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 Song of the Smoke	W. E. B. Du Bois	1914
Danse Africaine	Langston Hughes	1924
Distracted from COVID-19, Attention Shifts to MIA Maiden from Land O’Lakes Butter Box	Tiffany Midge	2020
sonnet for the long second act	Evie Shockley	2020
Cross	Langston Hughes	1922
From “Be Recorder”	Carmen Giménez	2019
What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet	Tso-le-oh-woh	1853
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128)	William Shakespeare	1904
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; (Sonnet 113)	William Shakespeare	1094
Nationhood	Laura Da’	2018
The Sleeper	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
The Best Way I Can Describe It	Dean Young	2018
Forsythe Avenue Haibun	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2018
Overnight	John Yau	2018
Roses Only	Marianne Moore	1921
Oughta Be a Woman	June Jordan	2017
A Thanksgiving Poem	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1922
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle]	A. E. Housman	2017
The Mystic Blue	D. H. Lawrence	2017

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