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
Difficult Body	Mark Wunderlich	1999
Private Eye Lettuce	Richard Brautigan	1989
Freedom, Revolt, and Love	Frank Stanford	1991
Anne Rutledge	Edgar Lee Masters	1915
Ask me no more	Thomas Carew	1640
The Woodspurge	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	1856
The Taxi	Amy Lowell	1914
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	Etheridge Knight	1986
The Plaid Dress	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2001
There are Days	John Montague	2001
Seals at High Island	Richard Murphy	2001
Jasmine	Yusef Komunyakaa	2001
Done With	Ann Stanford	2000
The Silent Singer	Len Roberts	2000
Pledge	Elizabeth A. I. Powell	2001
Brooklyn Anchorage	Isaac Jarnot	2001
Urgent Telegram to Jean-Michel Basquiat	Kevin Young	2001
What are the consequences of silence?	Bhanu Kapil	2001
That the Soul May Wax Plump	May Swenson	1978
The Nature of a Mirror (audio only)	Robert Penn Warren	1977

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