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
Kid, these are train tracks,	Jeffrey Bean	2018
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art (Sonnet 131)	William Shakespeare	1904
Let not my love be call'd idolatry (Sonnet 105)	William Shakespeare	1904
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced (Sonnet 64)	William Shakespeare	1903
How careful was I, when I took my way (Sonnet 48)	William Shakespeare	1904
Lullaby (with Exit Sign)	Hadara Bar-Nadav	2018
Everyone Who Is Dead	David Welch	2018
Round 3	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
The Voice of God	Crystal Williams	2018
say it with your whole black mouth	Danez Smith	2018
The Village Street	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Fannie Lou Hamer	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2018
Four Hawks	Emily Skaja	2018
Three Words	Li-Young Lee	2018
Service Station	Danusha Laméris	2018
The 26th of December	Galway Kinnell	2018
Barberism	Terrance Hayes	2017
The Other Woman	Twyla M. Hansen	2017
I guess it was my destiny to live so long	June Jordan	2017
A Tribute to the Future of My Race	Laura Cornelius Kellogg	1903

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