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
Psalm	Vanessa Place	2010
Cherry Blossom Storm	Henri Cole	2010
The Children’s Hour	Li-Young Lee	2010
Shaving Your Father’s Face	Michael Dickman	2010
Myself I Sing	George Oppen	2002
Evolution	John Banister Tabb	1894
Stars	Keith Douglas	2010
Poetry Anonymous	Prageeta Sharma	2010
the gate	Tadeusz Różewicz	2010
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Alcove	John Ashbery	2010
A Book Said Dream and I Do	Barbara Ras	2010
December Moon	Brenda Hillman	2010
Fireflies	Fred Chappell	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
Halloween	Arthur Peterson	1916
That Everything’s Inevitable	Katy Lederer	2008

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