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
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127)	William Shakespeare	1904
I Could Be a Whale Shark	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2018
The Christmas Holly	Eliza Cook	2017
Afternoons	Jorge H. Aigla	2016
A Woman Sleeps on an Island	Marjorie Agosín	2016
Sounds of the Winter	Walt Whitman	2015
To a Young Poet	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Poem [I do not always understand what you say.]	James Schuyler	1993
After Bombardment, Sonya	Ilya Kaminsky	2011
Portrait of a Lady	T. S. Eliot	1915
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	2007
Riverbank Blues	Sterling A. Brown	1980
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With	Suzanne Rancourt	2004
I’m not that unrequited lover, so bitter I flee Love.	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
To a Young Poet	Zaina Alsous	2025
Winter	Anne Bradstreet	1650
Waiting for Your Call	Aria Aber	2021
Each and All	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1847
Jakarta, January	Sarah Kay	2019
Suburban	Michael Blumenthal	1987

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