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
Ditty	Kevin Young	2016
Poem without Angel Food	C. D. Wright	2016
Thou in Time	Noah Warren	2016
Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene III [Time hath, my lord]	William Shakespeare	2016
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter]	William Shakespeare	2016
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126)	William Shakespeare	2016
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60)	William Shakespeare	2016
A Well Runs Out of Thirst	Jane Hirshfield	2015
A Nameless One	Margaret Avison	2016
Passage	Thomas Dooley	2015
Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe	Edith Sitwell	1918
from “You Are in Nearly Every Future”	Noah Falck	2015
Forever	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1901
Gwendolyn Brooks Park, Topeka	Ed Skoog	2015
from “Flying Point”	DJ Dolack	2015
Leisure	Amy Lowell	2015
Let Muddy Water Sit and It Grows Clear	Ted Mathys	2015
Summer Triptych	Linda Pastan	2015
Voir Dire	Justin Marks	2015
On Happier Lawns, IV	Justin Marks	2015

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