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
El Beso	Angelina Weld Grimké	1909
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
At the Equinox	Arthur Sze	2011
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
Where I Live	Maxine Kumin	2010
In Praise of Their Divorce	Tony Hoagland	2010
Summer in the South	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1903
The Seventh (A hetedik)	Attila József	1997
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
The Heart of the Woman	W. B. Yeats	1899
A Man may make a Remark (952)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Credo	Matthew Rohrer	2001
Love Incarnate	Frank Bidart	1997
Dora Diller	Jack Prelutsky	1984
Meaningful Love	John Ashbery	2005
First Georgic [Excerpt]	Virgil	2005
Ars Poetica (cocoons)	Dana Levin	2005
Father Outside	Nick Flynn	2004
They’ll spend the summer	Joshua Beckman	2004

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