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
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow	Robert Duncan	1960
Past Light	Pimone Triplett	2005
Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair	Jackson Mac Low	1999
Upper World	Rae Armantrout	2004
Photograph of People Dancing in France	Leslie Adrienne Miller	2002
Believing in Iron	Yusef Komunyakaa	1992
Notes From Therapy	Frederick Joseph	2024
On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin	Philip Freneau	1790
what we lose in the fire a blown tire makes us see	Raina J. León	2022
for goldfish that remember seaworld	D’mani Thomas	2026
Lessons at the Legendary Institute for Yarn Spinning	Rigoberto González	2026
Ars Poetica	Manuel Iris	2025
The Old Song of the Blood	Humberto Ak’abal	2024
Rewilding	D. A. Powell	2025
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto III, LI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
The Alchemist	Louise Bogan	1929
Hymn of Nature	Felicia Dorothea Hemans	1851
Fog	Emma Lazarus	1889
Nameless	Mae Cowdery	1928
A Southern Road	Helene Johnson	1926

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