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
Spirit Birds	Stanley Plumly	2008
Compulsively Allergic to the Truth	Jeffrey McDaniel	2008
Stupid University Job	Sharon Mesmer	2008
Chance	Molly Peacock	2008
Untitled [To see this evil from its core]	Philip Lamantia	2008
Among the Things He Does Not Deserve	Dan Albergotti	2008
Belarusian I	Valzhyna Mort	2008
Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]	Karen Volkman	2008
Theme For Intermediate Chinese (audio only)	Afaa Michael Weaver	2008
Envoy	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
The Celestial Surgeon	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
The Sick Child	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
Block City	Robert Louis Stevenson	1913
Who Has Seen the Wind?	Christina Rossetti	1893
Poem for Andrew Marvell (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
Advice From the Geese (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
Two ramages for old masters [Silent in the moonlight] (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
The Greek Ships (audio only)	Robert Bly	2008
A Defense of Poetry (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001
Explicit Version Number Required (audio only)	Charles Bernstein	2001

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