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 British Prison Ship	Philip Freneau	1780
Third Georgic [Excerpt]	Virgil	1697
The Bay Fight	Henry Howard Brownell	1866
The Battle Summers	Henry Howard Brownell
A Mother to the War-Makers	Margaret Widdemer	1915
To The Memory Of The Brave Americans	Philip Freneau	1783
The American Soldier	Philip Freneau	1790
Home, Sweet Home	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1895
Jeffery, or, the Solder’s Progress	Philip Freneau	1795
Armature	Deborah Paredez	2020
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window	W. B. Yeats	1924
Testimony: 1968	Rita Dove	2020
Waiting for a Number	Peter Balakian	2020
Ghazal !يا لطيف (Ya Lateef!)	Marilyn Hacker	2020
“You and I Are Disappearing”	Yusef Komunyakaa	1988
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)	Aaron Coleman	2020
Girls On the Town, 1946	Rita Dove	2020
A Protest from Italy	Julia Ward Howe	1854
Interior, 1917	Linda Gregerson	2020
The Minstrel-Boy	Thomas Moore	1854

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