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
I Do	Sjohnna McCray	2015
Another Poem	Geoffrey G. O’Brien	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Leisure	Amy Lowell	2015
Before and Every After	Marianne Boruch	2014
Meaning	Carl Dennis	2013
The Living Beauty	W. B. Yeats	1919
Muffin of Sunsets	Elaine Equi	2013
Spent	Mark Doty	2013
Detail of the Hayfield	Richard Siken	2013
Tender Buttons [A Little Called Pauline]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Camp of No Return	James Tate	2012
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1808
Gather	Rose McLarney	2012
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
A Lover	Amy Lowell	1917
Shaving Your Father’s Face	Michael Dickman	2010
In Passing	Stanley Plumly	2000
First Turn to Me ...	Bernadette Mayer	1968
Testament	Carl Sandburg	1918

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