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
The Golden Years	Billy Collins	2008
The First Night	Billy Collins	2008
The Parakeets	Alberto Blanco	1995
The Feast	David Baker	2009
Personal Poem	Frank O’Hara	1964
The Day Lady Died	Frank O’Hara	1964
Ave Maria	Frank O’Hara	1964
Sonnet V	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
A Noun Sentence	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
The Dusk of Horses	James Dickey	1992
Falling	James Dickey	1992
Recuerdo	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Meditations in an Emergency	Frank O’Hara	1957
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
To the Film Industry in Crisis	Frank O’Hara	1957
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
Dear Lonely Animal,	Oni Buchanan	2008
Today Mr. Rufo	Oni Buchanan	2008
Text Message	Oni Buchanan	2008

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