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
On an Island (New York City)	Joseph O. Legaspi	2021
Gradually Then Suddenly	Philip Schaefer	2021
Born. Living. Will. Die.	Camonghne Felix	2021
I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader	Dean Rader	2021
A Wish	Joshua Henry Jones Jr.	1921
The Ruins of Nostalgia 59	Donna Stonecipher	2020
It’s a Long Way	William Stanley Braithwaite	1904
From “Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity”	Dawn Lundy Martin	2020
Lines on Love’s (Loss*)	Erica Hunt	2020
Journey	Lidija Dimkovska	2020
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein	Philip Freneau	1809
The Way We Love Something Small	Kimberly Blaeser	2020
Labyrinth	Kenyatta Rogers	2020
I Am Like a Leaf	Yone Noguchi	1921
Dignity	Too-qua-stee	1904
Prayer to Be Still and Know	Nickole Brown	2019
The Trees in Riverdale Park	Karen Solie	2019
Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels	Vijay Seshadri	2019
White Rhino	Stanley Plumly	2019
Sonnet LXX. (On Being Cautioned against Walking on Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.)	Charlotte Smith	1797

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