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
41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2018
Questions	Rachel Richardson	2018
Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth	Tarfia Faizullah	2018
Desert Pools	Sara Teasdale	1915
Ts'ai Chi'h	Ezra Pound	2017
Watershed	Tracy K. Smith	2017
Double Exposure	May Swenson	2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
Little Box	Marilyn Nelson	2016
All the Names We Will Not Know	Naomi Shihab Nye	2015
Fall Parties	Becca Klaver	2013
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
On Quitting	Edgar Guest	1912
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind	Carl Sandburg	1922
Home to Roost	Kay Ryan	2005
The Dirt Eaters	Virgil Suárez	2005
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer	Mark Strand	1979
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is	D. H. Lawrence	1964
Anastasia & Sandman	Larry Levis	1997
I Might Have Dreamed This	Kirsten Dierking	2001

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