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
Home-Coming	Léonie Adams	2017
Sleeping Bear	Linda Gregerson	2016
Modern Love	John Keats	2016
Four-Word Lines	May Swenson	2016
The Dreams of the Dreamer	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1918
Aubade to Langston	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2016
thirteen ways of looking at the towers: a 9/11 poem ten years later (audio only)	Evie Shockley	2013
From “Gabriel” [The evening with its lamps burning]	Edward Hirsch	2014
Burning the Old Year	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Of the Surface of Things	Wallace Stevens	1919
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
Heat	Denis Johnson	1994
Wedding Dress	Michael Waters	2006
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World	Sherman Alexie	2009
The Buried Life	Matthew Arnold	1852
An Unemployed Machinist	John Giorno	1970
Dora Diller	Jack Prelutsky	1984

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