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
April Inventory	W. D. Snodgrass	1957
This Morning	Charles Simic	1994
With Tenure	David Lehman	1990
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow	Robert Duncan	1960
Mortal Limit	Robert Penn Warren	1985
Painters	Muriel Rukeyser	2005
Thrown as if Fierce & Wild	Dean Young	2005
The Pleasures of Fear	Judith Ortíz Cofer	2005
Someone	Dennis O’Driscoll	2005
Three Seasons	Geoffrey G. O’Brien	2007
Patsy Sees a Ghost	Lola Haskins	2004
The Blue Stairs	Barbara Guest	2003
Lupine Ridge	Peggy Simson Curry	1955
And You Thought You Were the Only One	Mark Bibbins	2003
What the Chairman Told Tom	Basil Bunting	1985
The Cossacks	Linda Pastan	2002
The Mystery of Meteors	Eleanor Lerman	2001
In April	James Hearst	2001
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion	William Cowper	1816
Early Saturday Afternoon, Early Evening (audio only)	Charles Wright	1997

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