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
Dangerous for Girls	Connie Voisine	2008
What was he saying and to whom	Alan Michael Parker	2008
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour]	Charles Wright	2007
Bats	Paisley Rekdal	2007
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004
Going There	Jack Gilbert	2001
Old Santeclaus	Clement Clarke Moore	1821
The Thanksgivings	Harriet Maxwell Converse	1908
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
Poet's Work	Lorine Niedecker	2002
Achill	Derek Mahon	1991
The Ruined Maid	Thomas Hardy	1901
February: The Boy Breughel	Norman Dubie	1983
Wildflower	Stanley Plumly	1983
Cicada	John Blair	2003
Before the Snake	Nathaniel Tarn	2002
In the Next Galaxy	Ruth Stone	2002
Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day	Cynthia Zarin	2002
Adolescence II	Rita Dove	1993
prayer	nicole v basta	2022

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