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
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget	Anis Mojgani	2019
After He’s Decided to Leave	Elizabeth Acevedo	2019
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75)	William Shakespeare	1904
In Praise of Okra	January Gill O’Neil	2009
Four Sonnets About Food	Adrienne Su	2017
a note on the body	Danez Smith	2017
The Thinker	William Carlos Williams	2015
We’ll Go No More a-Roving	William Ernest Henley	1893
The Apple Trees at Olema	Robert Hass	2010
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
On His Deceased Wife	John Milton	1658
In the Library	Charles Simic	2008
After a Death	Tomas Tranströmer	2004
Lucinda Matlock	Edgar Lee Masters	1915
Be Less Poetic	Tariq Al-Arabi	2026
Incurable	Dorothy Parker	1928
Winter	Anne Bradstreet	1650
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With	torrin a. greathouse	2021
My Life Closed Twice	Cameron Awkward-Rich	2023
Sissy	Aaron Smith	2023

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