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
To Sleep	John Keats	2017
That Music Always Round Me	Walt Whitman	1891
Rooms Remembered	Laure-Anne Bosselaar	2015
The Year	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1917
Lament for the Makaris	William Dunbar	1460
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1880
Learning to Read	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
In the House With No Doors	Sarah Kay	2023
Fall	Didi Jackson	2019
Jakarta, January	Sarah Kay	2019
The Watch	Danusha Laméris	2016
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
A Kite for Aibhin	Seamus Heaney	2010
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	William Carlos Williams	1922
Let Birds	Linda Gregg	2009
Sonnet V	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
Falling	James Dickey	1992
The Look	Sara Teasdale	1918
In a Country	Larry Levis	1977
Kaddish, Part I	Allen Ginsberg	1984

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