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
Epistle: Leaving	Kerrin McCadden	2013
Christmas Away from Home	Jane Kenyon	2005
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
Window Seat: Providence to New York City	Jacqueline Osherow	2012
She Is Overheard Singing	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1919
Gradeschool’s Large Windows	Thomas Lux	2012
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]	William Shakespeare	1623
Poetry is	Emilio Villa	2012
Beggar Woman	Charles Reznikoff	1921
At the Equinox	Arthur Sze	2011
The Nurse	Michael Blumenthal	2011
Moonlight Monologue for the New Kitten	Péter Kántor	2010
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall	Ross Gay	2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
Bermudas	Andrew Marvell	1681
My Aunts	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
History of Hurricanes	Teresa Cader	2009

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