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
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at]	Tada Chimako	2010
At a Window
Traveling Light	Linda Pastan	2011
On the Origins of Things	Troy Jollimore	2011
The Anxiety of Coincidence	Mark Bibbins	2010
The Radio Animals	Matthea Harvey	2010
The Gaffe	C. K. Williams	2010
Myself I Sing	George Oppen	2002
Eleventh Brother	Jean Valentine	2004
Infinite and Plausible	Tina Chang	2010
Ode to a Flower in Casarsa	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1941
Adjectives of Order	Alexandra Teague	2010
Robin Hood’s Barn (audio only)	John Ashbery	2010
Today We Make the Poet’s Words Our Own	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1875
Anybody Can Write a Poem	Bradley Paul	2010
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Crannog	Moya Cannon	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
During Wind and Rain	Thomas Hardy	1917

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