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
Of the Threads that Connect the Stars	Martín Espada	2018
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	Anne Bradstreet	2013
Acrostic	Lewis Carroll	1861
Approach of Winter	William Carlos Williams	1921
Rambling	Afaa Michael Weaver	2007
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt]	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
On Gifts for Grace	Bernadette Mayer	2005
The Convergence of the Twain	Thomas Hardy	1915
Poetry	Richard Siken	2025
My Mountains	Gabriela Mistral	2003
Our Land	Langston Hughes	1925
Evening Song	Willa Cather	1903
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8)	William Shakespeare	1904
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]	William Shakespeare	1623
Hellish Night	Arthur Rimbaud	1991
Ballad	Sonia Sanchez	2007
Here’s a Little Mouse	E. E. Cummings	1928
The Battle-Field	William Cullen Bryant	1878
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals	Catherine Pierce	2020
Suicide’s Note	Langston Hughes	1926

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