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
A Patriotic Creed	Edgar Guest
Dirge	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Night Falls Like a Button	Chen Chen	2017
The Continental Army	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Mozart Songbook	Joan Larkin	2015
The Future Is Here	Bianca Stone	2014
For Telly the Fish	Toi Derricotte	2011
Survivor Guilt	Ron Padgett	2014
Song of Quietness	Robinson Jeffers	1916
Aunt Helen	T. S. Eliot	1915
Variation on a Theme	W. S. Merwin	2013
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
Heart Condition	Jericho Brown	2011
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me	Delmore Schwartz	1959
from The Vision of Sir Launfal	James Russell Lowell	1848
The Words Under the Words	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Just Before	Jorie Graham	2008
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing	Robert Herrick	1648

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