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
His Speed and Strength	Alicia Ostriker	2016
The Sky Over My Mother’s House	Jaime Manrique	2016
On the Death of Anne Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60)	William Shakespeare	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Conversation Galante	T. S. Eliot	1920
Engines Within the Throne	Cathy Park Hong	2012
South	Jack Gilbert	2010
I like to see it lap the Miles (43)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Health	Rafael Campo	2010
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only)	James Tate	1996
Sonnet 7 [The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings]	Henry Howard	1557
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Come Slowly—Eden (211)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Man and Camel	Mark Strand	2006
A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters (audio only)	June Jordan	1992
Letters from a Father	Mona Van Duyn	1982
Song of the Son	Jean Toomer	1923
In the Park	Maxine Kumin	1989

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