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
Wednesday 9/12/01	Lucille Clifton	2017
The City is Peopled	H.D.	2017
Night Falls Like a Button	Chen Chen	2017
Modern Love	John Keats	2016
An Instructor’s Dream	Bill Knott	2007
Pilate’s Wife’s Dream	Charlotte Brontë	1846
From “Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1”	Anne Waldman	2016
Evening	H.D.	1916
The Key	Ladan Osman	2015
Pantoum	Marilyn Hacker	2014
From “Fairies”	Mei-mei Berssenbrugge	2013
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
‘The child is father to the man.’	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2011
Astraea Redux	John Dryden	1660
The Love-Hat Relationship	Aaron Belz	2010
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
The Shark	Judith Beveridge	2004
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
A Man may make a Remark (952)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Fairy Tale	Ron Padgett	2001

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