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
Modern Love: XXXV	George Meredith	1909
In the Still, Star-Lit Night	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
Notes on the Peanut	June Jordan	2017
In Autumn	Mark Irwin	2017
My Father’s Kites	Allison Joseph	2017
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem	Juan Felipe Herrera	2016
Lunch Break	Francisco Aragón	2016
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen	Jane Hirshfield	2011
From “Debths”	Susan Howe	2013
Ashes of Life	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
Coda	Ezra Pound	1916
The Magi	W. B. Yeats	1914
Joy in the Woods	Claude McKay	1920
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon]	Tada Chimako	2010
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Hades' Pitch	Rita Dove	1980
In a Boat	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Safe Sex	Donald Hall	2006
Losing Track	Denise Levertov	1964

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