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 Quietness	Robinson Jeffers	1916
Poppies on the Wheat	Helen Hunt Jackson	1870
From “The Princess” [Sweet and low, sweet and low]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	2013
Places [III. Winter Sun]	Sara Teasdale	1922
Passer Mortuus Est	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains	John Keats	1899
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew	Ross Gay	2011
In the Garden	Thomas Hardy	1915
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650)	Emily Dickinson	1890
One day is there of the series	Emily Dickinson	1890
Insomnia	Alicia Ostriker	2009
Negotiations with a Volcano	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Gravity and Center	Henri Cole	2007
All Souls' Night, 1917	Hortense King Flexner	1920
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
The Blue Terrance	Terrance Hayes	2006
Privilege of Being (audio only)	Robert Hass	1988

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