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
Langston Blue	Jericho Brown	2010
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight	Vachel Lindsay	1914
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
Against Fruition	Sir John Suckling	1646
Lullaby of an Infant Chief	Sir Walter Scott	1816
Balance	Adam Zagajewski	2008
Consider the Hands that Write This Letter	Aracelis Girmay	2007
Tender Buttons [A Chair]	Gertrude Stein	1914
O'Connor at Andalusia	Floyd Skloot	2006
Meaningful Love	John Ashbery	2005
Still Another Day: I	Pablo Neruda	2005
The Hour and What Is Dead	Li-Young Lee	1990
Yellow Stars and Ice	Susan Stewart	1981
Haircut	Elizabeth Alexander	1996
The Taxi	Amy Lowell	1914
The Suitor	Jane Kenyon	1996
I Might Have Dreamed This	Kirsten Dierking	2001
[In my eyes he matches the gods]	Sappho	2007
The Great Migration	Minnie Bruce Pratt	1999
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket	Robert Lowell	1976

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