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
King Canute	William Makepeace Thackeray	2018
A Brief History of Hostility	Jamaal May	2017
The Rookie	January Gill O’Neil	2016
Nature	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2019
1905	Marilyn Nelson	2015
Reading a Science Article on the Airplane to JFK	Bianca Stone	2015
The Answer	Sara Teasdale	1915
‘The child is father to the man.’	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2011
In Praise of Their Divorce	Tony Hoagland	2010
Autumn Movement	Carl Sandburg	1918
The Black Unicorn (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1977
Dream-Land	Edgar Allan Poe	1844
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
America	James Monroe Whitfield	1853
The Phoenix	Hafez	1876
Just Before	Jorie Graham	2008
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
In Michael Robins's class minus one	Bob Hicok	2007
The Plot Against the Giant	Wallace Stevens	1923

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