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 Heart’s Astronomy	Julia Ward Howe	1854
To O. E. A.	Claude McKay	1922
The Late Cold War	Brenda Hillman	2019
Not Everybody’s Bestiary (Yet)	Rebecca Morgan Frank	2019
My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea	Parneshia Jones	2019
Blood History	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2019
From “Be Recorder”	Carmen Giménez	2019
A Red Man’s Thoughts	Tso-le-oh-woh
Morning Song	Naomi Shihab Nye	2019
from "Like Nebraska"	Sophie Klahr	2019
At the Grave of the Forgotten	Effie Waller Smith	1909
Song of Myself, 38	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 12	Walt Whitman	1891
Songs (IV)	E. E. Cummings	1925
Amores (III)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Songs (III)	E. E. Cummings	1925
1000	Safia Elhillo	2019
Inevitable	Mahogany L. Browne	2019
The other two, slight air and purging fire (Sonnet 45)	William Shakespeare	1904
On Buying and Selling	Kahlil Gibran	1923

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