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
Prayer	Laura Kasischke	2020
Same as It Ever Was	Mónica de la Torre	2020
The Encounter with the Goddess	Alicia Ostriker	2020
I Tried to Write a Poem Called “Imposter Syndrome” and Failed	Emilia Phillips	2020
Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes	Jane Hirshfield	2020
The Want of You	Angelina Weld Grimké	1923
You Say You Said	Marianne Moore	1918
The Snow Mare	N. Scott Momaday	2019
From “Sing-song: A Nursery Rhyme Book”	Christina Rossetti	1915
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird	Walt Whitman
Nearly	Idra Novey	2019
Aleppo	Hala Alyan	2019
The Female of the Species	Hala Alyan	2019
Amores (IV)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Songs (I)	E. E. Cummings	1923
A Grain of Sand	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1895
The Path	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
At the Door	Eugene Field	1889
Writing Home	Wendy Xu	2018
Kid, these are train tracks,	Jeffrey Bean	2018

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