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 Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
Halloween	Arthur Peterson	1916
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
corydon & alexis, redux	D. A. Powell	2009
Noel	Anne Porter	2006
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Mr. Flood's Party	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1921
Encouragements to a Lover	Sir John Suckling	1637
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
Dreaming About My Father (audio only)	Ed Ochester	2008
Black Jackets	Thom Gunn	1994
Orpheus	Robert Kelly	2005
Sonnet 1	Gwendolyn Bennett	1927
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep	August Kleinzahler	2003
Mottled Tuesday	John Ashbery	2007
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing	Robert Duncan	1968
Four Winds	Sara Teasdale	1917
My House, I Say	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Tender Buttons [A Plate]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918

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