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
Six Love Songs	Edward Powys Mathers	1919
Mother Country	Richard Blanco	2019
You Begin	Margaret Atwood	1978
Forgetfulness	Billy Collins	1999
Don’t Go Into the Library	Alberto Ríos	2017
The Land of Story-books	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
One Train May Hide Another	Kenneth Koch	1994
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky	Lewis Carroll	1882
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself	CAConrad	2012
There is no frigate like a book (1263)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Song of Myself, 2	Walt Whitman	2019
From “Will There Be Singing”	Juliana Spahr	2020
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard	Charles Wright	1995
Reading to My Father	Jorie Graham	2016
The Secret	Denise Levertov	1966
Hearing of Alia Muhammed Baker’s Stroke	Philip Metres	2016
The Author to Her Book	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Workshop	Billy Collins	1995
My First Memory (of Librarians)	Nikki Giovanni	2007
The Sluggard	Isaac Watts	1715

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