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
Bleeding	May Swenson	2016
An Instructor’s Dream	Bill Knott	2007
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
Continuum	Anne Waldman	2016
The Dark Hills	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1920
Do What Now	Mike Young	2014
Aspiration	Henrietta Cordelia Ray	1910
A Violin at Dusk	Lizette Woodworth Reese	1920
Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace]	Henry Howard	1557
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in]	John Keats	1820
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
The Ghazal of What Hurt	Peter Cole	2008
The Sick Child	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss]	Lord George Gordon Byron	1819
You Tell Us What to Do	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1991
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005
Age and Death	Emma Lazarus	1888
Of Memory and Distance	Russell Edson	2005
Always on the Train	Ruth Stone	2003
The Two	Philip Levine	2002

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