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
Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top	Rita Dove	2017
Doctrine	Sam Sax	2017
Aubade	Camille Rankine	2017
Ordinary Time	Jay Parini	2016
A Perfect Game	Yesenia Montilla	2016
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms	Hayan Charara	2015
On Virtue	Phillis Wheatley	1773
A fourteen-line poem on Adoration	Julie Carr	2014
At Night	Yone Noguchi	1920
To My Best Friend's Big Sister	Ross Gay	2013
From “Fairies”	Mei-mei Berssenbrugge	2013
jasper texas 1998	Lucille Clifton	1991
The Plain Sense of Things	Wallace Stevens	2011
The Debt	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness	John Donne	1623
The Sandman	Margaret Thomson Janvier	1912
Day of the Refugios	Alberto Ríos	1994
R.I.P., My Love	Tory Dent	1999
Why should a foolish marriage vow	John Dryden	1913
Red Pens	Tony Towle	2004

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