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
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
A Book Said Dream and I Do	Barbara Ras	2010
Fireflies	Fred Chappell	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?	Robert Graves	1918
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
That Everything’s Inevitable	Katy Lederer	2008
corydon & alexis, redux	D. A. Powell	2009
The World as Seen Through a Glass of Ice Water	Dobby Gibson	2009
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
To the Same	John Milton	1694
Encouragements to a Lover	Sir John Suckling	1637
Nearing Dawn	Jorie Graham	2008
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story	Richard Harris Barham	1840
The Healing Improvisation of Hair	Jay Wright	2000
The Aeneid, Book I [A grove stood in the city]	Virgil	1907
Nightsong	Philip Booth	1999

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