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 Secret	Denise Levertov	1966
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
Second Fig	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1956
Four Poems for Robin	Gary Snyder	1968
The Father of the Predicaments	Heather McHugh	1999
The Baite	John Donne	1633
The Going	Thomas Hardy	1914
The Mad Potter	John Hollander	1988
Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens	Jack Prelutsky	1990
Talking to Patrizia	Kenneth Koch	1994
The Goops	Gelett Burgess	1903
Lunar Baedeker	Mina Loy	1996
The Fishermen at Guasti Park	Maurya Simon	1986
The Gods Who Come Among Us in the Guise of Strangers	Paul Mariani	1996
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
The Haunting	Alan Shapiro	2005
Back	Beckian Fritz Goldberg	2005
In the Greenhouse	Eugenio Montale	2004
Apostrophe	Angie Estes	2005
Constellations	Steven Heighton	2004

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