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
Poem	Charles Bernstein	1978
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth	David Rosenthal	1920
Night Baseball	Michael Blumenthal	1984
To George Sand: A Desire	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844
In Passing	Stanley Plumly	2000
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Lady Tactics (audio only)	Anne Waldman	2009
What Do I Care	Sara Teasdale	1920
Drawing from Life	Reginald Shepherd	1996
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?]	Samuel Daniel	1610
A Shropshire Lad, II	A. E. Housman	1896
Compulsively Allergic to the Truth	Jeffrey McDaniel	2008
The Basic Con	Lew Welch	1979
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard	Charles Wright	1995
Dusting	Marilyn Nelson	1994
Losing Track	Denise Levertov	1964
One of the Lives	W. S. Merwin	1996
On Translation	Mónica de la Torre	2002
Medusa	Frieda Hughes	2003

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