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
What was he saying and to whom	Alan Michael Parker	2008
Picking Up	Evelyn Duncan	2008
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
Man and Camel	Mark Strand	2006
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004
The Painted Bed	Donald Hall	2006
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run	Matthea Harvey	2006
Seven Years	Daisy Fried	2006
Just Listen	Peter Johnson	2006
Working Late	Louis Simpson	1988
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles]	Christopher Logue	1988
Losing Track	Denise Levertov	1964
First Georgic [Excerpt]	Virgil	2005
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts	Sydney Lea	2005
Past Light	Pimone Triplett	2005
Boston	Aaron Smith	2005
Render, Render	Thomas Lux	2004
Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri	Mona Van Duyn	2002
Believing in Iron	Yusef Komunyakaa	1992
In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850

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