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
When I Rise Up	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank]	William Shakespeare	1603
Love’s Secret	William Blake	1863
Waking in the Blue	Robert Lowell	1976
Do Not Speak of the Dead	Cecilia Llompart	2015
To a Dark Girl	Gwendolyn Bennett	1922
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1880
French Toast	Cammy Thomas	2021
Cento Between the Ending and the End	Cameron Awkward-Rich	2018
Against Dying	Kaveh Akbar	2017
The Widening Sky	Edward Hirsch	2003
The Conundrum of the Workshops	Rudyard Kipling	1890
The Children’s Hour	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1860
Amores (II)	E. E. Cummings	1923
little prayer	Danez Smith	2017
In the Desert	Stephen Crane	2017
We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d	Walt Whitman	1981
The Return	Ezra Pound	1913
Futility	Wilfred Owen	1917
Yesterday	W. S. Merwin	1983

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