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
Of the Surface of Things	Wallace Stevens	1919
The Forest in the Axe	André Breton	2003
Electricity	Geoffrey Nutter	2009
Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace]	Henry Howard	1557
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874
To Her Father with Some Verses	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Psalm	George Oppen	1965
A Man may make a Remark (952)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
Surreptitious Kissing	Denis Johnson	1994
Language	W. S. Merwin	2007
In a Boat	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Broadway	Mark Doty	1993
The Poem as Mask	Muriel Rukeyser	2004
If the Owl Calls Again	John Haines	1993
The Happiness	Jack Hirschman	2002
The Soldier	David Ferry	1999
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday	Walter Savage Landor	1894
La Figlia Che Piange	T. S. Eliot	1917
All She Wrote	Harryette Mullen	1997

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