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
Beach Walk	Henri Cole	2007
Halloween	Arthur Peterson	1916
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
The Ripple Effect	Jamey Dunham	2009
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
That Everything’s Inevitable	Katy Lederer	2008
The World as Seen Through a Glass of Ice Water	Dobby Gibson	2009
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
To the Same	John Milton	1694
Encouragements to a Lover	Sir John Suckling	1637
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
Nearing Dawn	Jorie Graham	2008
Dreaming About My Father (audio only)	Ed Ochester	2008
Dangerous for Girls	Connie Voisine	2008
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story	Richard Harris Barham	1840
The Healing Improvisation of Hair	Jay Wright	2000
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Nightsong	Philip Booth	1999
Black Jackets	Thom Gunn	1994

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