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 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 their life 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"Collected Poems" is a compilation by a poet or an editor of a poet's work that is often both published and previously unpublished, drawn over a set span of years of the poet's work, or the entire poet's life, that represents a more complete or definitive edition of the poet's work. 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. A poetry anthology differs in concept because it draws together works from multiple poets chosen by the anthology's editor.
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."
A Boy's Will (1913) - Robert Frost
A City Winter and Other Poems (1951) - Frank O'Hara
A Further Range (1936) - Robert Frost
A Green Bough (1933) - William Faulkner
A Lume Spento (1908) - Ezra Pound
A Man in the Divided Sea (1946) - Thomas Merton
A Quinzaine for This Yule (1908) - Ezra Pound
A Remembrance Collection of New Poems (1959) - Robert Frost
As I see it - A Poetry Collection (2015) - Rajith V. Embuldeniya
A Witness Tree (1942) - Robert Frost
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
Aforesaid (1954) - Robert Frost
Al Que Quiere! (1917) - William Carlos Williams
An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935) - William Carlos Williams
Another Time (1940) -- W.H. Auden
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
Auguries of Innocence – Patti Smith
Auto Wreck (1942) - Karl Shapiro
Babel – Patti Smith
Basic Heart (2009) - Renée Ashley
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
Buah Rindu (1941) – Amir Hamzah
Cables to the Ace (1968) - Thomas Merton
Caedmon manuscript
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Canzoni (1911) - Ezra Pound
The Cantos - Ezra Pound
Cathay (1915) - Ezra Pound
Child Whispers (1922) - Enid Blyton
Chills and Fever (1924) - John Crowe Ransom
Chiryaa, Titli, Phool - Tanwir Phool
Circling: 1978-1987 (2012) (trans. of Krugovanje: 1978-1987, 1993) - Dejan Stojanović
City Without Walls and Other Poems (1969) -- W.H. Auden
Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia (1948) - William Carlos Williams
Coda: Last Poems (posthumous, 2008) - Karl Shapiro
Come In, and Other Poems (1943) - Robert Frost
Contention of the bards - infighting among the last of the Gaelic bards in 17thC. Ireland, as their order collapsed.
Cosmopolitan Greetings Poems: 1986–1993 (1994) - Allen Ginsberg
Das Buch der Bilder (trans. The Book of Images) (1902–1906) - Rainer Maria Rilke
Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Das Stunden-Buch (trans. The Book of Hours) (1899-1903) - Rainer Maria Rilke
Day by Day (1977) - Robert Lowell
Death and Fame: Poems 1993–1997 (1999) - Allen Ginsberg
Dhanu Dnyaniyaachi (2016) - Dhanashree Ganatra
Dictee (1982) — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Dramatic Lyrics — Robert Browning
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics — Robert Browning
Dramatis Personae — Robert Browning
Duisener Elegien (trans. Duino Elegies) (1922) - Rainer Maria Rilke
Early Work – Patti Smith
Eclogues (c. 37 BCE) – Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Edda, Elder Edda
Emblems of a Season of Fury (1963) - Thomas Merton
Empty Mirror: Early Poems (1961) - Allen Ginsberg
Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems (1972) -- W.H. Auden
Exultations (1909) - Ezra Pound
The Exeter Book
First Blues: Rags, Ballads & Harmonium Songs 1971 - 1974 (1975) - Allen Ginsberg
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
Georgics (c. 29 BCE) – Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Go Go (1923) - William Carlos Williams
Harmonium (1923) - Wallace Stevens
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
