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
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
The Body Is the Victory and the Defeat of Dreams	Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke	2009
Lullaby in Blue	Betsy Sholl	2009
Hawk	Daniel Waters	2009
Against Elegies	Marilyn Hacker	1994
How from Politeness to the Trees	Cecily Parks	2008
Poetry Is a Destructive Force	Wallace Stevens	1980
Ars Poetica? (audio only)	Czesław Miłosz	1968
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [The Wendy girl]	Jenny Boully	2008
Encouragements to a Lover	Sir John Suckling	1637
The Retreat	Henry Vaughan	1650
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
The Guarded Wound	Adelaide Crapsey	1915
The Anti-Suffragists	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	1911
The Preacher [As if the one tree you love]	Gerald Stern	2008
Cherry Tomatoes	Sandra Beasley	2008
Chance	Molly Peacock	2008
The Edge of the World [excerpt]	Adonis	2008
Envoy	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
God's World	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1912

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