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
In Envy of Cows	Joseph Auslander	1923
At a Deli Counter in Vermont	Stephanie Burt	2019
From “Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity”	Christina Rossetti	1893
OBIT [Music]	Victoria Chang	2017
OBIT [Friendships]	Victoria Chang	2017
My Mother’s Colander	Dorianne Laux	2019
Song of Myself, 38	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 34	Walt Whitman	1891
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key (Sonnet 52)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Money	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
A Shropshire Lad, I	A. E. Housman	2018
Break of Day in the Trenches	Isaac Rosenberg	2018
To the White Fiends	Claude McKay	1922
There Is a Devil Inside Me	Carolina Ebeid	2018
Parkinson’s Disease: Autumn	Andrés Cerpa	2018
Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch	Joshua Bennett	2018
On the Threshold	Amy Levy	1889
The Self-Seeker	Robert Frost	2018
for you	Eileen Myles	2018
The House at Long Lake	Philip Metres	2018

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