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
The Magpie's Shadow	Yvor Winters	1922
An Exhortation	Percy Bysshe Shelley	2013
Epistle: Leaving	Kerrin McCadden	2013
from Manatee/Humanity [1]	Anne Waldman	2009
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt]	Pindar	1824
Swell	Hoa Nguyen	2011
At a Window
The Very Nervous Family	Sabrina Orah Mark	2011
9773 Comanche Ave.	David Trinidad	2010
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
The Love-Hat Relationship	Aaron Belz	2010
The Love Unfeigned	Geoffrey Chaucer	1380
To Rosemounde	Geoffrey Chaucer	1400
way [excerpts]	Leslie Scalapino	1988
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi)	Marvin Bell	2009
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
To His Coy Love	Michael Drayton	1606

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