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
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
The Barrier	Claude McKay	1922
Reasons To Survive November (audio only)	Tony Hoagland	2006
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
Bucolics [LIX]	Maurice Manning	2007
The Mahogany Tree	William Makepeace Thackeray	1882
The Illiterate	William Meredith	1997
Traveling	Malena Mörling	2006
Credo	Matthew Rohrer	2001
why must itself up every of a park	E. E. Cummings	1923
Talking to Patrizia	Kenneth Koch	1994
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke	David Lehman	1986
Identity Crisis	F. D. Reeve	2005
Duende	Tracy K. Smith	2004
Styx	Dana Levin	2011
They’ll spend the summer	Joshua Beckman	2004
The Satyr’s Heart	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2004

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