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
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
The Shark	Judith Beveridge	2004
Rome	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2009
The City of God	David Baker	2001
A Fear of Old Age	Jack Anderson	2009
In Aporia	Akilah Oliver	2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me	John Rybicki	2008
Me in Paradise	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Joseph Cornell, with Box	Michael Dumanis	2007
Einstein Defining Special Relativity	A. Van Jordan	2007
The First Marriage	Peter Meinke	1996
Mortal Limit	Robert Penn Warren	1985
An Octave Above Thunder	Carol Muske-Dukes	1997
The Initiate	Charles Simic	1990
why must itself up every of a park	E. E. Cummings	1923
Annunciation	Jean Valentine	2004
The Iliad, Book I [A Friend Consigned to Death]	Homer	1974

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