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
Carmel Point	Robinson Jeffers	1995
The Leaving	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	1988
The Earthlings	Matthew Olzmann	2023
The Seven Prisms of My Blood	Khaty Xiong	2020
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI)	Sir Walter Scott	1805
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]	Christopher Smart	1939
Dawn	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Revolutionary Letter #1	Diane di Prima	1971
Dear Exile,	Mai Der Vang	2017
A Brief History of Hostility	Jamaal May	2017
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
Of Many Worlds in this World	Margaret Cavendish	1653
Only as the Day Is Long	Dorianne Laux	2015
Grief Work	Natalie Diaz	2015
The Sound of the Trees	Robert Frost	1916
In Summer	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
When our two souls... (Sonnet 22)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
The Pumpkin	John Greenleaf Whittier	1850
Dream Song 4	John Berryman	1959
Song of Myself, XI	Walt Whitman	1891

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