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
from Song of Myself XXIV
Golden Anniversary	Wisława Szymborska	2016
the lost women	Lucille Clifton	1989
To My Mother	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
A Hand	Jane Hirshfield	2001
On the Circuit	W. H. Auden	1965
To a Poor Old Woman	William Carlos Williams	1962
Rooks	Edward Powys Mathers	1925
My Home	Luis G. Dato	1926
Aunt Sue’s Stories	Langston Hughes	1921
Fall	Didi Jackson	2019
Song of the Open Road, 5	Walt Whitman	1891
The Fear	Robert Frost	2018
My 24 Hour Version	Lois Red Elk	2017
Bringing the Shovel Down	Ross Gay	2016
That Music Always Round Me	Walt Whitman	1891
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt]	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1880
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever	Wanda Coleman	2001
Revolution is the pod (33)	Emily Dickinson	1929

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