Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
Sonnet	Bill Knott	1989
In Summer Time	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Flush or Faunus	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2013
Aunt Helen	T. S. Eliot	1915
Ashes of Life	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
Camp of No Return	James Tate	2012
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Fear of the Future	John Koethe	2009
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
What the Angels Left	Marie Howe	1988
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
The Yoke	Frank Bidart	1997
World Below the Brine	Walt Whitman	1891
Dangerous Astronomy	Sherman Alexie	2009
A Noun Sentence	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
From	A. Van Jordan	2004
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
Surreptitious Kissing	Denis Johnson	1994

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