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
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
To Helen About Her Hair	Robinson Jeffers	1912
Q	Hannah Sanghee Park	2014
From Tanka Diary	Harryette Mullen	2014
Atavism	Elinor Wylie	1921
It was a hard thing to undo this knot	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2013
Getting Close	Victoria Redel	2013
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
Gradeschool’s Large Windows	Thomas Lux	2012
Fifteen Years of Darkness	Liu Xiaobo	2012
Ghost Elephants	Jean Valentine	2012
Horoscope	Maureen N. McLane	2011
Poem	Alice Notley	2008
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree	D. H. Lawrence	1920
South	Jack Gilbert	2010
About Foam	Caroline Bergvall	2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall]	Harryette Mullen	2010
Shahid Reads His Own Palm	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2010
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009

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