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
Passers-by	Carl Sandburg	2015
From “Burial Sites”	Toi Derricotte	2014
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Pantoum	Marilyn Hacker	2014
An Autumn Reverie	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1873
For Crying Out Loud	Terrance Hayes	2013
Series	Geoffrey G. O’Brien	2013
From “The Princess” [Sweet and low, sweet and low]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	2013
A Fox's Tail is Called a Brush	Emily Pettit	2012
(Soma)tic 1: Anoint Thyself	CAConrad	2012
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]	William Shakespeare	1623
Beauty Secrets, Revealed by the Queen in Snow White	Natasha Sajé	2012
London Snow	Robert Bridges	1890
The Gardenia	Cornelius Eady	2011
Here	Ed Roberson	2011
What Is an Epigram?	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1802
Epigram on Rough Roads	Robert Burns	1786
The Sympathies of the Long Married	Robert Bly	2011
Traveling Light	Linda Pastan	2011
Dear Tiara	Sean Thomas Dougherty	2011

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