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
Shahid Reads His Own Palm	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2010
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window	Ernesto Cardenal	2009
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Language	W. S. Merwin	2007
The Illiterate	William Meredith	1997
Ballade [The goat scratches so much it can't sleep]	François Villon	1965
Epilogue	Robert Lowell	1975
One of the Lives	W. S. Merwin	1996
Around Us	Marvin Bell	2004
September	Joanne Kyger	2002
Die Muhle Brennt—Richard	Richard Matthews	2002
The Silence	Philip Schultz	2002
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	Etheridge Knight	1986
I Have Been Living	Jane Mead	2000
Pledge	Elizabeth A. I. Powell	2001
Ode to My Son’s Birthmark	Michelle Bitting	2026

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