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
The Pedagogy of Conflict	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
A Christmas Carol	Christina Rossetti	2018
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last	Lisa Olstein	2016
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free	William Wordsworth	1807
From “The Dead”	James Joyce	1914
Christabel [excerpt]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1816
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
The Song of Hiawatha [Excerpt]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1855
The Visionary	Emily Brontë	1846
Song of Myself, 10	Walt Whitman	1891
Flying	Sarah Arvio	2002
My Grandmother's White Cat	Maurice Kilwein Guevara	2001
On Growing Old	John Masefield	1919
To a Young Poet	Zaina Alsous	2025
no one wants to be rough anymore	Xan Forest Phillips	2024
A Coast-Nightmare	Christina Rossetti	1896
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation	Anthony Cody	2022
Nocturne	Sadakichi Hartmann	1904
Changing Is Not Vanishing	Carlos Montezuma	1916
An Earth Song	Langston Hughes	1925

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