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
To the Black Madonna of Chartres	Jean Valentine	2004
Disciplines [If there is prayer, there is a mother kneeling]	Dawn Lundy Martin	2010
When You’re Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It’s Eastertime Too (audio only)	Charles Wright	1997
Today We Make the Poet's Words Our Own	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1875
Outside the Church	Annie Petrie-Sauter	2010
Mercury Dressing	J. D. McClatchy	2009
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
The Soul selects her own Society (303)	Emily Dickinson	1890
First Things to Hand	Robert Pinsky	2006
Buddha with a Cell Phone	David Romtvedt	2005
Station	James Galvin	1997
At the Zen Mountain Monastery	Rachel Wetzsteon	2006
Body and Soul II [Excerpt]	Charles Wright	2002
The Coming of Light	Mark Strand	2002
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”	Edward Fitzgerald	1859
The Soul unto itself (683)	Emily Dickinson	1951
Kaddish, Part I	Allen Ginsberg	1984

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