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
Breathing	Josephine Dickinson	2007
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94)	William Shakespeare	1609
Tender Buttons [A Chair]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The Republic	Paul Mariani	1996
The White Room	Charles Simic	1990
The Orange Bears	Kenneth Patchen	1957
The Something	Charles Simic	1996
why must itself up every of a park	E. E. Cummings	1923
Mortal Limit	Robert Penn Warren	1985
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?	Rachel Zucker	2012
Wrap	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2003
The Dream of the Just	Dana Gelinas	2003
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries	Jupiter Hammon	1760
Heroic Simile	Robert Hass	1978
The Taxi	Amy Lowell	1914
I Hardly Remember	Rafael Guillén	2001
The Philosopher in Florida	C. Dale Young	2001
Something New Under the Sun	Steve Scafidi	2001
Jogging with Oscar	Walt McDonald	1998
It is Night, in My Study	Miguel de Unamuno	1976

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