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
The Treasure	Robinson Jeffers	1925
Nocturne	Sadakichi Hartmann	1904
For the Bird Singing Before Dawn	Kim Stafford	2022
Running Water	Alfonsina Storni	1925
The Weeds In This Garden	Kari Gunter-Seymour	2018
Ode to Butter	Beth Ann Fennelly	2020
The Last Word	Mark Van Doren	1924
A Painter’s Thoughts	John Yau	2020
Mountains	Henry David Thoreau	1843
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Spires of Oxford	Winifred M. Letts	2018
A Chilly Night	Christina Rossetti	2018
Sorrows of Werther	William Makepeace Thackeray	2018
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker	John Olivares Espinoza	2017
The Mind in State	Fady Joudah	2016
The Bee	James Dickey	1967
from The Vision of Sir Launfal	James Russell Lowell	1848
Earthy Anecdote	Wallace Stevens	1923
The Black Unicorn (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1977
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819

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