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
The Blue-Green Stream	Wang Wei	1921
Origin Story	Leah Naomi Green	2021
The Dance of Love	Countee Cullen	1925
Sonnets from the Cherokee (III)	Ruth Muskrat Bronson	1922
From “Defacing the Monument”	Susan Briante	2020
From Barrio Obrero to La Quince	Nicole Cecilia Delgado	2020
Woman in Dub	Desiree C. Bailey	2020
The Sun Went Down in Beauty	George Marion McClellan	2020
Benediction	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Travelling Storm	Mark Van Doren	1924
A Suggested Campaign Song	Alice Duer Miller	1915
Voting-Machine	Maggie Smith	2020
Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Hello	Sean Hill	2019
December Morning in the Desert	Alberto Ríos	2019
On the Hill-Side	Radclyffe Hall	1910
My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea	Parneshia Jones	2019
Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson	Robin Coste Lewis	2017
On How to Use this Book	Sarah Gambito	2019
Song of Myself, 38	Walt Whitman	1891

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