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
Poetry	Monica Ferrell	2013
Poem [The wind tears up the sun]	James Schuyler	1993
Bardo	Peter Gizzi	2012
Economy	Sandra Beasley	2012
Moonlight Monologue for the New Kitten	Péter Kántor	2010
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
U-District Incident Report	Heather McHugh	2011
The Truth About the Present	John Lane	2011
Visions of Never Being Heard from Again	Rebecca Wolff	2010
Details for Paterson	William Carlos Williams	1988
Evolution of Danger	Tina Chang	2010
Another Elegy	Jericho Brown	2010
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
April	James Schuyler	2010
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Winter Sleep	Edith Matilda Thomas	1896
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion]	Keith Waldrop	2009
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Holy Innocents	Christina Rossetti	1881

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