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
Vows (for a gay wedding)	Joseph O. Legaspi	2018
The African Picnic	Elizabeth Alexander	2017
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves”	William Wordsworth	1804
We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra	Marilyn Chin	1987
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	Li Bai	1919
The Sun Has Long Been Set	William Wordsworth	1807
My Grandmother’s Love Letters	Hart Crane	1920
Witch-Wife	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1956
The Armadillo	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows	Paige Lewis	2018
The Wind and the Moon	George Macdonald	1904
Self-Portrait	Adam Zagajewski	1997
(With a flower) (80)	Emily Dickinson	1929
The Immigrant	Aline Mello	2022
To a Dark Girl	Gwendolyn Bennett	1922
有識: Have Knowledge	Paisley Rekdal	2020
How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This	Hanif Abdurraqib	2018
God’s World	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Orpheus	William Shakespeare	1623
Farewell	Federico García Lorca	2021

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