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
Lost	Stephen Dobyns	2010
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
If It All Went up in Smoke	George Oppen	1978
Talking About New Orleans	Jayne Cortez	2009
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window	Ernesto Cardenal	2009
This Nest, Swift Passerine [excerpt]	Dan Beachy-Quick	2009
Weaving	Paul Otremba	2009
Untitled [This is what was bequeathed us]	Gregory Orr	2009
Monument	Brian Culhane	2009
Folly	Cecily Parks	2008
How from Politeness to the Trees	Cecily Parks	2008
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Balance	Adam Zagajewski	2008
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	1798
Coastal Plain	Kathryn Stripling Byer	2006
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	W. B. Yeats	1890
The Potato	Joseph Stroud	2004

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