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
it won’t be a bullet	Danez Smith	2017
Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]	John Keats	2017
Burial	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Recuerdo	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Loss	H.D.	2017
A Prayer to Talk to Animals	Nickole Brown	2017
The Tent	Naomi Shihab Nye	2017
From a Park Bench	Patricia Hooper	2017
Spaces	Jenny Johnson	2017
His Speed and Strength	Alicia Ostriker	2016
Build, Now, a Monument	Matthew Olzmann	2016
You Can't Build a Child	Sandra Simonds	2012
Garden Abstract	Hart Crane	2016
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126)	William Shakespeare	2016
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth (Sonnet 146)	William Shakespeare	2016
Summer Morn in New Hampshire	Claude McKay	1922
Trans-	Rita Dove	2015
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood	William Cullen Bryant	2014
Another Poem on My Daughter’s Birthday	Craig Morgan Teicher	2014
It was a hard thing to undo this knot	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2013

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