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 Maenads	Ursula K. Le Guin	2012
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata	Natasha Trethewey	2012
In Exile	Emma Lazarus	1882
Dark Matter	Jack Myers	2011
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
The Words Under the Words	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
God's World	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1912
Purgatorio, Canto X	Dante Alighieri	1867
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
Solstice	Ellen Dudley	2007
In Michael Robins's class minus one	Bob Hicok	2007
In the great snowfall before the bomb	Lorine Niedecker	2002
A Crosstown Breeze	Henry Taylor	2006
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
The Dancing	Gerald Stern	1982
Self-Portrait as Miranda	Geri Doran	2005
Dear Miss Emily	James Galvin	2003
Before the Snake	Nathaniel Tarn	2002
Survivors—Found	Joan Murray	2001
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror	Agha Shahid Ali	1991

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