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
The Secret of Light	James Wright	1990
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
Spring Day [Bath]	Amy Lowell	1916
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window	Ernesto Cardenal	2009
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion]	Keith Waldrop	2009
Transit of Venus	Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon	2009
[white spring]	Lisa Olstein	2009
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Design for a Silver Box in the Shape of a Melon, 1918	Jonathan Thirkield	2008
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Couture	Mark Doty	1995
Muse & Drudge [just as I am I come]	Harryette Mullen	2006
Faults	Sara Teasdale	1917
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	1798
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]	John Keats	1818
It's obvious	Greg Hewett	2006
A Green Crab’s Shell	Mark Doty	1995
Lullaby	W. H. Auden	1940
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Anne Sexton	1981
The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh	Carol Frost	2003

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