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 Golden Years	Billy Collins	2008
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
Watermelons	Charles Simic	1974
My Grandmother's White Cat	Maurice Kilwein Guevara	2001
[The long love that in my thought doth harbour]	Thomas Wyatt	1557
The Means to Attain Happy Life	Martial	2026
A Dream	Claude McKay	1912
Aunt Sue’s Stories	Langston Hughes	1921
Pledge Allegiance	Natalie Scenters-Zapico	2020
ALL Y’ALL REALLY FROM ALABAMA	Ashley M. Jones	2020
On a Day, In the World	Brenda Hillman	2018
The Clans	Richard Calmit Adams	2017
Reading to My Father	Jorie Graham	2016
After Bombardment, Sonya	Ilya Kaminsky	2011
We’ll Go No More a-Roving	William Ernest Henley	1893
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock	Wallace Stevens	1915
Personal Poem	Frank O’Hara	1964
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Tenantry	George Scarbrough	1989
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918

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