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
Ode on Dictionaries	Barbara Hamby	2009
Dangerous for Girls	Connie Voisine	2008
Black Petal	Li-Young Lee	2001
My Shoes	Charles Simic	1971
Poet's Work	Lorine Niedecker	2002
Darwin’s Finches	Deborah Digges	1986
To Blossoms	Robert Herrick	1648
Water Music	Robert Creeley	1983
What Will You Be?	Dennis Lee	1977
In the Greenhouse	Eugenio Montale	2004
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts	Sydney Lea	2005
Boston	Aaron Smith	2005
Come Up From the Fields Father	Walt Whitman	1891
Photograph of People Dancing in France	Leslie Adrienne Miller	2002
Song of Myself	John Canaday	2002
Metaphors of a Magnifico	Wallace Stevens	1954
What are the consequences of silence?	Bhanu Kapil	2001
On the Disadvantages of Central Heating	Amy Clampitt	1997
The Visitation	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	1988
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565	Richard Howard	1994

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