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
In the Heart of a Rose	George Marion McClellan	1916
Harvest Moon	George Marion McClellan	1916
A Memorial	Lucian B. Watkins	1903
To One of the Brave	Lucian B. Watkins	1903
Two Points of View	Lucian B. Watkins	1922
Dunbar	Anne Spencer	1922
Ever Faithful to You	Lucian B. Watkins	1903
A Dedication	Lucian B. Watkins	1903
Tired	Fenton Johnson	1920
Yesterday and To-morrow	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
Voices of the Dusk	Fenton Johnson	1916
Your Soul and Mine	Fenton Johnson	1916
Morning	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
A Golden Day	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
You Are Who I Love	Aracelis Girmay	2017
Free Labor	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)	Aaron Coleman	2020
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?)	Evie Shockley	2020
Girls On the Town, 1946	Rita Dove	2020
Song of the Moon	Priscilla Jane Thompson	1907

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