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
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 Radio Animals	Matthea Harvey	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
Evolution	John Banister Tabb	1894
Stars	Keith Douglas	2010
Poetry Anonymous	Prageeta Sharma	2010
the gate	Tadeusz Różewicz	2010
Marble Hill	Kazim Ali	2010
Insomnia	Alicia Ostriker	2009
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
A Book Said Dream and I Do	Barbara Ras	2010

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