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
Loss	Carl Adamshick	2013
Tang	Bruce Cohen	2013
Song	James Joyce	1907
Alone for a Week	Jane Kenyon	2005
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
The Poplar	Richard Aldington	1915
She Is Overheard Singing	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1919
Christel	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1902
The Dancers Inherit the Party	Ian Hamilton Finlay	2012
The Nightingale	Sir Philip Sidney	1613
Written on the Banks of the Arun	Charlotte Smith	1785
Again a Solstice	Jennifer Chang	2010
A Spray of Water: Tanka [one narcissus]	Tada Chimako	2010
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs]	Tada Chimako	2010
Pocket Vampire	Dorothy Barresi	2011
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
The Very Nervous Family	Sabrina Orah Mark	2011
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
Song of the Owl	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1856
A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650)	Emily Dickinson	1890

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