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
Tender Buttons [A Little Called Pauline]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1808
Birth	Tina Chang	2012
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
Mother’s Day	David Young	2011
Rime Riche	Monica Ferrell	2010
Dead Horse	Thomas Lux	2010
Images	Richard Aldington	1916
Lying My Head Off	Cate Marvin	2007
First Turn to Me ...	Bernadette Mayer	1968
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
Ode to Spring	Frederick Seidel	2009
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
From	A. Van Jordan	2004
The Lower East Side of Manhattan	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
Quatrains	Gwendolyn Bennett	1927
Day Job and Night Job	Andrew Hudgins	2003
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004

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