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 Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me	Delmore Schwartz	1959
Mother’s Day	David Young	2011
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love	E. Ethelbert Miller	2010
Emily Dickinson to the Rescue	Michael Dickman	2010
Where I Live	Maxine Kumin	2010
Fear of the Future	John Koethe	2009
Summer in the South	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1903
The Words Under the Words	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
The Branches	Jean Valentine	2009
Testament	Carl Sandburg	1918
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Return	John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester	1714
Purgatorio, Canto X	Dante Alighieri	1867
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
Beloved, my Beloved... (Sonnet 20)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
Albany	Ron Silliman	1983
Catch a Little Rhyme	Eve Merriam	1966
Losing Track	Denise Levertov	1964
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke	David Lehman	1986

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