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 Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me	Delmore Schwartz	1959
Demeter to Persephone	Alicia Ostriker	2009
The Present/	Lisa Robertson	2010
How Much?	Carl Sandburg	1922
Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?]	Petrarch	1375
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
In Praise of Shame	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Sex	Michael Ryan	2004
To the Moon [fragment]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
homage to my hips (audio only)	Lucille Clifton	1983
Unday	Fanny Howe	2003
Once in the 40’s	William Stafford	1982
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries	Jupiter Hammon	1760
The Happiness	Jack Hirschman	2002
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is	D. H. Lawrence	1964
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday	Walter Savage Landor	1894
Water Picture	May Swenson	1994
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun	Heather McHugh	1999

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