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
A Brief History of Hostility	Jamaal May	2017
The Map	Marie Howe	2016
Heroic	Eavan Boland	2016
Like as, to make our appetite more keen (Sonnet 118)	William Shakespeare	2016
My Doubt	Jane Hirshfield	2016
Moonrise	D. H. Lawrence	2015
To a Steam Roller	Marianne Moore	1921
Old Photographs	Gabeba Baderoon	2010
The Gaffe	C. K. Williams	2010
My Life as a Subject	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine	Amy E. King	2010
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
When I Heard at the Close of Day	Walt Whitman	1891
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?]	Samuel Daniel	1610
Po' Boy Blues	Langston Hughes	1994
History	Robert Lowell	1976
The Poems I Have Not Written	John Brehm	2005
For John Clare	John Ashbery	1956
Go Greyhound	Bob Hicok	2004
In Memoriam Mae Noblitt	A. R. Ammons	1981

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