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
Replica of The Thinker	Matthew Olzmann	2016
Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors	Richard Siken	2014
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
The Great Figure	William Carlos Williams	1962
Hagar in the Wilderness	Tyehimba Jess	2013
My Table	W. B. Yeats	1970
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
O’ Noblesse O’	Nikky Finney	2019
The Things	Donald Hall	2011
A Painter’s Thoughts	John Yau	2020
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
Art,	Herman Melville	1891
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata	Natasha Trethewey	2012
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint)	Victoria Chang	2025
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
Fidelity	William Ward Butler	2026
Grass, 1967	Victoria Chang	2023
War Photograph	Kate Daniels	2002
Thirteen Ways of Looking	Ama Codjoe	2023
Trans Study: Untitled 4 (Facial Expression)	Cameron Awkward-Rich	2023

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