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
Once	Paisley Rekdal	2019
Fractured	Hali Sofala-Jones	2019
Fort Night	Lisa Olstein	2019
Ball’s Bluff	Herman Melville	1866
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	Walt Whitman
First O Songs for a Prelude	Walt Whitman
Punctuation	Hélder Faife	2019
Inside the MRI Machine	Hala Alyan	2019
Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror	Kelli Russell Agodon	2019
from "Three Demons": Sanki Series I	Sanki Saitō	2019
An Offering	Kathryn Hunt	2019
A Coney Island of the Mind, 28	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1958
Upon the Mountain’s Distant Head	William Cullen Bryant	1862
Song of the Open Road, 6	Walt Whitman	1891
Sonnet from an Ungrafted Tree, XVII	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Song of Myself, 45	Walt Whitman	1891
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us	Molly McCully Brown, Susannah Nevison	2018
Bracken	Kai Carlson-Wee	2018
The Photograph Suggests a Hidden Life	Susan Rich	2018
So oft I invoke thee for my Muse (Sonnet 78)	William Shakespeare	1904

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