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
Leisure	Amy Lowell	2015
Cotton You Lose in the Field	Frank Stanford	2015
Song: Sweetest love, I do not go	John Donne	2020
Survivor Guilt	Ron Padgett	2014
Losing It	Margaret Gibson	2014
Hotel Couplets	Lisa Robertson	2013
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Gulls	William Carlos Williams	1917
Deep Lane [June 23rd, evening of the first fireflies]	Mark Doty	2011
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only)	Sharon Olds	2011
Exact	Rae Armantrout	2011
Psalm of Home Redux	David Lee	2011
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Ophelia to the Court	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
The Face of All the World (Sonnet 7)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
Lady Tactics (audio only)	Anne Waldman	2009
The Heron	Linda Hogan	2008
Ash Ode	Dean Young	2008
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001

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