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
[In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born]	Sappho	1907
Autumn Leaves	Marilyn Chin	1994
And Now Upon My Head the Crown	Phillip B. Williams	2018
Bread Upon the Waters	D. H. Lawrence	1919
Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done	Victoria Chang	2017
Hummingbird	Robin Becker	2017
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	James Weldon Johnson	2017
Art Project: Earth	Karen Skolfield	2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
Bei Hennef	D. H. Lawrence	1913
My 71st Year	Walt Whitman	1891
Matrimonial Toast	Ken White	2014
The Figure	Joseph Fasano	2013
To a Young Poet	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Ophelia to the Court	Meghan O’Rourke	2010
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
the lost women	Lucille Clifton	1989
Lamia [Left to herself]	John Keats	1820
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899

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