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
A Coney Island of the Mind, 13	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1958
The Path	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
That you were once unkind befriends me now (Sonnet 120)	William Shakespeare	1904
This is his cheek the map of days outworn (Sonnet 68)	William Shakespeare	1904
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key (Sonnet 52)	William Shakespeare	1904
Taking Out the Trash	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2018
The Ghost’s Petition	Christina Rossetti	2018
Nationhood	Laura Da’	2018
for you	Eileen Myles	2018
Poetry	Claude McKay	1922
Credo	Alfred Kreymborg	1916
The Fairy Tree of Domremy	Mark Twain	2018
To Zante	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Loon Point	Amy Lowell	2018
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird	James Hoch	2018
Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monostich Past 45	francine j. harris	2018
Given to Rust	Vievee Francis	2017
Ghosts	Kiki Petrosino	2017
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades	June Jordan	2017
The War in Colors	Dunya Mikhail	2017

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