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
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	Wallace Stevens	1919
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
Engines Within the Throne	Cathy Park Hong	2012
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew	Ross Gay	2011
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs]	Tada Chimako	2010
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at]	Tada Chimako	2010
South	Jack Gilbert	2010
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
The Radio Animals	Matthea Harvey	2010
Friend	Jean Valentine	2004
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans	Philip Appleman	1998
Portrait d'une Femme	Ezra Pound	1912
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Secret History	Charles Simic	2008
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers]	Alexander Pope	1711
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
Why Is the Color of Snow?	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
The Fish	Linda Bierds	1994
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles]	Christopher Logue	1988
Achill	Derek Mahon	1991

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