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
Get Used To It	Margaret Young	2011
Dark Matter	Jack Myers	2011
Sea Girls	A. E. Stallings	2010
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
The Amaranth	Vachel Lindsay	1914
Me and the Otters	Dorothea Lasky	2010
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
What Do I Care	Sara Teasdale	1920
Picking Up	Evelyn Duncan	2008
Glen Uig	Richard Hugo	2008
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
Solstice	Ellen Dudley	2007
Practice	Ellen Bryant Voigt	2002
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005
The Old Year	John Clare	1845
The Mad Potter	John Hollander	1988
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
He “Digesteth Harde Yron”	Marianne Moore	1961
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard	Charles Wright	1995

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