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
Train Window	Lola Ridge	1920
Lightning	Witter Bynner	1920
Veils	Witter Bynner	2020
Wings of Return	Don Mee Choi	2020
The End of a Nation	Don Mee Choi	2020
The Adventures of Simon Swaugum, a Village Merchant	Philip Freneau	1792
The Bay Islet	Philip Freneau	1795
The Humble-Bee	Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Way Through the Woods	Rudyard Kipling	1910
Lord Dunmore's Petition To The Legislature Of Virginia	Philip Freneau	1782
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature	Philip Freneau	1815
Wild Duck	Lola Ridge	1920
Jaguar	Lola Ridge	1920
Morning	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
A Golden Day	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
from New English Canaan [The Songe]	Thomas Morton
from New English Canaan [The Poem]	Thomas Morton
from New English Canaan [New Canaans Genivs: Epilogvs]	Thomas Morton
from New English Canaan [The Authors Prologue]	Thomas Morton	1637
My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns	Dante Di Stefano	2020

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