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
Aubade	Camille Rankine	2017
Galway Races	W. B. Yeats	2016
Villagers	Ari Banias	2016
Big Bend National Park Says No to All Walls	Naomi Shihab Nye	2016
Pomegranate Means Grenade	Jamaal May	2016
An Instructor’s Dream	Bill Knott	2007
The Peddler of Flowers	Amy Lowell	2016
The Visitors of Night	Frank Stanford	2016
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms	Hayan Charara	2015
thirteen ways of looking at the towers: a 9/11 poem ten years later (audio only)	Evie Shockley	2013
The Bee	James Dickey	1967
At Night	Yone Noguchi	1920
Election Day, November, 1884	Walt Whitman	1891
Coda	Ezra Pound	1916
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1808
Joy in the Woods	Claude McKay	1920
Curtains	Ruth Stone	1987
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129)	William Shakespeare	1609
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder	A. E. Housman	1939
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002

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