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
Red Wand	Sandra Simonds	2012
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
Deep Lane [June 23rd, evening of the first fireflies]	Mark Doty	2011
Beggar Woman	Charles Reznikoff	1921
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
What Is an Epigram?	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1802
Psalm of Home Redux	David Lee	2011
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love	E. Ethelbert Miller	2010
Cracked Ice	Julie Sheehan	2010
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Ophelia to the Court	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Hey You	Adrian Blevins	2010
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Drawing from Life	Reginald Shepherd	1996
“Ferrum” [Excerpt]	M. NourbeSe Philip	2008
What was he saying and to whom	Alan Michael Parker	2008
Isolation: To Marguerite	Matthew Arnold	1857
The Old Year	John Clare	1845

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