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
The Present/	Lisa Robertson	2010
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only)	W. S. Merwin	1966
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
A Book Said Dream and I Do	Barbara Ras	2010
Fireflies	Fred Chappell	2010
Graves We Filled Before the Fire	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2010
that they were at the beach [excerpt]	Leslie Scalapino	1985
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
My Father's Leaving	Ira Sadoff	1978
Homosexuality	Henri Cole	2007
Coffee and Oranges	Joel Brouwer	2009
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?	Robert Graves	1918
Caboose Thoughts	Carl Sandburg	1918
Last Words to Miriam	D. H. Lawrence	1921
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
That Everything’s Inevitable	Katy Lederer	2008
Noel	Anne Porter	2006
Syntax	Reginald Shepherd	2003
To the Same	John Milton	1694

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