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
Still Waiting	Harryette Mullen	2019
An Army Corps on the March	Walt Whitman
Virginia—The West	Walt Whitman
First O Songs for a Prelude	Walt Whitman
Before Quiet	Hazel Hall	1924
On How to Use this Book	Sarah Gambito	2019
You don't love me, you say, and deflate	Gala Mukomolova	2019
Brute Strength	Emily Skaja	2019
Lifted	Craig Morgan Teicher	2019
The Female of the Species	Hala Alyan	2019
A Coney Island of the Mind, 6	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1958
Song of Myself, 27	Walt Whitman	1891
The Small Country	Ellen Bass	2019
So Many	JD Pluecker	2019
Kid, these are train tracks,	Jeffrey Bean	2018
Those lips that Love’s own hand did make (Sonnet 145)	William Shakespeare	1904
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still (Sonnet 85)	William Shakespeare	1904
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key (Sonnet 52)	William Shakespeare	1904
For shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any (Sonnet 10)	William Shakespeare	1904
A Sonnet [XXXIV]	Charles Hamilton Sorley	1919

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