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
Poem	Alice Notley	2008
The Witch Has Told You a Story	Ava Leavell Haymon	2010
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only)	James Tate	1996
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
The Words Under the Words	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
The City of God	David Baker	2001
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind]	William Wordsworth	1815
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
The Barrier	Claude McKay	1922
Language	W. S. Merwin	2007
The Buried Life	Matthew Arnold	1852
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke	David Lehman	1986
Meaningful Love	John Ashbery	2005
Past Light	Pimone Triplett	2005
The Blade of Nostalgia	Chase Twichell	1991
God Went to Beauty School	Cynthia Rylant	2003
Song of Myself	John Canaday	2002
Moreover, the Moon—	Mina Loy	1996
In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
Something New Under the Sun	Steve Scafidi	2001

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