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
Prayer	Galway Kinnell	2018
To a Star Seen at Twilight	John Rollin Ridge	2017
Circe	H.D.	2018
syntax	Maureen N. McLane	2008
The Myth of Innocence	Louise Glück	2006
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100	Martín Espada	2003
The Spacious Firmament on high	Joseph Addison	1712
The Widening Spell of the Leaves	Larry Levis	1991
The Dramatists	Dorothy Parker	1926
Aubade with Attention to Pathos	Emily Skaja	2019
My Mother's Name Lucha	Juan Felipe Herrera	2012
The Language of the Birds	Richard Siken	2011
Rhapsody on a Windy Night	T. S. Eliot	1920
Tomlinson	Rudyard Kipling	1892
My Lost Youth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1858
The Song Of The Chattahoochee	Sidney Lanier	1877
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With	Suzanne Rancourt	2004
It Happens Like This	James Tate	2003
The Forest for the Trees	Rena Priest	2021
On Prayer	Kahlil Gibran	1923

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