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
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Coffee and Oranges	Joel Brouwer	2009
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg (audio only)	Richard Hugo	1969
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
Further Notice	Philip Whalen	2008
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,]	Karen Volkman	2008
Lovers' Infiniteness	John Donne	1633
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days	Walt Whitman	1891
The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
What [The flower sermon]	Ron Silliman	1988
To Sylvia, To Wed	Robert Herrick	1648
Kore	Robert Creeley	1991
In the Park	Maxine Kumin	1989
St. Peter and the Angel	Denise Levertov	1984
Styx	Dana Levin	2011
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form	Paul Guest	2003
Sparrow, the Special Delight of My Girl	Gaius Valerius Catullus	2002
Nothing to Save	D. H. Lawrence	1964
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion	William Cowper	1816
The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am A Poet	Lynn Emanuel	1999

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