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
Bleeding	May Swenson	2016
The Young Poets of Winnipeg	Naomi Shihab Nye	2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
My Proteins	Jane Hirshfield	2015
Etta’s Elegy	Maureen Seaton	2014
Parties: A Hymn of Hate	Dorothy Parker	1916
Modern Declaration	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Day of Grief	Gerald Stern	2012
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
At the Equinox	Arthur Sze	2011
In Praise of Their Divorce	Tony Hoagland	2010
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
The Soul’s Expression	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844
The Sandman	Margaret Thomson Janvier	1912
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle	Wallace Stevens	1918
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss]	Lord George Gordon Byron	1819
Heat	Denis Johnson	1994
The Buried Life	Matthew Arnold	1852
My Friends	W. S. Merwin	1963

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