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
You Are Who I Love	Aracelis Girmay	2017
Autumn Leaves	Marilyn Chin	1994
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	Langston Hughes	1994
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Sci-Fi	Tracy K. Smith	2011
Singularity	Marie Howe	2019
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
Fire and Ice	Robert Frost	1920
Eternity	William Blake	1880
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	John Keats	1819
Victory	Sherman Alexie	2016
To An Athlete Dying Young	A. E. Housman	1896
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
Sea Fever	John Masefield	1917
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
A Jelly-Fish	Marianne Moore	1909
Perhaps the World Ends Here	Joy Harjo	2015
God’s Grandeur	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900
Kissing in Vietnamese	Ocean Vuong	2016

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