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 Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
‘The child is father to the man.’	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2011
Curtains	Ruth Stone	1987
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart	Deborah Digges	2010
Phantom Noise	Brian Turner	2010
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
All Souls' Night, 1917	Hortense King Flexner	1920
The Hug	Thom Gunn	2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Peace	Henry Vaughan	1650
Lullaby of an Infant Chief	Sir Walter Scott	1816
Ash Ode	Dean Young	2008
The Reservation	Adrian C. Louis	2007
No, Love Is Not Dead	Robert Desnos	1991
An Unemployed Machinist	John Giorno	1970
The Blue Terrance	Terrance Hayes	2006
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke	David Lehman	1986
A Newborn Girl at Passover	Nan Cohen	1998
Gooseberry Season	Simon Armitage	2005
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover]	Kabir	2004

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