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
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree	D. H. Lawrence	1920
South	Jack Gilbert	2010
Dark Matter	Jack Myers	2011
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again	Rebecca Wolff	2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	2010
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Lost	Stephen Dobyns	2010
Coffee and Oranges	Joel Brouwer	2009
The Ripple Effect	Jamey Dunham	2009
Lady Tactics (audio only)	Anne Waldman	2009
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day	Lydia Maria Child	1844
[Artfully adorned Aphrodite] (audio only)	Sappho	1995
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?]	Samuel Daniel	1610
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Among the Things He Does Not Deserve	Dan Albergotti	2008
Seeing All the Vermeers	Alfred Corn	2002
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004

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