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
Requiescat in Pace	Libbie C. Baer	1902
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter	John Crowe Ransom
Sickness	John Crowe Ransom	1919
Here Lies a Lady	John Crowe Ransom	1924
Prayer	Laura Kasischke	2020
Journey	Lidija Dimkovska	2020
The Revel	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
Again Later	Martha Collins	2020
Voices of the Dusk	Fenton Johnson	1916
A Mother to the War-Makers	Margaret Widdemer	1915
May	Helen Hunt Jackson	1892
Jaguar	Lola Ridge	1920
On Retirement	Philip Freneau	1786
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein	Philip Freneau	1809
On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin	Philip Freneau	1790
From A Book of Hours	Maureen N. McLane	2020
The Indian Burying Ground	Philip Freneau	1795
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d.	Mark Twain	1885
Pestilence	Philip Freneau	1795
El Arpa, a Mexican Lynching, No. 53	Anthony Cody	2020

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