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
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
An Eternity	Archibald MacLeish	1917
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself	CAConrad	2012
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance (audio only)	Elizabeth Bishop	1997
On Summer	George Moses Horton	1837
Poem	Alice Notley	2008
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs]	Tada Chimako	2010
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at]	Tada Chimako	2010
Extraordinary Rendition	Paul Muldoon	2010
We Manage Most When We Manage Small	Linda Gregg	2008
Friend	Jean Valentine	2004
Lying My Head Off	Cate Marvin	2007
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans	Philip Appleman	1998
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Xicano	J. Michael Martinez	2010
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window	Ernesto Cardenal	2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy	Jack Spicer	2008

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