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
Jigsaw: Second Narrows Bridge at Rush Hour	Sharon Thesen	2000
The Snow Man	Wallace Stevens	1954
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	Wallace Stevens	1954
Bantams in Pine-Woods	Wallace Stevens	1954
Metaphors of a Magnifico	Wallace Stevens	1954
The Idea of Order at Key West	Wallace Stevens	1954
Blue Tango	Frazier Russell	2001
A High-Toned Old Christian Woman	Wallace Stevens	1954
San Francisco Night Windows	Robert Penn Warren	2001
Hardware Sparrows	R. T. Smith	2001
The Valve	David R. Slavitt	2001
Anecdote of the Jar	Wallace Stevens	1954
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	Wallace Stevens	1922
Widow	Vénus Khoury-Ghata	2001
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt]	Aimé Césaire	2001
Altars of Light	Pierre Joris	2001
The Silent Singer	Len Roberts	2000
Concerning the Angel at 5th & 53rd	J. P. White	2000
I Have Been Living	Jane Mead	2000
Words	Dana Gioia	2001

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