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
Folded	Luis Muñoz	2026
Morning in the Burned House	Margaret Atwood	1995
If You Knew	Ellen Bass	2018
Deer Hit	Jon Loomis	2001
Ode to the Head Nod	Elizabeth Acevedo	2020
Problems with Hurricanes	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)]	Adrienne Rich	2016
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps	Andrea Gibson	2021
The Coming of Light	Mark Strand	2002
If We Must Die	Claude McKay	1919
That’s the Job	Edward Hirsch	2018
The Song of Wandering Aengus	W. B. Yeats	1899
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies	Joy Harjo	2016
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
Tender Buttons [Objects]	Gertrude Stein	1914

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