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 times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
In the Memphis Airport	Timothy Steele	2006
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep]	François Villon	1965
Song of the Andoumboulou: 50	Nathaniel Mackey	2006
To the Trespasser	David Barber	2006
Achilles’ Song	Robert Duncan	1984
Passerby, These are Words	Yves Bonnefoy	2006
The Past	Barbara Guest	2005
Credible Information, 1999 - 2003	Mark Pawlak	2000
Chateau If	Peter Gizzi	2003
Space Station	Tom Sleigh	2005
String Theory Sutra	Brenda Hillman	2005
The Conjugation of the Paramecium	Muriel Rukeyser	1968
The Mad Potter	John Hollander	1988
The Orange Bears	Kenneth Patchen	1957
The Something	Charles Simic	1996
The Woman at the Washington Zoo	Randall Jarrell	1969
Pickle Belt	Theodore Roethke	1932
Thrown as if Fierce & Wild	Dean Young	2005

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