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 Do I Care	Sara Teasdale	1920
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
Picking Up	Evelyn Duncan	2008
Glen Uig	Richard Hugo	2008
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
Solstice	Ellen Dudley	2007
Practice	Ellen Bryant Voigt	2002
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard	Charles Wright	1995
Infidelity	Stanley Plumly	1989
The Mad Potter	John Hollander	1988
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
He “Digesteth Harde Yron”	Marianne Moore	1961
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
Central Park, Carousel	Meena Alexander	2004
Song of Myself	John Canaday	2002
Moreover, the Moon—	Mina Loy	1996
The Lost Pilot	James Tate	1967
The Great Migration	Minnie Bruce Pratt	1999
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket	Robert Lowell	1976

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