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
One day is there of the series	Emily Dickinson	1890
Cerrada Medellin Blues (First Solo) [1st Chorus]	Jack Kerouac	1995
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	2010
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
Yellow Bowl	Rachel Contreni Flynn	2009
George Moses Horton, Myself	George Moses Horton	1865
No Platonic Love	William Cartwright	1651
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
Einstein Defining Special Relativity	A. Van Jordan	2007
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Poet's Work	Lorine Niedecker	2002
He “Digesteth Harde Yron”	Marianne Moore	1961
What Will You Be?	Dennis Lee	1977
St. Peter and the Angel	Denise Levertov	1984
Birdcall	Alicia Ostriker	2005
The Ghost Has No Home	Jeff Clark	1997
The Hour and What Is Dead	Li-Young Lee	1990
On 52nd Street	Philip Levine	2003
Fons	Pura López Colomé	2002

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