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
Lullaby	Eve Merriam	1964
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse]	William Shakespeare	1900
Quid Pro Quo	Paul Mariani	1996
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos	Anthony Hecht	1990
The Shooting of John Dillinger Outside the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934	David Wagoner	1966
Gettysburg	Herman Melville	1866
Bedtime Story	Wanda Coleman	1993
Call Me Ishmael	Jackson Mac Low	1972
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
Snowman	Gu Cheng	2005
For John Clare	John Ashbery	1956
Souvenir	Beth Ann Fennelly	2004
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?	Rachel Zucker	2012
I, Up they soar	Inger Christensen	1989
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
Spring Snow	Arthur Sze	1998
Wrap	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2003
On the Mississippi	Hamlin Garland	1893
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form	Paul Guest	2003
Vodka	Joel Brouwer	2003

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