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
The Passionate Freudian to His Love	Dorothy Parker	1996
The Words Under the Words	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
To Her Father with Some Verses	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Testament	Carl Sandburg	1918
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic	Edward Hirsch	2003
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind]	William Wordsworth	1815
Return	John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester	1714
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
The Old Year	John Clare	1845
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior	Ben Jonson	1640
At the Very Beginning	Katie Peterson	2006
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles]	Christopher Logue	1988
Catch a Little Rhyme	Eve Merriam	1966
Epilogue	Robert Lowell	1975
A Newborn Girl at Passover	Nan Cohen	1998
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You	Abdellatif Laâbi	2003
In the Next Galaxy	Ruth Stone	2002
Song of Myself	John Canaday	2002
Moreover, the Moon—	Mina Loy	1996
The Woodspurge	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	1856

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