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
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry	James Tate	1972
Heaven for Helen	Mark Doty	2005
It Was the Beginning of Joy and the End of Pain	Gillian Conoley	2005
The Intruder	David R. Slavitt	2005
Last Supper	Charles Wright	2005
Girl	Eve Alexandra	2003
The Satyr’s Heart	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2004
Patsy Sees a Ghost	Lola Haskins	2004
Blue Plate	Jesse Lee Kercheval	2004
After the Grand Perhaps	Lucie Brock-Broido	1988
On the Mississippi	Hamlin Garland	1893
On 52nd Street	Philip Levine	2003
Night on the Great River [three translations]	Meng Hao-jan	2003
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form	Paul Guest	2003
Artificer	Czesław Miłosz	1931
Before the Snake	Nathaniel Tarn	2002
Interstate Highway	James Applewhite	2002
The Silence	Philip Schultz	2002
On Looking for Models	Alan Dugan	1983
The Plaid Dress	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2001

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