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
Places [III. Winter Sun]	Sara Teasdale	1922
Poem [This beauty that I see]	James Schuyler	1993
Instead of Losing	John Ashbery	2011
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance (audio only)	Elizabeth Bishop	1997
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at]	Tada Chimako	2010
Psalm of Home Redux	David Lee	2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
Poetry Anonymous	Prageeta Sharma	2010
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing)	Marvin Bell	2009
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
At Night the States	Alice Notley	2006
A True Poem	Lloyd Schwartz	2000
Shaking the Grass	Janice N. Harrington	2007
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI	A. E. Housman	1896
Four Winds	Sara Teasdale	1917
A Crosstown Breeze	Henry Taylor	2006

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