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
Dangerous Astronomy	Sherman Alexie	2009
The Body Is the Victory and the Defeat of Dreams	Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke	2009
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
That Everything’s Inevitable	Katy Lederer	2008
corydon & alexis, redux	D. A. Powell	2009
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day	Lydia Maria Child	1844
Winter Twilight	Anne Porter	2006
The Good Provider	Sarah Gambito	2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Loving and Beloved	Sir John Suckling	1646
Mercury Rising (A Visualization)	Jena Osman	2008
A Reactionary Tale	Linh Dinh	2008
God's World	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1912
To Electra	Robert Herrick	1648
Seeing All the Vermeers	Alfred Corn	2002
Purgatorio, Canto X	Dante Alighieri	1867
Return	John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester	1714

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