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
Six Unrhymed Sonnets	Diane Seuss	2018
Heat	H.D.	1982
The Elephant is Slow to Mate	D. H. Lawrence	1964
How I Became a Madman (Prologue)	Kahlil Gibran	1918
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft	2022
In the City	Chen Chen	2017
if found, then measured	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2019
We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d	Walt Whitman	1981
The Garden Year	Sara Coleridge	1834
This Living Hand	John Keats	1818
The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.	Donika Kelly	2017
Atlantis	Hart Crane	1930
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23)	William Shakespeare	1904
Spring is like a perhaps hand	E. E. Cummings	1923
The Lovers of the Poor	Gwendolyn Brooks	1999
Spleen	Charles Baudelaire	1982
Mother o’ Mine	Rudyard Kipling	1892
Skunk Hour	Robert Lowell	1976
The Author to Her Book	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Eldorado	Edgar Allan Poe	2018

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