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
Inland	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2013
jasper texas 1998	Lucille Clifton	1991
Black Glass Soliloquy	Ben Mirov	2012
Before the Feast of Shushan	Anne Spencer	1922
To be the thing	Dorothea Lasky	2011
A Poem	Robert Creeley	2006
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in]	Tada Chimako	2010
Suburban	Michael Blumenthal	1987
Mother’s Day	David Young	2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
The Amaranth	Vachel Lindsay	1914
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Noel	Anne Porter	2006
God's World	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1912
Bucolics [LIX]	Maurice Manning	2007
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
The Something	Charles Simic	1996

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