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
To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	1900
When We’re in Bed and You Take Out Your Mouth Guard, I Know It’s On	Melissa Crowe	2020
Eliza Harris	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
The Haunted Oak	Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hundreds of Purple Octopus Moms Are Super Weird, and They’re Doomed	January Gill O’Neil	2019
etymology	Airea D. Matthews	2019
You Lose Something Every Day	Willie Perdomo	2019
A Christmas Carol	Christina Rossetti	2018
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes (Sonnet 137)	William Shakespeare	1904
The House of Ghosts	Margaret Widdemer	2018
Haiku [i count the morning]	Sonia Sanchez	2018
As due by many titles I resign (Holy Sonnet II)	John Donne	2018
The Study	Hieu Minh Nguyen	2018
And Now Upon My Head the Crown	Phillip B. Williams	2018
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right	Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz	2017
a note on the body	Danez Smith	2017
it won’t be a bullet	Danez Smith	2017
Crude Lament	William Carlos Williams	2016
Mag	Carl Sandburg	1916

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