Poems

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.

Title	Author	Year
Dear March—Come in—(1320)	Emily Dickinson	1890
To Sir Henry Wotton	John Donne	1625
Letter Home	Natasha Trethewey	2002
Dear Friends	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
Dear P. [If you are]	Victoria Chang	2017
Another Night at Sea Level	Meg Day	2017
Dear J.	Kazim Ali	2013
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley	Jupiter Hammon	1787
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door]	Alexander Pope	1735
Letter to Denise	Hayden Carruth	2001
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree	D. H. Lawrence	1920
The Soldier	David Ferry	1999
To a Magazine	Mary Ruefle	2016
a letter to charlie parker	Dior J. Stephens	2025
Dear Tiara	Sean Thomas Dougherty	2011
DEAR GABRIELLE,	Andrea Abi-Karam	2025
Dear Lonely Animal,	Oni Buchanan	2008
Dear Migraine,	Gail Mazur	2011
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
From “An Epistle”	Emma Lazarus	1889

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