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
From “La Pelona as Birdwoman”	Rigoberto González	2012
Lying While Birding	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree	D. H. Lawrence	1920
Mexico City Blues [182nd Chorus]	Jack Kerouac	1959
Where I Live	Maxine Kumin	2010
Rest.	Richard Jones	2010
My Life as a Subject	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Day [excerpt]	Kenneth Goldsmith	2003
The Witch-Bride	William Allingham	1850
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
To Her Father with Some Verses	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
“Ferrum” [Excerpt]	M. NourbeSe Philip	2008
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy	Jack Spicer	2008
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
The Fish	Linda Bierds	1994
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run	Matthea Harvey	2006
To Sylvia, To Wed	Robert Herrick	1648
The Woman at the Washington Zoo	Randall Jarrell	1969

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