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
Song of the Banner at Daybreak	Walt Whitman
Sleepers	Arthur Sze	2019
OBIT [Music]	Victoria Chang	2017
OBIT [The Priest]	Victoria Chang	2018
Ultrasound	Kaveh Akbar	2019
Time of Tyranny, 50	Lyn Hejinian	2019
Solemnity	Myronn Hardy	2019
From “A Brief History of Fathers Searching for Their Sons” [1. Parable]	Rigoberto González	2019
Song of the Open Road, 10	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 39	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 34	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 29	Walt Whitman	1891
Songs (II)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us	Molly McCully Brown, Susannah Nevison	2018
Arsenal 4	Cedar Sigo	2018
Johnnie’s Christmas	Libbie C. Baer	2018
My love is strengthen'd though more week in seeming; (Sonnet 102)	William Shakespeare	1904
Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possession (Sonnet 87)	William Shakespeare	1904
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still (Sonnet 85)	William Shakespeare	1904
So oft I invoke thee for my Muse (Sonnet 78)	William Shakespeare	1904

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