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
I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At	José Olivarez	2017
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d	Walt Whitman	1850
A Litany in Time of Plague	Thomas Nashe	1600
The light of a candle	Yosa Buson	2007
I Hear an Army	James Joyce	1914
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	John Milton	1645
Thanksgiving	James Whitcomb Riley	2017
The Conundrum of the Workshops	Rudyard Kipling	1890
Nani	Alberto Ríos	2019
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
November Night	Adelaide Crapsey	1915
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you	Kevin Varrone	2013
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1880
The Star	Jane Taylor	1806
They Flee from Me	Thomas Wyatt	1557
Willow Poem	William Carlos Williams	2014
Fame is a fickle food (1659)	Emily Dickinson	1957
Up-Hill	Christina Rossetti	1818
The Widening Spell of the Leaves	Larry Levis	1991
All but Death can be (89)	Emily Dickinson	1929

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