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 Tanka Diary	Harryette Mullen	2014
Ebb	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Day of Grief	Gerald Stern	2012
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
Curtains	Ruth Stone	1987
Daily Life	Susan Wood	2011
Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree	D. A. Powell	2010
In Passing	Stanley Plumly	2000
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
Dangerous Astronomy	Sherman Alexie	2009
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Just Before	Jorie Graham	2008
A Man may make a Remark (952)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Lights Out	Edward Thomas	1917
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke	David Lehman	1986
At Melville’s Tomb	Hart Crane	1933
February: The Boy Breughel	Norman Dubie	1983
Love Incarnate	Frank Bidart	1997
Meaningful Love	John Ashbery	2005
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover]	Kabir	2004

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