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
Here	Ed Roberson	2011
The Very Nervous Family	Sabrina Orah Mark	2011
Vertical	Linda Pastan	2010
This is Lagos	John Koethe	2009
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Ophelia to the Court	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Labor	Jericho Brown	2010
Adjectives of Order	Alexandra Teague	2010
Birds in the Night	Luis Cernuda	2010
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
Mother Night	James Weldon Johnson	1922
What was he saying and to whom	Alan Michael Parker	2008
Picking Up	Evelyn Duncan	2008
Shawl	Albert Goldbarth	2007
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004
Beloved, my Beloved... (Sonnet 20)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
Old Santeclaus	Clement Clarke Moore	1821
Albany	Ron Silliman	1983
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow	Robert Duncan	1960

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