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
Winter Sleep	Edith Matilda Thomas	1896
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
Rome	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2009
Plague of Dead Sharks	Alan Dugan	2001
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?]	Samuel Daniel	1610
Heavy Snowfall in a Year Gone Past	Laura Jensen	1977
Einstein Defining Special Relativity	A. Van Jordan	2007
First Things First (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1960
The Leaves	Deborah Digges	1986
Sinners Welcome	Mary Karr	2006
Privilege of Being (audio only)	Robert Hass	1988
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals	Norman Dubie	1983
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse]	William Shakespeare	1900
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos	Anthony Hecht	1990
The White Room	Charles Simic	1990
Lawless Pantoum	Denise Duhamel	2005
Self-Portrait as Miranda	Geri Doran	2005
Still Another Day: XVII/Men	Pablo Neruda	2005
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?	Rachel Zucker	2012

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