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 Radio Animals	Matthea Harvey	2010
The Gaffe	C. K. Williams	2010
Fear of the Future	John Koethe	2009
Electricity	Geoffrey Nutter	2009
The Love-Hat Relationship	Aaron Belz	2010
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
It is the time of rain and snow	Izumi Shikibu	1955
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina	Jack Gilbert	2009
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
The Lower East Side of Manhattan	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
Lovers' Infiniteness	John Donne	1633
A Song for New Year’s Eve	William Cullen Bryant	1864
Bedtime Story	Wanda Coleman	1993
California Plush	Frank Bidart	1973
Losing Track	Denise Levertov	1964
The Seekers of Lice	Arthur Rimbaud	2004
Moon Gathering	Eleanor Wilner	2004

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