Sidney Lanier
• Barnacles by Sidney Lanier
• Baby Charley. by Sidney Lanier
• At First. To Charlotte Cushman. by Sidney Lanier
• An Evening Song. by Sidney Lanier
• Acknowledgment. by Sidney Lanier
• A Sunrise Song. by Sidney Lanier
• A Song Of The Future. by Sidney Lanier
• A Song Of Eternity In Time by Sidney Lanier
• A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L. by Sidney Lanier
• A Florida Sunday. by Sidney Lanier
• A Florida Ghost. by Sidney Lanier
• A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman. by Sidney Lanier
• A Birthday Song. To S. G. by Sidney Lanier
• A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master by Sidney Lanier
• I stood musing in a black world by Stephen Crane
• I saw a man pursuing the horizon by Stephen Crane
• I met a seer by Stephen Crane
• I looked here by Stephen Crane
• I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, by Stephen Crane
• God lay dead in heaven by Stephen Crane
• God fashioned the ship of the world carefully. by Stephen Crane
• Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground by Stephen Crane
• Forth went the candid man by Stephen Crane
• Each small gleam was a voice, by Stephen Crane
• A man went before a strange God by Stephen Crane
• A man toiled on a burning road by Stephen Crane
• A man saw a ball of gold in the sky by Stephen Crane
• A man said to the universe: by Stephen Crane
• A man feared that he might find an assassin by Stephen Crane
• A little ink more or less! by Stephen Crane
• A god in wrath by Stephen Crane
• Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind by Stephen Crane
• Charity thou art a lie, by Stephen Crane
• Blustering God by Stephen Crane
• Black riders came from the sea. by Stephen Crane
• Behold, the grave of a wicked man by Stephen Crane
• Behold, from the land of the farther suns by Stephen Crane
• Ay, workman, make me a dream, by Stephen Crane
• And you love me by Stephen Crane
• A youth in apparel that glittered by Stephen Crane
• A spirit sped by Stephen Crane
• A slant of sun on dull brown walls, by Stephen Crane
• A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices by Stephen Crane
• With No Experience In Such Matters by Stephen Dunn
• Welcome by Stephen Dunn
• Walking The Marshland by Stephen Dunn
• The Sudden Light And The Trees by Stephen Dunn
• The Routine Things Around The House by Stephen Dunn
• Story by Stephen Dunn
• Slant by Stephen Dunn
• Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry by Stephen Dunn
• Named by Stephen Dunn
• Landscape At The End Of The Century by Stephen Dunn
• I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone by Stephen Dunn
• Essay On The Personal by Stephen Dunn
• Biography In The First Person by Stephen Dunn
• At The Smithville Methodist Church by Stephen Dunn
• Allegory Of The Cave by Stephen Dunn
• The White Peacock by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The Innovator by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The Hemp by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The General Public by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The Fiddling Wood by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Talk by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Road and Hills by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Rain After a Vaudeville Show by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Portrait of a Boy by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Portrait of a Baby by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Poor Devil! by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Nos Immortales by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Music by Stephen Vincent Benet
• May Morning by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Love in Twilight by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Lonely Burial by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Going Back to School by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Dedication by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Before an Examination by Stephen Vincent Benet
• Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua by Stephen Vincent Benet
• A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The Pleasures Of Friendship by Stevie Smith
• The Jungle Husband by Stevie Smith
• Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith
• Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith
• Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
• Our Bog Is Dood by Stevie Smith
• Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
• Nor We Of Her To Him by Stevie Smith
• Never Again by Stevie Smith
• My Heart Was Full by Stevie Smith
• My Heart Goes Out by Stevie Smith
• Mother, Among The Dustbins by Stevie Smith
• Infelice by Stevie Smith
• In The Night by Stevie Smith
• I Remember by Stevie Smith
• I Do Not Speak by Stevie Smith
• Happiness by Stevie Smith
