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 Moon in Your Breath	Amy King	2012
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
Here City	Rick Snyder	2012
The Nightingale	Sir Philip Sidney	1613
To the Roaring Wind	Wallace Stevens	1923
Woman Waving to Trees	Dorothea Tanning	2011
Poem [on getting a card]	William Carlos Williams	1953
Summer Images	John Clare	1835
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall	Ross Gay	2011
Traveling Light	Linda Pastan	2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
45 I Give Up My Identity	Jerome Rothenberg	2003
Cousin Nancy	T. S. Eliot	1920
Allende	Phillip Lopate	2009
During Wind and Rain	Thomas Hardy	1917
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
The Retreat	Henry Vaughan	1650
Triad	Adelaide Crapsey	1915

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