This page links to miscellaneous poems I have collected from here and there. My taste in poetry is pretty old-fashioned, and I prefer it to have rhyme and meter, or at least meter.
The Hound of Heaven by Francis ThompsonSonnet 116 by Willam Shakespeare
By Rudyard Kipling—
My Cat Jeoffrey by Christopher Smart, excerpted from Jubilate Agno
For Timothy, in the Coinherence by Dorothy L. Sayers
Pangur Bán from The Poem-Book of the Gael
By G. K. Chesterton—
The Song of the Strange Ascetic
By C. S. Lewis—
(The other poets cited here are not widely known for their personal spiritual development, but Lewis is, so I give his poems in a timeline. He started writing as an atheist with a deep love of mythology, became a theist in 1929, and became a Christian in 1931.)Star Bath (1916)
How He Saw Angus the God (1916)
L’Apprenti Sorcier (1917)
Tu Ne Quaesieris (1918)
Our Daily Bread (1918)
“Sixpence” (“I woke from a fool’s dream...”) (1929 – 1930)
“Bettered After Beasthood” (1930)
What the Bird Said Early in the Year (1937)
Late Summer (1938)
“We Were Talking of Dragons” (1939)
The Great Dance (prose poem from Peelandra, 1943)
Pilgrim’s Problem (1952)
Lords Coëval with Creation (1958)
Noel by J. R. R . Tolkien
Overheard on a Salt Marsh by Harold Monro
Instructions by Neil Gaiman
Good Gnus by P. G. Wodehouse
These are the Things that Make a Man by Terry Pratchett
[anyone lived in a pretty how town] by e. e. cummings
Under Milk Wood, introduction by Dylan Thomas
By Robert Frost—
By archy the cockroach (Don Marquis)—
By Dorothy Parker—
The Little Old Lady in Lavender Lace
The Maid-Servant at the Inn
She wasn't always wittily bitter.
By Edna St. Vincent Millay—
“Still will I harvest beauty where it grows”
For the Last Wolverine by James L. Dickey
Burning Bush by Chris Benders
my troubled lovely by john roedel
And Everything Begins by David Hirt
How to Be Hopeful by Barbara Kingsolver
By Clark Ashton Smith—
The Muse of Atlantis (prose poem)
The Statue of Silence (prose poem)
The Demon, the Angel, and Beauty (prose poem)
Wealth and Death in Autumn by Earl Wajenberg (prose poem)
By Walt Whitman—
“Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me”
“By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame”
“After Surmounting Three-Score and Ten”
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Penelope to Ulysses by Earl Wajenberg
“Like Thy Glory, Titan” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Death Is Before Me Today,” Middle Kingdom Egypt
Eden Bower by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind by Carl Sandburg
“The Stony Road” by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Seventh Angel by Zhigniew Herbert
A Word on Statistics by Wislawa Szymborska