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
Complaint of Achilles' Heel	Charles Jensen	2013
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	Wallace Stevens	1919
Living in Numbers	Claire Lee	2013
Poem	John Gray	2013
The Objectified Mermaid	Matthea Harvey	2013
Domestic	Deborah Landau	2013
Intention to Escape from Him	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
jasper texas 1998	Lucille Clifton	1991
Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight	Marianne Moore	1915
I Found Her Out There	Thomas Hardy	1914
Poem	Joe Brainard	2012
The Hot Dog Poem	Jane Barnes	1981
Poem [This beauty that I see]	James Schuyler	1993
The Dancers Inherit the Party	Ian Hamilton Finlay	2012
Our Bodies Break Light	Traci Brimhall	2012
The Other Side of the River	Xi Chuan	2012
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
What Things Want	Robert Bly	2012
What They Found In the Diving Bell	Traci Brimhall	2012
To the Roaring Wind	Wallace Stevens	1923

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