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
Muffin of Sunsets	Elaine Equi	2013
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	Wallace Stevens	1919
Gulls	William Carlos Williams	1917
The New Year	Emma Lazarus	1882
Deep Lane [June 23rd, evening of the first fireflies]	Mark Doty	2011
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
A Lover	Amy Lowell	1917
Wall Street at Night	Lola Ridge	1920
Queen-Anne's-Lace	William Carlos Williams	1921
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
Lying My Head Off	Cate Marvin	2007
Epitaph on a Hare	William Cowper	1783
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me	John Rybicki	2008
Restless Ghost	Eric Pankey	2008
The Widening Sky	Edward Hirsch	2003

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