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
Dirge	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Elegy Before Death	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
the dark tree, the cold sea	Emily Fragos	2017
Sitting at Night on the Front Porch	Charles Wright	2017
Control Feast	Elizabeth Metzger	2017
It Was Like This: You Were Happy	Jane Hirshfield	2006
Dirge Without Music	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2016
Hey Phil	Juan Felipe Herrera	2016
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
On the Death of Anne Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
Remnants	Jim Handlin	2016
Continuum	Anne Waldman	2016
Little Box	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Patsy Cline	Jennifer Chang	2015
Only as the Day Is Long	Dorianne Laux	2015
More Stones	Andrea Cohen	2015
The Sadness of Clothes	Emily Fragos	2015
Mozart Songbook	Joan Larkin	2015
Do Not Speak of the Dead	Cecilia Llompart	2015
Rooms Remembered	Laure-Anne Bosselaar	2015

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