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
Memoir	Vijay Seshadri	2016
A Violin at Dusk	Lizette Woodworth Reese	1920
The Flight	Sara Teasdale	1915
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
From “A Hemingway Reader: The Sun Also Also Rises”	Robert Fitterman	2009
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
Monna Innominata [I loved you first]	Christina Rossetti	1881
The Dancing	Gerald Stern	1982
Riverbank Blues	Sterling A. Brown	1980
The Old Lizard	Federico García Lorca	2005
In the Land of Words	Eloise Greenfield	2004
The Family Photograph	Vona Groarke	2004
My Father Is a Retired Magician	Ntozake Shange	1972
Anastasia & Sandman	Larry Levis	1997
A Cry from an Indian Wife	Emily Pauline Johnson	1900
At the Mid Hour of Night	Thomas Moore	1903
Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits	Crisosto Apache	2022
The Hurricane	José María Heredia	1918
Not	Stephanie Cawley	2022
Changing Is Not Vanishing	Carlos Montezuma	1916

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