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
Billy in the Darbies	Herman Melville	1924
Doppler Effect	Arthur Sze	2019
At the Grave of the Forgotten	Effie Waller Smith	1909
Amores (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
The Poet and His Song	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
The Old Woman & the Moon	Michael Bazzett	2018
The Ghost’s Petition	Christina Rossetti	2018
Workshop	Jacob Shores-Argüello	2018
Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2	Tiana Clark	2018
The Vanishing Red	Robert Frost	2018
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace.	Patricia Smith	2018
To Science	Edgar Allan Poe	1902
Self-Portrait as C-Section Scar	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2018
How to Make a Crab Cake	January Gill O’Neil	2009
Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monostich Past 45	francine j. harris	2018
The Wild Ride	Louise Imogen Guiney	1909
XXVIII [“Truth,” said a traveller]	Stephen Crane	2017
A Tribute to the Future of My Race	Laura Cornelius Kellogg	1903
Staring into the Sun	Jennifer Grotz	2017
Song of a Second April	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017

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