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 the Sea	Tracey Knapp	2026
When Mama died, I lost my air	DéLana R. A. Dameron	2025
The Grave of Keats	Oscar Wilde	2018
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
[And isn’t everything risk?]	Gregory Orr	2026
Land Where My Father Died	Fatimah Asghar	2018
Brooding Grief	D. H. Lawrence	2017
Dementia Is a New Way to Be Buddhist	Kelli Russell Agodon	2025
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother	Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés	1922
Home Burial	Robert Frost	1916
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard	Homero Aridjis	2010
On the Death of Anne Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
When I Am Asked	Lisel Mueller	1996
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]	al-Khansāʾ	1922
More Stones	Andrea Cohen	2015
Before and Every After	Marianne Boruch	2014
Ritual for Ash	Cindy Williams Gutiérrez	2017
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year	Dean Rader	2019
Song	T. S. Eliot	2016
Nothing	Krysten Hill	2020

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