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
Yesterday and To-morrow	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
A Wyandot Cradle Song	Bertrand N. O. Walker	1924
The Old Suffragist	Margaret Widdemer	1915
An Old Portrait	Margaret Widdemer	1915
Voices of the Dusk	Fenton Johnson	1916
Your Soul and Mine	Fenton Johnson	1916
The Bay Fight	Henry Howard Brownell	1866
The Battle Summers	Henry Howard Brownell
A Mother to the War-Makers	Margaret Widdemer	1915
Reveille	Lola Ridge	1920
Suspiria Noctis	Henry Howard Brownell
May	Helen Hunt Jackson	1892
Dawn	Helen Hunt Jackson	1892
Electricity	Lola Ridge	1920
Train Window	Lola Ridge	1920
The Bay Islet	Philip Freneau	1795
Wild Duck	Lola Ridge	1920
Jaguar	Lola Ridge	1920
Morning	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
A Golden Day	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905