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
Mag	Carl Sandburg	1916
Amethyst Beads	Eavan Boland	2013
Written on the Banks of the Arun	Charlotte Smith	1785
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Epitaph on a Hare	William Cowper	1783
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
Restless Ghost	Eric Pankey	2008
Love in a Life	Robert Browning	1855
Safe Sex	Donald Hall	2006
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run	Matthea Harvey	2006
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
This Morning	Charles Simic	1994
Eighth Air Force	Randall Jarrell	1969
They’ll spend the summer	Joshua Beckman	2004
The Painting	John Balaban	2003

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