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
what it means to be avant-garde [excerpt]	David Antin	1993
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
Today We Make the Poet’s Words Our Own	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1875
Bullfight critics ranked in rows [excerpt]	Domingo Ortega	1962
Desolation of the Chimera	Luis Cernuda	2010
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans	Philip Appleman	1998
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
To Sleep	Henri Cole	2007
I am Raftery the Poet	Anthony Raftery	1903
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?	Robert Graves	1918
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window	Ernesto Cardenal	2009
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year	Maxine Kumin	2008
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Pockets	Howard Nemerov	1975
The Healing Improvisation of Hair	Jay Wright	2000
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Duality	Tina Chang	2007
The Broken Sandal	Denise Levertov	1970
The Alien	Greg Delanty	2007

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