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
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
tomorrow I leave to El Paso, Texas	Juan Felipe Herrera	2010
The Coming of War: Actaon	Ezra Pound	1915
The Black Virginity	Mina Loy	1915
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
My Aunts	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Jugglers	Francisco Aragón	2000
Birds in the Night	Luis Cernuda	2010
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
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
Letter [Persephone to Demeter]	Rachel Zucker	2003
Isolation: To Marguerite	Matthew Arnold	1857
At the Entering of the New Year	Thomas Hardy	1920

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