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
Song of Myself, 31	Walt Whitman	1891
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	William Carlos Williams	1922
The Great Figure	William Carlos Williams	1962
The Stalin Epigram	Osip Mandelstam	1989
The City Limits	A. R. Ammons	1986
Ekphrasis: Her Expression	Yiannis Doukas	2026
Survival Guide	Joy Ladin	2018
The Desolate Field	William Carlos Williams	1921
The Woman and the Flame	Aimé Césaire	2011
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Host of the Air	W. B. Yeats	1893
Theodore the Poet	Edgar Lee Masters	1915
February	Tamiko Beyer	2022
Thai Massage	Sasha Pimentel	2017
Wartime Christmas	Joyce Kilmer	2017
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
Eulogy	Kevin Young	2011
Autumn Movement	Carl Sandburg	1918
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood'	Agha Shahid Ali	1987

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