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
It's Hard to be a Saint	Magdalena Zurawski	2019
The forward violet thus did I chide: (Sonnet 99)	William Shakespeare	1904
Is it for fear to we a widow's eye (Sonnet 9)	William Shakespeare	1904
Lo! In the orient when the gracious light (Sonnet 7)	William Shakespeare	1904
clare’s song	Evie Shockley	2018
To Science	Edgar Allan Poe	1902
The End of a Beginning	Marilyn Chin	1987
Babejianjisemigad / Gradual Transformation	Margaret Noodin	2017
To My Daughter	Hyam Plutzik	1959
The Other Woman	Twyla M. Hansen	2017
December 24th	Rose Styron	2018
The Persistence of Scent	Cindy Williams Gutiérrez	2017
Coldness in Love	D. H. Lawrence	2016
Book of Statues	Richie Hofmann	2016
Vessels	Paisley Rekdal	2016
Emily Dickinson	Felipe Benitez Reyes	2016
In the Dream	Jenny Johnson	2016
How to Prepare the Mind for Lightning	Brynn Saito	2016
Accidental Blues Voice	Anna Journey	2016
The Resistance and Its Light	Pier Paolo Pasolini	2015

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