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
Passer Mortuus Est	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Lines to a Nasturtium	Anne Spencer	1926
Camp of No Return	James Tate	2012
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me	Delmore Schwartz	1959
On Summer	George Moses Horton	1837
Rime Riche	Monica Ferrell	2010
Extraordinary Rendition	Paul Muldoon	2010
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
Mother Night	James Weldon Johnson	1922
The Uses of Poetry	William Carlos Williams	1909
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
Consider the Hands that Write This Letter	Aracelis Girmay	2007
Yes	Denise Duhamel	1999
Memorial Day for the War Dead	Yehuda Amichai	1977
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
The Feast of Lights	Emma Lazarus	1882
The Family Photograph	Vona Groarke	2004

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