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
It was a hard thing to undo this knot	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2013
Variation on a Theme	W. S. Merwin	2013
Autumn Poem 2012	Hoa Nguyen	2013
Self-Portrait	Ira Sadoff	2012
Night Blooming Jasmine	Giovanni Pascoli	2012
Poetry is	Emilio Villa	2012
A Poem	Robert Creeley	2006
Water	Edwin Torres	2010
Fabliau of Florida	Wallace Stevens	1923
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
The Words Under the Words	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me	John Rybicki	2008
Black Petal	Li-Young Lee	2001
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
When Ecstasy is Inconvenient	Lorine Niedecker	2002
Talking to Patrizia	Kenneth Koch	1994
Water Music	Robert Creeley	1983
Eighth Air Force	Randall Jarrell	1969

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