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
Curse of the Cat Woman	Edward Field	2007
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find]	Petrarch	1374
Day [excerpt]	Kenneth Goldsmith	2003
The Yoke	Frank Bidart	1997
A Short Testament	Anne Porter	2006
Practice	Ellen Bryant Voigt	2002
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue]	Claudia Rankine	2004
Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember]	Christina Rossetti	1881
You Tell Us What to Do	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1991
The Poems I Have Not Written	John Brehm	2005
Boston	Aaron Smith	2005
Render, Render	Thomas Lux	2004
Days of Me	Stuart Dischell	2003
Blues	Elizabeth Alexander	1996
When that I was and a little tiny boy	William Shakespeare	1602
Lullaby of the Onion	Miguel Hernández	1989
for goldfish that remember seaworld	D’mani Thomas	2026
To My Daughter’s Dead Name	Lance Larsen	2025
Why paint night over nightless day?	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
Foreign Body	Kimiko Hahn	2017

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