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
Acrobat	Elise Paschen	2010
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
Hope Wanted Alive	Terese Svoboda	2010
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Reminiscence	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
Me and the Otters	Dorothea Lasky	2010
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010
A Story	Philip Levine	2009
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
The Shark	Judith Beveridge	2004
Blue or Green	James Galvin	2009
In Aporia	Akilah Oliver	2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
The Visit	Jason Shinder	2005
May Day	Phillis Levin	2008
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me	John Rybicki	2008
Me in Paradise	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008

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