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
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
Talking About New Orleans	Jayne Cortez	2009
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina	Jack Gilbert	2009
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me	John Rybicki	2008
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
Science	Robert Kelly	2006
Isolation: To Marguerite	Matthew Arnold	1857
The Illiterate	William Meredith	1997
Lights Out	Edward Thomas	1917
Safe Sex	Donald Hall	2006
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep]	François Villon	1965
Drunken Winter	Joseph Ceravolo	1994
Change in the Grove of Chickadees	Lesle Lewis	2006
Achill	Derek Mahon	1991
why must itself up every of a park	E. E. Cummings	1923
The Clerk’s Tale	Spencer Reece	2004

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