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
Gather	Rose McLarney	2012
After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains	John Keats	1899
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]	William Shakespeare	1623
Magnolia	Gerald Stern	2011
Joy in the Woods	Claude McKay	1920
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]	William Shakespeare	1623
One Child Has Brown Eyes	Marilyn Chin	2010
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart	Deborah Digges	2010
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
Back Yard	Carl Sandburg	1916
The Violet	Jane Taylor	1806
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss]	Lord George Gordon Byron	1819
The Buried Life	Matthew Arnold	1852
Tender Buttons [A Chair]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Working Late	Louis Simpson	1988
Why should a foolish marriage vow	John Dryden	1913
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You	Abdellatif Laâbi	2003
The Painting	John Balaban	2003
Once in the 40’s	William Stafford	1982

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