Howl and Other Poems (1956) - Allen Ginsberg
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
is 5 (1926) - E. E. Cummings
Journey to a War (1939; verse and prose)
Journey to Love (1955) - William Carlos Williams
Kaddish and Other Poems (1961) - Allen Ginsberg
Khushbu - Parveen Shakir
Kytice (A Bouquet) – Karel Jaromír Erben
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
Les Fleurs du mal – Charles Baudelaire (1857)
Letters from Iceland (1936, verse and prose) -- W.H. Auden
Life Studies (1959) - Robert Lowell
Little Friend, Little Friend (1945) - Randall Jarrell
Look, Stranger! (1936) -- W.H. Auden
Lord Weary's Castle (1946) - Robert Lowell
Losses (1948) - Randall Jarrell
lot of my sister (2001) - Alison Stine
Love Poems (Tentative Title) (1965) - Frank O'Hara
Lunch Poems (1964) - Frank O'Hara
Lustra (1916) - Ezra Pound
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems – Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Main Street and Other Poems (1917) - Joyce Kilmer
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell – William Blake 1790-1793
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
Mind Breaths (1978) - Allen Ginsberg
Mississippi Poems (posthumous, 1979) - William Faulkner
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
My Facebook Wall (2016) - Dhanashree Ganatra
My Life (1980) - Lyn Hejinian
Near the Ocean (1967) - Robert Lowell
Neue Gedichte (trans. New Poems) (1907) - Rainer Maria Rilke
New Hampshire (1923) - Robert Frost
Nones (1951) -- W.H. Auden
No Thanks (1935) - E. E. Cummings
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
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
Our Lady Peace - Mark Van Doren
Owl's Clover (1936) - 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
Place of Love (1943) - Karl Shapiro
Plutonian Ode: Poems 1977–1980 (1981) - Allen Ginsberg
Poems (1833) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poems (1842) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poems (1909) - William Carlos Williams
Poems (1920) - T.S. Eliot
Poems (1930) -- W.H. Auden
Poems about God (1919) - John Crowe Ransom
Poems All Sizes (posthumous, 1992) - Jack Kerouac
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) - William Wordsworth
Poems of a Jew (1950) - Karl Shapiro
Provenca (1910) - Ezra Pound
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) - T.S. Eliot
Quia Pauper Amavi (1908) - Ezra Pound
Ripostes (1912) - Ezra Pound
Rubaiyat - Omar Khayyám (trans. Edward Fitzgerald)
Sad Dust Glories: poems during work summer in woods (1975) - Allen Ginsberg
Salt (1992) - Renée Ashley
San Francisco Blues (posthumous, 1991) - Jack Kerouac
Scattered Poems (posthumous, 1971) - Jack Kerouac
Second Avenue (1960) - Frank O'Hara
Seventh Heaven – Patti Smith
Silent Days (Cyberwit.net,2013)-Jaydeep Sarangi
A Shropshire Lad - A. E. Housman
Songs of Experience - William Blake
Songs of Innocence - William Blake
Sonette an Orpheus (trans. Sonnets to Orpheus) (1922) - Rainer Maria Rilke
Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for Christian Year (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2012) — Malcolm Guite ISBN 978-1848252745
Sour Grapes (1921) - William Carlos Williams
Spring and All (1923) - William Carlos Williams
Spring Thunder (1924) - Mark Van Doren
State of Love and Trust - W.K. Lawrence
Steeple Bush (1947) - Robert Frost
Summer of Love (1911) - Joyce Kilmer
Svipdagsmál (Old Norse)
Tamerlane and Other Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
Thank You, Fog: Last Poems (1974) -- W.H. Auden
The Animal Family (1965) - Randall Jarrell
The Antigone Poems (2014) - Marie Slaight
The Auroras of Autumn (1950) - Wallace Stevens
The Bat-Poet (1964) - Randall Jarrell
The Bourgeois Poet (1964) - Karl Shapiro
