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
Gabriel	Adrienne Rich	2016
Alternate Self-Portrait	Dean Rader	2015
The Mystery	Paul Laurence Dunbar	2015
Another Country	Ryan Teitman	2014
Gulls	William Carlos Williams	1917
Fifteen Years of Darkness	Liu Xiaobo	2012
Heirloom	Nikky Finney	2011
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311)	Emily Dickinson	1890
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
from Blue Dark	Deborah Landau	2011
One Child Has Brown Eyes	Marilyn Chin	2010
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing]	Bhanu Kapil	2008
The Yoke	Frank Bidart	1997
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
The Origin	Jane Mead	2008
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story	Richard Harris Barham	1840
Change in the Grove of Chickadees	Lesle Lewis	2006
Sweat	Sandra Alcosser	1998
Memorial Day for the War Dead	Yehuda Amichai	1977
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993

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