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 Christmas Carol	Christina Rossetti	2018
41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2018
A Valentine	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
A Poem as Long as California	Rick Barot	2017
Brooding Grief	D. H. Lawrence	2017
Summer Silence	E. E. Cummings	1913
Faithful Forest	Alberto Ríos	2016
City Moon	Francisco Aragón	2016
Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging	Carl Adamshick	2014
A Violin at Dusk	Lizette Woodworth Reese	1920
canvas and mirror	Evie Shockley	2010
Langston Blue	Jericho Brown	2010
The Black Unicorn (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1977
The Vampire Bride [I am come-I am come!]	Henry Thomas Liddell	1833
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
The Face of All the World (Sonnet 7)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths	Philip James Bailey	1884
Sun	Michael Palmer	1988
Ghost	Paul Mariani	1996

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