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
Song of Myself, 27	Walt Whitman	1891
Amores (IV)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Songs (VIII)	E. E. Cummings	1925
Songs (I)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me (Sonnet 132)	William Shakespeare	1904
When thou shalt be disposed to set me light (Sonnet, 88)	William Shakespeare	1904
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19)	William Shakespeare	1904
13 Questions for the Next Economy	Susan Briante	2018
The Dew and the Bird	Alexander Posey	2018
The Funeral of Youth: Threnody	Rupert Brooke	2018
Managed Diversity	Daniel Borzutzky	2018
Conscious	Wilfred Owen	2018
I Love You	Jenny George	2018
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way	Martín Espada	2018
But My Chains	Kyle Dargan	2018
The Fire People	Mildred Barya	2018
say it with your whole black mouth	Danez Smith	2018
Loon Point	Amy Lowell	2018
Unrest in Baton Rouge	Tracy K. Smith	2018
The End of a Beginning	Marilyn Chin	1987

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