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
Called into Play	A. R. Ammons	1997
why must itself up every of a park	E. E. Cummings	1923
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow	Robert Duncan	1960
The Ruined Maid	Thomas Hardy	1901
Self-Portrait as Miranda	Geri Doran	2005
Wrap	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2003
Spirit that Form'd this Scene	Walt Whitman	1891
Autumn Grasses	Margaret Gibson	2003
Epitaph	Eric Pankey	2003
In the Next Galaxy	Ruth Stone	2002
Haircut	Elizabeth Alexander	1996
The Taxi	Amy Lowell	1914
The Clearing of the Land: An Epitaph	Larry Levis	1991
I Hardly Remember	Rafael Guillén	2001
Song	H.D.	1921
About Face	Alice Fulton	1995
My Father on His Shield	Walt McDonald	1998
Jogging with Oscar	Walt McDonald	1998
Adolescence II	Rita Dove	1993
Daughters, 1900	Marilyn Nelson	1990

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