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
Let Me Disappear	Ray Gonzalez	2009
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	2010
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Poems for Blok, 1	Marina Tsvetaeva	2010
The Words Under the Words	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Rose Aylmer	Walter Savage Landor	1806
The Ghazal of What Hurt	Peter Cole	2008
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
Glen Uig	Richard Hugo	2008
The Origin	Jane Mead	2008
What was he saying and to whom	Alan Michael Parker	2008
Derrick Poem (The Lost World)	Terrance Hayes	1999
Orfeo	Jack Spicer	2008
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002

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