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
from Manatee/Humanity [1]	Anne Waldman	2009
Black Glass Soliloquy	Ben Mirov	2012
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself	CAConrad	2012
What Things Want	Robert Bly	2012
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
Get Used To It	Margaret Young	2011
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
Bullfight critics ranked in rows [excerpt]	Domingo Ortega	1962
I cry your mercy—pity—love!—ay, love	John Keats	1819
Farewell	John Clare	1920
Grace for a Child	Robert Herrick	1648
Winter Twilight	Anne Porter	2006
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Compulsively Allergic to the Truth	Jeffrey McDaniel	2008
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
What [The flower sermon]	Ron Silliman	1988
Poem at Thirty	Michael Ryan	2004
Poet's Work	Lorine Niedecker	2002
Loading a Boar	David Lee	2004

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