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
Japanese Hokku	Lewis Grandison Alexander	1925
The Ruins of Nostalgia 59	Donna Stonecipher	2020
From Barrio Obrero to La Quince	Nicole Cecilia Delgado	2020
Want Could Kill Me	Xan Forest Phillips	2019
Spring Thunder	Mark Van Doren	1924
May-Day	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1867
Sage #3	Marilyn Chin	2020
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature	Philip Freneau	1815
On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin	Philip Freneau	1790
On Doubt and Bad Reviews	Naomi Shihab Nye	2020
Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese	Benjamin Garcia	2020
Foley Catheter	Kimberly Johnson	2020
The Belladonna of Sadness	Sally Wen Mao	2019
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter	Mary Jean Chan	2019
The End	Hélder Faife	2019
The Sicilian’s Tale; The Bell of Atri	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1863
Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)	Dante Di Stefano	2019
At the Grave of the Forgotten	Effie Waller Smith	1909
Amores (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Ultrasound: Your Picture	George David Clark	2018

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