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
From “Nox [gentes]”	Anne Carson	2010
The Apple Trees at Olema	Robert Hass	2010
Inheritance	Daniel Johnson	2010
Small Talk	Eleanor Lerman	2010
Gold River	Catie Rosemurgy	2010
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
Our flag	Carl Adamshick	2010
Benevolence	Carl Adamshick	2010
The solitude of an apricot	Carl Adamshick	2010
Correction	Carl Adamshick	2010
New year’s morning	Carl Adamshick	2010
Graves We Filled Before the Fire	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2010
Luck is not chance (1350)	Emily Dickinson	1890
From “The Dead”	James Joyce	1914
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt]	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
The Love Unfeigned	Geoffrey Chaucer	1380
An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady)	Geoffrey Chaucer	1602
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478

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