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
It Was Going on Five in the Morning	André Breton	2003
Untitled [1950 June 27]	Don Mee Choi	2011
Written on the Banks of the Arun	Charlotte Smith	1785
Beggar Woman	Charles Reznikoff	1921
The Helmsman	H.D.	1916
The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems	Yusef Komunyakaa	2011
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
The Interloper	Thomas Hardy	1917
The Republic of Dreams	Michael Palmer	2011
Poem for Wisconsin	Matthew Zapruder	2011
On the Origins of Things	Troy Jollimore	2011
The Hesperides	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1832
Song of the Owl	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1856
Cherry Blossom Storm	Henri Cole	2010
The Children’s Hour	Li-Young Lee	2010
Shaving Your Father’s Face	Michael Dickman	2010
Images	Richard Aldington	1916
In Darkness	Jon Davis	2010
Myself I Sing	George Oppen	2002
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969

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