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
What the Angels Left	Marie Howe	1988
The Next Table	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness	John Donne	1623
Assault	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Wedding Dress	Michael Waters	2006
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World	Sherman Alexie	2009
In a Boat	D. H. Lawrence	1916
In Praise of Shame	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator	Elizabeth Bishop	2006
It Was Raining in Delft	Peter Gizzi	2003
The Dumb Soldier	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Dora Diller	Jack Prelutsky	1984
Father Outside	Nick Flynn	2004
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover]	Kabir	2004
Prayer	Jorie Graham	2002
The Happiness	Jack Hirschman	2002
In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
To Althea, from Prison	Richard Lovelace	1649
From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98)	William Shakespeare	1609

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