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
Wednesday 9/12/01	Lucille Clifton	2017
the smoke of the country went up	Iain Haley Pollock	2017
Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862	R. T. Smith	2017
Soldiers Washing (1927)	Ricardo Pau-Llosa	2017
La Chapelle. 92nd Division. Ted.	Rita Dove	2017
Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top	Rita Dove	2017
The Battle Autumn of 1862	John Greenleaf Whittier	2017
To Samuel E. Sewall and Harriet W. Sewall, of Melrose	John Greenleaf Whittier	2017
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France	Alan Seeger	2017
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night	Walt Whitman	2017
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	Walt Whitman	2017
They Ate the Bulbs of Tulips	Mark Wagenaar	2017
Warscape with Lovers	Marilyn Krysl	2017
Song of the Cluster Bomblet	Soul Vang	2017
Children of Aleppo	Chard deNiord	2017
I Am the Whole Defense	Mai Der Vang	2016
Exposure	Wilfred Owen	2016
Fragment	Rupert Brooke	2016
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2016
Self-Portrait in Charleston, Orlando	Dean Rader	2016

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