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 Visitor	Jack Prelutsky	1974
A Green Crab’s Shell	Mark Doty	1995
My Parents Have Come Home Laughing	Mark Jarman	1978
Eighth Sky	Michael Palmer	1995
Streets	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
The Soldier	Rupert Brooke	1914
Worms	Sandra Alcosser	1998
Some Things Don't Make Any Sense at All	Judith Viorst	1981
The Transparent Man	Anthony Hecht	1991
Like This	Carol Muske-Dukes	1997
Erotic Energy	Chase Twichell	1998
Womanhood	Catherine Anderson	1983
In California During the Gulf War	Denise Levertov	1992
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
Catch a Little Rhyme	Eve Merriam	1966
The map room	Joshua Clover	1997
The Refinery	Robert Pinsky	1990
Out-of-the-Body Travel	Stanley Plumly	1974
Channel Firing	Thomas Hardy	1914
Vespers	Louise Glück	1992

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