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
Barter	Sara Teasdale	1917
Derrida/Coleman	Taylor Johnson	2019
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	Li Bai	1919
From “Elegy in Joy”	Muriel Rukeyser	2011
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
Friends with No Benefits	Megan Fernandes	2023
Stars	Robert Frost	2018
The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.	Donika Kelly	2017
Only as the Day Is Long	Dorianne Laux	2015
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1832
The Star	Jane Taylor	1806
The Armadillo	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
The Shapes of Leaves	Arthur Sze	1998
On Eating and Drinking	Kahlil Gibran	1923
One Way or Another	Maya C. Popa	2022
The Lotos-Eaters	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1832
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Border: A Double Sonnet	Alberto Ríos	2016
On Marriage	Marilyn Hacker	2016
Lament for the Makaris	William Dunbar	1460

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