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
Metamorphosis	James Richardson	2013
A House Divided	Kyle Dargan	2013
Passer Mortuus Est	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Each year	Dora Malech	2010
Old Photographs	Gabeba Baderoon	2010
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]	Marilyn Hacker	1986
The Anniversary	John Donne	1633
Trees in the Garden	D. H. Lawrence	1964
Old Story	Catherine Barnett	2012
Dog Around the Block	E. B. White	1930
Rumi	Joseph Fasano
And the Place Was Water	Nicholas Gulig	2024
From “The Lady of the Lake” (Canto I)	Sir Walter Scott	1810
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back”	Karla Cordero	2025
Slow through the Dark	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1903
The Death of the Old Year	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1833
My Little Dreams	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Emancipation	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1890

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