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
When we are on the right track we are rewarded with joy	Brian Teare	2015
Ode to the Unbroken World, Which Is Coming	Thomas Lux	2015
This Your Home Now	Mark Doty	2015
Sonnet	Bill Knott	1989
Mountain Pines	Robinson Jeffers	1904
Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)	Bob Hicok	2013
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké	Angelina Weld Grimké	1914
The High-School Lawn	Thomas Hardy	1925
The Pool	H.D.	1915
Ground Birds in Open Country	Stanley Plumly	2012
England in 1819	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1839
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
Antique	Arthur Rimbaud	2011
Again, She Tells the First Story	Barbara Jane Reyes	2011
Ne Plus Ultra	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1834
Vertical	Linda Pastan	2010
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love	E. Ethelbert Miller	2010
Phantom Noise	Brian Turner	2010
The Love-Hat Relationship	Aaron Belz	2010
Negotiations with a Volcano	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995

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