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
A Greek Island	Edward Hirsch	2013
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (249)	Emily Dickinson	1861
In Memory of Sigmund Freud	W. H. Auden	1940
From “Grandmother’s Garden”	Meena Alexander	2020
Nature	Henry David Thoreau	2019
Book of Nonsense, 1, 10 & 12	Edward Lear	1846
Butter	Elizabeth Alexander	2017
In the House with No Doors	Sarah Kay	2023
I see the boys of summer	Dylan Thomas	1939
To My Mother	Edgar Allan Poe	1849
What is Home?	Mosab Abu Toha	2022
The Marshes of Glynn	Sidney Lanier	1878
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves”	William Wordsworth	1804
The Portrait	Stanley Kunitz	1991
Before	Ada Limón	2015
Pilgrimage	Natasha Trethewey	2006
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
You Can’t Have It All	Barbara Ras	1997
if found, then measured	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2019
Monologue for an Onion	Suji Kwock Kim	2003

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