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
Gone with the Swallows	Ameen Rihani	1905
Again it is September	Jessie Redmon Fauset	1917
That Music Always Round Me	Walt Whitman	1891
Are You Going to Stay?	Thomas Meyer	2015
The Chance	Arthur Sze	1998
Dear J.	Kazim Ali	2013
Thanksgiving Day	Lydia Maria Child	1844
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt]	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
Adam's Curse	W. B. Yeats	1903
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July	Billy Collins	1998
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door	Elisabet Velasquez	2021
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning	Leila Chatti	2021
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1954
from Song of Myself XXIV
The Rookie	January Gill O’Neil	2016
Let Birds	Linda Gregg	2009
Winter-Time	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
If You Get There Before I Do	Dick Allen	2003
After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email	Emily Jungmin Yoon	2026
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint)	Victoria Chang	2025

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