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
Aleppo	Hala Alyan	2019
Elegy for a Gopher	Ellen Bass	2019
The Path	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Beehive	Jean Toomer	1923
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes (Sonnet 137)	William Shakespeare	1904
O, how I faint when I of you do write (Sonnet 80)	William Shakespeare	1904
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said (Sonnet 56)	William Shakespeare	1904
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest (Sonnet 11)	William Shakespeare	1904
To Germany	Charles Hamilton Sorley	1919
Chanson	Oscar Wilde	2018
last cucumber from the garden (in conversation w/ julie ezelle patton)	giovanni singleton	2018
An Encounter	Robert Frost	2018
Questions	Rachel Richardson	2018
Roads	Amy Lowell	2018
Emily Dickinson	Bianca Stone	2018
Cupid	Amber Flora Thomas	2018
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird	James Hoch	2018
it won’t be a bullet	Danez Smith	2017
My Father	Francisco X. Alarcón	2017
A Lazy Day	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905

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