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
At a Dinner Party	Amy Levy	1889
Renouncement	Alice Meynell	1895
Tender Buttons [A Little Called Pauline]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The Pool	H.D.	1915
Lines to a Nasturtium	Anne Spencer	1926
Textbook & Absence (Anatomy)	Catherine Barnett	2012
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
At a Window
Get Used To It	Margaret Young	2011
Demeter to Persephone	Alicia Ostriker	2009
In Praise of Their Divorce	Tony Hoagland	2010
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart	Deborah Digges	2010
Langston Blue	Jericho Brown	2010
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight	Vachel Lindsay	1914
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
Against Fruition	Sir John Suckling	1646
Lullaby of an Infant Chief	Sir Walter Scott	1816
Balance	Adam Zagajewski	2008
The Uses of Poetry	William Carlos Williams	1909
Consider the Hands that Write This Letter	Aracelis Girmay	2007

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