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
Another Poem for Mothers	Erin Belieu	2014
The Long Deployment	Jehanne Dubrow	2013
Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)	Bob Hicok	2013
Toad	Diane Seuss	2013
Loss	Carl Adamshick	2013
The Wound-Dresser	Walt Whitman	1891
Fifteen Years of Darkness	Liu Xiaobo	2012
From “La Pelona as Birdwoman”	Rigoberto González	2012
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
In the Garden	Thomas Hardy	1915
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth	David Rosenthal	1920
Egg	Aleš Šteger	2011
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
Dear Tiara	Sean Thomas Dougherty	2011
To George Sand: A Recognition	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844
Dear Migraine,	Gail Mazur	2011
Talk	Kwame Dawes	2010
Where I Live	Maxine Kumin	2010
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
On Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964

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