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
What's the railroad to me?	Henry David Thoreau	1854
The Call of the Open	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
Essay on Adam	Robert Bringhurst	2012
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself	CAConrad	2012
It Was Going on Five in the Morning	André Breton	2003
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance (audio only)	Elizabeth Bishop	1997
In the Garden	Thomas Hardy	1915
Get Used To It	Margaret Young	2011
Dear Tiara	Sean Thomas Dougherty	2011
Sea Girls	A. E. Stallings	2010
Insomnia	Alicia Ostriker	2009
Me and the Otters	Dorothea Lasky	2010
To Rosemounde	Geoffrey Chaucer	1400
The Words Under the Words	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
A Short Testament	Anne Porter	2006
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
The Aeneid, Book I [A grove stood in the city]	Virgil	1907
Old Santeclaus	Clement Clarke Moore	1821
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973

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