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
Today We Make the Poet’s Words Our Own	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1875
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Crannog	Moya Cannon	2010
Haymaking	John Clare	1835
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
Song of the Deathless Voice	Abram Joseph Ryan	1880
Red Lilies	Barbara Guest	2008
Noisetone	Barbara Guest	2008
Tender Buttons [Chicken]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Spring Day [Bath]	Amy Lowell	1916
Thanksgiving	Edgar Guest	1917
The City of God	David Baker	2001
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
Blue or Green	James Galvin	2009
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
The Dusk of Horses	James Dickey	1992
Loving and Beloved	Sir John Suckling	1646

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