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 Poet and His Song	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74)	William Shakespeare	1904
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest (Sonnet 11)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5)	William Shakespeare	1904
Starlings	Maggie Smith	2018
Flowers and Bullets	Martín Espada	2018
Sence you went away	James Weldon Johnson	1922
A Single Woman’s Bedroom	Yi Lei	2018
Origin Story	Jenny Xie	2018
2019	Rickey Laurentiis	2018
Modern Love: XXXVI	George Meredith	1909
picking flowers	Nate Marshall	2017
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	James Weldon Johnson	2017
Heavy	Hieu Minh Nguyen	2017
Crude Lament	William Carlos Williams	2016
Blind Boone’s Apparitions	Tyehimba Jess	2016
Endangered Species	Dan Beachy-Quick	2016
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen	Jane Hirshfield	2011
The Answer	Sara Teasdale	1915
real poem (personal statement)	Rachel Zucker	2014

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