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
Oughta Be a Woman	June Jordan	2017
Dear P. [If you are]	Victoria Chang	2017
My Mama moved among the days	Lucille Clifton	2017
O Autumn, Autumn!	Effie Lee Newsome	2017
Prison	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2016
August Morning, Upper Broadway	Alicia Ostriker	2016
Pilate’s Wife’s Dream	Charlotte Brontë	1846
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver	Geffrey Davis	2016
October	Helen Hunt Jackson	2015
Matrimonial Toast	Ken White	2014
The Living Beauty	W. B. Yeats	1919
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
Danny Boy	Frederick Edward Weatherly	1910
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness	Anne Boyer	2011
The Plain Sense of Things	Wallace Stevens	2011
the lost women	Lucille Clifton	1989
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all]	Stephen Vincent Benét	1927
The Heart of the Woman	W. B. Yeats	1899
Evening Hawk	Robert Penn Warren	1985

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