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
Low Barometer	Robert Bridges	1880
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart]	William Cowper	1779
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
What Do I Care	Sara Teasdale	1920
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
Picking Up	Evelyn Duncan	2008
Glen Uig	Richard Hugo	2008
Solstice	Ellen Dudley	2007
Practice	Ellen Bryant Voigt	2002
The Old Year	John Clare	1845
He “Digesteth Harde Yron”	Marianne Moore	1961
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard	Charles Wright	1995
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
In the Next Galaxy	Ruth Stone	2002
Song of Myself	John Canaday	2002
Moreover, the Moon—	Mina Loy	1996
The Lost Pilot	James Tate	1967
My Father on His Shield	Walt McDonald	1998

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