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
Ghost Elephants	Jean Valentine	2012
Untitled [1950 June 27]	Don Mee Choi	2011
Swell	Hoa Nguyen	2011
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Wall Street at Night	Lola Ridge	1920
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at]	Tada Chimako	2010
About Foam	Caroline Bergvall	2011
Extraordinary Rendition	Paul Muldoon	2010
Shahid Reads His Own Palm	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2010
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
Lying My Head Off	Cate Marvin	2007
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
Rome	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2009
The City of God	David Baker	2001
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina	Jack Gilbert	2009
Letter [Persephone to Demeter]	Rachel Zucker	2003
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI	A. E. Housman	1896

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