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
The Study of Happiness (audio only)	Kenneth Koch	1969
From an Italian Postcard Factory (audio only)	Margaret Atwood	1978
Love in Boots (audio only)	John Ashbery	1994
My Mother's Lips (audio only)	C. K. Williams	1992
The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] (audio only)	Carolyn Forché	1995
The Map (audio only)	Larry Levis	1978
Structure of Rime IV (audio only)	Robert Duncan	1969
The Mark (audio only)	Louise Bogan	1968
The Smokehouse (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	1993
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor (audio only)	James Wright	1964
To a Butterfly (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt]	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
Theodore and Honoria	Giovanni Boccaccio	1700
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
The Character of a Happy Life	Sir Henry Wotton	1614
The Choir Invisible	George Eliot	1884
We’ll Go No More a-Roving	William Ernest Henley	1893
The Amaranth	Vachel Lindsay	1914
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight	Vachel Lindsay	1914
The Dandelion	Vachel Lindsay	1916

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