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
At the Window	D. H. Lawrence	2014
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
To Helen About Her Hair	Robinson Jeffers	1912
Dancing Adairs	Conrad Aiken	2014
The Prairie Town	Helen Santmyer	1921
The Line-Gang	Robert Frost	1916
a woman peeling apples, with a small child	Pattie McCarthy	2014
Coming and Going	Tony Hoagland	2013
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	Wallace Stevens	1919
The Mower Against Gardens	Andrew Marvell	1668
Man Eating	Jane Kenyon	2005
The Year's Awakening	Thomas Hardy	1914
Poem [The wind tears up the sun]	James Schuyler	1993
Poem [This beauty that I see]	James Schuyler	1993
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness	Thomas Wyatt	1557
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon]	Tada Chimako	2010
In the Garden	Thomas Hardy	1915
At a Window
Mirrors	Tada Chimako	2011

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