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
What Is an Epigram?	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1802
Poem [on getting a card]	William Carlos Williams	1953
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
This is Lagos	John Koethe	2009
Emily Dickinson to the Rescue	Michael Dickman	2010
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Across a Great Wilderness without You	Keetje Kuipers	2010
William James, Henry James	Sarah Gridley	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
The Shark	Judith Beveridge	2004
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
It is the time of rain and snow	Izumi Shikibu	1955
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
Dreaming About My Father (audio only)	Ed Ochester	2008
Me in Paradise	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Regarding Chainsaws	Hayden Carruth	2006
Shaking the Grass	Janice N. Harrington	2007
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
Karma	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1925

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