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
Mildew	Charlotte Dacre	2021
The Humble-Bee	Ralph Waldo Emerson
if found, then measured	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2019
Sea Shell	Amy Lowell	2018
Calling on All Silent Minorities	June Jordan	2017
On the Beach at Night Alone	Walt Whitman	1891
We’ll Go No More a-Roving	William Ernest Henley	1893
The Golden Years	Billy Collins	2008
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
In the Library	Charles Simic	2008
Life in a Love	Robert Browning	1855
A Litany	Gregory Orr	2002
If You Get There Before I Do	Dick Allen	2003
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.	Amy Lowell	1914
First Gestures	Julia Spicher Kasdorf	1998
[The long love that in my thought doth harbour]	Thomas Wyatt	1557
Come out, come close.	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d.	Mark Twain	1885
The Dawn’s Awake!	Otto Leland Bohanan	1922
The Pedagogy of Conflict	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019

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