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
Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging	Carl Adamshick	2014
It was not Death, for I stood up (510)	Emily Dickinson	1890
We’ll Go No More a-Roving	William Ernest Henley	1893
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d	Walt Whitman	1850
In View of the Fact	A. R. Ammons	2005
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)	William Shakespeare	1609
Lament	Rainer Maria Rilke	1918
Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees	Ansel Elkins	2023
Good Grief	KB Brookins	2022
Suicide’s Note	Langston Hughes	1926
Hatred	Gwendolyn Bennett	1922
Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)	Thomas Moore	1817
A Sonnet on Cervantes	Rubén Darío	1916
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say	Danez Smith	2019
[little tree]	E. E. Cummings	1920
Black Swan	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2018
declaration	Andrés Montoya	2017
The Lighted Window	Sara Teasdale	2015
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?	William Knox	1876

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