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
To Helen About Her Hair	Robinson Jeffers	1912
Reverse Suicide (audio only)	Matt Rasmussen	2013
A Love	Lorenzo Calogero	2013
Variation on a Theme	W. S. Merwin	2013
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	Wallace Stevens	1919
Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III	Mary Robinson	1796
After David Hammons	Claudia Rankine	2013
Mars Poetica	Wyn Cooper	2012
The Maenads	Ursula K. Le Guin	2012
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Wall Street at Night	Lola Ridge	1920
About Foam	Caroline Bergvall	2011
Queen-Anne's-Lace	William Carlos Williams	1921
The Love-Hat Relationship	Aaron Belz	2010
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Untitled [To see this evil from its core]	Philip Lamantia	2008
The Celestial Surgeon	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887

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