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
An October Garden	Christina Rossetti	2018
The Garden Year	Sara Coleridge	1834
How I Became a Madman (Prologue)	Kahlil Gibran	1918
It’s all I have to bring today (26)	Emily Dickinson	1890
The Armadillo	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
On Self-Knowledge	Kahlil Gibran	1923
America, I Sing Back	Allison Adelle Hedge Coke	2016
Fame is a fickle food (1659)	Emily Dickinson	1957
Ballad of Birmingham	Dudley Randall	2009
Domestic Violence	Eavan Boland	2018
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
Manhattan is a Lenape Word	Natalie Diaz	2020
The Heart of the Tree	Henry Cuyler Bunner	1912
A Litany in Time of Plague	Thomas Nashe	1600
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer	John Keats	1816
On Reason and Passion	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Putting in the Seed	Robert Frost	2016
The Conundrum of the Workshops	Rudyard Kipling	1890
Symptom Recital	Dorothy Parker	1926
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you	Kevin Varrone	2013

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