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
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Poetry Is a Destructive Force	Wallace Stevens	1980
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window	Adelaide Crapsey	1913
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing	Robert Herrick	1648
In a Boat	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Museum	Glyn Maxwell	2000
Nights	Harvey Shapiro	2006
First Things to Hand	Robert Pinsky	2006
Talking to Patrizia	Kenneth Koch	1994
One of the Lives	W. S. Merwin	1996
Hard Night	Christian Wiman	2005
They’ll spend the summer	Joshua Beckman	2004
The One God Is Mysterious	Frank X. Gaspar	2004
Once in the 40’s	William Stafford	1982
God Went to Beauty School	Cynthia Rylant	2003
If the Owl Calls Again	John Haines	1993
Souvenir of the Ancient World	Carlos Drummond de Andrade	2002
The Plaid Dress	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2001
What are the consequences of silence?	Bhanu Kapil	2001
The Voice of Robert Desnos	Robert Desnos	1991

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