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
La Chapelle. 92nd Division. Ted.	Rita Dove	2017
Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top	Rita Dove	2017
The Battle Autumn of 1862	John Greenleaf Whittier	2017
To Samuel E. Sewall and Harriet W. Sewall, of Melrose	John Greenleaf Whittier	2017
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France	Alan Seeger	2017
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	Walt Whitman	2017
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	Walt Whitman	2017
Three Mathew Brady Photographs	Eric Pankey	2014
Grenade (audio only)	Yusef Komunyakaa	2011
In the Absence of Sparrows	Daniel Johnson	2014
The Long Deployment	Jehanne Dubrow	2013
At Bay	Carl Phillips	2013
War Rug	Henri Cole	2013
The Wound-Dresser	Walt Whitman	1891
Web Prayer for Milosz	David Wojahn	2012
Before the Deployment	Jehanne Dubrow	2010
For the Confederate Dead	Kevin Young	2007
Ode to the Confederate Dead	Allen Tate	1937
The Soldier	Rupert Brooke	1914
Memorial Day for the War Dead	Yehuda Amichai	1977

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