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
November	William Cullen Bryant	1824
The Magpie's Shadow	Yvor Winters	1922
The Call of the Open	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
When I Buy Pictures	Marianne Moore	1921
Before the Feast of Shushan	Anne Spencer	1922
Fifteen Years of Darkness	Liu Xiaobo	2012
In Exile	Emma Lazarus	1882
After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains	John Keats	1899
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth	David Rosenthal	1920
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall	Ross Gay	2011
Dark Matter	Jack Myers	2011
Autumn Evening	David Lehman	2010
Muse & Drudge [why these blues come from us]	Harryette Mullen	2006
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
Picking Up	Evelyn Duncan	2008
Dirge	Thomas Lovell Beddoes	1851
God's World	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1912
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth]	Virgil	2006
Solstice	Ellen Dudley	2007
The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (audio only)	Jack Gilbert	2005

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