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
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With	torrin a. greathouse	2021
Gitanjali 13	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Weeds	Diane Seuss	2022
Autobiography	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1958
OBIT [The Blue Dress]	Victoria Chang	2018
In Praise of Okra	January Gill O’Neil	2009
Gitanjali 35	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
Looking at My Father	Wendy Xu	2017
From “Poem in the Shape of a Rose”	Pier Paolo Pasolini	2016
Reading to My Father	Jorie Graham	2016
The Woodlice	Aracelis Girmay	2015
real poem (personal statement)	Rachel Zucker	2014
Heirloom	Nikky Finney	2011
The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt]	Eliza Lee Follen	1832
Spring	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind	Carl Sandburg	1922
O Black and Unknown Bards	James Weldon Johnson	1922
Ground Swell	Mark Jarman	1997
My Grandmother's White Cat	Maurice Kilwein Guevara	2001
To a Poor Old Woman	William Carlos Williams	1962

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