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
Spring and All, XIV	William Carlos Williams	1962
On the Origins of Things	Troy Jollimore	2011
Chester	John Koethe	2009
The Gaffe	C. K. Williams	2010
Complete Destruction	William Carlos Williams	1921
Eleventh Brother	Jean Valentine	2004
Infinite and Plausible	Tina Chang	2010
Robin Hood’s Barn (audio only)	John Ashbery	2010
Let Us Go Then	Ciaran Carson	2010
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Crannog	Moya Cannon	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Red Lilies	Barbara Guest	2008
Noisetone	Barbara Guest	2008
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing)	Marvin Bell	2009
Spring Day [Bath]	Amy Lowell	1916
The Player Queen	W. B. Yeats	1916
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
Blue or Green	James Galvin	2009
Requiescat	Matthew Arnold	1853

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