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
How to Prepare the Mind for Lightning	Brynn Saito	2016
First Snow	Arthur Sze	2016
The Dark Hills	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1920
Summer Morn in New Hampshire	Claude McKay	1922
[Sometimes I don't know if I'm having a feeling]	Matthew Siegel	2015
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
‘The child is father to the man.’	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2011
At the Piano	Thomas Hardy	1917
Samurai Song	Robert Pinsky	2011
Cracked Ice	Julie Sheehan	2010
In Passing	Stanley Plumly	2000
The Dandelion	Vachel Lindsay	1916
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
No, Love Is Not Dead	Robert Desnos	1991
In Vain	Jack Kerouac	2006
At Melville’s Tomb	Hart Crane	1933
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke	David Lehman	1986
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews	Amy Clampitt	1997
My Friends	W. S. Merwin	1963

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