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
Sweeney among the Nightingales	T. S. Eliot	1920
Time	Chris Martin	2013
The Mower Against Gardens	Andrew Marvell	1668
Wanting is — What?	Robert Browning	1883
Detail of the Hayfield	Richard Siken	2013
from Manatee/Humanity [1]	Anne Waldman	2009
Window Seat: Providence to New York City	Jacqueline Osherow	2012
If You Go into the Woods You Will Find It Has a Technology	Heather Christle	2012
Written on the Banks of the Arun	Charlotte Smith	1785
The Ballad of the Children of the Czar	Delmore Schwartz	1959
On Summer	George Moses Horton	1837
August, 1953	David Wojahn	2011
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons	Christopher Kennedy	2011
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
Incantation	George Parsons Lathrop	1892
The Player Queen	W. B. Yeats	1916
corydon & alexis, redux	D. A. Powell	2009
Wild Gratitude	Edward Hirsch	1986

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