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
High Tide at Race Point	Charles Bernstein	2012
Before the Feast of Shushan	Anne Spencer	1922
In Exile	Emma Lazarus	1882
To the Roaring Wind	Wallace Stevens	1923
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
After Us	Nikola Madzirov	2011
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Friend	Jean Valentine	2004
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Poetry Anonymous	Prageeta Sharma	2010
Hallow-E'en, 1915	Winifred M. Letts	1916
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi)	Marvin Bell	2009
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina	Jack Gilbert	2009
Lay Back the Darkness	Edward Hirsch	2003
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek	James Dickey	1992
Hospital: strange lights	Jean Valentine	2008
Lovers' Infiniteness	John Donne	1633

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