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
What the Last Evening Will Be Like	Edward Hirsch	2010
Infinite and Plausible	Tina Chang	2010
Another Elegy	Jericho Brown	2010
Robin Hood’s Barn (audio only)	John Ashbery	2010
Today We Make the Poet’s Words Our Own	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1875
Anybody Can Write a Poem	Bradley Paul	2010
The Enkindled Spring	D. H. Lawrence	1916
Jugglers	Francisco Aragón	2000
Allende	Phillip Lopate	2009
Red Lilies	Barbara Guest	2008
Caesarion	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old]	Rudyard Kipling	1901
The City of God	David Baker	2001
Tender Buttons [Apple]	Gertrude Stein	1914
corydon & alexis, redux	D. A. Powell	2009
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
Winter Twilight	Anne Porter	2006
The Retreat	Henry Vaughan	1650
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Daphnis and Chloe	Haniel Long	1977

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