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 Magpie's Shadow	Yvor Winters	1922
It was a hard thing to undo this knot	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2013
From “The Princess” [Sweet and low, sweet and low]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	2013
Fifteen Years of Darkness	Liu Xiaobo	2012
Self-Portrait	Ira Sadoff	2012
Danny Boy	Frederick Edward Weatherly	1910
From “La Pelona as Birdwoman”	Rigoberto González	2012
Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out	Charles Jensen	2012
What Is an Epigram?	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1802
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65)	William Shakespeare	1609
One day is there of the series	Emily Dickinson	1890
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love	E. Ethelbert Miller	2010
Cracked Ice	Julie Sheehan	2010
Where I Live	Maxine Kumin	2010
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
[Artfully adorned Aphrodite] (audio only)	Sappho	1995
Father’s Day	James Tate	2008
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World	Sherman Alexie	2009

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