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
Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, Great-Niece of Lord Mansfield, and Her Cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, c. 1779 (by unknown artist)	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2011
Obviously	Ben Doller	2011
The Language of the Birds	Richard Siken	2011
The Things	Donald Hall	2011
Cezanne	Alfred Kreymborg	1916
The Abolition of Reality [Georges Seurat]	Adriano Spatola	2008
Beginning with Two Lines from Rexroth	Ray Gonzalez	2009
Painting by Moonlight	Medbh McGuckian	2010
Aureng-Zebe, Prologue	John Dryden	1675
Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye	Gerald Stern	2010
Correction	Carl Adamshick	2010
The Man with the Hoe	Edwin Markham	1898
Noisetone	Barbara Guest	2008
Rome	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2009
Semite	George Oppen	1975
Why I Am Not a Painter	Frank O’Hara	2008
Drawing from Life	Reginald Shepherd	1996
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Still Life	Marianne Boruch	2008

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