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
My Sister	Hyam Plutzik	2014
The Owl	Arthur Sze	1998
Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)	Bob Hicok	2013
It was a hard thing to undo this knot	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2013
What's the railroad to me?	Henry David Thoreau	1854
“Oh could I raise the darken’d veil”	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1820
A Sonnet from the Archive of Love’s Failures, Volumes 1-3.5 Million	Anne Boyer	2013
Lines to a Nasturtium	Anne Spencer	1926
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt]	Pindar	1824
Before the Feast of Shushan	Anne Spencer	1922
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself	CAConrad	2012
Poem	Charles Bernstein	1978
Psalm of Home Redux	David Lee	2011
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Complete Destruction	William Carlos Williams	1921
Birds in the Night	Luis Cernuda	2010
way [excerpts]	Leslie Scalapino	1988
The Ghazal of What Hurt	Peter Cole	2008
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Poetry Is a Destructive Force	Wallace Stevens	1980

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