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
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long (Sonnet 100)	William Shakespeare	1904
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced (Sonnet 64)	William Shakespeare	1903
For shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any (Sonnet 10)	William Shakespeare	1904
Is it for fear to we a widow's eye (Sonnet 9)	William Shakespeare	1904
Advice to a Young Poet	Kendel Hippolyte	2018
Taking Out the Trash	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2018
The Ghost’s Petition	Christina Rossetti	2018
A Boy Can Wear a Dress	John Bosworth	2018
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace.	Patricia Smith	2018
Hysterectomy/Recovery	Emma Bolden	2018
To Isadore	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird	James Hoch	2018
The World's Wanderers	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
A Christmas Carol	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	2017
The Imprint	Jennifer Moxley	2017
Song	John Rollin Ridge	2017
Given to Rust	Vievee Francis	2017
Secrets	Lola Ridge	1920
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’	Danez Smith	2017
constellation	Andrés Montoya	2017

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