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
A Brief History of Hostility	Jamaal May	2017
A Sunset	Ari Banias	2016
Some Kinds of Forever Visit You	Brenda Hillman	2016
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver	Geffrey Davis	2016
A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted (Sonnet 20)	William Shakespeare	2016
[we fight back to control the outside]	kari edwards	2016
The Dark Hills	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1920
To a Young Poet	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
The Balloon of the Mind	W. B. Yeats	1919
Two Sewing	Hazel Hall	1921
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]	William Shakespeare	1623
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
To George Sand: A Desire	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844
The Gaffe	C. K. Williams	2010
Adjectives of Order	Alexandra Teague	2010
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
What Do I Care	Sara Teasdale	1920
Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?]	Petrarch	1375
Ode to Spring	Frederick Seidel	2009

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