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
Night Baseball	Michael Blumenthal	1984
Mother’s Day	David Young	2011
The Emperor	Matthew Rohrer	2010
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
Birds in the Night	Luis Cernuda	2010
Soliloquy, Act 6 [excerpt]	Kenneth Goldsmith	2001
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874
History of Hurricanes	Teresa Cader	2009
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story	Richard Harris Barham	1840
Black Petal	Li-Young Lee	2001
Faults	Sara Teasdale	1917
Poet's Work	Lorine Niedecker	2002
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
What Will You Be?	Dennis Lee	1977
You, Andrew Marvell	Archibald MacLeish	1930
Visits to St. Elizabeths	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard	Charles Wright	1995
why must itself up every of a park	E. E. Cummings	1923
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts	Sydney Lea	2005

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