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
Francesco and Clare	David St. John	1991
A Tomb for Anatole, 1	Stéphane Mallarmé	2005
Blue Oxen	Dara Barrois/Dixon	2005
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts	Sydney Lea	2005
Milton	David Groff	2013
Introduction to the World	Matthea Harvey	2004
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
Diary [Surface]	Rachel Zucker	2003
Checkmate	Lucio Mariani	2003
Artificer	Czesław Miłosz	1931
Refugio's Hair	Alberto Ríos	2002
Photograph of People Dancing in France	Leslie Adrienne Miller	2002
For the Twentieth Century	Frank Bidart	2002
Gods	Michael Redhill	2001
What Was Given	Richard Foerster	2002
The First Winter Snow	Richard Brautigan	1989
Alexander Throckmorton	Edgar Lee Masters	1916
Uncertain Grace	Rebecca Wee	2000
To the Tune of “Telling My Most Intimate Feelings”	Li Qingzhao	2000
Witness	Liz Waldner	2000

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