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
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered]	Diane Seuss	2019
Self-Portrait with Dad’s Baseball Glove	Nathan Hoks	2019
A Grain of Sand	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1895
O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head (Sonnet 148)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes (Sonnet 137)	William Shakespeare	1904
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears (Sonnet 119)	William Shakespeare	1904
As a decrepit father takes delight (Sonnet 37)	William Shakespeare	1904
Arms and the Boy	Wilfred Owen	2018
In Neglect	Robert Frost	2018
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way	Martín Espada	2018
Brown's Descent, or the Willy-Nilly Slide	Robert Frost	2018
The Things That Count	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1919
Roof Nightclub	Ishion Hutchinson	2018
The Village Street	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Roses Only	Marianne Moore	1921
Christmas Comes Again	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
XXXV [A man saw a ball of gold in the sky]	Stephen Crane	2017
The Other Woman	Twyla M. Hansen	2017
How I Might Sound if I Left Myself Alone	Lisa Russ Spaar	2017
Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath	Natasha Trethewey	2016

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