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
For every bird a nest (79)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Prayer	Langston Hughes	1927
I Could Be a Whale Shark	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2018
The Blower of Leaves	January Gill O’Neil	2014
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus]	William Shakespeare	2017
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished?	Naomi Shihab Nye	2008
The Dover Bitch	Anthony Hecht	1967
The Bean Eaters	Gwendolyn Brooks	1960
After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email	Emily Jungmin Yoon	2026
The Lonely Street	William Carlos Williams	1921
Lineage Anagrams II	Lillian-Yvonne Bertram	2022
An Ante-Bellum Sermon	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Again it is September	Jessie Redmon Fauset	1917
A Brook in the City	Robert Frost	1923
Post Impressions (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
A House Divided	Kyle Dargan	2013
Sonnet 7 [The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings]	Henry Howard	1557
Art Class	James Galvin	1997
Yellow Beak	Stephen Dobyns	2005
Concord Hymn	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1837

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