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
After a Reading of “Darkwater”	Elizabeth Curtis Holman	1920
From “A Coda to History”	Kwame Dawes, John Kinsella	2020
they need some of us to die	Donte Collins	2020
Alt-Nature [Excerpt]	Saretta Morgan	2020
ars poetica	Aldrin Regina Valdez	2020
All Souls Procession	Brandon Shimoda	2020
Blue Impala	Laura Tohe	2014
A Memorial	Lucian B. Watkins	1903
The Prophecy of King Tammany	Philip Freneau	1782
To Lord Cornwallis	Philip Freneau	1781
A New-York Tory	Philip Freneau	1781
The Dying Indian	Philip Freneau	1784
The Bay Fight	Henry Howard Brownell	1866
The Battle Summers	Henry Howard Brownell
The Adventures of Simon Swaugum, a Village Merchant	Philip Freneau	1792
To Mr. Blanchard, the Celebrated Aeronaut	Philip Freneau	1816
Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770–1863	Kiki Petrosino	2020
Jeffery, or, the Solder’s Progress	Philip Freneau	1795
Helen Speaks	Francisco Aragón	2020
El Arpa, a Mexican Lynching, No. 53	Anthony Cody	2020

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