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
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
A Windmill Makes A Statement	Cate Marvin	2007
The Origin	Jane Mead	2008
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing	Robert Duncan	1968
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI	A. E. Housman	1896
Tender Buttons [A Box]	Gertrude Stein	1914
What [The flower sermon]	Ron Silliman	1988
I rose from marsh mud	Lorine Niedecker	2002
The Mad Potter	John Hollander	1988
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry	James Tate	1972
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover]	Kabir	2004
Moon Gathering	Eleanor Wilner	2004
The Clerk’s Tale	Spencer Reece	2004
On the Mississippi	Hamlin Garland	1893
Grandfather Says	Ai	2003
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries	Jupiter Hammon	1760
Leaving Seoul: 1953	Walter K. Lew	2002
A Hermit Thrush	Amy Clampitt	1997
Ask me no more	Thomas Carew	1640
Of Politics, & Art	Norman Dubie	2000

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