Billy Collins - Complete Poem Index
NH - Nine Horses
SAAR - Sailing Around the Room
PL - Picnic, Lightning
AOD - The Art of Drowning
BC - Best Cigarette
QAA - Questions About Angels
ATAP - Apple That Astonished Paris
VP - Video Poems
PF - Poker Face
UP - Unpublished Poems
A History of Weather SAAR
A History of Weather QAA
A Wonder of the World QAA
Absence NH
Acid Wardrobe VP
Advice to Writers SAAR
Advice to Writers ATAP
Afternoon with Irish Cows SAAR
Afternoon with Irish Cows BC
Aimless Love NH
Air Piano NH
Albany NH
Amazing Powers VP
American Sonnet SAAR
American Sonnet QAA
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House SAAR
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House ATAP
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House BC
Aristotle SAAR
Aristotle BC
As if to Demonstrate and Eclipse NH
At Sea VP
At the Coffee Shop PF
Ave Atque Vale NH
Axiom QAA
Bad Company VP
Balsa NH
Bar Time SAAR
Bar Time ATAP
Bermude NH
best cigarette BC
Birthday NH
Birthday Fever VP
Bodhidharma NH
Bones PF
Bonsai SAAR
Books SAAR
Books ATAP
Budapest SAAR
Budapest AOD
Buffalo VP
Bugs PF
By a Swimming Pool Outside Siracusa NH
Canada SAAR
Canada AOD
Cancer ATAP
Candle Hat SAAR
Candle Hat QAA
Candle Hat BC
Carol PF
Center SAAR
Center AOD
Cheers AOD
Child Development ATAP
Child Development BC
Christmas Sparrow NH
Circuitry PF
Classrooms VP
Cliché QAA
Colorado NH
Come Running QAA
Consolation SAAR
Consolation AOD
consolation BC
Conversion AOD
Creatures NH
Daffy PF
Dancing Toward Bethlehem SAAR
Dancing Towards Bethlehem AOD
Days SAAR
Days AOD
Death ATAP
Death Beds AOD
Death in New Orleans, a Romance NH
Death of the Boss PF
Design SAAR
Design AOD
Desire ATAP
Dharma SAAR
Directions SAAR
Directions AOD
Distant Melody VP
Dog QAA
Drawing NH
Dream AOD
Driving Myself to a Poetry Reading AOD
driving myself to a poetry reading BC
Driving with Animals ATAP
Earth NH
Earthling SAAR
Earthling ATAP
Elk River Falls NH
Elmer PF
Embrace ATAP
Endangered QAA
English Country House QAA
Establishing the Reader's Trust VP
Etymology ATAP
Exploring the Coast of Birdland AOD
Field Guide QAA
Fiftieth Birthday Eve AOD
First Reader SAAR
First Reader QAA
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July SAAR
Flames ATAP
flames BC
Flock UP
Flying to a Funeral ATAP
For Bartleby the Scrivener PF
Forgetfulness SAAR
Forgetfulness QAA
Forgetfulness BC
Fur ATAP
Gamble PF
Going Out for Cigarettes QAA
Hangover Procedure #12: Emptying the Jacket Pockets VP
Hart Crane ATAP
history of weather BC
Hopeless but Not Serious ATAP
Horizon AOD
Horseman, Pass By! QAA
Hunger ATAP
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey's Version of "Three Blind Mice" SAAR
Idomatic SAAR
Ignorance NH
Indian Head VP
Indiana VP
Indoors ATAP
Influence AOD
Insomnia SAAR
Insomnia SAAR
Insomnia ATAP
Instructions to the Artist QAA
Instructions to the Artist VP
Instructions to the Artist BC
Introduction to Poetry SAAR
Introduction to Poetry ATAP
Invective QAA
Istanbul NH
Jack QAA
Japan SAAR
Japan BC
Jealousy SAAR
Keats's Handwriting AOD
Languor NH
Late Show QAA
L'Histoire VP
Library PF
Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey SAAR
Lines Lost Among Trees SAAR
Litany NH
Lost ATAP
Love NH
Love in the Sahara QAA
Lowell, Mass. ATAP
Lying in Bed in the Dark, I Silently Address the Birds of Arizona NH
Madmen SAAR
Man in Space SAAR
Man in Space AOD
man in space BC
Man Listening to Disc SAAR
Mappamundi QAA
Marginalia SAAR
marginalia BC
Medium AOD
Memento Mori QAA
Metamorphosis QAA
Metropolis AOD
Mexican Divorce PF
Modern Peasant QAA
Monday Morning SAAR
Monday Morning AOD
More than a Woman NH
Morning SAAR
morning BC
My Heart SAAR
My Heart AOD
My Number SAAR
My Number ATAP
Names VP
Neighbors VP
Night Letter to the Reader NH
Night Sand QAA
Nightclub SAAR
Nightclub AOD
nightclub BC
Nine Horses NH
No Time NH
Nostalgia SAAR
Nostalgia QAA
Nostalgia BC
Not Touching SAAR
Not Touching QAA
November SAAR
Obituaries NH
On Closing Anna Karenina ATAP
On Reading in the Morning Paper That Dreams May Be Only Nonsense QAA
On Reading in the Morning Paper That Dreams May Be Only Nonsense BC
On the Speed of Snakes PF
