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
Song of the Owl	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1856
Vocation	Sandra Beasley	2010
This is Lagos	John Koethe	2009
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT	dg nanouk okpik	2009
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010
Voices	Sharon Olds	2010
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans	Philip Appleman	1998
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing)	Marvin Bell	2009
The Shark	Judith Beveridge	2004
Coffee and Oranges	Joel Brouwer	2009
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
The Visit	Jason Shinder	2005
God's World	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1912
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers]	Alexander Pope	1711
The Aeneid, Book I [A grove stood in the city]	Virgil	1907
Me in Paradise	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008

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