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
Another Poem	Geoffrey G. O’Brien	2015
Touching the Floor	Max Ritvo	2015
Men as Friends	Robin Becker	2015
He Made This Screen	Marianne Moore	2015
Old Houses	Lizette Woodworth Reese	2015
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
SONNET (silenced)	Olena Kalytiak Davis	2014
Hours	Hazel Hall	2014
Compensation	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
Wonder Cabinet	Tina Chang	2013
I could suffice for Him, I knew (643)	Emily Dickinson	1890
For My Grandmother’s Perfume, Norell	Nickole Brown	2013
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké	Angelina Weld Grimké	1914
Getting Close	Victoria Redel	2013
The High-School Lawn	Thomas Hardy	1925
Song	James Joyce	1907
Man Eating	Jane Kenyon	2005
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1808
To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall	Lucia Perillo	2012
1492	Emma Lazarus	1888

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