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
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August, 1953	David Wojahn	2011
On the Origins of Things	Troy Jollimore	2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
The Gaffe	C. K. Williams	2010
Complete Destruction	William Carlos Williams	1921
Eleventh Brother	Jean Valentine	2004
Infinite and Plausible	Tina Chang	2010
Robin Hood’s Barn (audio only)	John Ashbery	2010
Across a Great Wilderness without You	Keetje Kuipers	2010
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Crannog	Moya Cannon	2010
Jugglers	Francisco Aragón	2000
Haymaking	John Clare	1835
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
The Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
Red Lilies	Barbara Guest	2008
During Wind and Rain	Thomas Hardy	1917
Noisetone	Barbara Guest	2008
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing)	Marvin Bell	2009

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