On Turning Ten SAAR
On Turning Ten AOD
One Life to Live QAA
Osso Buco SAAR
Osso Buco AOD
Paradelle for Susan SAAR
Paris NH
Passengers SAAR
Pavilion SAAR
Pensee QAA
Personal History ATAP
Philosophy AOD
Piano Lesson SAAR
Piano Lessons AOD
Picnic, Lightning SAAR
Pie Man QAA
Pinup SAAR
Pinup AOD
pin-up BC
Playing Poker with Myself VP
Plight of the Troubadour SAAR
Plight of the Troubadour ATAP
Plot PF
Poem ATAP
Poetry NH
Porky PF
Post VP
Print AOD
Programs ATAP
Prototype PF
Purity SAAR
Purity QAA
purity BC
Putti in the Night QAA
Putting Down the Cat ATAP
Questions About Angels SAAR
Questions About Angels QAA
R.C.A. Victor VP
Rain NH
Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause to Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles SAAR
Reading in a Hammock AOD
Reading Myself to Sleep QAA
Remembering Dreams ATAP
Rip Van Winkle QAA
Roadside Flowers NH
Romanticism AOD
Rooms NH
Royal Aristocrat NH
Saturday Morning QAA
Saturday morning BC
Schoolsville SAAR
Schoolsville ATAP
Scotland SAAR
Serenade SAAR
Shadow AOD
Shoveling Snow with Buddha SAAR
shoveling snow with the buddha BC
Silver Dollars PF
Slump VP
Snow SAAR
Snow Day SAAR
Some Days SAAR
Some Final Words SAAR
Some Final Words AOD
Sonnet SAAR
Splitting Wood SAAR
Strange Lands ATAP
Student of Clouds SAAR
Student of Clouds QAA
Study in Orange and White NH
Sunday Morning with the Sensational Nightingales SAAR
Sunday Morning with the Sensational Nightinggales AOD
Surprise NH
Sweet Talk BC
Sweet Talk AOD
Taking Off Emily Dickenson's Clothes SAAR
Temporary Insanity VP
The Afterlife QAA
The Afterlife BC
The Art of Drowning AOD
The Art of Drowning BC
The Beauties of Tequila PF
The Best Cigarette SAAR
The Best Cigarette AOD
The Biography of a Cloud AOD
The Blue ATAP
The Blues SAAR
The Blues AOD
The Books of Boyhood VP
The Brooklyn Museum of Art SAAR
The Brooklyn Museum of Art ATAP
The Butterfly Effect SAAR
The City of Tomorrow AOD
The Country NH
The Crosseyed Woman VP
The Dead SAAR
The Dead QAA
The Death of Allegory SAAR
The Death of Allegory QAA
The Death of the Hat SAAR
The Discovery of Scat QAA
The End of the World AOD
The First Dream AOD
The First Dream BC
The First Geniuses QAA
The Flight of the Reader SAAR
The Frankenstein Poet ATAP
The Games PF
The Great Walter Pater NH
The Guest VP
The History Teacher SAAR
The History Teacher QAA
The Hunt QAA
The Invention of the Saxophone AOD
The Invention of the Saxophone BC
The Iron Bridge SAAR
The Lanyard UP
The Last Man on Earth QAA
The Lesson SAAR
The Lesson ATAP
The Life of Riley: A Definitive Biography QAA
The Listener NH
The Literary Life NH
The Man in the Moon SAAR
The Man in the Moon QAA
The Morning After My Death ATAP
The Movies SAAR
The Names UP
The Night House SAAR
The Norton Anthology of English Literature QAA
The Only Day in Existence NH
The Parade NH
The Past ATAP
The Return of the Key NH
The Revenant UP
The Rival Poet SAAR
The Rival Poet ATAP
The Sphere VP
The Stare NH
The Three Wishes SAAR
The Waitress SAAR
The Willies VP
The Willies QAA
The Wires of the Night SAAR
The Wires of the Night QAA
Thesaurus AOD
Thesaurus BC
Tile PF
Timber! PF
Tipping Point NH
To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now SAAR
To My Patron NH
Today NH
Tomes SAAR
Too Close for Comfort PF
Totally Out of It VP
Tourist: Dromahair, Co. Sligo ATAP
Triangulation VP
Trompe l'Oeil NH
Tuesday, June 4, 1991 SAAR
Tuesday, June 4, 1991 AOD
Tuscany ATAP
Vade Mecum SAAR
Vade Mecum QAA
Vanishing Point ATAP
Velocity NH
Victorian Gardening VP
Victoria's Secret SAAR
Walking Across the Atlantic SAAR
Walking Across the Atlantic ATAP
Walking Across the Atlantic BC
Water Table AOD
Weighing the Dog QAA
What Exactly is So Funny? VP
Where I Live SAAR
While Eating a Pear AOD
Wily Coyote in the Hostpital VP
Winter Syntax SAAR
Winter Syntax ATAP
wires of the night BC
Wolf QAA
Wolf BC
Workshop SAAR
Workshop AOD
workshop BC
Writing in the Afterlife NH
NH - Nine Horses
SAAR - Sailing Around the Room
PL - Picnic, Lightning
AOD - The Art of Drowning
BC - Best Cigarette
QAA - Questions About Angels
ATAP - Apple That Astonished Paris
VP - Video Poems
PF - Poker Face
UP - Unpublished Poems
