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
Einstein’s Mother	Tracy K. Smith	2020
Not the Pilot	Walt Whitman
Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)	Dante Di Stefano	2019
Autobiography	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1958
At the Grave of the Forgotten	Effie Waller Smith	1909
A Reading from the Book of Exile	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
Mont Blanc	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1816
Fragmentary Blue	Robert Frost	1923
Is it thy will thy image should keep open (Sonnet 61)	William Shakespeare	1904
At a Window	Carl Sandburg	1916
41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2018
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror	Mary Jo Bang	2017
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	James Weldon Johnson	2017
C.R.E.A.M.	Danez Smith	2017
Irony	Layli Long Soldier	2016
Native Memory	Ansel Elkins	2016
I Hear You Call, Pine Tree	Yone Noguchi	2016
Medusa	Louise Bogan	1921
Coventry Lake	Bruce Cohen	2016
January	William Carlos Williams	2016

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