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
Coffee and Oranges	Joel Brouwer	2009
The City of God	David Baker	2001
Yellow Bowl	Rachel Contreni Flynn	2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
Glen Uig	Richard Hugo	2008
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Lovers' Infiniteness	John Donne	1633
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI	A. E. Housman	1896
A Crosstown Breeze	Henry Taylor	2006
Sticks	Thomas Sayers Ellis	2005
Then	Spencer Reece	2004
Ponies	Spencer Reece	2004
Real Life	Lucie Brock-Broido	1988
The Painting	John Balaban	2003
Springing	Marie Ponsot	2002
In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
The Lost Pilot	James Tate	1967

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