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
Acts of Mind	Catherine Barnett	2013
Epistle: Leaving	Kerrin McCadden	2013
The Poplar	Richard Aldington	1915
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
El Florida Room	Richard Blanco	2012
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
Beggar Woman	Charles Reznikoff	1921
Guillaume Apollinaire	Gertrude Stein	1913
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
The Black Virginity	Mina Loy	1915
My Aunts	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Birds in the Night	Luis Cernuda	2010
Voices	Sharon Olds	2010
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
Caesarion	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
The City of God	David Baker	2001
Talking About New Orleans	Jayne Cortez	2009
The Visit	Jason Shinder	2005

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