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
Queen-Anne's-Lace	William Carlos Williams	1921
Languages	Carl Sandburg	1916
The Soul’s Expression	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844
A Noun Sentence	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
For the Fallen	Laurence Binyon	1914
Snow	Naomi Shihab Nye	1998
Hades' Pitch	Rita Dove	1980
Posthumous Remorse	Charles Baudelaire	2006
In a Boat	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Going There	Jack Gilbert	2001
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
Ramallah	Bei Dao	2006
You, Andrew Marvell	Archibald MacLeish	1930
Loading a Boar	David Lee	2004
Render, Render	Thomas Lux	2004
The Orchid Flower	Sam Hamill	2002
Always on the Train	Ruth Stone	2003
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.	Amy Lowell	1914
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries	Jupiter Hammon	1760

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