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
Diana of the Hunt	Forceythe Willson	1867
The Pool	H.D.	1915
Ashes of Life	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
The Other Side of the River	Xi Chuan	2012
After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains	John Keats	1899
In the Garden	Thomas Hardy	1915
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall	Ross Gay	2011
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
Health	Rafael Campo	2010
Where I Live	Maxine Kumin	2010
Merciles Beaute	Geoffrey Chaucer	1375
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Wilderness	Carl Sandburg	1918
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Holy Innocents	Christina Rossetti	1881
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Jerusalem (audio only)	James Fenton	1994
Orfeo	Jack Spicer	2008
Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember]	Christina Rossetti	1881
You Tell Us What to Do	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1991

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