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
Indigestible	Phillip Lopate	2009
The Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing)	Marvin Bell	2009
Last Words to Miriam	D. H. Lawrence	1921
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Dreaming About My Father (audio only)	Ed Ochester	2008
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity	Mary Jo Bang	2004
Black Petal	Li-Young Lee	2001
Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits	Liam Rector	2006
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep	August Kleinzahler	2003
Bedside	William Olsen	2007
Mottled Tuesday	John Ashbery	2007
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing	Robert Duncan	1968
Friday’s Child (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing	Robert Herrick	1648
Tender Buttons [A Plate]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep]	François Villon	1965
Angel of Duluth [excerpt]	Madelon Sprengnether	2006

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