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
a woman peeling apples, with a small child	Pattie McCarthy	2014
Amethyst Beads	Eavan Boland	2013
From “Fairies”	Mei-mei Berssenbrugge	2013
Detail of the Hayfield	Richard Siken	2013
To a Young Poet	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Fifteen Years of Darkness	Liu Xiaobo	2012
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311)	Emily Dickinson	1890
A Short History of the Apple	Dorianne Laux	2011
from Blue Dark	Deborah Landau	2011
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas	Prageeta Sharma	2010
Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine	Amy E. King	2010
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find]	Petrarch	1374
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
Yellow Bowl	Rachel Contreni Flynn	2009
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind]	William Wordsworth	1815
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley	Jupiter Hammon	1787
From	A. Van Jordan	2004
Fairy Tale	Ron Padgett	2001
To Elsie	William Carlos Williams	1962
Memorial Day for the War Dead	Yehuda Amichai	1977

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