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, 38	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 19	Walt Whitman	1891
The Path	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes (Sonnet 137)	William Shakespeare	1904
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect (Sonnet 70)	William Shakespeare	1904
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took (Sonnet 47)	William Shakespeare	1904
west of philly	Yolanda Wisher	2018
The Sword Swallower's Valentine	Sandra Beasley	2018
memories of the good daughter	Roque Raquel Salas Rivera	2018
from Names of the Lion	Ibn Khalawayh	2018
Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open	Barbara Jane Reyes	2018
To ——	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
To Zante	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Rituals, Yours—and Mine	Kimberly Blaeser	2018
Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man	Raymond Luczak	2010
Quarantine	Franny Choi	2018
Another Night at Sea Level	Meg Day	2017
For It Felt Like Power	Carl Phillips	2017
Golden Shovel: at the Lake’s Shore, I Sit with His Sister, Resting	Sasha Pimentel	2017
The Persistence of Scent	Cindy Williams Gutiérrez	2017

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