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 Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]	William Shakespeare	1623
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in]	Tada Chimako	2010
At a Window
One Child Has Brown Eyes	Marilyn Chin	2010
Shaving Your Father’s Face	Michael Dickman	2010
In Praise of Their Divorce	Tony Hoagland	2010
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart	Deborah Digges	2010
Spring in New Hampshire	Claude McKay	1920
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
A Muse	Reginald Shepherd	1995
Elegy 5	Ovid	1870
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
The Buried Life	Matthew Arnold	1852
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97)	William Shakespeare	1609
Catch a Little Rhyme	Eve Merriam	1966
Age and Death	Emma Lazarus	1888
Why should a foolish marriage vow	John Dryden	1913
To. . .	René Char	2004
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You	Abdellatif Laâbi	2003
Once in the 40’s	William Stafford	1982

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