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
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
Birds in the Night	Luis Cernuda	2010
To Rosemounde	Geoffrey Chaucer	1400
Incantation	George Parsons Lathrop	1892
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
The Branches	Jean Valentine	2009
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
Farewell	John Clare	1920
Dangerous Astronomy	Sherman Alexie	2009
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
The Celestial Surgeon	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
Solstice	Ellen Dudley	2007
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005
The Old Year	John Clare	1845
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
In the Greenhouse	Eugenio Montale	2004
Crossings	Ravi Shankar	2008
Found Poem	Howard Nemerov	1987
Come Up From the Fields Father	Walt Whitman	1891
Moreover, the Moon—	Mina Loy	1996

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