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
Me in Paradise	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Shaking the Grass	Janice N. Harrington	2007
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior	Ben Jonson	1640
Poem at Thirty	Michael Ryan	2004
Third Charm from Masque of Queens	Ben Jonson	1609
Chateau If	Peter Gizzi	2003
The Conjugation of the Paramecium	Muriel Rukeyser	1968
He “Digesteth Harde Yron”	Marianne Moore	1961
Called into Play	A. R. Ammons	1997
Kore	Robert Creeley	1991
Sexism	David Lehman	1996
Snowman	Gu Cheng	2005
Company of Moths	Michael Palmer	2005
Age and Death	Emma Lazarus	1888
My Sister’s Funeral	Gerald Stern	2005
Self-Portrait as Miranda	Geri Doran	2005
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?	Rachel Zucker	2012
Spring Snow	Arthur Sze	1998
Wrap	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2003
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form	Paul Guest	2003

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