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
I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At	José Olivarez	2017
The Woman and the Flame	Aimé Césaire	2011
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars	Richard Lovelace	1649
The light of a candle	Yosa Buson	2007
Song of Myself, XI	Walt Whitman	1891
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt]	Aimé Césaire	2001
In a Disused Graveyard	Robert Frost	2023
Or I shall live your epitaph to make (Sonnet 81)	William Shakespeare	1904
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve	Adrienne Rich	2011
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time]	Claudia Rankine	2004
The Fruits Of Death	Ameen Rihani	1905
The Seven Prisms of My Blood	Khaty Xiong	2020
The Kiss	Sasha Pimentel	2017
Windy Nights	Robert Louis Stevenson	1913
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Peace	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
The Junior High School Band Concert	David Wagoner	1999
Song of Myself, 31	Walt Whitman	1891
Hunch	Jay Parini	2016
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1832

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