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
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father’s Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year	Dean Rader	2019
Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror	Kelli Russell Agodon	2019
from "Three Demons": Sanki Series I	Sanki Saitō	2019
I’m a Good Person Because My Childhood Was	Jan-Henry Gray	2019
The Imaginal Stage	D. A. Powell	2019
An Offering	Kathryn Hunt	2019
A Coney Island of the Mind, 13	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1958
Not Yet	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
Upon the Mountain’s Distant Head	William Cullen Bryant	1862
Sonnet from an Ungrafted Tree, XVII	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Song of Myself, 45	Walt Whitman	1891
Harvest Song	Jean Toomer	1923
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us	Molly McCully Brown, Susannah Nevison	2018
Bracken	Kai Carlson-Wee	2018
Ms. Schadenfreude's Anti-Valedictory	Grace Bauer	2018
What Surfaces	Wendy Barker	2018
The Photograph Suggests a Hidden Life	Susan Rich	2018
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long (Sonnet 100)	William Shakespeare	1904
So oft I invoke thee for my Muse (Sonnet 78)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view (Sonnet 69)	William Shakespeare	1904

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