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 Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
A Fear of Old Age	Jack Anderson	2009
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Triad	Adelaide Crapsey	1915
Dreaming About My Father (audio only)	Ed Ochester	2008
The Origin	Jane Mead	2008
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
Shaking the Grass	Janice N. Harrington	2007
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing	Robert Duncan	1968
What [The flower sermon]	Ron Silliman	1988
Poem at Thirty	Michael Ryan	2004
Ramallah	Bei Dao	2006
Mortal Limit	Robert Penn Warren	1985
The Weakness	Toi Derricotte	1989
Company of Moths	Michael Palmer	2005
Outside	Michael Ryan	2004
Go Greyhound	Bob Hicok	2004
The Blue Stairs	Barbara Guest	2003
My Daughter's First Week	Gennady Aygi	2003

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