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
Fatigue	Amy Lowell	2018
A Man’s World	Tracy K. Smith	2018
Cumbia de Salvación	Leticia Hernández-Linares	2018
Prayer	Galway Kinnell	2018
Storm	H.D.	2017
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last	Lisa Olstein	2016
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends	W. B. Yeats	1899
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen	Jane Hirshfield	2011
Old Ironsides	Oliver Wendell Holmes	1830
Poem [Your breath was shed]	Dylan Thomas	1946
The Black Unicorn (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1977
The Apple Trees at Olema	Robert Hass	2010
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock	Wallace Stevens	1915
On Shakespeare	John Milton	1630
A Shropshire Lad, XIII	A. E. Housman	1896
In Jerusalem	Mahmoud Darwish	2005
Kinky	Denise Duhamel	1997
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer	Mark Strand	1979
Star Quilt	Roberta Hill Whiteman	1984
The Fountain of Blood	Charles Baudelaire	1994

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