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
Tender Buttons [Eggs]	Gertrude Stein	2017
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	James Weldon Johnson	2017
Home-Coming	Léonie Adams	2017
Praxis	Wendy Xu	2016
From “Citizen,” V [Sometimes “I” is supposed to hold what is not there]	Claudia Rankine	2016
Brotherhood	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
The Rule of Opulence	Khadijah Queen	2015
The Answer	Sara Teasdale	1915
Ebb	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
Daily Life	Susan Wood	2011
Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree	D. A. Powell	2010
Astraea Redux	John Dryden	1660
The Ghazal of What Hurt	Peter Cole	2008
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
A Political Litany	Philip Freneau	1775
Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl (audio only)	Allen Ginsberg	1975
Ash Ode	Dean Young	2008
At Night the States	Alice Notley	2006

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