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 Moods	W. B. Yeats	1899
England in 1819	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1839
from The Vision of Sir Launfal	James Russell Lowell	1848
Night Baseball	Michael Blumenthal	1984
Vertical	Linda Pastan	2010
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only)	James Tate	1996
Fairy Tale	Ron Padgett	2001
Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember]	Christina Rossetti	1881
The Old Year	John Clare	1845
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
Gooseberry Season	Simon Armitage	2005
Audience	Mei-mei Berssenbrugge	2003
The Painting	John Balaban	2003
Passing Through Albuquerque	John Balaban	1991
Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri	Mona Van Duyn	2002
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55)	William Shakespeare	1609
Notes from the Other Side	Jane Kenyon	1993
On the Disadvantages of Central Heating	Amy Clampitt	1997
Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet	Tony Hoagland	1998

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