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
Robin Hood’s Barn (audio only)	John Ashbery	2010
Early Memory	January Gill O’Neil	2010
Fish (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
Dear Pretty Youth	Thomas Shadwell	1674
Song of Devils	Thomas Shadwell	1676
Water-Lily	Abraham Cowley	1881
Lettuce	Abraham Cowley	1711
The Request	Abraham Cowley	1656
The Heart Breaking	Abraham Cowley	1656
Written in Juice of Lemon	Abraham Cowley	1809
The Art of Poetry [excerpt]	Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux	1674
Her Body [The Signature] (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
How to Eat Alone (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
Daybreak (audio only)	Daniel Halpern	2010
The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] (audio only)	Carolyn Forché	1995
The Map (audio only)	Larry Levis	1978
Structure of Rime IV (audio only)	Robert Duncan	1969
The Mark (audio only)	Louise Bogan	1968
The Smokehouse (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	1993
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964

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