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
Another Elegy	Jericho Brown	2010
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
April	James Schuyler	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Winter Sleep	Edith Matilda Thomas	1896
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion]	Keith Waldrop	2009
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Holy Innocents	Christina Rossetti	1881
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Restless Ghost	Eric Pankey	2008
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy	Jack Spicer	2008
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days	Walt Whitman	1891
First Things First (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1960
Going There	Jack Gilbert	2001
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005
Privilege of Being (audio only)	Robert Hass	1988
The White Room	Charles Simic	1990
Mastectomy	Wanda Coleman	1993
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals	Norman Dubie	1983

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