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
At Night	Stanley Plumly	2019
O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are (Sonnet 13)	William Shakespeare	1904
41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2018
[In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born]	Sappho	1907
Forsythe Avenue Haibun	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2018
A Baby Running Barefoot	D. H. Lawrence	2017
Δώρια	Ezra Pound	2017
Night	H.D.	2017
The Continental Army	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Circuitry	Janine Joseph	2016
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends	W. B. Yeats	1899
I Am Alive in Los Angeles!	Mike Sonksen	2015
El Beso	Angelina Weld Grimké	1909
Love	Katy Lederer	2011
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Alive	Naomi Shihab Nye	2010
A Language	Susan Stewart	2016
Corinna's Going a-Maying	Robert Herrick	1648

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