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
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Spain	Major Jackson	2015
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
From “Debths”	Susan Howe	2013
Ashes of Life	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
Tanka Diary [Awakened too early on Saturday morning]	Harryette Mullen	2012
Danny Boy	Frederick Edward Weatherly	1910
A Lover	Amy Lowell	1917
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons	Christopher Kennedy	2011
One day is there of the series	Emily Dickinson	1890
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
Low Barometer	Robert Bridges	1880
How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual	Pamela Spiro Wagner	2009
Grace for a Child	Robert Herrick	1648
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
“Ferrum” [Excerpt]	M. NourbeSe Philip	2008
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
Sex	Michael Ryan	2004

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