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
Across a Great Wilderness without You	Keetje Kuipers	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart]	William Cowper	1779
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
Dreaming About My Father (audio only)	Ed Ochester	2008
Me in Paradise	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Heavy Snowfall in a Year Gone Past	Laura Jensen	1977
Units	Albert Goldbarth	2007
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
Karma	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1925
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior	Ben Jonson	1640
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell	Denise Levertov	1989
Called into Play	A. R. Ammons	1997
The Dancing	Gerald Stern	1982
Sexism	David Lehman	1996
Descriptions of Heaven and Hell	Mark Jarman	1981
In the Park	Maxine Kumin	1989
The Great Black Heron	Denise Levertov	1996
In California During the Gulf War	Denise Levertov	1992

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