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
Persuasion	William Wordsworth	1822
Just the other day,	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
Vita Nuova, 5	Dante Alighieri	2024
Let No Charitable Hope	Elinor Wylie	2023
Gitanjali 35	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Ghazal of Oranges	Jan-Henry Gray	2022
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation	Anthony Cody	2022
American Sonnet for the New Year	Terrance Hayes	2022
Out of Research Into Reveries	Mai Der Vang	2019
Each and All	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1847
On the Hill-Side	Radclyffe Hall	1910
A Red Man’s Thoughts	Tso-le-oh-woh
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127)	William Shakespeare	1904
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90)	William Shakespeare	1904
November	Edward Thomas
Value	Kendel Hippolyte	2018
Coherence in Consequence	Claudia Rankine	2017
Endymion	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2016
Next Time Ask More Questions	Naomi Shihab Nye	2015
Written on the Banks of the Arun	Charlotte Smith	1785

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