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
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
Incantation	George Parsons Lathrop	1892
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Grace for a Child	Robert Herrick	1648
The City’s Love	Claude McKay	1922
The Heron	Linda Hogan	2008
What was he saying and to whom	Alan Michael Parker	2008
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Shawl	Albert Goldbarth	2007
In Michael Robins's class minus one	Bob Hicok	2007
Posthumous Remorse	Charles Baudelaire	2006
Tender Buttons [A Chair]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The Midnight Court [Twas my custom to stroll]	Brian Merriman	2006
Losing Track	Denise Levertov	1964
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You	Abdellatif Laâbi	2003
Come Up From the Fields Father	Walt Whitman	1891
Souvenir of the Ancient World	Carlos Drummond de Andrade	2002
The Voice of Robert Desnos	Robert Desnos	1991
The Visitation	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	1988

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