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
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
Spring Snow	Arthur Sze	1998
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form	Paul Guest	2003
Amo Amas Amat	Bernardine Evaristo	2001
Steps	Grace Schulman	2002
Nothing to Save	D. H. Lawrence	1964
His Excuse for Loving	Ben Jonson	1640
A Hermit Thrush	Amy Clampitt	1997
Those Graves in Rome	Larry Levis	1985
Sonnets on Love XIII	Jean de Sponde	2001
To the Tune of “Telling My Most Intimate Feelings”	Li Qingzhao	2000
Something New Under the Sun	Steve Scafidi	2001
Hardware Sparrows	R. T. Smith	2001
The Valve	David R. Slavitt	2001
Sonnet for Salvadore	Gary Miranda	2001
Fishing in Winter	Ralph Burns	1983
Apart (Les Separes)	Louis Simpson	1997
I Commiserate with the Pygmy Octopus Found in the Miami Beach Parking Garage	Jen Karetnick	2024
la terre perdue	Dawn Potter	2022
Hawk Hour	Mark Turcotte	2011

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