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 Art of Poetry [excerpt]	Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux	1674
A Part of Speech [As for the stars they are always on] (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1980
Street (audio only)	George Oppen	1964
Polar Explorer (audio only)	Joseph Brodsky	1996
The Study of Happiness (audio only)	Kenneth Koch	1969
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
To a Butterfly (audio only)	James Merrill	1992
A New Day (audio only)	Philip Levine	1978
Street Music (audio only)	Robert Pinsky	1992
Aureng-Zebe, Prologue	John Dryden	1675
On Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics (audio only)	W. H. Auden	1964
When You’re Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It’s Eastertime Too (audio only)	Charles Wright	1997
Magpiety (audio only)	Czesław Miłosz	1958
Shooting the Dog (audio only)	June Jordan	1992

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