The Broken Span (1941) - William Carlos Williams
The Cod Head (1932) - William Carlos Williams
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) - W.B. Yeats
The Creator (2012) (trans. of Tvoritelj, 2000 ) - Dejan Stojanović
The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954) - William Carlos Williams
The Dolphin (1973) - Robert Lowell
The Double Man (1941) -- W.H. Auden
The Enormous Room (1922) - E. E. Cummings
The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1973) - Allen Ginsberg
The Fly (1942) - Karl Shapiro
The Gates of Wrath: Rhymed Poems 1948–1951 (1972) - Allen Ginsberg
The Geography of Lograire (posthumous, 1969) - Thomas Merton
The Gingerbread Rabbit (1965) - Randall Jarrell
The Gold Hesperidee (1935) - Robert Frost
The Legendary Graduate (2012) - Joseph D. Smith
The Lone Striker (1933) - Robert Frost
The Lost World (1965) - Randall Jarrell
The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937) - Wallace Stevens
The Marble Faun (1924) - William Faulkner
The Mayfield Deer (1941) - Mark Van Doren
The Mills of The Kavanaughs (1951) - Robert Lowell
The Museum of Lost Wings (2006) - Renée Ashley
The Old Horsefly (1993) - Karl Shapiro
The Orators: An English Study (1932, verse and prose) -- W.H. Auden
The Palm at the End of the Mind (posthumous, 1972) - Wallace Stevens
The Pisan Cantos (1948) - Ezra Pound
The Place of Love (1943) - Karl Shapiro
The Princess: A Medley (1847) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Revisionist's Dream (2001) - Renée Ashley
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960) - Jack Kerouac
The Seven League Crutches (1951) - Randall Jarrell
The Seven Seas (1896) - Rudyard Kipling
The Shape (2012) (trans. of Oblik, 2000 ) - Dejan Stojanović
The Shield of Achilles (1955) -- W.H. Auden
The Sign and Its Children (2012) (trans. of Znak i njegova deca, 2000 ) - Dejan Stojanović
The Singing Bowl (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2013) — Malcolm Guite ISBN 978-1848255418
The Snow Man (1921) - Wallace Stevens
The Story-Teller - Mark Van Doren
The Strange Islands: Poems (1957) - Thomas Merton
The Tears of the Blind Lions (1949) - Thomas Merton
The Tempers (1913) - William Carlos Williams
The Tower (1928) - W.B. Yeats
The Various Reason of Light (1998) - Renée Ashley
The Verbs of Desiring (2010) - Renée Ashley
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems - W. B. Yeats (1889)
The Wedge (1944) - William Carlos Williams
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) - W.B. Yeats
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) - W.B. Yeats
The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations (1960) - Randall Jarrell
Thirty Poems (1944) - Thomas Merton
Three Stories and Ten Poems - Ernest Hemingway
Trees and Other Poems (1914) - Joyce Kilmer
Transport to Summer (1947) - Wallace Stevens
Traumgekrönt (trans. Dream-Crowned) (1897) - Rainer Maria Rilke
Trial of a Poet (1947) - Karl Shapiro
Tulips and Chimneys (1923) - E. E. Cummings
Two Gentlemen in Bonds (1927) - John Crowe Ransom
Umbra (1920) - Ezra Pound
Vision in Spring (1921) - William Faulkner
ViVa (1931) - E. E. Cummings
V-Letter and Other Poems (1945) - Karl Shapiro
WAIT (2011) - Alison Stine
West-Running Brook (1929) - Robert Frost
White Haired Lover (1968) - Karl Shapiro
White Shroud Poems: 1980–1985 (1986) - Allen Ginsberg
Winter Diary (1935) - Mark Van Doren
Witt – Patti Smith
XAIPE: Seventy-One Poems (1950) - E. E. Cummings
XLI Poems (1925) - E. E. Cummings
You Come Too (1959) - Robert Frost
1 × 1 (1944) - E. E. Cummings
50 Poems (1940) - E. E. Cummings
73 Poems (1963) - E. E. Cummings (posthumous)
77 Dream Songs (1964) - John Berryman
95 Poems (1958) - E. E. Cummings
108 Verges Until Now - Will Inman (Carlton Press, 1964)
& (1925) - E. E. Cummings