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
The Pleasures of Fear	Judith Ortíz Cofer	2005
Someone	Dennis O’Driscoll	2005
Another Attempt at Rescue	M. L. Smoker	2005
Still Another Day: XVII/Men	Pablo Neruda	2005
Three Seasons	Geoffrey G. O’Brien	2007
Patsy Sees a Ghost	Lola Haskins	2004
Lupine Ridge	Peggy Simson Curry	1955
And You Thought You Were the Only One	Mark Bibbins	2003
What the Chairman Told Tom	Basil Bunting	1985
The Cossacks	Linda Pastan	2002
A Perfume	John Koethe	2002
A Light Says Why	Karen Volkman	2002
The First Winter Snow	Richard Brautigan	1989
Sonnets on Love XIII	Jean de Sponde	2001
The Mystery of Meteors	Eleanor Lerman	2001
In April	James Hearst	2001
Deer, 6:00 AM	Sarah Getty	1996
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion	William Cowper	1816
Daughters, 1900	Marilyn Nelson	1990
Early Saturday Afternoon, Early Evening (audio only)	Charles Wright	1997

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