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
To a Poor Old Woman	William Carlos Williams	1962
February	Tamiko Beyer	2022
The Red Sweater	Joseph O. Legaspi	2016
Sonnet 7 [The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings]	Henry Howard	1557
The Sorrow of Love	W. B. Yeats	1893
For a Daughter Who Leaves	Janice Mirikitani	2002
A Song of Enchantment	Walter de la Mare	1913
Recitative	Hart Crane	1926
Love the Light-Giver	Michelangelo Buonarroti	1897
Do Not Speak of the Dead	Cecilia Llompart	2015
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
Burning the Old Year	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
How to See Deer	Philip Booth	1999
First Gestures	Julia Spicher Kasdorf	1998
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	Wallace Stevens	1954
A Marriage at Ancestral Hall in Sun Village	Shelley Wong	2023
In a Disused Graveyard	Robert Frost	2023
Ode to the Sun	Eloise Bibb Thompson	1900
A Brook in the City	Robert Frost	1923
Rain	Claribel Alegría	2003

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