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 Celestial Surgeon	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
The Sick Child	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
Block City	Robert Louis Stevenson	1913
Who Has Seen the Wind?	Christina Rossetti	1893
Envoy	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
Advice From the Geese (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
Two ramages for old masters [Silent in the moonlight] (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
The Greek Ships (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
A Defense of Poetry (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001
Explicit Version Number Required (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001
Laurel's Eyes (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001
Ars Poetica	Philip Schultz	2002
Poem for Andrew Marvell (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
Ten Maps of Sardonic Wit (audio only)	Christian Bök	2008
Diamonds (audio only)	Christian Bök	2008
Noyta CCCP (audio only)	Christian Bök	2008
Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train (audio only)	David Wojahn	1993
Human Form (audio only)	David Wojahn	1993
Tribute and Ash (audio only)	David Wojahn	1993
Elvis Be My Psychopomp (audio only)	David Kirby	2008

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