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 Last Word	Mark Van Doren	1924
To One of the Brave	Lucian B. Watkins	1903
Tired	Fenton Johnson	1920
Our Country	Julia Ward Howe	1899
A Bridge on Account of Sex: A Trans Woman Speaks to Susan B. Anthony on the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment	Joy Ladin	2020
Sonnet	Alice Duer Miller	1915
Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Eliza Harris	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
The Rats	Keetje Kuipers	2019
Tall Ideas	Adam Wolfond	2019
i know the grandmother one had hands	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
Red with a Touch of Sulfur	Zubair Ahmed	2019
Math	Robin Coste Lewis	2019
Model-Train Display at Christmas in a Shopping Mall Food Court	James Arthur	2019
At the Grave of the Forgotten	Effie Waller Smith	1909
Songs (IV)	E. E. Cummings	1925
Songs (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
My Eyes Have Seen What My Heart Has Felt	Cheleta Tuckson	2019
Chartres	Edith Wharton	2019
When in the chronicle of wasted time (Sonnet 106)	William Shakespeare	1904

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