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
Heroic	Eavan Boland	2016
Four-Word Lines	May Swenson	2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
From “Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1”	Anne Waldman	2016
Cheerfulness Taught by Reason	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2015
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood	William Cullen Bryant	2014
thirteen ways of looking at the towers: a 9/11 poem ten years later (audio only)	Evie Shockley	2013
Parties: A Hymn of Hate	Dorothy Parker	1916
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
The Heart of the Woman	W. B. Yeats	1899
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness	John Donne	1623
The Ghazal of What Hurt	Peter Cole	2008
Peace	Henry Vaughan	1650
A Man may make a Remark (952)	Emily Dickinson	1890
From	A. Van Jordan	2004
The Wishing Tree	Kathleen Jamie	2007
Love Incarnate	Frank Bidart	1997
Olympia	Henri Cole	2003
The Two	Philip Levine	2002

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