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
What Is an Epigram?	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1802
Man in Stream	Rosanna Warren	2011
Birch	Cynthia Zarin	2011
The Coming of War: Actaon	Ezra Pound	1915
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	Randall Jarrell	1969
Ophelia to the Court	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Voices	Sharon Olds	2010
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in]	John Keats	1820
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
The Branches	Jean Valentine	2009
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?]	Samuel Daniel	1610
The City’s Love	Claude McKay	1922
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Sonnet 2	Gwendolyn Bennett	1927
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
Two in the Campagna	Robert Browning	1855
At Melville’s Tomb	Hart Crane	1933
Survivors—Found	Joan Murray	2001
At Baia	H.D.	1982
Notes from the Other Side	Jane Kenyon	1993

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