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
My Aunts	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans	Philip Appleman	1998
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Talking About New Orleans	Jayne Cortez	2009
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina	Jack Gilbert	2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
The Origin	Jane Mead	2008
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
The Illiterate	William Meredith	1997
What [The flower sermon]	Ron Silliman	1988
Third Charm from Masque of Queens	Ben Jonson	1609
Lights Out	Edward Thomas	1917
Safe Sex	Donald Hall	2006
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep]	François Villon	1965
In California During the Gulf War	Denise Levertov	1992
Water Music	Robert Creeley	1983
One of the Lives	W. S. Merwin	1996

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