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
For Telly the Fish	Toi Derricotte	2011
Survivor Guilt	Ron Padgett	2014
Losing It	Margaret Gibson	2014
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata	Natasha Trethewey	2012
This Deepening Takes Place Again	Emily Kendal Frey	2011
Summer	Amy Lowell	1912
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
At the Piano	Thomas Hardy	1917
Dear Tiara	Sean Thomas Dougherty	2011
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
What was he saying and to whom	Alan Michael Parker	2008
The Celestial Surgeon	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004
Past Light	Pimone Triplett	2005
To Althea, from Prison	Richard Lovelace	1649
Notes from the Other Side	Jane Kenyon	1993
The Subalterns	Thomas Hardy	1902
On the far side of pleasure	Samuel Ace	2026
I Want to Forget Everything	Jean Cocteau	2026
Prophecy	Robert Penn Warren	1922

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