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
Fusiturricula Lullaby	Gjertrud Schnackenberg	2010
Complete Destruction	William Carlos Williams	1921
Rest.	Richard Jones	2010
the gate	Tadeusz Różewicz	2010
The Amaranth	Vachel Lindsay	1914
Bullfight critics ranked in rows [excerpt]	Domingo Ortega	1962
True Love	Barry Gifford	2009
Letter Spoken in Wind	Rachel Galvin	2009
New year’s morning	Carl Adamshick	2010
The Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Summer Past	John Gray	1893
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old]	Rudyard Kipling	1901
Xicano	J. Michael Martinez	2010
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
An Excuse For Not Returning the Visit of a Friend	Mei-Yao Ch'en	1971
The Dusk of Horses	James Dickey	1992
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
XIII	César Vallejo	2007
The Visit	Jason Shinder	2005

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