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
Hysteria	T. S. Eliot	1915
Electricity	Geoffrey Nutter	2009
The Love-Hat Relationship	Aaron Belz	2010
The Witch-Bride	William Allingham	1850
World Below the Brine	Walt Whitman	1891
What Do I Care	Sara Teasdale	1920
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
The Great Figure	William Carlos Williams	1962
In Praise of Shame	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
Going There	Jack Gilbert	2001
Poet's Work	Lorine Niedecker	2002
Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School	Christopher Bursk	2006
Chateau If	Peter Gizzi	2003
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts	Sydney Lea	2005
Duende	Tracy K. Smith	2004
Domestic Mysticism	Lucie Brock-Broido	1988
The Painting	John Balaban	2003
Days of Me	Stuart Dischell	2003

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