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
Tanka Diary [Awakened too early on Saturday morning]	Harryette Mullen	2012
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1808
Self-Portrait	Ira Sadoff	2012
Birth	Tina Chang	2012
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
Civilization	Carl Phillips	2011
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love	E. Ethelbert Miller	2010
Demeter to Persephone	Alicia Ostriker	2009
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Hallow-E'en, 1915	Winifred M. Letts	1916
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in]	John Keats	1820
Caesarion	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Epitaph on a Hare	William Cowper	1783
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window	Ernesto Cardenal	2009
The Lower East Side of Manhattan	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
Couture	Mark Doty	1995
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing	Robert Herrick	1648
Like Brooms of Steel (1252)	Emily Dickinson	1890
At the Very Beginning	Katie Peterson	2006

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