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
Bei Hennef	D. H. Lawrence	1913
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
The Children	TJ Jarrett	2015
An Autumn Reverie	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1873
Bound	Aline Murray Kilmer	2014
A January Dandelion	George Marion McClellan	1916
Tackle Football	Dan Chiasson	2013
Waifs and Strays	Arthur Rimbaud	1912
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311)	Emily Dickinson	1890
In Praise of Their Divorce	Tony Hoagland	2010
In Passing	Stanley Plumly	2000
What the Angels Left	Marie Howe	1988
Portrait d'une Femme	Ezra Pound	1912
A Short Testament	Anne Porter	2006
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Lullaby of an Infant Chief	Sir Walter Scott	1816
Fairy Tale	Ron Padgett	2001
Blackout	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1987
The Drunken Fisherman	Robert Lowell	1976
The Clerk’s Tale	Spencer Reece	2004

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