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
To Fanny	John Keats	1848
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
The Sandman	Margaret Thomson Janvier	1912
First Gestures	Julia Spicher Kasdorf	1998
Fiddler Jones	Edgar Lee Masters	1916
Wellness Check	Andrea Gibson	2021
For every bird a nest (79)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Kumulipo	Queen Liliʻuokalani	1897
My Mother, My Mother	Lue Hughes	2020
Long, Too Long America	Walt Whitman
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1832
Our eunuch dreams	Dylan Thomas	1953
Happiness	Jane Kenyon	2001
After a Death	Tomas Tranströmer	2004
Daffy Duck In Hollywood	John Ashbery	1975
Photoshopping My Sister’s Mugshot	Andrea Gibson	2018
Love’s Growth	John Donne	1633
Ode to People Who Hate Me	Carmen Giménez	2023
Cross	Langston Hughes	1922
The Pedagogy of Conflict	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019

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