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
Souvenir	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1923
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say	Danez Smith	2019
The Show	Wilfred Owen	1921
Cheerfulness Taught by Reason	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2015
The Thinker	William Carlos Williams	2015
Mother	Lola Ridge	1920
Of the Surface of Things	Wallace Stevens	1919
On the Beach at Night Alone	Walt Whitman	1891
Numbness	Phillip Lopate	2009
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind	Carl Sandburg	1922
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”]	Alice Notley	1992
Shirt	Robert Pinsky	1990
The Convergence of the Twain	Thomas Hardy	1915
Sheep in Winter	John Clare	1835
A Portrait in Greys	William Carlos Williams	1917
lake-loop	Natalie Diaz	2020
As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods	Walt Whitman
The House of Hospitalities	Thomas Hardy	2018
I Wouldn’t Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance	Kaveh Akbar	2018
Flores Woman	Tracy K. Smith	2017

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