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
there are these old fires	Kaia Sand	2016
Lost	Carl Sandburg	2016
Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park	Jericho Brown	2016
The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood	Derrick Austin	2016
Shared Plight	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2016
From “One Big Self” [Count your fingers]	C. D. Wright	2016
I Sat in the Sun	Jane Hirshfield	2016
The Woman, The Tiger	Jane Hirshfield	2015
Autumn Passage	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
Wonder as Wander	Sharon Olds	2012
The World We Want Is Us	Alice Walker	2016
Saturday	Margaret Ross	2016
A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted (Sonnet 20)	William Shakespeare	2016
Bowery Afternoon	Lola Ridge	2016
What Is the Grass?	Mark Doty	2016
Opportunity Costs	Barbara Ras	2016
The Oak	Letitia Elizabeth Landon	2016
There Is a Bird in My Mouth	Natalie Scenters-Zapico	2015
Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes	William Wordsworth	2015
The Lighted Window	Sara Teasdale	2015

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