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
From “The Princess” [Sweet and low, sweet and low]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	2013
The Figure	Joseph Fasano	2013
Intention to Escape from Him	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Places [III. Winter Sun]	Sara Teasdale	1922
Before the Feast of Shushan	Anne Spencer	1922
Poem [This beauty that I see]	James Schuyler	1993
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport	Emma Lazarus	1867
Winter is good - his Hoar Delights (1316)	Emily Dickinson	1886
Poem In Which Words Have Been Left Out	Charles Jensen	2012
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65)	William Shakespeare	1609
from Blue Dark	Deborah Landau	2011
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall	Ross Gay	2011
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again	Rebecca Wolff	2010
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2010
An Arbor	Linda Gregerson	1996
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	2010
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
On Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891

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