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
Lady Tactics (audio only)	Anne Waldman	2009
Loam	Carl Sandburg	1918
An Excuse For Not Returning the Visit of a Friend	Mei-Yao Ch'en	1971
Blue or Green	James Galvin	2009
corydon & alexis, redux	D. A. Powell	2009
The Dusk of Horses	James Dickey	1992
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
[Artfully adorned Aphrodite] (audio only)	Sappho	1995
The Visit	Jason Shinder	2005
May Day	Phillis Levin	2008
Restless Ghost	Eric Pankey	2008
Spirit Birds	Stanley Plumly	2008
What was he saying and to whom	Alan Michael Parker	2008
Libido	Rupert Brooke	1916
Seeing All the Vermeers	Alfred Corn	2002
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
The Broken Sandal	Denise Levertov	1970
In a Boat	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Four Winds	Sara Teasdale	1917
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002

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