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
On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm	William Wordsworth	1820
Entanglement	Jane Hirshfield	2015
SONNET (silenced)	Olena Kalytiak Davis	2014
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Mag	Carl Sandburg	1916
It was a hard thing to undo this knot	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2013
Spent	Mark Doty	2013
The Call of the Open	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
One Child Has Brown Eyes	Marilyn Chin	2010
Shaving Your Father’s Face	Michael Dickman	2010
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi)	Marvin Bell	2009
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
A Noun Sentence	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Quatrains	Gwendolyn Bennett	1927
Day Job and Night Job	Andrew Hudgins	2003
Language	W. S. Merwin	2007
Like Brooms of Steel (1252)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Third Charm from Masque of Queens	Ben Jonson	1609

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