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
Summer Haibun	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2017
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
From a Train	Lynn Emanuel	2016
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
The Desolate Field	William Carlos Williams	1921
The Owl	Arthur Sze	1998
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	Walt Whitman	1891
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood'	Agha Shahid Ali	1987
[I’m happiest now when most away]	Emily Brontë	1908
If They Come For Us	Fatimah Asghar	2017
To Prisoners	Gwendolyn Brooks	2018
Portent	William Carlos Williams	2017
Greater Love	Wilfred Owen	1917
This Was Once a Love Poem	Jane Hirshfield	2001
Ode on the death of a favorite cat	Thomas Gray	1748
To Her Portrait	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	1920
The Colored Soldiers	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Of the Threads that Connect the Stars	Martín Espada	2018
Modern Love: XXX	George Meredith	1909
Thanksgiving Turkey	George Parsons Lathrop	2017

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