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 Face of All the World (Sonnet 7)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
Daniel Boone	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
John Brown's Body [There were three stout pillars that held up all]	Stephen Vincent Benét	1927
A Bird came down the Walk (328)	Emily Dickinson	1890
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
White Clover	Marvin Bell	2000
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing)	Marvin Bell	2009
The Book of the Dead Man (Your Hands)	Marvin Bell	2009
Shells	Elaine Terranova	2006
The Anniversary	Elaine Terranova	2006
Return to Winter	Elaine Terranova	2006
Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002	Marvin Bell	2007
Mint	Elaine Terranova	2006
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
The Debt	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
The Book of the Dead Man (The Foundry)	Marvin Bell	2009
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi)	Marvin Bell	2009
Adam's Curse	W. B. Yeats	1903
To Dorothy	Marvin Bell	2000

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