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 Moon in Your Breath	Amy King	2012
Beauty Secrets, Revealed by the Queen in Snow White	Natasha Sajé	2012
To the Roaring Wind	Wallace Stevens	1923
First Light Edging Cirrus	Jane Hirshfield	2011
Woman Waving to Trees	Dorothea Tanning	2011
Poem	Alice Notley	2008
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at]	Tada Chimako	2010
At a Window
Spring and All, XIV	William Carlos Williams	1962
On the Origins of Things	Troy Jollimore	2011
Chester	John Koethe	2009
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
Let Us Go Then	Ciaran Carson	2010
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Crannog	Moya Cannon	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783

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