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
Pantoum	Marilyn Hacker	2014
Before and Every After	Marianne Boruch	2014
Meaning	Carl Dennis	2013
Winter: My Secret	Christina Rossetti	1862
Ebb	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Coda	Ezra Pound	1916
Day of Grief	Gerald Stern	2012
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
Elegy for my husband	Toi Derricotte	2012
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Curtains	Ruth Stone	1987
In Passing	Stanley Plumly	2000
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic	Edward Hirsch	2003
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
The Sandman	Margaret Thomson Janvier	1912
The Legend	Garrett Hongo	1988
Gooseberry Season	Simon Armitage	2005

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