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
Song of the Cluster Bomblet	Soul Vang	2017
Untitled	Paul Carroll	2016
Galway Races	W. B. Yeats	2016
Saturday	Margaret Ross	2016
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126)	William Shakespeare	2016
To Hope	Charlotte Smith	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
thirteen ways of looking at the towers: a 9/11 poem ten years later (audio only)	Evie Shockley	2013
Bound	Aline Murray Kilmer	2014
Sonnet	Bill Knott	1989
Tanka Diary [Awakened too early on Saturday morning]	Harryette Mullen	2012
Mars Poetica	Wyn Cooper	2012
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School	Christopher Bursk	2006
Credo	Matthew Rohrer	2001
Memorial Day for the War Dead	Yehuda Amichai	1977
Gooseberry Season	Simon Armitage	2005
June Light	Richard Wilbur	1947
Caged Bird	Matthew J. Spireng	2002
Personals	C. D. Wright	2002

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