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
A fourteen-line poem on Adoration	Julie Carr	2014
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah	Patricia Smith	2012
The Magi	W. B. Yeats	1914
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
To a Steam Roller	Marianne Moore	1921
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Be Kind	Michael Blumenthal	2011
In Praise of Their Divorce	Tony Hoagland	2010
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2010
All the Whiskey in Heaven	Charles Bernstein	2010
The Amaranth	Vachel Lindsay	1914
The Seventh (A hetedik)	Attila József	1997
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
What the Angels Left	Marie Howe	1988
The Hug	Thom Gunn	2009
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
The Sick Child	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
To Elsie	William Carlos Williams	1962
Hymn to the Night	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1839
[Like the very gods]	Sappho	1949

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