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
My Mother, My Mother	Lue Hughes	2020
Storm Fear	Robert Frost	2018
The Laughing Child	W. S. Merwin	2016
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
Whispers of Immortality	T. S. Eliot	1920
A Kite for Aibhin	Seamus Heaney	2010
this kind of fire	Charles Bukowski	2009
Falling	James Dickey	1992
A Litany	Gregory Orr	2002
They Flee from Me	Thomas Wyatt	1557
Gitanjali 2	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Fides, Spes	Willa Cather	1903
Song of Myself, 49	Walt Whitman	1891
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet	Danez Smith	2016
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt]	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
On the Circuit	W. H. Auden	1965
Death of an Old Seaman	Langston Hughes	1926
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure”	Nicole Sealey	2021
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window	W. B. Yeats	1924
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922

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