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
Excelsior	Walt Whitman	1891
Living in Numbers	Claire Lee	2013
Rocket Fantastic [He’s really beautiful.]	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2013
Tender Buttons [Milk]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Window Seat: Providence to New York City	Jacqueline Osherow	2012
High Tide at Race Point	Charles Bernstein	2012
The Year's Awakening	Thomas Hardy	1914
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1808
Glass House	Heather McHugh	2012
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
The Nightingale	Sir Philip Sidney	1613
To the Roaring Wind	Wallace Stevens	1923
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us	Shane McCrae	2011
Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog	Dara Barrois/Dixon	2011
Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance	John Cage	1957
Poem	Alice Notley	2008
Mosul	David Hernandez	2011
Our Valley	Philip Levine	2009

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