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
The Kindness	Jan Beatty	2015
For Crying Out Loud	Terrance Hayes	2013
In Summer Time	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
Camp of No Return	James Tate	2012
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311)	Emily Dickinson	1890
A Lover	Amy Lowell	1917
from The Vision of Sir Launfal	James Russell Lowell	1848
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon]	Tada Chimako	2010
Demeter to Persephone	Alicia Ostriker	2009
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
Low Barometer	Robert Bridges	1880
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
World Below the Brine	Walt Whitman	1891
Dangerous Astronomy	Sherman Alexie	2009
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Balance	Adam Zagajewski	2008
From	A. Van Jordan	2004
Surreptitious Kissing	Denis Johnson	1994

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