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
Poem [This beauty that I see]	James Schuyler	1993
Chekhov's Gun	Matt Rasmussen	2012
The Dancers Inherit the Party	Ian Hamilton Finlay	2012
The Other Side of the River	Xi Chuan	2012
Our Bodies Break Light	Traci Brimhall	2012
1492	Emma Lazarus	1888
What They Found In the Diving Bell	Traci Brimhall	2012
The Gardenia	Cornelius Eady	2011
A Memory Of the Players In a Mirror at Midnight	James Joyce	1917
The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems	Yusef Komunyakaa	2011
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs]	Tada Chimako	2010
Crocus	Alfred Kreymborg	1933
The Sympathies of the Long Married	Robert Bly	2011
The Dance	Humberto Ak’abal	2011
Blood	C. Dale Young	2011
Ghosts That Need Reminding	Dana Levin	2011
Moving Out	Sandra M. Gilbert	2011
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons	Christopher Kennedy	2011
Fusiturricula Lullaby	Gjertrud Schnackenberg	2010
Sojourn in the Whale	Marianne Moore	1917

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