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
I could suffice for Him, I knew (643)	Emily Dickinson	1890
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké	Angelina Weld Grimké	1914
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage	Wallace Stevens	1919
Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III	Mary Robinson	1796
Vocabulary	Jason Schneiderman	2012
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
A Lover	Amy Lowell	1917
Wall Street at Night	Lola Ridge	1920
Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us	Shane McCrae	2011
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at]	Tada Chimako	2010
Queen-Anne's-Lace	William Carlos Williams	1921
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
Untitled [To see this evil from its core]	Philip Lamantia	2008
Lovers' Infiniteness	John Donne	1633
Bucolics [LIX]	Maurice Manning	2007
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
Lights Out	Edward Thomas	1917
The Painted Bed	Donald Hall	2006
Birds Again	Jim Harrison	2006

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