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
At a Deli Counter in Vermont	Stephanie Burt	2019
From “Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity”	Christina Rossetti	1893
A Winter Scene	Henry David Thoreau	1895
OBIT [Music]	Victoria Chang	2017
Hunger Strikers	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
Song of Myself, 41	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 38	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 34	Walt Whitman	1891
The Children of Beslan (To My Children)	Irakli Kakabadze	2018
Your love and pity doth the impression fill (Sonnet 112)	William Shakespeare	1904
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key (Sonnet 52)	William Shakespeare	1904
For shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any (Sonnet 10)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Dew and the Bird	Alexander Posey	2018
To Life	Thomas Hardy	2018
From “denouement”	Anne Waldman	2018
To the White Fiends	Claude McKay	1922
41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2018
There Is a Devil Inside Me	Carolina Ebeid	2018
Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch	Joshua Bennett	2018
The Self-Seeker	Robert Frost	2018

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