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
Abraham Davenport [excerpt]	John Greenleaf Whittier	1866
From “Nox [gentes]”	Anne Carson	2010
Allende	Phillip Lopate	2009
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Oklahoma City: The Aftermath	Ira Sadoff	1995
On the Day of Nixon's Funeral	Ira Sadoff	1998
Semite	George Oppen	1975
Talking About New Orleans	Jayne Cortez	2009
What I Disliked about the Pleistocene Era	Patty Seyburn	2009
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
Pilgrimage	Natasha Trethewey	2006
For the Confederate Dead	Kevin Young	2007
The Present Crisis	James Russell Lowell	1845
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator	Elizabeth Bishop	2006
History	Robert Lowell	1976
Shirt	Robert Pinsky	1990
The List of Famous Hats	James Tate	1986
Wildwood Flower	Kathryn Stripling Byer	1992
Ode to the Confederate Dead	Allen Tate	1937
First Probe	Barry Ballard	2003

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