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 Year of the Kiln Portraits (audio only)	Les Murray	1996
Long Distance (audio only)	Howard Nemerov	1989
That the Soul May Wax Plump	May Swenson	1978
A Lesson for This Sunday	Derek Walcott	1986
The Nature of a Mirror (audio only)	Robert Penn Warren	1977
La Figlia Che Piange	T. S. Eliot	1917
The Covenant (audio only)	C. K. Williams	1992
Sylvia	Gerald Stern	2005
The Art of Translation (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 (audio only)	Philip Levine	1991
Lamp, Terracotta Base, U.S., ca. 1925 (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
Symposium (audio only)	Paul Muldoon	1996
Deer, 6:00 AM	Sarah Getty	1996
Channel 2: Horowitz Playing Mozart	Sarah Getty	1996
That Woman	Sarah Getty	1996
The Wash	Sarah Getty	1996
Presbyopia	Sarah Getty	1996
Odysseus to Telemachus	Joseph Brodsky	1980
From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98)	William Shakespeare	1609
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1956

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