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
The Change Has Come	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Melancholia	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
After While	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Columbian Ode	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
The Lover and the Moon	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Shadow	Bruce Nugent	1925
The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon	Patricia Smith	2022
Lenox Avenue: Midnight	Langston Hughes	1926
[The whale already]	Kimiko Hahn	2022
Trees at Night	Helene Johnson	1925
March Moon	Langston Hughes	1926
Winter Moon	Langston Hughes	1926
Harlem Night Club	Langston Hughes	1926
To a Little Lover-Lass, Dead	Langston Hughes	1926
Length of Moon	Arna Bontemps	1926
Toward the End	Carolyn Forché	2020
Premonition	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
To Midnight Nan at Leroy's	Langston Hughes	1926
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.)	Langston Hughes	1926
[The faint shadow of the morning moon?]	Yone Noguchi	1920

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