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
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature	Philip Freneau	1815
Sybil	Julia Ward Howe	1854
the independence (of puerto rico)	Roque Raquel Salas Rivera	2020
If You’re Going to Look Like a Wolf They Have to Love You More Than They Fear You.	Abigail Chabitnoy	2019
who will be the messenger of this land	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
In Tall Grass	Carl Sandburg	1918
Not the Pilot	Walt Whitman
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame	Walt Whitman	1867
Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)	Dante Di Stefano	2019
Kid, these are train tracks,	Jeffrey Bean	2018
Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not (Sonnet 149)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes (Sonnet 137)	William Shakespeare	1904
Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch	Joshua Bennett	2018
As due by many titles I resign (Holy Sonnet II)	John Donne	2018
Wade in the Water	Tracy K. Smith	2018
Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth	Tarfia Faizullah	2018
Firing Squad	Ilya Kaminsky	2018
Praisesong	Sarah Browning	2017
Night	H.D.	2017
Talent	Layli Long Soldier	2017

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