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
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault (Sonnet 89)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear (Sonnet 77)	William Shakespeare	1904
For shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any (Sonnet 10)	William Shakespeare	1904
Is it for fear to we a widow's eye (Sonnet 9)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Task	Edward Hirsch	2018
The Money	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
On the Death of Her Father	Lynley Edmeades	2018
Sestina	Ciara Shuttleworth	2018
The Shroud	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2018
Kissing My Father	Joseph O. Legaspi	2018
The Anesthesia of Abstraction	Teddy Macker	2018
What the Water Knows	Sam Hamill	2018
First Wedding Dance	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2018
Three Words	Li-Young Lee	2018
Notes on Inheritance	Chelsea Dingman	2018
November	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
The Waits	Margaret Deland	2017
Thank You Jesus	Teri Ellen Cross Davis	2017
A Vision of Rest	Alexander Posey	1910
Self-Portrait, New City Replicant	Ching-In Chen	2017

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