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
Noyta CCCP (audio only)	Christian Bök	2008
Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train (audio only)	David Wojahn	1993
Human Form (audio only)	David Wojahn	1993
Tribute and Ash (audio only)	David Wojahn	1993
Void and Compensation (Stephon Marbury)	Michael Morse	2007
Void and Compensation (Pug-nosed Dream)	Michael Morse	2006
Pockets	Howard Nemerov	1975
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry	Howard Nemerov	1980
A Primer of the Daily Round	Howard Nemerov	1960
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	Walt Whitman	1855
In Paris With You (audio only)	James Fenton	1994
The Heart (audio only)	Robert Creeley	2001
Jerusalem (audio only)	James Fenton	1994
Cutthroat Christ (audio only)	James Fenton	1994
Darkness	George Gordon Byron	1816
Dirge	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	1851
Shadwell Stair	Wilfred Owen	1931
Raising the Devil: A Legend of Cornelius Agrippa	Richard Harris Barham	1842
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story	Richard Harris Barham	1840
The Haunted Palace	Edgar Allan Poe	1839

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