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
The Widening Spell of the Leaves	Larry Levis	1991
summer, somewhere	Danez Smith	2016
Pilgrimage	Natasha Trethewey	2006
Family Reunion	Jeredith Merrin	2000
miss rosie	Lucille Clifton	1987
What Seems Like Joy	Kaveh Akbar	2017
For every bird a nest (79)	Emily Dickinson	1929
[An ancient pond!]	Matsuo Bashō	1899
Orpheus	William Shakespeare	1623
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	William Wordsworth	1800
To the Film Industry in Crisis	Frank O’Hara	1957
Donal Og	Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory	1919
To Helen	Edgar Allan Poe	1831
All but Death can be (89)	Emily Dickinson	1929
The Sea and the Skylark	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	Li Bai	1919
Evolution	Margaret Ross	2020
We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra	Marilyn Chin	1987
Autobiography of Eve	Ansel Elkins	2015
The Wind and the Moon	George Macdonald	1904

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