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
Fireflies	Fred Chappell	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
First Turn to Me ...	Bernadette Mayer	1968
English as a Second Language	April Bernard	2002
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?	Robert Graves	1918
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
That Everything’s Inevitable	Katy Lederer	2008
corydon & alexis, redux	D. A. Powell	2009
Dear Lonely Animal,	Oni Buchanan	2008
To the Same	John Milton	1694
The Barrier	Claude McKay	1922
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story	Richard Harris Barham	1840
Seeing All the Vermeers	Alfred Corn	2002
The Healing Improvisation of Hair	Jay Wright	2000
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
The Aeneid, Book I [A grove stood in the city]	Virgil	1907
Nightsong	Philip Booth	1999

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