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
Not the Pilot	Walt Whitman
As Toilsome I Wander'd Virginia’s Woods	Walt Whitman
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	Walt Whitman
By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame	Walt Whitman
An Army Corps on the March	Walt Whitman
Bivouac on a Mountain Side	Walt Whitman
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	Walt Whitman
The Centenarian’s Story	Walt Whitman
City of Ships	Walt Whitman
Virginia—The West	Walt Whitman
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps	Walt Whitman
Song of the Banner at Daybreak	Walt Whitman
Beat! Beat! Drums!	Walt Whitman
First O Songs for a Prelude	Walt Whitman
Eighteen Sixty-One	Walt Whitman
Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels	Vijay Seshadri	2019
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits	Xan Forest Phillips	2019
Chanson d’automne	Paul Verlaine	2019
He Goads Himself	Louis Untermeyer	1921
Closet Space	K-Ming Chang	2019

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