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
Heroic	Eavan Boland	2016
The Young Poets of Winnipeg	Naomi Shihab Nye	2016
I Sat in the Sun	Jane Hirshfield	2016
First Snow	Arthur Sze	2016
To Hope	Charlotte Smith	2016
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood	William Cullen Bryant	2014
From Tanka Diary	Harryette Mullen	2014
Meaning	Carl Dennis	2013
Conversation Galante	T. S. Eliot	1920
Coda	Ezra Pound	1916
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
Vernal Equinox	Amy Lowell	1915
‘The child is father to the man.’	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2011
At the Piano	Thomas Hardy	1917
This is Lagos	John Koethe	2009
Demeter to Persephone	Alicia Ostriker	2009
Labor	Jericho Brown	2010
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
A Shropshire Lad, II	A. E. Housman	1896

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