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
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)	William Shakespeare	1609
Mirabeau Bridge	Guillaume Apollinaire	1995
Anecdote of the Jar	Wallace Stevens	1954
Hearing of Alia Muhammed Baker’s Stroke	Philip Metres	2016
Memory	Anne Brontë	1920
I Have Stood Up for You	Carlos Montezuma	1919
O’ Noblesse O’	Nikky Finney	2019
Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today	Emily Jungmin Yoon	2018
Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels	Paola Capó-García	2018
My Life Was the Size of My Life	Jane Hirshfield	2015
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
The Buttonhook	Mary Jo Salter	2014
Imagine	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2014
September Elegies	Randall Mann	2010
Baseball and Writing	Marianne Moore	1961
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	Galway Kinnell	2000
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30)	William Shakespeare	1609
Sonnet	Archibald MacLeish	1924
Measure Me, Sky!	Leonora Speyer	1922
I Went Out to Hear	Leila Chatti	2023

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