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 courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Re-Statement of Romance	Wallace Stevens	2016
Reading to My Father	Jorie Graham	2016
All but Death can be (89)	Emily Dickinson	1929
The Little Ghost	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
The Conundrum of the Workshops	Rudyard Kipling	1890
Up-Hill	Christina Rossetti	1818
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23)	William Shakespeare	1904
I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At	José Olivarez	2017
The Phantoms for Which Clothes Are Designed	Chase Twichell	2017
The light of a candle	Yosa Buson	2007
I Hear an Army	James Joyce	1914
Freeway 280	Lorna Dee Cervantes	1981
The Collar	George Herbert	1633
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	John Milton	1645
The Day Is Done	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1845
Fame is a fickle food (1659)	Emily Dickinson	1957
On the Hill-Side	Radclyffe Hall	1910
On Self-Knowledge	Kahlil Gibran	1923

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