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.

Occasions

Themes

Forms

Search title or text

Title	Author	Year
Flush or Faunus	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2013
The Hills, 5	Kate Durbin	2011
Demeter to Persephone	Alicia Ostriker	2009
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
Dangerous Astronomy	Sherman Alexie	2009
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
The Phoenix	Hafez	1876
Sonnet 100	Lord Brooke Fulke Greville	1633
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
Surreptitious Kissing	Denis Johnson	1994
The Thanksgivings	Harriet Maxwell Converse	1908
Darwin’s Finches	Deborah Digges	1986
Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School	Christopher Bursk	2006
Epilogue	Robert Lowell	1975
The Orchid Flower	Sam Hamill	2002
Found Poem	Howard Nemerov	1987
Air and Angels	John Donne	1633
The Song in the Dream	Saskia Hamilton	2001
The Plaid Dress	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2001

Page submenu block