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
The Angel that presided o’er my birth	William Blake	1908
Everyday We Get More Illegal	Juan Felipe Herrera	2011
The Golden Years	Billy Collins	2008
Shadwell Stair	Wilfred Owen	1931
Albondigas	Richard Siken	2025
Nothing Wants to Suffer	Danusha Laméris	2021
America Is Loving Me to Death	Michael Kleber-Diggs	2020
Youth and Age	W. B. Yeats	1970
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window	W. B. Yeats	1924
The Comfort of Darkness	Galway Kinnell	2018
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1880
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry	Howard Nemerov	1980
Painblank	Daniel Borzutzky	2024
The Thrill of the Chase	Forrest Fenn
The light of a candle	Yosa Buson	2007
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind]	William Shakespeare	1623
LETTER VII: Remember to Breathe	Margaret Rhee	2026
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly	Ariana Brown	2026
Short Talk on Pain	Anne Carson	2023
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say	Danez Smith	2019

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