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
Allende	Phillip Lopate	2009
First Turn to Me ...	Bernadette Mayer	1968
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing)	Marvin Bell	2009
Little Ending	Charles Wright	2009
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Triad	Adelaide Crapsey	1915
La Chalupa, the Boat	Jean Valentine	2008
Old Black Men	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI	A. E. Housman	1896
Monument (audio only)	Natasha Trethewey	2006
Friday’s Child (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964
What [The flower sermon]	Ron Silliman	1988
Privilege of Being (audio only)	Robert Hass	1988
Space Station	Tom Sleigh	2005
Vacant Lot with Pokeweed	Amy Clampitt	1997
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?	Rachel Zucker	2012
To. . .	René Char	2004
I, Up they soar	Inger Christensen	1989

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