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
Flush or Faunus	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2013
Ghazal: In Silence	Mimi Khalvati	2013
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1808
Half-Hearted Sonnet	Kim Addonizio	2012
On Summer	George Moses Horton	1837
Dear Tiara	Sean Thomas Dougherty	2011
Ophelia to the Court	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus]	Horace	1673
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
For the Fallen	Laurence Binyon	1914
Ash Ode	Dean Young	2008
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers]	Alexander Pope	1711
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
To Blossoms	Robert Herrick	1648
Second Fig	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1956
Past Light	Pimone Triplett	2005
One of the Lives	W. S. Merwin	1996
The Family Photograph	Vona Groarke	2004
Poem for Pancho Gonzales	Leroy V. Quintana	2001

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