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
Ritual Object	Tsitsi Ella Jaji	2018
Israfel	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
The Sleeper	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
A Prophecy: To George Keats in America	John Keats	2017
Dear P. [If you are]	Victoria Chang	2017
a note on the body	Danez Smith	2017
My Mama moved among the days	Lucille Clifton	2017
Hurricane	Yona Harvey	2017
Shut Not Your Doors to Me Proud Libraries	Walt Whitman	2016
Thunderstorm Stack	Anne Carson	2015
Mozart Songbook	Joan Larkin	2015
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
Reading a Science Article on the Airplane to JFK	Bianca Stone	2015
The Dream	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood	William Cullen Bryant	2014
Flush or Faunus	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2013
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Unbidden	Rae Armantrout	2009
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773

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