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 Weakness	Toi Derricotte	1989
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry	James Tate	1972
Painters	Muriel Rukeyser	2005
A Tomb for Anatole, 1	Stéphane Mallarmé	2005
The Pleasures of Fear	Judith Ortíz Cofer	2005
The Seekers of Lice	Arthur Rimbaud	2004
Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair	Jackson Mac Low	1999
Little Fugue	Marianne Boruch	2004
I, Up they soar	Inger Christensen	1989
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
Spring Snow	Arthur Sze	1998
Amo Amas Amat	Bernardine Evaristo	2001
Steps	Grace Schulman	2002
What Was Given	Richard Foerster	2002
Nothing to Save	D. H. Lawrence	1964
A Hermit Thrush	Amy Clampitt	1997
Those Graves in Rome	Larry Levis	1985
Sonnets on Love XIII	Jean de Sponde	2001
Rape	Sondra Upham	2000
To the Tune of “Telling My Most Intimate Feelings”	Li Qingzhao	2000

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