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
The Player Queen	W. B. Yeats	1916
It is the time of rain and snow	Izumi Shikibu	1955
[In Colorado, In Oregon, upon]	Joshua Beckman	2009
corydon & alexis, redux	D. A. Powell	2009
Evening Concert, Sainte-Chapelle	John Updike	2009
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Lay Back the Darkness	Edward Hirsch	2003
Bardo	Dana Levin	2008
Leviathan	George Oppen	1965
The Feeling of the World as a Bounded Whale Is the Mystical [The child affixes]	Darcie Dennigan	2008
Encouragements to a Lover	Sir John Suckling	1637
Ballad of a Wedding	Sir John Suckling	1646
The Guarded Wound	Adelaide Crapsey	1915
See How the Roses Burn!	Hafez	1858
Dregs	César Vallejo	2007
WHERE?	Kenneth Patchen	2008
Nearing Dawn	Jorie Graham	2008
The Anti-Suffragists	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	1911
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Pastoral	Jennifer Chang	2008

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