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
A Spray of Water: Tanka [one narcissus]	Tada Chimako	2010
Psalm of Home Redux	David Lee	2011
Complete Destruction	William Carlos Williams	1921
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
Hallow-E'en, 1914	Winifred M. Letts	1916
The City of God	David Baker	2001
Yellow Bowl	Rachel Contreni Flynn	2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
Glen Uig	Richard Hugo	2008
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Lovers' Infiniteness	John Donne	1633
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI	A. E. Housman	1896
A Crosstown Breeze	Henry Taylor	2006
Country Fair	Charles Simic	1991
Sticks	Thomas Sayers Ellis	2005
Then	Spencer Reece	2004
Ponies	Spencer Reece	2004

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