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
Flood	James Joyce	1917
Election Day, November, 1884	Walt Whitman	1891
Ebb	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Black Glass Soliloquy	Ben Mirov	2012
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
Instead of Losing	John Ashbery	2011
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree	D. H. Lawrence	1920
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine	Amy E. King	2010
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder	A. E. Housman	1939
Hades' Pitch	Rita Dove	1980
This Day	Jimmy Santiago Baca	2007
Darwin’s Finches	Deborah Digges	1986
Dora Diller	Jack Prelutsky	1984
The Drunken Fisherman	Robert Lowell	1976
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
Central Park, Carousel	Meena Alexander	2004
Fons	Pura López Colomé	2002

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