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
Critic and Poet	Emma Lazarus	1888
To R.W.E.	Emma Lazarus	1884
Vernal Equinox	Amy Lowell	1915
After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains	John Keats	1899
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]	William Shakespeare	1623
Winter Study	Mark Wunderlich	2012
to have been, instead	Stephen Motika	2012
Spring Storm	William Carlos Williams	1921
England in 1819	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1839
Leap Year Poem	Mother Goose	1719
One Night	Mathias Svalina	2012
A Thought of the Nile	Leigh Hunt	1818
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [The Lost Pines Inn would be a good name for a motel]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [I love says the acrobat]	Lyn Hejinian	2012
The Condoleezza Suite [Excerpt]	Nikky Finney	2011
Cattails	Nikky Finney	2011
Heirloom	Nikky Finney	2011
Wild Swans	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Poem for Leigh Hunt	Prageeta Sharma	2012

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