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 War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
A Woman Named Thucydides	Sherod Santos	2010
Labor	Jericho Brown	2010
From an Italian Postcard Factory (audio only)	Margaret Atwood	1978
The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] (audio only)	Carolyn Forché	1995
Today We Make the Poet’s Words Our Own	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1875
Let Us Go Then	Ciaran Carson	2010
Bullfight critics ranked in rows [excerpt]	Domingo Ortega	1962
Abraham Davenport [excerpt]	John Greenleaf Whittier	1866
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010
Graves We Filled Before the Fire	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2010
Portrait d'une Femme	Ezra Pound	1912
To Sleep	Henri Cole	2007
First Turn to Me ...	Bernadette Mayer	1968
English as a Second Language	April Bernard	2002
Making the Bed	Burt Kimmelman	2005
The Shark	Isaac McLellan	1891
World Below the Brine	Walt Whitman	1891
A Toast to the Men	Edgar Guest	1909
Bulb Planting Time	Edgar Guest	1922

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