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
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos	Anthony Hecht	1990
The Shooting of John Dillinger Outside the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934	David Wagoner	1966
Birdcall	Alicia Ostriker	2005
Blue Oxen	Dara Barrois/Dixon	2005
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts	Sydney Lea	2005
Milton	David Groff	2013
Introduction to the World	Matthea Harvey	2004
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
Checkmate	Lucio Mariani	2003
Diary [Surface]	Rachel Zucker	2003
The Poem	Daniel Hoffman	2003
In Tennessee I Found a Firefly	Mary Szybist	2003
Artificer	Czesław Miłosz	1931
A Certain Slant of Sunlight	Ted Berrigan	1994
Refugio's Hair	Alberto Ríos	2002
Gic to Har	Kenneth Rexroth	2002
Photograph of People Dancing in France	Leslie Adrienne Miller	2002
Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri	Mona Van Duyn	2002
For the Twentieth Century	Frank Bidart	2002
A Quick One Before I Go	David Lehman	2002

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