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
My First Memory (of Librarians)	Nikki Giovanni	2007
The Lemon Trees	Eugenio Montale	2002
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird	Wallace Stevens	1954
Record Player	Adrian Matejka	2026
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly	Ariana Brown	2026
To a Friend who sent me some Roses	John Keats	1817
Barter	Sara Teasdale	1917
To My Mother	Christina Rossetti	1842
Concord Hymn	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1837
The City Limits	A. R. Ammons	1986
For the Union Dead	Robert Lowell	1964
Before	William Ernest Henley	1908
Drowning Creek	Ada Limón	2022
An Ante-Bellum Sermon	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
In the Beginning	Donika Kelly	2021
A Red Man’s Thoughts	Tso-le-oh-woh
from Song of Myself XXIV
The Ocean	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1825
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
Rooks	Edward Powys Mathers	1925

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