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 Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
The City of God	David Baker	2001
The City’s Love	Claude McKay	1922
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Black Petal	Li-Young Lee	2001
Couture	Mark Doty	1995
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI	A. E. Housman	1896
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing	Robert Herrick	1648
Old Santeclaus	Clement Clarke Moore	1821
To Blossoms	Robert Herrick	1648
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard	Charles Wright	1995
Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays	Charles Reznikoff	1976
Dishwater	Ted Kooser	2004
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You	Abdellatif Laâbi	2003
The Painting	John Balaban	2003
Checkmate	Lucio Mariani	2003
Wrap	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2003
Come Up From the Fields Father	Walt Whitman	1891
What are the consequences of silence?	Bhanu Kapil	2001

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