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
SPAM's carbon footprint	Craig Santos Perez	2010
Postpartum	Hiromi Itō	2009
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	2010
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
Electricity	Geoffrey Nutter	2009
From an Italian Postcard Factory (audio only)	Margaret Atwood	1978
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
Spring in New Hampshire	Claude McKay	1920
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
All Souls' Night, 1917	Hortense King Flexner	1920
Yellow Bowl	Rachel Contreni Flynn	2009
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
Daphnis and Chloe	Haniel Long	1977
No Platonic Love	William Cartwright	1651
Restoration	Mary Cornish	2007
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing	Robert Herrick	1648
Faults	Sara Teasdale	1917
In California During the Gulf War	Denise Levertov	1992
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals	Norman Dubie	1983

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