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
Living in Numbers	Claire Lee	2013
Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight	Marianne Moore	1915
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
Lying While Birding	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Epigram on Rough Roads	Robert Burns	1786
From “Mesongs”	Kamau Brathwaite	2010
Celestial	Tina Chang	2010
Ode to a Flower in Casarsa	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1941
Anybody Can Write a Poem	Bradley Paul	2010
Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine	Amy E. King	2010
Graves We Filled Before the Fire	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2010
During Wind and Rain	Thomas Hardy	1917
Epigrams: On my First Son	Ben Jonson	1616
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
Further Notice	Philip Whalen	2008
A Reactionary Tale	Linh Dinh	2008
Einstein Defining Special Relativity	A. Van Jordan	2007

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