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
Body and Soul II [Excerpt]	Charles Wright	2002
Photograph of People Dancing in France	Leslie Adrienne Miller	2002
For the Twentieth Century	Frank Bidart	2002
Gods	Michael Redhill	2001
What Was Given	Richard Foerster	2002
The First Winter Snow	Richard Brautigan	1989
Alexander Throckmorton	Edgar Lee Masters	1916
To the Tune of “Telling My Most Intimate Feelings”	Li Qingzhao	2000
Uncertain Grace	Rebecca Wee	2000
Witness	Liz Waldner	2000
Something New Under the Sun	Steve Scafidi	2001
The Valve	David R. Slavitt	2001
Sonnet for Salvadore	Gary Miranda	2001
Channel 2: Horowitz Playing Mozart	Sarah Getty	1996
Fishing in Winter	Ralph Burns	1983
It is Night, in My Study	Miguel de Unamuno	1976
And Leave Show Business?	Ralph Burns	1994
Tears in Sleep	Louise Bogan	1923
Late Night Ode	J. D. McClatchy	1991
I Commiserate with the Pygmy Octopus Found in the Miami Beach Parking Garage	Jen Karetnick	2024

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