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
The Other Side of the River	Xi Chuan	2012
After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains	John Keats	1899
England in 1819	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1839
A Poem	Robert Creeley	2006
Vertical	Linda Pastan	2010
Swimming in the Presence of Lurid Opposition	Sawako Nakayasu	2010
The Ear is an Organ Made for Love	E. Ethelbert Miller	2010
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] (audio only)	Derek Walcott	1964
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight	Vachel Lindsay	1914
The Sharks	Denise Levertov	1957
Ash Ode	Dean Young	2008
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour]	Charles Wright	2007
In Praise of Shame	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
Going There	Jack Gilbert	2001
The Midnight Court [Twas my custom to stroll]	Brian Merriman	2006
The Mad Potter	John Hollander	1988
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse]	William Shakespeare	1900
The Conjugation of the Paramecium	Muriel Rukeyser	1968
Self-Portrait as Miranda	Geri Doran	2005
The Seekers of Lice	Arthur Rimbaud	2004

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