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
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
Song of the Owl	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1856
Dear Migraine,	Gail Mazur	2011
The Dead Girls Speak in Unison	Danielle Pafunda	2010
Hope Wanted Alive	Terese Svoboda	2010
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT	dg nanouk okpik	2009
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
the gate	Tadeusz Różewicz	2010
Alcove	John Ashbery	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
The Shark	Judith Beveridge	2004
Coffee and Oranges	Joel Brouwer	2009
The City of God	David Baker	2001
A Fear of Old Age	Jack Anderson	2009
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
Babylon	Robert Graves	1918
Restless Ghost	Eric Pankey	2008
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817

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