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
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2019
My love is as a fever, longing still (Sonnet 147)	William Shakespeare	1904
Night Waitress	Lynda Hull	2017
Mariposa	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Hermes of the Ways	H.D.	2016
The Museum of Stones	Carolyn Forché	2016
Poem [I do not always understand what you say.]	James Schuyler	1993
Wild Swans	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Lament for the Makaris	William Dunbar	1460
Christabel [excerpt]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1816
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in]	John Keats	1820
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems	James Tate	1991
Ghost	Paul Mariani	1996
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever	Wanda Coleman	2001
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	Galway Kinnell	2000
Stanzas in Meditation	Gertrude Stein	1994
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation	Anthony Cody	2022
The Affliction	Marie Howe	2017
After the Winter	Claude McKay	2015
Like Any Good American	Brynn Saito	2013

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