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
White Sands	Arthur Sze	2016
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last	Lisa Olstein	2016
Memoir	Vijay Seshadri	2016
A Violin at Dusk	Lizette Woodworth Reese	1920
The Flight	Sara Teasdale	1915
From “A Hemingway Reader: The Sun Also Also Rises”	Robert Fitterman	2009
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door]	Alexander Pope	1735
Monna Innominata [I loved you first]	Christina Rossetti	1881
The Dancing	Gerald Stern	1982
The Old Lizard	Federico García Lorca	2005
In the Land of Words	Eloise Greenfield	2004
The Family Photograph	Vona Groarke	2004
My Father Is a Retired Magician	Ntozake Shange	1972
Anastasia & Sandman	Larry Levis	1997
A Cry from an Indian Wife	Emily Pauline Johnson	1900
At the Mid Hour of Night	Thomas Moore	1903
Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits	Crisosto Apache	2022
A Coast-Nightmare	Christina Rossetti	1896
The Hurricane	José María Heredia	1918

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