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
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day	Lydia Maria Child	1844
Holy Innocents	Christina Rossetti	1881
Derrick Poem (The Lost World)	Terrance Hayes	1999
Sitting Outside	W. D. Snodgrass	2006
Privilege of Being (audio only)	Robert Hass	1988
Wildflower	Stanley Plumly	1983
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos	Anthony Hecht	1990
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
You, Andrew Marvell	Archibald MacLeish	1930
Achill	Derek Mahon	1991
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals	Norman Dubie	1983
Sticks	Thomas Sayers Ellis	2005
Render, Render	Thomas Lux	2004
Before the Snake	Nathaniel Tarn	2002
Photograph of People Dancing in France	Leslie Adrienne Miller	2002
The Lost Pilot	James Tate	1967
The Plaid Dress	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2001
My Father's Love Letters (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	1988

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