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
Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine	Amy E. King	2010
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans	Philip Appleman	1998
To Sleep	Henri Cole	2007
I am Raftery the Poet	Anthony Raftery	1903
Plague of Dead Sharks	Alan Dugan	2001
The Ripple Effect	Jamey Dunham	2009
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?	Robert Graves	1918
If It All Went up in Smoke	George Oppen	1978
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window	Ernesto Cardenal	2009
It is the time of rain and snow	Izumi Shikibu	1955
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year	Maxine Kumin	2008
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Pockets	Howard Nemerov	1975
The Healing Improvisation of Hair	Jay Wright	2000
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Duality	Tina Chang	2007
Of Distress Being Humiliated by the Classical Chinese Poets	Hayden Carruth	2006

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