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 Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
Heart Condition	Jericho Brown	2011
Let Me Disappear	Ray Gonzalez	2009
From “Nox” [gentes]	Anne Carson	2010
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in]	John Keats	1820
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Dirge	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	1851
Bats	Paisley Rekdal	2007
The Old Year	John Clare	1845
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio	Carl Sandburg	1922
December 2, 2002	Juliana Spahr	2005
Still Another Day: I	Pablo Neruda	2005
Boston	Aaron Smith	2005
Migrating Birds	Mónica de la Torre	2006
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey	Hayden Carruth	1996
Checkmate	Lucio Mariani	2003
In the Next Galaxy	Ruth Stone	2002
Fishing in Winter	Ralph Burns	1983
Adolescence II	Rita Dove	1993
The Subalterns	Thomas Hardy	1902

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