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
After the Movie	Marie Howe	2008
Waking in the Blue	Robert Lowell	1976
How I Became a Madman (Prologue)	Kahlil Gibran	1918
2008, XII	Wendell Berry	2016
The Great Lover	Rupert Brooke	1915
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
The Conflict of Convictions	Herman Melville	1860
The Crescent Moon	Amy Lowell	2018
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles	Francisco X. Alarcón	2017
A Noiseless Patient Spider	Walt Whitman	1891
On Good and Evil	Kahlil Gibran	1923
The Rider	Naomi Shihab Nye	1998
Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About	Judith Viorst	1981
Skunk Hour	Robert Lowell	1976
Richard Cory	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
Amores (II)	E. E. Cummings	1923
I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet IV)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1920
Spring is like a perhaps hand	E. E. Cummings	1923
R.I.P., My Love	Tory Dent	1999
This Land Remembers	Manuel González	2026

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