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
Art Class	James Galvin	1997
Seeing All the Vermeers	Alfred Corn	2002
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
Joseph Cornell, with Box	Michael Dumanis	2007
The Great Figure	William Carlos Williams	1962
Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt	Jane Hirshfield	2006
Portrait of Madame Monet on Her Deathbed	Mary Rose O'Reilley	2006
What He Thought	Heather McHugh	1994
The Mad Potter	John Hollander	1988
Ode on a Grecian Urn	John Keats	1820
Epilogue	Robert Lowell	1975
Why knowing is (& Matisse's Woman with a Hat)	Martha Ronk	2003
The Painting	John Balaban	2003
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July	Billy Collins	1998
War Photograph	Kate Daniels	2002
Photograph of People Dancing in France	Leslie Adrienne Miller	2002
Russian Letter	John Yau	2002

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