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
Dear Melissa: [a curve billed thrasher]	TC Tolbert	2016
Hoar-Frost	Amy Lowell	2015
The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief	Tarfia Faizullah	2015
Time Passes	Joy Ladin	2015
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen	Jane Hirshfield	2011
Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)	Bob Hicok	2013
Toad	Diane Seuss	2013
Sonnet-To Science	Edgar Allan Poe	1829
it: a user's guide	Evie Shockley	2013
Flush or Faunus	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2013
here rests	Lucille Clifton	1991
Mars Poetica	Wyn Cooper	2012
The Maenads	Ursula K. Le Guin	2012
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
in the decision of a beginning [3]	Rusty Morrison	2011
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in]	Tada Chimako	2010
In the Garden	Thomas Hardy	1915
To George Sand: A Recognition	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844
SPAM's carbon footprint	Craig Santos Perez	2010
The Coming of War: Actaon	Ezra Pound	1915

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