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
Red Wand	Sandra Simonds	2012
Shepheardes Calendar [October]	Edmund Spenser	1579
Instead of Losing	John Ashbery	2011
playing with fire	Evie Shockley	2011
What Is an Epigram?	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1802
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
Summer	Amy Lowell	1912
In the Garden	Thomas Hardy	1915
One day is there of the series	Emily Dickinson	1890
Myself I Sing	George Oppen	2002
Complete Destruction	William Carlos Williams	1921
Wheeling Motel	Franz Wright	2010
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas	Prageeta Sharma	2010
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
Negotiations with a Volcano	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874
The Maldive Shark	Herman Melville	1888
The City of God	David Baker	2001
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina	Jack Gilbert	2009
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609

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