• Freddy by Stevie Smith
• Exeat by Stevie Smith
• Edmonton, thy cemetery by Stevie Smith
• Drugs Made Pauline Vague by Stevie Smith
• Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith
• Conviction (iv) by Stevie Smith
• Conviction (iii) by Stevie Smith
• Conviction (ii) by Stevie Smith
• Conviction (i) by Stevie Smith
• Bag-Snatching In Dublin by Stevie Smith
• Away, Melancholy by Stevie Smith
• Autumn by Stevie Smith
• Alone In The Woods by Stevie Smith
• Zoo-Keeper’s Wife by Sylvia Plath
• You’re by Sylvia Plath
• Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies by Sylvia Plath
• Yaddo : The Grand Manor by Sylvia Plath
• Wreath For A Bridal by Sylvia Plath
• Words Heard, By Accident, Over The Phone by Sylvia Plath
• A Winter’s Tale by Sylvia Plath
• Winter Landscape, With Rooks by Sylvia Plath
• Watercolor Of Grantchester Meadows by Sylvia Plath
• Waking In Winter by Sylvia Plath
• Virgin In A Tree by Sylvia Plath
• Two Views Of Withens by Sylvia Plath
• Two Views Of A Cadaver Room by Sylvia Plath
• Two Sisters Of Persephone by Sylvia Plath
• Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea by Sylvia Plath
• Two Campers In Cloud Country by Sylvia Plath
• Trio Of Love Songs by Sylvia Plath
• To Eva Descending The Stair by Sylvia Plath
• To A Jilted Lover by Sylvia Plath
• Tinker Jack And The Tidy Wives by Sylvia Plath
• The Trial Of A Man by Sylvia Plath
• The Tour by Sylvia Plath
• The Times Are Tidy by Sylvia Plath
• The Thin People by Sylvia Plath
• The Swarm by Sylvia Plath
• The Surgeon At 2 A.M. by Sylvia Plath
• The Stones by Sylvia Plath
• The Snowman on the Moor by Sylvia Plath
• The Sleepers by Sylvia Plath
• The Shrike by Sylvia Plath
• The Rival by Sylvia Plath
• The Ravaged Face by Sylvia Plath
• The Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath
• The Queen’s Complaint by Sylvia Plath
• The Princess And The Goblins by Sylvia Plath
• The Other by Sylvia Plath
• The Other Two by Sylvia Plath
• The Night Dances by Sylvia Plath
• The Net-Menders by Sylvia Plath
• The Munich Mannequins by Sylvia Plath
• The Moon And The Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath
• The Manor Garden by Sylvia Plath
• The Lady And The Earthenware Head by Sylvia Plath
• The Jailer by Sylvia Plath
• The Hermit At Outermost House by Sylvia Plath
• The Hanging Man by Sylvia Plath
• The Great Carbuncle by Sylvia Plath
• The Goring by Sylvia Plath
• The Glutton by Sylvia Plath
• The Ghost’s Leavetaking by Sylvia Plath
• The Fearful by Sylvia Plath
• The Eye-Mote by Sylvia Plath
• The Everlasting Monday by Sylvia Plath
• The Dream by Sylvia Plath
• The Disquieting Muses by Sylvia Plath
• The Dispossessed by Sylvia Plath
• The Detective by Sylvia Plath
• The Death Of Myth-Making by Sylvia Plath
• The Dead by Sylvia Plath
• The Couriers by Sylvia Plath
• The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
• The Companionable Ills by Sylvia Plath
• The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
• The Burnt-Out Spa by Sylvia Plath
• The Bull Of Bendylaw by Sylvia Plath
• The Beggars by Sylvia Plath
• The Beekeeper’s Daughter by Sylvia Plath
• The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath
• The Beast by Sylvia Plath
• The Babysitters by Sylvia Plath
• The Arrival Of The Bee Box by Sylvia Plath
• The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
• Temper Of Time by Sylvia Plath
• Tale Of A Tub by Sylvia Plath
• Suicide Off Egg Rock by Sylvia Plath
• Stars Over The Dordogne by Sylvia Plath
• A Sorcerer Bids Farewell To Seem by Sylvia Plath
• Sonnet: To Time by Sylvia Plath
• Sonnet To Satan by Sylvia Plath
• Sonnet : To Eva by Sylvia Plath
• Song For A Summer’s Day by Sylvia Plath
• Song For A Revolutionary Love by Sylvia Plath
• Soliloquy Of The Solipsist by Sylvia Plath
• Sleep In The Mojave Desert by Sylvia Plath
• Sheep In Fog by Sylvia Plath
• Prologue To Spring by Sylvia Plath
• Poppies In October by Sylvia Plath
• Poppies In July by Sylvia Plath
• Polly’s Tree by Sylvia Plath
• On The Plethora Of Dryads by Sylvia Plath
• On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad by Sylvia Plath
• On The Decline Of Oracles by Sylvia Plath
• On Looking Into The Eyes Of A Demon Lover by Sylvia Plath
• On Deck by Sylvia Plath
• Old Ladies’ Home by Sylvia Plath
• Ode For Ted by Sylvia Plath
• Notes To A Neophyte by Sylvia Plath
• Nick And The Candlestick by Sylvia Plath
• New Year On Dartmoor by Sylvia Plath
• Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss by Sylvia Plath
• Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor by Sylvia Plath
• Morning In The Hospital Solarium by Sylvia Plath
• Moonsong At Morning by Sylvia Plath
• Monologue At 3 AM by Sylvia Plath
• Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper by Sylvia Plath
• Metamorphoses Of The Moon by Sylvia Plath
• Memoirs Of A Spinach-Picker by Sylvia Plath
• Mary’s Song by Sylvia Plath
• Man In Black by Sylvia Plath