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 Forest in the Axe	André Breton	2003
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
Color - Caste - Denomination - (970)	Emily Dickinson	1890
In Passing	Stanley Plumly	2000
What the Angels Left	Marie Howe	1988
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
Assault	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Black Jackets	Thom Gunn	1994
Bats	Paisley Rekdal	2007
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World	Sherman Alexie	2009
In a Boat	D. H. Lawrence	1916
In Praise of Shame	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
You Tell Us What to Do	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1991
Four Poems for Robin	Gary Snyder	1968
Dora Diller	Jack Prelutsky	1984
The Little Mute Boy	Federico García Lorca	1955
Love for This Book	Pablo Neruda	1966
Good Night	Wilhelm Müller	2003
The Happiness	Jack Hirschman	2002

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