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
Mairsy and Dosey (audio only)	Sharon Olds	2007
Cloud Country (audio only)	Carl Phillips	2007
Poem in Disconnected Parts (audio only)	Robert Pinsky	2007
The Edges of Time (audio only)	Kay Ryan	2007
Death by Wind (audio only)	Gerald Stern	2007
The Lost Colony (audio only)	Susan Stewart	2007
Father’s Day	James Tate	2008
The Hive (audio only)	Ellen Bryant Voigt	2007
The Aeneid, Book I [A grove stood in the city]	Virgil	1907
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
The Aeneid, Book IV [So, you traitor]	Virgil	2006
Pillow	Li-Young Lee	2001
Black Petal	Li-Young Lee	2001
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
The Believed-In (audio only)	James McMichael	2007
I’m Over the Moon	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Why Is the Color of Snow?	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Me in Paradise	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Delight in Disorder	Robert Herrick	1648
On A Pair of Garters	Sir John Davies	1876

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