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
The Young Poets of Winnipeg	Naomi Shihab Nye	2016
Wonder as Wander	Sharon Olds	2012
An Instructor’s Dream	Bill Knott	2007
When my love swears that she is made of truth (Sonnet 138)	William Shakespeare	2016
Renouncement	Alice Meynell	1895
Dove, Interrupted	Lucie Brock-Broido	2013
Ebb	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Coda	Ezra Pound	1916
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
Half-Hearted Sonnet	Kim Addonizio	2012
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Demeter to Persephone	Alicia Ostriker	2009
In Praise of Their Divorce	Tony Hoagland	2010
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
Incantation	George Parsons Lathrop	1892
Languages	Carl Sandburg	1916
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Fairy Tale	Ron Padgett	2001
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses	Alberto Ríos	1990

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