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
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Seeing All the Vermeers	Alfred Corn	2002
Me in Paradise	Brenda Shaughnessy	2008
Orpheus	Robert Kelly	2005
Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing	Robert Duncan	1968
Four Winds	Sara Teasdale	1917
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94)	William Shakespeare	1609
Change in the Grove of Chickadees	Lesle Lewis	2006
Inventing Father In Las Vegas	Lynn Emanuel	1984
Self-Portrait as Miranda	Geri Doran	2005
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?	Rachel Zucker	2012
To. . .	René Char	2004
Central Park, Carousel	Meena Alexander	2004
Dear Miss Emily	James Galvin	2003
The Poem	Daniel Hoffman	2003
The Midnight [For here we are here]	Susan Howe	2003
Shedding Skin	Harryette Mullen	1981
What the Chairman Told Tom	Basil Bunting	1985
Before the Snake	Nathaniel Tarn	2002

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