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
Traveling Light	Linda Pastan	2011
The Hesperides	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1832
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again	Rebecca Wolff	2010
An Arbor	Linda Gregerson	1996
Another Elegy	Jericho Brown	2010
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Plague of Dead Sharks	Alan Dugan	2001
Rome	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2009
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Orfeo	Jack Spicer	2008
Poem	Matthew Rohrer	2007
Four Winds	Sara Teasdale	1917
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
The Leaves	Deborah Digges	1986
The Something	Charles Simic	1996
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse]	William Shakespeare	1900
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos	Anthony Hecht	1990
The Mad Potter	John Hollander	1988

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