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
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew	Ross Gay	2011
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
The City of God	David Baker	2001
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me	John Rybicki	2008
The Celestial Surgeon	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887
From	A. Van Jordan	2004
The Widening Sky	Edward Hirsch	2003
Letter [Persephone to Demeter]	Rachel Zucker	2003
Surreptitious Kissing	Denis Johnson	1994
Tender Buttons [A Box]	Gertrude Stein	1914
A Song for New Year’s Eve	William Cullen Bryant	1864
The Blue Terrance	Terrance Hayes	2006
San Sepolcro	Jorie Graham	1995
Identity Crisis	F. D. Reeve	2005
Of Memory and Distance	Russell Edson	2005
After the Grand Perhaps	Lucie Brock-Broido	1988
The Happiness	Jack Hirschman	2002
Tract	William Carlos Williams	1962
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly [excerpt]	Ezra Pound	1956

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