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
When You’re Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It’s Eastertime Too (audio only)	Charles Wright	1997
Magpiety (audio only)	Czesław Miłosz	1958
Shooting the Dog (audio only)	June Jordan	1992
Under the Viaduct, 1932 (audio only)	Rita Dove	1988
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only)	James Tate	1996
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day	John Dryden	1687
Witchgrass (audio only)	Louise Glück	1992
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
A Part of Speech [As for the stars they are always on] (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1980
Street (audio only)	George Oppen	1964
The Black Unicorn (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1977
Polar Explorer (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1996
Astraea Redux	John Dryden	1660
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music	John Dryden	1697
The Study of Happiness (audio only)	Kenneth Koch	1969
From an Italian Postcard Factory (audio only)	Margaret Atwood	1978
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt]	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
Theodore and Honoria	Giovanni Boccaccio	1700
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
Why They Went	Elizabeth Bradfield	2010

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