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 Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Fabliau of Florida	Wallace Stevens	1923
The Witch Has Told You a Story	Ava Leavell Haymon	2010
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
April	James Schuyler	2010
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
It is the time of rain and snow	Izumi Shikibu	1955
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Mother Night	James Weldon Johnson	1922
Secret History	Charles Simic	2008
Picking Up	Evelyn Duncan	2008
Units	Albert Goldbarth	2007
Shaking the Grass	Janice N. Harrington	2007
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior	Ben Jonson	1640
Poem at Thirty	Michael Ryan	2004

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