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
It Is Important To Be Something	Joshua Jennifer Espinoza	2018
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle]	A. E. Housman	2017
Utopian	Alicia Ostriker	2016
Not Here, Exactly	Joanna Fuhrman	2015
Before and Every After	Marianne Boruch	2014
The Banjo Player	Fenton Johnson	1922
To Sir Henry Wotton	John Donne	1625
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
Textbook & Absence (Anatomy)	Catherine Barnett	2012
Astraea Redux	John Dryden	1660
The Witch-Bride	William Allingham	1850
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all]	Stephen Vincent Benét	1927
Father	Edgar Guest	1919
What Is Broken Is What God Blesses	Jimmy Santiago Baca	2009
Assault	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
The Wild Iris (audio only)	Louise Glück	1992
The First Marriage	Peter Meinke	1996
The Painted Bed	Donald Hall	2006
Chateau If	Peter Gizzi	2003
Beach Glass	Amy Clampitt	1997

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