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 Maldive Shark	Herman Melville	1888
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
The Heron	Linda Hogan	2008
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004
Faults	Sara Teasdale	1917
The Illiterate	William Meredith	1997
First Things to Hand	Robert Pinsky	2006
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard	Charles Wright	1995
In the Greenhouse	Eugenio Montale	2004
First Georgic [Excerpt]	Virgil	2005
Of Memory and Distance	Russell Edson	2005
Photograph of People Dancing in France	Leslie Adrienne Miller	2002
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565	Richard Howard	1994
Tagaq Sutra	Kazim Ali	2020
for goldfish that remember seaworld	D’mani Thomas	2026
Long Weekend	Megan Pinto	2026
Bananas	Lorna Dee Cervantes	2005

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