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
Abandoned	Joseph Auslander	2016
For My Mother	May Sarton	2016
Eulogy	Kevin Young	2011
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye	Albert Goldbarth	2007
Gitanjali 36	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
[I’m happiest now when most away]	Emily Brontë	1908
The Colored Soldiers	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Kid, this is the first rain	Jeffrey Bean	2018
Waiting for Happiness	Nomi Stone	2018
A Song for Merry Harvest	Eliza Cook	2017
Poem about My Rights	June Jordan	2017
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
The Sandman	Margaret Thomson Janvier	1912
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window	W. B. Yeats	1924
Letter to Noah’s Wife	Maya C. Popa	2019
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows	Paige Lewis	2018
Rain	Don Paterson	2009
Only a Dad	Edgar Guest	1916
Persephone, Falling	Rita Dove	1980
R.I.P., My Love	Tory Dent	1999

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