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
Make Me Human or Give Me Death	May Yang	2017
Naturalization	Jenny Xie	2017
My Mama moved among the days	Lucille Clifton	2017
Autumn Passage	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
On the Death of Anne Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
The Visitors of Night	Frank Stanford	2016
Reading a Science Article on the Airplane to JFK	Bianca Stone	2015
The Long Deployment	Jehanne Dubrow	2013
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Text Messages	Jordan Davis	2010
The Passionate Freudian to His Love	Dorothy Parker	1996
it was a dream	Lucille Clifton	1992
Portrait d'une Femme	Ezra Pound	1912
Incantation	George Parsons Lathrop	1892
Sharks’ Teeth	Kay Ryan	2005
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness	John Donne	1623
Babylon	Robert Graves	1918
La Vie C’est La Vie	Jessie Redmon Fauset	1922
The Passing of the Year	Robert W. Service	1912

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