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
During Wind and Rain	Thomas Hardy	1917
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart]	William Cowper	1779
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
The Sharks	Denise Levertov	1957
World Below the Brine	Walt Whitman	1891
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
The Lower East Side of Manhattan	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy	Jack Spicer	2008
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
Consider the Hands that Write This Letter	Aracelis Girmay	2007
The Great Figure	William Carlos Williams	1962
Chateau If	Peter Gizzi	2003
The Woman at the Washington Zoo	Randall Jarrell	1969
Country Fair	Charles Simic	1991
A Word From the Fat Lady	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2005
Duende	Tracy K. Smith	2004
Outskirts	Tomas Tranströmer	2004
Upper World	Rae Armantrout	2004
Days of Me	Stuart Dischell	2003

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