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
Poet of an Ordinary Heartbreak	Chris Abani	2015
Song Out Here	Juan Felipe Herrera	2014
My Sister	Hyam Plutzik	2014
For the Scribe Gar.Una of Uruk, 3,000 B. C.	David Wojahn	2014
Q	Hannah Sanghee Park	2014
Station 40, Chiriu: the Poet Ariwara no Narihira at Eight Bridges	Debora Greger	2014
Matrimonial Toast	Ken White	2014
Anxieties	Donna Masini	2014
Mountain Pines	Robinson Jeffers	1904
Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)	Bob Hicok	2013
Vision	Robert Penn Warren	1922
“Oh could I raise the darken’d veil”	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1820
Oracle	Cate Marvin	2013
A Sonnet from the Archive of Love’s Failures, Volumes 1-3.5 Million	Anne Boyer	2013
Lines to a Nasturtium	Anne Spencer	1926
High Tide at Race Point	Charles Bernstein	2012
Two Sewing	Hazel Hall	1921
Engines Within the Throne	Cathy Park Hong	2012
The Maenads	Ursula K. Le Guin	2012
After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains	John Keats	1899

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