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
The Call of the Wild	Alexander Posey	1910
The Vanity of Existence	Philip Freneau	1781
Winter Term XV, from Underworld Lit	Srikanth Reddy	2020
Spring in Tulwa Thlocco	Alexander Posey	1910
Neversink	Philip Freneau	1791
On the Religion of Nature	Philip Freneau	1815
From A Book of Hours	Maureen N. McLane	2020
The Indian Burying Ground	Philip Freneau	1795
The American Soldier	Philip Freneau	1790
Home, Sweet Home	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1895
Renewal of Strength	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1895
Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770–1863	Kiki Petrosino	2020
When My Soul Findeth Wings	Libbie C. Baer	1902
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d.	Mark Twain	1885
Jeffery, or, the Solder’s Progress	Philip Freneau	1795
Complaint of El Río Grande	Richard Blanco	2020
To Sir Toby	Philip Freneau	1795
Pestilence	Philip Freneau	1795
The Aged Pilot Man	Mark Twain	1872
A Wave	Francisco Aragón	2020

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