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
After the Reading	Tiana Clark	2023
[Like a white stone]	Anna Akhmatova	1921
My Mother, My Mother	Lue Hughes	2020
Through Time and Bitter Distance	Emily Pauline Johnson	1912
New York at Night	Amy Lowell	2018
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love	June Jordan	2017
Gila	Rigoberto González	2012
Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern	David McCord	1952
A Hand	Jane Hirshfield	2001
The Secret	Denise Levertov	1966
Elevator Boy	Langston Hughes	1926
The Watch	Danusha Laméris	2016
Night Waitress	Lynda Hull	2017
Ode of Girls’ Things	Sharon Olds	2015
A Man’s A Man For A’ That	Robert Burns	1795
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72	Charles Harper Webb	2010
To His Mistress Going to Bed	John Donne	1654
The Land of Nod	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
[I seek and desire]	Sappho	1907

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