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
In Michael Robins's class minus one	Bob Hicok	2007
Restoration	Mary Cornish	2007
In a Boat	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Two in the Campagna	Robert Browning	1855
Bangladesh II	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1991
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005
Prologue of the Earthly Paradise	William Morris	1868
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
In the Memphis Airport	Timothy Steele	2006
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
My Life’s Calling	Deborah Digges	2004
The New Higher	John Ashbery	2005
The Fifth Dream: Bullets and Deserts and Borders	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2006
Song of the Andoumboulou: 50	Nathaniel Mackey	2006
To the Trespasser	David Barber	2006
Curse	Pablo Neruda	1973
The Past	Barbara Guest	2005
Credible Information, 1999 - 2003	Mark Pawlak	2000
Space Station	Tom Sleigh	2005
String Theory Sutra	Brenda Hillman	2005

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