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
Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets	Thomas Lynch	2010
Fear of the Future	John Koethe	2009
The Chicago Poem	Jerome Rothenberg	1986
The Tower	W. B. Yeats	1928
this kind of fire	Charles Bukowski	2009
Beyond the Years	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
The Widows of Gravesend	L. S. Asekoff	2010
that they were at the beach [excerpt]	Leslie Scalapino	1985
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Sailing to Byzantium	W. B. Yeats	1928
The Human Seasons	John Keats	1819
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year	Maxine Kumin	2008
To Chloe: Who for his sake wished herself younger	William Cartwright	1651
The Edges of Time (audio only)	Kay Ryan	2007
Forgetfulness	Billy Collins	1999
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	1798
The Young Man's Song	W. B. Yeats	1916
My Lost Youth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1858
Poem at Thirty	Michael Ryan	2004
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos	Anthony Hecht	1990

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