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
Oughta Be a Woman	June Jordan	2017
Planet	Catherine Pierce	2017
The Fool’s Song	William Carlos Williams	2017
Prodigal	Linda Gregerson	2016
Coventry Lake	Bruce Cohen	2016
Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng	Cathy Linh Che	2016
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City	Jennifer Grotz	2015
Darling Coffee	Meena Alexander	2015
Variation on a Theme	W. S. Merwin	2013
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
Moonlight	Sara Teasdale	1920
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth	David Rosenthal	1920
That This	Susan Howe	2011
Plural Happiness	David Rivard	2011
Daily Life	Susan Wood	2011
September Elegies	Randall Mann	2010
Phantom Noise	Brian Turner	2010
The Face of All the World (Sonnet 7)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness	John Donne	1623
On Shakespeare	John Milton	1630

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