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
Infinite and Plausible	Tina Chang	2010
Ode to a Flower in Casarsa	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1941
Graves We Filled Before the Fire	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2010
Haymaking	John Clare	1835
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
Red Lilies	Barbara Guest	2008
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart]	William Cowper	1779
The Ripple Effect	Jamey Dunham	2009
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old]	Rudyard Kipling	1901
Blue or Green	James Galvin	2009
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Winter Twilight	Anne Porter	2006
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Loving and Beloved	Sir John Suckling	1646
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Further Notice	Philip Whalen	2008
Pockets	Howard Nemerov	1975
Flood	Eliza Griswold	2007
Consider the Hands that Write This Letter	Aracelis Girmay	2007

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